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tens of thousands of Iranians are | 0:00:08 | 0:00:14 | |
still waiting for help two days
after a | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
still waiting for help two days
after a major earthquake killed | 0:00:17 | 0:00:17 | |
hundreds. The US Attorney-General
has denied misleading members of | 0:00:17 | 0:00:22 | |
Congress over what he knew about the
Trump election campaign's contacts | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
with Russia. I do now recall that
the March 2016 meeting at the Trump | 0:00:26 | 0:00:37 | |
hotel that Mr Papadopulous attended,
but I have no clear recollection of | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
the details what have he said at
that meeting. As the US Secretary of | 0:00:40 | 0:00:45 | |
State heads to Myanmar what pressure
can the White House bring to help | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
stop the violence in Rakhine State.
British MPs are turning a magnifying | 0:00:49 | 0:00:55 | |
glass to a key piece of Brexit
legislation. Our correspondent will | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
explain what it all means. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:09 | |
Hello welcome to Outside Source.
Nearly 48 hours after the | 0:01:17 | 0:01:24 | |
devastating earthquake in Iran, tens
of thousands of people are still in | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
need of help. Well the earthquake
struck and at least 460 people were | 0:01:27 | 0:01:38 | |
killed after this 7. 3 magnitude
quake struck on Sunday. The | 0:01:38 | 0:01:46 | |
epicentre was here. There have been
around 200 aftershocks felt in all | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
those areas, marked in red.
The image that's are coming from the | 0:01:49 | 0:01:55 | |
area have been a real devastation
with thousands of buildings | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
destroyed. Around 8,000 people have
been injured during this quake. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
Thousands more are now facing their
third night camped out and during | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
the night, the weather conditions do
get really cold. It becomes | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
freezing. The devastation is
phenomenal. Iranian authorities have | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
called off rescue operations saying
that there is quite frankly little | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
chance of finding any more
survivors. If we look at the amount | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
of devastation, there's a lot of
road structure damage as well, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
making it really hard for rescue
services to get through. 30,000 | 0:02:27 | 0:02:32 | |
homes have been damaged in this
quake. There are also reports of two | 0:02:32 | 0:02:38 | |
entire villages being destroyed.
Despite the earthquake epicentre | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
being on the Iraqi side of the
border, most of the fatalities, most | 0:02:43 | 0:02:48 | |
of the injuries and most of the
damage to the buildings actually | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
happened in Iran. Now that has led
for many people to ask why so many | 0:02:52 | 0:02:58 | |
buildings collapsed in what is an
earthquake-prone area of Iran. The | 0:02:58 | 0:03:09 | |
country's president has visited the
damaged areas. He says anyone found | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
to fail to meet proper building
standards will be held accountable. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
He's also made this pledge to help
survivors. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:22 | |
TRANSLATION: We'll provide tents for
those who need them and give loans | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
and grants to all those whose houses
were damaged and are unsafe. We'll | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
give money to everyone who needs
temporary accommodation. If you were | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
watching yesterday, you might
remember this particular footage. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
This is of a dam in Iraq. That is
not water. That is actually rubble | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
and giant bolders that were
dislodged by the very force of the | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
quake crashing then into parked
cars. Moments beforehand, you can | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
just see a person are youing from
the area. -- running from the area. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
There are concerns about the
structural integrity of the dam. Our | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
correspondent has travelled there
and he sent this report. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
This is the dam with a reservoir
capacity of three billion cubic | 0:04:04 | 0:04:09 | |
metres. After the earthquake, there
were fears it would collapse causing | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
cat strong flooding and the tragedy
far greater in scale than the | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
earthquake itself. The authorities
swiftly ordered the evacuation of | 0:04:17 | 0:04:23 | |
several villages down stream and
specialist teams have been studying | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
the damage that was caused to the
dam. They're hoping that this is | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
only superficial damage and not the
kind of deep, structural damage that | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
could cause a collapse. To be on the
safe side, they aim to keep the | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
water in the reservoir well below
capacity and they have not yet told | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
residents that it's safe for them to
return home. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:50 | |
An update on the survivor situation
now. I'm sure those people who in | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
the countryside, particularly 1900
villagers, which has been affected | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
severely by the earthquake, they
will be surprised because we have | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
talked to people on the ground. They
say the rescue efforts has been | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
focussed on two major cities. They
are the worst affected area and | 0:05:07 | 0:05:18 | |
President Rouhani was there today.
