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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins -
this is Outside Source. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
Iran's supreme leader has called
protestors "enemies," and alleges | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
foreign interference. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
him, new | 0:00:16 | 0:00:16 | |
After six days of anti-government
protests in Iran, and the deaths | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
protests in Iran, and the deaths | 0:00:19 | 0:00:25 | |
-- After six days of
anti-government protests in Iran, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
and the deaths of 22 people,
its supreme leader has spoken. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:28 | |
Hello, I'm Ros Atkins -
this is Outside Source. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
Iran's supreme leader has called
protestors "enemies," and alleges | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
's | 0:00:34 | 0:00:34 | |
foreign interference. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
Here's how the Trump
administration reacted. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
The Iranian people are angry
at the rising tide of corruption in | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
their daily lives. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
The people are tired
of paying the price for their | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
violent and corrupt rulers. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:44 | |
Looks like South Korea
and North Korea could talk | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
directly - next week. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
And Kim Jong-un is using these two
North Korean skaters | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
and the Winter Olympics
as his reason why. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
Logan Paul is one of
YouTube's biggest stars - | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
he's posted this video. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:54 | |
From the bottom of my
heart, I am sorry. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
He's apologised to all of Japan
after publishing a video | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
in which he laughs about filming
a Japanese man who appears | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
to have taken his life. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:12 | |
welcome to the first edition of
Outside Source in 2018. Happy New | 0:01:17 | 0:01:22 | |
Year. The Middle Eastern editor
Jeremy Bowen has just arrived on | 0:01:22 | 0:01:32 | |
set, so you can contact us with any
questions for him. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
After six days of anti-government
protests in Iran, and the deaths | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
of 22 people, its supreme
leader has spoken. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
We have also heard from the US
ambassador to the UN. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:53 | |
Here are both of them. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
TRANSLATION: Following recent events
the enemies have united to create | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
problems for the Islamic Republic,
using all their weapons. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
We all know that's
complete nonsense. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:06 | |
The demonstrations are
completely spontaneous. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
They are virtually
in every city in Iran. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
This is the precise picture
of a long and oppressed people | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
rising up against their dictators. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
Nikki Haley also said Washington
wants an emergency meeting | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
of the UN Security Council. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
These demonstrations started
on Thursday in Iran's second | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
largest city, Mashhad. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
You can see it there in the
north-east. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:32 | |
But by Saturday, many more people
and places were involved, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
including the capital, Tehran. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
It's worth noting that
on Saturday there was also | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
another demonstration in Tehran -
but this one was sanctioned | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
by the authorities and
commemorated the defeat | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
of the 2009 protest movement. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:53 | |
But let's stay focused on the
anti-government protests, and the | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
most important question, why are
they happening now? | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
This is the view of one analyst. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:05 | |
If you go back to May of this year,
when Hassan Rouhani was re-elected | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
with a landslide 24 million voters
backing him, they voted for him | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
because he made a simple
but powerful promise. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:13 | |
He said, "When I'm re-elected
there will be more political | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
freedoms in this country." | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
He hasn't delivered on that, at all. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
In fact, what he's done is turned
away from the reformist grass | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
movements and turned
to the hardliners. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
Remember President Rouhani has also
repeatedly promised to fix the | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
Iranian economy, and there is
undoubtedly work to do. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
The cost of living is going up,
unemployment is at 11%, | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
and double that among young people. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:37 | |
Bear that in mind, as we look
at this from Reuters. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
27%, that statistic. This is a run's
Deputy interior minister. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:55 | |
BBC Monitoring watches
the world's media - | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
it's been studying footage
of the protests. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
In a recent briefing, it notes,
"The diversity of slogans illustrate | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
the absence of a coherent message
or aim of the demonstrations, | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
which also completely lack leaders." | 0:04:05 | 0:04:11 | |
They tell us. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
That may be, but the authorities
are taking them seriously. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
There have been more than 450
arrests in Tehran province. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
And messaging apps like Telegram
are being restricted. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
Here's the tech commentator
Mahsa Alimardani on that decision. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:30 | |
This platform is for communicating
between family members, friends, | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
getting information from thy aspera
Persian media or from local media, | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
and just getting everyday updates
like traffic and whether it is very | 0:04:39 | 0:04:45 | |
centralised to this one platform, so
when the block occurred there has | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
been a rush to, you know, get on to
connect to this device that you | 0:04:48 | 0:04:53 | |
previously didn't have to. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
If you want to read more
about the role social media | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
is playing in Iran right now,
there's a piece by Mahsa | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
on the Politico website now. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:03 | |
Next, to BBC Persian's Jiyar Gol. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
For a sense of the government
response. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:15 | |
In sensitive areas they have placed
those security forces, but | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
despite all of this
we have received footage | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
that shows gatherings
of | 0:05:19 | 0:05:20 | |
people, but those apps where people
were communicating and sending | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
messages, and footage to us has been
limited and blocked. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
What are you hearing from your
contacts about the motivation | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
of these demonstrators? | 0:05:29 | 0:05:30 | |
Is this about just improving
living standards, or is it | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
about something more fundamental? | 0:05:33 | 0:05:34 | |
I think it is about much more
than just the economy - yes, | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
it started with the
economic situation. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:38 | |
They were angry about employment,
inflation, and what's | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
going on in the country,
but as days passed some of those | 0:05:40 | 0:05:47 | |
protesters became political. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
Some other groups, university
students, teachers, workers, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
some activists, they joined them
and the slogans became more | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
political and people -
for example, one of the slogans was, | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
why is Iran spending billions
and billions of dollars | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
in countries like Lebanon,
like Yemen, like Syria, | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
yet their own people are,
many of them, living | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
in abject poverty? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
Why is that money not
being invested in the country, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
invested in creating jobs
for young people? | 0:06:12 | 0:06:18 | |
As you would expect Donald Trump has
been tweeting about what has been | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
happening in Iran, here he is saying
the people of Iran are finally | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
acting against the corrupt and
brutal Iranians regime. He goes say | 0:06:26 | 0:06:33 | |
these people have little food and no
human rights. "America Is watching." | 0:06:33 | 0:06:39 | |
There wasn't much chance of Iran
reacting well to that. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
The reality is that the US has very
little leverage on Iran, | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
and President Trump has very little
credibility inside the country, | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
given the fact that he imposed
the travel ban very early | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
on in his administration,
that primarily targeted | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
the Iranian citizens,
who have never been involved in any | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
acts of terrorism in the US. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
So I doubt that his words
would have that much traction | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
within the population,
but they will certainly be exploited | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
by the government to portray
the protesters as foreign lackeys. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:11 | |
Europe's approach appears to be
different to this than the USA. This | 0:07:19 | 0:07:24 | |
is from Patrick Wintour, and he also
says as well is this the French | 0:07:24 | 0:07:33 | |
Foreign Minister is supposed to be
going to Tehran on Friday but made | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
the load. I have news for you on
that, because this is writers | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
telling us that is exactly what will
happen. The French presidency has | 0:07:39 | 0:07:44 | |
confirmed that after call with
President Rouhani the Foreign | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
Minister will not be going there any
more. That is some of the | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
international reaction, and we have
to see all of this in the context of | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
a run's complex relationships in the
Middle East. This is Philippa | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
Thomas, explaining.
