21/12/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom.

Today's regional election

is going to the wire -

as pro-and anti independence parties

vie for power.

It looked like the parties in favour

of leaving Spain are in the

ascendancy but we will be live in

Barcelona shortly.

At the the UN General Assembly,

more than 120 countries defy

US warnings and reject

President Trump's decision

to recognise Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

And the exchanges have been sharp.

We will not be intimidated.

You can be strong but that

does not make you right.

The US will remember this day

in which it was singled out

for attack in the General Assembly

for the act of exercising its right

as a sovereign nation.

Police say there is no evidence

suggest there was a terror link

between a man who drove a car into a

crowd. The police say it was

deliberate.

We would not cover every regional

election in Catalonia as we are

doing today, but this is of the

utmost significance, not just a

Catalonia, but to Spain and to

Europe as a whole. There was an

independence referendum at the end

of September, which the Spanish

government said was illegal. The

Catalonian government said it showed

that the majority of people in

Catalonia wanted to leave Spain.

They are now having legal local

elections. You are with people who

would like to stay in Spain?

This is

the view of the unity camp, the

citizens party, and the polls at the

moment... We have had a record

turnout, 86%, 5.3 million eligible

voters, 4.5 million people have

voted and they are 60% through the

official count and it is a three

horse race between this party behind

me. You might have seen this

inspiration before, think of

Emmanuel Macron. Citizens party and

their leader, you would be the

youngest president at the age of 36,

she has said she was inspired by

Emmanuel Macron -- she would. On the

other side of that, the two parties

who haven't got leaders, one who is

in prison, and the former leader

Carlos Pigem want

>> STUDIO:

Jose

-- from the former leader who is in

Axar in Belgium at the moment. It

might be down to this party to play

the cards first and see if it will

get the coalition because that is

what it will come down to

ultimately.

This is not what the

Spanish Prime Minister would have

wanted, the way the exit proles --

exit polls are suggesting.

Yes, at

the moment Rajoy's party I down

seven seats. -- are down. You need

to get 68 seats, not a single party

is expected to do it, this is the

interesting twist, after the twists

and turns we have had since the

referendum and the police violence

and the legal declaration of

independence, the self-imposed exile

in Belgium and the people in prison,

we could have one party with 68

seats, but potentially they might

have the power to make a power

share.

Thanks for joining us. There

we go. All the details coming in,

plenty more background on that

online if you want it. And now to a

story of the utmost seriousness in

the Philippines.

A ferry carrying 251 people has

capsized off the east

coast of the Philippines.

The boat was sailing

to the island of Polillo.

These are some pictures that have

come into the newsroom.

We know four people

have died and at least

seven others are missing.

But as you can see here many

others were rescued.

Here's more from Howard

Johnson in Manila.

It is thought that this ferry

capsized because it was hit by a

large wave, whipped up by a tropical

storm and a low-pressure weather

system which is developed off the

coast of the Philippines and is

expected to make landfall tonight or

tomorrow. That turbulent weather has

hampered the rescue effort, the

Coast Guard and the Army sent

helicopters and boats to the scene

of the accident but found it

difficult when I got there. The

Philippines has a bad track record

of Maritime safety -- when they got

there. There have been many Maritime

accidents every year, and initially

it was said the ferry was overloaded

but according to the initial reports

coming out, the ferry was carrying

around 250 people and it has the

capacity to carry 280.

Now to a North Korean soldier

who has defected to South Korea.

He used the cover of heavy fog

to make his escape -

but when his absence was noticed,

North Korean guards came searching -

and South Korean soldiers

fired warning shots.

The soldier crossed here

at the demilitarized zone.

This is the fourth North Korean

soldier to defect this year.

You may remember this last month -

when a soldier drove a jeep

right up to the border -

and ran across while his

colleagues shot at him.

He was hit by his colleagues but he

made it across the dividing line. He

is still recovering from his

injuries in South Korea. Four

defections this year.

Only one soldier defected in 2016.

Here's South Korea's response

to the latest defection.

TRANSLATION:

A North Korean soldier

defected to the South Korean outpost

and the army has safely secured the

deaf actor and the relevant

authorities will investigate the

reasons for the defection -- secured

the defector forced please

understand we can't elaborate on the

details of the investigation.

We have reports from all over the

world, of course.

And now to a story on the former

Yugoslavia and these two men who

were found guilty of war crimes. 100

61 people have been indicted in this

tribunal, relating to various crimes

to that war in the 1990s -- 161

people. Mission accomplished will be

the message inside the hall, the

Yugoslav tribunal was set up at the

whole of the Balkan conflict to hold

those responsible for genocide,

approximate the 8000 Muslim men and

boys were slaughtered. The worst

atrocity, the worst case of ethnic

cleansing since the Nazis. There is

no doubt be scared of the task has

been fast and to some extent the

body has surpassed expectations in

bringing so many fugitives to

justice including the former

president most of age who died in

detention before his verdict. The

former political leader of the

Bosnian Serbs bad Carole

and the bolshie bullying general who

despite his ill health remained

combative in court, he was ejected

from the court room before the final

judgment. It is hoped these

convictions will send a message to

other rulers that will resonate, but

no one is untouchable. But of course

the body is not without its critics

and it has been accused mostly by

Serbs of delivering a selective

justice and by many Bosnians are

failing to meet the victim 's

expectations. There was the Croatian

general recently who drank poison in

court, a public suicide that was

broadcast live around the world on

the court's cameras and threatened

to overshadow the legacy of the

tribunal, but their record shows the

limits and potential for

international justice. It has not

made a reconciliation in the region,

it has not brought reconciliation

but it has provided a vital archive

of evidence, not just for the

history books, but for future

generations, as well.