Those villages, the government even | 0:05:18 | 0:05:23 | |
yesterday they said from tomorrow,
which is today, they will put effort | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
actually to rescue those remote
areas. I just don't understand how | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
come the government have managed to
search and rescue 1900 villages in | 0:05:30 | 0:05:36 | |
the remote area and the people on
the ground, talking to us, they say | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
they haven't seen anybody and no-one
have gone to their rescue. This is | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
an area that is prone to earthquakes
and yet these buildings they | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
couldn't with stand this.
Absolutely. One of the most affected | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
building was one of those affordable
housing complex initiated by the | 0:05:52 | 0:06:04 | |
former president Amijinidad. They
are damaged the most. Even today the | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
president said we hold those people
who are responsible for this | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
building accountable. The reality is
many people in that region they | 0:06:12 | 0:06:19 | |
don't respect the building code.
That's why the authority, the | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
contractor, the building companies
they don't enforce those building | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
codes. That's why we see those
buildings can not resist the | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
earthquake and then you see some of
the older buildings stand up. With | 0:06:30 | 0:06:35 | |
the more remote areas, you were
saying that some of them have been | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
reporting they haven't seen any aid
whatsoever. Temperatures are really | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
falling now. This is going to be
really difficult for those people | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
who are homeless. The government
said they will try to reach | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
everyone. It is understandable, it's
a remote area. Some of the roads | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
might have been cut off. But this is
almost third night. Some people say | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
the road is open. And even one of
the areas, the epicentre of the | 0:06:57 | 0:07:03 | |
earthquake, the people from there
they send us video. They talk to us, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:08 | |
they send out their testimony. They
said no-one have Agassis Ted this | 0:07:08 | 0:07:13 | |
part -- have visited this part. They
say no-one have come there. That's | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
why people say they need water, they
need food, they need tents. The | 0:07:17 | 0:07:23 | |
temperature in this mountainous
region drops at night. People are | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
worried about those people
particularly who are injured, the | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
most vulnerable - children and
elderly. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
Now let's turn to the US where for
the past few hours the | 0:07:34 | 0:07:40 | |
Attorney-General Jeff Sessions has
been giving testimony before a | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
Congressional panel. It's all to
explain his position in light of the | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
revelations that members of the
Trump campaign had contacts with | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
Russia. He had to clarify a few
things, particularly about a certain | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
meeting last year, which he attended
with this man. This is the recently | 0:07:55 | 0:08:04 | |
disgraced campaign advisor George
Papadopulous. It was at this meeting | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
that Mr Papadopulous suggested he
could use his Russian connections to | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
set up a meeting between Mr Trump
and Vladimir Putin. I would like to | 0:08:11 | 0:08:19 | |
address recent news reports
regarding meetings during the | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
campaign attended by George
Papadopulous and Carter Page among | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
others. Frankly I had no
recollection of this meeting until I | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
saw these news report. I do now
recall that the March 2016 meeting | 0:08:30 | 0:08:37 | |
at the Trump hotel that Mr
Papadopulous attended is, but I have | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
no clear recollection of the details
what have he said at that meeting. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
Jeff Sessions there remembering the
meeting not much on the detail. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
Let's get clarity. Anthony Zurcha
joins us from Washington. At least | 0:08:51 | 0:08:58 | |
he's remembered the meeting now. At
least we have. It's not the first | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
time that Jeff Sessions has
forgotten about meetings he had. He | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
had forgotten about meetings he had
with Russian ambassador during the | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
campaign only to be reminded of them
later, when evidence of them came | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
out. Again, we have him blaming a
fuzzy memory. It's kind of a | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
delicate walk that Jeff Sessions is
having to do here. He's saying, | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
well, I don't remember any of these
meetings. Now I start to remember | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
them, or as much as I do having
researched it, what happens in those | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
meetings, when I said to George
Papadopulous, when he told us he was | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
thinking about going to Russia,
thinking about reaching out to | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
Russian officials is that he
shouldn't do that and he certainly | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
shouldn't do that in the name of the
campaign. He's vindicated by what | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
sort of memories he does have, the
problem however is that in testimony | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
just about a month ago, when asked
about whether there was any sort of | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
meetings between Trump campaign
officials and Russians he said I'm | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
not aware of anyone else having
those meetings, I don't believe that | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
it happened. He's basically having
to go back and explain these | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
comments he made under oath about a
month ago. That's the point isn't | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
it, he had to do this under oath.