Iran is a predominantly Shia Muslim | 0:07:58 | 0:08:04 | |
state and its growing sphere of
influence across the Middle East has | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
ended many enemies. None greater
than Sunni Saudi Arabia. The two | 0:08:07 | 0:08:13 | |
Matt Cavanaugh diplomatic ties and
are suspicious of each other's | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
drawing power in the region. They
are facing off against each other in | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
a number of proxy conflicts. Iran
has close ties with Lebanon, | 0:08:20 | 0:08:26 | |
especially the political party
Hezbollah and its militia force. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
Iran provides them with millions of
dollars in supplies and weaponry, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:34 | |
but in November the Saudi Arabian
crowned Prince backed efforts to | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
undermine Hezbollah in Beirut, and
boost the Lebanese Prime Minister. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
Saudi Arabia and Iran face off in
another proxy war in the region in | 0:08:42 | 0:08:49 | |
Yemen. A Saudi led coalition is
fighting the Houthi rebels, but | 0:08:49 | 0:08:56 | |
Tehran Baxter Houthis, who were in a
form of alliance against the former | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
president against the Sunnis, and
when they switched sides and sought | 0:09:00 | 0:09:07 | |
peace, he was killed. Iran's hatred
of Israel is well-known, with no | 0:09:07 | 0:09:13 | |
diplomatic ties. Doesn't even
recognise the Jewish state, instead | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
calling it a Zionist regime. Not
surprisingly, the endorsed the | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
creation of a Palestinian state in
Iran and the finance various | 0:09:24 | 0:09:28 | |
Palestinian cause is, among them the
Islamic jihad and how mass -- Hamas | 0:09:28 | 0:09:35 | |
groups. We can talk to the Middle
East editor for the BBC, Jeremy | 0:09:35 | 0:09:43 | |
Bowen. Would you say these claims
are true? The Americans are | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
encouraging them. Donald Trump is
tweeting that this is a wonderful | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
development, effectively, but, you
know, if they have evidence the CIA | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
is behind all of this, fine, let's
see it. There's a long history in a | 0:09:54 | 0:10:01 | |
run of foreign intervention,
governments being overdrawn, in the | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
50s and elected leader was
overthrown by the Americans, the CIA | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
and Britain's MI6 in the 50s, so
those comments for Iranians pressed | 0:10:07 | 0:10:14 | |
some important buttons but, Norma,
right now, to me it looks like a | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
pretty spontaneous, initially very
spontaneous anyway, outburst of | 0:10:19 | 0:10:26 | |
protest -- no, right now to me. Why
has it spread quickly? People are | 0:10:26 | 0:10:31 | |
discontented, and because as well I
think they are pretty sick of living | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
in an authoritarian society. I guess
one of the pressures on President | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
Rouhani, he promised something
different when he won the most | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
recent election and he is struggling
to deliver that. He promised he | 0:10:41 | 0:10:46 | |
would turn the economy round as well
and that has been hurt by years of | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
sanctions, and years of corruption,
mismanagement as well. He said he | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
would do something about all those
things and, yes, sanctions have gone | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
away partly, and we can speak a bit
more about that, but the internal | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
staff, the corruption,
mismanagement, inefficiencies, he | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
has not sorted that kind of thing
outcome and that is disappointing | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
quite a lot of people. And he has
been the butt of quite a few of the | 0:11:11 | 0:11:18 | |
slogans as well in these
demonstrations. His book about the | 0:11:18 | 0:11:23 | |
sanctions and let's get into that.
There is a bit of a divide between | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
President Trump who loathes the deal
President Obama cut with the | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
Iranians, and those who love this
deal. Yes, the future of Iran's | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
nuclear industry, if you like. Would
they be trying to create nuclear | 0:11:34 | 0:11:39 | |
weapons? The Americans and the
Israelis, the British as well, they | 0:11:39 | 0:11:46 | |
believe they were, and the question
now is what happens with that | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
particular deal. Later on this
month. There is a moment in fact | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
when President Trump has to sign
some very important documents which | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
will continue the suspension of some
of these sanctions, and if he does | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
not sign them, perhaps he will
decide that this is a time to put | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
more pressure on the regime in
Tehran and he might consider this | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
would be his opportunity as well of
finally doing down what for him is | 0:12:11 | 0:12:16 | |
this hated agreement with Iran about
its nuclear future. So later on this | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
month there could be a real flash
point and if these protests continue | 0:12:20 | 0:12:25 | |
I think they may well feed into
President Trump's decision-making. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
You read there in 2009 when there
were much bigger protests. How do | 0:12:29 | 0:12:34 | |
you compare what you saw them with
what you are viewing from afar at | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
the moment? -- you were there into
this inane. In 2009 there were a lot | 0:12:38 | 0:12:43 | |
of people really angry that an
election they believed had been | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
stolen from them -- when you were
there in 2009. These protests are | 0:12:46 | 0:12:52 | |
different. In 2009 there were
politicians in charge of those | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
protest essentially who since then
have been under various different | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
kinds of arrests. This time there
are no recognisable national leaders | 0:12:58 | 0:13:03 | |
who are part of it.
There was one very clear objective | 0:13:03 | 0:13:09 | |
of the protests, to do something
about the election, and it morphed a | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
bit into criticism of the regime.
