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North Korea has fired an | 0:00:08 | 0:00:14 | |
unidentified ballistic missile.
That's according to the South | 0:00:14 | 0:00:18 | |
Koreas. We're live at the US State
Department. Two top Democrats have | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
pulled out a key meeting with
President Trump, after he attacked | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
them on Twitter. Katty Kay will
explain that one. The Pope has urged | 0:00:25 | 0:00:30 | |
Myanmar's ethnic groups to respect
each others' rights but made no | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
mention of the Rohingya Muslims
during his visit there. We'll hear | 0:00:34 | 0:00:39 | |
on the latest from the submarine
that disappeared in the South | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
Atlantic. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:50 | |
Just over two hours ago, this came
in from - into the BBC News room. It | 0:00:59 | 0:01:07 | |
was from the South Korea news
agency, citing the staff there, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:13 | |
saying North Korea fired a ballistic
missile. Not long after that, we got | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
a statement from the Pentagon saying
at broxly 130pm, 1830GMT, we | 0:01:16 | 0:01:23 | |
detected a probable missile launch
from North Korea. It went on, we're | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
in the process of assessing the
situation and will provide | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
additional details when available.
Also, South Korean officials are | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
being quoted saying they believe the
launch was made from a city called | 0:01:34 | 0:01:39 | |
Pyongsong. It was reported this
missile was fired over the sea | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
between South Korea and Japan. It's
worth adding that yesterday Japan | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
detected radio signals which
suggested North Korea may be | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
preparing for another missile
launch. Let's speak to our | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
correspondent live at the US State
Department. Any missile test is | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
going to be significant. Do we have
any clues as to what kind of missile | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
this was? | 0:02:02 | 0:02:12 | |
Pentagon said initial reports are
that it's an intercontinental | 0:02:13 | 0:02:20 | |
ballistic missile. But it was
determined that this test launch did | 0:02:20 | 0:02:25 | |
not pose a threat to North America
or to US allies. In terms of the | 0:02:25 | 0:02:31 | |
actual launch, based on figures from
the Pentagon from the South Koreans | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
and Japanese, it flew about a
thousand kilometres. It reached an | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
altitude of 4,000 kilometres, which
is higher than a previous similar | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
launch back in July. It broke up
into pieces before it landed in the | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
Sea of Japan. So still problems with
the missiles, but clearly North | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
Korea is developing its missile
capability despite sanctions and the | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
US campaign to isolate it. It's been
two months since the last test. I | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
guess with this one happening, there
goes the theory that perhaps | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
Pyongyang was cooling on the idea of
pursuing this. Yeah, it's always | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
speculation. About why pong yong
does what it does or doesn't do what | 0:03:08 | 0:03:15 | |
it doesn't do. Two months without a
missile had some hoping that perhaps | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
the campaign was working, that
perhaps Pyongyang was considering | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
the talks that the Americans are
asking for. This being on the | 0:03:23 | 0:03:28 | |
pre-condition that it agreed, that
ultimately it will give up its | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
weapons programme, something that
Pyongyang has said it will never do. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
There are more simple explanations
for why they might not have been | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
firing missiles. At this time of
year, they don't tend to fire a lot | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
of missiles because of the weather.
Who knows, we did get a bit of a | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
statement from President Trump in
the last few minutes. He said, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
"We'll take care of it." The Defence
Secretary is in the room, we've had | 0:03:48 | 0:03:54 | |
a long discussion, it is a situation
that we will handle. But Mr Trump | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
was a bit more preoccupied today
with domestic issues than this test. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
Barbara, thank you very much.
Barbara read thering from the | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
transcript of this statement from
Donald Trump, which has been | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
supplied to all the main news
organisations. I can play you some | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
of what the president has been
saying. Here it is Thank you very | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
much. As you probably have heard,
and some of you have reported, a | 0:04:18 | 0:04:24 | |
missile was launched a little while
ago from North Korea. I will only | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
tell thaw we will take care of it.
We have general Mattis in the room | 0:04:28 | 0:04:33 | |
with us. We've had a long discussion
on it. It is a situation that we | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
will handle. We'll take care of it,
we'll handle it says the president. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:43 | |
We await details on precisely how he
intends to do that. Let's carry on | 0:04:43 | 0:04:48 | |
talking about Donald Trump. He was
supposed to be meeting Kong | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
compressional leaders today to
thrash out extending the funding of | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
the US Government. That meeting was
going to include the senior | 0:04:54 | 0:05:00 | |
Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Shcumer. Then | 0:05:00 | 0:05:06 | |
Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Shcumer. Then he tweeted: What could | 0:05:07 | 0:05:15 | |
probably go wrong with a tweet like
that? Not long after that, they put | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
out a statement: | 0:05:20 | 0:05:31 | |
In other words they pulled out of
the meeting. On top of all this, the | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
president's trying to assemble
enough support on Capitol Hill to | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
get tax reforms through. There's a
lot going on. I've been talking to | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
Katty Kay in Washington. Here she is
on whether the Democrats can | 0:05:43 | 0:05:49 | |
actually by pass Donald Trump when
it comes to government funding. Not | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
entirely. In the end they will have
to deal with the White House. This | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
is the problem that all members of
Congress, from both political | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
parties have. Look, it's not easy
for them on Capitol Hill at the | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
moment. They wake up every morning
wondering who is going to be the | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
latest senator to be criticised on
Twitter by the president. He's now, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:11 | |
by the latest calculations,
criticised one in five Republican | 0:06:11 | 0:06:16 | |
senators publicly. You might think
that makes Capitol Hill say OK, | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
right, we're backing away from all.