He's now changing his statements. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
Can he get into trouble for all of
this? Well, if you listen to the way | 0:10:09 | 0:10:15 | |
he phrased that response before,
"I'm not aware of anyone else. I | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
don't believe that it happened."
He's very careful. He's a lawyer and | 0:10:19 | 0:10:24 | |
a career politician who knows how
these things work. I don't know if | 0:10:24 | 0:10:30 | |
he will be having legal exposure.
That seems unlikely. That's not the | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
issue here. The issue is whether
people buy his explanation, buy his | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
account that his memory was faulty
in this case. There's a political | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
dynamic to it that is more
important. I think it's safe to say | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
the people who are criticising
Donald Trump and who have concerns | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
about what the Trump campaign did
and any ties it may have had to | 0:10:48 | 0:10:54 | |
Russian government, they aren't
going to be satisfied by Jeff | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
Sessions saying he can't remember
these meetings. But what he does | 0:10:57 | 0:11:01 | |
remember was perfectly legitimate
and a proper explanation for what | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
happened. Anthony as always, thank
you very much. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:11 | |
We've got lots more coming up here,
do stay with us. We'll be talking | 0:11:11 | 0:11:16 | |
about the digital drug revolution.
That's a new pill that tells your | 0:11:16 | 0:11:21 | |
doctor if you've taken your
medicine. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:31 | |
Now here, inflation remained
unchanged last month at 3%, a | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
five-year high, despite a rise in
food prices. Earlier this month, the | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
Bank of England raised interest
rates for the first time in a decade | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
to try and deal with the threat of
higher inflation. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:49 | |
Inflation was really pushed up by
one big thing, the fall in the value | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
of the pound after the referendum.
That produces an inflation spike. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
But because it's a currency change,
that spike is pushed through the | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
economy quite quickly. Just as you
suggest, in the real world, people | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
are still feeling that income
squeeze. Household incomes are only | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
going up by 2. 2%. So well below the
rise in prices. And again as you | 0:12:09 | 0:12:15 | |
said, on things like food inflation,
that's the highest figure since #20 | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
13. So people are still feeling the
impact of those price rises in their | 0:12:19 | 0:12:24 | |
pockets. But it does seem that we've
reached the top of that curve on | 0:12:24 | 0:12:29 | |
inflation rates.
Welcome. You're watching Outside | 0:12:29 | 0:12:40 | |
Source, live from the BBC Newsroom.
Our lead story: Thousands of people | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
in Iran are still waiting for help,
nearly 48 hours after a devastating | 0:12:43 | 0:12:49 | |
earthquake. Let's look at what else
is being reported around the BBC | 0:12:49 | 0:12:54 | |
Newsroom.
The ruling party in Zimbabwe has | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
accused the country's army chief of
treason, after he challenged the | 0:12:58 | 0:13:07 | |
president Robert Mugabe over the
sacking of the Vice President. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
ZANU-PF said the general's criticism
was calculated to disturb national | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
peace.
The Lebanese politician who | 0:13:15 | 0:13:22 | |
dramatically resigned as Prime
Minister while in Saudi Arabia says | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
that he will return to Beirut in the
next few days. He stunned his | 0:13:26 | 0:13:31 | |
country when he stepped down.