Now there are loads of different | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
things, starting with the economy
and going into politics, loads of | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
things we have talked about. Now,
that could be seen as a weakness but | 0:13:19 | 0:13:23 | |
it could also be a strength, cause
it is harder for the resume to deal | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
with something which keeps popping
up all over the place. In Tehran, | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
you know, it came down by the end
when they were really cracking down | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
on them, to demonstrations in a few
different streets. Jeremy, thank you | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
very much indeed. Jeremy Bowen, the
BBC's Middle East editor. If you | 0:13:41 | 0:13:46 | |
want regular updates from Jeremy,
you can follow him on Twitter. And I | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
can't believe Jeremy has not been
following this... The Israeli | 0:13:50 | 0:13:56 | |
legislator has passed new
legislation saying two thirds of the | 0:13:56 | 0:14:07 | |
parliament would have to support
giving any more territory to the | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
Palestinians. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:15 | |
The biggest rise in train fares in
the last five years commuters face | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
this morning as they returned to
work after the Christmas break. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:27 | |
The average ticket
price went up by 3.4%. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
Labour has renewed its call for
the railway to be re-nationalised - | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
while the government and the rail
industry say the fares will help pay | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
for improvements to the network. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:36 | |
If we can continue to make savings
by bringing the railways back into | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
public ownership and stop wasting
money on franchising, on the | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
complexity of the arrangements
between all these different | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
companies, and we don't pay out
dividends to state owned companies | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
across the Channel, we can keep that
money in-house. For every pound | 0:14:47 | 0:15:00 | |
passenger pays in fares, 97p goes
into running and improving the | 0:15:00 | 0:15:05 | |
railway, but also with more people
using the railway it means we have | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
more money to invest. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:19 | |
This is Outside Source live
from the BBC newsroom. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
Our lead story is: | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
The supreme leader of Iran has
called protesters enemies and this | 0:15:28 | 0:15:34 | |
follows days of protest. Let's look
at the main stories from the BBC | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
World Service. The ambassador to the
UN says the USA will withhold | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
millions of dollars in aid to
Pakistan for failing to cooperate | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
with the fight against terror.
President Trump's tweets on the | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
subject have already angered
Pakistan. In Bangladesh, an arrest | 0:15:49 | 0:15:56 | |
warrant in connection with petrol
bomb attacks on a bus during a | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
protest in 2015 that killed eight
people. That is from BBC Bengali. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:05 | |
Lots of you have been reading this
on the BBC website, the weather | 0:16:05 | 0:16:11 | |
getting bitterly cold in the USA,
reaching as far as Florida with | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
warnings as far as Texas to the
Atlantic coast. The east of the USA | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
is also set for another freeze at
the end of the week. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:31 | |
This is Logan Paul, 22, and a
YouTube star, and he has issued an | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
apology after issuing a video that
show the suicide of a man in Japan. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:42 | |
The video had already been watched 6
million times and of course copies | 0:16:42 | 0:16:48 | |
are still circulating although it
has been taken down. This is his | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
apology. It was obviously plan and
the reactions you saw were raw, | 0:16:52 | 0:16:57 | |
unfiltered. None of us knew how to
react or how to feel. I should never | 0:16:57 | 0:17:03 | |
have posted the video. I should have
put the cameras down. And stop | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
recording what we were going
through. There were a lot of things | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
I should have done differently, but
I didn't, and for that, from the | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
bottom of my heart, I'm sorry. I
have been talking to the Tech | 0:17:15 | 0:17:21 | |
reporter at Buzzfeed, Katie, in New
York. Yuji Peiser three strikes | 0:17:21 | 0:17:33 | |
policy, -- YouTube has a three
stroke policy. They took this down | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
after one strike, but I think it
raises questions. His fans are | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
typically young teenagers, tweens,
kids, and I think it has left a lot | 0:17:40 | 0:17:47 | |
of people wondering, what are these
young people seeing? What are they | 0:17:47 | 0:17:53 | |
doing, YouTube to shake this. He
makes a lot of money with YouTube | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
and they make a lot of money with
them -- to shape this. What policy | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
protocols are being put in place to
make sure completely tasteless video | 0:18:00 | 0:18:04 | |
like this is no longer posted? I
guess the popularity of some of | 0:18:04 | 0:18:10 | |
these YouTubers is that they are
seen as not being monitored by | 0:18:10 | 0:18:15 | |
YouTube or indeed by anybody else? I
think that is certainly true. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
YouTube is not like a television
network. They don't own Logan Paul. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:30 | |
He is free to upload videos, as are
you or I, as much as he wants. He | 0:18:30 | 0:18:36 | |
shot videos for their premium
products but that was in 2016, and I | 0:18:36 | 0:18:40 | |
think it just leaves a lot of
questions of moderation, and what | 0:18:40 | 0:18:44 | |
are the rules, and, you know, how
did he not know in the first place | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
that posting a video like this would
be a terrible idea? Is there nobody | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
guiding or shaping the types of
content young people are seeing from | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
these incredibly popular creators. I
was watching not just the video but | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
responses to it. I saw one already
has 20 million viewers and almost | 0:19:00 | 0:19:07 | |
200,000 comments responding to it. I
guess the whole story is | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
highlighting the reach that some of
these YouTube stars have? Yes, and | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
there have been a lot of people who
have actually come out in support of | 0:19:15 | 0:19:20 | |
Logan Paul. Within the YouTube
community there is this sort of | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
defensiveness of people who think
YouTube is too restrictive and there | 0:19:23 | 0:19:28 | |
is this war between the creators and
YouTube. It is a very strange | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
confusing tension there. Let's turn
to the Middle East, because as you | 0:19:32 | 0:19:37 | |
will know resolving the conflict
between the Israelis and the | 0:19:37 | 0:19:45 | |
Palestinians is incredibly difficult
and in the Israeli parliament may | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
have made it even more difficult.
