19/12/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

It is one hour of international

news.

We'll begin with an insight

into Harvey Weinstein's world.

He said nothing at all had happened

and he swore on the life of his wife

and his children, which was his best

get out of jail card that he used

quite a lot. That is President

Trump's national-security adviser.

And this was his message for Kim

Jong-un.

All options are on the

table and we have to be prepared, if

necessary, to compel the

denuclearisation of North Korea,

without the cooperation of that

regime.

The Saudi military says

it's intercepted another

rocket that was fired

into Saudi Arabia from Yemen.

We'll talk to BBC Arabic.

And we'll report from Seoul -

after the death of one

of South Korea's biggest pop stars,

in a suspected suicide.

You will know that every time, we

bring together the best of the

international journalism, and the

biggest global stories.

Two big interviews to bring you.

The first is with a former colleague

of Harvey Weinstein.

She sat down with Emily Maitlis

and gave details of what it was like

to work with the former Hollywood

Producer.

The second is with President

Trumps's National Security

Advisor, HR McMaster.

About North Korea, alleged Russian

interference and the election.

Let's begin with Harvey

Weinstein, because a former

colleague of his has told the BBC

she was warned about

about his behaviour -

and tried to warn other women

he could behave in an

inappropriate manner.

It seems so recent, given how much

has happened, but it was only

back in October that

the New York Times detailed

many allegations of sexual

harassment against Harvey Weinstein.

And the allegations

have kept coming.

Among his accusers

are the actresses Rose

McGowan and Ashley Judd.

To date, 80 women have come

forward with allegations.

This has become

a much broader story,

the "metoo" campaign.

More than 100 powerful

and influential men across a range

of industries faced claims

of sexual harassment.

Including big Hollywood

stars like Kevin Spacey

and Dustin Hoffman.

Well, this is Zelda Perkins' story.

She was a colleague

of Harvey Weinstein -

and has spoken to Emily Maitlis.

It came to a head when he sexually

assaulted, attempted

rape on your colleague?

Yes, we were at the Venice Film

Festival and he tried to rape her.

What did you do?

She was extremely distressed.

She were shaking, very distressed,

clearly in shock. She did not want

anyone to know.

She was terrified

of the consequences.

What would happen. And I spoke with

her.

I tried to calm her

for about half an hour.

Then I went straight downstairs

to where Harvey was having

a business meeting on the terrace,

and told him he needed

to come with me right away.

For me to have broken into a meeting

like that was unusual

and he did not question me,

he came with me straightaway

because he knew why I was angry.

And so serious.

So you accused him

of attempted rape?

Yes.

He denied it?

Yes.

He said nothing at all had happened

and he swore on the life of his wife

and children, which was his

get out of jail card.

He used that quite a lot.

Here's the BBC's Entertainment

correspondent Colin Paterson

with more on this story.

The two women secured legal

representation and they were hoping

to bring down Harvey Weinstein by

revealing his behaviour to the Walt

Disney Co. Because they owned his

company, Miramax. But the lawyers of

the women said this was not a

realistic option and the only option

was damages agreement. This was to

include the creation of procedures

at Miramax and therapy for Harvey

Weinstein. This was not known if

these stipulations were carried out.

Zelda Perkins signed a nondisclosure

agreement and received £125,000 in

payments. In interview, she calls

for Britain to follow the example of

a number US states and end the

practice of allowing sexual assaults

to be hidden behind nondisclosure

agreements. A spokesperson for

Harvey Weinstein says he

unequivocally denies any allegations

of nonconsensual six.

More details of that story on the

BBC website.

Donald Trump is on the brink

of his first major

legislative victory.

In the last hour, what is being

described as the biggest overhaul

of the US tax system in 30 years

was voted through the House

of Representatives.

Here's Speaker Paul Ryan

making that announcement.

PDAs are 227 and the nays 203. It is

adopted and the motion to consider

is laid upon the table.

Speaker Ryan

looking pleased about that

development. The next test is the

Senate. It will be a close vote, but

it looks like it could go the way of

the Republicans, partly because of a

decision made late on Monday by

these two senators, Susan Collins

and Mike Leigh, who had been holding

off from saying they would support

it but have in line.

