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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,
this is Outside Source. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
Another senior British
minister resigns - | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
Priti Patel is accused | 0:00:14 | 0:00:15 | |
of not telling the Prime Minister
about highly sensitive meetings | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
with top Israeli politicians. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
On the first anniversary
of President Trump's election, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
Democrats sweep the polls in the US. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:30 | |
We will hear from Katty Kay. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
President Trump's spent
the day in China - | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
we scour the country's social media
to find out what they're | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
saying about him. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
Hollywood star Kevin Spacey
faces a new allegation | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
of sexual misconduct -
we hear from an alleged victim. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
Welcome to Outside Source. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
Quite a day for UK politics. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:03 | |
I will do my best to take you right
through it. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
This is Priti Patel. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:07 | |
She was International
Development Secretary. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:08 | |
But this is her leaving
Ten Downing Street after resigning, | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
under intense pressure. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
This was not so long ago. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
This isn't just about one minister -
it's about the stability | 0:01:16 | 0:01:26 | |
of the Government, and about Brexit. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Priti Patel is a big supporter of
Brexit. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
This began with Priti Patel holding
meetings with senior Israeli | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
officials during what was supposed
to be a summer holiday - | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
and we were told by Downing Street
that she hadn't told the Prime | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
Minister. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:43 | |
That breaks the ministerial code. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:44 | |
Then we had an apology
from Priti Patel. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
It seems Theresa May accepted. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
Then last night we found out
there were more meetings. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:59 | |
That was from a report in the Sun
newspaper. And it said that the PM | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
had not been told. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
Now while this is playing out,
Ms Patel is in East Africa. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
She was supposed to be
heading to Uganda - | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
but instead was told to get
on a plane back home from Nairobi. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
That wasn't a good sign. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
That plane took off earlier. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
People quickly started following it
on the website flight radar. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:27 | |
At one point more than 22,000 users
are currently tracking flight | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
#KQ100 en route to London. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:36 | |
Are you ready for the next twist? | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
While the minister is in the air,
The Jewish Chronicle runs a story | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
claiming Number Ten had known
about some of these meetings | 0:02:43 | 0:02:48 | |
and told Priti Patel
not to declare them. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:55 | |
That is an explosive Carla Lane --
explosive claim, but number ten | 0:02:55 | 0:03:07 | |
denied that. If it was true, it
would place Theresa May more solidly | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
in the controversy. We were all
waiting for the plane to land and | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
media outlets including BBC News
filmed the plane as it landed, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:20 | |
filmed the ministerial cars
collecting Priti Patel and taking | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
her into the centre of London. This
resignation has not done anything to | 0:03:23 | 0:03:30 | |
calm down some people, who are
looking not just for her resignation | 0:03:30 | 0:03:39 | |
but also that of Foreign Secretary
Boris Johnson, who has been under | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
pressure about comments he made
about a British woman in prison in a | 0:03:42 | 0:03:47 | |
run.
Priti Patel claimed Shitole Boris | 0:03:47 | 0:03:48 | |
Johnson about these meetings that
that was sufficient. Here is the | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
Foreign Secretary giving his
reaction. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:54 | |
I want to say that Priti Patel has
been a very good colleague and | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
friend for a long time, and a
first-class Secretary of State for | 0:03:58 | 0:04:04 | |
International Development. It has
been a real pleasure working with | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
her, and I am sure she has a great
future ahead of her. Thank you very | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
much.
Deep breath. Let's bring in our | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
political correspondent Alex
Forsyth. It is complicated, farcical | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
but also pretty serious? It is. The
chronology you outlined showed that | 0:04:20 | 0:04:26 | |
in the UK resignation of Priti Patel
was pretty widely expected today, it | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
did not come as a big surprise when
we finally got official confirmation | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
that she had resigned from the
Government. That is in part because | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
all Cabinet ministers are supposed
to abide by what is called | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
collective responsibility, they
effectively speak with one voice. So | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
Priti Patel going off on her own,
meeting with Israeli officials | 0:04:46 | 0:04:57 | |
without discussing that or
disclosing it to the Prime Minister | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
is a clear breach of her role as a
Cabinet member. When further details | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
emerged it was pretty inevitable she
had to go. The Prime Minister | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
accepted the resignation but gave a
pretty firm rebuke to Priti Patel, | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
saying although the UK works closely
with Israel it has to be through | 0:05:07 | 0:05:12 | |
official channels. This place into a
much bigger problem for the Prime | 0:05:12 | 0:05:17 | |
Minister, already her authority was
in question in the UK, then last | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
week we had the resignation of the
former Defence Secretary Michael | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
Fallon over claims about his past
conduct. Now we have the resignation | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
of the International Development
Secretary Priti Patel, and it all | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
fuels what is the appearance of a
pretty shaky cabinet at the moment. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:37 | |
Obviously the two of those things
are out of Theresa May's controllers | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
Prime Minister but it adds to the
image that she | 0:05:41 | 0:05:53 | |
is not properly in control of her
Government, which is difficult for | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
Theresa May.
This all matters not just in the | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
context of UK politics generally but
in the context of the Brexit | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
negotiations, we have a major EU
summit towards the end of December | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
and the expectation is that perhaps
the EU and UK will move on to | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
discussing their trade relationship
post Brexit. The EU will only do | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
that if three major issues are
resolved. Here is the EU Chievo | 0:06:08 | 0:06:14 | |
negotiator on Brexit popping up on
Twitter to reminders this will not | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
happen unless more progress is
achieved on three key topics. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:27 | |
Those are the Ireland border,
citizens rights and, | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
most difficult of all,
the so-called divorce bill. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
This would be a tough
for Theresa May to navigate | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
with a decent parliamentary majority
and unified Cabinet. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
She has neither. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
The problem for Theresa May is
twofold, the first is the images | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
creates, not only within the UK but
to those negotiators in Brussels, | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
about Theresa May's own authority.
The second problem is the | 0:06:48 | 0:06:53 | |
Conservative Party is deeply split
over its approach to Brexit, and for | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
that reason Theresa May had very
carefully balanced the figures about | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
the Cabinet table between those who
supported Brexit during the | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
referendum on those that supported
Remain, hoping she could retain the | 0:07:05 | 0:07:10 | |
ballots in the wider party. Now
we're having the departure of key | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
figures, Priti Patel was a prominent
Brexiteer, Theresa May has a real | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
headache and how to replace and how
to try to maintain the balance the | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
Cabinet which is just about keeping
her party onside, all of that | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
happening while she is trying to
take difficult decisions about | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
Brexit and negotiate with 27 other
countries, so the problems are | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
stacking up.
Presumably it is not necessarily the | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
end of things, Boris Johnson is
still in hot water about his | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
comments about the British woman in
Iran, and the de facto deputy to the | 0:07:42 | 0:07:49 | |
Prime Minister, Damian Green, is
fighting off allegations of | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
pornography on his computer. He is
subject to Cabinet investigation, | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
but we should make it clear he has
repeatedly and strenuously denied | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
allegations of wrongdoing, but there
is a question over several key | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
members of the Cabinet, and for that
reason Theresa May will think very | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
carefully before carrying out any
big reshuffle and will have to think | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
carefully about to shoot -- who she
appoints so she can at least | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
maintain stability going forward.