This in the end they need the White | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
House there to get the votes through
for things to get on the phone, to | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
call up members of Congress, to call
up the senators. They do all have to | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
work together. But you're seeing
this, let's face it, slightly school | 0:06:29 | 0:06:35 | |
yard battle going on between Nancy
Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and | 0:06:35 | 0:06:41 | |
President Trump, and you wonder when
the adults will return to | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
Washington. Part reason they're
going through this dance is it's not | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
just about government funding, it's
about broader issues such as | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
immigration, is that right? Yes,
thats what the Democrats last time | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
around, that they did do a deal with
President Trump to keep the | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
government open for three months. In
return, they thought they had a deal | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
on these so-called dreamers, the
young people who were brought to | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
America by their parents illegally,
but who were given protected status | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
under President Obama. They want to
protect those young people. They | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
thought they'd got some kind of deal
from the president in order to do | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
that. They will carry on holding out
for that. They don't want to be seen | 0:07:16 | 0:07:22 | |
as backing away from protecting the
dreamers. That's probably the sing | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
the most important issue that
they're going to ask for in exchange | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
for helping keeping the government
open. That's one thing I want to ask | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
you about. The other is tax. Stay
with us, please. Because while that | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
meeting may not be going ahead,
there have been meetings between | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
Donald Trump and Republicans. He's
trying to sell his tax reforms to | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
them. It's not proving plain
sailing. This report from the | 0:07:40 | 0:07:47 | |
non-partisan Congressional office
won't help. Its numbers show those | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
earning less are likely to be
hardest hit by the changes. If you | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
look at the assessment of a data
reporter not New York Times. He says | 0:07:54 | 0:07:59 | |
in 2018, 30% of the middle class
will be hit hardest by these plans. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:05 | |
By 2027, it could be between 50% and
100%. I guess Donald Trump would | 0:08:05 | 0:08:11 | |
dismiss the New York Times as fake
news, it's harder to dismiss a | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
non-partisan report. Right. I this I
this is a game of pick your expert. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:19 | |
I spoke to a senior Republican
senator just about a couple of hours | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
ago, who sits on the finance
committee. He's the guy who's been | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
responsible for trying to usher this
tax reform proposal through. I put | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
it to him that there are these
reports out there and that this tax | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
reform bill will actually increase
the American deficit by something | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
like $2 trillion. He said he prefers
to believe the other economists not | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
saying that. When you get into
economics you pick the statistics | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
that seem to pack up your particular
proposal. We know that according to | 0:08:44 | 0:08:49 | |
opinion polls, this tax reform plan
is not particularly popular with the | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
American public. If it gets passed
into law and people start feeling | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
it, if the middle class starts feel
it, some time around the end of next | 0:08:57 | 0:09:02 | |
year, heading into the mid-term
elections, they may say, listen, | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
this was the Republican Party who
gave us a tax reform plan which has | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
made us poorer not richer and we're
not sure we want to vote these | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
people back into office. What the
Republicans are saying is that this | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
tax reform plan will increase
economic growth in the country and | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
that will lift up everybody and
everybody will be better off because | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
of that. One broader question for
you. I remember a while back now, | 0:09:21 | 0:09:27 | |
Rahm Emmanuel, when Chief of Staff
for President Obama at 2008 saying | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
at the beginning of your presidency
you have the most political capital | 0:09:31 | 0:09:36 | |
and you have to decide how to spend
it. Donald Trump had a lot of | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
political capital, we're approaching
the end of the year and it's not | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
clear in terms of legislation what
he's got in return. Yeah, you and I | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
might feel we're in a washing
machine every day with the Trump | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
administration. So much news, so
many tweets are sent out, so many | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
people being criticise. If you look
in terms of legislative | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
achievements, this has been a
spectacularly uneventful presidency. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
They haven't done all the things
they wanted to do, despite the fact | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
they have the House of
Representatives, the Senate, the | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
White House and the Supreme Court in
their favour. That's a problem too. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
Voters are going to say, hold on, we
handed you guys an enormous amount | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
of power and you haven't used it to
achieve very much for us. We want | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
some kind of results, which is why
this tax reform bill, which is | 0:10:18 | 0:10:24 | |
arcane and a bit dry, it is
politically very important. They | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
need a within and they would like it
-- win and they would like it before | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
the end of the year. You can see
catty and Christian Fraser on Beyond | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
100 Days.
Now next we turn to Myanmar. You | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
might have thought the Pope would
want to use his visit there to talk | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
about the Rohingya Muslims. They are
victims of text book ethnic | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
cleansing, according to the UN. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
victims of text book ethnic
cleansing, according to the UN. But | 0:10:49 | 0:10:49 | |
he didn't. In a speech earlier,
there was plenty on leaders in | 0:10:49 | 0:10:54 | |
Myanmar respecting human rights, but
not a word about the Rohingya. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
That's not an oversight. This word
itself is potent in Myanmar. This is | 0:10:58 | 0:11:03 | |
how the Rohingyas refer to
themselves, but many in Myanmar | 0:11:03 | 0:11:07 | |
don't use it. They refer to them as
bell gallies. In other words -- | 0:11:07 | 0:11:14 | |
Bengalis, by not using that word the
Pope opted out of controversy's way. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:22 | |
Over 600,000 Rohingya, mainly from
Rakhine State, have gone into the | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
Bangladesh because of a military
crack down. That crack down began in | 0:11:26 | 0:11:31 | |
August, after attacks by Rohingya
militants. The director of Human | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
Rights Watch cuts to it in his
criticism saying: | 0:11:34 | 0:11:40 | |
So some stark criticism for the
Pope. Bear in mind at this point we | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
saw from the BBC's Jonathan Head
that Pope Francis is meeting senior | 0:11:49 | 0:11:54 | |
military figures, but Jonathan says:
Anything he says will they actually | 0:11:54 | 0:12:00 | |
influence these uncompromising
figures? Jonathan says that seems | 0:12:00 | 0:12:04 | |
doubtful. Our correspondent has been
covering the Pope's visit. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:17 | |
A military band announces the
arrival of Pope Francis. A world | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
away from the terror felt by 600,000
Rohingya Muslims who, since August, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:33 | |
have fled into Bangladesh. Today
Pope Francis met with Myanmar's de | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. With
human rights organisations urging | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
him to name the Rohingya as victims,
despite Myanmar not recognising them | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
as citizens. Myanmar's civilian
leader, who shares power with the | 0:12:47 | 0:12:54 | |
army, spoke first, acknowledging the
focus on Rakhine, where Rohingya | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
have lived for generations. As we
address long standing issues, the | 0:12:57 | 0:13:03 | |
support of our people and of good
friends, who only wish to see us | 0:13:03 | 0:13:08 | |
succeed in our endeavours, has been
invaluable. Aung San Suu Kyi chose | 0:13:08 | 0:13:13 | |
to say little about the crisis.
Expectations then shifted to Pope | 0:13:13 | 0:13:19 | |
Francis.
TRANSLATION: The future of Myanmar | 0:13:19 | 0:13:23 | |
must be peace based on respect for
the dignity and right of each member | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
of society. Respect for each ethnic
group and its identity, none | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
excluded. Pope Francis praised the
United Nations, but he did not refer | 0:13:31 | 0:13:38 | |
to the UN's accusation that Myanmar
has engaged in ethnic cleansing. And | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
while he said the future of this
nation must include all people, | 0:13:42 | 0:13:47 | |
regardless of their race and
religion, he did not use the word | 0:13:47 | 0:13:52 | |
"Rohingya". Those working with
Rohingya refugees say the Pope | 0:13:52 | 0:13:59 | |
surrendered his moral authority by
not offering an explicit criticism. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:04 | |
But many in a country that's 75%
Buddhist were relieved he didn't | 0:14:04 | 0:14:09 | |
mention the Rohingya by name.
