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as we get to the point whether UK

departs the EU at the end of March

2019.

Are gay, Vicki, as always,

thank you very much. You join us a

little bit late, because as we were

discussing, Theresa May giving a

speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet,

the annual event. We are now going

to move to the border area between

Iran and Iraq. Of course, that

earthquake took place, and this is

where search teams are working

through the night, desperately

trying to find survivors at that

powerful earthquake that has killed

more than 400 people and injured

7000.

This shows the epicentre of

the 7.3 magnitude earthquake.

It struck near the town

of Darbandikhan.

And this is the town

of Sarpol-e Zahab,

which was one of the worst affected.

These pictures are

from Sarpol-e Zahab.

Let's have a look at that. Absolute

devastation.

It's understood two thirds

of the casualties alone

came from this town

and surrounding areas.

As you can see, there has

been widespread damage.

Helicopters have been relied

on heavily to deliver aid

and transport victims.

That is because the landscape is

very difficult to reach, there are a

lot of areas that are really

difficult terrain, there have been

landslides, blocked roads, damaged

roads, so helicopters, some of the

ways, the only way is that some of

these people can be reached. Now, if

we show you some CCTV footage that I

hope to bring up for you, because

this is actually phenomenal. This

was of a dam, this is not water, but

a dam where boulders were moving

down and making, crashing some of

the cars in the car park at the

bottom of the dam. Moments before,

you could see people running away,

absolute devastation, 400 people

killed. My Kolodziejczak goal has

been telling me about some of the

rescue efforts. -- my colleague GR

the latest figures of 430 people

killed, but it seems this is the

number that has been recorded by the

officials in major cities, but 1900

villages in that region have been

affected, and the rescue teams have

not been able to get too many of

those villages. I receive videos

from locals, they say, in our

village, we lost 20 people, no-one

came to our help. That is why the

number will possibly rise tomorrow,

because so far the entire effort has

been put on the major cities inside

Iran.

We saw the area around the

border, this is pretty remote, it

will be hard for rescue efforts, I

know the Iranian revolutionary Guard

is trying to help, but it is going

to be hard to get there.

It is the

most impoverished region between

Iran and Iraq, and it suffered

heavily during the bloody war

between Iran and Iraq, most of the

infrastructure were destroyed, so

they rebuilt it, and the only city

in the town, where most of the

casualties are coming from, that has

been completely destroyed. I saw a

video with numbers of dead bodies

laid in front of the hospital but no

emergency room to take care of those

who are being affected. So this

region, the situation is such that

the infrastructure cannot cope, so

the has to pull together resources,

military, Revolutionary Guard and

other agencies from neighbouring

provinces, to go there, three or

four five hours away, that is a

matter of life for so many. I see

old men with flashlights searching

for his loved ones beneath the

crushed buildings, that was the

situation. So I think most those

people, the weather is cold, they

need food, hopefully the government

can get them help, and for some of

those villages, the only way to get

there is by air.

7.3, very strong,

some of your family members actually

felt the earthquake.

Absolutely,

part of the family is almost an hour

from there, but there is a lot of

outcry in that region, they complain

about the government, and some of

the buildings which collapsed were

just built under President

Ahmadinejad, part of subsidised

building for poorer people, and not

of those buildings have met the

standards to resist earthquake,

which is why so many people are

angry, they say this kind of

building, they are new, they should

have resisted the earthquake, but if

you just go across to Iraqi

Kurdistan, we had six or seven

casualties, not the numbers that we

had in Iran. The reason is that the

building code in Iraqi Kurdistan is

much better, the regulation is much

better than Iran.

Jiyar Gol from BBC

Persian. Rami Ruhayem has arrived in

one of the worst affected towns and

filed this report.

This is one of the hardest hit areas

in Iraq by the earthquake, we are

told seven people were inside his

home when it collapsed, two of them

were killed, and others were

injured. Several other buildings

suffered a similar damage to this

one, but fortunately they seem to be

the exception, rather than the rule,

and most of the other homes in the

region managed to withstand the

impact of the quake.

Rami Ruhayem in Iraq. Lots more

coming up here on Outside Source.