A lot of what has happened to | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
Theresa May has been to some extent
events, she has had to deal with | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
some major incidents during her time
as Prime Minister, but when things | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
like this keep happening people will
look to the Prime Minister to show | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
her authority and show she can sort
it out and maintain a stable | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
Government. With everything going
on, from Brexit to internal domestic | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
politics, it is not easy for Theresa
May. It remains a very difficult | 0:08:40 | 0:08:45 | |
time for a Prime Minister who has
already had quite a tough run. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
Thank you for taking us through
that, Alex. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:57 | |
Now from UK politics to US politics. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:58 | |
For the first time since
Donald Trump's victory, | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
the Democrats have won an election. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
Two, in fact. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
Not a national elections. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:04 | |
They've taken out
state wide elections | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
in Virginia and New Jersey. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
The win was particularly
significant in Virginia, | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
where the Democratic candidate
Ralph Northam won the governorship | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
with roughly 54% of the vote
to his Republican opponent's 45%. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
It's a bigger margin
than the 5% Hillary Clinton | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
defeated Donald Trump
by during the Presidential election. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:26 | |
What can we learn from this? | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
Donald Trump has been quick to
distance himself from the defeats. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
He tweeted, "Ed Gillespie worked
hard but did not embrace me | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
or what I stand for." | 0:09:35 | 0:09:36 | |
That was one of the Republicans who
lost. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:41 | |
Here is political
analyst Larry Sabato. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
He says that is not true. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:49 | |
It is absolutely untrue that Ed
Gillespie did not tie himself to | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
Trump's issues. He was out trumping
Trump, he was stressing Confederate | 0:09:53 | 0:10:00 | |
monuments and football players
taking a knee during the national | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
anthem, and immigration and Latino
gangs, even more than Trump has | 0:10:03 | 0:10:09 | |
done, with some vicious television
adverts on which he spent millions. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:14 | |
There was saturated coverage of
these advertisements. And it | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
backfired, it produced more
democratic votes than additional | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
Republican votes, by a factor of
about ten. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
You could be forgiven for thinking
the Democrats normally do well in | 0:10:26 | 0:10:31 | |
Virginia and New Jersey, what is the
fuss about? | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
For more on this I spoke with
the BBC's Katty Kay in Washington. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
It is their first big win since the
election a year ago, which gives | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
them a certain amount of momentum. I
spoke to one Democratic senator this | 0:10:41 | 0:10:46 | |
morning who was positively beaming
but also raise the point that we won | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
in states that were basically fairly
democratic already. This is a | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
senator who comes from a very
Republican state in the middle of | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
the country, she is up for election
next year and she says the factory | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
won in New Jersey Alberginia does
not mean we will do so well in | 0:11:01 | 0:11:16 | |
the more conservative states, and
that is a problem for Democrats. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
They have not taken control of
politics and power in America, they | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
have just won two states. During the
presidential election you help me | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
understand that Donald Trump simply
solidified his place to a degree | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
that got him over the line, rather
than trying to broaden his appeal. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
What is happening with that base? I
was down in Virginia yesterday and | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
Cavubati election more closely, and
the race of Ed Gillespie, who ran | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
all these adverts playing on fears
about immigration, they were seen as | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
culturally divisive, fairly hard
right positions. If he had won last | 0:11:42 | 0:11:47 | |
night the governorship in Virginia,
other Republicans around the country | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
would have looked at the junior and
said that is what we do now, we take | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
Trump's issues, we do not mention
the president if he happens to be | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
unpopular in our state, but his
issues are popular and resonate so | 0:11:59 | 0:12:04 | |
we will run hard on those fairly
conservative, culturally divisive | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
issues. Ed Gillespie did not win,
which raises an issue for | 0:12:08 | 0:12:15 | |
Republicans going forward. How do
they run in the age of Trump? If | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
they are in states where Trump is
not popular, and there are many, | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
what does that mean for Republican
candidates? 32-year-old journalist | 0:12:21 | 0:12:27 | |
has become the first transgender
candidate to win a state legislative | 0:12:27 | 0:12:34 | |
position anywhere in the US, that is
wanting to mention, and may remember | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
this couple. Kris Hirst was a news
anchor, his girlfriend, reporter | 0:12:38 | 0:12:45 | |
Alison Parker, was fatally shot on
air in 2015. Mr Hirst has been | 0:12:45 | 0:12:50 | |
elected as a Democrat, defeating a
three-time incumbent backed by the | 0:12:50 | 0:12:55 | |
National Rifle Association. I
mention those because for all the | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
positivity around the Democrats, I
have seen criticism that they do not | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
have a new strategy to win across
the country. Are these smaller | 0:13:02 | 0:13:06 | |
stories offering clues as to how
they could shape that? | 0:13:06 | 0:13:11 | |
I think those two stories you
brought up are interesting. What the | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
Democrats are saying about the
junior is we are embracing the idea | 0:13:14 | 0:13:20 | |
of inclusivity, the fact we have the
first openly transgender | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
congresswoman elected, there was a
Sikh mayor elected, two | 0:13:24 | 0:13:36 | |
African-American Attorney General 's
also elected. Inclusivity works. I | 0:13:36 | 0:13:40 | |
am sure that is the message that
drew Virginians in such big numbers | 0:13:40 | 0:13:45 | |
for a governor's race to the polls,
it was freezing and raining | 0:13:45 | 0:13:49 | |
yesterday, the weather was yucky.
According to the exit polls, they | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
went out in big numbers because they
do like -- do not like Donald Trump | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
and what he is doing to the country,
that seems to have drove the | 0:13:57 | 0:14:02 | |
Democratic victory as much as
anything. You can see Katty and | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
Christian Fraser on Beyond 100 Days,
Monday to Friday on the BBC News | 0:14:07 | 0:14:18 | |
Channel and BBC World News. We will
report from Catalonia soon, | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
pro-independence protesters have
blocked traffic and the trains. We | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
will hear why they are doing it and
how the region is gearing up for | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
elections next month. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:32 | |
Here in the UK the head of NHS
England has given his starkest | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
warning yet about the impact its
financial woes are having on patient | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
care. Simon Stevens, the chief
executive of NHS England, has | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
challenged the Government to find an
extra £330 million every week, as | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
promised by pro-Brexit campaigners.
