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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,
this is Outside Source. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
America has become the first country
to recognise Jerusalem | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
as the capital of Israel. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:18 | |
Israel is a sovereign nation with
the right, like every other | 0:00:18 | 0:00:24 | |
sovereign nation, to determine its
own capital. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:29 | |
As you'd expect, Israel
has welcomed this. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
Arab countries haven't -
nor have the Palestinians. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:36 | |
These actions are a destruction of
all the efforts to achieve peace. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
The decision is tantamount to the US
abdicating its role as a peace | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
mediator. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
We'll be live at the White House -
and Lyse Doucet here's | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
in the BBC newsroom with me. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
We'll also talk about the | 0:00:51 | 0:00:52 | |
Democratic Republic of the Congo -
more people have had | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
to flee their homes there
than anywhere else in the world this | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
year - including Syria. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:58 | |
We'll look at the
conflict causing this. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Time Magazine has named the women
who spoke out against sexual abuse | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
and harassment as its Person
of the Year. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
Donald Trump came in second place. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
And look who's decided to run
for President, again. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
BBC Russian will give
us their analysis. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
Donald Trump has kept
his campaign promise - | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
and formally recognised Jerusalem
as Israel's capital. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:42 | |
I have judged this course of action
to be in the best interests | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
of the United States of America
and the pursuit of peace | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
between Israel and the Palestinians. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
This is a long overdue step
to advance the peace | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
process and to work
towards a lasting agreement. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
Israel is a sovereign nation. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
With the right, like every
other sovereign nation, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
to determine its own capital. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:11 | |
Acknowledging this as a fact
is a necessary condition | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
for achieving peace. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:19 | |
America will also be
moving its embassy from | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem -
though that may actually | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
take years to do. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas responded | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
to the decision a short time ago. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:38 | |
These actions are destruction to all
the actions to achieve peace. The | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
decision is paramount to the US
abdicating its role as a peace | 0:02:42 | 0:02:47 | |
mediator. These measures will be
looked upon favourably as by the | 0:02:47 | 0:02:53 | |
extreme mixed groups that operate in
our region. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
Israel's Prime minister though,
has welcomed the news. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
We are profoundly grateful
for the president, for his | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
courageous and just decision. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:02 | |
To recognise Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
and to prepare for the opening
of the US Embassy here. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
This decision reflects
the President's commitment | 0:03:07 | 0:03:08 | |
to an ancient but enduring truth. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
To fulfilling his promises
and advancing peace. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
The President's decision
is an important step | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
towards peace. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
For there is no peace that doesn't
include Jerusalem as | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
the capital of the state of Israel. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:32 | |
This raises many questions, one of
them is why President Trump is doing | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
it now. Here is Barbara Plett Usher.
I think the main reason the | 0:03:36 | 0:03:43 | |
president made the announcement was
pretty clear in his speech, he said | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
previous presidents have failed to
deliver on campaign promises to move | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
the embassy, I am delivering so that
is what is behind this. Its domestic | 0:03:51 | 0:03:57 | |
politics, he made the promise and
wanted to do it. But because of US | 0:03:57 | 0:04:02 | |
law the presidents every six months
had to sign a waiver which will keep | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
the MC in Tel Aviv for security
reasons which meant every six months | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
Donald Trump would have to confront
the fact he was not keeping his | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
promise and that frustrated him very
much so we understand that is what | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
drove this discussion for
recognising Jerusalem as the capital | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
of Israel and basically he wanted
this very much despite the advice of | 0:04:21 | 0:04:29 | |
his national security officials who
were worried about security | 0:04:29 | 0:04:30 | |
implications. I understand the
general idea of a candidate wanting | 0:04:30 | 0:04:36 | |
to keep his promises but his
position, the embassy being in | 0:04:36 | 0:04:44 | |
Israel, why does that matter to his
core supporters in America? Those he | 0:04:44 | 0:04:49 | |
was responding to were strongly
pro-Israel groups, evangelical | 0:04:49 | 0:04:57 | |
Christians who are quite a big force
and American dues on the right-wing | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
the spectrum. And some wealthy
donors. It has a certain amount of | 0:05:01 | 0:05:10 | |
power he was responding to. Also
Congress is in favour of this, they | 0:05:10 | 0:05:15 | |
voted for this move to take place in
1995 which is why every six months | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
the president says we will not do it
for security reasons. It's a | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
bipartisan consensus. Broadly
speaking I think most Americans are | 0:05:23 | 0:05:32 | |
not walking around asking why the
embassy is not in Jerusalem. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:39 | |
Israel has always regarded
Jerusalem as its capital - | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
but no other country has recognised
it as such. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
That's why you'll find embassies
in and around Tel Aviv. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
East Jerusalem is a
particularly contentious. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
It was annexed from Jordan in 1967
and Israel has built dozens | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
of settlements there -
but it's not recognised by other | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
countries as part of Israel. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:57 | |
For their part, the Palestinians
want East Jerusalem | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
as the capital of a future
Palestinian state. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
Here's Yolande Knell
in Jerusalem with more context | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
on today's decision. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:17 | |
Jerusalem. This ancient city lies at
the very heart of the Israel | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
Palestinian conflict. We have seen
many times how just a small change | 0:06:22 | 0:06:27 | |
on the ground here can quickly lead
to a flare-up anti-violence. So what | 0:06:27 | 0:06:33 | |
happens here really does matter.
Jerusalem has got great religious | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
significance of course. Head old
city has some of the holiest sites | 0:06:37 | 0:06:43 | |
are Muslims, Christians and Jewish
people but it has great political | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
significance as well. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
Most Israelis see Jerusalem as their
eternal undivided capital. Not long | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
after the modern State of Israel was
created in 1948 years early | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
Parliament was set up in the west of
the city. But it wasn't until the | 0:07:01 | 0:07:07 | |
1967 war with neighbouring Arab
countries that Israel captured East | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
Jerusalem, including the old city.
It later annexed it in a move that | 0:07:11 | 0:07:17 | |
is not recognised internationally.
Israeli leaders often vent their | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
frustration that there is not a
recognition of full Israeli | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
sovereignty over Jerusalem
particularly from international | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
allies. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:29 | |
Of course Palestinians see things
starkly different play. They want | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
East Jerusalem as their capital.
That is part of the long-standing | 0:07:38 | 0:07:44 | |
international formula for peace year
known as the two state solution. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
Basically the idea that an
independent Palestinian state would | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
be created alongside Israel, along
the boundaries which existed before | 0:07:52 | 0:07:58 | |
1967. It is written up in UN
resolutions. About one third of | 0:07:58 | 0:08:03 | |
people Jerusalem are Palestinian,
some of them coming from families | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
which have been here for centuries.
