12/12/2017 Outside Source

Hello, this is Outside Source. We

start with the election that could

test President Trump's brand of

politics. All eyes are on this

firebrand Republican, will Alabama

voters choose to send him to the

Senate? President tells a climate

change in Paris that the world is

losing its fight against global

warming. Conditions against African

migrants detained in Libya, European

governments are accused of

complicity in their suffering.

Scientists are beginning to unlock

the secrets of a giant Stormont

Jupiter that larger than the Earth.

We'll be telling you what they

found. -- a giant storm on Jupiter.

Hello, and welcome to Outside

Source. Voting is underway in the US

state of Alabama. And this Senate

election has been marred not only by

scandal, but it could have

implications for President Trump. It

is a real tight race. It is a two

horse race between these two men -

the Democrat candidate Doug Jones

and the Republican candidate Roy

Moore. Let's look at how Roy more

votes. He arrives on a horse,

apparently this is a bit of a

tradition of his, to arrive to cast

his vote on horseback. We wouldn't

normally be paying this much

attention to a Senate election, but

this one is significant in the

number of ways. First, Roy Moore has

been making headlines worldwide

after multiple claims were made

against him for once preying on

teenage girls. He has always denied

these allegations, and he did so

again at the final rally last night.

The Washington Post put out this

terrible, disgusting article, saying

I had done something. And I want you

all to understand something. They

said these women had not come

forward for nearly 40 years. But

they waited to 30 days before this

general election to come forward.

Now, a second reason why this

election is so important - the polls

are simply too close to call a

result. It's one of the issues of a

predicted low turnout. If Doug Jones

does win, this would be the first

Democrat Senate win in this deeply

Conservative state in over 20 years.

That's what the wanted when he hit

home to his supporters in a final

rally last night.

This election is

going to be one of the most

significant in our state's history

in a long, long time. And we've got

to make sure... We've got to make

sure that in this crossroads in

Alabama's history, we take the right

road.

To round it all off, this

election means an awful what

President Trump. He's been

supporting one more, despite the

allegations against him at the

weekend. The president held a rally

in Alabama in support of Mr Moore.

Now Donald Trump needs the

Republicans to win this seat in

order to keep their extremely slim

two seat majority in the Senate. He

needs to do that if he wants to be

able to pass laws ahead of next

year's mid-term congressional

elections. Well, this would also be

a victory for trouble's populist

brand of politics. Does this sound

familiar?

We are up to our neck in

alligators, up to our neck in people

who don't want change in Washington,

DC, they want to keep it the same,

keep the power, keep the prestige,

keep their position. And we've got

to change that.

That was at a final

drain the swamp rally last night. Mr

Moore is aligned with much of

trouble's views, including the

anti-establishment line, which has

been criticised by many fellow

Republicans -- much of Trump's

views. A win for Roy Moore could be

seen as a win for President Trump,

bringing the doubters in the party

to heal. Polls close at 8pm local

time. Let's talk to Katty Kay, who

has been monitoring this closely.

Simply too close to call?

Yes, the

opinion polls, some of them show

that Roy Moore is ahead by ten

points, and some of them show that

Doug Jones is ahead by ten points,

and people are wondering whether

voters here in Alabama or even

telling the pollsters the truth.

Some of them might feel when asked

about Roy Moore that they don't want

to tell a pollster that they are

going to vote for somebody who has

been accused of sexual harassment of

teenagers. Some on the other hand

may feel that they don't ever want

to say that they are going to vote

for a Democrat, even though they are

going to because their families come

from long lines of Republicans stop.

Let's not read too much into the

polls. Whatever happens here, it's

going to be fascinating. If Roy

Moore winds and goes to Washington

and carries with him a firebrand,

antiestablishment feeling, he upends

the Republican Party, there's no

guarantee that he will always vote

with his fellow Republicans, he's

been kind of at war with them too in

Washington. Or Doug Jones wins, and

for the first time since the early

1990s Alabama sends a Democrat to

the Senate, which would be

remarkable given how deeply

conservative this state is.

What are

the implications if the Democrats do

wind that?

, Republican majority in

the Senate is reduced, they would

only have a majority of one. That

makes it even harder for the

president to get his agenda passed,

because he could only afford to lose

one Republican senator, and things

don't get done. That's why you've

seen the president come out so

forcefully in support of Roy Moore.