Now let's go to the British | 0:13:31 | 0:13:36 | |
Parliament, where politicians have
begun the first day of debate of the | 0:13:36 | 0:13:42 | |
all important Brexit bill or to give
it the official term, the EU | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
withdrawal bill. This sets out the
mammoth task of transferring 40-odd | 0:13:46 | 0:13:53 | |
years worth of EU law into the UK
statute books. This is all the UK | 0:13:53 | 0:14:00 | |
politicians in Westminster right
now. They've been talking for six | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
hours and it is still counting.
They're going to have eight more | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
days of this. Now they do have to
consider hundreds of amendments | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
after all. Just actually a handful
of those will be selected for vote. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:17 | |
Now they just finished the first
round of voting with another taking | 0:14:17 | 0:14:22 | |
place in a few hours. One really
contentious issue in one of the | 0:14:22 | 0:14:28 | |
amendments put forward by the
Government, which should enslirn the | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
Brexit date and -- enshrine the
Brexit date and time and that date | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
and time, there it is, 2300 hours,
GMT on March 29, 2019. We got a | 0:14:35 | 0:14:44 | |
response already. The Telegraph is
saying exclusive nearly 20 Tory MPs | 0:14:44 | 0:14:50 | |
are preparing to rebel against the
Government over the Brexit date, | 0:14:50 | 0:14:55 | |
including loyalists. With a
minority, the Government would face | 0:14:55 | 0:14:57 | |
a defeat. So this legislation is a
big deal for the Prime Minister. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:04 | |
Let's discuss all of this. Our chief
political correspondent Vicki Young | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
is at Westminster. So talk us
through the whole - what exactly is | 0:15:07 | 0:15:14 | |
going on at Westminster today? What
is all this? A lot of is quite | 0:15:14 | 0:15:18 | |
technical. It is bringing over all
of that EU law and regulation into | 0:15:18 | 0:15:23 | |
UK law so that when we leave the
European Union we have a legal | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
system in place. So to that extent,
some of it is very detailed and some | 0:15:26 | 0:15:32 | |
of it is very hard to follow. Now
ministers insist they need a lot of | 0:15:32 | 0:15:37 | |
powers in order to do all of this
work. That is proving a bit | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
controversial. But as you say, it's
the idea of putting into law this | 0:15:41 | 0:15:46 | |
fixed leaving date, which has caused
quite heated arguments today. That's | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
because there are some, the
Opposition Labour Party, the other | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
Opposition parties and some
Conservatives, including very senior | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
people on the Conservative benches,
who think this is the wrong thing to | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
do, that it boxes the Government in.
Why would you want to put it there | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
unless you're just trying to keep
your Euro-sceptics happy. They say | 0:16:03 | 0:16:09 | |
if we get to the end of the line,
coming up to the date, we may want | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
to extend talks with the European
Union, they would have to agree, but | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
if it's in law it's harder to do.
They don't see why the Government | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
wants to really restrict themselves
in this way. They're going to be | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
talking for eight days, debating all
of this. There are a lot of | 0:16:23 | 0:16:28 | |
amendments, what is actually going
to make it into the bill do you | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
think? These are the changes that
people want to make, so you have the | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
bill and then you have MPs coming
forward saying, well, actually I | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
want to try and add this into the
bill, I want to try and change that, | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
I don't like this bit. That's why
we've ended up with hundreds of | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
those amendments. As you said
earlier, they do not all get | 0:16:44 | 0:16:48 | |
selected. They are whittled down.
Then they're debated. Some of them | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
are voted on. The one that the
Government will possibly be in | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
trouble with, with that discussion
that there might be up to 20 | 0:16:55 | 0:17:03 | |
Conservatives willing to defy the
Government is on the final bill. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:08 | |
It's something that is a power grab,
that's no way to run this place. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
Though Theresa May doesn't have a
majority, she obviously is in an | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
agreement with the Democratic
Unionist Party, the Northern Ireland | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
party, and there are also some
Opposition MPs who are in favour of | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
Brexit. They will vote with the
Government. These things and these | 0:17:22 | 0:17:27 | |
sums are not always straightforward.
We will know in the coming weeks | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
whether Theresa May has managed to
survive this unscathed and if she | 0:17:31 | 0:17:35 | |
doesn't, then what happens after
that? As always, thank you very | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
much.