And there are lots of ongoing | 0:08:06 | 0:08:11 | |
tensions particularly over the
expansion of Jewish settlements in | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
the east of the city. They are seen
as illegal under international law | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
that Israel disagree. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:19 | |
For decades the international
community has been saying any change | 0:08:24 | 0:08:29 | |
in the status of Jerusalem can only
come about as part of a negotiated | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
peace deal. So for now all countries
with embassies in Israel keep them | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
in or near to Tel Aviv and they have
consulates in Jerusalem. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:42 | |
Reaction to this has been as strong
as it's been predictable. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
Saudi Arabia says it's a "a flagrant
provocation to Muslims". | 0:08:45 | 0:08:51 | |
Egypt's President is urging
Donald Mr Trump "not to complicate | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
the situation in the region". | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
And the leaders of Turkey
and Jordan addressed the issue | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
at a joint press conference. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:06 | |
There is no alternative to the two
state solution and Jerusalem is key | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
to any peace agreement, it is key to
the stability of the entire region. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:16 | |
TRANSLATION: Nobody has the right to
play with the destiny of billions of | 0:09:16 | 0:09:21 | |
people for the sake of personal
ambitions. Such a step will only | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
play into the hands of terror
groups. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
I spoke to Lyse Doucet our
Chief International Correspondent | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
about what this means
for the peace process. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:37 | |
The history of the peace process and
it has to be said failed peace | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
process is symbols matter as much a
substance. When it comes the symbol | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
is no greater symbol of the attempt
to find a solution to one of the | 0:09:47 | 0:09:53 | |
most intractable conflict anywhere
in the world, Jerusalem. Jerusalem | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
is not, it is not just one of the
most coveted and controversial | 0:09:58 | 0:10:05 | |
pieces of real estate anywhere in
the world, it's also a symbol of the | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
desire, you had from King of Jordan,
the two state solution, to have an | 0:10:10 | 0:10:17 | |
Israeli and Palestinian state side
by side with each having part of | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
Jerusalem as the capital. But the
way Israel describes it is the | 0:10:20 | 0:10:29 | |
eternal undivided capital. They want
to say it will help the peace | 0:10:29 | 0:10:35 | |
process but for now there is only
anger and anxiety, this is not how | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
you restart the peace process. Will
it somewhere down the line? There | 0:10:39 | 0:10:44 | |
have been so many setbacks and this
is just another one but it is huge. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:49 | |
Mac with a bass seeing this means
America cannot be the mediator any | 0:10:49 | 0:10:57 | |
more, but critics will say they have
always been towards the Israeli side | 0:10:57 | 0:11:01 | |
anyway. There has been one constant
in the peace process and that is | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
America, it's the only outside power
acceptable by both sides because | 0:11:05 | 0:11:10 | |
it's always been seen by the
Palestinians, notwithstanding the | 0:11:10 | 0:11:15 | |
criticism, that the tilted towards
the Israelis,, that they had the | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
will and the power to do something
about it. I think this decision will | 0:11:19 | 0:11:24 | |
make them think twice. I think in
the long run they will find it hard | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
to find a replacement because Israel
will not accept anyone else and | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
after this move today they will not
accept anyone but the United States | 0:11:31 | 0:11:38 | |
is the main outside player. We were
talking to you in Saudi Arabia, | 0:11:38 | 0:11:43 | |
Donald Trump would have known this
would upset them, how damaging do | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
you think this is? Jared Kushner
working on this process, he has | 0:11:47 | 0:12:00 | |
been, he made three secret trips,
did not consult the State Department | 0:12:00 | 0:12:06 | |
about it, had talks with the Crown
Prince of Saudi Arabia. We | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
understand most of it was to discuss
the ideas were peace process. New | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
ideas. No doubt he would have been
told about this decision. It's | 0:12:14 | 0:12:20 | |
especially tricky for the Saudis
because the Saudi king is the | 0:12:20 | 0:12:26 | |
custodian of the two holiest shrines
for Islam and the third one is in | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
Jerusalem. Much more information on
the BBC website. We will bring the | 0:12:29 | 0:12:44 | |
up-to-date as more people have had
to flee their homes. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
The Brexit Secretary has been
accused of gross negligence | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
after admitting that the government
has not tried to calculate | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
the effect Brexit might have
on the British economy. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:02 | |
Speaking before the Brexit
committee, Mr Davis said | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
the usefulness of such assessments
would be "near zero" | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
because of the scale of change
Brexit is likely to cause. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:16 | |
Do not draw the conclusion that
because you used the word impact you | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
have written an impact assessment. I
took it, that they were looking for | 0:13:19 | 0:13:26 | |
a quantitative economic forecast and
that is not there. We haven't done | 0:13:26 | 0:13:32 | |
that. What is there is the size of
the industry, the employment and so | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
on. That's important and of course
it describes the effect of the | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
policy. The government of course is
looking at the effect of the | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
potential policies but it hasn't
written an impact assessment. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
This is Outside Source live
from the BBC newsroom. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
Our lead story: | 0:14:03 | 0:14:04 | |
President Trump has overturned
decades of US policy and recognised | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
the disputed city of Jerusalem
as Israel's capital. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:14 | |
Let's get some of the main stories
from the World Service. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
More than 200 countries at a UN
conference in Kenya have signed | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
a statement saying the use throwaway
plastic must end. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:27 | |
One of Brazil's most-wanted men been
arrested in a security operation | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
in Rio involving 3,000 police
officers and soldiers. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
Rogerio Avelino da Silva is accused
of drug-trafficking, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
extortion and murder. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:45 | |
France's most famous rock star -
Johnny Hallyday - | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
has died at the age of 74. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
He was inspired after seeing
footage of Elvis Presley - | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
and he went on to sell around
100 million records over 50 years. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:05 | |
Here's something I didn't
know until today - | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
more people have had
to flee their homes | 0:15:07 | 0:15:09 | |
in the Democratic Republic
of Congo than in Syria, | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
Yemen or Iraq. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
It's estimated on average over 5000
have done so every day this year. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:24 | |
The Norwegian Refugee Council says
"It's a mega-crisis. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
The scale of people fleeing
violence is off the charts". | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
It's because of violence -
primarily in the provinces Kivu, | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
Kasai and Tangan-yika. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:43 | |
These are pictures from Tanganyika. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:44 | |
They show a burnt out village. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:45 | |
The violence is springing
from chronic political | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
instability and competition
for scarce resources. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
A delay in holding Presidential
elections is increasing tensions. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:57 | |
These are displaced people
who've been sheltering | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
in a church following attacks
on their community. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
Such violence has prevented many
families from accessing their land. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:08 | |
In fact over 7 million people lack
a reliable supply of food - | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
and a cholera outbreak has
killed 600 people. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
On top of this, very little
international money is being pledged | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
to help these people. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:22 | |
Here's one of the victims
of the violence. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:29 | |
TRANSLATION: I spent three days in
the forest before reaching a | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
village. People had fled from the
village I reached, I did not know | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
where my husband and children had
gone. Three days later I found ten | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
of my children but I am still
missing one of them and my husband. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:47 | |
There is more | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza told
us more from Nairobi. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
the problems are not new, this
conflict has been going on for | 0:16:54 | 0:16:58 | |
several years and it's simply about
militia groups trying to control | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