This vote by Israeli MPs would | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
virtually make any peace deal with
the Palestinians that involves | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
ceding control of part of Jerusalem
much more difficult to get through | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
the Israeli parliament, because now
instead of taking 61 votes out of a | 0:20:01 | 0:20:06 | |
possible 120, it would take at two
thirds majority, that 80 votes, and | 0:20:06 | 0:20:11 | |
this really gets to an issue at the
heart of the Israel Palestinian | 0:20:11 | 0:20:17 | |
conflict, because the eastern part
of Jerusalem was captured by Israel | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
in the 1967 Middle East war and it
was later annexed in a move not | 0:20:21 | 0:20:26 | |
internationally recognised by
Israel. One Israeli minister who | 0:20:26 | 0:20:31 | |
pushed for this moving legislation
said it would ensure the city of | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
Jerusalem remained the Israeli
United capital and fortified Israel, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:40 | |
whereas the Palestinian President's
office said this, coupled with the | 0:20:40 | 0:20:45 | |
announcement last month that
President Trump recognise Jerusalem | 0:20:45 | 0:20:50 | |
as Israel's capital, amounted to a
declaration of war on the | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
Palestinian people. Time for
business and we will do a health | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
check on Amazon. It says last year
it shipped over 5 billion items | 0:20:56 | 0:21:01 | |
worldwide just as part of its Prime
service, a subscription service. It | 0:21:01 | 0:21:06 | |
also last year expanded into
groceries and pharmaceuticals. Let's | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
talk to Samira Hussain, live with us
from New York. I don't know what to | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
compare that figure of 5 billion
with, Samira. Is that standard for | 0:21:15 | 0:21:20 | |
Amazon? It is pretty significant,
especially when you consider the | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
fact that back in 2005 is when they
launched Amazon Prime, and if you | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
think back to that time, everybody
really panned the idea, saying | 0:21:29 | 0:21:35 | |
people would not want to pay that
money to be able to ship freely have | 0:21:35 | 0:21:40 | |
this kind of fast shipping, fast
forward to 2017 and 5 billion | 0:21:40 | 0:21:47 | |
packages have been sent. We also
don't really have numbers on how | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
many members are part of this prime
service, and Amazon does not really | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
reveal those figures. One journalist
did take and find that in one of its | 0:21:55 | 0:22:02 | |
filings, and it was later confirmed
by Amazon, that at one point they | 0:22:02 | 0:22:06 | |
had some 20 million subscribers to
the Amazon Prime service. Now we're | 0:22:06 | 0:22:11 | |
pharmaceuticals, health care, other
things added. Do you think Amazon | 0:22:11 | 0:22:15 | |
will get so big the regulators will
be interested? So far, not yet, but | 0:22:15 | 0:22:20 | |
it certainly has a lot of companies
really worried. They will be looking | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
at a lot of things when it comes to
Amazon 2018. There will be put their | 0:22:23 | 0:22:29 | |
new headquarters? There has been a
lot of speculation about that. And | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
just recently there was an article
written by a prominent analyst here | 0:22:32 | 0:22:39 | |
in the USA who suggested the
possible next acquisition for Amazon | 0:22:39 | 0:22:43 | |
could in fact be the store target.
That could be a target. See you | 0:22:43 | 0:22:53 | |
later in the week, Samira in New
York. Now, 2017 was the safest year | 0:22:53 | 0:22:58 | |
in the history of passenger
airlines, no fatal accident on | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
passenger jets, and he was one
analyst on why that was. Aviation | 0:23:01 | 0:23:07 | |
with large passenger aircraft is
indeed incredibly safe. That is not | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
to say it is not without its risks.
There were a significant number of | 0:23:09 | 0:23:15 | |
nonfatal accidents including two jet
passenger aircraft, but this really | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
is a very safe form of transport,
and modern aircraft and engines are | 0:23:18 | 0:23:23 | |
incredibly robust and reliable
pieces of equipment. One of the | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
essentials of aviation safety as we
learn from our previous mistakes, we | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
put new technologies into aeroplanes
and example the crash in Canada of a | 0:23:30 | 0:23:38 | |
turboprop before Christmas, it
didn't catch fire. Aircraft are more | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
fire retardant, easier to evacuate
from, so even when you do have an | 0:23:42 | 0:23:46 | |
accident, the chances of it killing
everyone are less and less these | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
days. Long may that safety record
continue. If you are watching | 0:23:49 | 0:23:55 | |
Outside Source towards the end of
2017 you will know that we were | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
speaking about bitcoin and off a
lot, crypto currency, and we were | 0:23:57 | 0:24:06 | |
reporting on it getting up to
$16,000 per coin, and it was going | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
up and down, and you will not be
able to trade it in the Egypt if you | 0:24:10 | 0:24:15 | |
are watching their because it has
been prohibited. BBC Arabic's | 0:24:15 | 0:24:22 | |
reporter has more from Cairo.
Bitcoin has been in the headlines | 0:24:22 | 0:24:30 | |
triggering debate almost all over
the world, and Egypt is no exception | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
to that. The digital currency has
now been deemed as prohibited in | 0:24:33 | 0:24:39 | |
Islamic shall you law, and according
to the edict, using Bitcoin made | 0:24:39 | 0:24:49 | |
risk even burning in some nations
and some cases. We have come here to | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
hear what people actually think.
TRANSLATION: What you mean virtual | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
currency? I have to touch the
currency to use it. I prefer our own | 0:24:55 | 0:25:01 | |
money, people know it and know how
to use it. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
It's a new thing that I don't know
about but everyone uses. I might | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
think about it.
The currency is not very common to | 0:25:08 | 0:25:14 | |
use in Egypt. There is no official
estimate as to how many people | 0:25:14 | 0:25:18 | |
actually use Bitcoin here, but some
experts told us it is limited to | 0:25:18 | 0:25:24 | |
dozens of users, who became
interested after Bitcoin hit a peak | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
at some point last year of $17,000.
BBC Cairo. Thanks for that. If you | 0:25:28 | 0:25:38 | |
have a smartphone while you are
watching and want updates from here | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 | |
and the BBC newsroom remember you
can download the BBC News that from | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
your app store, just search for BBC
news and you will find it very | 0:25:45 | 0:25:49 | |
easily. When we come back on Outside
Source, we will have a number of | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
stories for you, including Israel
making a push to send thousands of | 0:25:52 | 0:25:59 | |
Eritreans and Sudanese home. Good
evening. At home wet and windy | 0:25:59 | 0:26:12 | |
weather is | 0:26:12 | 0:26:13 | |
evening. At home wet and windy
weather is the primary concern right | 0:26:13 | 0:26:14 | |
now, but on the other side of the
Atlantic it is not wet and windy, | 0:26:14 | 0:26:19 | |
but cold weather that causes issues.
The cold has been very long-lasting | 0:26:19 | 0:26:23 | |
across North America.
Another cold night in store tonight. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:29 | |
These are the lows we are expecting.
Dallas, Texas, down 2-5, and | 0:26:29 | 0:26:37 | |
Minneapolis, -17, so after that
exceptionally cold start, | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
temperatures will struggle to
recover -- down to -5 in Dallas, | 0:26:39 | 0:26:46 | |
Texas. New York City during the
middle of the afternoon, no better | 0:26:46 | 0:26:52 | |
than -2. 5 degrees in Dallas is a
slight improvement on the last day | 0:26:52 | 0:26:55 | |
or so, and later in the week we are
watching an area of low pressure, | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
and some uncertainty about just how
close to the eastern seaboard this | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
will get, but it does look like it
will bring some significant snow | 0:27:03 | 0:27:07 | |
across New York and up into New
England towards the end of the week, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
which could cause some travel
problems. Now to south-east Asia in | 0:27:10 | 0:27:15 | |
this area of cloud, this tropical
depression that has brought a lot of | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
rain to the Philippines, a bit of
uncertainty about exactly where this | 0:27:18 | 0:27:23 | |
storm will track next.