But I think, you know, the bigger

risk, some Republicans are saying,

is if Roy Moore winds, and we've had

plenty of Republicans, even before

this allegations of sexual

harassment who came out and said

they couldn't vote for Roy Moore

because his position is really on

the extreme wing of the Conservative

movement, he has said that

homosexuality should be illegal,

that Muslims should be barred from

serving in Congress, who has likened

the Koran to Mein Kampf. Already on

a whole load of issues he was a

candidate who was pretty far out

there and to some Republicans were

already uncomfortable with.

Katty

Kay, thank you very much. Really

monitoring that vote. It will be

fascinating to get the result. We

will bring that to you as and when

we get it. Now we will turn to the

French president, and Emmanuel

Macron. He has issued a stern

warning. He said the world is losing

the battle against climate change.

Now, here he is addressing around 50

world leaders, senior ministers,

prime ministers, at a climate summit

in Paris. This is what he said.

TRANSLATION:

We are losing this

battle. Those who came before us had

an advantage. They could say, we

didn't know, and it was true. But

for the last 20 years or so, we've

known, and we find out more

everyday.

There have been plenty of

climate meetings in the past, as you

will no doubt the call. What's

different about this one, Lucy

Williamson is in Paris, and she

explains.

One thing that is being

talked about a lot at this meeting

is transparency. The idea that

companies need to be, they are under

pressure to be more transparent

about the carbon footprint of the

business deals they do, the

investments they make, and there

have been some moves in that

direction. We've also seen the World

Bank has come out and said that as

of 2019 it will not fund exploration

for oil and gas. We've had other

commitments by big energy companies

here in Europe to do much more with

renewables. One company saying it

wants to be 100% renewable. Another

French company saying it was going

to increase solar power by four

times what it provides now. I think

we are seeing some concrete

commitments by individual companies

and organisations.

Lucy Williamson.

The other thing that is different

about this climate conference is

that even though this man, let me

bring him up, there he is again,

Donald Trump, he isn't present, his

country's looming large, the lack of

its presence is really, really

tenable and visible in this climate

conference. Back in June of course

he announced that the US was pulling

out of the Paris deal on combating

climate change. And President Macron

spoke a bit earlier about his

disappointment at that decision. But

also his hope that President Trump

may change that decision.

The US did

sign the Paris agreement. It's

extremely aggressive to decide on

his own just to leave. And nowhere a

to push the orders to renegotiate

because one decided to leave. I'm

sorry to say that. It doesn't fly.

So, sorry, but I think it's a big

responsibility, and I'm pretty sure

that my friend President Trump will

change his mind in the coming months

or years.

Optimism there are, isn't

that? Fighting climate change isn't

just about developed countries like

France and the US. Christian Aid is

one of the many charities at this

one planet conference. And its

spokesperson has said that the

missing piece of the jigsaw is the

funding to help the world poorer

countries access clean energy so

that they don't follow that fossil

fuel powered path into the rich

world. And that's something that

I've speaking about with the World

Service environment correspondent.

There has also been criticism that

France, although it has hosted this

meeting, France is still investing

in. Fuel investments. So that

question, you know, how does it do

it? That is definitely there. And

again, it's one country that, again,

we know that it happened in Paris,

so definitely France's relation with

that treaty would be quite close. It

is its darling treaty. But again

when it comes to implementation of

that treaty. It is a huge commit

huge business which has yet to be

thrashed. It is just a vague

agreement that was signed. The

detail of how it will be implemented

and who will verify that is supposed

to happen next year, in 2018. That's

when that's not passed by cracked.

What about China? It is a huge

stakeholder in this?

China, on the

home front, it has been applauded

and congratulated for doing so many

things. But again, China is

elsewhere in the thing in fossil

fuels. Many call plants elsewhere,

in Africa, for instance, the

Balkans, electricity in Bosnia. We

reported on the coal industry, the

Balkans are seeing a lot of Chinese

investment. Not to forget, the China

thing is, China has a different kind

of battle with developed countries.

What China and India, these emerging

economies say, is that you,

developed countries, you have

already done your bit, you've got

your chance to develop, now it is

our turn. So you've got to make

those massive cuts in emissions, not

us. That is still there, that battle

is still there. Last month, when

they have this climate conference,

that argument once again surfaced.

And it was quite, quite serious.

Developing countries effectively

want the chance to carry on

developing?

So, it depends. For

instance, if you talk about India,

China, as I said, or even this

grouping called the six, Brazil,

South Africa, China, India, they

have always had this argument.