territory. We have seen thousands of
internally displaced peoples over | 0:17:01 | 0:17:08 | |
the years and this has intensified
over the last few months because of | 0:17:08 | 0:17:15 | |
the uncertainty surrounding the
elections which were supposed to be | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
held this year but the president has
now pushed them to December next | 0:17:17 | 0:17:23 | |
year. Many militia groups have now
targeted government installations, | 0:17:23 | 0:17:29 | |
they have been targeting government
officials and all this violence has | 0:17:29 | 0:17:33 | |
led to this massive displacement. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
Time magazine has announced its 2017
Person of the Year. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
In fact it's people of the year. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
They're all women who shed light
on sexual harassment and abuse. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
The headline reads
"the Silence Breakers - | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
The Voices that launched
the movement". | 0:17:45 | 0:17:50 | |
There's the activist Adama Iwu,
actress Ashley Judd, | 0:17:50 | 0:17:56 | |
singer Taylor Swift,
strawberry picker Isabel Pascual and | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
former Uber engineer Susan Fowler. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:04 | |
You can also see here the arm
of a woman who came forward | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
but chose to stay anonymous. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:13 | |
The article reads: "The women
and men who have broken | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
their silence span all races,
all income classes, | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
all occupations and virtually
all corners of the globe.... | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
They're part of a movement
that has no formal name. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
But now they have a voice." | 0:18:23 | 0:18:31 | |
Those making the selection not
unaware that if these people came | 0:18:31 | 0:18:37 | |
first the person who came second,
Donald Trump, boasted of sexually | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
assaulting a woman. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
And third, Xi Jinping. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:44 | |
Nada Tawfik's in New York. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
I was saying it is only two months
since the Harvey Weinstein story | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
came out but it feels like a lot
longer because of the profound | 0:18:52 | 0:18:57 | |
implications which followed? Yes,
absolutely. I along with some of my | 0:18:57 | 0:19:02 | |
colleagues here in the office
predicted this would be the | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
selection because unless you have
been living under a rock the last | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
few months have seen such a powerful
iconic men across several | 0:19:08 | 0:19:13 | |
industries, whether it is Harvey
Weinstein in Hollywood, Charlie Rose | 0:19:13 | 0:19:18 | |
in media, Kevin Spacey in Hollywood,
powerful men across the political | 0:19:18 | 0:19:25 | |
spectrum, Roy Miller, Alf Franklin,
Republicans and Democrats, being | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
accused of sexual assault. Men and
women coming to the forefront, they | 0:19:28 | 0:19:34 | |
spoke to dozens of women across
several industries and they all | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
expressed the same emotions, first
the sense of shame then the sense of | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
empowerment, that it was not their
fault and they needed to speak out, | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
the anger and feuding which led them
to break her silence. It was | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
interesting to read different
accounts from Time magazine because | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
you get the sense this is not just a
moment in time, it is a movement. We | 0:19:53 | 0:19:58 | |
have seen that today as well, it
will carry on to have repercussions. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:03 | |
I think it was a choice which does
not surprise many that they went | 0:20:03 | 0:20:08 | |
with these silence breakers for
Person of the year that had the most | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
impact culturally. Perhaps explain
how significant this choice is, | 0:20:11 | 0:20:19 | |
people really do care about it? This
is a choice that has implications of | 0:20:19 | 0:20:27 | |
two affected events in this country
for better or worse. So President | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
Trump for example won last year, he
has been very vocal in the past | 0:20:31 | 0:20:36 | |
about wanting to get on the list and
people have mistakenly thought that | 0:20:36 | 0:20:40 | |
is an honour and that's not
necessarily so. Adolf Hitler and | 0:20:40 | 0:20:44 | |
other controversial figures have
been on the magazine. But it does | 0:20:44 | 0:20:53 | |
put a spotlight on those they think
are the most influential and if you | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
look at the short list for example,
you had Kim Jong-un, Robert Miller, | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
Colin Kaepernick who started the
National campaign against police | 0:21:00 | 0:21:07 | |
brutality in this country, it is a
nod to those who are the most | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
influential. Thank you, toxin. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
This skeleton has become
known as "little foot" - | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
and today it's been unveiled. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
It's over 3 million years old -
and is one of the oldest | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
human skeletons. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:25 | |
It found in caves,
north-west of Johannesburg. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
And it's thought this
was a young girl | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
who fell into the cave. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:34 | |
This was important because it shows
our ancestors lived across a far | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
wider area than previously. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
The other well known skeleton
of this age was found in Ethiopia. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
It became known as Lucy. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:51 | |
Andrew Harding has this report form
South Africa on what else we're | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
learning from these skeletons. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
They found her skeleton in these
deep caves outside Johannesburg. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
She'd been lying here
for almost four million years, | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
trapped in the rock. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:06 | |
Today, Little Foot finally emerged -
astonishingly intact, | 0:22:06 | 0:22:10 | |
after 20 painstaking
years of excavation. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:16 | |
These bones had a very,
very fragile, flaky | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
surface, many of them. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:26 | |
And it was like trying
to extract a pie with flaky | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
pastry out of concrete
without damaging the pie. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
We had to do this properly,
we had to do it slowly. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
Yes, it took more than 20 years
of my life, but I feel younger | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
and stronger for it! | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
So, these are the caves
where Little Foot was found. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
The theory goes that she was walking
along the surface, fell | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
down into the caves,
and was covered | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
by sediment and rock. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:49 | |
Millions of years later,
scientists in the 1980s and 1990s, | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
in a series of extraordinary
coincidences, stumbled | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
across her remains and slowly
managed to piece them back together. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:02 | |
Her skeleton shows
she was in her 30s. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
She probably lived in the trees,
and crucially, she was more | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
like us than like an ape. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
So the pictures you see in books
of our ancestors gradually getting | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
up off of all fours and walking
along in a stooped manner, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
that's all nonsense. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
They were upright when
they were in the trees, | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
and they were upright
when they came down to the ground. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
And now they're us? | 0:23:25 | 0:23:26 | |
Yes, now they're us. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
Unearthed in these caves then,
a vital addition to our own | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
complicated family tree. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
Andrew Harding, BBC
News, South Africa. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:44 | |
Ford is attempting to crack
the Chinese market - again. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
This time with as partnership
with Alibaba - which is vast | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
online retail operation. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:51 | |
The idea is simple -
Alibaba will help Ford | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
sell its cars online. | 0:23:53 | 0:24:03 | |
Sounds simple but I expect it would
be more complicated than that. It | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
certainly will be but Ford has
already made a big commitment to say | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
they will push electric cars in
China, the biggest market with the | 0:24:13 | 0:24:18 | |
biggest appetite because China
themselves have said they want to | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
start having a lot more electric car
is on the streets. Enter Alibaba. We | 0:24:21 | 0:24:29 | |
are talking about trying to disrupt
the way cars are being sold and it | 0:24:29 | 0:24:34 | |
is interesting because it's a
conversation which often comes up in | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
the United States, people saying we
need to change the way we sell cars. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
I think a lot of people will watch
this very closely. In terms of | 0:24:43 | 0:24:49 | |
American car manufacturers and their
performance in China have they been | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
able to get a sizeable foothold in
the market? They are trying but | 0:24:52 | 0:24:58 | |
there is a lot of complications.