It does not look like it will | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
strengthen particularly but it could
bring some rain eventually towards | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
Vietnam and some other computer not
wood models drifted away to the | 0:27:28 | 0:27:32 | |
north. Keep an eye on that because
there could well be some further | 0:27:32 | 0:27:37 | |
flooding -- some other computer
models. And this picture is quite | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
dramatic, showing a chain of
thundery downpours from the far | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
North Down the east coast of
Australia and these will continue in | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
places during Wednesday but for the
bulk of Australia things are looking | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
try with some spells of sunshine. On
the cool side for this time of year | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
in Melbourne with highs of 20
degrees. Now, closer to home in | 0:27:54 | 0:27:59 | |
Europe, this area of low pressure,
Storm Eleanor, which will bring some | 0:27:59 | 0:28:05 | |
very wet and windy weather tonight
through the British Isles, it will | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
then move its way into continental
Europe and across the low countries | 0:28:08 | 0:28:12 | |
into Germany, and noticed the
squeeze in isobars. There could be | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
some very strong winds, gales or
severe gales, and then further East | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
some outbreaks of rain and wet
weather also sinking southward | 0:28:19 | 0:28:23 | |
across Germany and France, bringing
snow over the Alps. You will notice | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
temperatures around this area are
not particularly low, and that | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
combination of snow which will
really pay a lot over the next few | 0:28:31 | 0:28:41 | |
days, and those temperatures which
will generally be fairly high for | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
this time of year, it brings quite a
significant risk of avalanches which | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
could cause some travel problems.
Temperatures in Geneva, nine or 10 | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
degrees on Thursday and Friday, more
rain and snow over the mountains so | 0:28:48 | 0:28:51 | |
a significant risk of avalanche.
Back home on Wednesday, a windy day | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 | |
with a mix of sunshine and showers,
and more details on that rate here | 0:28:53 | 0:28:57 | |
in half an hour. -- right here. | 0:28:57 | 0:29:02 | |
Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,
this is Outside Source, | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
and these are the main stories
here in the BBC Newsroom. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
Iran's supreme leader has called
protestors 'enemies' - | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
and is alleging foreign
interference. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
It's his first comments
after six days of protests. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
Here's how the Trump
administration reacted. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:29 | |
The Iranian people are angry at the
rising tide of corruption in their | 0:30:29 | 0:30:33 | |
daily lives. The people are tired of
paying the price for their violent | 0:30:33 | 0:30:37 | |
and corrupt rulers. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:41 | |
paying the price for their violent
and corrupt rulers. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:41 | |
South Korea has proposed high-level
talks with North Korea next week | 0:30:41 | 0:30:44 | |
to discuss its possible
participation in | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
the Winter Olympics. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:47 | |
The development comes a day
after Kim Jong-un said | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
he was open to dialogue. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:50 | |
An American YouTube star,
Logan Paul, has prompted a barrage | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
of criticism after he posted a video
which showed the body of an apparent | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
suicide victim in Japan. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:57 | |
Logan Paul has now apologised. | 0:30:57 | 0:31:07 | |
South Korea wants direct
talks with North Korea - | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
it's even calling this
a "ground-breaking chance" | 0:31:19 | 0:31:21 | |
to improve relations. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:27 | |
It's a response to Kim Jong Un
saying he's willing to hold direct | 0:31:27 | 0:31:30 | |
talks about sending a team
to the Olympics in South Korea. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
This is President Trump's
take - via a tweet. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:38 | |
That's President Trump - this
is South Korea's President Moon. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
We welcome the North Korean leader,
Kim Jong-un, that he expressed a | 0:31:58 | 0:32:05 | |
willingness to send to the Olympics.
I believe that this is in response | 0:32:05 | 0:32:11 | |
to our proposal to make the Olympics
an opportunity to improve | 0:32:11 | 0:32:15 | |
inter-Korean relations and peace. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:17 | |
In his statement, Kim Jong-un
raised the possibility | 0:32:17 | 0:32:19 | |
of sending a North Korean team
to the Winter Olympics in Pyongchang | 0:32:19 | 0:32:22 | |
in South Korea next month. | 0:32:22 | 0:32:29 | |
South Korea's moved at speed. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:31 | |
It's suggesting talks
at the Panmunjom Peace House | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
on January 9th - a week's time. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
The peace house is in an area that
straddles the border | 0:32:36 | 0:32:39 | |
between the North and South. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:49 | |
By the way, only two North Koreans
have qualified for the games. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:54 | |
They're both figure skaters. | 0:32:54 | 0:33:03 | |
More details coming into the
newsroom, the US State Department | 0:33:03 | 0:33:07 | |
have said it's up to South Korea as
to whether to hold these talks but | 0:33:07 | 0:33:12 | |
Washington is sceptical of Kim
Jong-un's sincerity, if such talks | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
happen. That is Reuters quoting the
US State Department. The Americans | 0:33:15 | 0:33:20 | |
standing back from this. A lot of
people waiting to see whether Kim | 0:33:20 | 0:33:25 | |
Jong-un would send a team to talk to
the South Koreans. We will see. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:29 | |
Well, Celia Hatton is
the Asia Pacific editor here | 0:33:29 | 0:33:31 | |
in the BBC newsroom. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:32 | |
This is her analysis
of the possibility of talks. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
A lot of theories are swirling
around North Korea's motivations. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:39 | |
Some people believe that economic
sanctions imposed on North Korea are | 0:33:39 | 0:33:43 | |
