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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

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Another senior British

minister resigns -

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Priti Patel is accused

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of not telling the Prime Minister

about highly sensitive meetings

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with top Israeli politicians.

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On the first anniversary

of President Trump's election,

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Democrats sweep the polls in the US.

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We will hear from Katty Kay.

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President Trump's spent

the day in China -

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we scour the country's social media

to find out what they're

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saying about him.

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Hollywood star Kevin Spacey

faces a new allegation

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of sexual misconduct -

we hear from an alleged victim.

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Welcome to Outside Source.

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Quite a day for UK politics.

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I will do my best to take you right

through it.

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This is Priti Patel.

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She was International

Development Secretary.

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But this is her leaving

Ten Downing Street after resigning,

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under intense pressure.

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This was not so long ago.

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This isn't just about one minister -

it's about the stability

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of the Government, and about Brexit.

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Priti Patel is a big supporter of

Brexit.

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This began with Priti Patel holding

meetings with senior Israeli

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officials during what was supposed

to be a summer holiday -

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and we were told by Downing Street

that she hadn't told the Prime

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Minister.

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That breaks the ministerial code.

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Then we had an apology

from Priti Patel.

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It seems Theresa May accepted.

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Then last night we found out

there were more meetings.

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That was from a report in the Sun

newspaper. And it said that the PM

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had not been told.

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Now while this is playing out,

Ms Patel is in East Africa.

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She was supposed to be

heading to Uganda -

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but instead was told to get

on a plane back home from Nairobi.

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That wasn't a good sign.

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That plane took off earlier.

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People quickly started following it

on the website flight radar.

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At one point more than 22,000 users

are currently tracking flight

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#KQ100 en route to London.

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Are you ready for the next twist?

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While the minister is in the air,

The Jewish Chronicle runs a story

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claiming Number Ten had known

about some of these meetings

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and told Priti Patel

not to declare them.

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That is an explosive Carla Lane --

explosive claim, but number ten

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denied that. If it was true, it

would place Theresa May more solidly

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in the controversy. We were all

waiting for the plane to land and

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media outlets including BBC News

filmed the plane as it landed,

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filmed the ministerial cars

collecting Priti Patel and taking

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her into the centre of London. This

resignation has not done anything to

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calm down some people, who are

looking not just for her resignation

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but also that of Foreign Secretary

Boris Johnson, who has been under

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pressure about comments he made

about a British woman in prison in a

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run.

Priti Patel claimed Shitole Boris

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Johnson about these meetings that

that was sufficient. Here is the

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Foreign Secretary giving his

reaction.

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I want to say that Priti Patel has

been a very good colleague and

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friend for a long time, and a

first-class Secretary of State for

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International Development. It has

been a real pleasure working with

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her, and I am sure she has a great

future ahead of her. Thank you very

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much.

Deep breath. Let's bring in our

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political correspondent Alex

Forsyth. It is complicated, farcical

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but also pretty serious?

It is. The

chronology you outlined showed that

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in the UK resignation of Priti Patel

was pretty widely expected today, it

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did not come as a big surprise when

we finally got official confirmation

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that she had resigned from the

Government. That is in part because

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all Cabinet ministers are supposed

to abide by what is called

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collective responsibility, they

effectively speak with one voice. So

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Priti Patel going off on her own,

meeting with Israeli officials

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without discussing that or

disclosing it to the Prime Minister

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is a clear breach of her role as a

Cabinet member. When further details

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emerged it was pretty inevitable she

had to go. The Prime Minister

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accepted the resignation but gave a

pretty firm rebuke to Priti Patel,

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saying although the UK works closely

with Israel it has to be through

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official channels. This place into a

much bigger problem for the Prime

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Minister, already her authority was

in question in the UK, then last

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week we had the resignation of the

former Defence Secretary Michael

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Fallon over claims about his past

conduct. Now we have the resignation

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of the International Development

Secretary Priti Patel, and it all

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fuels what is the appearance of a

pretty shaky cabinet at the moment.

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Obviously the two of those things

are out of Theresa May's controllers

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Prime Minister but it adds to the

image that she

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is not properly in control of her

Government, which is difficult for

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Theresa May.

This all matters not just in the

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context of UK politics generally but

in the context of the Brexit

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negotiations, we have a major EU

summit towards the end of December

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and the expectation is that perhaps

the EU and UK will move on to

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discussing their trade relationship

post Brexit. The EU will only do

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that if three major issues are

resolved. Here is the EU Chievo

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negotiator on Brexit popping up on

Twitter to reminders this will not

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happen unless more progress is

achieved on three key topics.

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Those are the Ireland border,

citizens rights and,

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most difficult of all,

the so-called divorce bill.

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This would be a tough

for Theresa May to navigate

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with a decent parliamentary majority

and unified Cabinet.

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She has neither.

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The problem for Theresa May is

twofold, the first is the images

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creates, not only within the UK but

to those negotiators in Brussels,

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about Theresa May's own authority.

The second problem is the

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Conservative Party is deeply split

over its approach to Brexit, and for

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that reason Theresa May had very

carefully balanced the figures about

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the Cabinet table between those who

supported Brexit during the

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referendum on those that supported

Remain, hoping she could retain the

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ballots in the wider party. Now

we're having the departure of key

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figures, Priti Patel was a prominent

Brexiteer, Theresa May has a real

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headache and how to replace and how

to try to maintain the balance the

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Cabinet which is just about keeping

her party onside, all of that

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happening while she is trying to

take difficult decisions about

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Brexit and negotiate with 27 other

countries, so the problems are

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stacking up.

Presumably it is not necessarily the

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end of things, Boris Johnson is

still in hot water about his

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comments about the British woman in

Iran, and the de facto deputy to the

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Prime Minister, Damian Green, is

fighting off allegations of

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pornography on his computer.

He is

subject to Cabinet investigation,

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but we should make it clear he has

repeatedly and strenuously denied

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allegations of wrongdoing, but there

is a question over several key

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members of the Cabinet, and for that

reason Theresa May will think very

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carefully before carrying out any

big reshuffle and will have to think

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carefully about to shoot -- who she

appoints so she can at least

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maintain stability going forward.