There are lots of success stories | 0:24:58 | 0:25:06 | |
but the complexities with which they
have to do work in China, we saw | 0:25:06 | 0:25:11 | |
Tesla saying they will not partner
with a Chinese company locally and | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
will just go at it alone which is
something we don't really see often | 0:25:15 | 0:25:21 | |
except, in fact, we have almost
never seen it when it comes to car | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
makers in China. Very interesting,
thank you, we will be getting more | 0:25:24 | 0:25:30 | |
details on that arrangement between
Alibaba and Ford on Thursday so we | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
will watch out for that. That's the
first half, the lead story here that | 0:25:33 | 0:25:39 | |
Donald Trump has confirmed what we
were discussing yesterday, that | 0:25:39 | 0:25:44 | |
America will recognise Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel and will start | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
the process of moving the American
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
I will be back with you with more of
the biggest global stories from the | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
BBC newsroom and a couple of
minutes. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
The United States looking at its
first significant cold spell of the | 0:26:10 | 0:26:15 | |
season, bitterly cold conditions
penetrating as far south as the deep | 0:26:15 | 0:26:20 | |
South and Northern Mexico. They
called air behind this area of low | 0:26:20 | 0:26:25 | |
pressure which swept through, this
active cold front cleaving south and | 0:26:25 | 0:26:29 | |
east and as the called air moves as
far south as Northern Mexico it is | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
likely to turn some of it into sleet
and snow off high ground, you can | 0:26:33 | 0:26:37 | |
see the extent of the blue
indicating that cold, there will be | 0:26:37 | 0:26:46 | |
showers and Lake effect snow across
the north-east, rain sleet and snow | 0:26:46 | 0:26:51 | |
into parts of Texas and New Mexico
and across the West it is dry and | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
sunny but strong Santa Ana winds
across parts of California fuelling | 0:26:55 | 0:27:00 | |
the devastating wildfires. In south
Asia a more dry picture across the | 0:27:00 | 0:27:10 | |
North West one or two showers left
in its wake but other than that it's | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
a dry story. We are keeping a
watchful eye in the Bay of Ben | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
Balfour that system which could
develop into a tropical storm and | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
move north into the direction of
north-east India and parts of | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
Bangladesh. You can see emphasis on
dry and sunny and very warm weather. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:35 | |
A cross into Europe high-pressure is
the dominating feature, a lot of | 0:27:35 | 0:27:39 | |
fine and dry weather, mist and fog
problems in places but also strong | 0:27:39 | 0:27:44 | |
winds tracked across the north of
Europe with an area of low pressure | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
bringing disruptive winds, a lot of
marine transport being interfered | 0:27:47 | 0:27:53 | |
with. Another area of low pressure
moving, storm Caroline which will | 0:27:53 | 0:27:59 | |
bring disruptive winds to the
Northern half, Thursday and Friday, | 0:27:59 | 0:28:05 | |
tightly packed isobars as the
weather front clears southwards, | 0:28:05 | 0:28:15 | |
unlike away from the south East
winter showers, single figure values | 0:28:15 | 0:28:23 | |
across the North and the West,
double-figure values until the end | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
of the day. Blue colour is taking
over as the storm moves away and be | 0:28:27 | 0:28:32 | |
open the floodgates to the Arctic so
it looks very cold as we head | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
towards Friday and the weekend,
bitterly cold if you add only wind, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:40 | |
significant snow showers but good
spells of sunshine, 3-6dC, add only | 0:28:40 | 0:28:49 | |
wind and it will feel cold. Storm
Caroline could bring disruption then | 0:28:49 | 0:28:53 | |
it turns much colder to end the week
with the risk of snow and ice. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:57 | |
Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,
this is Outside Source. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:09 | |
America has become the first country
to recognise Jerusalem | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
as the capital of Israel. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:17 | |
Israel is a sovereign nation with
the right, like every other | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
sovereign nation, to determine its
own capital. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:25 | |
As you'd expect, Israel
has welcomed this. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
Arab countries haven't,
nor have the Palestinians. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:31 | |
TRANSLATION: These actions are a
destruction of all efforts to | 0:30:31 | 0:30:35 | |
achieve peace and the decision is
tantamount to the US abdicating its | 0:30:35 | 0:30:38 | |
role as a peace mediator. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
In California, huge wildfires have
destroyed hundreds of buildings | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
and continue to threaten
over 12,000 homes. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:47 | |
We've got a report on the Alabama
Senate candidate accused of sexual | 0:30:47 | 0:30:51 | |
misconduct and the evangelical
voters standing by him. | 0:30:51 | 0:31:00 | |
Is there any single thing a
conservative Republican candidate | 0:31:00 | 0:31:02 | |
could do that would make you not
vote for him? I haven't heard that | 0:31:02 | 0:31:07 | |
answer. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:08 | |
Your questions are always welcome. | 0:31:08 | 0:31:09 | |
#BBCOS is the hashtag. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:14 | |
We talked about the California
wildfires yesterday. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:34 | |
These are latest pictures. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:35 | |
First, this is from Ventura County. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:39 | |
You get an idea of the scale. And
you can see the commuters on the | 0:31:39 | 0:31:46 | |
motorway not far from the flames. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
The flames have spread
over 50,000 acres - | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
strong winds weren't helping. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:53 | |
Over a thousand firefighters have
been deployed in the last 48 hours. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:58 | |
Luke Cann see them going about their
dangerous work. -- you can see them. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:03 | |
Hundreds of buildings have been
damaged beyond repair and tens | 0:32:03 | 0:32:06 | |
of thousands of people have had
to leave their homes. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:16 | |
Others are awaiting that