TRANSLATION: It was wise of him not | 0:14:09 | 0:14:14 | |
to use the world. The world is
hearing the wrong message. The Pope | 0:14:14 | 0:14:19 | |
may also have been mindful of
potential repercussions for another | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
religious minority. Christians make
up just 6% of the population here | 0:14:23 | 0:14:29 | |
and many have travelled to take part
in a special mass, where Pope | 0:14:29 | 0:14:34 | |
Francis will preside tomorrow. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:42 | |
In a few minutes we turn to Nairobi,
where the president has been sworn | 0:14:42 | 0:14:49 | |
in for a second term. On the streets
of Nairobi today there wasn't unity. | 0:14:49 | 0:15:03 | |
The British Government is
introducing new measures aimed at | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
reducing the numbers of deaths and
serious injuries during child birth. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
Independent investigations will now
be carried out into a thousand cases | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
every year, where the babies die
unexpectedly or are left with a | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
severe brain injury. Coroners could
be given the power to look at | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
stillbirths for the first time. The
UK has some of the highest levels of | 0:15:20 | 0:15:24 | |
stillbirth in western Europe. The
chief executive of SANS, the | 0:15:24 | 0:15:31 | |
stillbirth and neonatal death
charity, explains the gravity of the | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
situation. We're talking about 5,500
a year, which is 15 every day. I | 0:15:34 | 0:15:40 | |
think that's a figure that not many
people know and is far too high. I | 0:15:40 | 0:15:47 | |
think the idea of reducing the
number of deaths by 20% by 2020 is | 0:15:47 | 0:15:53 | |
manageable. And bringing in the
focus to 2025 is really important | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
because then we keep the momentum
going. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:10 | |
This is Outside Source. We're live
in the BBC News room. Our lead story | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
concerns North Korea. It's fired a
ballistic missile, according to the | 0:16:15 | 0:16:21 | |
South Koreans and Americans, again
raising tensions on the peninsula. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
We bring you the main stories from
BBC World Service. One of the most | 0:16:24 | 0:16:30 | |
prominent Saudis being held in an
anticorruption drive is reported to | 0:16:30 | 0:16:34 | |
have been freed after more than
three weeks. Several members of the | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
Saudi royal family have tweeted
their joy that the Prince has been | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
released, though there hasn't been
official confirmation. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister has
stepped down in the midst of | 0:16:45 | 0:16:49 | |
political crisis that threatens the
country's government. Revelations | 0:16:49 | 0:16:55 | |
over a plan to discredit a police
whistle-blower when she was Justice | 0:16:55 | 0:16:59 | |
Minister.
Well, we've learned more about the | 0:16:59 | 0:17:04 | |
Royal Wedding next year. Prince
Harry and the American actress | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
Meghan Markle will marry in May. It
will take place at St George's | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
Chapel in Windsor Castle. We're also
told that Meghan Markle will become | 0:17:11 | 0:17:17 | |
a British citizen and the royal
family will be covering the cost of | 0:17:17 | 0:17:22 | |
Reading wedding and reception. --
cost of the wedding and reception | 0:17:22 | 0:17:27 | |
They have, in the words of their
spokesman, been overwhelmed by the | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
amount of support they've received
from Britain and elsewhere in the | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
world to the news of their
engagement. And now, Harry and | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
Meghan are starting to organise the
wedding, taking charge over all | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
aspects of the ceremony themselves,
according to their officials. As | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
they do so, other members of the
royal family have been expressing | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
their happiness at the news of the
engagement. William and I are | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
absolutely thrilled. It's such
exciting news. It's a really happy | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
time for any couple. We wish them
all the best and hope they enjoy | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
this happy moment. America's loss is
our gain. We're all absolutely | 0:18:00 | 0:18:04 | |
delighted, as you can see, they're
so happy. Sometimes, you know, in a | 0:18:04 | 0:18:10 | |
climate where we're surrounded by a
lot of bad news, it's a real joy to | 0:18:10 | 0:18:14 | |
have a bit of good news for once.
The first big decision in terms of | 0:18:14 | 0:18:18 | |
the wedding planning is the venue.
The ceremony will take place inside | 0:18:18 | 0:18:23 | |
Windsor Castle in the historic St
George's Chapel. The month on the | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
invitations will be May, a precise
date has still to be decided. The | 0:18:28 | 0:18:34 | |
15th century chapel, festooned with
the banners of the knights of the | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
garter is where Harry was
Christianed. The disadvantage is the | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
size. It can seat only 800 guests,
fewer than half the capacity of | 0:18:40 | 0:18:45 | |
Westminster Abbey. It is, though, a
more intimate setting. It was where | 0:18:45 | 0:18:50 | |
the marriage of the Prince of Wales
and the Duchess of Cornwall was | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
blessed in 2005, after their wedding
in a register office. In Windsor | 0:18:53 | 0:18:59 | |
today, reaction to having another
Royal Wedding in the town was | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
predictably positive. Absolutely
amazing. We're so excited about it. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:06 | |
Jo that's fantastic. Really nice,
yeah, lovely. It will be good for | 0:19:06 | 0:19:10 | |
Windsor as well, really good. I live
locally. It will be nice to have | 0:19:10 | 0:19:14 | |
such a fabulous event in the local
area. Aside from wedding | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
preparations Meghan will be applying
for British citizenship, as she made | 0:19:18 | 0:19:22 | |
clear in yesterday's interview, she
wants to get to know Britain better. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
I think in these beginning few
months and now being boots on the | 0:19:26 | 0:19:30 | |
ground in the UK, I'm excited to
just really get to know more about | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
the different communities here,
smaller organisations who are | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
working on the same causes that I've
always been passionate about. That | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
process of getting to know her new
country will start this Friday in | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
Nottingham, the city will witness
the first official engagement of the | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
new royal team Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:57 | |
Of course, there's much more on the
royal engagement on the BBC website. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
Now let's turn to the US again,
because the US Federal Reserve looks | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
likely to raise interest rates next
month. At least that's what Jerome | 0:20:05 | 0:20:10 | |
Powell has been saying. He's the
nominee to be the head of the fed. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
He signalled this earlier during a
confirmation hearing. I guess, if he | 0:20:13 | 0:20:19 | |
wants it to happen, it's going to
happen, right? Well he was really | 0:20:19 | 0:20:24 | |
careful in the kind of messaging
that he was presenting when he was | 0:20:24 | 0:20:28 | |
testifying today on Capitol Hill.
There say protocol that exists when | 0:20:28 | 0:20:33 | |
it comes to making these decisions.
It is more of a group decision | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
making. He really tried to tread
carefully when law makers were | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
asking him directly - well, are we
going to see a rate rise or not? I | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
want to throw to a clip, so you can
have a listen to a bit of what he | 0:20:46 | 0:20:51 | |
said in his confirmation hearing.
The fed remained committed after the | 0:20:51 | 0:20:57 | |
financial crisis to provide
significant accommodation to the | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
economy as it recovered. When I
joined in 2012, about five years | 0:21:00 | 0:21:06 | |
ago, I think unemployment was still
above 8%. I think we've been patient | 0:21:06 | 0:21:13 | |
in removing accommodation and I
think that patience has served us | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
well. I think now the economy is
strong, unemployment is low, growth | 0:21:16 | 0:21:21 | |
is strong, in fact, it appears to
have picked up. So it's time for us | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
to be normalising interest rates and
the size of the balance sheet as | 0:21:26 | 0:21:30 | |
well. If that sounds familiar, it
actually should. Because it's very | 0:21:30 | 0:21:35 | |
close to the kinds of things that
we've heard from the current chair, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:40 | |
whom Mr Powell is going to take over
from in February. In terms of moving | 0:21:40 | 0:21:46 | |
from one fed chair to another, the
fact that we're seeing so many | 0:21:46 | 0:21:51 | |
similarities between the two in
terms of what they think the | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
direction of the fed is going to be
going forward that's really good | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
news for the financial markets
because it really signals a lot of | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
stability going forward. We talk
often about interest rate rises or | 0:22:01 | 0:22:06 | |
speculation around interest rate
rises in the US. Why are they so | 0:22:06 | 0:22:10 | |
important to the not just the US
economy, but actually the global | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
economy sf So much of what happening
on the global economy actually | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
happens in US dollars. When people
want to make money, they come to the | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
United States. They will trade their
companies in the United States if | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
they want to raise capital. A lot of
what happens is done so in US | 0:22:25 | 0:22:31 | |
currency. Also, what happens with
the US currency in terms of interest | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
rates also has an influence on
interest rates all around the world. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
So it's really pretty important to
pay attention to whether you're in | 0:22:38 | 0:22:42 | |
the United States or if you're
elsewhere in the world. Thank you | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
very much indeed.