A lot of what has happened to

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Theresa May has been to some extent

events, she has had to deal with

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some major incidents during her time

as Prime Minister, but when things

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like this keep happening people will

look to the Prime Minister to show

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her authority and show she can sort

it out and maintain a stable

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Government. With everything going

on, from Brexit to internal domestic

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politics, it is not easy for Theresa

May. It remains a very difficult

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time for a Prime Minister who has

already had quite a tough run.

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Thank you for taking us through

that, Alex.

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Now from UK politics to US politics.

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For the first time since

Donald Trump's victory,

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the Democrats have won an election.

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Two, in fact.

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Not a national elections.

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They've taken out

state wide elections

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in Virginia and New Jersey.

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The win was particularly

significant in Virginia,

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where the Democratic candidate

Ralph Northam won the governorship

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with roughly 54% of the vote

to his Republican opponent's 45%.

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It's a bigger margin

than the 5% Hillary Clinton

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defeated Donald Trump

by during the Presidential election.

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What can we learn from this?

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Donald Trump has been quick to

distance himself from the defeats.

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He tweeted, "Ed Gillespie worked

hard but did not embrace me

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or what I stand for."

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That was one of the Republicans who

lost.

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Here is political

analyst Larry Sabato.

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He says that is not true.

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It is absolutely untrue that Ed

Gillespie did not tie himself to

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Trump's issues. He was out trumping

Trump, he was stressing Confederate

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monuments and football players

taking a knee during the national

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anthem, and immigration and Latino

gangs, even more than Trump has

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done, with some vicious television

adverts on which he spent millions.

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There was saturated coverage of

these advertisements. And it

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backfired, it produced more

democratic votes than additional

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Republican votes, by a factor of

about ten.

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You could be forgiven for thinking

the Democrats normally do well in

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Virginia and New Jersey, what is the

fuss about?

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For more on this I spoke with

the BBC's Katty Kay in Washington.

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It is their first big win since the

election a year ago, which gives

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them a certain amount of momentum. I

spoke to one Democratic senator this

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morning who was positively beaming

but also raise the point that we won

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in states that were basically fairly

democratic already. This is a

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senator who comes from a very

Republican state in the middle of

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the country, she is up for election

next year and she says the factory

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won in New Jersey Alberginia does

not mean we will do so well in

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the more conservative states, and

that is a problem for Democrats.

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They have not taken control of

politics and power in America, they

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have just won two states.

During the

presidential election you help me

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understand that Donald Trump simply

solidified his place to a degree

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that got him over the line, rather

than trying to broaden his appeal.

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What is happening with that base?

I

was down in Virginia yesterday and

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Cavubati election more closely, and

the race of Ed Gillespie, who ran

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all these adverts playing on fears

about immigration, they were seen as

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culturally divisive, fairly hard

right positions. If he had won last

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night the governorship in Virginia,

other Republicans around the country

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would have looked at the junior and

said that is what we do now, we take

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Trump's issues, we do not mention

the president if he happens to be

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unpopular in our state, but his

issues are popular and resonate so

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we will run hard on those fairly

conservative, culturally divisive

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issues. Ed Gillespie did not win,

which raises an issue for

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Republicans going forward. How do

they run in the age of Trump? If

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they are in states where Trump is

not popular, and there are many,

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what does that mean for Republican

candidates?

32-year-old journalist

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has become the first transgender

candidate to win a state legislative

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position anywhere in the US, that is

wanting to mention, and may remember

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this couple. Kris Hirst was a news

anchor, his girlfriend, reporter

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Alison Parker, was fatally shot on

air in 2015. Mr Hirst has been

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elected as a Democrat, defeating a

three-time incumbent backed by the

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National Rifle Association. I

mention those because for all the

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positivity around the Democrats, I

have seen criticism that they do not

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have a new strategy to win across

the country. Are these smaller

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stories offering clues as to how

they could shape that?

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I think those two stories you

brought up are interesting. What the

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Democrats are saying about the

junior is we are embracing the idea

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of inclusivity, the fact we have the

first openly transgender

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congresswoman elected, there was a

Sikh mayor elected, two

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African-American Attorney General 's

also elected. Inclusivity works. I

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am sure that is the message that

drew Virginians in such big numbers

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for a governor's race to the polls,

it was freezing and raining

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yesterday, the weather was yucky.

According to the exit polls, they

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went out in big numbers because they

do like -- do not like Donald Trump

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and what he is doing to the country,

that seems to have drove the

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Democratic victory as much as

anything.

You can see Katty and

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Christian Fraser on Beyond 100 Days,

Monday to Friday on the BBC News

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Channel and BBC World News. We will

report from Catalonia soon,

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pro-independence protesters have

blocked traffic and the trains. We

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will hear why they are doing it and

how the region is gearing up for

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elections next month.

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Here in the UK the head of NHS

England has given his starkest

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warning yet about the impact its

financial woes are having on patient

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care. Simon Stevens, the chief

executive of NHS England, has

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challenged the Government to find an

extra £330 million every week, as

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promised by pro-Brexit campaigners.

The NHS wasn't on the ballot paper,

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but it was on the ballot bus. Folk

Leave for a better funded health

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service, £350 million a week. --

vote Leave. This is what the

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campaign director of Vote Leave said

in January. Pundits and MPs kept

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saying why isn't Vote Leave arguing

about the economy and living

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standards? They did not realise that

for millions of people £350 million

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for the NHS was about the economy

and living standards, that is why it

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was so effective. It was clearly the

most effective argument, not only

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with the crucial swing fifth but

with almost every demographic.

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This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

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Our lead story is...

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The UK's International Development

Secretary Priti Patel has resigned

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over a row to do with undisclosed

meetings with senior Israeli

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politicians. She is the second

member of the British Cabinet to

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leave within a week.

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This was the scene

in Catalonia today.

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Pro-independence protestors

causing havoc in rush hour.

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Hundreds of them descended onto main

highways and blocked the tracks

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of Barcelona's main train station.