finally beginning to bite. It really
is hurting the North Korean economy | 0:33:43 | 0:33:48 | |
on almost every level. It is thought
that maybe the North Korean leader, | 0:33:48 | 0:33:53 | |
Kim Jong-un, his thinking is that he
could give in to a Saido concession. | 0:33:53 | 0:33:58 | |
He could agree to talks and set at
the table and perhaps extract some | 0:33:58 | 0:34:04 | |
monetary gains, some aid or a climb
of sanctions without having to give | 0:34:04 | 0:34:09 | |
up anything tangible that is
important to him, namely North | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
That is one theory. From the South | 0:34:13 | 0:34:23 | |
Koreans perspective, their president
complained on the idea that there | 0:34:23 | 0:34:29 | |
should be more engagement. He was
one of the architects of South | 0:34:29 | 0:34:35 | |
Korea's now dormant sunshine policy,
the idea that South Korea and North | 0:34:35 | 0:34:40 | |
Korea should warmer relations and
back when he was a presidential | 0:34:40 | 0:34:44 | |
adviser, he was the one who pushed
the idea that the two should have | 0:34:44 | 0:34:49 | |
economic ties, cultural ties, social
ties. That policy is really long | 0:34:49 | 0:34:55 | |
dead, but he has continued to
express his belief that negotiations | 0:34:55 | 0:35:01 | |
are really important. So, it is no
surprise that South Korea jumped at | 0:35:01 | 0:35:05 | |
the chance to meet with the North
Koreans face-to-face. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:13 | |
Another big story coming
out of Israel today. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
The government has told thousands
of African migrants to leave | 0:35:15 | 0:35:17 | |
the country or face imprisonment -
and is offering up to | 0:35:17 | 0:35:20 | |
$3,500 if they leave
within the next 90 days. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:23 | |
This | 0:35:23 | 0:35:25 | |
The migrants are mostly
from Eritrea and Sudan. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:30 | |
These are pictures of some Eritreans
at a church service in Tel Aviv. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:33 | |
The vast majority of these migrants
are seeking asylum - | 0:35:33 | 0:35:35 | |
and say they've fled
persecution and conflict. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:37 | |
But the authorities regard them
as economic migrants. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:47 | |
here is Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu talking earlier. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:54 | |
TRANSLATION: We have removed 20,000
of existing infiltrators using | 0:35:54 | 0:35:59 | |
various measures. Now it's increased
removal, thanks to an international | 0:35:59 | 0:36:05 | |
agreement I reached, allowing us to
move the 40,000 remaining | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
infiltrators without their consent. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:14 | |
Now this new order exempts children,
elderly people, and victims | 0:36:14 | 0:36:16 | |
of slavery and human trafficking. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:21 | |
There has been increased monitoring
of the Libyan coast line in the | 0:36:21 | 0:36:24 | |
Mediterranean which has seen a drop
of 70% of migration travel since | 0:36:24 | 0:36:31 | |
July. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
Now we have a special report
on the fate of African | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
migrants returning home from Libya. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:37 | |
Increased monitoring | 0:36:37 | 0:36:38 | |
of Libya's coastline has seen
migrant travel drop 70% since July. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
This has left thousands of men stuck
in Libya and vulnerable to abuse. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:44 | |
Some, mainly from Nigeria,
have now been repatriated. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
Stephanie Hegarty has been
to Benin in southern | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
Nigeria to meet them. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:49 | |
Many of those who've walked
the streets of Benin | 0:36:49 | 0:36:51 | |
dreamed of going to Europe. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:52 | |
Jackson and Felix almost made it. | 0:36:52 | 0:36:54 | |
But they were arrested
in a boat off the coast | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 | |
of Libya and sent to prison. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:58 | |
They said when they were no
longer needed they were | 0:37:10 | 0:37:12 | |
dumped in the desert. | 0:37:12 | 0:37:13 | |
Rescued by a man driving by,
they were repatriated to Nigeria | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
with the help of the UN. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:17 | |
We spoke to several Nigerian
migrants, crosschecking | 0:37:17 | 0:37:19 | |
the details of their stories,
and each told us of | 0:37:19 | 0:37:21 | |
the same horrifying trend. | 0:37:21 | 0:37:23 | |
Prison authorities leasing
or selling migrants to local | 0:37:23 | 0:37:25 | |
businesses as labour. | 0:37:25 | 0:37:30 | |
It's a new development
in a dark and brutal industry | 0:37:30 | 0:37:33 | |
in which traffickers and prison
guards extort migrants, | 0:37:33 | 0:37:35 | |
forcing them to buy their freedom. | 0:37:35 | 0:37:38 | |
This man was arrested in Libya
in 2015 and brought to prison. | 0:37:48 | 0:37:51 | |
He says the man bought his freedom
and forced him to work for nothing. | 0:37:51 | 0:38:06 | |
After three months,
he refused to continue. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:10 | |
Back in prison, he was told
he was going to be deported. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
Instead he was taken
here for seven months. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:29 | |
How many people did you see die?
Almost 20 or 30. Here, at this | 0:38:29 | 0:38:36 | |
hotel, 200 men and women have just
arrived from Libya, they are being | 0:38:36 | 0:38:41 | |
processed and received by
authorities here. Many of them have | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
stories of abuse and mistreatment at
the hands of authorities, and Libyan | 0:38:44 | 0:38:48 | |
detention centres, where they are
held. At least three people I spoke | 0:38:48 | 0:38:52 | |
to so far told me they were forced
to work for free or sold as slaves. | 0:38:52 | 0:39:05 | |
Again and again, the prisoners
mentioned as a place of terrible | 0:39:23 | 0:39:26 | |
abuse. It is run by Libya's Ministry
of interior which itself is run by | 0:39:26 | 0:39:32 | |
two militia groups. Libya is in the
middle of a civil War and these | 0:39:32 | 0:39:36 | |
militia are only nominally under the
UN recognised government in Tripoli. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:41 | |
The Libyan and interior ministry did
not respond to our attempts to set | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
up an interview. The US migration
agency says there are 700 migrants | 0:39:44 | 0:39:53 | |
-- 700,000 migrants still stuck in
Libya. Governments have stepped up | 0:39:53 | 0:39:55 | |
their efforts to get citizens home
and thousands have been repatriated | 0:39:55 | 0:40:00 | |
in the last few weeks. Carrying on
talk trauma, those that do come home | 0:40:00 | 0:40:04 | |
had to begin the hard work of
rebuilding their lives. Stephanie | 0:40:04 | 0:40:09 | |
Hegarty, BBC News, Nigeria. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:12 | |
Don't forget you can get much