instruction. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:17 | |
James Cook was there. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
The wildfires are exploding
with terrifying speed, | 0:32:21 | 0:32:25 | |
driven by ferocious desert winds,
whipping down the dusty canyons. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:29 | |
This blaze ravaged the beach-side
city of Ventura and last night, | 0:32:29 | 0:32:33 | |
it jumped the main coastal motorway,
causing terror for drivers. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:39 | |
This is literally like 15-feet
away from us right now. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
This is the cross. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:42 | |
We're at the cross. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:43 | |
OK, hold on. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:46 | |
We need to get out of here
as soon as possible, | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
that fire is right there. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:50 | |
Only one thing could stop the blaze
- the Pacific Ocean. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:56 | |
Each fire leaves a trail of physical
destruction and emotional damage, | 0:32:56 | 0:32:59 | |
scores of families have
seen their homes reduced to ash. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
All too often there is
nothing left to save. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
All of a sudden, I see
from the other side | 0:33:04 | 0:33:06 | |
fire came to our side. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:10 | |
So scary. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:11 | |
I don't want it
to happen to anybody. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
Thank God to the firefighters. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:16 | |
It's not over yet. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:18 | |
Unless the wind dies down
or the conditions die | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
down, it's too fierce. | 0:33:21 | 0:33:25 | |
These winds are just
indescribable right now. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:29 | |
Another fire stopped the suburbs
above Los Angeles itself, | 0:33:29 | 0:33:31 | |
raining ash on the city of Angels. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:34 | |
Millions were warned to stay
inside as smoke filled the air. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:40 | |
Well, these firefighters have been
working hard all night | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
and into the day trying
to save these houses. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:46 | |
The battle was unsuccessful
and the reason for that is the wind. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:52 | |
It is still whipping around
here with ferocity and it is driving | 0:33:52 | 0:33:55 | |
this fire further down
into the valley. | 0:33:55 | 0:34:01 | |
This was how the fires looked
from space, thick smoke | 0:34:01 | 0:34:04 | |
streaming out to sea. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
And the outlook is not good,
more intense winds are forecast | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
in the coming days. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:11 | |
It has barely rained here in LA
for six months and you can tell. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:17 | |
Many scientists say climate change
is driving more frequent and more | 0:34:17 | 0:34:19 | |
destructive wildfires. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:22 | |
For California, this is yet
another grim wake-up call. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:29 | |
If you were watching yesterday you
would have seen pictures from | 0:34:36 | 0:34:40 | |
Ukraine about the chaotic attempt to
attempt the former president of | 0:34:40 | 0:34:45 | |
Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. This
is what happened. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
Law enforcement officers went
to the former Georgian president's | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
flat in Kiev to arrest him. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
They had to drag him
down from the rooftop | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
from where he was calling out
to his supporters. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:56 | |
He was brought down to ground level. | 0:34:56 | 0:35:00 | |
They then shoved him
into a blue van as crowds | 0:35:00 | 0:35:02 | |
of his supporters tried
to stop them. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:10 | |
Despite the police and their pepper
spray, the supporters managed to get | 0:35:10 | 0:35:14 | |
him out. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:17 | |
Well, overnight there were violent
clashes at a protest camp outside | 0:35:17 | 0:35:20 | |
parliament as law enforcement
officers searched among | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
the tents for Mr Saakhasvili. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
These were the pictures later on as
police turned up to search the | 0:35:25 | 0:35:30 | |
protesters and also the tents for Mr
Saakashvili. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:34 | |
They couldn't find him. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:39 | |
But the BBC's Jonah Fisher did. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:42 | |
Last night the security forces were
looking for you. How did you avoid | 0:35:43 | 0:35:47 | |
them? Apparently they mistook my
tent. That was first might guess | 0:35:47 | 0:35:56 | |
that they confirmed they were
looking for me because it made no | 0:35:56 | 0:35:59 | |
sense to beat up regular people. But
you were in the camp here? Yes, and | 0:35:59 | 0:36:09 | |
then everybody woke me up so we
moved away. Then they specifically | 0:36:09 | 0:36:15 | |
with the special troops came to this
tent and looked inside and did not | 0:36:15 | 0:36:19 | |
find me and went back. This was a
treat from Jonah Fisher... -- tweet. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:33 | |
We called Jonah because we wanted
more context on this story along | 0:36:33 | 0:36:39 | |
with the other material he had sent
in. He got out of the car he was in | 0:36:39 | 0:36:44 | |
and recorded this. Mikheil
Saakashvili's relationship with | 0:36:44 | 0:36:50 | |
Ukraine has been a real
roller-coaster ride. He came to the | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
country in 2015 on the invitation of
the Ukrainian president Petro | 0:36:53 | 0:36:59 | |
Poroschenko and was given
citizenship and a job as governor of | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
the Black Sea port of Odessa also
that relationship with the president | 0:37:02 | 0:37:09 | |
soured rapidly and after 18 months
Mr Saakashvili quit his role as | 0:37:09 | 0:37:15 | |
governor and became a leading member
of the Ukrainian opposition, an | 0:37:15 | 0:37:21 | |
outspoken critic of Petro
Poroschenko. This year when Mr | 0:37:21 | 0:37:26 | |
Saakashvili travelled to the United
States, the president took the | 0:37:26 | 0:37:30 | |
opportunity to cancel that Ukrainian
citizenship that he had given Mr | 0:37:30 | 0:37:37 | |
Saakashvili. Undeterred, Mr
Saakashvili announced he was | 0:37:37 | 0:37:40 | |
determined to come back to Ukraine
and did so breaking through a border | 0:37:40 | 0:37:44 | |
crossing between Poland and Ukraine.