The NHS wasn't on the ballot paper, | 0:14:48 | 0:14:53 | |
but it was on the ballot bus. Folk
Leave for a better funded health | 0:14:53 | 0:15:01 | |
service, £350 million a week. --
vote Leave. This is what the | 0:15:01 | 0:15:09 | |
campaign director of Vote Leave said
in January. Pundits and MPs kept | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
saying why isn't Vote Leave arguing
about the economy and living | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
standards? They did not realise that
for millions of people £350 million | 0:15:16 | 0:15:21 | |
for the NHS was about the economy
and living standards, that is why it | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
was so effective. It was clearly the
most effective argument, not only | 0:15:24 | 0:15:29 | |
with the crucial swing fifth but
with almost every demographic. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
This is Outside Source live
from the BBC newsroom. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
Our lead story is... | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
The UK's International Development
Secretary Priti Patel has resigned | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
over a row to do with undisclosed
meetings with senior Israeli | 0:15:45 | 0:15:50 | |
politicians. She is the second
member of the British Cabinet to | 0:15:50 | 0:15:55 | |
leave within a week. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
This was the scene
in Catalonia today. | 0:15:58 | 0:15:59 | |
Pro-independence protestors
causing havoc in rush hour. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
Hundreds of them descended onto main
highways and blocked the tracks | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
of Barcelona's main train station. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
This is the Catalan traffic monitor. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:20 | |
It shared this graphic earlier. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:22 | |
This picture showing the roads
affected by demonstrations. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:26 | |
The protestors were calling
for former ministers currently | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
in custody to be released. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
The former leader,
Carles Puigdemont, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:34 | |
is not among them -
- he's still in Brussels. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:42 | |
As we have discussed a few times on
the programme. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
He gave an interview to a Belgian TV
station today, saying, | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
"We will win the next
elections in Catalonia." | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
Those elections are in
Catalonia in December. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
The Spanish government
is preparing for them. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
Here's the Foreign Minister
with the BBC's Gavin Lee, | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
discussing a possible nationwide
referendum on independence. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:09 | |
We have created a committee in
Parliament to explore the | 0:17:09 | 0:17:14 | |
possibility of amending the
constitution is, to be able to | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
accommodate a better the aspirations
of some of the Catalan people. I | 0:17:17 | 0:17:24 | |
think we are ready. We acknowledge
that the political situation | 0:17:24 | 0:17:30 | |
deserves to be looked at, but in any
case it is clear that a decision | 0:17:30 | 0:17:35 | |
will have to be taken by all of
Spain. Let's get more analysis from | 0:17:35 | 0:17:42 | |
Govan.
This proposal appears to offer an | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
olive branch to separatist
supporters, but a means 47 million | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
people across Spain will decide
whether to make it legally possible | 0:17:48 | 0:17:52 | |
or not to have the right to
self-determination, it's so it will | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
be down to the entire Spanish
population to decide if they want to | 0:17:55 | 0:17:59 | |
see independence.
I think Catalonia has to decide the | 0:17:59 | 0:18:05 | |
referendum, not Spain. Spain don't
have anything to say. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:09 | |
It may be a good thing for
Catalonia. Maybe, who knows? | 0:18:09 | 0:18:18 | |
Inside the Catalan ghost Parliament,
cleaning is the only official | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
business going on. Daily politics
controlled by Madrid until elections | 0:18:21 | 0:18:26 | |
in December. Tomorrow, was
separatist officials will face | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
charges of sedition and rebellion.
-- more separatist this -- | 0:18:29 | 0:18:34 | |
officials. Only days ago, they
declared independence. Now they are | 0:18:34 | 0:18:39 | |
considered enemies of the state. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
There are allegations of sexual
misconduct about the Hollywood actor | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
and theatre director Kevin Spacey. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
The US journalist Heather Unruh has
told reporters that her son | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
was sexually assaulted
by Mr Spacey last year. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
Mr Spacey has not responded
to any of the allegations. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
Here's our special
correspondent Lucy Manning. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
In July 2016, actor Kevin Spacey
sexually assaulted my son. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:10 | |
The tears of a mother in Boston
today, revealing what she claimed | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
happened to her son. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
The victim, my son, was a starstruck
straight 18-year-old young man, | 0:19:17 | 0:19:23 | |
who had no idea that the famous
actor was an alleged sexual predator | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
or that he was about to
become his next victim. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:35 | |
Journalist Heather Unruh's
tweet about Kevin Spacey | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
last month triggered
all the allegations against him. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
Today, she went public and
the police are now investigating. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
To Kevin Spacey,
I want to say this - | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
shame on you for what you did
to my son. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:53 | |
The BBC has interviewed
more alleged victims. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
Chris Nixon didn't have to speak out
but wanted to make clear | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
Kevin Spacey's behaviour was part
of a pattern. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
It's not just sleazy,
it's predatorial, it's... | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
He did what he did because he knew
he'd get away with it. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
The one-time barman met Kevin Spacey
in London in 2007, when he alleges | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
the actor groped him. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
Kevin Spacey sat down
on the sofa next to me, | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
asked if that was my girlfriend,
then reached over, grabbed... | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
He then describes a sexually
explicit action and words. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:27 | |
A couple of weeks after
the party at his place, | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
he was in the bar, reached forward,
grabbed my waistband and said | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
something to the effect of,
"If I can make it up to you," or, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
"Let me make it up to you." | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
So I went back upstairs, I was
standing behind the bar thinking, | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
"What the hell just happened?" | 0:20:41 | 0:20:42 | |
I was in work so I couldn't
make a scene about it. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
And told him in no uncertain
terms where he could go. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
The BBC also spoke to an American
film-maker who didn't | 0:20:48 | 0:20:53 | |
want to be fully identified. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:54 | |
In the 1990s, he was a junior
crew member on a film | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
Kevin Spacey directed. | 0:20:57 | 0:20:58 | |
He claims the actor sexually
harassed him, something he mentioned | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
to another man working on the film. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
He said, "You too, huh?" | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
And I was like, "What do
you mean, 'You too'? | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
What do you mean?" | 0:21:10 | 0:21:11 | |
And he goes, "He was touching
you and flirting with you?" | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
I said, "Yeah, it was awful!" | 0:21:14 | 0:21:15 | |
And he said, "Yeah,
he did that to me." | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
In the first week we were all out
of the bar, and he grabbed my butt, | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
and I turned round, and I said
to him, "Kevin, if you ever do that | 0:21:21 | 0:21:25 | |
again, I will kick your ass,
so leave me alone." | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
In the UK, the actors' union
says sexual harassment | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
in the industry is endemic. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
Can those at the Old Vic Theatre,
where Kevin Spacey worked for 11 | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
years, really have been in the dark? | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
The theatre initially said it had no
complaints against him, | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
but it has now appointed external
advisers to investigate. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:48 | |
Kevin Spacey has not responded
to any of the latest allegations. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
Previously, he said he needed
to examine his own behaviour. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
Lucy Manning, BBC News. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
Let's turn to a number of global
business stories, beginning with | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
some big companies which handle
data. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
US data companies could face more
regulation after cyber | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
attacks rocked the likes
of Yahoo and Equifax. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
The former bosses of those companies
were on Capitol Hill Wednesday, | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
in front of the Senate Commerce
Committee. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:24 | |
They were questioned over data
breaches that saw billions | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
of their users' data stolen. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:28 | |
Here's one senator threatening more
government oversight. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
There is no such thing as data
security. When you think of a | 0:22:32 | 0:22:40 | |
sophisticated state actor such as
China or Russia, your companies | 0:22:40 | 0:22:49 | |
can't stand up against them. There
will have to be a cooperation | 0:22:49 | 0:22:58 | |
between the most sophisticated
player in the United States and | 0:22:58 | 0:23:07 | |
otherwise we Americans will not have
any more privacy. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
Samira Hussain is in New York. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
I wonder if these companies want to
work with the NSA? They are facing a | 0:23:13 | 0:23:23 | |
gruelling, for some of them this is
not the first time they have faced a | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
grilling for their performance after
the hack was made public. There is | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
not much they could say, that's
right you have heard a lot of | 0:23:29 | 0:23:36 | |
apologies from both Yahoo and Echo
facts, both companies say we worked | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
with law enforcement officials when
we first learned of these hacks and | 0:23:40 | 0:23:46 | |
we will continue to do so. In fact
the former head of Equifax, Mr | 0:23:46 | 0:23:51 | |
Smith, had said I think there needs
to be some more cooperation between | 0:23:51 | 0:23:56 | |
public and private in terms of
trying to secure people's data. | 0:23:56 | 0:24:02 | |
In terms of how that would proceed,
do these people on Capitol Hill have | 0:24:02 | 0:24:08 | |
a power to force the big companies
to do it, or do they just ask? It | 0:24:08 | 0:24:18 | |
depends on how they make it happen.