It is the time of day when we look

at interesting weather events around

the world, stormy weather both sides

of the Atlantic with a deep area of

low pressure moving into British

Columbia, Washington and Oregon,

bringing further heavy rainfall,

hills know, as well as strong,

disruptive winds too. Meanwhile,

across Central America, ongoing

heavy rainfall, causing flash

flooding in Costa Rica, Panama,

Nicaragua, Belize, and also through

the Caribbean, Jamaica, Cuba and the

Bahamas too. Now the other side of

the Atlantic, where we also have

heavy rain and hill snow pushing

southwards, a lot of cloud

associated with a really slow moving

area of low pressure, here it is,

lasting through Tuesday into

Wednesday, bringing further heavy

rain across parts of Italy and

particularly in across the Balkans

too with snow for the Alps, the

Dolomites, and strong winds also a

hazard too. The north-east coast of

Spain and southern France, strong

northerly mistral winds gusting

around 100 km/h, or even a bit more.

Heavy downpours of rain and

thunderstorms through Sardinia,

Sicily, across Italy, and to the

Balkans too. So the weather

associated with this storm system

across central and south-east

Europe, very strong gusts of wind,

heavy rain leading to flash flooding

across some areas, but also an

increased risk of avalanches too.

Meanwhile, across India, some very

poor air quality in the North,

slowly starting to improve over the

next few days, also this club of

cloud sitting in the bay of Bengal,

that is an area of low pressure, a

tropical depression which are slowly

moving northwards in the bay of

Bengal. It may well bring strong

winds and heavy rain to coastal

parts of Andhra Pradesh and up

towards West Bengal too. Meanwhile,

the outlook across the UK, then,

fairly quiet, things telling milder,

mostly cloudy over the next few

days. For Tuesday, a fairly weak

weather front draped across central

parts of the country, brighter skies

towards the north, improves day

across Scotland and northern parts

of Northern Ireland with a return to

sunnier skies. Across England and

Wales, rather cloudy, a bit of

drizzle here and there, but some

brightness to the east of high

ground, and temperatures back in

double figures, so a little bit

milder than recent days. Tuesday

into Wednesday, quite a murky night

with low cloud, somebody patch is

too, but I think most of us staying

for three, although we could see a

bit of frost developing under clear

skies for the North of Scotland.

Cloudy on Wednesday, clearing

towards the north, then sunny

spells, temperatures up to 13

degrees, more details on the weather

for the week ahead in half an hour.

Hello, this is Outside Source.

Search teams in Iran are working

overnight to find survivors of the

powerful earthquake killing at least

400 people. Bad news for the climate

as new data suggests new carbon

dioxide emissions have risen for the

first time in four years, dashing

hopes that they had reached a peak.

President trumpeting it off with the

controversial leader of the

Philippines and says that their

relationship is great.

We are going to talk about new data

on global carbon dioxide emissions,

coming out today. They suggest that

for the first time in 2017, they

have risen for the first time in

four years which is a cause for

concern. The greater use of coal in

China is believed to be one reason.

Looking at the stats, this is what

emissions have looked like over the

last four years, quite level,

stalling over the last three years.

Scientists had hoped they had

reached their peak but that isn't

going to happen this year. This is

the lead author of the study behind

the findings.

It is so urgent that the emissions

decrease very rapidly, it's

absolutely urgent. People don't

realise that the emissions must

disappear, essentially, for the

warming to stop. There's only one

way to do that and to develop the

policies and actions and technology

and use them so that our emissions

decrease everywhere.

That report was

launched at a big UN climate

conference in Berlin. It took place

in the city of Bonn, where 20,000

delegates and negotiators gathered.

They are discussing how to implement

the Paris climate agreement.

Scientists say that the trend of

rising emissions, if it continues,

then the goals of the accord could

slip out of reach. Our correspondent

is in Bonn for us.

This year 's

figures, provisional, indicating a

rise of 2%. That's why it's does not

sound like much but in the context

of the world that is quite a bit and

scientists are uncertain whether

this represents major new step in

growth or it is a one-off. I think

they need a couple more years data

to get anything definitive.

Do we

know why this is happening? A lot

blaming China and its growing

economy.

Absolutely, the Chinese

economy has expanded, they've been

using more energy and they've had a

big shortage of rainfall, meaning

river levels have gone down and the

hydroelectric power wasn't as

effective as in previous years. But

other countries are involved, the EU

and the US both saw emissions going

down but not by as much as expected,

due to the continued use of natural

gas in some places, the use of coal

in other places. Those two factors,

Oil and Gas UK the same time, seem

pretty consistent over the last

number of years. Scientists worry

that as well as coal, oil and gas

are being used and that isn't going

to help the world gets to where it

needs to go in terms of its

emissions.

There is concern that the

Trump administration was going to

show April coal demonstration.

Anything like that? -- a pro-coal

demonstration.

