20/11/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

Angela Merkel's feeling

the political pressure.

She's been Chancellor for 13 years,

but her two routes to

a new coalition government

are now blocked.

Now Europe's most powerful

politician admits another

election may be necessary.

Remember, the last one, in

September, was a disaster for her.

Robert Mugabe is also

feeling the heat.

He's ignored a deadline to resign,

and now the president

faces impeachment.

We expect the motion to be moved

tomorrow, a committee to be set up

tomorrow and hopefully by Wednesday,

because the charges are so clear, we

expect we should be able to put it

into action.

And we'll hear from the BBC's

Lyse Doucet in Riyadh on the social

changes under way in Saudi Arabia.

We now have the possibility that

Angela Merkel could be out

of office by next year.

It's not the most likely outcome,

but it is possible.

That in itself is extraordinary.

This is why the pressure is on.

Since the election, the Chancellor's

CDU party has been trying to form

a coalition with the liberal FDP

party and the Greens.

Well, the FDP has

pulled out of talks.

Ms Merkel has now told

German broadcaster ZDF

she does not rule out new elections

and is ready for a new candidacy,

and that she's reluctant to form

a minority government.

Broadcaster asks, what now, and they

may ask.

The election in September

delivered a shock.

We knew that the block she led at

its worst result in almost 70 years.

It still has had the biggest number

of seats in the Bundestag,

but it only had two clear

routes to a majority.

One - work with the Social

Democrats, but they don't

want to, so that's out.

Martin Schulz has been clear he

doesn't want to do that.

Or two, work with the Greens

and the Free Democrats.

But, as we've now seen,

Christian Lindner and the FDP

have left the table.

That leaves no options

for a majority, and we know

Mrs Merkel isn't keen

on a minority government.

You end up in a situation which

isn't normal for German politics.

There is the German president saying

this is an unprecedented situation.

It is his job now to talk to all

other parties and encourage them to

walk together if need be, he can

dissolve parliament.

TRANSLATION:

This is the moment when

all involved political parties

should come to a standstill and

reflect hard. All of the parties

represented in the chamber of the

German parliament are obliged to

serve the country, to serve the

general well-being of the country,

and I would expect that the

formation of a government would take

place in due course.

And just in case you're wondering

about the right-wing

nationalist AfD, it

took 13.5% of the vote,

but no party will work with it,

so it's not relevant

to the coalition building.

All of which means we may

get another election.

The reason that's so significant

is that it's not a guarantee that

the CDU party would want

Angela Merkel to lead them into it.

Extraordinary times.

Petra Pinzler is a

journalist with Die Zeit.

I asked her how she would describe

where we've got to.

It's a political earthquake in

Germany. Something happened which

hasn't happened ever since we had

democratic government in Germany.

Traditionally, the German political

parties were able to form a

government, at least the mainstream

parties. This is what we've seen so

far. Yesterday evening, something

new happened. Three mainstream

parties who, at the beginning, seem

to work well together, after four

weeks decided they are not going to

form a government. This is really

new.

And why have the FDP decided to

do things differently?

He argues

it's a question of principle. He

didn't get anything through during

these talks. But there is

speculation out there that he is

just gambling, that he might get

even more votes after the next

election.

And what is the process,

if there were to be another

election, how quickly could it

happen?

Not tomorrow. It's the

German president who asks

parliament, and he has to talk to

every party possible. He will talk

to the social democrats again, but

they actually said, we are not going

to form another government with

Angela Merkel. We lost heavily last

time. He will definitely talk to the

Greens and liberals again, but they

will not restart the negotiations,

so we might get into a minority

government of Angela Merkel. It's a

possibility. It's not there yet. The

other possibility is new elections,

but I would argue that we will not

see them before early next year.

Lots of people watching in Europe

but outside Germany will be

thinking, does this mean Angela

Merkel has to put more and more time

into managing her country and her

party than normally she would spend

on European and international

matters?

There is a huge danger,

yes. Angela Merkel is used to a

position of huge power, and we all

know that she was very much able to

form coalitions, to form compromise

within Europe and also Germany. Now

she has shown that she wasn't able

to form a government in Germany,

which automatically reduces her

power. In addition, we know that

this might be her last term so,

within the party and in other

parties, people will try and grab

for power, so the possibilities

really warm Europe is going to

diminish. -- to really form.

In

September, analysts were saying that

this result had the fundamental

potential to shake up German

politics. It is proving that it will

perhaps fulfil that potential.

Elliptical pressure comes in lots of

forms, from Germany to Zimbabwe,

because President Mugabe is about to

see impeachment process beginning.

And it will be led by

his own party Zanu-PF.