These words used by the Senator Bill | 0:24:18 | 0:24:26 | |
Nelson are more threatening, and
from a company perspective you do | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
not want to have more Government
intervention, so far it is clear, | 0:24:29 | 0:24:34 | |
just from looking at the size of the
hacks from Yahoo and Echo fax, | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
something really needs to be done in
order to protect the data of | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
consumers. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:43 | |
The as you have heard, president
Trent is in China at the moment. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:56 | |
One of the main objectives
for President Trump is to get | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
concessions from Xi Jinping. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:00 | |
19 commercial deals worth
about $9 billion have been signed. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
They include Chinese firms buying
food and helicopters from the US. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
But more than that is needed
to narrow the current US | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
trade deficit with China,
which stands at around $300 billion. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
But what US firms really
want is greater access | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
to Chinese consumers. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
David Dollar used to be
the US Treasury's economic | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
and financial emissary to China. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:24 | |
Here is his assessment on what the
trip might have achieved. I think it | 0:25:24 | 0:25:29 | |
mostly comes down to policy, China
has a lot of close markets, lots of | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
issues, lots of sectors imported to
the United States are closed in | 0:25:33 | 0:25:39 | |
China, most financial services,
telecom, media, entertainment, it is | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
a long list. From an economist's
point of view, if you are too done | 0:25:43 | 0:25:48 | |
this imbalance, China needs to open
up for sectors. Does not seem to be | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
much discussion of on this trip. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:57 | |
If you want to know more about
President Trump in China, stay | 0:25:57 | 0:26:02 | |
tuned, we will talk about it in a
red ten minutes. -- in around ten | 0:26:02 | 0:26:07 | |
minutes. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
red ten minutes. -- in around ten
minutes. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
If you were watching yesterday you
will have heard me talk about the | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
very cold plume of Arctic air across
Canada and Northern states of the | 0:26:15 | 0:26:20 | |
US. It is shifting eastwards in the
next couple of days, you can see the | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
deep blues and purples pushing
towards the great Lakes and the | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
north-east United States.
Meanwhile, across the West, a plume | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
of slightly milder air bringing
temperatures up a little across | 0:26:31 | 0:26:36 | |
parts of Washington state, but wet
and windy weather with it. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
Across the great Lakes and towards
the north-east, we could see snow | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
for the next couple of days, lots of
ice and frost, we could be looking | 0:26:43 | 0:26:49 | |
at travel problems.
Certainly the first significant cold | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
blast after what has been a near
record-breaking summer and autumn | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
for many places. South Asia, heavy
rain has been affecting parts of | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
Tamil Nadu and Carol and towards Sri
Lanka, the monsoon rain easing down | 0:27:01 | 0:27:06 | |
a little into Thursday and Friday,
but further north it is about the | 0:27:06 | 0:27:11 | |
light winds, the dry air and the
sunshine, it is also still problems | 0:27:11 | 0:27:18 | |
continually in larger cities in the
north. -- smog problems. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:30 | |
The sunny downpours are intense
across the south-east of Asia, the | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
Andaman Sea, Malaysia, the Gulf of
Thailand in towards the South China | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
Sea. We are watching this bright
echo moving into the central | 0:27:37 | 0:27:42 | |
northern Philippines, this could
bring a bout of exceptionally heavy | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
rain through Thursday and Friday. It
exits into the warm waters of the | 0:27:46 | 0:27:51 | |
South China Sea and there is a small
chance it could develop into a | 0:27:51 | 0:27:55 | |
tropical as it heads towards North
Vietnam, something to keep a careful | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
eye on. We have had one area of low
pressure early in the week which | 0:27:59 | 0:28:04 | |
brought torrential rain and flooding
for the central Mediterranean, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:08 | |
another area of low pressure moved
from the West. Across the east of | 0:28:08 | 0:28:12 | |
the Mediterranean on Thursday and
looks fine, lovely weather and one. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
The same for Southern Italy and
Sicily, these thunderstorms will | 0:28:15 | 0:28:21 | |
expand as they push eastwards
through Thursday and Friday. We | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
could see violent storms than the
risk of large Highland waterspouts. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:28 | |
Cold air digging down into northern
Spain, snow over the Pyrenees, but | 0:28:28 | 0:28:32 | |
Southern Spain and Portugal doing
pretty well with sunshine, of course | 0:28:32 | 0:28:36 | |
the Canary Islands are very warm,
2627. Back home in overnight weather | 0:28:36 | 0:28:42 | |
front will eventually clear away
southwards during Thursday | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
afternoon, then we are in a run of
West north-westerly winds, quite | 0:28:45 | 0:28:50 | |
blustery but fine, bright with
sunshine, showers across the North | 0:28:50 | 0:28:54 | |
and the West. Stay tuned for a full
UK weather forecast in about half an | 0:28:54 | 0:28:58 | |
hour. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,
this is Outside Source. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:14 | |
Another senior British minister has
resigned, this time it is Priti | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
Patel, who is accused of not telling
the Prime Minister the forced --. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:26 | |
Read about private meeting with
Israeli politicians. Democrats have | 0:30:26 | 0:30:31 | |
had good days in the polls in
Virginia and New Jersey. Donald | 0:30:31 | 0:30:34 | |
Trump is doing his Asian tour, he
has spent the day in China. We will | 0:30:34 | 0:30:38 | |
hear how that has been covered on
Chinese social media. And as I was | 0:30:38 | 0:30:44 | |
discussing earlier, the Hollywood
star Kevin Spacey is facing a new | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
allegation of sexual misconduct. An
alleged victim has been speaking. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:59 | |
We have Donald Trump and his wife
getting a two of the forbidden city | 0:31:08 | 0:31:13 | |
with Xi Jingping and his wife. This
is the first time that the official | 0:31:13 | 0:31:18 | |
leader has had an official dinner
there. Before you get carried away, | 0:31:18 | 0:31:24 | |
we spotted this from a former
Mexican ambassador. He said this. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:30 | |
If we put that cynicism to one side
at the moment, there is once going | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
both ways. This is President Xi
Jingping looking at President | 0:31:38 | 0:31:42 | |
Trump's phone, a video of his
granddaughter reciting a Chinese | 0:31:42 | 0:31:48 | |
pound. Apparently the Chinese
president gave her an A+. All of | 0:31:48 | 0:31:52 | |
this, pleasant as though it is, is a
warm up to tough talking on North | 0:31:52 | 0:31:56 | |
Korea and trade. This is the BBC
China editor talking about these | 0:31:56 | 0:32:02 | |
issues with a former US ambassador
to China. The talk of the Chinese is | 0:32:02 | 0:32:08 | |
the sense that they will listen that
they will not cut off ties with | 0:32:08 | 0:32:12 | |
North Korea because they do not want
to destabilise the peninsula. But | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
your view is that it is right to
raise the pressure on China as well | 0:32:16 | 0:32:20 | |
as North Korea. I think it is right
to put pressure on China. But | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
frankly I think there is no solution
to the Kim Jong-un problem without | 0:32:23 | 0:32:28 | |
going through China. China has to be
part of the solution. That means not | 0:32:28 | 0:32:33 | |
just pushing China but finding some
agreement with China. There has to | 0:32:33 | 0:32:38 | |
be carrots as well the sticks. There
are some analysts and critics of US | 0:32:38 | 0:32:43 | |
policy in China who say that US
presidents have allowed themselves | 0:32:43 | 0:32:47 | |
to be flattered for 40 years.