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This is the Catalan traffic monitor.

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It shared this graphic earlier.

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This picture showing the roads

affected by demonstrations.

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The protestors were calling

for former ministers currently

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in custody to be released.

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The former leader,

Carles Puigdemont,

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is not among them -

- he's still in Brussels.

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As we have discussed a few times on

the programme.

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He gave an interview to a Belgian TV

station today, saying,

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"We will win the next

elections in Catalonia."

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Those elections are in

Catalonia in December.

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The Spanish government

is preparing for them.

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Here's the Foreign Minister

with the BBC's Gavin Lee,

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discussing a possible nationwide

referendum on independence.

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We have created a committee in

Parliament to explore the

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possibility of amending the

constitution is, to be able to

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accommodate a better the aspirations

of some of the Catalan people. I

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think we are ready. We acknowledge

that the political situation

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deserves to be looked at, but in any

case it is clear that a decision

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will have to be taken by all of

Spain.

Let's get more analysis from

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Govan.

This proposal appears to offer an

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olive branch to separatist

supporters, but a means 47 million

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people across Spain will decide

whether to make it legally possible

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or not to have the right to

self-determination, it's so it will

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be down to the entire Spanish

population to decide if they want to

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see independence.

I think Catalonia has to decide the

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referendum, not Spain. Spain don't

have anything to say.

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It may be a good thing for

Catalonia. Maybe, who knows?

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Inside the Catalan ghost Parliament,

cleaning is the only official

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business going on. Daily politics

controlled by Madrid until elections

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in December. Tomorrow, was

separatist officials will face

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charges of sedition and rebellion.

-- more separatist this --

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officials. Only days ago, they

declared independence. Now they are

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considered enemies of the state.

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There are allegations of sexual

misconduct about the Hollywood actor

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and theatre director Kevin Spacey.

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The US journalist Heather Unruh has

told reporters that her son

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was sexually assaulted

by Mr Spacey last year.

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Mr Spacey has not responded

to any of the allegations.

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Here's our special

correspondent Lucy Manning.

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In July 2016, actor Kevin Spacey

sexually assaulted my son.

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The tears of a mother in Boston

today, revealing what she claimed

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happened to her son.

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The victim, my son, was a starstruck

straight 18-year-old young man,

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who had no idea that the famous

actor was an alleged sexual predator

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or that he was about to

become his next victim.

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Journalist Heather Unruh's

tweet about Kevin Spacey

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last month triggered

all the allegations against him.

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Today, she went public and

the police are now investigating.

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To Kevin Spacey,

I want to say this -

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shame on you for what you did

to my son.

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The BBC has interviewed

more alleged victims.

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Chris Nixon didn't have to speak out

but wanted to make clear

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Kevin Spacey's behaviour was part

of a pattern.

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It's not just sleazy,

it's predatorial, it's...

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He did what he did because he knew

he'd get away with it.

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The one-time barman met Kevin Spacey

in London in 2007, when he alleges

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the actor groped him.

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Kevin Spacey sat down

on the sofa next to me,

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asked if that was my girlfriend,

then reached over, grabbed...

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He then describes a sexually

explicit action and words.

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A couple of weeks after

the party at his place,

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he was in the bar, reached forward,

grabbed my waistband and said

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something to the effect of,

"If I can make it up to you," or,

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"Let me make it up to you."

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So I went back upstairs, I was

standing behind the bar thinking,

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"What the hell just happened?"

0:20:410:20:42

I was in work so I couldn't

make a scene about it.

0:20:420:20:45

And told him in no uncertain

terms where he could go.

0:20:450:20:48

The BBC also spoke to an American

film-maker who didn't

0:20:480:20:53

want to be fully identified.

0:20:530:20:54

In the 1990s, he was a junior

crew member on a film

0:20:540:20:57

Kevin Spacey directed.

0:20:570:20:58

He claims the actor sexually

harassed him, something he mentioned

0:20:580:21:00

to another man working on the film.

0:21:000:21:04

He said, "You too, huh?"

0:21:040:21:08

And I was like, "What do

you mean, 'You too'?

0:21:080:21:10

What do you mean?"

0:21:100:21:11

And he goes, "He was touching

you and flirting with you?"

0:21:110:21:14

I said, "Yeah, it was awful!"

0:21:140:21:15

And he said, "Yeah,

he did that to me."

0:21:150:21:18

In the first week we were all out

of the bar, and he grabbed my butt,

0:21:180:21:21

and I turned round, and I said

to him, "Kevin, if you ever do that

0:21:210:21:25

again, I will kick your ass,

so leave me alone."

0:21:250:21:28

In the UK, the actors' union

says sexual harassment

0:21:280:21:30

in the industry is endemic.

0:21:300:21:34

Can those at the Old Vic Theatre,

where Kevin Spacey worked for 11

0:21:340:21:37

years, really have been in the dark?

0:21:370:21:39

The theatre initially said it had no

complaints against him,

0:21:390:21:41

but it has now appointed external

advisers to investigate.

0:21:410:21:48

Kevin Spacey has not responded

to any of the latest allegations.

0:21:480:21:52

Previously, he said he needed

to examine his own behaviour.

0:21:520:21:54

Lucy Manning, BBC News.

0:21:540:21:57

Let's turn to a number of global

business stories, beginning with

0:22:040:22:08

some big companies which handle

data.

0:22:080:22:11

US data companies could face more

regulation after cyber

0:22:110:22:13

attacks rocked the likes

of Yahoo and Equifax.

0:22:130:22:15

The former bosses of those companies

were on Capitol Hill Wednesday,

0:22:150:22:17

in front of the Senate Commerce

Committee.

0:22:170:22:24

They were questioned over data

breaches that saw billions

0:22:240:22:27

of their users' data stolen.

0:22:270:22:28

Here's one senator threatening more

government oversight.

0:22:280:22:32

There is no such thing as data

security. When you think of a

0:22:320:22:40

sophisticated state actor such as

China or Russia, your companies

0:22:400:22:49

can't stand up against them. There

will have to be a cooperation

0:22:490:22:58

between the most sophisticated

player in the United States and

0:22:580:23:07

otherwise we Americans will not have

any more privacy.