more detail on our top | 0:40:12 | 0:40:15 | |
stories on our website... | 0:40:15 | 0:40:20 | |
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
begin in just over a month's | 0:40:26 | 0:40:29 | |
time in South Korea. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:30 | |
Whilst concerns about the on-going
conflict with North Korea | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
and the Russian doping scandal have
dominated much of the build-up, | 0:40:32 | 0:40:35 | |
the British team are aiming to make
history at the Games themselves. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:37 | |
BBC Sport's Nick Hope takes a look
at some of the best British | 0:40:37 | 0:40:41 | |
prospects in Path to PyeongChang... | 0:40:41 | 0:40:51 | |
It takes a special kind of athlete
to succeed at the Winter Olympics. | 0:40:55 | 0:41:01 | |
Traditionally, British success has
been sporadic at best. But in recent | 0:41:01 | 0:41:05 | |
years, Team GB has finally joined
the party. Lizzie Arnold is the | 0:41:05 | 0:41:12 | |
Olympic champion, my goodness! Bella
four GB medals during Sochi 2014 and | 0:41:12 | 0:41:16 | |
that could yet be upgraded to a
record haul of five with a bobsleigh | 0:41:16 | 0:41:20 | |
bronze following the Russian doping
scandal. But British athletes are | 0:41:20 | 0:41:25 | |
winning more major medals now than
at any point in history. So there is | 0:41:25 | 0:41:29 | |
every chance that the Bjorn Chang
2018 and South Korea could be | 0:41:29 | 0:41:35 | |
Britain's best ever games --
Pyongchang. One of Britain's best | 0:41:35 | 0:41:41 | |
multi-medal prospects is Elise
Christie, she will compete in three | 0:41:41 | 0:41:48 | |
events. Since the last games she's
become a world champion but is | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
looking to put her in thick demons
firmly behind her after a | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
devastating Sochi 2014. They've gone
down! I can't believe she's been | 0:41:55 | 0:42:06 | |
penalised again! It has been tough,
I cannot even describe how hard it | 0:42:06 | 0:42:16 | |
was. I suffered a lot after it in my
life, in my normal life too. I had a | 0:42:16 | 0:42:23 | |
crash at the games, the Korean girl
was taken out and I received a lot | 0:42:23 | 0:42:27 | |
of online abuse and death threats
from the South Koreans. It changed | 0:42:27 | 0:42:32 | |
me as a person, a lost -- I lost a
lot of confidence from that but | 0:42:32 | 0:42:38 | |
since then I've had a turnaround.
She's the first British woman to win | 0:42:38 | 0:42:42 | |
a short track world title. People
became fans and they were sorry for | 0:42:42 | 0:42:46 | |
how people me. A majority of the
South Koreans already support me. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:53 | |
It's nice to see how much I've moved
forward since then. I'm a totally | 0:42:53 | 0:42:58 | |
different skater. I've developed so
much but I don't know how I would | 0:42:58 | 0:43:04 | |
survive if it happens again. When I
go to the Olympics I'm hoping to win | 0:43:04 | 0:43:10 | |
a gold medal. Definitely wanted more
than anything else but I needed with | 0:43:10 | 0:43:18 | |
what happened in Sochi, to get
redemption for any mistakes I made. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:23 | |
If I won Gold, it would be
undescribable. The British bobsleigh | 0:43:23 | 0:43:34 | |
four man team finished fifth, an
agonising 0.1 one seconds from | 0:43:34 | 0:43:40 | |
medals in 2014 but they are in line
for an upgrade to bronze after the | 0:43:40 | 0:43:45 | |
disqualification of the Russian team
for doping offences. Corruption on | 0:43:45 | 0:43:50 | |
an unprecedented scale, 1000 Russian
athletes are accused of doping... | 0:43:50 | 0:43:55 | |
The Russian government organised and
directed a sophisticated doping | 0:43:55 | 0:43:59 | |
programme. Great Britain looked set
to win a bobsleigh bronze medal, | 0:43:59 | 0:44:09 | |
nearly four years after the Sochi
Olympics. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:23 | |
A moment has been stolen. I feel
like we fought so hard, knowing that | 0:44:24 | 0:44:28 | |
we were good enough to get on the
podium. It is difficult to take. | 0:44:28 | 0:44:35 | |
Gray as we are seeing in all sports
now, this is happening all too | 0:44:35 | 0:44:40 | |
frequently. It is a sad state. It
would have been a massive family | 0:44:40 | 0:44:46 | |
achievement more than anything.
Funding would have been much higher. | 0:44:46 | 0:44:52 | |
The personal reward of it, that
potentially would have meant the | 0:44:52 | 0:44:57 | |
opportunity for us to further our
careers. I need a medal. How much | 0:44:57 | 0:45:04 | |
would you like it to be resolved in
Pyongchang? One of the things that's | 0:45:04 | 0:45:10 | |
always mentioned is how do you feel
about your moment been stolen from | 0:45:10 | 0:45:14 | |
you? In some ways it can be
corrected by presenting a medal in | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
Bjorn Chang. -- in Pyongchang. A
silver for Great Britain! You have | 0:45:17 | 0:45:29 | |
another chance to do it at the games
themselves, the team is going in the | 0:45:29 | 0:45:33 | |
right direction. It is, the
possibilities are huge for this | 0:45:33 | 0:45:40 | |
team. The British four-man team from
Sochi 2014 should learn whether they | 0:45:40 | 0:45:47 | |
will receive a retrospective bronze
medal by late January. Sliding | 0:45:47 | 0:45:53 | |
sports will not enter the Winter
Paralympics until Beijing 2022 but | 0:45:53 | 0:45:58 | |
for Pyongchang 2018, Britain still
possess several medal prospects. | 0:45:58 | 0:46:01 | |
These are the ones to watch for the
Paralympics GB... | 0:46:01 | 0:46:06 | |
Like Britain's wheelchair curlers,
GB Olympic colours have enjoyed | 0:47:10 | 0:47:14 | |
plenty of medal success in recent
games, the women won at bronze while | 0:47:14 | 0:47:18 | |
the men got silver in Sochi 2014 and
both collective European honours in | 0:47:18 | 0:47:22 | |
the last few months, suggesting that
they are arguably in career-best | 0:47:22 | 0:47:26 | |
form. Both teams will be boosted by
the presence of these two. Evil skip | 0:47:26 | 0:47:40 | |
the women's top while the boys will
line up for the GB men. It will make | 0:47:40 | 0:47:45 | |
things more exciting and extra
special. Not every day you can | 0:47:45 | 0:47:50 | |
compete at the Olympics alongside
two of your brothers, with Great | 0:47:50 | 0:47:53 | |
Britain on your back and obviously
family watching. It makes it really | 0:47:53 | 0:47:58 | |
exciting. I guess there is some
added pressure, having been | 0:47:58 | 0:48:01 | |
medallists before. You have a podium
to step up to but there is nothing | 0:48:01 | 0:48:09 | |
stopping us, we will be as good as
last time, if not even better! The | 0:48:09 | 0:48:17 | |
Winter Olympics have been
revitalised by freestyle skiing and | 0:48:17 | 0:48:21 | |
snowboarding events in the 21st
century and Great Britain finally | 0:48:21 | 0:48:24 | |
claimed a first-ever Winter Olympic
medal on the snow with Jenny Jones | 0:48:24 | 0:48:32 | |
snapping up a bronze medal. Although
she isn't competing any more, there | 0:48:32 | 0:48:42 | |
is plenty more... I spend more than
quarter of a century reporting on | 0:48:42 | 0:48:48 | |
winter sport and I can say hand on
heart going into Pyongchang, Britain | 0:48:48 | 0:48:52 | |
has never had so many medal
contenders... Firstly, you have to | 0:48:52 | 0:48:56 | |
talk about Katie Ormerod, she just
missed out on Sochi four years ago | 0:48:56 | 0:49:01 | |
and since then, she has established
herself as one of the best big air | 0:49:01 | 0:49:06 | |
and slopestyle riders on the tour.