Its MPs met earlier,

and then we got this statement

on how the impeachment process

will move forward.

This should take at most two days.

We are expecting the motion to be

moved tomorrow, and a committee to

be set up tomorrow, and hopefully by

Wednesday, because the charges are

so clear, we expect that we should

be able to put it into action.

This story is primarily

playing out in Harare.

Yesterday, Zanu-PF fired

Mr Mugabe as leader

and gave him till 10am this morning

to stand down as president.

That was always unlikely,

and so we move to impeachment.

Reuters says it's seen

the draft impeachment motion.

Most of this is to do with Rex

Tillerson, and we will hear about

him a moment, that writers say they

have a draft impeachment motion,.

In it, it says Robert Mugabe

is a source of instability,

that he flouts the rule of law,

and that he is presiding over

an unprecedented economic tailspin.

Suddenly the economy Zimbabwe is

undoubtedly in profound trouble.

This motion would need a two-thirds

majority in both chambers

of parliament to be passed.

That won't be a problem if Zanu-PF

MPs hold their line.

If he goes, Emmerson Mnangagwa

is favourite to take over.

His dismissal as vice-president two

weeks ago triggered this crisis.

Mr Mugabe appeared to have favoured

his wife, Grace, taking over.

She seems keen on that too.

That's not looking likely right now.

Let's also remember what happened

at the weekend in Harare.

These anti-Mugabe protests

were all the more significant

because they were backed

by war veterans.

They fought in the conflict that led

to Zimbabwe's independence

from Britain in 1980,

and they are still influential.

Their leaders want more action,

and have launched a legal challenge

to remove the president.

We have gone to the court today, to

say that Mugabe, he was derelict of

his executive duty, forcing the hand

of the Army to intervene to arrest

criminals, and the Army has now done

its job, and the people of Zimbabwe

on Saturday took over from where the

army had left.

While this is all going on,

here's the BBC's Stanley Kwenda,

telling us the president has called

for a Cabinet meeting tomorrow.

This happens every Tuesday.

Robert Mugabe may want

to carry on as normal,

but this is not normal.

And his days as leader

look numbered.

The BBC's Africa Correspondent,

Andrew Harding, is in Harare.

Some in Zanu-PF are talking about

steam roller rink this Parliament as

quickly as possible, by the end of

Wednesday, so two days to impeach

Robert Mugabe and kick him out of

office once and for all. It's

possible, it is uncharted territory

for the parliament, for the country,

and there are quite likely to be

legal challenges or procedural

problems, and the opposition, of

course, which is fragmented at the

moment, may see this as an

opportunity for leveraged, to try

and extract concessions from the

government party on things like free

and fair elections, but they would

not want to be seen to be blocking

the resignation of a man who it

seems the entire country, the whole

of Zimbabwe now wants out as quickly

as possible. Resident Mugabe may

still try and stick in his heels and

find ways to avoid getting kicked

out, but his options and friends are

limited these days.

Next, I want to

show you this clip of the Zimbabwean

latrine making a televised address

about President Mugabe's future, and

announcing talks between Mr Mugabe

and the vice president, who he had

sacked.

Following that, we have made further

consultation with the president to

agree on a road map on the

prevailing situation in the country.

The Zimbabwe defence and security

services are encouraged by new

developments, which include contact

between the president and the former

vice president, comrades Emmerson

Mnangagwa. We expect it -- who is

expected in the country shortly.

Stay with us on Outside Source.

Still to come:

Currently in London,

the European Union picks

Paris as the new host

of its banking authority.

Another key regulator will move to

Amsterdam. We'll get full details.

The leader of Sinn Fein,

Gerry Adams, who's

announced his intention

to stand down, says he wants to be

"part of a process

of reconciliation."

But in a BBC interview,

he defended the IRA campaign,

saying it was a legitimate response

to what he described

as the oppression of a huge amount

of people in Northern Ireland.

I have condemned the IRA at times.

I have been hugely critical

of the IRA at times.

But, at the same time,

I did accept and do accept yet,

in response to the situation

of a state that didn't want a huge

amount of its citizens,

and repressed and oppressed them,

and then the British Government

response to that was to militarise

the situation, that the IRA

was a legitimate response to that.

And I will never, till

the day I die, move away

from that situation.

But I've also said on the record

that I recognise the bravery

of not just IRA people,

but also those within the old RUC,

within the British Army,

within the unionist paramilitaries.

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

admits that she could call a snap

election rather than lead

a minority government.

Some of the main stories from BBC

World Service.

The US military has banned

all troops stationed in Japan

from drinking alcohol

or leaving their base.