0:23:070:23:09

Samira Hussain is in New York.

0:23:090:23:13

I wonder if these companies want to

work with the NSA?

They are facing a

0:23:130:23:23

gruelling, for some of them this is

not the first time they have faced a

0:23:230:23:26

grilling for their performance after

the hack was made public. There is

0:23:260:23:29

not much they could say, that's

right you have heard a lot of

0:23:290:23:36

apologies from both Yahoo and Echo

facts, both companies say we worked

0:23:360:23:40

with law enforcement officials when

we first learned of these hacks and

0:23:400:23:46

we will continue to do so. In fact

the former head of Equifax, Mr

0:23:460:23:51

Smith, had said I think there needs

to be some more cooperation between

0:23:510:23:56

public and private in terms of

trying to secure people's data.

0:23:560:24:02

In terms of how that would proceed,

do these people on Capitol Hill have

0:24:020:24:08

a power to force the big companies

to do it, or do they just ask?

It

0:24:080:24:18

depends on how they make it happen.

These words used by the Senator Bill

0:24:180:24:26

Nelson are more threatening, and

from a company perspective you do

0:24:260:24:29

not want to have more Government

intervention, so far it is clear,

0:24:290:24:34

just from looking at the size of the

hacks from Yahoo and Echo fax,

0:24:340:24:39

something really needs to be done in

order to protect the data of

0:24:390:24:42

consumers.

0:24:420:24:43

The

as you have heard, president

Trent is in China at the moment.

0:24:430:24:56

One of the main objectives

for President Trump is to get

0:24:560:24:59

concessions from Xi Jinping.

0:24:590:25:00

19 commercial deals worth

about $9 billion have been signed.

0:25:000:25:02

They include Chinese firms buying

food and helicopters from the US.

0:25:020:25:05

But more than that is needed

to narrow the current US

0:25:050:25:07

trade deficit with China,

which stands at around $300 billion.

0:25:070:25:11

But what US firms really

want is greater access

0:25:110:25:13

to Chinese consumers.

0:25:130:25:16

David Dollar used to be

the US Treasury's economic

0:25:160:25:18

and financial emissary to China.

0:25:180:25:24

Here is his assessment on what the

trip might have achieved.

I think it

0:25:240:25:29

mostly comes down to policy, China

has a lot of close markets, lots of

0:25:290:25:33

issues, lots of sectors imported to

the United States are closed in

0:25:330:25:39

China, most financial services,

telecom, media, entertainment, it is

0:25:390:25:43

a long list. From an economist's

point of view, if you are too done

0:25:430:25:48

this imbalance, China needs to open

up for sectors. Does not seem to be

0:25:480:25:52

much discussion of on this trip.

0:25:520:25:57

If you want to know more about

President Trump in China, stay

0:25:570:26:02

tuned, we will talk about it in a

red ten minutes. -- in around ten

0:26:020:26:07

minutes.

0:26:070:26:09

red ten minutes. -- in around ten

minutes.

0:26:090:26:12

If you were watching yesterday you

will have heard me talk about the

0:26:120:26:15

very cold plume of Arctic air across

Canada and Northern states of the

0:26:150:26:20

US. It is shifting eastwards in the

next couple of days, you can see the

0:26:200:26:24

deep blues and purples pushing

towards the great Lakes and the

0:26:240:26:28

north-east United States.

Meanwhile, across the West, a plume

0:26:280:26:31

of slightly milder air bringing

temperatures up a little across

0:26:310:26:36

parts of Washington state, but wet

and windy weather with it.

0:26:360:26:40

Across the great Lakes and towards

the north-east, we could see snow

0:26:400:26:43

for the next couple of days, lots of

ice and frost, we could be looking

0:26:430:26:49

at travel problems.

Certainly the first significant cold

0:26:490:26:52

blast after what has been a near

record-breaking summer and autumn

0:26:520:26:56

for many places. South Asia, heavy

rain has been affecting parts of

0:26:560:27:01

Tamil Nadu and Carol and towards Sri

Lanka, the monsoon rain easing down

0:27:010:27:06

a little into Thursday and Friday,

but further north it is about the

0:27:060:27:11

light winds, the dry air and the

sunshine, it is also still problems

0:27:110:27:18

continually in larger cities in the

north. -- smog problems.

0:27:180:27:30

The sunny downpours are intense

across the south-east of Asia, the

0:27:300:27:33

Andaman Sea, Malaysia, the Gulf of

Thailand in towards the South China

0:27:330:27:37

Sea. We are watching this bright

echo moving into the central

0:27:370:27:42

northern Philippines, this could

bring a bout of exceptionally heavy

0:27:420:27:46

rain through Thursday and Friday. It

exits into the warm waters of the

0:27:460:27:51

South China Sea and there is a small

chance it could develop into a

0:27:510:27:55

tropical as it heads towards North

Vietnam, something to keep a careful

0:27:550:27:59

eye on. We have had one area of low

pressure early in the week which

0:27:590:28:04

brought torrential rain and flooding

for the central Mediterranean,

0:28:040:28:08

another area of low pressure moved

from the West. Across the east of

0:28:080:28:12

the Mediterranean on Thursday and

looks fine, lovely weather and one.

0:28:120:28:15

The same for Southern Italy and

Sicily, these thunderstorms will

0:28:150:28:21

expand as they push eastwards

through Thursday and Friday. We

0:28:210:28:24

could see violent storms than the

risk of large Highland waterspouts.

0:28:240:28:28

Cold air digging down into northern

Spain, snow over the Pyrenees, but

0:28:280:28:32

Southern Spain and Portugal doing

pretty well with sunshine, of course

0:28:320:28:36

the Canary Islands are very warm,

2627. Back home in overnight weather

0:28:360:28:42

front will eventually clear away

southwards during Thursday

0:28:420:28:45

afternoon, then we are in a run of

West north-westerly winds, quite

0:28:450:28:50

blustery but fine, bright with

sunshine, showers across the North

0:28:500:28:54

and the West. Stay tuned for a full

UK weather forecast in about half an

0:28:540:28:58

hour.