The Republicans are looking happy,

needless to say, the Democrats are

not. They are concerned about an

estimated $1.4 trillion that could

be added to America's deficit. And

it is the principles behind this,

the Democrats criticising Bernie

Sanders. On Twitter, he says this...

Rajini Vaidyanathan

is in Washington.

How is it the Democrats can say it

will not help working families, the

Republicans say it will? Can we not

look at the legislation and work

this out?

If you look at the way the

House of Representatives voted, it

certainly is very much divided down

party lines and not a similar --

single Democrat voted for this tax

reform, although 12 Republicans did

vote the other way, but they still

were able to pass the bill. In

answer to your question, this is

very much ideological eat a divided

issue. You have Republicans who

believe cutting taxes, one of the

landmark things in this bill, is to

reduce corporation tax to 21%.

Republicans believe by reducing cuts

like this, it will stimulate growth

in the economy, increase jobs and

boost GDP. Republicans have that

view and on the other side,

Democrats look at this tax plan and

they see it is poorer Americans who

will not be making the most games.

Rich and wealthy Americans are the

ones, according to independent

analysis, who will make the most in

this plan. And there are concerns

tax cuts come at a cost. Democrats

concerned entitlement and welfare

programmes could in the next year be

cut in order to pay for this.

And

aside from the finances, the

politics of this are fantastic for

Donald Trump, a great way to finish

the year.

Yes, he has described this

as a Christmas gift for the American

people. And you could say it is a

Christmas gift for him and for the

Republican Party. This is his first

major legislative victory. I spent a

long time during the election

campaign travelling across the

United States and two big things

people said they wanted changed were

repealing and replacing ObamaCare

and also reducing taxes. But one

thing voters would say, will

Congress ever be able to get

anything done? We have not seen

bipartisan agreement on this, but

Republicans have rallied behind this

tax plan eventually and this will be

seen as a huge victory for Donald

Trump and something he can say to

his base as he completes nearly his

first year in office.

Thank you very

much indeed.

And we will go back to the States to

look at what this new tax

legislation will mean for America's

biggest companies. Staying in the

US...

President Trump's National Security

Advisor, HR McMaster, has

been speaking to the BBC.

It was a wide-ranging interview -

he talked about North Korea,

alleged Russian interference

in the US election -

and his boss, Donald Trump.

Yalda Hakim was asking

the questions.

We'll hear from her in a moment.

First, here's HR

McMaster on North Korea.

You committed to a peaceful

resolution to this.

Of course, that

is what we want, but we are not

committed, we are committed to a

resolution. We want the resolution

to be peaceful, but as the President

has said, all options are on the

table and we have to be prepared if

necessary to compel the

denuclearisation of North Korea,

without the cooperation of that

regime.

Yalda gave us her thoughts

on the interview

with HR McMaster.

It is difficult to work out exactly

what they intend to do and when I

pushed on whether war was imminent,

HR McMaster did not go as far as

saying it was, but he said, all

options are on the table. What they

are trying to do, from what I

gathered from the conversation with

HR McMaster, they want to make sure

that they maintain the pressure on

North Korea, and that is why they

say talks are not something that

they want to entertain at this

point. But they must ensure that

countries like China, Russia and

themselves, the United States,

maintain the pressure on North

Korea, to ensure that they do not

obtain any weapons. He said it was

absolutely intolerable for the

United States and for North Korea to

have weapons, to use against any of

the countries in the region and,

indeed, the world.

On that issue of

talks, stay with us please. You got

in the US policy on whether to talk

directly to North Korea and you

could be forgiven for being

confused. Is Tuesday, Secretary of

State Rex Tillerson said this, grow

within 24 hours of saying that, but

the White House and the State

Department was saying, North Korea

has to abandon its nuclear weapons

or commit to do that before any

talks.

What the President has said and the

Senate of state, if I just last

week, now is not the time to talk.

What we have to do is see a

fundamental change in behaviour. A

fundamental shift in conditions.

Because we cannot afford any more,

because of how far down the road

they are in these capabilities, to

repeat the mistakes of the past.

Would you be willing to talk to the

North Koreans and talk across the

table bilaterally?

Under what

conditions, is a question?

If there

was no agenda, just talk.

That is

really going to be up to the

President to decide. What is clear

now is that we cannot in any way

relent on the effort to continue the

isolation, the regime,

diplomatically and economically.