On Sunday, a US soldier on Okinawa

island killed a driver

of another vehicle in a crash that's

being linked to drink-driving.

The former Wimbledon champion

Jana Novotna has died

at the age of 49 after a long

battle with cancer.

She captured the hearts of fans

when she burst into tears

after losing to Steffi Graf in 1993,

and was consoled by

the Duchess of Kent.

She also went on to lose in another

final before finally

claiming the title in 1998.

And these pictures show a lucky

escape for all involved

when a small plane crashed

on a highway in Florida.

Police dashcam footage shows

the plane coming in dangerously low,

before it crashes and swerves

into trees on the side of the road.

The pilot had suffered engine

trouble, and was trying to make

an emergency landing.

President Trump has put North Korea

back on the US list of state

sponsors of terrorism. Here is Rex

Tillerson, the Secretary of State,

explaining the decision.

It may help

disrupt and dissuade some third

parties from undertaking certain

activities with North Korea, as it

imposes prohibition on a number of

other activities that might not be

covered by existing sanctions, but I

think importantly this is just

continuing to point out North

Korea's illicit, unlawful behaviours

internationally, and we felt it

necessary to reimpose the

designation for that reason.

Lets

talk to the BBC state department

responded. What evidence have we

been offered that North Korea is

sponsoring terrorism?

Good question,

because although North Korea is

widely seen as oppressive, it

doesn't necessarily have a

reputation of conducting repeated

acts of international terrorism,

which is the criteria needed to put

it back on the list of states who

sponsor terrorism. What we have

heard today from Mr Trump and Mr

Tillerson is that it has sponsored

assassinations on foreign soil, and

that being the critical one, Kim

Jong-un's half brother, who was

assassinated recently, which was

blamed on the regime. Mr Tillerson

mentioned the use of chemical

weapons. There has been pressure

from Congress that this step take

place, because of the recent death

of an American college student, Otto

Warmbier, who died shortly after

returning from North Korean custody,

although that might not technically

be able to be called terrorism.

Whatever the case, that

determination has been made, and

there is a lot of support for it in

Congress and also in the State

Department.

Stay with us, because I

want to ask you some broader

questions about the State

Department.

Rex Tillerson has been denying

the State Department is in crisis.

It's in charge of America's foreign

policy and diplomacy.

This weekend the New York Times

editorial board published

this - "The Trump

Administration Is Making

War on Diplomacy".

it accuses Rex Tillerson

of being determined

to dismantle his own department.

Today he responded - briefly.

This department is performing

extraordinarily well and I take

exception to anybody who would

characterise it otherwise.

Despite Mr Tillerson's

words, there's no denying

there are concerns.

On Friday, the department's

spokesperson admitted

there was a morale problem and asked

staff to hang on in there.

Also last week, some

US senators wrote to

Mr Tillerson expressing concern

about the long term health

of the department.

And at the beginning of the month

this letter was by the head

of an organisation that

represents US diplomats.

It also raised concerns

about staffing at the department.

What are all of these people so

concerned about?

What we have seen

in the last week and a half are two

main concerns. One is about the

staffing at the State Department.

You're seeing senior diplomats

needing the service because of a

freeze in promotions, and you are

seeing a freeze in entry-level

positions, so a hiring freeze, and

this is depleting the staff, or the

qualified staff at the State

Department, plus you have anecdotal

reports of senior staff members who

have retired early, because they

feel their expertise isn't valued.

There has been reporting of that,

and Congress has responded strongly.

The other thing is the redesign of

the State Department. Secretary read

Tillerson -- Rex Tillerson is try to

do that, but he hasn't given it much

information, and Congress people are

getting more worried about what he

has in mind, especially when you

hear reports about the staffing

changes. They are the main concerns.

Whatever people think of Donald

Trump or Rex Tillerson's politics,

they certainly know how to hire

people. They both run huge

businesses. What is their

explanation for the situation?

It's

a difficult question to answer, and

you have various degrees. From the

State Department put a view, and you

heard secretary Tillerson speaking

there, they have their own defence.

They say, first of all, they are

responding to an administration wide

directive to cut staff by 8%, which

is a budgetary requirement.

Secondly, they say this is not

cutting the State Department, and

their roll-out figures say that we

have as bad as many foreign service

officers today as last year. And

then they also say that the

promotion and hiring freezes are

temporary,, because of the redesign,

and eventually they will pick up.

Critics are worried first of all

that you are still getting a

depletion of senior diplomats, which

is a big deal, because it takes a

long time to grow diplomats, so that

weakens the State Department. Also,

that has been acknowledged, and they

are wanting to hear more about what

the redesign is going to be like.