0:28:580:29:00

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

0:30:070:30:14

Another senior British minister has

resigned, this time it is Priti

0:30:140:30:17

Patel, who is accused of not telling

the Prime Minister the forced --.

0:30:170:30:26

Read about private meeting with

Israeli politicians. Democrats have

0:30:260:30:31

had good days in the polls in

Virginia and New Jersey. Donald

0:30:310:30:34

Trump is doing his Asian tour, he

has spent the day in China. We will

0:30:340:30:38

hear how that has been covered on

Chinese social media. And as I was

0:30:380:30:44

discussing earlier, the Hollywood

star Kevin Spacey is facing a new

0:30:440:30:48

allegation of sexual misconduct. An

alleged victim has been speaking.

0:30:480:30:59

We have Donald Trump and his wife

getting a two of the forbidden city

0:31:080:31:13

with Xi Jingping and his wife. This

is the first time that the official

0:31:130:31:18

leader has had an official dinner

there. Before you get carried away,

0:31:180:31:24

we spotted this from a former

Mexican ambassador. He said this.

0:31:240:31:30

If we put that cynicism to one side

at the moment, there is once going

0:31:340:31:38

both ways. This is President Xi

Jingping looking at President

0:31:380:31:42

Trump's phone, a video of his

granddaughter reciting a Chinese

0:31:420:31:48

pound. Apparently the Chinese

president gave her an A+. All of

0:31:480:31:52

this, pleasant as though it is, is a

warm up to tough talking on North

0:31:520:31:56

Korea and trade. This is the BBC

China editor talking about these

0:31:560:32:02

issues with a former US ambassador

to China.

The talk of the Chinese is

0:32:020:32:08

the sense that they will listen that

they will not cut off ties with

0:32:080:32:12

North Korea because they do not want

to destabilise the peninsula.

But

0:32:120:32:16

your view is that it is right to

raise the pressure on China as well

0:32:160:32:20

as North Korea.

I think it is right

to put pressure on China. But

0:32:200:32:23

frankly I think there is no solution

to the Kim Jong-un problem without

0:32:230:32:28

going through China. China has to be

part of the solution. That means not

0:32:280:32:33

just pushing China but finding some

agreement with China. There has to

0:32:330:32:38

be carrots as well the sticks.

There

are some analysts and critics of US

0:32:380:32:43

policy in China who say that US

presidents have allowed themselves

0:32:430:32:47

to be flattered for 40 years.

Sitting of the Peking duck, they

0:32:470:32:51

have allowed themselves to be lulled

into a Chinese game. The thing that

0:32:510:32:57

is a fair assessment and you think

there is a danger that this

0:32:570:33:01

President, perhaps more than any

other, at a point when China strong,

0:33:010:33:04

might fall into that trap?

The

Chinese have thousands of years of

0:33:040:33:11

experience in flattering foreigners.

They are very good at it. We do not

0:33:110:33:15

have that experience, it is not

really our approach very much

0:33:150:33:17

anyway. This is a state visit plus,

Trump blue skies, they will just

0:33:170:33:25

roll out the carpet and flatter

Trump as much as possible. I think

0:33:250:33:29

it is imperative that the United

States take a much more strategic

0:33:290:33:33

view down the road.

How confident

are you that that strategic vision

0:33:330:33:37

is there from your president?

I hope

that Trump realises through this

0:33:370:33:41

visit that he listens to his people

that advocate that, it is very

0:33:410:33:48

important.

A diplomatic answer to

say the least. Trump being in China

0:33:480:33:53

will be a big talking point, but

there are restrictions about what

0:33:530:33:58

Chinese people can say online. This

was taken down from Weibo earlier,

0:33:580:34:08

called a Trump blue sky. China

suffers from very bad smog, this was

0:34:080:34:14

heavily blue and the suggestion

making the suggestion that the

0:34:140:34:18

Government made this happen. I was

going to show you this as well, this

0:34:180:34:24

is a website called free Weibo, it

shows comments that have been

0:34:240:34:27

censored. This case with the word

Trump take out, censored, censored,

0:34:270:34:34

censored. A lot of people have had

what they are saying restricted by

0:34:340:34:37

the authorities. A Chinese media

expert for BBC monitoring is looking

0:34:370:34:43

across reaction in China.

Today, anything to do with Xi

0:34:430:34:50

Jingping and Donald Trump, normally

gets a lot of attention in Chinese

0:34:500:34:53

media. Looking today on Weibo, which

is what people use in China because

0:34:530:35:00

of Facebook and Twitter being

blocked. Many of the top hashtags

0:35:000:35:03

are related to the visit, things

like Trump is here, Trump and Xi

0:35:030:35:08

Jingping meet. These hashtags have

been in the top ten consistently all

0:35:080:35:11

day. Normally what happens though,

any state media post that they put

0:35:110:35:18

on Weibo, these are recounts with

about 50 million followers, they

0:35:180:35:21

have massive followings. They

normally, within a few minutes, get

0:35:210:35:26

at least 1000 posts. But all day,

most of the posts have been coming

0:35:260:35:33

in from CCTV or states related to

the video, had only received several

0:35:330:35:37

hundred which normally indicates

there is censorship with Government

0:35:370:35:42

censors removing posts from Weibo.

What we can see is what the

0:35:420:35:48

Government allows us to seek is not

what is the official view on this

0:35:480:35:53

trip that the official sources like

as to have? In China there is this

0:35:530:36:01

idea of meeting people face-to-face.

For a visit like this, which is a

0:36:010:36:06

very, very important visitor China

as well as the US, yes, the red

0:36:060:36:09

carpet is being rolled out. A lot of

people have been posting comments,

0:36:090:36:14

not all of them have been censored,

but people talking about how blew

0:36:140:36:21

the sky is today, and alluding to

this idea that the factories around

0:36:210:36:27

the capital must've been closed. But

a lot of comments have been censored

0:36:270:36:30

that mention how can Donald Trump

possibly not be tweeting? Even

0:36:300:36:37

though Twitter is blocked in

mainland China, people can access it

0:36:370:36:41

from a VPN in a closed environment,

not in a public space. A lot of

0:36:410:36:46

5-star hotels give access to people

and they can use VPNs. People were

0:36:460:36:51

expecting today that Donald Trump

would eventually tweet. But there

0:36:510:36:56

were some people asking if he will

be tweeting while he is with Xi

0:36:560:36:59

Jingping, which would be very

awkward!