Now let's talk about airBus, Rolls | 0:22:46 | 0:22:52 | |
Royce and Siemens. They are joining
forces to develop a hybrid electric | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
engine for planes. Each is going to
invest tens of millions of dollars | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
into this programme. This is a tiny
two seater electric plane developed | 0:23:01 | 0:23:08 | |
by airBus. It can run entirely on
batteries or over longer distances | 0:23:08 | 0:23:13 | |
as a hybrid with a conventional
engine helping to power the electric | 0:23:13 | 0:23:18 | |
motors. Now the company in tandem
with Siemens and Rolls Royce wants | 0:23:18 | 0:23:24 | |
to convert a regional passenger jet.
The idea is to develop technologies | 0:23:24 | 0:23:29 | |
which may one day be used in
commercial aircraft. And here's why | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
they're doing it: Hybrid aircraft
should use less fuel than | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
conventional planes and since fuel
is one of the biggest costs airlines | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
face, it should be a lot cheaper to
run. Secondly, electric motors are | 0:23:40 | 0:23:46 | |
quieter than jet engines. That means
an electric or hybrid plane could be | 0:23:46 | 0:23:51 | |
used for night flights or to fly
into city centres. There's pollution | 0:23:51 | 0:23:57 | |
too, a hybrid plane should emit less
knocks and carbon dioxide than a | 0:23:57 | 0:24:02 | |
conventional plane. With air traffic
scheduled to double over 20 years | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
reducing emissions could be an
absolute priority. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:11 | |
Wanted to mention this, so many
people are sharing it online. This | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
is a report posted on the front of
the Telegraph's website reporting | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
that British and EU negotiators have
reached a deal on the so-called | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
Brexit divorce bill. That's one of
the three key issues that needs to | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
be resolved for the talks to
progress. This article quotes | 0:24:25 | 0:24:31 | |
sources as confirming, sources on
both sides that assaying an | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
agreement in principle has been
reached over the EU's demand for a | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
60 billion euro financial settlement
ahead of a meeting on Monday between | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
Theresa May, the Prime Minister, and
Jean-Claude Juncker, President Ever | 0:24:43 | 0:24:47 | |
the European Commission. We
understand the final figure will be | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
between 45 billion euros and 55
billion euros. The thing to | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
emphasise here is that at BBC News,
we can't confirm this story, but | 0:24:55 | 0:24:59 | |
already there's been reaction to it.
The Financial Times has been | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
reporting that the pound jumped on
this report being released. We know | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
the British Government is denying
the story and the European Union has | 0:25:06 | 0:25:11 | |
declined to comment. So make of all
that what you will. We didn't want | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
to ignore it completely because it's
being so widely covered. Now a quick | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
reminder that North Korea has
carried out a missile test, just as | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
we end this half of Outside Source,
let me play you what President Trump | 0:25:22 | 0:25:27 | |
said about that. Thank you very
much. As you probably have heard, | 0:25:27 | 0:25:32 | |
and some of you have reported a
missile was launched a little while | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
ago from North Korea. I will only
tell you that we will take care of | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
it. We have General Matison in the
room with us. We've had a long | 0:25:39 | 0:25:46 | |
discussion on it. It is a situation
that we will handle. In the next | 0:25:46 | 0:25:51 | |
half, we have stories from Burkina
Faso, from Germany and also from | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
Kenya. See you then. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
Hello there. November has been a
very stormy month across parts of | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
the west in particular the North
West United States and western | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
Canada. Looks like the month is
going to end on a stormy note too | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
with another round of low pressure
moving through during Tuesday and | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
Wednesday, bringing heavy rain,
strong winds and mountain snow. We | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
have another system poised to push
in, heading into Thursday and | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
Friday. Now this system will be
bringing very heavy snow to British | 0:26:27 | 0:26:32 | |
Colombia, heavy rain to lower
levels. Ahead of it there should be | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
dry weather for a time across
Washington state, Oregon and | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
northern California too. It won't be
long until Wednesday night, | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
Thursday, that system makes inroads
and brings a lot of very heavy rain | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
to Vancouver, Seattle and certainly
to Portland. For Los Angeles there | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
it is fine and dry. Into South East
Asia, we're looking at exceptionally | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
heavy rain throughout the this week.
We've got a lot more to come. If we | 0:26:54 | 0:27:00 | |
just zoom into java here, there has
been a tropical storm developing off | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
the south coast. This system is
moving away from land and will | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
eventually weaken out in open
waters. But there's going to be | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
widespread heavy thunder storms
around this part of the world and | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
even further north to much of
Malaysia, southern Thailand | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
torrential down pours in the next
couple of days, so the risk of land | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
slides and flash flooding. This
system is tied into heavy rain | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
across the Bay of Bengal into
southern India and Sri Lanka. Can | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
you see in the last 24 hours,
explosive cloud development here | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
with so much rain falling. Now as we
head on deeper into the week, it | 0:27:31 | 0:27:36 | |
looks like this system might develop
into a tropical storm, potentially | 0:27:36 | 0:27:41 | |
heading into the weekend. We could
look at damaging winds and | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
torrential rain. We'll keep you
posted on this. Into Europe now. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:50 | |
This area of low pressure has been
quite potent the last 24 hours. Its | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
brought heavy thunder storms to the
Eastern Mediterranean. In towards | 0:27:54 | 0:27:58 | |
the Black Sea. We now focus our
attention to this area of low | 0:27:58 | 0:28:02 | |
pressure, moving into southern
Portugal, central southern Spain. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
This is going to continue to move
eastwards across the Mediterranean, | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
pick up moisture and warmth over the
warm waters here and develop into an | 0:28:09 | 0:28:13 | |
intense area of low pressure as it
reaches Greece and the Balkans by | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
the end of the week, we could be
looking at significant flooding once | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
again. Now much of western Europe
will see a real surge of cold air | 0:28:18 | 0:28:24 | |
moving down from the Arctic,
spreading across the British Isles | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
into much of France and will reach
as low as central southern Spain and | 0:28:26 | 0:28:31 | |
parts of Corsica and Sardinia,
unusually cold there for this time | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
of year. Back home, it's going to be
another cold day on Wednesday. Add | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
on that wind chill across the north
and the east, because of the strong | 0:28:38 | 0:28:42 | |
winds, it will feel bitter cold.
Plenty of showers here, some of them | 0:28:42 | 0:28:46 | |
wintry as well. The best of sunshine
southern and western areas. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
Temperatures three to seven degrees.