Don't forget you can get much

more detail on our top

stories on our web site.

And now to Venezuelan. Their farmers

are struggling. Corn is a staple in

Venezuelan but it has fallen by more

than a half in the last occurred. --

the last decade. It is easy to

forget this country is in crisis,

but even in nature politics looms

large. Venezuelan's breadbasket is

looking emptier than it was and

farmers are worried. Ronald has

worked these fields all his life and

he says it has never been this

tough. He did not get the government

issued fertilising time so his corn

crop struggled. Any corn he grows,

the government makes in cell at

subsidised prices. -- makes him so.

TRANSLATION:

We are doing this on

our own and trying to do our best

but the economic situation is tough

and it is not easy to produce in the

fields of Venezuelan, the last we

had Micheline Yuri here was four

years ago. -- the last time we had

machinery.

He had to stop building

his house because he couldn't afford

the cement and these residents are

the only residents now although some

of the herd was stolen, hungry

Venezuelans in search of a meal. The

problems are repeated across the

industry, farmers are concerned they

don't get their seeds in time to

plant their crops and they are

concerned about the quality of the

imported fertilisers and pesticides,

this farmer planted twice with

pesticides, but it didn't work, it

is complete you rotten. It is not

just farmers who are struggling,

across Venezuelan's agricultural

heartland basics are becoming

luxuries. With meat prices beyond

the reach of many Venezuelans you

would think farmers would have it

easy. But the spiralling cost of

vaccinations and machinery and

supplies have hit this man. He has

had to turn to crops to make money

but that has also been a struggle,

his corn crop was stolen by hungry

villagers. Carter righteous and the

socialist government has been at

odds for many years but he says the

solution is easy -- cattle farmers

and the socialist government.

TRANSLATION:

All we want to do is

produce, those of us in the cattle

business need the state and vice

versa, and the only way right now is

to sit down and understand each

other.

These crops are reflection of

the country's crisis, surviving but

only just, and produces here are

doing everything they can to make

sure The Sun doesn't set on

Venezuelan's cornfields.

This is the last addition of Outside

Source for the year. -- edition.

The musical 'Hamilton'

is opening in London -

am sure you know all about this -

it's been a huge

success on Broadway.

It tells the story of a poor

immigrant from the Caribbean,

who arrives in New York on the eve

of the American Revolution.

He goes on to become the country's

first Treasury Secretary.

Hamilton was created

by Lin-Manuel Miranda -

and he's been talking with the BBC's

Arts Editor Will Gompertz.

# Put a pencil to his temple,

connected it to his brain...#

Here is Hamilton's creator,

Lin-Manuel Miranda,

at the White House poetry slam

in 2009, performing

what would become

the opening number of his musical

about America's founding fathers.

Six years later it opened

in New York and became

an instant classic.

# What's your name, man?

# Alexander Hamilton

# His name is Alexander Hamilton

And now it's in London,

as is for a few days

the man behind the show,

who's been compared to...

Well... Are you the 21st-century

Shakespeare?

Not even close!

No, Shakespeare wrote a

mind altering amount of dramas

and comedies and sonnets,

worked with other playwrights.

I've written two musicals,

so let's everybody chill out.

# I'm past patiently waiting!

# I'm passionately

smashin' every expectation

I recognised in the story

of Hamilton the story of so many

immigrants who are coming

to the United States today.

And so I used the music that

I love to tell this story.

A lot has been made

of the multiracial cast.

This is a story of America then

told by America now.

We're going to use every tool

at our disposal to eliminate

the distance between a modern

audience and something that happened

200 somewhat years ago.

The casting is part of that,

and casting it to look

like the way our country

looks eliminates distance.

When George Washington is a young

man of colour and he's

running for his life,

suddenly you're not filled

with images of Washington standing

like this, crossing the Delaware,

he's not invincible any more.

It's suddenly, these

are real people.

How nervous were you about bringing

this show to the UK?

I was not nervous at all.

What I was very excited

for was the reaction to King George

III in the shadow

of Buckingham Palace.

I mean, we're really right up

the street, so the only change

we made in that direction is we have

tarted up his outfit quite a bit.

George III might have lost America,

but he steals this show every night.

Maybe the family in the big house

he bought around the corner

will make a Royal

appointment to see it.

Will Gompertz, BBC News.

If you have a ticket, it looks like

you are in for a treat. That ends