We were looking at that

0:36:590:37:04

picture of blue skies in the Chinese

capital, no blue skies in Delhi at

0:37:040:37:09

the moment, because the air

pollution situation there is getting

0:37:090:37:12

very, very situation. That is Delhi

on the map, this is what you would

0:37:120:37:15

see if you try to work this morning

in Delhi. It was filmed by my

0:37:150:37:24

colleague, persistent fog, it is

smog. Pollution is always bad in

0:37:240:37:27

Delhi but the past two days have

been extreme. In some areas it has

0:37:270:37:32

reached 30 times the recommended

limit according to the W helped

0:37:320:37:35

show. The American medical

Association has declared a state of

0:37:350:37:39

emergency. All schools have been

closed for the week. Pollution

0:37:390:37:44

levels generally wise in the winter

in Delhi. That is because in

0:37:440:37:49

neighbouring states -- rise,

thousands of farmers are burning

0:37:490:37:57

stubble in their fields, that

creates Mike, add to that dust and

0:37:570:38:01

rubbish from construction starts and

you get to where we are. One of our

0:38:010:38:07

correspondence is based in Delhi and

he stepped outside.

This is what

0:38:070:38:11

Delhi looks like at the moment. The

entire city is covered in this thick

0:38:110:38:16

blanket of grey smoke. In the

distance is the famous, iconic India

0:38:160:38:21

gate War Memorial, which you can

only just see because the visibility

0:38:210:38:24

is so poor. At this time you would

often see a lot more people out

0:38:240:38:28

mysteries, but there are not many

people about. It is not hard to

0:38:280:38:31

understand why. I have been out for

only ten minutes, my eyes are

0:38:310:38:38

beginning to smart, my throat is

burning, because when you breathe in

0:38:380:38:42

you breathe in this deadly cocktail

of diesel fumes, construction dust,

0:38:420:38:47

such from coal-fired power plants,

even smoke from burning crop stubble

0:38:470:38:50

on the farmland outside Delhi and

beyond. That is the reason why it is

0:38:500:38:55

literally becoming dangerous for

people in the city to venture out.

0:38:550:39:00

These items are the one people in

Delhi are queueing up to buy.

0:39:000:39:05

Pollution masks, cut your fires, air

purifiers for your home, even an air

0:39:050:39:09

quality monitor to assess how

dangerous it is to be outside. If

0:39:090:39:12

you look inside the shop, people

have been cheering for several hours

0:39:120:39:15

hoping to get their hands on these

products.

It is very expensive, that

0:39:150:39:21

is why I'm looking, it should be

reasonable so everyone can purchase

0:39:210:39:24

it.

But it is important?

Yet it is

important.

A big demand? Would you

0:39:240:39:32

run out?

Hopefully we will get fresh

supplies in one hour.

People are

0:39:320:39:41

going to great lengths as you can

see, and it is not difficult to

0:39:410:39:46

imagine why. Four people it is a

question of their health and in some

0:39:460:39:50

instances their lives.

There is more

information on the pollution in

0:39:500:39:54

Delhi and the vast majority of the

stories we cover on Outside Source

0:39:540:39:58

via the BBC website. This go back to

the main story here in the UK, and

0:39:580:40:13

in fact our lead story on Outside

Source. Priti Patel, the former

0:40:130:40:19

International Development Secretary,

has resigned in the last few hours.

0:40:190:40:22

These are pictures of her leaving

Downing Street in this car after she

0:40:220:40:26

has broken to Theresa May and had

offered her resignation. That was

0:40:260:40:30

pretty much inevitable. She had been

under pressure for days. The story

0:40:300:40:34

isn't about one minister, it is

about how stable to Theresa May's

0:40:340:40:42

government is. It has not been

particularly stable since the

0:40:420:40:44

election earlier in the year. This

story has many components. It starts

0:40:440:40:49

with Priti Patel having a series of

meetings with Israeli officials and

0:40:490:40:54

the Israeli Prime Minister jeering a

summer holiday in Israel. We were

0:40:540:40:57

then told that Downing Street did

not know the these meetings had

0:40:570:41:00

happened. That would be a break of

the ministerial code. Priti Patel

0:41:000:41:05

then released an apology. She

acknowledge that what had happened

0:41:050:41:09

was not ideal, Theresa May excepted

that. Then the story escalated. Last

0:41:090:41:13

night we had multiple reports, this

one from the sun, that there were

0:41:130:41:17

other seriously high level meetings

involving Priti Patel, which the

0:41:170:41:22

Government and in particular Theresa

May did not know about. That meant,

0:41:220:41:27

bearing in mind that Priti Patel was

not in England, she was in east

0:41:270:41:32

Africa, she was told not to carry on

with her trip that come back to

0:41:320:41:38

London for some conversations. While

she was in the air, lots of people

0:41:380:41:41

were following her flight on the

flight radar website, and they told

0:41:410:41:48

us that 22,000 people were

monitoring it. Step-by-step and

0:41:480:41:51

waiting for her to land to see what

would play out. While she was in the

0:41:510:41:54

air we had a situation of the Jewish

Chronicle running another huge

0:41:540:42:02

story. If it is true, that in fact

number ten you about some of these

0:42:020:42:06

meetings and encouraged Priti Patel

not to go public with them. Let's be

0:42:060:42:11

clear, our political editor says

that number ten flatly denies this.

0:42:110:42:16

We cannot say for certain that this

is the case. But the man behind the

0:42:160:42:22

story has spoken to the BBC.