Sitting of the Peking duck, they | 0:32:47 | 0:32:51 | |
have allowed themselves to be lulled
into a Chinese game. The thing that | 0:32:51 | 0:32:57 | |
is a fair assessment and you think
there is a danger that this | 0:32:57 | 0:33:01 | |
President, perhaps more than any
other, at a point when China strong, | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
might fall into that trap? The
Chinese have thousands of years of | 0:33:04 | 0:33:11 | |
experience in flattering foreigners.
They are very good at it. We do not | 0:33:11 | 0:33:15 | |
have that experience, it is not
really our approach very much | 0:33:15 | 0:33:17 | |
anyway. This is a state visit plus,
Trump blue skies, they will just | 0:33:17 | 0:33:25 | |
roll out the carpet and flatter
Trump as much as possible. I think | 0:33:25 | 0:33:29 | |
it is imperative that the United
States take a much more strategic | 0:33:29 | 0:33:33 | |
view down the road. How confident
are you that that strategic vision | 0:33:33 | 0:33:37 | |
is there from your president? I hope
that Trump realises through this | 0:33:37 | 0:33:41 | |
visit that he listens to his people
that advocate that, it is very | 0:33:41 | 0:33:48 | |
important. A diplomatic answer to
say the least. Trump being in China | 0:33:48 | 0:33:53 | |
will be a big talking point, but
there are restrictions about what | 0:33:53 | 0:33:58 | |
Chinese people can say online. This
was taken down from Weibo earlier, | 0:33:58 | 0:34:08 | |
called a Trump blue sky. China
suffers from very bad smog, this was | 0:34:08 | 0:34:14 | |
heavily blue and the suggestion
making the suggestion that the | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
Government made this happen. I was
going to show you this as well, this | 0:34:18 | 0:34:24 | |
is a website called free Weibo, it
shows comments that have been | 0:34:24 | 0:34:27 | |
censored. This case with the word
Trump take out, censored, censored, | 0:34:27 | 0:34:34 | |
censored. A lot of people have had
what they are saying restricted by | 0:34:34 | 0:34:37 | |
the authorities. A Chinese media
expert for BBC monitoring is looking | 0:34:37 | 0:34:43 | |
across reaction in China.
Today, anything to do with Xi | 0:34:43 | 0:34:50 | |
Jingping and Donald Trump, normally
gets a lot of attention in Chinese | 0:34:50 | 0:34:53 | |
media. Looking today on Weibo, which
is what people use in China because | 0:34:53 | 0:35:00 | |
of Facebook and Twitter being
blocked. Many of the top hashtags | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
are related to the visit, things
like Trump is here, Trump and Xi | 0:35:03 | 0:35:08 | |
Jingping meet. These hashtags have
been in the top ten consistently all | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
day. Normally what happens though,
any state media post that they put | 0:35:11 | 0:35:18 | |
on Weibo, these are recounts with
about 50 million followers, they | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
have massive followings. They
normally, within a few minutes, get | 0:35:21 | 0:35:26 | |
at least 1000 posts. But all day,
most of the posts have been coming | 0:35:26 | 0:35:33 | |
in from CCTV or states related to
the video, had only received several | 0:35:33 | 0:35:37 | |
hundred which normally indicates
there is censorship with Government | 0:35:37 | 0:35:42 | |
censors removing posts from Weibo.
What we can see is what the | 0:35:42 | 0:35:48 | |
Government allows us to seek is not
what is the official view on this | 0:35:48 | 0:35:53 | |
trip that the official sources like
as to have? In China there is this | 0:35:53 | 0:36:01 | |
idea of meeting people face-to-face.