To

what extent it is you feel HR

McMaster was speaking on behalf of

Mr Trump or just someone separate

but an adviser to the President?

It

seems they want to present a united

front after that confusion that the

Secretary of State created last week

when he said the door was open. He

said they would talk to the North

Koreans and sit across the table,

that there were no preconditions or

agenda and they could talk about the

weather if they wanted, but at least

talk. So he wanted to clarify that.

I said there was confusion and can

he understand the mixed message from

the White House? He wanted to

present a united front, that the

White House has one message, the

denuclearisation North Korea. And

now is not the time for talks. The

door might open at some point, and

that was not the case at this point

in time.

One other thing from your

interview is to do with Russia. Not

relevant just because of those

alleged interferences in the US

election, but there is a greater

global struggle. America must --

Donald Trump admitted such

yesterday, he said...

This is what HR McMaster said about

Russia.

What we endeavour to do with

Russia, three things. Of course we

have the counter Russia's

destabilising behaviour and the

sophisticated campaigns are

propaganda and disinformation.

Efforts to polarise communities and

pit them against each other,

especially in the democratic world

and in a free and open society, and

we also need to prevent war with

Russia and so we need a more

holistic view of deterring conflict

with Russia.

And find areas of

cooperation. And do you believe

Russia medalled in the 2016

elections?

I believe that Russia has

engaged in a very sophisticated

campaigns version to affect our

confidence in democratic

institutions, in democratic

processes. Including... Including

your elections? What they used as

propaganda and disinformation, on

both sides.

He did not want to

answer that question, did he?

No, as

you can imagine, this is something

that has been the focus of so much

in the United States. And globally.

Whether President Trump will

acknowledge whether Russia

interfered in the 2016 elections.

And so HR McMaster was really quite

reluctant to go as far as saying

that Russia had interfered. But in

the end, he said the President had

acknowledged publicly and he

acknowledges it and he acknowledges

what the US community has said for

well over a year now, that the

Russians had been involved in some

form of interference. But he went

back and reiterated that really it

was cyber tools the Russians are

using to challenge the democracy is

not just in Russia, but other places

like Mexico and Catalonia, he

pointed out as well. But I really

had to pushing to get an answer on

that.

had to pushing to get an answer on

that.

He is hugely influential, what

impression did you leave of what

this man wants to create?

The sense

that I got is that

this man wants to create?

The sense

that I got is that he is known to be

a soldier and scholar, he is a

strategist who thinks long-term.

When I asked him if his life would

be easier if Donald Trump stopped

treating you said I can only control

what I can control. He said his

focus was on the national security

of the American people and to

present all the options for the

president weather on Russia, China

or North Korea. You really want to

serve his country. That's the sense

I got. If you'd like to see a full

interview it will play out on

Friday.

You will also find it online

as well. In a few minutes we will go

to the west Coast on the latest

investigation into that train

derailment. It was going almost

three times as fast as it should

have been.

A man has been sentenced to 20 years

in prison for throwing acid into the

crowd at a packed nightclub. Arthur

Collins, the former boyfriend of a

reality TV star, was seen squirting

the liquid into a group. The

commander of Hackney police says the

sentence is appropriate.

It's a very

clear message that anyone who

carries or uses acid will go to

prison for a long period of time.

The trauma and psychological

distress of those people is huge.

This was a predetermined attack. He

knew exactly what he was taking into

that they club. For whatever reasons

he used it three times. His intended

victims were burned with acid but

lots of innocent people were there

and he did not care about what he

did.

We're live in the BBC newsroom.

Donald Trump's national-security

adviser has been speaking to the BBC

about the threat posed by North

Korea and Russia's meddling in the

US election. First of all, at least

11 people have been killed in Mexico

when a bus carrying foreign tourists

crashed. The bus was travelling to

the eastern tip of the peninsular

when it veered off the road. The

nationalities of the dead have not

been established. A mass grave has

been identified. 650,000 Muslims

have fled an offensive by the

military. Let's talk about that

train which derailed in the US. It

was doing almost three times the

speed limit. Here's a statement we

heard from the authorities.

The

information we have, the

investigator in charge has obtained

the download of the data recorder.