I have

been told first by my original to

0:42:220:42:28

sources, that since I have gone

public, a third source has contacted

0:42:280:42:33

me. A very senior, respectable and

reliable source has confirmed to me

0:42:330:42:37

that it is true. But Priti Patel did

know and tell number ten on Monday

0:42:370:42:44

about that extra meeting. And number

ten asked her, told her, not to put

0:42:440:42:49

that extra meeting in her statement,

for whatever reason they may have.

0:42:490:42:54

Well, if that is, as Stephen Pollard

says, the story isn't just about the

0:42:540:42:58

resignation of a Government

minister, it is about the behaviour

0:42:580:43:03

of Theresa May, watching you and

what she didn't know. And what that

0:43:030:43:09

leaves conservatives and their

power. Earlier on I asked whether

0:43:090:43:17

story leaves Theresa May right now?

This is the second Cabinet Minister

0:43:170:43:23

Theresa May has lost in a week. Well

I don't think anyone is blaming

0:43:230:43:30

Theresa May for their resignations,

they are very different, one about

0:43:300:43:33

sexual harassment allegations, and

in the case of Priti Patel, the idea

0:43:330:43:39

that she was making foreign policy

up as she went along and wasn't

0:43:390:43:43

following the normal channels. The

problem is that it adds to that

0:43:430:43:45

whiff of chaos and crisis

surrounding her Government. The

0:43:450:43:50

sense that it is a Government that

has been buffeted by events rather

0:43:500:43:54

than being in control of them. This

all of course is while the

0:43:540:43:58

Government is facing so massive, so

huge, you know what I'm going to

0:43:580:44:02

Brexit.

And Michel Barnier has

helpfully taken to Twitter to remind

0:44:020:44:09

the UK that there are still three

outstanding issues, the Irish

0:44:090:44:13

border, citizens of rights and the

so-called divorce Bill, to be

0:44:130:44:16

resolved if they are going to be any

conversations about face two, the UK

0:44:160:44:21

trade relationship with the EU.

And

of course the clock is ticking

0:44:210:44:25

because it is important to remember

that Britain has triggered Article

0:44:250:44:30

50, whether or not there is a deal,

Britain will be out of the EU in

0:44:300:44:35

March 2000 and 19. Of course, these

things are all linked. In part

0:44:350:44:40

because of these negotiations

beginning, the Government will be

0:44:400:44:45

thinking how weak they look to the

EU, to our negotiating partners with

0:44:450:44:49

all of the problems we are having in

London. But the other big issue

0:44:490:44:54

which is connected to Brexit, you

have to remember that Priti Patel

0:44:540:44:59

was a prominent Brexiteer. For

Theresa May, when she has to hire a

0:44:590:45:03

new development minister, she will

have to be very mindful of that

0:45:030:45:06

difficult balance and her Government

between those who campaigned for

0:45:060:45:11

Leaves, and those who campaigned to

remain. In a way that is the dynamic

0:45:110:45:15

at the heart of all of this. In many

ways, Government ministers resigning

0:45:150:45:20

is a terrible thing. Sorting out

Brexit and where these talks should

0:45:200:45:27

be going is super tricky.

If you

find UK politics intriguing, look at

0:45:270:45:33

this next story. It is about Lebanon

on's disappearing leader. He did not

0:45:330:45:43

announce it in leather nun, he

announced it in study your Arabia.

0:45:430:45:52

We can be certain that his

recognition was not expected, his

0:45:520:45:55

foreign affairs magazine said that

the resignation left his own

0:45:550:46:01

supporters scratching their heads.

Or another well-known analyst

0:46:010:46:05

said... We must also point out that

Hariri has not been backed 11 on and

0:46:050:46:18

not said when he will return. This

is interesting with this picture,

0:46:180:46:23

the word crosses backs meaning

hostage, implying that the Saudis

0:46:230:46:26

forced him to resign and controlling

the situation. Certainly we can say

0:46:260:46:31

that Saudi Arabia backed his party

and that when he resigned he blames

0:46:310:46:39

Iran for meddling. That is important

because this is a grand regional

0:46:390:46:45

battle between Saudi Arabia and Iran

Ford dominance. This is playing out

0:46:450:46:50

elsewhere in the Middle East. This

is what our Middle East

0:46:500:46:56

correspondence said...

0:46:560:47:00

This is the BBC correspondent in

Beirut getting to grips with all of

0:47:080:47:11

this.

We know he is in Riyadh, but

we don't know under which status,

0:47:110:47:16

which prompts lots of questions on

high official levels that Mr Hariri

0:47:160:47:23

might be under pressure in Saudi

Arabia. So far, the camp of Mr

0:47:230:47:29

Hariri, the pro-future movement

officials and supporters claimed

0:47:290:47:33

that Mr Hariri is not under any sort

of pressure, not under house arrest

0:47:330:47:42

and has complete freedom to return

to the country. But the president

0:47:420:47:47

himself is casting a lot of doubt on

this saying that he refuses to deal

0:47:470:47:54

with the resignation of Mr Hariri

until the prime ministers back to

0:47:540:47:59

leather nun. He said he would --

Lebanon. He would deal with the

0:47:590:48:08

surprise of this announcement and

would not deal with the resignation.

0:48:080:48:13

This is turning into a surreal story

in Lebanon. The sequence of events

0:48:130:48:23

is extraordinary, and everyone here

is catching their breath about what

0:48:230:48:28

is next for the country.

Who knows

what is coming next? While we wait

0:48:280:48:31

for news from Lebanon. Let's talk

about the latest round of the US led

0:48:310:48:37

climate talks. Almost 200 countries

are working on how to implement the

0:48:370:48:44

Paris agreement. But there is

concern that any progress made on

0:48:440:48:48

carbon levels could be wiped out by

an unusual threat. I certainly had

0:48:480:48:53

not heard about this before today.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo

0:48:530:48:59

and the peatlands of Central Africa,

there is an issue. Our reporter

0:48:590:49:05

explains what it is.

This relate area of forest in

0:49:050:49:11

Central Congo holds gigatons of

carbon. It is the result of decay

0:49:110:49:19

from millions of years ago and it

has been locked safely in the soil

0:49:190:49:22

for thousands of years.