For a visit like this, which is a | 0:36:01 | 0:36:06 | |
very, very important visitor China
as well as the US, yes, the red | 0:36:06 | 0:36:09 | |
carpet is being rolled out. A lot of
people have been posting comments, | 0:36:09 | 0:36:14 | |
not all of them have been censored,
but people talking about how blew | 0:36:14 | 0:36:21 | |
the sky is today, and alluding to
this idea that the factories around | 0:36:21 | 0:36:27 | |
the capital must've been closed. But
a lot of comments have been censored | 0:36:27 | 0:36:30 | |
that mention how can Donald Trump
possibly not be tweeting? Even | 0:36:30 | 0:36:37 | |
though Twitter is blocked in
mainland China, people can access it | 0:36:37 | 0:36:41 | |
from a VPN in a closed environment,
not in a public space. A lot of | 0:36:41 | 0:36:46 | |
5-star hotels give access to people
and they can use VPNs. People were | 0:36:46 | 0:36:51 | |
expecting today that Donald Trump
would eventually tweet. But there | 0:36:51 | 0:36:56 | |
were some people asking if he will
be tweeting while he is with Xi | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
Jingping, which would be very
awkward! We were looking at that | 0:36:59 | 0:37:04 | |
picture of blue skies in the Chinese
capital, no blue skies in Delhi at | 0:37:04 | 0:37:09 | |
the moment, because the air
pollution situation there is getting | 0:37:09 | 0:37:12 | |
very, very situation. That is Delhi
on the map, this is what you would | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
see if you try to work this morning
in Delhi. It was filmed by my | 0:37:15 | 0:37:24 | |
colleague, persistent fog, it is
smog. Pollution is always bad in | 0:37:24 | 0:37:27 | |
Delhi but the past two days have
been extreme. In some areas it has | 0:37:27 | 0:37:32 | |
reached 30 times the recommended
limit according to the W helped | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
show. The American medical
Association has declared a state of | 0:37:35 | 0:37:39 | |
emergency. All schools have been
closed for the week. Pollution | 0:37:39 | 0:37:44 | |
levels generally wise in the winter
in Delhi. That is because in | 0:37:44 | 0:37:49 | |
neighbouring states -- rise,
thousands of farmers are burning | 0:37:49 | 0:37:57 | |
stubble in their fields, that
creates Mike, add to that dust and | 0:37:57 | 0:38:01 | |
rubbish from construction starts and
you get to where we are. One of our | 0:38:01 | 0:38:07 | |
correspondence is based in Delhi and
he stepped outside. This is what | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
Delhi looks like at the moment. The
entire city is covered in this thick | 0:38:11 | 0:38:16 | |
blanket of grey smoke. In the
distance is the famous, iconic India | 0:38:16 | 0:38:21 | |
gate War Memorial, which you can
only just see because the visibility | 0:38:21 | 0:38:24 | |
is so poor. At this time you would
often see a lot more people out | 0:38:24 | 0:38:28 | |
mysteries, but there are not many
people about. It is not hard to | 0:38:28 | 0:38:31 | |
understand why. I have been out for
only ten minutes, my eyes are | 0:38:31 | 0:38:38 | |
beginning to smart, my throat is
burning, because when you breathe in | 0:38:38 | 0:38:42 | |
you breathe in this deadly cocktail
of diesel fumes, construction dust, | 0:38:42 | 0:38:47 | |
such from coal-fired power plants,
even smoke from burning crop stubble | 0:38:47 | 0:38:50 | |
on the farmland outside Delhi and
beyond. That is the reason why it is | 0:38:50 | 0:38:55 | |
literally becoming dangerous for
people in the city to venture out. | 0:38:55 | 0:39:00 | |
These items are the one people in
Delhi are queueing up to buy. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:05 | |
Pollution masks, cut your fires, air
purifiers for your home, even an air | 0:39:05 | 0:39:09 | |
quality monitor to assess how
dangerous it is to be outside. If | 0:39:09 | 0:39:12 | |
you look inside the shop, people
have been cheering for several hours | 0:39:12 | 0:39:15 | |
hoping to get their hands on these
products. It is very expensive, that | 0:39:15 | 0:39:21 | |
is why I'm looking, it should be
reasonable so everyone can purchase | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
it. But it is important? Yet it is
important. A big demand? Would you | 0:39:24 | 0:39:32 | |
run out? Hopefully we will get fresh
supplies in one hour. People are | 0:39:32 | 0:39:41 | |
going to great lengths as you can
see, and it is not difficult to | 0:39:41 | 0:39:46 | |
imagine why. Four people it is a
question of their health and in some | 0:39:46 | 0:39:50 | |
instances their lives. There is more
information on the pollution in | 0:39:50 | 0:39:54 | |
Delhi and the vast majority of the
stories we cover on Outside Source | 0:39:54 | 0:39:58 | |
via the BBC website. This go back to
the main story here in the UK, and | 0:39:58 | 0:40:13 | |
in fact our lead story on Outside
Source. Priti Patel, the former | 0:40:13 | 0:40:19 | |
International Development Secretary,
has resigned in the last few hours. | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
These are pictures of her leaving
Downing Street in this car after she | 0:40:22 | 0:40:26 | |
has broken to Theresa May and had
offered her resignation. That was | 0:40:26 | 0:40:30 | |
pretty much inevitable. She had been
under pressure for days. The story | 0:40:30 | 0:40:34 | |
isn't about one minister, it is
about how stable to Theresa May's | 0:40:34 | 0:40:42 | |
government is. It has not been
particularly stable since the | 0:40:42 | 0:40:44 | |
election earlier in the year. This
story has many components. It starts | 0:40:44 | 0:40:49 | |
with Priti Patel having a series of
meetings with Israeli officials and | 0:40:49 | 0:40:54 | |
the Israeli Prime Minister jeering a
summer holiday in Israel. We were | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
then told that Downing Street did
not know the these meetings had | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
happened. That would be a break of
the ministerial code. Priti Patel | 0:41:00 | 0:41:05 | |
then released an apology. She
acknowledge that what had happened | 0:41:05 | 0:41:09 | |
was not ideal, Theresa May excepted
that. Then the story escalated. Last | 0:41:09 | 0:41:13 | |
night we had multiple reports, this
one from the sun, that there were | 0:41:13 | 0:41:17 | |
other seriously high level meetings
involving Priti Patel, which the | 0:41:17 | 0:41:22 | |
Government and in particular Theresa
May did not know about. That meant, | 0:41:22 | 0:41:27 | |
bearing in mind that Priti Patel was
not in England, she was in east | 0:41:27 | 0:41:32 | |
Africa, she was told not to carry on
with her trip that come back to | 0:41:32 | 0:41:38 | |
London for some conversations. While
she was in the air, lots of people | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
were following her flight on the
flight radar website, and they told | 0:41:41 | 0:41:48 | |
us that 22,000 people were
monitoring it. Step-by-step and | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
waiting for her to land to see what
would play out. While she was in the | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
air we had a situation of the Jewish
Chronicle running another huge | 0:41:54 | 0:42:02 | |
story. If it is true, that in fact
number ten you about some of these | 0:42:02 | 0:42:06 | |
meetings and encouraged Priti Patel
not to go public with them. Let's be | 0:42:06 | 0:42:11 | |
clear, our political editor says
that number ten flatly denies this. | 0:42:11 | 0:42:16 | |
We cannot say for certain that this
is the case. But the man behind the | 0:42:16 | 0:42:22 | |
story has spoken to the BBC. I have
been told first by my original to | 0:42:22 | 0:42:28 | |
sources, that since I have gone
public, a third source has contacted | 0:42:28 | 0:42:33 | |
me. A very senior, respectable and
reliable source has confirmed to me | 0:42:33 | 0:42:37 | |
that it is true. But Priti Patel did
know and tell number ten on Monday | 0:42:37 | 0:42:44 | |
about that extra meeting. And number
ten asked her, told her, not to put | 0:42:44 | 0:42:49 | |
that extra meeting in her statement,
for whatever reason they may have. | 0:42:49 | 0:42:54 | |
Well, if that is, as Stephen Pollard
says, the story isn't just about the | 0:42:54 | 0:42:58 | |
resignation of a Government
minister, it is about the behaviour | 0:42:58 | 0:43:03 | |
of Theresa May, watching you and
what she didn't know. And what that | 0:43:03 | 0:43:09 | |
leaves conservatives and their
power. Earlier on I asked whether | 0:43:09 | 0:43:17 | |
story leaves Theresa May right now?