Again, there are some countries that

they say that if they got the right

money, the right, what is known as

the technical know-how, the

technical transfer, the knowledge

transfer, then they are happy to

change, to change gear and get into

the cleaner energy. But mind you,

there are countries that have huge

deposits of coal resources, for

instance. The own oil resources

deposits. And they argue that, we

have to use what we have, because

they are cheap deposits, cheap

resources, and it's very expensive.

And then the technology transfer,

which they expect from developed

countries, it runs into trillions of

dollars. And that is again another

battle. They've always been arguing,

can you give us that money, that

technical transfer? That's the

question. Developed countries say,

we have been doing so. But

developing countries say, no, it's

been double counted, regular aid has

been counted as climate aid, it's

not happening. This was again, this

time also we saw in Paris, and it's

not going to go away any time soon.

He is a stark warning against

European governments. They are

knowingly complicit in the torture

and abuse of refugees and migrants

in Libya. That is according to

Amnesty International. As you can

see from this map,... Let me just

bring this up. This is a map that

shows the main routes that migrants

trying to reach Europe take. Now,

the biggest orange arrows represent

the biggest flow of migrants. To try

to prevent that, Amnesty says that

the European Union is actively

supporting a system of abuse and

exploitation of the Libyan coast.

You're probably familiar with images

like this. They show the Italian

navy rescuing migrants from the

Mediterranean. Well, after the EU

started giving funding to the Libyan

coast guard, the number of migrants

actually reaching Italy has sharply

dropped. But Amnesty says that the

Libyan Coast Guard is actually

working with criminal gangs who are

guilty of a range of abuses. With

the knowledge of EU officials. Now,

this is quite difficult to see.

These images were shot by the NGO

group C watch. They were shocked

last of them by. As you can just

about make out, you can see a fight.

And the NGO claims that this shows

members of the Libyan Coast Guard

punching a refugee. That refugee

then jumps back into the water and

is dragged along as the boat picks

up speed. So, C watch says that such

actions contributed to the drowning

of around 50 people. Now, Amnesty

International says that migrants

intercepted by the Libyan cows guard

are sent to detention centres like

this one -- Libyan Coast Guard.

Terrible conditions.

this one -- Libyan Coast Guard.

Terrible conditions. Unlawful

this one -- Libyan Coast Guard.

Terrible conditions. Unlawful

killings as well. The BBC filmed in

one of these types of centres back

in September. This is how one inmate

described it and this is how our

reporter saw all of this.

Here, it's

like in hell. It's like in hell, for

me. That's how I feel.

This is the

reality for those being held in

detention in Libya. The men here

have asked us to show these

conditions. They are very anxious

for all of this to be seen. This is

prison by any other name. The only

hope of release for these men is to

be deported back to their home

countries, but that can take time to

arrangement some of those here have

been languishing in this centre for

six months. Orla Guerin there. The

EU has hit back at those serious

allegations. They have given a

statement them said the situation is

not bad because of the European

Union, it's slightly better than the

EU. They said...

That EU spokesperson giving that a

justification of those very...

Against those very serious

allegations. We have lots more

coming up here on Outside Source.

Stay with us. We will dive into

Jupiter's red spot. The probe sheds

like on the biggest storm in the

solar system. We will be leave to

hear the details.

The Met Home Office has warned of

icy conditions that are expected to

persist until tomorrow. Our

correspondent has this report.

A bed of snow with freezing

conditions - across parts

of the Midlands it's not been easy,

icy roads and extremely

cold temperatures.

For the children, though,

it's been another day off school.

We've been obviously

sledging, snowball fights.

We've been like building snowmen.

Yeah.

Here in Shropshire, more

than 200 schools were closed

and in Gloucestershire

and Herefordshire almost

100 remained shut.

It is pretty difficult trying

to find them things to do.

You know, keep them occupied.

When you've got childcare issues

and you're working full-time then,

obviously, it would be disruptive

to you because obviously the schools

are closing on a day-to-day basis

and you're not knowing

until that last-minute.

Obviously, it's very

disruptive to the home.

Well, it's bitterly cold here,

the temperature is around minus four

Celsius and there's no sign of this

snow melting any time soon.

As night falls, the temperatures

are expected to plunge even further.

We are live from the BBC News room.

Voters in the US state of Alabama

are choosing between a firebrand

Republican accused of sexual

misconduct and a Democrat seeking an

upset win in Senate elections. Let's

take a look at what stories we are

covering in the BBC News room. A

former US Sergeant who defected to

North Korea and was Pyongyanged

prisoner for years has died. That is

on the BBC World Service. Man flu

may not be a myth as many believe.