The State Department has

acknowledged that it could be

putting out more information, and

that there is a morale problem. Ruck

I like the idea of growing

diplomats. You make them sound like

plants which need to be watered and

fed! It takes a wild they go through

a whole process and the promotion is

an up and up system. At a certain

point, if you don't get promoted,

you are out. At that point, if you

speak another language, you know

another country, you know how to get

people to do what you want, so you

can't replace them overnight.

US media is reporting that the

department of justice is going to

sue to try and block AT&T's takeover

of Time Warner. If it happens, this

will be worth $85 million. Why

doesn't the department of justice

want this to happen?

They are going

to file an anti-trust lawsuit, so

they are saying that it violates any

rules around fair play. When this

deal was first announced, many

people in the industry and lawyers

didn't think it was really going to

face any sort of regulatory

pressure. When you look at it, there

are not many instances in which the

assets of AT&T and Time Warner

actually overlap and violate any

sort of competition. But, when this

deal was announced, it was then the

candidate for President Donald Trump

who had said he was going to block

the deal. In comes this new

president, and it is still seemed

like the deal was going to go

through but, earlier this month, a

request was made by the department

of justice which led to AT&T, if you

want this to go through without any

hassle, you are going to have to

dump some assets like CNN. AT&T

absolutely refused to do so, and so,

was that decision was made, everyone

pretty much expected that the

department of justice was going to

come out against this deal. What

about presumably, AT&T and Time

Warner start to compete but how long

is this process taking? This could

take a long while because earlier,

when we heard about that rejection

of the department of justice request

to sell off some of its assets, AT&T

said, we're not going to, and it

made hints that it was going to

fight this in the courts.

Don't go

anywhere, because I want to ask you

about another story. Plans for a

huge oil pipeline linking Canadian

oil with the Gulf of Mexico have

been approved by regulators in

Nebraska. This is the latest hurdle,

the last significant hurdle ahead of

the building of the keystone

pipeline. We've talked about it a

lot. You can see its proposed route

marked. It has been opposed again

and again by environmentalists, but

it looks like they have run out of

options, in terms of stopping this.

Well...

Maybe?

Well, in fact, the

last state that had to vote in

favour of this deal was Nebraska,

and there was certainly a lot of

pressure on regulators to say, no,

don't do it, and they only voted 3-2

in favour, but those groups that

have been against the pipeline, and

that would be environmentalists,

landowners in Nebraska and Native

American groups, they have said in

the past that if Nebraska regulators

vote in this way, they will try and

appeal that decision, so no exact

word yet whether they have made any

moves to make an appeal, but they

certainly have said in the past that

they would.

And the

environmentalists' gripe with this

oil pipeline is what, specific to

certain parts of the country it will

pass through?

Just continual worries

about what happens, first of all,

when you have this kind of pipeline

bringing in this kind of oil, there

are worries about leaks. Just last

week, we saw there was another

massive leak with an oil pipeline

that was made by the same company,

and we saw 210,000 gallons of oil

being leaked. The other

environmental concerns are damage to

the water table, damage to the

ground. For landowners, it is

worries about, now that they have

this tube, despite going through

their land, it's going to depreciate

the land. People are not going

toward to buy land which has been

used which has been abandoned.

The Chinese online giant Alibaba has

taken a near $3 billion

stake in one of China's

largest grocery retailers.

The BBC's Michael Bristow says it's

all about convergence between online

and bricks and mortar stores.

In a statement, released when they

bought a stake, it says that

essentially it wanted to link up the

two, off-line and online, to use

information you might collect by

people buying in stores, collect

that data and use it to better

target them, essentially to enhance

its profits in all areas of its

business. One example of the way it

is going, in China, for example,

they have invested in convenience

stores, unmount convenience stores,

so people use a mobile phone app to

go in and buy products. Alibaba

earlier this year launched a series

of unmount copy shops, where people

go in, same process, using your

mobile phone to buy products. --

unmount coffee shops. It is marrying

together physical stores and

products when people have to go into

shops with new technology and future

technology, so it is harmonising

those areas.

In a few minutes, we

will hear about a new initiative to

end the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar,

and two big EU agencies announcing

where they will be going, from

London to... We will tell you in a

minute.