The next rider to talk about is | 0:49:06 | 0:49:10 | |
Billie Morgan, the first man to land
the hallowed quad core, the biggest | 0:49:10 | 0:49:15 | |
trick in snowboarding right now.
He's another serious contender. | 0:49:15 | 0:49:19 | |
Jamie Nicholls is my dark horse
pick, pound for pound one of the | 0:49:19 | 0:49:23 | |
best rail riders in the world and
has been working hard. He is a | 0:49:23 | 0:49:29 | |
brilliant all-round rider and can be
a serious hope for a medal. We | 0:49:29 | 0:49:33 | |
cannot forget about the skiers,
there is no shortage of talent in | 0:49:33 | 0:49:36 | |
that pool! James Woods is top of the
list, fifth in Sochi while carrying | 0:49:36 | 0:49:41 | |
a hip injury, the last 12 months
have been a brilliant build-up to | 0:49:41 | 0:49:43 | |
the games. He's had by Games and
World Cup gold medals. You have | 0:49:43 | 0:49:54 | |
Katie Summerhays, she has banked a
silver on the World Cup already this | 0:49:54 | 0:49:57 | |
year. I don't know about you but I
am very excited about Team GB's | 0:49:57 | 0:50:02 | |
prospects in Bjorn Chang! -- in
Pyongchang. There is plenty of medal | 0:50:02 | 0:50:11 | |
potential from the freestyle
perspective but less look at Team | 0:50:11 | 0:50:15 | |
GB's other prospects on the path to
Pyongchang. Britain has struggled in | 0:50:15 | 0:50:23 | |
Alpine skiing for decades but slalom
specialist Dave Riding now has World | 0:50:23 | 0:50:27 | |
Cup success to his name. First, this
competitor competing as a mother, | 0:50:27 | 0:50:36 | |
she gave birth to her daughter in
2016. She's already training her for | 0:50:36 | 0:50:40 | |
a future in the sport! Ice dancers
Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland have | 0:50:40 | 0:50:45 | |
been one of sport's most unlucky
duos in recent years. Butland needed | 0:50:45 | 0:50:51 | |
heart surgery before the last
Olympics and Penny Coomes shattered | 0:50:51 | 0:50:55 | |
her knee in 2016. Now they are back
on the up. Andrew Musgrave is | 0:50:55 | 0:50:59 | |
another certainly on top of his
game, and competes in one of the | 0:50:59 | 0:51:03 | |
Olympics toughest events.
Cross-country skiing. The British | 0:51:03 | 0:51:10 | |
bobsleigh team had all of their
support on hold before the games but | 0:51:10 | 0:51:13 | |
a crowdfunding campaign saw them
raise over £40,000. Also keep an eye | 0:51:13 | 0:51:19 | |
out for Laura Dees in skeleton. A
Welsh woman one World Cup honours in | 0:51:19 | 0:51:25 | |
recent years and is looking to make
an impact in her Olympic debut... | 0:51:25 | 0:51:30 | |
Britain's leading slider remains
Lizzie Arnold. The Olympic champion | 0:51:30 | 0:51:34 | |
from Sochi 2014 who took a year-long
career break since the last games. | 0:51:34 | 0:51:39 | |
She has returned refreshed but has
struggled to find consistency of | 0:51:39 | 0:51:42 | |
old... Lizzie Arnold is the Olympic
champion. My goodness! Since I was a | 0:51:42 | 0:51:50 | |
kid I wanted to go to the Olympics.
To say I'm an Olympian and a gold | 0:51:50 | 0:51:54 | |
medallist, that is mind blowing.
After Sochi, there was a niggling | 0:51:54 | 0:52:01 | |
thing that I hadn't yet been a World
Cup champion or European champion. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:06 | |
My mind skipped immediately to that.
To be able to achieve all four | 0:52:06 | 0:52:10 | |
titles with them 407 days, in two
seasons, was awesome but I was so | 0:52:10 | 0:52:19 | |
exhausted. I'm glad I took the time.
Training was much harder than I | 0:52:19 | 0:52:25 | |
remembered. It is constant.
Everything we do is in a basement, | 0:52:25 | 0:52:32 | |
at the gym, lifting weights and
trying to get stronger and faster. | 0:52:32 | 0:52:38 | |
The past 18 months, I think it has
been very up and down. Lizzie Arnold | 0:52:38 | 0:52:43 | |
takes the bronze medal! She is way
back in tenth of rococo position! | 0:52:43 | 0:52:53 | |
She may struggle to get another heat
after that run. At the moment my | 0:52:53 | 0:52:58 | |
results are not where I want them to
be. I believe in myself and I have | 0:52:58 | 0:53:03 | |
confidence. The goal of trying to
become the first British Winter | 0:53:03 | 0:53:09 | |
Olympian to retain my title is so
motivating. That gets me out of bed | 0:53:09 | 0:53:14 | |
every morning. | 0:53:14 | 0:53:17 | |
As you've been seeing, with more
medal prospects for Great Britain | 0:53:20 | 0:53:24 | |
across Winter sports than at any
point in history, there's every | 0:53:24 | 0:53:26 | |
chance that Bjorn Chang 2018 could
be record-breaking for Great | 0:53:26 | 0:53:30 | |
Britain... -- Pyongchang 2018. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:48 | |
There will be full coverage of the
Winter Olympics on the BBC Sport | 0:53:52 | 0:53:57 | |
website. | 0:53:57 | 0:54:00 |