It's set to stay really cold for the | 0:28:49 | 0:28:56 | |
rest of the week. A full forecast in
about half an hour. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:03 | |
Hello, I'm Ros Atkins with Outside
Source. These are some of the main | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
stories in the BBC newsroom. North
Korea has fired an unidentified | 0:30:16 | 0:30:20 | |
ballistic missile according to | 0:30:20 | 0:30:21 | |
ballistic missile according to the
South Koreans. Two top Democrats | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
pulled out of a key meeting with
Donald Trump on the funding of the | 0:30:23 | 0:30:27 | |
US Government after he attacked them
on Twitter. The Pope is Arjun | 0:30:27 | 0:30:31 | |
Myanmar's ethnic groups to respect
each other's right -- each other's | 0:30:31 | 0:30:37 | |
leaders' rights but -- each others'
rates but he made no mention by name | 0:30:37 | 0:30:44 | |
of the Rohingya Muslims who had to
flee to Bangladesh. And we will have | 0:30:44 | 0:30:47 | |
more on the missing submarine. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:58 | |
Outside Source is an hour of the
biggest global stories brought to | 0:31:00 | 0:31:05 | |
you here from inside the BBC
newsroom and we will start this half | 0:31:05 | 0:31:09 | |
in Kenya, because Uhuru Kenyatta has
been sworn in for a second term as | 0:31:09 | 0:31:15 | |
president and he spoke of uniting
the nation, but frankly that looked | 0:31:15 | 0:31:19 | |
a little way off. Because well the
inauguration ceremony was happening | 0:31:19 | 0:31:26 | |
in Nairobi, the opposition leader
Raila Odinga was taking part in a | 0:31:26 | 0:31:32 | |
second. Given he didn't take part in
the election, it looks unlikely, but | 0:31:32 | 0:31:36 | |
remember there was a rerun because
the first was declared void after | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
irregularities and then Raila Odinga
pulled out of the second one because | 0:31:40 | 0:31:45 | |
he didn't feel enough had been done
to deal with those irregularities. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:47 | |
These are some of the pictures we
have of clashes between the | 0:31:47 | 0:31:51 | |
protesters and police. We know that
two people died during these | 0:31:51 | 0:31:54 | |
clashes, and as I said that
President today has been emphasising | 0:31:54 | 0:32:01 | |
unity. Here he is earlier... | 0:32:01 | 0:32:12 | |
I, too, listened carefully to my
competitors, and I will try to | 0:32:14 | 0:32:21 | |
incorporate their ideas. This is
because the election was not a | 0:32:21 | 0:32:23 | |
contest between a good dream and a
bad dream. It was a contest between | 0:32:23 | 0:32:32 | |
two competing visions. That was the
president in Nairobi. Our | 0:32:32 | 0:32:37 | |
correspondent is there as well. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:41 | |
It is not lost on the president
that this is the deeply divided | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
country, and that's why he made that
very conciliatory speech. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
However, it's going to take more
than a speech to reach | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
out to the opposition
and to unite the country. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:51 | |
This is a contest that was boycotted
by the opposition in | 0:32:51 | 0:32:54 | |
which the president won by 98%
of the vote, however the turnout | 0:32:54 | 0:32:57 | |
was historically low,
especially for this country, | 0:32:57 | 0:32:58 | |
at just 38%. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:00 | |
Less than half of the people
who voted during the first election | 0:33:00 | 0:33:03 | |
in August took part. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:08 | |
And so there is a lot that
still needs to be done, | 0:33:08 | 0:33:11 | |
to heal the people who do not
believe that the election | 0:33:11 | 0:33:14 | |
that was held was credible
and was legitimate. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:16 | |
On the other hand, the opposition
has today pronounced | 0:33:16 | 0:33:18 | |
that they will hold a swearing-in
ceremony for their leader | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
Raila Odinga, who said
that he will be sworn in on the 12th | 0:33:20 | 0:33:23 | |
of December, which is
Independence Day in Kenya. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:25 | |
A very significant day. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
In the past, Mr Odinga has
threatened to have himself sworn in, | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
after he lost elections
which he said had | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
been stolen from him. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:33 | |
But he did not make good that
threat, so in a way the country | 0:33:33 | 0:33:43 | |
has heard that before,
but there is no telling | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
what will happen on the 12th
when the country will be holding | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
another big event,
just like today's, | 0:33:48 | 0:33:49 | |
to celebrate Independence Day. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:59 | |
But clearly from the events of today
the stand-off, politically, | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
still continues in this country,
and a lot still needs | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
to be done to bring
the different sides together. | 0:34:07 | 0:34:15 | |
Welcomer now we will move from east
to West Africa, because the French | 0:34:15 | 0:34:21 | |
president Emmanuel Macron is in
Burkina Faso and he has been | 0:34:21 | 0:34:24 | |
acknowledging it has taken far too
long to set up a west African force | 0:34:24 | 0:34:28 | |
designed to fight Islamist
extremism. We should put the sullen | 0:34:28 | 0:34:31 | |
context in terms of French
intervention in this part of the | 0:34:31 | 0:34:34 | |
world. In 2011 the French made a key
role in the Ivory Coast upholding | 0:34:34 | 0:34:38 | |
the election result, and a couple of
years later in 2013 France sent | 0:34:38 | 0:34:44 | |
troops to fight Islamists in Mali
and even sends Macron's election | 0:34:44 | 0:34:48 | |
this year he has been lobbying
Europe to back this idea of a West | 0:34:48 | 0:34:52 | |
African military force. This force
would not just operate in Burkina | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
Faso but the idea is it will take on
Islamist militants in Burkina Faso, | 0:34:56 | 0:35:01 | |
Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad. I
have been speaking to a regular | 0:35:01 | 0:35:09 | |
Outside Source on why this West
African force is taking so long. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:15 | |
Well, the excuse is money. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:16 | |
That's the problem. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:17 | |
I think he's been having much more
difficulties than he thought | 0:35:17 | 0:35:20 | |
to actually gather all the money
necessary, because his idea | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
is actually to have a French force
there, but also to reinforce | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
the regional military
forces on the ground, | 0:35:25 | 0:35:27 | |
because they would be the ones
who eventually would | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
take over anyway. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:37 | |
And he has been promised
more money from the US, | 0:35:37 | 0:35:40 | |
but I think it's been taking
a while to come concrete, | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
so basically that's
what he's been seeing today. | 0:35:42 | 0:35:44 | |
He said during the speech, and
really keen to be accelerated this. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:51 | |
Again, I want this to happen, so,
you know, hopefully this | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
is something he is really keen
to make happening. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
is something he is really keen
to make happen. | 0:35:56 | 0:36:06 | |
Interesting to hear what he said
about tone, and how France was no | 0:36:06 | 0:36:09 | |
longer going to turn up and tell
Africa what to do? | 0:36:09 | 0:36:11 | |
Yes, it is interesting,
because he arrived in a context | 0:36:11 | 0:36:14 | |
where there was a lot of tension,
there was a grenade thrown | 0:36:14 | 0:36:17 | |
onto a bus last night,
then one of the minibuses | 0:36:17 | 0:36:19 | |
with a French delegation
was attacked today. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:21 | |
And then as he was doing the speech,
there was protest outside, | 0:36:21 | 0:36:24 | |
so obviously it is still always
around the same issue, | 0:36:24 | 0:36:28 | |
France and Africa, you know,
what is the relationship, | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
what do we have is a relationship
here? | 0:36:30 | 0:36:32 | |
And obviously now he is coming
to talk to the young people, | 0:36:32 | 0:36:35 | |
you know, obviously playing
the card, "I'm young, | 0:36:35 | 0:36:37 | |
I'm from a new generation,
I'm not going to tell | 0:36:37 | 0:36:39 | |
you what to do, you need
to take your future in your hands," | 0:36:39 | 0:36:43 | |
but then that is all well and good
to say, but everyone knows | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
that the French and African
relationships have always been much | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
more underground, and we have been
really linked to, you know, | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
companies using resources. | 0:36:51 | 0:37:00 | |
So that's what people are protesting
against in Burkina Faso | 0:37:00 | 0:37:02 | |
and other countries,
so there is this huge movement | 0:37:02 | 0:37:05 | |
there called the Citizen Broom,
so they want to clean, | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
you know, the history
of Burkina Faso, and their | 0:37:07 | 0:37:09 | |
relationship with France. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:10 | |
So that's why they were there today,
and they are always kind of coming | 0:37:10 | 0:37:14 | |
out when the French politicians come
in, because they are fed up | 0:37:14 | 0:37:16 | |
with this relationship,
and they wanted to change. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:18 | |
And obviously in his speech,
that's what he was saying. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:28 | |
Now mayor in Germany has survived
the night attack that appears | 0:37:30 | 0:37:34 | |
connected to his pro-refugee policy.