We're going to stick with something | 0:17:38 | 0:17:45 | |
that Theresa May said and she was
talking about the subject of Russian | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
interference in foreign elections.
You may remember the big banquet | 0:17:48 | 0:17:53 | |
that took place yesterday evening.
We brought you all of that major | 0:17:53 | 0:17:58 | |
foreign policy speech that Theresa
May gave last night. She had a few | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
things to say and this in particular
about Russia. It is seeking to | 0:18:03 | 0:18:10 | |
weaponise information, deploying its
state-run media organisations to | 0:18:10 | 0:18:15 | |
plant fake stories and photo shopped
images in an attempt to sew disorder | 0:18:15 | 0:18:22 | |
in the West and undermine our
institutions. I have a simple | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
message for Russia: We know what you
are doing and you will not succeed. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
So how has that speech gone down in
Moscow? Well, here's a rather | 0:18:30 | 0:18:35 | |
cryptic tweet that came from the
Russian | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
cryptic tweet that came from the
Russian ministry of foreign affairs: | 0:18:38 | 0:18:43 | |
The aimth that they tweeted with
this was of the British Prime | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
Minister drinking from a glass of
wine. I think that was an attempt at | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
humour there. The Russian embassy
also weighed in saying, "No Russian | 0:19:00 | 0:19:07 | |
media in UK has been found in breach
of due accuracy, hashtag fake news. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:18 | |
I spoke to Olga to get a Russian
perspective. It's very provoking and | 0:19:18 | 0:19:24 | |
also, it's a foreign affairs
ministry, so it's supposed to be | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
diplomatic. But actually that's the
tactics, that's the fashion they use | 0:19:27 | 0:19:31 | |
for quite a while. They picked it up
since 2014. They seem very provoking | 0:19:31 | 0:19:39 | |
posts and this is just one of them.
Overall Russian officials are used | 0:19:39 | 0:19:47 | |
to commenting on those topics. It
seems they enjoy the process of it. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
We shouldn't be surprised that
they've been watching the Lord | 0:19:50 | 0:19:55 | |
Mayor's speech, the banquet that
Theresa May gave and their reaction | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
isn't surprising? I'm surprised by
it. Well, it took me a while to | 0:19:58 | 0:20:06 | |
actually issue that statement, issue
those allegations but overall, I | 0:20:06 | 0:20:10 | |
mean Russian officials have been
commenting on that for quite a while | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
now. Of course, they war watching
and -- they were watching and of | 0:20:13 | 0:20:20 | |
course their response was along
traditional Russian lines that | 0:20:20 | 0:20:24 | |
Russia is acting according to
international rules. They accuse the | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
West of double standards. They say
they are ready for dialogue but on | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
equal terms and they are actually
seeking and helping democracy and | 0:20:31 | 0:20:36 | |
they accuse the West of
authoritarianism. That's the message | 0:20:36 | 0:20:41 | |
they're trying to spread abroad and
inside the country. The comments by | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
the British Prime Minister actually
help internal Russian propaganda. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:50 | |
Because that's exactly what they're
trying to portray, that Russia is | 0:20:50 | 0:20:58 | |
alone, fighting against the West.
That's what Russian people face | 0:20:58 | 0:21:03 | |
internally in the country, that's
the reason for the economic | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
harshness. That's what the Kremlin
needs in light of presidential | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
elections next month. It will go in
his favour, because he will be the | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
one who's strong, battling against
the rest of the world effectively. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
Yes absolutely. That's the line they
fought. They use this narrative to | 0:21:17 | 0:21:23 | |
pursue their own goals within the
country, for example, after Russia | 0:21:23 | 0:21:27 | |
today was forced to register as a
foreign agent, tomorrow the state | 0:21:27 | 0:21:33 | |
Parliament would be looking to
implement new legislation to put on | 0:21:33 | 0:21:38 | |
foreign media in rasha.