Preliminary investigations are that

it was travelling at 80 mph in a 30

mph track.

This train was travelling

at 130 kilometres when it was

supposed to be doing 50. The

derailment happened so far Seattle.

Three people died and 70 were

injured. It was heading towards

Portland but it never reached its

destination. It left the tracks on a

bridge over the interstate high

five. This is one picture we have of

the scene. You can see this arrow.

This is the front of the train, a

long way from the tracks. You can

see the devastation between the

front and the back of the train. Let

me show you some of the latest

pictures to come into the scene. You

can see some very heavy lifting as

the carriages dangling from the

bridge are being moved and placed on

particularly large lorries which

have the facility to take these

carriages away. Let's speak to James

Cook, who is following this story

from Los Angeles. Some people might

be surprised to hear that a train

can be driven at three times the

speed limit without some system or

another kicking in.

Yes, that has

been a matter of some controversy

for several years. The technology to

prevent a train from exceeding the

speed limit or at least reduce the

speed has been available for many

years and safety campaigners have

been agitating for it to be

introduced for a long time. They've

had some success, in that it is now

legal that it must be introduced but

not until 2018. The campaigners said

if it had been introduced on this

track and train it would have saved

these lives, possibly.

In terms of

the situation that played out on the

road below, do we know how many were

in the car is and how many were in

the trains?

We don't have a final

breakdown of those numbers but we

know that there were several

injuries on the motorway. As we see

from the picture you were pointing

out, the train has gone essentially

straight on that curve. It has

crashed over that bridge, landed on

the motorway and hit seven vehicles

including a lorry that was on the

road and several cars and trucks.

Nobody on the motorway was killed.

There were injuries but the three

deaths all occurred on the train

itself. In a sense it could been a

lot worse but clearly there are no a

lot of about this new routes, was

the driver unfamiliar with the

route? Was he distracted? Clearly

there is a debate about whether

railways in the US are up to

scratch. This is the latest in a

string of accidents. The focus is on

the behaviour of the driver at this

stage.

President Trump tweeted this

was evidence of underinvestment in

the infrastructure of America. Is

there any evidence that that played

a role?

It's complex. The president

has a point in the sense that if

this technology had been available

it could have prevented this crash

but the point he tweeted, nobody

really knew for certain what had

happened. Is this a case of a

crumbling track with an old train?

It doesn't seem to be the case. This

was a new stretch of track. It was a

stretch that had been upgraded to

carry this train on its inaugural

run. It was designed to shave ten

minutes of the journey time from

Seattle to Portland. Some have

criticised the president for jumping

to conclusions.

We will stay in the

US but come back to the east Coast.

It looks like the biggest tax

overhaul in 30 years is going to go

through. It's been approved by the

House of Representatives. The Senate

looks likely to approve it. One of

the biggest challenges it will take

is corporation tax. It will bring it

down to 21% from 35%. That is seen

as being a good thing if you're a

Republican, kick-starts businesses,

a bad thing if you're a Democrat,

worried about the deficit. The hope

is some of that money will come back

on shore. Is that right?

Yes. The

big hope is the savings the company

will make full be reinvested here

and create more jobs. Another part

of the bill is when US companies

move profits overseas, what is

currently happening, they are taxed

in the US as well. Now they will not

be taxed for profits made overseas.

Any cash or asset they are holding

overseas, there will be a one-time

tax rate for them to repatriates

that to the US. So president Trump

obviously hopes that money flows

back into the US. There will be more

jobs here. There are questions being

asked about that because even if the

company has extra money it does not

mean it will reinvested in a way

that will actually create jobs on

the ground.

We've got to leave it

there. Apologies. We will have

further opportunities because while

that legislation has been signed

through and you sort Paul Ryan

announcing that a few minutes ago,

the Senate must still vote on that.

We expected to approve but we will

bring you further coverage.

I thought I would start this by

talking about the weather conditions

across North America. This quite a

lot going on. We've got a

possibility of thunderstorms in the

next few days. We've got this big

winter storm ringing heavy rain and

snow. A little bit might reach

northern California but the South is

expected to remain dry. The windows

light which is good news for the

firefighters. It will increase from

a northerly direction to 60 mph. We

will keep you up-to-date on that.