I want to update you on a number of

stories that have

caught my eye right across the world

over recent hours. First, I'm going

to take you to the middle of last

week. At that point, we were dealing

with a particularly vicious area of

low pressure just at the eastern end

of the Mediterranean, and the

thunderstorms associated with that

system brought utter devastation by

way of mudslides and flooding to

mainland Greece and also some of the

islands, to the extent that, as I

speak, over 20 people are killed or

missing and it's the worst death

toll from a flood since 1977, and

many hundreds of homes and

businesses have been destroyed. This

is the satellite sequence of that

particular storm at that time. I

bring it to your mind because we

haven't seen the last of it yet. It

has drifted in the intervening days

ever towards the east, good news for

the area about Greece, but bad news

for eastern Turkey, the cold air

flooding in on its western flank,

producing some snowfall there, not

unusual for the further south and

east, an area badly devastated by

the earthquake on the 12th of

November. In the short term, no

great problems, other than it is

very wet. Daytime and night-time

temperatures are roundabout what we

would expect for the time of year

but, bring in that cold air, and

notice by Friday how the

temperatures really plummet, and

they will be even colder in the high

ground to the east of Halabja.

Moving to South America, our concern

is that the intensity of rain

spreading from the eastern side of

Brazil right up to the western side

of Columbia. Mudslides again and

localised flooding. For the USA, no

great issues with this high

pressure, except that it is quite

cold in places. That's settled

things nicely in the Midwest as we

move towards the middle of the week.

Following behind, a vigorous area of

low pressure which, before it quits

the south-west of Canada and

north-west of the USA, it will

deliver hundreds of millimetres of

rain and significant snowfall on

higher ground. The warm air

associated will tumble further east

but, when the boundary between the

warm and cold gets over the Great

Lakes, we can expect to see

disruptive amounts of snow, just in

time for the big holiday weekend. No

real signs of snow through the

middle part of the week across the

greater part of the United Kingdom.

That's thanks to the fact we are

picking up a lot of warm, moist air

from the Atlantic and funnelling it

right across the British Isles. But

it will produce an awful lot of

rain, which could be a problem in

its own right. We have already seen

the consequences of this change to

mar their heirs, and we will have

more in a few minutes. -- this

change to milder airs.

Hello, this is Outside Source.

Angela Merkel's feeling

the political pressure.

She's been Chancellor for

13 years but her two routes

to a new majority coalition

government are now blocked.

Now Europe's most powerful

politician admits another

election may be necessary.

Remember, the one in September

was a disaster for her.

Robert Mugabe is also

feeling the heat.

He's ignored a deadline to resign

and now the president

faces impeachment.

We expect the motion to be moved to

Doral. A committee to be set up

tomorrow. -- moved tomorrow. By

Wednesday, we should be able to vote

in parliament.

China's released a plan

which could solve the Rohingya

crisis in Myanmar.

We will talk about that very

shortly. As always, if you have

questions on the stories we're

covering, get in touch with us on

Twitter.

The hashtag is BBCOS.

China says it's come up with a plan

which could solve the Rohingya

crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Here's a Chinese foreign

ministry official.

TRANSLATION:

V3 stage approach has been accepted

by Bangladesh. -- the three stage.

We hope this can not only help the

current Rohingya crisis but resolve

the problem from the records.

China is proposing a three point

plan - first, a ceasefire,

then refugee repatriation and then

what's being called

poverty alleviation.

Evidently, it won't be

as easy as one two three

to actually do this.

Stephen McDonell,

BBC Beijing, said...

It's not normal for Beijing

to stick its neck out like this.

The plan was presented

at a meeting in Myanmar.

A number of foreign ministers

from Asia and Europe are there.

I was going to show you this picture

of everyone gathered.

So is Aung San Suu Kyi -

Myanmar's de facto leader.

She is right in the middle.

And despite her country hosting

what the UN has called

"textbook ethnic cleansing",

she didn't address it in her speech.

Here's some of it.

Conflicts around the world are

giving rise to new threats and

emergencies. Illegal immigration,

spread of terrorism and violent

extremism. It causes disharmony and

even the threat of nuclear war.

Conflicts take away piece from

societies, leaving behind

development and poverty. Pushing

countries away from each other.

Aung San Suu Kyi decided

against talking about the Rohingyas.

We're not going to do that.

More than 600,000 Rohingyas are now

believed to have crossed the border

from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

These are pictures that

have come in today.

These people are fleeing a military

crackdown in Rakhine State that

began in August after attacks

by Rohingya militants.

Many have undertaken perilous

journeys and now live

in camps in Bangladesh.

Oour South Asia editor

Anbarasan Ethirajan now.

China hopes that levels it together

and talk. People were asking

questions. The Myanmar government

said about five or six weeks ago

that there were no more operations.

An ceasefire because the Norton

sublet the area. Myanmar and

Bangladesh are already talking about

a deal which would allow these

refugees to come back. Thirdly, they

talk about poverty alleviation. The

Myanmar army clearly states that

those will not be accepted. Only

those who can prove that they have

lived in Myanmar's gratin state --

Mark Carney.

