11/01/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ross Atkins, welcome to

outside source. We have seen a

second day of protests in Pakistan

after the rape and murder of a

six-year old girl. Local police say

there have been 12 similar murders

in recent years. This is footage of

the girl being led away and her

father has spoken to the BBC.

TRANSLATION:

If the police had done

their job properly, they would have

found her as soon as they got hold

of the CCTV but they weren't

interested.

The political surprise of the day

came courtesy of Nigel Farage.

Listen to what he wants.

Maybe, just

maybe, I am reaching the point of

thinking that we should have a

second referendum.

At 22 years old,

I bought my first house for £6.5

million -- $6.5 million.

That is

Logan Paul, he has made huge amounts

of money on you tube but they have

now cut ties with him, all to do

with a video he posted with a dead

person on it. And we talk about the

Japanese gang boss who was tracked

down after he took photos of his

body covered in tatties.

-- tattoos.

We starred in Pakistan, where riots

continue after this girl was raped

and murdered. This video shows a

large outline of a man and this

young girl. She had been on her way

to a Koran class. She was abducted

and she is holding their hand in

this second video of the larger man

whom you can see outlined. Her body

was found in a rubbish dump several

days after she went missing. They

now's father has been speaking to

the BBC. TRANSLATION:

It's like the

world has ended. I was away in Saudi

Arabia and only came back last

night. I have no words. If the

police had done their job properly,

they would have found her as soon as

they got hold of the CCTV but they

weren't interested.

There is your

ree and grief on the streets and it

is the same on social media.

Zainab was abducted in the east of

Pakistan, in a city called coz and

police there are saying 12 similar

murders have happened in the past

years and that this suspect is

linked to five of them. There is

palpable frustration that these

murders are continuing to happen.

That's what we are seeing spilling

out onto the streets. This is some

of the footage that has come in to

day, whether it be more clashes

between police and protesters and

attacks on a local government office

as well. The latest violence took

place after the funerals of the two

men who died in yesterday's

protests.

Let's learn more. People

are very angry because this is not

the first time a child has been

abducted, brutally raped and

murdered in this city. People are

tired of hearing government

complaints and the novel strategy

that they use, we are investigating

and we will find out who the culprit

is. It has been many years since the

first case claim to surface in 2015.

Initially, they said 300 children

were manipulated and strangled and

died, then it came down to only nine

and then 13 people were on trial in

that case but only two were

convicted. All the rest of them were

set free because there was lack of

evidence, so people are pretty angry

because the situation is not under

control in Kazur, and people are

worried about their children, sons

and daughters, so Zainab is the

child of the entire nation. There

are two sets of protests going on in

Pakistan. One is on the streets and

Kazur, where people are damaging

government and private property. On

the other hand, there is a social

protest going on with the hash tag

justice for Zainab, where the entire

nation has come together and they

want the government to finally take

some action. Earlier in the day we

saw that the government has

announced a 10 million pound reward

for anyone -- a 10 million reward

for anyone who gives information

about the suspect and promised they

would not be revealed, but this our

tactics to calm down the protests

which have spread all over Pakistan.

Let's head to California now whether

death toll is now 17 and eight

others are missing. As we discussed,

the most affected county is Santa

Barbara and the town which has borne

the brunt of this is called

Montecito. This is an aerial shot of

one raid in Montecito before the

disaster and this is a photo of the

same area after it. The difference

is astonishing. You can see the mud

for yourself and some of these huge

buildings either washed away or

buried in mud and debris. As well as

these stills, more videos are

emerging. We spotted this one which

was released by Burbank

firefighters. Absolutely

astonishing. That car is not

driving, it is being swept down the

hill along with huge amounts of

water and mud and sizeable rocks as

well which we have seen blocking the

roads towards the bottom of the

hills. The BBC's James Cook has said

this latest report.

Turn around!

The flash flood is right there!

Get out of here, go!

This was the moment it began.

Oh, my God, Mom!

And then panic.

Close the door!

It was a million miles

an hour in slow motion,

if that makes sense.

I clicked in survival

gear, survival mode.

Wake Dad up!

Every second, it is just roaring

and banging against the house

and the most vicious and violent

sounds you have ever heard.

Montecito is only just beginning

to grasp the scale of the disaster

which will bear its name.

For this idyllic little town

of just 9000 people,

recovery will be long and hard.

This was somebody's driveway.

There are three cars destroyed.

Buried inside that rubble.

Looking at this house,

it is difficult to believe anyone

on this street survived,

but many did and their

stories are remarkable.

People walked their dogs

through here, there are trails,

my kids have grown

up riding their bikes.

Noelle fled with her three children

just before the storm.

But many of her neighbours did not.

Two young boys were swept

out of their home,

along with their mother.

In the middle of the night.

And the dog is gone.

And they are lucky to be fine.

It is like a war zone here.

There are homes that

are just missing.

And I walk down the street

and I see balls, and toys,

and bicycles and shoes and socks.