This is what I was talking about

earlier on in the bulletin. It will

bring thunderstorms to the

south-east of the United States on

Wednesday. Still capable of

producing strong downdraughts of --

of torrential rain. A cross into the

south-east of Asia this tropical or

am has brought up to a metre of

rainfall. It will give us some heavy

rain with this glancing blow to

southern Vietnam. More heavy rain

moving into central and southern

Philippines and this could cause

further flooding problems. Into

Europe, we've got quite a contrast.

To the south we got heavy rains and

storms. To the north and the West,

wintry conditions. I pressure is

controlling the weather. Largely

fine unsettled but for problems

across parts of France and Germany.

We've got this weather front slowly

moving southward. It will bring

outbreaks of rain in central areas.

Find it it will be a little bit

colder with some sunshine for

Northern Ireland and Scotland. To

the south skies will remain cloudy.

Other values here. As we head into

Thursday it will be a pretty benign

picture. Rather cloudy skies in

southern and western areas. By Chile

across this corner. There will be

some sunshine in the south. The

milder air will spread across the

UK. You can see a fool weather

forecast rate here in about half an

hour.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins.

This is Outside Source.

Harvey Weinstein's...

His former personal assistant

has spoken to the BBC

about how he would respond

to allegations of sexual misconduct.

He said nothing at all had happened

and he swore on the life of his wife

and his children, which was his best

get out of jail card that he used

quite a lot.

In another BBC interview,

President Trump's National Security

Advisor has this message

for Kim Jung-un.

All options are on the table and we

have two be prepared, if necessary,

to compel the denuclearisation of

North Korea, without the cooperation

of that regime.

And we will report

on Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi military says

it's intercepted another

rocket that was fired

into Saudi Arabia from Yemen.

We'll talk to BBC Arabic.

And we'll report from Seoul

after the death of one

of South Korea's biggest pop stars,

in a suspected suicide.

That story now in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi military says it's

intercepted a rocket that was fired

into Saudi Arabia from Yemen.

Houthi rebels have confirmed

they were targeting a gathering

of senior figures here.

At King Salman's official

residence in Riyadh.

Remember, last month,

a similar missile came close

to hitting Riyadh's airport.

This is one of several

unverified videos.

A lot of people saying this is the

smoke caused by the interception of

that rocket.

And then these are people

who witnessed what happened.

I heard a big bang.

Suddenly, after around 30 to 45

seconds, I heard a next sound,

a little thud, then I came up

here up the tower and then

I saw some people here

looking at that place.

It's a road leading to the airport,

and we saw white smoke.

I see the big explosive outside and

icy outside the people coming out.

We saw smoke up here on the rooftop.

The context to all of this is that

on one side of the conflict

in Yemen is the government -

supported by a Saudi-led coalition.

On the other side are Houthi rebels,

who are backed by Iran.

But Iran denies Saudi

claims that it supplied

the rebels with these rockets.

BBC Arabic's Rasha Qandeel.

The potential that the Iranians are

helping the Houthis rebels is more

than the other times. This rocket

that was fired today, it is

basically a rocket that has been

modified and the rockets made in

Russia. So if you trace back the

history of this rocket, there is a

big potential that according to the

Saudis, Iran has been providing the

Houthis. Newsnight Arabic speaking

to a Saudi official thinks that the

rockets are not being smuggled as

one piece, but in three pieces, and

this makes it easier to smuggle. So

the evidence of Saudi saying Iran

has provided the Houthis with the

rockets, this time is stronger than

other times.

That Saudi official you

are talking about, did he talk about

the blockade the Saudis have been

putting in place?

He was not, he was

just talking about this is the third

rocket fired from Yemen by the

Houthis towards Saudi Arabia, and

Riyadh. And the blockage has been

talked about by the UN big time

because the UN has recently released

another report saying that the

Coalition, led by Saudi Arabia,

killed in one month 126 civilians. A

huge toll compared to the entire

history of this conflict in 2015.

I

mentioned the blockade because this

is the primary justification for it,

the fact that the rebels are getting

weapons smuggled in.

They are, the

Houthis are pushing towards that

this is reaction, not an action, to

the blockade provided by Saudi

Arabia and Yemen recently,

especially after the assassination

or targeting of Assad.