The army chief has been releasing

separate statements on his Facebook

page.

How influential is China when

it comes to what happens here? Can

lean on adding some should she

-- Aung San Suu Kyi.

When you see what has happened in

the last few weeks, Myanmar and is

leaning more towards China and

preventing adverse sanctions from

the UN Security Council.

You have

been to Myanmar recently. Aung San

Suu Kyi is getting huge criticism

abroad over this. Is it the same

over there?

Completely different.

People wholeheartedly support Aung

San Suu Kyi. If you speak to

students and even Buddhist monks,

they don't want to use the term

Rafinha. -- Rohingya. The opinion

coming from these people is the

same. That they don't belong to

Myanmar. They came from Bangladesh

and have to go back. What is coming

out of the Western media they think

is propaganda. And events in the

area and in refugee camps across

Bangladesh have been highly

exaggerated.

Two important EU agencies will be

relocated to other countries.

We knew they would be

moving because of Brexit -

today, we found out where to.

Both the European Medicines Agency

and the European Banking Authority

used to be based in London.

But in future, the EMA will be based

in Amsterdam and the EBA in Paris.

The relocation of the two EU

agencies is a direct consequence

and first visible result of Brexit.

Let's talk to Professor Amelia

Hadfield, director of the Centre

for European Studies

at Canterbury Christ Church

University.

Good to have you with us. What you

make of this decision?

I think the

commission is right. It is the very

first step and think that we're

going to see about Brexit. It is a

sign that things are actually

happening. That Brussels is very

much getting its ducks in a row.

Four people in Britain who were

perhaps a little bit unaware of the

step changes, this might come as a

bit of a shock if they had not been

aware of it. The European Medicines

Agency has been here since 1995 and

employs 900 people or even more. It

is based on Canary Wharf. The

European Banking Authority was set

up in the wake of the eurozone

crisis in 2011. It employs about 150

people also in Canary Wharf. Two

major European agencies now being

plucked up and deposited in the

winning cities, in Amsterdam for the

European Medicines Agency and Paris

for the European Banking Authority.

There is fierce competition amongst

other member states with regard to

which of the cities was going to be

able to present itself as prime real

estate for these two agencies.

Amsterdam and Paris have come out on

top. Don't go anywhere, Amelia. I

won't explain how this process

works. We found this Bagram that

explains it all. -- this diagram.

This was a complicated

voting process.

Here's a representation of how

the countries were chosen -

it made it very difficult to predict

in advance which way it would go.

And this was a common comparison.

And just to hammer home the point,

one of their articles was titled...

Fight!

It's a free-for-all.

They will be many countries who

wanted on but did not get these

agencies.

I think so. There was some

wish it would be more geographically

distributed, if you like. Having

said that, you do have EU agencies

right across the length and breadth

of the European Union. You have some

in Warsaw and EU agencies in each of

the Baltic states as well. They are

not doing too badly. It is just that

these were the sort of best Brexit

prizes, so to speak. The idea not

just of having 1000 members of staff

relocating but somewhere between

30,000 - 36,000 scientists and

regulators who fly in every year and

most significantly the hospitality

industry, if you like, of the city.

That gets the ability to host it.

Same with Paris. The European

Banking Authority as well. A

tremendous amount of European

expertise there. It gets the

opportunity to become the new

financial centre. It tremendous win

from France and Macron. There's

something to be said about the

Eurovision Song Contest in terms of

the voting.

Thank you very much

indeed. Good to talk you. Come back

again. They had to end these votes

by drawing straws in both uses.

Don't forget, you can get much

more detail on our top

stories on our website.

The address is bbc.com/news.

We talk about Saudi Arabia

most days at the moment.

There are lots of reasons.

One reason is that tensions

between Iran and Saudi Arabia has

been causing political

havoc in Lebanon.

Two weeks ago, its Prime Minister

Saad Hariri announced

he was stepping down.

He made the announcement

in Saudi Arabia.

Many thought he had been

forced by the Saudis.

There is essentially a cold war

playing it in the region between

Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Saudi Arabia is currently blockading

Yemen, and it's justified that

as a way of stopping

arms reaching rebels.

Iran denies that.

Whatever the justification,

it's deepening a desperate

humanitarian situation -

the UN says thousands will die

as a direct consequence.

I asked our chief international

correspondent Lyse Doucet

whether political pressure

on Saudi Arabia was beginning

to have an effect.

There is no doubt that international

pressure is mounting on Saudi Arabia

for imposing this blockade a little

more than two weeks ago after the

ballistic missile was fired into so

dear... -- Saudi Arabia and

intercepted over the airport here.