That takes us up to a few months | 0:37:44 | 0:37:48 | |
ago. He started supporting a protest
camp in mid-October outside the | 0:37:48 | 0:37:56 | |
Ukrainian parliament calling for
anti-corruption reforms to be | 0:37:56 | 0:38:02 | |
brought in and he has been leading
demonstrations at the weekend, | 0:38:02 | 0:38:08 | |
rallies through the scent of TF
calling for the president to be | 0:38:08 | 0:38:13 | |
impeached -- through the centre of
TF. The prosecutor general here says | 0:38:13 | 0:38:19 | |
Mr Saakashvili is a wanted man
because of alleged connections | 0:38:19 | 0:38:24 | |
between Mr Saakashvili and
businessmen linked with the | 0:38:24 | 0:38:28 | |
Ukrainian former president Viktor
Yanukovych. Mr Saakashvili denies | 0:38:28 | 0:38:35 | |
all about and says he is being
pursued and forced to live in this | 0:38:35 | 0:38:41 | |
tented camp, hiding here, by
Parliament and is being pursued for | 0:38:41 | 0:38:45 | |
political reasons and they want to
arrest him and detain him because | 0:38:45 | 0:38:48 | |
they are worried that the protest
movement that he has been a big part | 0:38:48 | 0:38:52 | |
is gaining momentum. Like a lot of
the stories we cover here it is as | 0:38:52 | 0:39:00 | |
important as it is complicated which
is why the alert you to access the | 0:39:00 | 0:39:04 | |
BBC's huge network of journalists
around the world as well as the | 0:39:04 | 0:39:10 | |
World Service is here in the
newsrooms like BBC Ukrainian and | 0:39:10 | 0:39:14 | |
Russian. You will know these people
come onto the programme all the time | 0:39:14 | 0:39:19 | |
if you watch regularly. This is from
the Financial Times... | 0:39:19 | 0:39:31 | |
Not a huge surprise but it was
confirmed today. But if you want any | 0:39:31 | 0:39:39 | |
more details on any of these
stories, the BBC website is a very | 0:39:39 | 0:39:42 | |
good place to start. The status of
Jerusalem, the significance of the | 0:39:42 | 0:39:48 | |
announcement from Donald Trump,
moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv | 0:39:48 | 0:39:53 | |
to Jerusalem, that is on the BBC
News website or you can download the | 0:39:53 | 0:39:58 | |
app and act like -- access all the
same information. | 0:39:58 | 0:40:04 | |
Now, Vladimir Putin had
some news for us today. | 0:40:04 | 0:40:06 | |
We could have seen it coming. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:12 | |
TRANSLATION: I will put forward my
candidacy for the post of president | 0:40:12 | 0:40:17 | |
of the Russian Federation. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:21 | |
That's for the election
in March next year. | 0:40:21 | 0:40:23 | |
If he wins, Vladimir Putin be
in power until 2024 and that | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
would make 25 years as either
President or Prime Minister. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:31 | |
You would not bet against it. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:32 | |
This is Olga Ivshina
from BBC Russian. | 0:40:32 | 0:40:36 | |
I think we should pay attention the
date he decided to announce he is | 0:40:36 | 0:40:41 | |
standing, the next day after it was
announced that Russia will not be | 0:40:41 | 0:40:46 | |
allowed to participate as a national
team at the Olympic Games. It is the | 0:40:46 | 0:40:51 | |
message he is trying to spread, that
he is a strong leader and is able to | 0:40:51 | 0:40:55 | |
unite and lead the country at the
moment of hardship and he is the man | 0:40:55 | 0:41:00 | |
who is going to sort of give a path
to Russia at the moment when the | 0:41:00 | 0:41:05 | |
whole West is united against the
country. Some people might think | 0:41:05 | 0:41:09 | |
that all the controversy around
socks she could be politically | 0:41:09 | 0:41:12 | |
damaging for Putin -- around Sochi.
The state media was quite successful | 0:41:12 | 0:41:20 | |
spreading the message that all this
is purely political and there is no | 0:41:20 | 0:41:25 | |
hard evidence at all these things
and Mr Putin again said today that | 0:41:25 | 0:41:29 | |
we gave them a chance but the
decision was completely unfair, | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
politically motivated again and
again. He tries to show himself as | 0:41:33 | 0:41:39 | |
the strong man and father of the
nation who is able to lead the | 0:41:39 | 0:41:42 | |
country. I'm assuming there is no
possibility of him losing this? | 0:41:42 | 0:41:46 | |
Hardly imaginable. Anybody with a
chance who wants to beat him? There | 0:41:46 | 0:41:53 | |
is a famous opposition leader who is
strong and his permanent opponent | 0:41:53 | 0:41:58 | |
but quite possibly he will not be
allowed to participate because he | 0:41:58 | 0:42:02 | |
had standing criminal charges
against him. Many say they are fake | 0:42:02 | 0:42:08 | |
but still he has those charges and
most probably he will not be allowed | 0:42:08 | 0:42:12 | |
to run. And to be fair, polls show
that Putin is supported by a | 0:42:12 | 0:42:19 | |
sufficient majority of the
population. Many people save those | 0:42:19 | 0:42:24 | |
polls are not representative,
probably not 70% but a sufficient | 0:42:24 | 0:42:28 | |
amount of people. And as you said,
he wanted to talk about the | 0:42:28 | 0:42:32 | |
controversy around the Olympics,
what did you make up what he said? | 0:42:32 | 0:42:36 | |
He said that he is the leader of the
country if Russia would not prevent | 0:42:36 | 0:42:40 | |
sports men from going to the
Olympics under the neutral flag and | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
he said it was their choice whether
to do so or not but the final | 0:42:44 | 0:42:50 | |
decision will be made on the 12th of
December. You should also bear in | 0:42:50 | 0:42:55 | |
mind that opposition voices and
critics of power is not properly | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
heard in Russia so it is hard for
people to make informed and balanced | 0:42:59 | 0:43:03 | |
decisions in those circumstances. | 0:43:03 | 0:43:09 | |
We spoke to Barbara Plett-Usher
a bit earlier in the | 0:43:09 | 0:43:11 | |
programme about Jerusalem. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:12 | |
Before that, though,
she sent in a report on the Senate | 0:43:12 | 0:43:15 | |
race in the US state of Alabama. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:17 | |
Roy Moore, the Republican candidate,
received quite the boost this week | 0:43:17 | 0:43:21 | |
after President Trump endorsed him. | 0:43:21 | 0:43:29 | |
The Republican National ,
he aslo resumed their support too. | 0:43:29 | 0:43:31 | |
It's a U-turn from a few weeks ago
when allegations of sexual | 0:43:31 | 0:43:34 | |
misconduct came out against him. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:35 | |
But as Barbara reports,