How do we see

this behaviour of the Houthis in the

context of the former President of

Yemen a couple of weeks back?

The

hugest escalation because even the

Houthis themselves that used to be

subtle about the targeting Saudi

Arabia inside Saudi Arabia, this

time it is like pride. They say that

this moves the battle one stage up

and they are ready for the reaction

of the Coalition in Yemen by the

armies and the forces that Saudi

Arabia is leading. So it might be a

new phase, a new stage, worse, the

conflict between Saudi Arabia and

the Houthis on the ground.

And the

ambition of the Houthis is to defeat

the Government and control all of

Yemen, or most of it?

This is what

they say, especially that in the

last few days, there have been

reports that one of the very

important points in Yemen has been

lost to the Coalition by the

Houthis, and that means that the

battle is getting fiercer. And since

there is no other support by the

others, the Houthis runaround. If

there is support by Iran, Lebanon,

it will show on the ground in the

coming months, I suppose.

You can

get more on that through BBC Arabic.

And if you would like more

background information in English,

go to the BBC website all BBC News.

Kim Jonghyun is one

of South Korea's biggest pop stars,

and he was found dead

at his home on Monday.

It's believed he committed suicide.

He was the lead singer

in a group called SHINee.

This is one of their tracks.

MUSIC

SHINee has a huge

following around the world.

And Kim Jonghyun had been open

about his struggle with depression.

He's even written songs about it.

His sister reportedly raised

the alarm with police,

after receiving a number of text

messages from her brother,

including one saying,

"This is my last farewell".

There has been an outpouring on

social media.

This is an account devoted to K-pop:

"Sending our deepest condolences

to Jonghyun and those

who known him well.

Talk to someone and take

care of yourself."

This is the reaction

of his fans in Seoul.

The fans, they called shiny world.

Not only have we lost a member, but

we have lost someone of our family.

A member of our family. Not only me,

but for everyone, it was hard to

accept. But it leaves me to think

that he was with his fans on his way

to heaven. My heart is broken, but I

am now trying to accept.

Sophie Long went to a hospital

in Seoul, where fans

are paying their respects.

The hospital in Seoul where the

bodies resting has been open to the

public for some hours and hundreds

and hundreds of teenage girls have

come here to queue, to pay their

respects. There are queues snaking

round the hospital complex. Jonghyun

was the lead singer of a band called

SHINee, one of career's biggest pop

bands. K-Pop, as it has become

known, has increased in

international recognition recently

and there has been an outpouring of

grief from fans around the world on

social media. One of his friends, a

member of another K-Pop band posted

a note that she says he sent her on

social media and in it, he says, I

feel broken from the inside. The

life of fame was never meant for me.

The depression was devouring me. At

last, it has consumed me. The death

of this pop star at just 27 years

old has refocused minds and reopened

the debate about how mental health

and the depression is handled, in a

country with one of the highest

suicide rates in developed

countries. Let me show you the scene

here at the hospital in Seoul. You

can see the queues processing around

the stairs. This room is where the

body of Jonghyun is resting. You

might be able to make out the

photograph of him at the end. This

is a very difficult time for many

people who have come to pay their

respects and they do not want us to

film inside. We are told that a

private funeral will take place on

Thursday.

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The UK Government has had its first

full cabinet meeting

on what it wants the UK's final

relationship with

the EU to look like.

The referendum was back in June

2016.

Given that the referendum

was almost 18 months ago,

some have suggested this might

have happened sooner.

Scottish First Minister

Nicola Sturgeon tweeted

that the delay is negligent.

We know a bit more about the nature

of this meeting.

You can do the maths, none of them

would have been able to talk for

that long.

The meeting took place

at 10 Downing Street.

With the Christmas tree just

outside.

Prime Minister Theresa May told

the ministers 'a deal

which secures the best possible

trading terms with the EU,

enables the UK to set rules that

are right for our situation,

and facilitates ambitious

third-country trade deals'.

Iain Watson is in Westminster.

I guess the catch here is that the

European Union is already saying,

you can't have your own regulations

if you want to do business with us.