There is a meeting of

people who see fossil fuels as a

solution to these problems, a couple

of advisers to President Trump were

there as well as members of the US

coal and nuclear industries. They

had a meeting well attended by

people who work here is to see what

they would do. Halfway through they

were interrupted by a couple of

dozen, maybe 40 or 50 demonstrators

who sang and sang and turned their

backs on the cold promoters and

eventually walked out -- coal

promoters. It was pretty good

natures and well steward it, there

was no trouble. I think they made

their point clearly.

In Venezuela, the country is in debt

to the tune of billions of dollars.

There were crisis talks between the

government and lenders to discuss

restructuring the debt. The

Socialist government held a brief

meeting with foreign debt holders on

Monday.

What does this mean for the country?

What does it mean for the people?

Venezuela could default on $150

billion that it owes. $45 billion is

owed to the oil companies. One war

figure, 63 billion, that is owed to

private investors like Goldman

Sachs. And 28 billion is owed to

China. Very mind that Venezuela is

subject to massive UN sanctions and

today the European Union approved

economic sanctions as well. Here is

the foreign chief speaking earlier.

The work we are trying to do is to

support the Venezuelan economy. No

measure, I would like to stress

this, will harm the Venezuelan

population. Our measure is only to

support the population of Venezuela.

The step has been decided today. It

is a first step. It can be reversed

if political conditions allow us to

have credible and meaningful

negotiations.

My colleague Katie Watson joins us

from Sao Paulo. Just put that into

contact, for people from Venezuela,

that is a huge impact, physical as

well. Some have lost weight as a

result of the crisis?

That's right,

Venezuelan's economy is in a diet is

date. There are people who are

missing meals, inflation, the IMF

said next year may reach 2300%. The

oil economy of Venezuela, it relies

on oil for 95% of its foreign

earnings and that has plummeted, not

just because of the oil price but

its production ability has fallen

dramatically. The one source of

revenue it has relied on, it can no

longer generate the income it used

to. That's obviously a big impact

for Venezuela and of course the

sanctions, that's what the Maduro

Prejean blames but analysts say you

can't blame the sanctions, it is

economic mismanagement that has

caused problems -- the Maduro regime

blames.

How do you start to

restructuring a debt of $150

billion?

That 150 billion is an

estimate of how much total external

debt it owes, including credit line

from the likes of Russia and China

but the talks today were for the

bondholders, especially to come over

and investors to talk about how they

will go forward with repaying future

debt. Venezuela until now has paid

the debt. The fear of default is a

big one because Venezuelan relies

heavily on the outside world. If it

defaulted on its bonds from its oil

company, that means it would be shut

out of the market and wouldn't

receive its dollars and would mean

it couldn't import things like food

and medicine. That has been a

problem but there has been so little

information about what the

bondholders are expecting. The

people who are leading the talks,

the vice president has sanctioned on

him because of alleged drug

trafficking. US bondholders have

been concerned about coming to

Venezuela because they are concerned

that if they negotiate with him it

will contravene sanctions and they

could be in trouble. That has been a

big stumbling block and many people

stayed away, sending representatives

and even those people haven't all

been able to come, even though the

government say that 400 investors

were turning up. Others say that is

not the true figure. Very cloudy,

certainly the information from

Venezuelan.

Thank you for joining

us. You can get much more detail on

that story and what's happening on

our website.

Let's return to Brexit now,

and the Government has confirmed

that it will allow MPs

to vote on any final deal

negotiated with Brussels.

Here's the Brexit

Secretary, David Davis.

I can now confirm that when we have

reached agreement we will bring

forward a specific piece of primary

legislation to implement it. This

confirms that the major policy set

out in the withdrawal agreement will

be directly in fermented by primary

legislation, not secondary

legislation in a withdrawal bill. It

also means parliament will have time

to debate, scrutinised and vote on

the final agreement with respect to

the European Union. The agreement

will only hold if Parliament

approves. We expected to cover the

contents of the withdrawal

agreement, including issues on

citizens' rights, any financial

settlement and a detailed

intimidation period between both

sides.

This is being seen

as a big concession.

Here's the BBC's political

editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

But as the political editor

of the New Statesman points out:

So no matter which way

the vote goes,

Britain will still be

leaving the European Union.

Let's get some analysis now

from our chief political

correspondent, Vicki Young,

who's in central London.

Is this a big deal, or isn't it?