This is Andreas Hollstein, the mayor | 0:37:34 | 0:37:40 | |
of a small town in the West of
Germany called Altena. As you can | 0:37:40 | 0:37:43 | |
see if we go even closer, it is a
small place, with around 17,000 | 0:37:43 | 0:37:48 | |
residents. Well, it doesn't look
like that on the map but take my | 0:37:48 | 0:37:51 | |
word for it. It is a small place and
it has recently gotten bigger, in | 0:37:51 | 0:37:54 | |
part because it has | 0:37:54 | 0:38:06 | |
taken in 280 refugees. In fact they
have even won a national award for | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
doing so. That was part of Angela
Merkel's decision to allow a million | 0:38:09 | 0:38:11 | |
refugees and migrants to come to
Germany in 2015 and a little 2016. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
Chancellor Merkel is appalled by
this attack, we are told. He was a | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
tweet from a German minister. We
should never accept attacks on | 0:38:16 | 0:38:20 | |
people just helping others. Our
country must not tolerate heated. We | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
can hear from the mayor and self now
on what happened. -- we can never | 0:38:23 | 0:38:28 | |
tolerate hatred. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
TRANSLATION: Then he turned to me,
and as has already been reported | 0:38:30 | 0:38:32 | |
coming at me if I was the mayor,
then without saying anything else | 0:38:32 | 0:38:36 | |
he took out a knife. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:37 | |
He said, "You'd let me die first
and you bring 200 refugees | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
He said, "You've let me die
of thirst and you bring 200 refugees | 0:38:40 | 0:38:43 | |
to Altena," then he was standing
behind me with a knife, | 0:38:43 | 0:38:46 | |
and the knife was at my throat. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:48 | |
The map is working now. You can see
this as a small town in the middle | 0:38:48 | 0:38:51 | |
of the German countryside. Here is
our German correspondent Jenny Hill | 0:38:51 | 0:38:54 | |
with more on the attack. | 0:38:54 | 0:38:55 | |
Today Andreas Hollstein warned
against what he described as growing | 0:38:55 | 0:38:58 | |
hatred and racism in German society. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:03 | |
This was at a press conference
where it became actually very clear | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
just how lucky he was to escape
with his life. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:09 | |
Mr Hollstein was still wearing
a large dressing over the wound | 0:39:09 | 0:39:12 | |
which he sustained in the attack
last night, when he was approached | 0:39:12 | 0:39:22 | |
by a man wielding
what we are told was | 0:39:23 | 0:39:26 | |
a 32-centimetre-long kitchen knife. | 0:39:26 | 0:39:27 | |
Now, police have said
that the attack was in part | 0:39:27 | 0:39:29 | |
politically motivated. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:35 | |
His attacker referred
to Mr Hollstein's decision to allow | 0:39:35 | 0:39:37 | |
more refugees into the town
of Altena, that he was | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
actually obliged to take
in and give shelter to, | 0:39:40 | 0:39:42 | |
but the police have also said
that the man was not only drunk | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
but had a history of mental
health problems too. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
As you would expect,
the attack has shocked Germany. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
It's rare for politicians
to be attacked like this, | 0:39:49 | 0:39:51 | |
although not unheard of. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:52 | |
Around two years ago the mayor
of Cologne was herself attacked | 0:39:52 | 0:39:55 | |
and barely survived in fact,
in what was described then | 0:39:55 | 0:39:57 | |
as a politically motivated knife
attack as well. | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
There are those who are very keen
to see that this illustrates | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
There are those who are very keen
to say that this illustrates | 0:40:02 | 0:40:05 | |
the deep divisions in the heart
of German society, the backlash | 0:40:05 | 0:40:08 | |
against Angela Merkel's decision
to allow a million migrants | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
into the country. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:11 | |
I would caution against such
dramatic analysis of this | 0:40:11 | 0:40:13 | |
particular development,
but it is fair to say that German | 0:40:13 | 0:40:15 | |
society has changed. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:25 | |
We saw that in the last general
election here when voters put | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
the far right party AFD
into the German parliament | 0:40:36 | 0:40:38 | |
for the very first time,
so things are shifting | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
and there are a lot
of concerns about Mrs Merkel's | 0:40:40 | 0:40:43 | |
refugee policy still. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:44 | |
Thanks to Jenny for that. You can
download the BBC News app from the | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
App Store or you can follow us
online here. I would like to go back | 0:40:46 | 0:40:53 | |
to the search for the Argentinian
submarine that has been missing in | 0:40:53 | 0:40:56 | |
the south Atlantic for 30 days. 44
people are on world and the starkest | 0:40:56 | 0:41:02 | |
fact is it it had enough oxygen for
seven days. We know it was returning | 0:41:02 | 0:41:09 | |
from a routine mission down to the
tip of South America, it was | 0:41:09 | 0:41:15 | |
supposed to be heading north and its
servers to report an electrical | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
breakdown, then it was allowed to
travel much more further north to | 0:41:18 | 0:41:23 | |
naval base. We have now been giving
more details of those initial | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
difficulties it got onto. We are
told that water entered its snorkel. | 0:41:27 | 0:41:32 | |
This is the snorkel at the top of
the submarine and once the water had | 0:41:32 | 0:41:36 | |
entered the store battery of the
submarine short-circuited and that | 0:41:36 | 0:41:41 | |
was obviously causing major
problems. But lots of people are | 0:41:41 | 0:41:47 | |
saying, why weren't we told this two