many evangelical Christians have | 0:43:35 | 0:43:37 | |
stood by Judge Moore all along. | 0:43:37 | 0:43:38 | |
On a Sunday morning in Alabama
almost everyone goes to church. And | 0:43:42 | 0:43:46 | |
more than half of the state's
Christians are white evangelicals | 0:43:46 | 0:43:49 | |
and for them it is about being saved
by faith in Jesus and holding the | 0:43:49 | 0:43:53 | |
line against moral decay. But they
are standing with Roy Moore despite | 0:43:53 | 0:43:59 | |
the allegations of immoral
behaviour. Karen is a long-time | 0:43:59 | 0:44:07 | |
supporter. The actually --
accusations of sexual conduct sound | 0:44:07 | 0:44:11 | |
to it like a political smear
campaign coming one month before the | 0:44:11 | 0:44:14 | |
Senate election. I think people are
trying to label him as a paedophile | 0:44:14 | 0:44:20 | |
and that word is trying to spread
like wildfire and I just don't | 0:44:20 | 0:44:24 | |
believe it. Would you change your
support for him if they turned out | 0:44:24 | 0:44:28 | |
to be true? If there was proof. But
there can't be, unless he admitted | 0:44:28 | 0:44:36 | |
it I guess. He certainly has not, in
effect calling the victims liars and | 0:44:36 | 0:44:42 | |
he is using the pulpit to issue the
denials. They are not looking for | 0:44:42 | 0:44:48 | |
proof here because he is one of
their own, a champion of their fight | 0:44:48 | 0:44:51 | |
against issues like abortion and
same-sex marriage. Abortion is | 0:44:51 | 0:44:56 | |
immoral you think? Absolutely. But
not sexual misconduct? I do but | 0:44:56 | 0:45:03 | |
again these are accusations, very
old and people change over time and | 0:45:03 | 0:45:09 | |
what Roy Moore is today is what I'm
concerned about. If you are going to | 0:45:09 | 0:45:14 | |
be public in your testimony for
Jesus expect opposition. This past | 0:45:14 | 0:45:19 | |
once Roy Moore to take his mission
to Washington and he believes | 0:45:19 | 0:45:23 | |
political power is needed to restore
American Christian roots. We have | 0:45:23 | 0:45:26 | |
seen our country go to the left
believing things it never did the | 0:45:26 | 0:45:31 | |
first 200 years of its existence and
I think a lot of that is fed by | 0:45:31 | 0:45:36 | |
Hollywood and things like that but
he is one of the few that I have met | 0:45:36 | 0:45:39 | |
and I think I have ever voted for
that you could count on when he gets | 0:45:39 | 0:45:43 | |
in there that he will do what he
said he would. Roy Moore has a loyal | 0:45:43 | 0:45:48 | |
following here in the Bible belt
because of his reputation as a | 0:45:48 | 0:45:53 | |
crusader for traditional values but
there are plenty in Alabama who say | 0:45:53 | 0:45:56 | |
he's not kind of Christian. I
diverse coalition of Christian | 0:45:56 | 0:46:00 | |
leaders felt compelled to take a
stand in response to the support. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:05 | |
This pasta is one of them. He makes
my job harder. I am proud to reach | 0:46:05 | 0:46:12 | |
people who think that Christianity
is a hateful and bigoted religion. | 0:46:12 | 0:46:15 | |
It is hard for you? This is what
spiritual warfare really means. For | 0:46:15 | 0:46:21 | |
this evangelical Christian it is a
battle that involves both candidates | 0:46:21 | 0:46:24 | |
and he cannot vote for either. The
only reason we having this | 0:46:24 | 0:46:28 | |
conversation is because both
candidates are extreme in one or | 0:46:28 | 0:46:31 | |
another. He is talking about
abortion. Roy Moore's opponent Doug | 0:46:31 | 0:46:37 | |
Jones support no restrictions at all
but Colin is also frustrated by what | 0:46:37 | 0:46:42 | |
he sees as damaging moral
compromises made by Moore's | 0:46:42 | 0:46:45 | |
supporters. The real question for
conservative evangelicals is, is | 0:46:45 | 0:46:50 | |
there any single thing a
conservative Republican candidate | 0:46:50 | 0:46:53 | |
that could do to make you not vote
for him? I have not heard the answer | 0:46:53 | 0:46:57 | |
to that. The election has become a
showcase for the links between | 0:46:57 | 0:47:01 | |
religion and politics and the power
of this has to shape Washington. But | 0:47:01 | 0:47:06 | |
it has also forced eight spiritual
debate about the essence of | 0:47:06 | 0:47:10 | |
Christianity in America's
conservative heartland. | 0:47:10 | 0:47:12 | |
Where have we got to with the state
of this race, Anthony? A couple of | 0:47:19 | 0:47:25 | |
polls in the past two days put Doug
Jones up by four and another blood | 0:47:25 | 0:47:29 | |
Roy Moore up by eight. It is a tough
race to get a gauge on -- put Roy | 0:47:29 | 0:47:35 | |
Moore. It will boil down to how many
Republicans crossed the island and | 0:47:35 | 0:47:41 | |
vote for Doug Jones or stay home.
Alabama is very conservative as | 0:47:41 | 0:47:46 | |
Barbara showed and the fact that the
Democrat is even within striking | 0:47:46 | 0:47:50 | |
distance is pretty remarkable and it
shows the unease with Roy Moore as a | 0:47:50 | 0:47:54 | |
candidate for the Senate but the
feeling like they need another | 0:47:54 | 0:47:58 | |
Republican vote in that Senate, they
can't turn their backs. Thank you. | 0:47:58 | 0:48:06 | |
Another story to ask you about
concerns Al Franken, the Democratic | 0:48:06 | 0:48:11 | |
senator, because now at least two
dozen Democrats are calling for him | 0:48:11 | 0:48:15 | |
to resign after a sixth woman made a
claim of sexual misconduct against | 0:48:15 | 0:48:19 | |
him. Where have we got to on this
one? A statement coming tomorrow? | 0:48:19 | 0:48:26 | |
There is a statement from Al Franken
coming tomorrow and he will have a | 0:48:26 | 0:48:30 | |
press event and many people are
expecting at that point that he is | 0:48:30 | 0:48:34 | |
going to announce his resignation
although there has been no certain | 0:48:34 | 0:48:39 | |
word but it is remarkable how
quickly this happened. A couple of | 0:48:39 | 0:48:43 | |
women Democratic senators came out
and said that he needed to step down | 0:48:43 | 0:48:47 | |
and it became a landslide, about a
dozen Democratic female senators | 0:48:47 | 0:48:54 | |
coming out and then some male
senators as well to the point where | 0:48:54 | 0:48:57 | |
we are now at almost two dozen
including the head of the Democratic | 0:48:57 | 0:49:02 | |
National committee and you have to
draw this in contrast to the way the | 0:49:02 | 0:49:06 | |
Republican Party is treating Roy
Moore where the National committee | 0:49:06 | 0:49:10 | |
poled out after those initial
allegations and now Donald Trump | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
comes in with both feet by Tim and
the Republican money is putting | 0:49:14 | 0:49:17 | |
money back in and that is a
contrast. The Democrats feel they | 0:49:17 | 0:49:21 | |
can make that because they are