What's interesting is that the

Labour Party immediately got up and

said this was a huge concession from

David Davies, that it was a massive

climb-down because he was

potentially facing Commons defeat in

the next few weeks over the EU

withdrawal bill. Some Conservatives

on the remain side of the argument

want a slow and gradual Brexit, some

hobby don't want it at all. --

probably don't want it. They don't

think it is a concession for that

reason. They will have the chance to

vote on whatever deal the government

brings back from Brussels. If they

vote against it, then they get no

deal and Britain still leaves at the

end of March, 2019. Opinion you can

safely say is split on this. The BBC

understands there were some

difficult meetings today between the

senior party managers, the whips of

the Conservative Party, speaking to

those Tory members who are looking

for a gradual, softer kind of

Brexit. They are pretty unhappy

about all of this. I suppose the

point about David Davies saying

we're going to have a new bill and

new legislation which you can all

debate and scrutinise, pick over and

vote on, what we don't know is what

kind of environment we will be in in

one year's time or even longer.

Things may have changed. By having

this bill of legislation it in

labels those people who are trying

to fight a very clean, hard Brexit,

it may give them a vehicle to try

and often it. That's why some people

are seeing it as a concession --

soften soften it. It is something

more predictable.

Politicians can

scrutinise the bill but time is

running out. When is this going to

happen?

Yes, given that we aren't

even into the second stage of the EU

talks, the British government hoping

that in December the EU are going to

say they are ready to move on, there

has been sufficient progress and we

can start talking about the future

relationship. As you say, if the

final date of leaving, which they

want to put into law in the

legislation, controversially, the

end of March, 2019, which is Article

50 and then, when we will leave, two

years beyond that. It means that

already time is running out. Some

saying you must get it through the

British Parliament, through the

European Parliament. There are all

sorts of snags. Some have looked at

negotiations in the EU over many

decades and they say that only

towards the end of the process, when

minds are more focused, given that

both sides say they are searching

for a deal, some say that we need to

be optimistic and that's what

Theresa May was saying in her speech

at the Guildhall, in the financial

centre of London, saying that we

must be optimistic, striving for the

best deal, we want to be confident

about the future. We have a place in

the world, we will be outward

looking. She says that Britain

should concentrate on the positive

things rather than the negative.

Thank you for joining us.

Last week, we covered

the shock resignation

of Lebanon's Prime Minister

and his departure to Saudi Arabia.

Now the EU has weighed in, urging

Saad Hariri to return to Lebanon,

and warned Saudi Arabia

against meddling in

the country's affairs.

The bloc's top diplomat,

Federica Mogherini, said, "We expect

no external interference

in this national agenda."

"We believe it is essential to avoid

importing into Lebanon

regional conflicts."

And we've heard from Mr Hariri.

In a live TV event, he vowed

to return home in the coming days.

TRANSLATION:

There's a security

threat on my life, that's just part

of it. There's the protection of

Lebanon, I want to protect Lebanon.

I will go back to Lebanon and I will

be back really soon. I will follow

because the custard usual process of

resignation. -- constitutional

process.

Mr Hariri also denied

he's being held captive

in Saudi Arabia, an accusation

made by Iran and Hezbollah.

His unexpected resignation has meant

we've been hearing a lot

about the regional rivalry

between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

But why are the two

countries at loggerheads,

and what is the potential for real

conflict between them?

Paul Adams explains.

Let's say straight off, if Iran and

Saudi Arabia were to go to war, that

would be catastrophic Iran no one

really thinks that's going to happen

but they are definitely at

loggerheads. Facing off and even

fighting by proxy all over the

region. It's about a struggle for

power that's been going on for

nearly 40 years. Saudi Arabia, home

to Islam's two coleus sites, felt it

was the undisputed leader of the

Muslim world -- holiest sites. In

1979 along came the Ayatollah and

the Iranian revolution.

He was

welcomed by the biggest crowd in

human history.

Suddenly, Saudi

Arabia had a rival. Today, Teheran's

influence extends across a broad

area of the Middle East, from Iran

in the east to Lebanon in the West.

Saudi Arabia feels threatened in its

own backyard. And then of course

there is religion, the countries

representing the rival camps in

Islam. Saudi Arabia is Sunni and

Iran is Shia. Inevitably there are

religious overtones. In Yemen there

is a civil war, Saudi Arabia is

helping one side and Iran, the

other. In Syria, Iran supports

President Assad and has sent troops

to fight for him. The Saudis have

funded and armed rebel groups. In

Iraq, since the fall of Saddam

Hussein, Iran has become very

influential and Saudi Arabia has

been trying to extend its influence

there. And Lebanon, a complicated

country with a delicate power

balance. For decades, Tim Faye has

supported the Shia militia. It is

fighting in Syria and has a presence

in Yemen and Iraq. For Saudi Arabia

this is too much. Saudi Arabia's

Crown prince, who pretty much runs

the country, has been sounding

increasingly tough on Iran, accusing

it of trying to dominate the Muslim

world. Most people think that the

Crown Prince ordered the recent

resignation of the Prime Minister of

Lebanon. By Minister Harry Reid made

his shock announcement in Saudi

Arabia. -- Hariri. TRANSLATION:

I

want to say to Iran that they are

losing in their attempt to influence

the Arab world.