weeks ago? Daniel Gimenez arrows has | 0:41:47 | 0:41:50 | |
been covering this... -- Daniel in
Buena Sarries. This is because it | 0:41:50 | 0:41:55 | |
was the military. They are not used
to the public, these are secret | 0:41:55 | 0:42:00 | |
defence and it tended to happen like
that. This is something that has | 0:42:00 | 0:42:03 | |
generated a lot of clashes with the
government, who is filled with | 0:42:03 | 0:42:06 | |
people who come from the business
scene clashing with the military, | 0:42:06 | 0:42:13 | |
who tend to use... Cannot
communicate what they do, like the | 0:42:13 | 0:42:17 | |
government does. In fact one of the
things that has shocked people is | 0:42:17 | 0:42:23 | |
that the only started the search of
the submarine 48 hours after it went | 0:42:23 | 0:42:27 | |
missing. And I assume the mood is
darkening, Daniel, as the days pass, | 0:42:27 | 0:42:33 | |
because it seems now almost
impossible that these people can be | 0:42:33 | 0:42:36 | |
found alive? Most people that I have
spoken with here in Argentina tend | 0:42:36 | 0:42:41 | |
to think that there is nothing to do
any more. They see it as a tragedy, | 0:42:41 | 0:42:47 | |
obviously, because it is a tragic
event that has moved most of the | 0:42:47 | 0:42:51 | |
country, but they turn to another
conversation, in the sense that | 0:42:51 | 0:42:54 | |
there is nothing we can do and we
have to get over it. But obviously | 0:42:54 | 0:42:59 | |
the political scene and most of the
opposition have been talking about | 0:42:59 | 0:43:01 | |
it, and they are trying to look for
who's to blame. The government | 0:43:01 | 0:43:06 | |
trying to move forward reform of the
military that was in the plans | 0:43:06 | 0:43:15 | |
before but now seems urgent because
the military in this country does | 0:43:15 | 0:43:18 | |
not have a huge budget. After the
military regime in the 70s and 80s, | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
so this is likely to trigger many
reforms for the Army forces in | 0:43:22 | 0:43:26 | |
Argentina. We will go back to our
top story. This latest missile test | 0:43:26 | 0:43:31 | |
from North Korea. We have some more
news on this. This has come in from | 0:43:31 | 0:43:35 | |
Reuters. It is formatted a little
strangely but I will read it all the | 0:43:35 | 0:43:39 | |
same. The US in Japan have requested
that the UN Security Council meet on | 0:43:39 | 0:43:44 | |
Wednesday, tomorrow, to discuss
North Korea's latest missile launch. | 0:43:44 | 0:43:48 | |
Diplomats said on Tuesday. Remember,
Donald Trump has already said he | 0:43:48 | 0:43:51 | |
will handle this, although he has
not detail precisely how he will | 0:43:51 | 0:43:55 | |
handle it. We have heard from the US
Defence Secretary James Mattis who | 0:43:55 | 0:44:04 | |
has been talking in the last few
minutes... Over two and a half hours | 0:44:04 | 0:44:07 | |
ago North Korea launched an
intercontinental ballistic missile. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:08 | |
It went higher, frankly, than any
previous shots they had taken. It is | 0:44:08 | 0:44:14 | |
a research and development effort on
their part. They are building | 0:44:14 | 0:44:17 | |
ballistic missiles that can threaten
everywhere in the world, basically. | 0:44:17 | 0:44:22 | |
And in response, the South Koreans
have fired pinpoint missiles out | 0:44:22 | 0:44:27 | |
into the water to make certain North
Korea understands that they could be | 0:44:27 | 0:44:31 | |
taken under fire by our ally, but
the bottom line is it is a continued | 0:44:31 | 0:44:35 | |
effort to build a ballistic missile
threat that endangers world peace, | 0:44:35 | 0:44:42 | |
regional peace and certainly the
United States. Well, we will go back | 0:44:42 | 0:44:46 | |
to that story and I also want to go
back to the Pope's visit to Myanmar. | 0:44:46 | 0:44:49 | |
We were talking about this earlier
today. Today he delivered a very | 0:44:49 | 0:44:54 | |
carefully worded speech, asking for
all ethnic groups in Myanmar to be | 0:44:54 | 0:44:59 | |
respected, and as I already
mentioned he avoided any direct | 0:44:59 | 0:45:01 | |
mention of the plight of the
Rohingya Muslim population, and | 0:45:01 | 0:45:05 | |
remember over 600,000 Rohingya
Muslims have fled Myanmar into | 0:45:05 | 0:45:12 | |
Bangladesh because of military
operations against them and mass | 0:45:12 | 0:45:14 | |
killings. The BBC's Reeta
Chakrabarti has been at one of the | 0:45:14 | 0:45:18 | |
biggest refugee camps in Bangladesh,
where hundreds of thousands of | 0:45:18 | 0:45:21 | |
people are living, half of them
children. This is her latest report. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:28 | |
Waiting at the border in Bangladesh.
600 refugees who have crossed from | 0:45:28 | 0:45:32 | |
Myanmar. They are held here for two
days before being allowed in. They | 0:45:32 | 0:45:39 | |
are exhausted and anxious. Among
them, we found 18-year-olds Rabia | 0:45:39 | 0:45:49 | |
>> anchor-2-mac: Nieces. A
nine-year-old and a four-year-old. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:55 | |
-- and her two nieces. They said the
military attacked their village in | 0:45:55 | 0:46:01 | |
Myanmar. The little girl's mother
was killed and they don't know what | 0:46:01 | 0:46:05 | |
has happened to their father. They
have been walking for 25 days. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:11 | |
TRANSLATION: People gave us food. I
just brought the two children. I | 0:46:11 | 0:46:15 | |
didn't bring anything to cook with.
She said she is determined to keep | 0:46:15 | 0:46:19 | |
the children with her, although it
may be difficult. A week later we | 0:46:19 | 0:46:23 | |
find them in the UN transit camp
were vulnerable people are looked | 0:46:23 | 0:46:26 | |
after. Umi has less to get their
food rations. How are they getting | 0:46:26 | 0:46:32 | |
on? This is where you live. Mm. You
don't have much, do you? | 0:46:32 | 0:46:46 | |
Psychologists see the little one is
severely traumatised by her | 0:46:46 | 0:46:49 | |
experiences. She never speaks to any
adult. -- say that the little one. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:57 | |
Almost everyone you meet in this
camp say they have seen some | 0:46:57 | 0:47:00 | |
terrible things. This group has been
setup to help people deal their | 0:47:00 | 0:47:04 | |
experiences.
It is run by a psychologist. All the | 0:47:04 | 0:47:13 | |
women here have lost their husbands
in the violence in Myanmar, and they | 0:47:13 | 0:47:17 | |
are grateful for are counselling.