Researchers in Canada suggest there

is evidence that men suffer more

than women from the symptoms of the

common cold and they are not simply

exaggerating.

The US Secretary of State Rex

Tillerson has been speaking about

his country's foreign policy,

particularly towards North Korea.

Here's some of what he had to say.

... Time is marching on with each

additional test North Korea does

demonstrate the advancement of its

programme. The most recent inter

continental missile test

demonstrates they have capability to

continue to advance their programme.

We would expect they are doing the

same on other elements of an

integrated nuclear weapon system.

Rex Tillerson speaking about North

Korea. Our correspondent is at the

US State Department for us. Barbara,

does Rex Tillerson think North Korea

has the ability to put a nuclear

weapon on a missile?

I don't think

he was specifically declaring that

is the case. He was talking about

the seriousness of the threat.

Ultimately the administration might

decide it might need a military

response. His whole line during the

speech and previously was that he

was exercising diplomacied and he

said he would do that until the

first bomb dropped, if it did. He

had earlier talked about progress.

He said he believed he had made

progress in his campaign to win

international support to isolate

Pyongyang in a way it had not been

isolated before. He said he was

reaching the zenith of all his

efforts. That wasn't a victory. The

North Koreans were working on their

weapons, developing and testing them

he said he hoped they would change

course because if they didn't the

diplomatic community wouldn't be

able to do anything else. If that

was the case he would take it as a

personal failure. He also has said

if he hands over to the Secretary of

Defence he is can department he will

succeed in whatever he does. He he

was outlining there that the US

policy is diplomacy. What he is

doing is working in the sense,

getting support fo it, but the

threat is growing.

He also gave an

internal speech at the State

Department. What did he say?

Yes.

That was long overdue, actually, I

think. He talked about his efforts

to redesign the State Department.

There hasn't been very much

information for the past months and

has caused anxiety here because it's

accompanied by steep budget cuts. So

he outlined in more detail than ever

before what he is after, in terms of

revamping the information technology

which is outdated. He talked about

streamlining functions, including

policy process and how careers are

managed. Immediate changes could be

made, he called them quick win that

is would make work easier for

employees. I watched, he got

applause from time to time. I went

and did a straw poll afterwards, a

thumbs up and thumbs down because

people don't want to speak publicly.

I got more thumbs up. People who

feel more positive are more likely

to respond. There is frustration

about his management's style.

Scepticism about where the project

is going. It's a communication

problem to a degree, what he is

doing hasn't been effectively

communicated. He has been able to

hire a senior communications

official talking about a broad and

comprehensive Strang gill going

forward. We will see how that plays

out.

Thank you. Some business news.

The world's biggest social media

site, Facebook, is making changes to

the way it records where it makes

its money. Up until now it has been

routing its earnings via its

headquarters in Ireland. It will

book the income where it is earned.

What does this mean? Dave the

question we want to know is - will

Facebook pay more in taxes?

Good

question. We won't know that until

perhaps this time next year when we

have had a year's worth of this

change. The reason why it's not

obvious if they will pay more tax

it's simply because even though they

are going to be booking those

earnings in countries outside of

Ireland, which previously didn't do,

it funneled all of its ad recipe

knews into Ireland where there is a

low-tax rate for them. It will pay

more tax on those it will invest in

different areas next year in

expanding what it does, particularly

when it comes to adding more human

employees to monitor content on

Facebook. What that means is they

may be able to offset tax in

different areas. This change may not

have a big impact on its overall

rate of tax that it is paying and

the amount of tax it pays as a

result. A tricky one. May not make

too big a difference in practical

terms.

Dave, as always, thank you

very much there. Dave Lee in San

Francisco, thank you. Bike sharing

has grown massively around the

world, including in Australia where

it hasn't all been smooth sailing.

Just lying down all over the place.

It's all a bit of a I think it's

mess.

A good idea. I don't think

it's going to work. People here have

their own bikes if they ride.

People

are kind of like trolling the

system. They have thrown their

bikes... It's a bit of a problem.

They are park beinged where they

have left. Pushed over in the side

of the road, in the gutter. Major

issued. They are uncontrolled. They

need to be operating in a better

way.

Based on experience from other

countries, it normally takes six to

12 months for people to get used to

it and enjoy the service. It's a

service that's good for people. It's

convenient for people, it's

healthier and greener. A lot of

people don't understand that is why

it will take a little bit of time.

You can see those schemes

increasingly in cities. There is one

in London. Never seen a bike left

upside down. Let us know what you

think. You can get in touch with me

and the team. Thank you for watching

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