That is right, clearly. While this

Cabinet discussion was taking place,

one and three quarters hours, the

chief negotiator of the EU Michel

Barnier publish something circulated

the EU leaders, which is best. This

little chart. Effectively, he says,

we cannot have a Norway type trade

deal because we will not accept

freedom movement. And we cannot have

easily steal because we do not want

to pay a great deal of money into

the European Union. We cannot have a

Turkish deal because we want to

strike our own trade deals and we

cannot have the same customs

relationship as Turkey, which he

says leads to a logical conclusion,

we become the British version of

Canada. The problem with becoming

Canada that trade deal which is seen

as ambitious seven years to

negotiate with European Union, it

says very little about financial

services. In a separate interview

with the Guardian newspaper and

subcontinental newspapers, Michel

Barnier made it very clear these

type of trade deals do not include

financial services and that is a

vital sector of the British economy.

The response from Downing Street is

simply this, that they would expect

this type of approach as an opening

gambit in negotiations, based two

ahead of the formal trade talks, but

they say is that everything is up

for negotiation and the Prime

Minister was emphasising a part of

the agreement this morning was an

ambitious trade deal which would be

much better than a trade deal that

Canada has and would include

financial services, that is the sort

of thing she wanted. As she has done

before, she ruled out becoming a new

Norway because she does not want

simply to accept EU rules. We are

now getting a clearer idea of the

relationship between Britain and

Brussels. What the Prime Minister

had to sort out was the real inch --

relationship between her own

ministers. On the surface, it looks

like an agreement, but a bigger

debate to be had and Maude

discussions, no final decisions take

-- taken today. Do we want to get a

massive divergences, if need be,

between EU rules and regulations at

the end of a transition period?

Something the Foreign Secretary is

said to favour. Some unity within

the Cabinet, which may come under

strain later, but differences

between the Cabinet's position and

the position in Brussels.

Help out

the viewers thinking, how is this

conversation not happening

considerably earlier in the process?

Two different points of view on

this. The official line from Downing

Street is simply this, they were

discussing Bay is one issues about

the money and relationship with

Ireland -- phase one. They said

there was no point having a wider

discussion about the end point until

negotiations officially moved on to

the second phase. More cynical

people would say because of those

differences in the Cabinet that I

mentioned between the Chancellor and

the brand secretary and others,

Theresa May was making sure she did

not have to have a big argument and

possibly Cabinet resignations before

she had to.

Members of Parliament have widely

criticised social media companies

for not doing enough to combat hate

crime. They are accused of providing

a platform for extremism.

Harmful content online

takes countless forms,

but not all of them are illegal.

There is the hate speech

that attacks individuals

on the basis of attributes such

as disability or gender.

That is quite separate

from extremist content,

which propagates the worldview

of those ranging from neo-Nazis

to so-called Islamic State.

How easy is it to find

this material online?

Very easy indeed.

One campaigner working with MPs

on the issue believes social media

platforms you're vulnerable adults

into the extremist Web.

How big an issue is soft extremism?

It is a significant issue

because actually the material

clearly is not removed,

it is not illegal in the eyes

of social media providers.

The other factor is their algorithms

are diverging individuals who may

have an aggressive worldview,

and the algorithms direct them

to join other groups who may

have similar content.

Today MPs called Tech

companies as part of

an enquiry into hate crime.

The committee chair set Twitter

still had not removed a --

an offensive to eat it was warned

about in March.

That is still on your platform.

Why is it?

I don't know the answer

to that question.

"I really do all think

we should kill a Tory."

"Think of the benefits

were we to kill just one Tory."

That is on Twitter.

Your home say she will not

tolerate violent threats

of individuals or groups.

How does that comply with your code?

We have 500 million tweets

a day, 330 million users.

Twitter is used in

multiple languages.

You are actively recommended

what is effectively raises material

into people's timelines.

We will look at that and get back to

you with a good and solid response.

Isn't the truth that your algorithms

and the way you want to attract

people is doing that grooming and

radicalisation?

That is not how

Facebook sees it. I recognise we

have a problem which is a shared

problem with civil organisations of

addressing that person who may be

going down a channel which can lead

to them being radicalised.

MPs have a personal stake

in the fight against

harmful content online.

But it's not clear that turning tech

giants into centres is the best way

to safeguard democracy.

Next, a new study.

The number of cheetahs

in the wild in southern

Africa is falling.