taking a firmer stand on Al Franken. | 0:49:21 | 0:49:25 | |
It is -- is it reasonable to say
that they are making cartilage and | 0:49:25 | 0:49:28 | |
not just connected of these
individual races but to do with | 0:49:28 | 0:49:31 | |
their pits in the midterms in a
little while -- their pitch? That | 0:49:31 | 0:49:36 | |
has to be something that they are
thinking about them it makes it | 0:49:36 | 0:49:41 | |
harder for them to make the case if
someone like Al Franken who has a | 0:49:41 | 0:49:45 | |
steady drumbeat of allegations
coming out is still in the Senate. | 0:49:45 | 0:49:49 | |
Although you have to remember that
he and John Connors yesterday, a | 0:49:49 | 0:49:56 | |
senior Democratic congressman and
member of the House of | 0:49:56 | 0:49:58 | |
Representatives also announced his
resignation, they are from safe | 0:49:58 | 0:50:01 | |
Democratic seat and will be replaced
by Democrats but Roy Moore is in a | 0:50:01 | 0:50:05 | |
fight for a Republican state. It
would be interesting to see the if | 0:50:05 | 0:50:10 | |
it were reversed and Democrats were
facing the prospect of losing Al | 0:50:10 | 0:50:14 | |
Franken's seek to a Republican, if
they would still have this | 0:50:14 | 0:50:18 | |
principled stand. -- his seat. I
expect in time there will be a | 0:50:18 | 0:50:22 | |
chance for them to prove that they
really stand by their principles on | 0:50:22 | 0:50:25 | |
this, I don't think this is the last
politician who will be swept up in | 0:50:25 | 0:50:31 | |
these ongoing sexual harassment
allegations. Thank you, Anthony. I | 0:50:31 | 0:50:36 | |
want to end the programme with a
report from BBC London. | 0:50:36 | 0:50:42 | |
Report now from BBC London on calls
for tighter regulations | 0:50:42 | 0:50:44 | |
better protect au pairs
in the UK from exploitation. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:46 | |
Most are from EU countries
but they are not classed as workers | 0:50:46 | 0:50:49 | |
and so they are not protected
by employment laws. | 0:50:49 | 0:50:51 | |
That means some girls and young
women can be vulnerable. | 0:50:51 | 0:50:54 | |
Alpa Patel is the reporter. | 0:50:54 | 0:51:03 | |
Some on this march are strangers,
almost all our foreign au pairs. | 0:51:04 | 0:51:09 | |
They have come to support each other
and make a stand against | 0:51:09 | 0:51:12 | |
exploitation and abuse. We need
Ellie, not her real name. We have | 0:51:12 | 0:51:19 | |
disguised her face and changed her
voice for legal reasons. She tells | 0:51:19 | 0:51:22 | |
us about her previous host family
also the family were very violent. | 0:51:22 | 0:51:29 | |
They were violent with each other
and I felt really uncomfortable and | 0:51:29 | 0:51:34 | |
unsafe. I also did 14 hours a day,
seven days a week, it was too much | 0:51:34 | 0:51:41 | |
and I left. We also spoke to
Isabella, again we have disguised | 0:51:41 | 0:51:47 | |
her identity for legal reasons. She
says she worked up to 70 hours a | 0:51:47 | 0:51:51 | |
week for just £100. I started at
seven o'clock, I tidied, three | 0:51:51 | 0:51:59 | |
washing machines, I cried after the
first day, my husband told me to go | 0:51:59 | 0:52:02 | |
to the room and she said you work to
me. After three weeks I escaped. She | 0:52:02 | 0:52:08 | |
was scaring me. Isabella was
homeless in a foreign country but | 0:52:08 | 0:52:15 | |
luckily she was put in touch with
Maggie. She runs an au pair agency | 0:52:15 | 0:52:20 | |
in Hampstead and found her another
host family but only after she | 0:52:20 | 0:52:25 | |
provided a clean criminal record and
two references, something not | 0:52:25 | 0:52:30 | |
required by the current system. Some
of them are working all hours. She | 0:52:30 | 0:52:36 | |
said she was working weekends
frequently, seven days a week. Au | 0:52:36 | 0:52:42 | |
pairs are entitled to two completely
free days each week. But they get | 0:52:42 | 0:52:46 | |
really bullied by families, some of
them. It is unbelievable. They talk | 0:52:46 | 0:52:51 | |
about slavery getting so much
publicity at the moment, some of it | 0:52:51 | 0:52:57 | |
is going on with some of these
families and the way they are | 0:52:57 | 0:53:00 | |
treating oh pairs. The government
says is an au pair is the victim of | 0:53:00 | 0:53:05 | |
modern slavery it should be reported
to the police. According to | 0:53:05 | 0:53:10 | |
government guidelines, au pairs are
not workers and so are not eligible | 0:53:10 | 0:53:14 | |
for minimum wage or paid holiday.
They are meant to be treated as a | 0:53:14 | 0:53:17 | |
member of the family and given a
room and meals. In exchange, they do | 0:53:17 | 0:53:24 | |
around 30 hours of light housework
and baby-sitting a week. In return | 0:53:24 | 0:53:27 | |
for what is called pocket money of
£70 or more a week. But we found | 0:53:27 | 0:53:34 | |
online adverts that went beyond the
recommended hours, adverts asking | 0:53:34 | 0:53:40 | |
for excessive household tasks and
even proxy parenting. The title of | 0:53:40 | 0:53:44 | |
the advert appear is up there carer.
Rosie Cox has carried out extensive | 0:53:44 | 0:53:51 | |
research and has been trying to
raise awareness about open-air | 0:53:51 | 0:53:55 | |
expedition for over a decade --
about au pairs exploitation. The | 0:53:55 | 0:54:00 | |
cupboard needs to be firm about what
this is, whether they should be paid | 0:54:00 | 0:54:05 | |
minimum wage but at the moment
nobody knows where au pairs are, I | 0:54:05 | 0:54:11 | |
don't have to be registered, they
are this unknown population and we | 0:54:11 | 0:54:15 | |
need to think about how vulnerable,
and almost all young women we are | 0:54:15 | 0:54:19 | |
talking about inside people's homes.
Not every single au pair we met had | 0:54:19 | 0:54:26 | |
a negative story. Anna is Spanish
and looks after Isabel and Rufus in | 0:54:26 | 0:54:30 | |
non-head. For me, from the first
minute I arrived here I feel like a | 0:54:30 | 0:54:37 | |
member of the family. I always have
the weekends off. I have a lot of | 0:54:37 | 0:54:42 | |
time to know London and for me it is
amazing living here. Her host family | 0:54:42 | 0:54:50 | |
work long hours, they are one of
many families across London who rely | 0:54:50 | 0:54:56 | |
on au pairs to help with childcare
but experts warn without tighter | 0:54:56 | 0:55:01 | |
rules, au pairs I left open to
exploitation with few people to turn | 0:55:01 | 0:55:06 | |
to. | 0:55:06 | 0:55:08 | |
And that report and this edition of
Outside Source. Thank you for | 0:55:12 | 0:55:16 | |
watching, there is more information
on the main stories we are covering | 0:55:16 | 0:55:20 | |
on the BBC News website. I will see
you tomorrow at the same time for | 0:55:20 | 0:55:23 | |
more of the biggest global stories.
Thank you for watching. | 0:55:23 | 0:55:26 |