Saudi Arabia said it was an act of

one and blamed Iran and Hezbollah.

They said it was part of the growing

threat from Iran and this region.

That is how they retaliated. Saudi

agents say they will all lift the

blockade once they are clear there

is a better inspection at the ports

and main airport and seaport. They

say that it is been used for

smuggling. Iran wants all the ports

to be opened immediately and then

they said will talk about

inspections. There is a bit of a

deadlock on these issues. On the

ground, we hear from the UN that the

situation for people's deadly

deteriorates. Dire warnings about

how many people will suffer and

possibly die if this blockade is not

completely lifted.

Some critics in

the UK argue this blockade is only

possible because it is supported by

the UK and US. Is it a fair

analysis?

Well, the Saudi Arabian --

Saudi Arabia has powerful friends

and not just the UK and US but

across the region and Europe. They

feel very strongly about this. They

believe that now is the moment where

they have to start getting tough

with Iran. Because if they have the

missiles coming right into Sodhi

1080 -- Saudi territory and as far

as the capital, now is the time to

react. They do that you only have

power behind them. But it is also

part of a much more assertive

foreign policy being conducted by

the 32-year-old Crown Prince

Mohammad Bin Salman. He regards Iran

as the prime threat in this region

and believes he has the backing of

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

They all agree that Iran has to be

tackled and tackled now. The

question is, how do you do it? Saudi

Arabia is finding out they do not

have the levers of power to tackle

it. The question is, what will

happen next?

At the same time as this

is all happening, Crown Prince

Mohammad Bin Salman is pushing

an ambitious reform agenda.

Socially, the most high-profile move

has been allowing women to drive.

That gives you idea of how low

the bar's being set, but still,

that will happen from next June.

Economically, there's multiple

initiatives to wean the economy

off its oil dependence.

Plus, you may have

seen the high-profile

anti-corruption crackdown.

More then 200 high-profile men

were taken into detention.

So what does this add up to?

Lyse has been speaking

with the Saudi economic minister

about those still being held.

There is a process, the public

prosecutor is in charge. We will

wait to see what will happen in this

investigation.

Observers have

described this crackdown as a

seismic shock. Unprecedented in

Saudi history. You must have got

nervous phone calls from investors.

No, I made them also. They do come

here. The majority of investors are

saying, look, this is the kind of

environment we like to see. Most of

them, because they invested here,

they know as well that going forward

is what really matters. It is

dealing with a well governed

institution that matters to them.

There was talk of hundreds of

billions of dollars that could be

taken in assets that are frozen in

the cases you have got. Is that part

of it, that you need this money and

that is how you decided to get it?

I

think of corruption not only in

financial terms, it is the misuse of

authority and favouritism. It is

negligence and actually way beyond

the sums of amounts people are

talking about. I cannot comment on

these amends. We wait for the

investigation to finish, and I am

confident the leadership will make

the right call on the use of these

proceeds.

The Economy Minister is involved in

efforts to diversify the Saudi

economy to reduce its reliance on

oil.

Lyse again in Riyadh.

They announced quarterly results

today which said revenues from now

sectors increased by 80%. They are

putting money into new technologies

and trying to diversify, going into

renewable energy and creating jobs,

jobs, jobs. They have so many

educated Saudis with scholarships

from the best universities the world

can offer. And they want jobs. That

is the huge press a point. Mohammad

Bin Salman, the young Crown Prince,

knows that. He has a population were

70% of the population is under 30.

That is his thinking was the social

freedoms. It makes economic sense. A

huge benefit economically. That is

what is driving making them know as

much as anything, to use the word.

-- the kingdom now.

This is a city

and all very well. Can you feel a

difference in social attitudes? --

that you know very well.

Every time

I visit Saudi Arabia, even the trips

several months apart, something has

changed. The pace of change is

staggering. Even Saudis are

surprised. I went to a youth forum

where men and women and mingling.

Last year, that was segregated with

men in one room and the woman in

another. Two years ago, I came here

and the big story was women would

finally be allowed to work in shops.

We went to see a night market where

women were not just at the tills of

the drugs, they were actually owning

the food trucks. It is taking place

at a dizzying speed. While it might

seem very small by the standards of

the Western society, by the

standards of Saudi Arabia, are very

conservative kingdom, and it still

is very conservative, it is nothing

less than revolutionary.

Now to California. Charles Manson

has died in prison. He was a

convicted cult leader and 83.

He had orchestrated a series

of murders in the 1960s.

In August 1969, members of his group

killed seven people.

Manson believed the murders

would start a race war,

allowing him to seize power.

James Cook reports.

Charles Manson.