Researchers analysed two million

pieces of data across six

years in Namibia, Botswana,

South Africa and Zimbabwe.

This is what they found.

For instance, the cheetah population

is around 3600, it might sound like

a lot but it is down and as you can

see, one of the biggest issues is

only 18% of the animals are in

places where they can get the

protection they need. Here is the

lead author of the study.

The

situation is a bit complicated. They

are rare and lucid and competing

with larger predators. A majority of

their range is unprotected. They are

facing a risk from habitat loss.

That is from agricultural expansion

and lifestyle production. It reduces

the availability of wild prey and

increases the likelihood of conflict

with humans. Our study found that

while the majority of farmers do not

persecute the animals, those that do

have the potential to cause serious

impact on the population. This could

be framed in a hopeful way. It could

be the future of the cheetah rather

than that by creating and

maintaining tolerance for the

species.

maintaining tolerance for the

species. This has the benefit of

raising awareness in the general

public about the precarious nature

of the population of cheaters in the

wild. There is more long-term

increase potential for stakeholders

to create policies and regulations

that ensured the survival in the

wild. Some of the ways we can do

that is encouraging farming

practices, creating opportunities

for ecotourism, and it is important

to note that they are wide-ranging

and need areas with low human

impact, low density of livestock to

create availability. We can do

initiatives, ranged wide like remove

predator and prey and fencing that

allow these animals to move across

large areas. We will finish with a

report about super agers. It is

about people living longer. New

figures suggest one in eight will

live to 100 or beyond.

This of course creates challenges -

and they are far from

specific to the UK.

Fergus has been to california.

New York Public Library,

one of the city's grandest

buildings, which has one

of the city's oldest employees.

Hilda Jaffe is still going strong

at 95, so what's her

secret to a long life?

Pick your parents, it really is.

It's got to be genetic

because both my parents lived long.

Good morning, Fergus,

I'm glad you could meet me here

in this absolutely beautiful room.

Hilda gives tours of this historic

building when she's not

at the theatre, music concerts,

opera or her two book clubs.

I don't exercise,

I walk, I walk a lot.

If I had to give anybody advice

I would say, just keep moving.

Samples of Hilda's DNA are stored

in this freezer in the Bronx,

part of a study into longevity.

They found only one in 10,000 people

has protective superager genes,

but say drugs might be able to help

the rest of us.

Metformin is an old,

cheap diabetes drug,

but a major trial is planned to see

if it can delay ageing.

I can get you 690 of those for $60.

Scientists here believe it may slow

the biological processes that

trigger key diseases.

We have data in humans that

metformin would delay cardiovascular

disease and will delay diabetes

and is associated with less cancer,

and seems to delay Alzheimer

or cognitive decline in people.

Ageing is an inevitable process

which begins as we reach adulthood

and continues through the decades

as our muscles, bones

and organs gradually wear out.

This tai chi group in San Francisco

show that we can delay that decline,

it helps with balance,

core strength and provides

a social network.

It makes me feel so young,

I have so much fun.

I feel like I'm in the

kindergarten of the universe.

My mother lived to 103.

I don't desire to live that long,

but I want to be as healthy

as I can, as long as I can.

That's an ambition we can all share.

Imagine a future where it

didn't hurt to get old,

where our joints didn't wear out?

It would have a huge impact

on our quality of life as we age.

This biotech company in California

has developed a drug to counter

one of the key diseases

of ageing, osteoarthritis.

Human trials of this experimental

compound should begin next year.

This is an area of the cartilage

that is now diseased.

You can see the

cartilage is damaged.

It works by clearing cells

which build up in the knee joint,

which maybe a trigger

for the painful condition.

A single injection that we believe

and hope will alleviate their pain

and begin the restorative process

in their knee to perhaps at least

halt, regress and even completely

repair the knee in the end

is what our wildest

hopes would imagine.

That would mean more people

could age like Hilda,

free of aches and pains

and independent well into their 90s.

Fergus Walsh, BBC News, New York.

I thought this would end the

programme but there has been a

twist. That major tax legislation.

This is a statement from Bernie

Sanders. He says it is our intention

to raise a point of order to remove

certain provisions and require the

host to vote on this bill again.

Here is a statement saying that may

have to happen. We may see another

vote. You will hear about it here.

Thanks for watching.