We estimate

we have a map of the Central Congo

0:49:220:49:26

peatlands for the first time this

year, the shows it covers around

0:49:260:49:32

145,000 square kilometres. That is

an area a bit bigger than the size

0:49:320:49:35

of England. We think its stores

about 30 thousand tonnes of carbon,

0:49:350:49:43

more carbon than the emissions from

fossil fuels and humanity globally

0:49:430:49:49

for three years.

But with more

intensive farming and destruction of

0:49:490:49:53

the forest, there is concern. Sig

Green peas and sciences are

0:49:530:49:57

monitoring the levels.

The

rainforest is the second-largest in

0:49:570:50:03

the world and we know that it is

critical for biodiversity. With this

0:50:030:50:07

discovery we also learned that it is

critical for the climate.

So far,

0:50:070:50:13

the vegetation remains largely

undisturbed campaign groups say

0:50:130:50:17

there is absolutely no question of

expelling forest people. In fact,

0:50:170:50:21

those who live and depend on the

forest, are likely to be keener to

0:50:210:50:25

conserve it. But they are also

trapped in extreme poverty and this

0:50:250:50:30

puts pressure on the forest.

TRANSLATION:

Our fathers bought back

0:50:300:50:37

fish and animals from the forest,

but there is nothing left to bring

0:50:370:50:41

back because many people are

exploiting it and we ourselves are

0:50:410:50:45

dying from hunger.

Researchers

estimate that by planting more

0:50:450:50:49

trees, farming more sustainable and

conserving weapons, carbon dioxide

0:50:490:50:53

emissions could be slashed by more

than one third. Money though is key.

0:50:530:50:58

And Congolese officials say they

need more funds. TRANSLATION:

The

0:50:580:51:02

efforts of the Democratic Republic

of Congo to protect the forests are

0:51:020:51:10

not sufficiently rewarded with

international solidarity.

But the

0:51:100:51:13

DRC will have to wait and see if

their appeal is successful. And

0:51:130:51:17

what, if anything, they come up

with. A child suffering from a rare

0:51:170:51:27

genetic condition which leaves skin

as fragile as butterfly wings has

0:51:270:51:31

been given new genetically modified

skin. This was done in a series of

0:51:310:51:37

life-saving operations in Germany.

0:51:370:51:40

When Hassan was just a week old,

his skin began to tear and blister.

0:51:460:51:49

He has junctional

epidermolysis bullosa.

0:51:490:51:51

The separate layers of his skin

should be held together like Velcro,

0:51:510:51:54

but Hassan's DNA is missing vital

instructions that leave his skin

0:51:540:51:56

as fragile as a butterfly's wing.

0:51:560:51:58

There's no cure, and around

four in ten patients

0:51:580:52:00

do not reach adolescence.

0:52:000:52:01

Hassan's dad said it was

an upsetting time for the family.

0:52:010:52:05

He was in severe pain.

0:52:050:52:10

He was asking me a lot of questions.

0:52:100:52:12

I couldn't answer them.

0:52:120:52:15

For example, "Why do

I have this disease?"

0:52:150:52:17

"Why do I have this life?"

0:52:170:52:21

In June 2015, Hassan was critically

ill at the children's

0:52:210:52:24

hospital in Bochum, Germany,

and doctors did not

0:52:240:52:26

think he would survive.

0:52:260:52:30

More than half his body looked

like a red-raw open wound.

0:52:300:52:33

In an experimental therapy,

a patch of Hassan's skin

0:52:330:52:35

was taken to a lab in Italy.

0:52:350:52:40

There, it was infected

with the virus.

0:52:400:52:42

Viruses are good at getting

inside cells, and this one was used

0:52:420:52:45

like a postman to deliver

the missing instructions for binding

0:52:450:52:52

layers of skin together.

0:52:520:52:53

Large sheets of the skin

were then grown and grafted

0:52:530:52:55

back onto Hassan's body.

0:52:550:52:58

This breakthrough

is exciting doctors.

0:52:580:53:00

I got goose bumps when I heard this,

it was just incredible, really,

0:53:000:53:05

very, very exciting.

0:53:050:53:07

Is this going to make

a difference for patients today?

0:53:070:53:09

This treatment is not available,

and it is not going to be available

0:53:090:53:13

in the next few months,

but this is a massive

0:53:130:53:15

advance in research.

0:53:150:53:18

Four-year-old Tia is just one

of half a million people living with

0:53:180:53:22

epidermolysis bullosa worldwide.

0:53:220:53:25

It's gave us a lot of hope.

0:53:250:53:27

If it's going to make her better

and make her have a normal life,

0:53:270:53:30

we would definitely go for it.

0:53:310:53:32

Every birthday that she has,

I dread it sometimes,

0:53:320:53:35

because I always sit and think,

"Is she going to die this year?"

0:53:350:53:42

"Is she going to live?"

0:53:420:53:44

And I don't want to

think that any more.

0:53:440:53:46

But this is not a proven therapy -

it's experimental.

0:53:460:53:48

Clinical trials are under way to see

if it can be used more widely.

0:53:480:53:51

James Gallagher, BBC News.

0:53:510:54:00

Just before I say goodbye. I want to

tell you about an important ruling

0:54:000:54:04

from Germany's highest court. It

says that a third sexual category

0:54:040:54:08

must be legally recognised at birth.

By the end of the year there has to

0:54:080:54:13

be legislation to create an intersex

category. Germany will be the first

0:54:130:54:17

country in Europe to do that. It is

also worth pointing out that in 2013

0:54:170:54:21

it was also the first country to

allow babies with both

0:54:210:54:26

characteristics of both sexes to be

categorised as neither male nor

0:54:260:54:31

female. Between 0.05 and 1:7%...

0:54:310:54:37

A really significant ruling there in

Germany. That is the end of today's

0:54:430:54:47

Outside Source. Thank you for

watching. Join me tomorrow at the

0:54:470:54:50

same time for another hour of the

bigger stories around the world. I

0:54:500:54:53

will see you then.

0:54:530:54:57

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