The name itself is

synonymous with evil.

A killer who did no killing

but whose crimes shocked the world.

In August 1969, followers

of his cult broke into

Hollywood home of Sharon Tate.

The pregnant actress,

who was married to the director,

Roman Polanski, was brutally

murdered along with

four of her friends.

The next night, the so-called

Manson Family killed again,

tying up and murdering

a wealthy couple.

Manson was arrested at the desert

camp where he and his followers were

living.

This was the ramshackle ranch

in Death Valley where Manson lived

in a commune with his

young runaway fans.

They apparently used LSD

and saw the guitar playing

ex-convict as a kind of saint.

Or perhaps a devil.

Charles Manson was charged not

with wielding a knife or firing

a gun but with controlling

and directing the killers.

I was in the desert, minding my

business. This confusion belongs to

you. It is your confusion. I don't

have any confusion. I don't have any

guilt. I know what I have done and

no man can judge me.

What have you

done, Charlie?

And why had he done it?

Apparently to spark a race war that

would be called helter-skelter.

And he would use it to seize power.

In 1971, Manson was sentenced

to death on seven counts of murder.

Later commuted to life in prison.

He gave several rambling television

interviews in captivity

but never explained how

he persuaded his followers

to kill for him.

Are you scared to die?

Sometimes I feel I'm scared to live.

Living is what scares me.

Dying is easy.

Over the years, Charles Manson

applied for parole

time and time again.

But he died a prisoner,

having shattered the peace

and love of the 1960s

with diabolical violence.

We have talked about Kenyan politics

and all -- a lot in the last few

months. We could be approaching some

certainty now.

Kenya's Supreme Court has

upheld last month's rerun

presidential election.

That means you can expect

Uhuru Kenyatta to be inaugurated

for a second term later this week.

In the rerun, Mr Kenyatta took 98%

of the vote on a turnout of 39%.

Both figures only make sense when

you put it in the context of the

fact that the main opposition leader

pulled out. He argued the

irregularities that undermine the

original election had not been dealt

with. Support us have already said

they would not recognise this

government.

Mercy Juma reports from Nairobi.

They filled the streets

around the Supreme Court,

singing and chanting in celebration

of President Uhuru Kenyatta's

victory, just moments

after the Chief Justice

appealed his re-election.

Kenya in the last two months has

gone through serious

constitutional procedures...

I think that we embark

on the swearing in of the president.

The six judge bench has dismissed

two petitions presented before it

that were challenging the results

of the October 26th

presidential election.

The judges dismissed the petitions

on what they say is merit

and in 21 days, even as the country

prepares for the swearing-in

of President Kenyatta,

which will happen

in Tuesday next week.

That is the 28th of November.

The judges found that the two

separate petitions failed to show

that the poll was flawed.

The court has unanimously determined

that the petitions are not merited.

As a consequence, the presidential

election of the 26th

of October is hereby upheld,

as is the election of

the third respondent.

Raila Odinga, however,

still maintains that Uhuru's

re-election is illegitimate.

The Supreme Court decision

is final, according

to the constitution of Kenya.

What has been decided is final.

In the next...

On Tuesday 28th of November,

Kenyatta will have to be sworn

in as president according

to the constitution of Kenya.

So whoever is not pleased has

nothing else to do but maybe wait

for the next election that is five

years from now.

In some opposition strongholds,

violent demonstrations are under

way. Supporters of Raila Odinga took

to the streets to express

disappointment with the judgment.

Perhaps the biggest task for

President Kenyatta is reuniting a

nation visibly divided by these

elections.

Let's quickly go back to our lead

story. The problem is, difficulties

in forming a new government in

Germany. It might affect how Brexit

top score. Angela Merkel's facing a

deeply political crisis following

the collapse of talks to form this

new College in government and the

failure of those negotiations are

really a consequence of an unusual

September election result. Here is

Jenny Hill.

She promised Germany and government

for Christmas. Instead, Angela

Merkel has delivered an

unprecedented political crisis. Not

much job lot. In the earlier laws of

this morning, she admitted she could

not form a government. -- not much

to applaud.

TRANSLATION:

I will do everything I can delete

the through these difficult weeks.

Later, crisis talks with the German

president. This country could get

her to go back to the box. What is

uncertain as whether Angela Merkel's

party will want to lead them into a

fresh election. -- want her.

TRANSLATION:

This is the moment for all involved

to reflect and reconsider.

All

parties of the two serve the common

good. I expect them to have a

discussion about creating a

government in the near future.

German voters have changed. The far

Right now sits in Parliament. A week

and Mrs Merkel doesn't have many

options.

I will see you tomorrow. Goodbye.