The fear is that

Saudi Arabia is trying to force a

confrontation with Hezbollah, to

weaken its authority and the

influence of Iran. If so this is

dangerous and could open up a new

front in the cold war between Saudi

Arabia and Iran. In a country,

Lebanon, that has already seen far

too much conflict.

Day one of the Asean summit

has wrapped up in Manila.

The focus has been

on the relationship

between these two, Donald Trump

and the Philippines President,

Rodrigo Duterte.

The pair met on the

sidelines of the summit.

And it was all praise

from the US President.

We've had a great relationship, this

has been very successful. We've had

leaders with many -- meetings with

many other leaders. This has been

handled beautifully by the President

of the Philippines. I've enjoyed

being here.

There appears to be a lack

of clarity over whether the issue

of human rights were discussed

by the two leaders.

The White House says

they were, albeit briefly.

But the Philippines say Mr Trump

never raised the issue.

Human-rights groups had wanted

President Trump to take a tough

stance on President Duterte's

war on drugs.

Police say almost 4,000 people

have been killed since this

controversial tactic was launched

in June last year.

Ties have been strained

between the two countries

after the former US

President Barack Obama

criticised Mr Duterte

for his brutal anti-drug campaign.

The BBC's Howard Johnson

reports from Manila.

When they finished the meeting there

was a brief exchange with the press

but not much was discussed. The

details were released slowly

afterwards by the White House press

office who were the first to say

that human rights were briefly

discussed. Later the president of

the Philippines' spokesman said that

President did hurt had been speaking

about the war on drugs -- president

did hurt -- Duterte. Briefly touched

on, the issue of the war on drugs

and human rights in the meeting.

Here've also been violent

demonstrations on the streets

of Manila against Mr Trump's visit.

A group of protesters

charged at riot police,

who responded by using water cannon

and sonic alarms to try

and repel the crowd.

And awkward moments are almost

custom at these types of gatherings,

and this one has been no different -

take a look at this group handshake

that took the US President

a little while to master.

And here's something

you probably didn't expect,

President Duterte serenading a gala

dinner at the order of Mr Trump.

SINGING.

I sung, uninvited, they duet, on the

orders of the Commander-in-Chief of

the United States.

Yes, ordered to

sing by President Trump.

A soldier has been shot and wounded

as he escaped North Korea.

The soldier managed to get

across this, the demilitarised zone.

This is one of the most heavily

protected areas in the world.

So this is really surprising.

It's fortified with thousands

of mines and barbed wire,

rows of surveillance cameras

and electric fencing.

The DMZ is a strip of land 250km

long and 4km wide that separates

the two sides of the Korean

Peninsula.

The defector crossed here,

at the village of Panmunjom,

actually where the truce to end

the Korean War was signed in 1953.

If you want to find out more

about what it takes to cross

the demilitarised zone, then go

to this article on our website.

Here's Mark Lowen.

We know that a North Korean soldier

who was stationed at a guard post in

the joint Security area and the

so-called demilitarised zone,

approached the South earlier today

and was shot by a North Korean --

North Korean soldiers in the

shoulder and elbow. He was taken to

hospital and he has now regained

consciousness. This is extremely

rare for people to deflect

across-the-board and indeed in the

joint Security area. That is the

collection of buildings where North

and South Korean soldiers eyeball

each other and in effect it is the

most tightly guarded part of the

world's most heavily fortified

border. Very rare for soldiers to

defect in that way. South Korean

media say that only three have

defected across the joint Security

area since the end of the Cold War,

in 1998, 2007, and today. Most of

the 2000 defectors tend to go into

China and try and seek asylum at the

South Korean Embassy in Beijing. It

is rare for them to go across the

DMZ at all, let alone the joint

Security area. When the soldier

recovers in hospital, he will be a

prized possession for South Korea, a

rare insight into the heart of the

North Korean military, coming, as he

is, from that extremely tightly

guarded area where soldiers are

chosen because of their immense

loyalty to the North Korean regime.

A very rare desertion, especially

because it is such a militarised

zone. A lots more on the website but

from us, thanks for watching.