This is the second Cabinet Minister | 0:43:17 | 0:43:23 | |
Theresa May has lost in a week. Well
I don't think anyone is blaming | 0:43:23 | 0:43:30 | |
Theresa May for their resignations,
they are very different, one about | 0:43:30 | 0:43:33 | |
sexual harassment allegations, and
in the case of Priti Patel, the idea | 0:43:33 | 0:43:39 | |
that she was making foreign policy
up as she went along and wasn't | 0:43:39 | 0:43:43 | |
following the normal channels. The
problem is that it adds to that | 0:43:43 | 0:43:45 | |
whiff of chaos and crisis
surrounding her Government. The | 0:43:45 | 0:43:50 | |
sense that it is a Government that
has been buffeted by events rather | 0:43:50 | 0:43:54 | |
than being in control of them. This
all of course is while the | 0:43:54 | 0:43:58 | |
Government is facing so massive, so
huge, you know what I'm going to | 0:43:58 | 0:44:02 | |
Brexit. And Michel Barnier has
helpfully taken to Twitter to remind | 0:44:02 | 0:44:09 | |
the UK that there are still three
outstanding issues, the Irish | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
border, citizens of rights and the
so-called divorce Bill, to be | 0:44:13 | 0:44:16 | |
resolved if they are going to be any
conversations about face two, the UK | 0:44:16 | 0:44:21 | |
trade relationship with the EU. And
of course the clock is ticking | 0:44:21 | 0:44:25 | |
because it is important to remember
that Britain has triggered Article | 0:44:25 | 0:44:30 | |
50, whether or not there is a deal,
Britain will be out of the EU in | 0:44:30 | 0:44:35 | |
March 2000 and 19. Of course, these
things are all linked. In part | 0:44:35 | 0:44:40 | |
because of these negotiations
beginning, the Government will be | 0:44:40 | 0:44:45 | |
thinking how weak they look to the
EU, to our negotiating partners with | 0:44:45 | 0:44:49 | |
all of the problems we are having in
London. But the other big issue | 0:44:49 | 0:44:54 | |
which is connected to Brexit, you
have to remember that Priti Patel | 0:44:54 | 0:44:59 | |
was a prominent Brexiteer. For
Theresa May, when she has to hire a | 0:44:59 | 0:45:03 | |
new development minister, she will
have to be very mindful of that | 0:45:03 | 0:45:06 | |
difficult balance and her Government
between those who campaigned for | 0:45:06 | 0:45:11 | |
Leaves, and those who campaigned to
remain. In a way that is the dynamic | 0:45:11 | 0:45:15 | |
at the heart of all of this. In many
ways, Government ministers resigning | 0:45:15 | 0:45:20 | |
is a terrible thing. Sorting out
Brexit and where these talks should | 0:45:20 | 0:45:27 | |
be going is super tricky. If you
find UK politics intriguing, look at | 0:45:27 | 0:45:33 | |
this next story. It is about Lebanon
on's disappearing leader. He did not | 0:45:33 | 0:45:43 | |
announce it in leather nun, he
announced it in study your Arabia. | 0:45:43 | 0:45:52 | |
We can be certain that his
recognition was not expected, his | 0:45:52 | 0:45:55 | |
foreign affairs magazine said that
the resignation left his own | 0:45:55 | 0:46:01 | |
supporters scratching their heads.
Or another well-known analyst | 0:46:01 | 0:46:05 | |
said... We must also point out that
Hariri has not been backed 11 on and | 0:46:05 | 0:46:18 | |
not said when he will return. This
is interesting with this picture, | 0:46:18 | 0:46:23 | |
the word crosses backs meaning
hostage, implying that the Saudis | 0:46:23 | 0:46:26 | |
forced him to resign and controlling
the situation. Certainly we can say | 0:46:26 | 0:46:31 | |
that Saudi Arabia backed his party
and that when he resigned he blames | 0:46:31 | 0:46:39 | |
Iran for meddling. That is important
because this is a grand regional | 0:46:39 | 0:46:45 | |
battle between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Ford dominance. This is playing out | 0:46:45 | 0:46:50 | |
elsewhere in the Middle East. This
is what our Middle East | 0:46:50 | 0:46:56 | |
correspondence said... | 0:46:56 | 0:47:00 | |
This is the BBC correspondent in
Beirut getting to grips with all of | 0:47:08 | 0:47:11 | |
this. We know he is in Riyadh, but
we don't know under which status, | 0:47:11 | 0:47:16 | |
which prompts lots of questions on
high official levels that Mr Hariri | 0:47:16 | 0:47:23 | |
might be under pressure in Saudi
Arabia. So far, the camp of Mr | 0:47:23 | 0:47:29 | |
Hariri, the pro-future movement
officials and supporters claimed | 0:47:29 | 0:47:33 | |
that Mr Hariri is not under any sort
of pressure, not under house arrest | 0:47:33 | 0:47:42 | |
and has complete freedom to return
to the country. But the president | 0:47:42 | 0:47:47 | |
himself is casting a lot of doubt on
this saying that he refuses to deal | 0:47:47 | 0:47:54 | |
with the resignation of Mr Hariri
until the prime ministers back to | 0:47:54 | 0:47:59 | |
leather nun. He said he would --
Lebanon. He would deal with the | 0:47:59 | 0:48:08 | |
surprise of this announcement and
would not deal with the resignation. | 0:48:08 | 0:48:13 | |
This is turning into a surreal story
in Lebanon. The sequence of events | 0:48:13 | 0:48:23 | |
is extraordinary, and everyone here
is catching their breath about what | 0:48:23 | 0:48:28 | |
is next for the country. Who knows
what is coming next? While we wait | 0:48:28 | 0:48:31 | |
for news from Lebanon. Let's talk
about the latest round of the US led | 0:48:31 | 0:48:37 | |
climate talks. Almost 200 countries
are working on how to implement the | 0:48:37 | 0:48:44 | |
Paris agreement. But there is
concern that any progress made on | 0:48:44 | 0:48:48 | |
carbon levels could be wiped out by
an unusual threat. I certainly had | 0:48:48 | 0:48:53 | |
not heard about this before today.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo | 0:48:53 | 0:48:59 | |
and the peatlands of Central Africa,
there is an issue. Our reporter | 0:48:59 | 0:49:05 | |
explains what it is.