-- Russia. A bit a different | 0:21:38 | 0:21:45 | |
perspective on that story. Let's
turn to business. Venezuela is once | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
again our focus. Standard & Poor's
says that the country has defaulted | 0:21:50 | 0:21:56 | |
after missing a bond repayment. It
says the government failed to pay | 0:21:56 | 0:22:03 | |
$200 million, which was due. It's a
staggering figure. But also, | 0:22:03 | 0:22:10 | |
investors met government officials
on Monday to have discussions and | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
ask how it would avoid defaulting on
its $60 billion debt mountain. But | 0:22:13 | 0:22:19 | |
they were left in the dark.
Let's cross over to Sao Paulo. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:27 | |
Daniel, these figures are simply
staggering. Yes. There are two | 0:22:27 | 0:22:33 | |
figures that you mention, the first
is the $200 million. It is a pretty | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
big number. We've heard some of the
ratings agencies today saying | 0:22:37 | 0:22:43 | |
Venezuela can make that payment and
exit the default status in the | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
coming days. However not many people
believe that. The same ratings | 0:22:46 | 0:22:51 | |
agency said there's a 50% chance
that Venezuela may again default on | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
another debt. That's the $200
million question. The big one is | 0:22:56 | 0:23:00 | |
about 300 times that size, which is
the overall debt that Venezuela | 0:23:00 | 0:23:04 | |
wants to renegotiate with investors.
That picture is not clear because | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
the meeting last night didn't
provide any clarity. So there's a | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
$200 million question, but the $60
billion question is the one that | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
will keep the whole country in
suspense. The figures are absolutely | 0:23:16 | 0:23:21 | |
extraordinary, but it's hard to
imagine then, but what is easy to | 0:23:21 | 0:23:26 | |
imagine is what's happening to the
people. Because they have no food | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
quite simply. There are shortages in
the shops, daily life is incredibly | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
difficult at the moment. Yes. And
you know, the perspective for | 0:23:33 | 0:23:42 | |
Venezuelan people in the future is
not very good because of all the | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
debt. Supposing that the government
stops paying its debt for now, it | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
will have some more money, which it
could provide for its citizens. But | 0:23:49 | 0:23:55 | |
also, Venezuela will run the risk of
suffering new sanctions from | 0:23:55 | 0:23:59 | |
economic partners abroad. So many of
the oil shipments that it sends | 0:23:59 | 0:24:04 | |
abroad they can be seized by
investors who want to get paid. So | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
the picture for the economy is not a
good one right now. Daniel, thanks | 0:24:08 | 0:24:13 | |
very much for talking us through it.
Let's talk about a new invention | 0:24:13 | 0:24:19 | |
because US regular litters have
approved a pill that can be | 0:24:19 | 0:24:24 | |
digitally tracked through the body.
Now the medication treats | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
schizophrenia and also manic
episodes. This can alert a doctor as | 0:24:28 | 0:24:32 | |
to whether it has been taken. Let's
find out a bit more. How does this | 0:24:32 | 0:24:38 | |
work? So as you rightly pointed out,
it would be included in one specific | 0:24:38 | 0:24:46 | |
pill which treats - it's really an
antipsychotic medication. The person | 0:24:46 | 0:24:52 | |
would wear a smartphone, some sort
of app or patch that would track the | 0:24:52 | 0:24:56 | |
information. On this pill is a small
edible tracking device. So you eat | 0:24:56 | 0:25:02 | |
it and within 30 minutes to two
hours of ingesting that tracker | 0:25:02 | 0:25:07 | |
interacts with stomach acid and it
tells the patient whether or not | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
they have taken that pill. Now the
patient then can give access to up | 0:25:11 | 0:25:17 | |
to four other people. So the patient
can give access to their doctor or | 0:25:17 | 0:25:21 | |
to a spouse or to a friend to let
them know when they've taken their | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
medication. The usual questions,
briefly, if you would, I'm sure that | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
there will be concerns about privacy
and ethical questions as well. Oh, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
well absolutely. Who has access to
this information? Can they really | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
trace these kinds of things? Is it
even ethical? Lots of questions. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:44 | |
Thank you very much. Yes, I'm sure
there's lots of questions about | 0:25:44 | 0:25:50 | |
whether that is ethical, who has
that information, let me know what | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
you think. Get in touch with us
hashtag OS. For the time being, | 0:25:53 | 0:25:57 | |
thanks for watching. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:03 |