This woman said she asked questions | 0:47:17 | 0:47:24 | |
about their lives, they really talk
to each other about all the good and | 0:47:24 | 0:47:27 | |
the bad -- all the bad, and the
good, that has happened to them. Her | 0:47:27 | 0:47:31 | |
friend echoes her, saying the
sessions make her feel happy, and | 0:47:31 | 0:47:33 | |
they are thankful. People come from
all over the camp for help. The | 0:47:33 | 0:47:42 | |
psychologist works with them to
rebuild their lives. It really works | 0:47:42 | 0:47:48 | |
magic, because in my session
normally I say a few words, which is | 0:47:48 | 0:47:55 | |
like, now you're safe and secure,
and we will not tell on you. We are | 0:47:55 | 0:47:59 | |
with you, so I acknowledge your
life, because you have to go through | 0:47:59 | 0:48:05 | |
many stories and experiences, but
finally you are here and you're | 0:48:05 | 0:48:09 | |
safe. We knew that the girls we met
earlier were safe, but it had been | 0:48:09 | 0:48:14 | |
four bays and they had moved on. --
four days. We found them with a | 0:48:14 | 0:48:24 | |
group of people from their village
waiting to be registered in a more | 0:48:24 | 0:48:28 | |
permanent camp. TRANSLATION: I hope
for a good life. I will never let | 0:48:28 | 0:48:31 | |
the children go. I will never leave
their side. Aid workers told us the | 0:48:31 | 0:48:40 | |
girls will get child protection
because they have no parents. And it | 0:48:40 | 0:48:43 | |
will be placed with the others from
their community. They are being | 0:48:43 | 0:48:50 | |
looked after, but they will take a
long time to recover from the trauma | 0:48:50 | 0:48:53 | |
they've experienced. Reeta
Chakrabarti, BBC News, Bangladesh. | 0:48:53 | 0:49:02 | |
There is much more background on
what is happening with the Rohingya | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
Muslims are available online at
bbc.com/news. | 0:49:05 | 0:49:14 | |
Let's turn to the situation in Bali
where tourists remain stranded and | 0:49:14 | 0:49:19 | |
airport remains shut for a second
days, all to do with Mount Agung, | 0:49:19 | 0:49:25 | |
the volcano in the East of the
island. This is Hywel Griffiths from | 0:49:25 | 0:49:31 | |
Bali with the latest. | 0:49:31 | 0:49:33 | |
With ash billowing
overhead and tremors | 0:49:33 | 0:49:43 | |
growing underground,
Mount Agung's eruption shows no | 0:49:45 | 0:49:46 | |
signs of slowing. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:47 | |
Thick muddy flows are already
flowing from the surface. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:50 | |
They're dangerous, but not
as devastating as the red-hot | 0:49:50 | 0:49:52 | |
lava which could follow. | 0:49:52 | 0:49:53 | |
In the mountain's shadow they've
been preparing for months. | 0:49:53 | 0:49:55 | |
Everyone knows the drill. | 0:49:55 | 0:49:59 | |
These children have been
reassured they will be safe, | 0:49:59 | 0:50:01 | |
as long as the evacuation
plan is followed. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:06 | |
For the thousands forced
from their homes two months ago | 0:50:06 | 0:50:08 | |
when the tremors started,
the wait has been unbearable, | 0:50:08 | 0:50:12 | |
and there's no way of
knowing when it will end. | 0:50:12 | 0:50:15 | |
TRANSLATION: I have
two young children. | 0:50:15 | 0:50:16 | |
What will we do? | 0:50:16 | 0:50:19 | |
The impact of the eruption
is already spreading. | 0:50:19 | 0:50:26 | |
With more than 800 flights
cancelled, the only way | 0:50:26 | 0:50:28 | |
in and out is by boat. | 0:50:28 | 0:50:34 | |
For Kerry, it feels
like a good time to leave. | 0:50:34 | 0:50:37 | |
It's quite scary. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:44 | |
It seems pretty close at the minute,
yeah, so not sure whether it is due | 0:50:44 | 0:50:54 | |
to erupt or in the
middle of erupting. | 0:51:03 | 0:51:05 | |
But some here are determined
to stick to everyday life, | 0:51:05 | 0:51:07 | |
whatever the risks. | 0:51:07 | 0:51:08 | |
This flower seller lives
within the exclusion zone | 0:51:08 | 0:51:10 | |
but is refusing to leave. | 0:51:10 | 0:51:11 | |
She will run if the lava comes, she
laughs. The blackout is adding to | 0:51:11 | 0:51:14 | |
the sense of destruction and unease,
as everyone here waits to see how | 0:51:14 | 0:51:18 | |
the eruption will end. Hywel
Griffiths, Bali. | 0:51:18 | 0:51:23 | |
We end with a report on how Mexican
drug cartels are targeting avocado | 0:51:23 | 0:51:27 | |
producers. The reason they are doing
that is simple. It is boomtime for | 0:51:27 | 0:51:32 | |
avocado producers, with Europe and
the US consuming more and more, | 0:51:32 | 0:51:36 | |
pushing up prices. In April 20 16th
just under $1 for an avocado, April | 0:51:36 | 0:51:43 | |
20 $1 27. It is being driven by the
perception that avocados are good | 0:51:43 | 0:51:48 | |
for us and of course they are very
tasty, as well. Mexico is in a very | 0:51:48 | 0:51:52 | |
strong position. It supplies 45% of
the world's avocados and provides | 0:51:52 | 0:52:01 | |
82% that are exploded into the US
and the cartels want some of that | 0:52:01 | 0:52:05 | |
business. This is the so-called
avocado capital of Mexico | 0:52:05 | 0:52:16 | |
and our correspondent has been
there. Guns and avocados are strange | 0:52:16 | 0:52:23 | |
but necessary bedfellows here. At
its peak, people fell victim to | 0:52:23 | 0:52:29 | |
extortion, kidnappings and murders.
With no help, the people of the town | 0:52:29 | 0:52:35 | |
provided a police force. There are
70-80 people in this avocado police | 0:52:35 | 0:52:44 | |
and they are all part of the
community and in that sense they are | 0:52:44 | 0:52:48 | |
also all invested in the avocado
industry. She works Monday to Friday | 0:52:48 | 0:52:54 | |
as a police officer and the rest of
the time she is on her farm. She | 0:52:54 | 0:52:58 | |
said it is hard work with two jobs
but worth it and life here is much | 0:52:58 | 0:53:04 | |
safer now. People who fled the gangs
are now coming back. Life and | 0:53:04 | 0:53:09 | |
business has returned to normal.
TRANSLATION: It wasn't that | 0:53:09 | 0:53:16 | |
production was affected but more
that some fell into the hands of | 0:53:16 | 0:53:22 | |
criminals. There was a lot of fear.
There were not a lot of people who | 0:53:22 | 0:53:27 | |
stayed around. They were scared. But
people are cautious. No more than | 0:53:27 | 0:53:36 | |
this avocado farmer. The industry
has made him rich, and a target. He | 0:53:36 | 0:53:41 | |
knows that, which is why he carries
a gun. He tells me his son was | 0:53:41 | 0:53:44 | |
kidnapped. He had to pay a ransom of
$500,000. He also implies armed | 0:53:44 | 0:53:53 | |
bodyguards around the clock,
watching over him and his workers on | 0:53:53 | 0:53:56 | |
the form. This and paying for
avocado police enable him to sleep | 0:53:56 | 0:54:01 | |
well at night. TRANSLATION: It's
much better now because we are left | 0:54:01 | 0:54:07 | |
alone, we don't have problems.
That's all we want. If it costs us, | 0:54:07 | 0:54:16 | |
so be it. All that happen before it
was hurting us. This is the | 0:54:16 | 0:54:24 | |
deadliest for Mexico in two decades. | 0:54:24 | 0:54:26 | |
BBC News. Just before I say goodbye,
let's return to the missile test by | 0:54:26 | 0:54:32 | |
North Korea. I was reading you this
from Reuters a few minutes ago, that | 0:54:32 | 0:54:37 | |
Japan and the US have requested a UN
Security Council meeting on | 0:54:37 | 0:54:39 | |
Wednesday. I have more copy, also
from Reuters, quoting the Italian | 0:54:39 | 0:54:44 | |
mission to the UN, that this meeting
will now take place at TPM, that is | 0:54:44 | 0:54:51 | |
the time in New York, Eastern time,
and of course we will keep a very | 0:54:51 | 0:54:55 | |
close eye on that and bring details
of what is said on tomorrow's | 0:54:55 | 0:55:00 | |
edition of Outside Source. Goodbye. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:04 |