This relate area of forest in | 0:49:05 | 0:49:11 | |
Central Congo holds gigatons of
carbon. It is the result of decay | 0:49:11 | 0:49:19 | |
from millions of years ago and it
has been locked safely in the soil | 0:49:19 | 0:49:22 | |
for thousands of years. We estimate
we have a map of the Central Congo | 0:49:22 | 0:49:26 | |
peatlands for the first time this
year, the shows it covers around | 0:49:26 | 0:49:32 | |
145,000 square kilometres. That is
an area a bit bigger than the size | 0:49:32 | 0:49:35 | |
of England. We think its stores
about 30 thousand tonnes of carbon, | 0:49:35 | 0:49:43 | |
more carbon than the emissions from
fossil fuels and humanity globally | 0:49:43 | 0:49:49 | |
for three years. But with more
intensive farming and destruction of | 0:49:49 | 0:49:53 | |
the forest, there is concern. Sig
Green peas and sciences are | 0:49:53 | 0:49:57 | |
monitoring the levels. The
rainforest is the second-largest in | 0:49:57 | 0:50:03 | |
the world and we know that it is
critical for biodiversity. With this | 0:50:03 | 0:50:07 | |
discovery we also learned that it is
critical for the climate. So far, | 0:50:07 | 0:50:13 | |
the vegetation remains largely
undisturbed campaign groups say | 0:50:13 | 0:50:17 | |
there is absolutely no question of
expelling forest people. In fact, | 0:50:17 | 0:50:21 | |
those who live and depend on the
forest, are likely to be keener to | 0:50:21 | 0:50:25 | |
conserve it. But they are also
trapped in extreme poverty and this | 0:50:25 | 0:50:30 | |
puts pressure on the forest.
TRANSLATION: Our fathers bought back | 0:50:30 | 0:50:37 | |
fish and animals from the forest,
but there is nothing left to bring | 0:50:37 | 0:50:41 | |
back because many people are
exploiting it and we ourselves are | 0:50:41 | 0:50:45 | |
dying from hunger. Researchers
estimate that by planting more | 0:50:45 | 0:50:49 | |
trees, farming more sustainable and
conserving weapons, carbon dioxide | 0:50:49 | 0:50:53 | |
emissions could be slashed by more
than one third. Money though is key. | 0:50:53 | 0:50:58 | |
And Congolese officials say they
need more funds. TRANSLATION: The | 0:50:58 | 0:51:02 | |
efforts of the Democratic Republic
of Congo to protect the forests are | 0:51:02 | 0:51:10 | |
not sufficiently rewarded with
international solidarity. But the | 0:51:10 | 0:51:13 | |
DRC will have to wait and see if
their appeal is successful. And | 0:51:13 | 0:51:17 | |
what, if anything, they come up
with. A child suffering from a rare | 0:51:17 | 0:51:27 | |
genetic condition which leaves skin
as fragile as butterfly wings has | 0:51:27 | 0:51:31 | |
been given new genetically modified
skin. This was done in a series of | 0:51:31 | 0:51:37 | |
life-saving operations in Germany. | 0:51:37 | 0:51:40 | |
When Hassan was just a week old,
his skin began to tear and blister. | 0:51:46 | 0:51:49 | |
He has junctional
epidermolysis bullosa. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:51 | |
The separate layers of his skin
should be held together like Velcro, | 0:51:51 | 0:51:54 | |
but Hassan's DNA is missing vital
instructions that leave his skin | 0:51:54 | 0:51:56 | |
as fragile as a butterfly's wing. | 0:51:56 | 0:51:58 | |
There's no cure, and around
four in ten patients | 0:51:58 | 0:52:00 | |
do not reach adolescence. | 0:52:00 | 0:52:01 | |
Hassan's dad said it was
an upsetting time for the family. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:05 | |
He was in severe pain. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:10 | |
He was asking me a lot of questions. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:12 | |
I couldn't answer them. | 0:52:12 | 0:52:15 | |
For example, "Why do
I have this disease?" | 0:52:15 | 0:52:17 | |
"Why do I have this life?" | 0:52:17 | 0:52:21 | |
In June 2015, Hassan was critically
ill at the children's | 0:52:21 | 0:52:24 | |
hospital in Bochum, Germany,
and doctors did not | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
think he would survive. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
More than half his body looked
like a red-raw open wound. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
In an experimental therapy,
a patch of Hassan's skin | 0:52:33 | 0:52:35 | |
was taken to a lab in Italy. | 0:52:35 | 0:52:40 | |
There, it was infected
with the virus. | 0:52:40 | 0:52:42 | |
Viruses are good at getting
inside cells, and this one was used | 0:52:42 | 0:52:45 | |
like a postman to deliver
the missing instructions for binding | 0:52:45 | 0:52:52 | |
layers of skin together. | 0:52:52 | 0:52:53 | |
Large sheets of the skin
were then grown and grafted | 0:52:53 | 0:52:55 | |
back onto Hassan's body. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:58 | |
This breakthrough
is exciting doctors. | 0:52:58 | 0:53:00 | |
I got goose bumps when I heard this,
it was just incredible, really, | 0:53:00 | 0:53:05 | |
very, very exciting. | 0:53:05 | 0:53:07 | |
Is this going to make
a difference for patients today? | 0:53:07 | 0:53:09 | |
This treatment is not available,
and it is not going to be available | 0:53:09 | 0:53:13 | |
in the next few months,
but this is a massive | 0:53:13 | 0:53:15 | |
advance in research. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:18 | |
Four-year-old Tia is just one
of half a million people living with | 0:53:18 | 0:53:22 | |
epidermolysis bullosa worldwide. | 0:53:22 | 0:53:25 | |
It's gave us a lot of hope. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:27 | |
If it's going to make her better
and make her have a normal life, | 0:53:27 | 0:53:30 | |
we would definitely go for it. | 0:53:31 | 0:53:32 | |
Every birthday that she has,
I dread it sometimes, | 0:53:32 | 0:53:35 | |
because I always sit and think,
"Is she going to die this year?" | 0:53:35 | 0:53:42 | |
"Is she going to live?" | 0:53:42 | 0:53:44 | |
And I don't want to
think that any more. | 0:53:44 | 0:53:46 | |
But this is not a proven therapy -
it's experimental. | 0:53:46 | 0:53:48 | |
Clinical trials are under way to see
if it can be used more widely. | 0:53:48 | 0:53:51 | |
James Gallagher, BBC News. | 0:53:51 | 0:54:00 | |
Just before I say goodbye. I want to
tell you about an important ruling | 0:54:00 | 0:54:04 | |
from Germany's highest court. It
says that a third sexual category | 0:54:04 | 0:54:08 | |
must be legally recognised at birth.
By the end of the year there has to | 0:54:08 | 0:54:13 | |
be legislation to create an intersex
category. Germany will be the first | 0:54:13 | 0:54:17 | |
country in Europe to do that. It is
also worth pointing out that in 2013 | 0:54:17 | 0:54:21 | |
it was also the first country to
allow babies with both | 0:54:21 | 0:54:26 | |
characteristics of both sexes to be
categorised as neither male nor | 0:54:26 | 0:54:31 | |
female. Between 0.05 and 1:7%... | 0:54:31 | 0:54:37 | |
A really significant ruling there in
Germany. That is the end of today's | 0:54:43 | 0:54:47 | |
Outside Source. Thank you for
watching. Join me tomorrow at the | 0:54:47 | 0:54:50 | |
same time for another hour of the
bigger stories around the world. I | 0:54:50 | 0:54:53 | |
will see you then. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:57 |