And knives and hammers.

It looks like people's lives

are just washed to the ocean.

Much of the wreckage ended up

clogging the main coastal motorway.

The mountains above are scarred

by rivers of debris.

Southern California was once famed

for its agreeable climate.

These days, it reels

from drought, fire and flood.

James Cook, BBC News, Montecito.

Now, we talked about Logan Paul last

week, a big U-tube star, and he

posted a video of himself in Japan

laughing against the body of

somebody who appeared to have taken

his own life. Today, the company

have told us they have cut business

ties with him. It's a big decision

because he's a serious player, with

over 50 million subscribers on

YouTube. On Facebook he gets about a

per post, on Instagram about

$80,000. For more, first of all,

here is Gigi isn't it.

The video, which we can't show,

featured the dead body of a man

who appeared to have

taken his own life.

It had been viewed millions of times

before Logan removed

it from his channel.

In a statement, YouTube acknowledged

it had taken a long time to respond,

but that it also had been listening

to comments and criticisms.

It added that it recognised

the actions of one creator

could affect the whole community

and it said it would soon announce

steps to make sure any similar

videos were never circulated again.

I have made a severe and continuous

lapse of my judgment and I don't

expect to be forgiven.

I'm simply here to apologise.

YouTube said that they would

put on hold projects

with the 22-year-old

and that they would no

longer feature his channel

on the Google Preferred programme.

Effectively, lowering his

advertising profile with top brands.

Logan Paul isn't the only

one being criticised.

Anger is being directed

towards YouTube with questions like,

why they didn't take down

the offending post initially

in the first place, why it took them

so long to even issue a statement

in response, and why his channel

is still up on their platform,

allowing him to make

money from advertising.

To get more information on the

financial relationship between

YouTube and their stars, we talk to

our correspondent.

YouTube uses its

top 5% of stars and it uses adverts

on them to target younger members of

the demographic that will buy the

products that it advertises.

And I

guess the challenge now is that it's

not just the platform, it's a

content promoter and a content

creator in some cases and its role

is starting to evolve?

That's the

thing. Broadcasters have to adhere

to certain rules and YouTube doesn't

have to do that. They said yesterday

they recognise Logan Paul reached

their community guidelines and it's

going to review those and ensure

videos like the one Logan uploaded

when circulated again and it's worth

noting that Logan removed the video,

not YouTube.

He is a big player on

many platforms. Can he survive this?

Only time will tell. We haven't

heard from him since the 2nd of

January when he apologised. He has

declined to do any interviews, so I

guess time will tell what will

happen.

Thanks to Daniel. Now in a

few minutes on Outside Source we

will talk about plastic pollution.

The Prime Minister of the UK Theresa

May has made a 25 year plan

announcement today to reduce plastic

waste. We will get into the details.

Patients are dying in hospital

corridors and accident and emergency

departments in England and Wales

because safety is being compromised

by intolerable conditions, the blunt

warning made to Theresa May signed

by 68 doctors who run accident and

emergency departments. Doctor has

garnered from the Royal College of

emergency medicine describes the

difficulties within the NHS.

There

is always huge budget in January,

February, March, what we call

winter, but unfortunately in the

last few years, we have got steadily

worse in terms of the pressures

facing not just emergency

departments but the rest of the

hospital. The reason for that is

that we have not got enough beds in

our hospitals, our social care

funding has decreased that we have

got huge challenges. Think. What we

have been putting forward as a

college is a range of methods both

short-term and long-term to address

those issues.

This is outside source lies in the

BBC newsroom. Our main story comes

from Pakistani, as protests continue

after the rape and murder of a

six-year-old girl.

There are reports that Japan has

summoned the Chinese ambassador in

Tokyo after a Chinese frigate sailed

near disputed islands in the East

China Sea which Japan controls,

though China also claims them.

The Burmese military has admitted

for the first time killing some

Ranger Midlands.

And this is Kazuyoshi Mura. He is 50

years old and he has just signed a

new contract, having first signed a

professional contract in 1979.

Now, an unexpected development on

Brexit today. Nigel Farage is a MP

who did more than most to confirm

Brexit and today he asked for a

second referendum on Brexit. It is

not a new demand but it is almost

always made by people who want to

stay in the EU.

My mind is actually

changing on this. What is for

certain is that the Cleggs, the

Blairs, the Adonis is, they will

never give up. They will go one

whingeing through this process. So

maybe, just maybe I am reaching the

point in thinking that we should

have a second referendum on EU

membership, the whole thing, unless

you want to have a multiple-choice

referendum that would confuse

people. I think if we had a second

referendum on EU membership we would

kill it off for a generation. The

percentage that would Vote Leave

next time would be very much bigger

than it was last time and we may

just finished the whole thing off

and Blair can disappear off into

total obscurity.

Now, one of the

business people who helped fund the

Leave Campaign agrees with this.

Aaron Banks has said today:

this is a constipated issue. This is

Peter Whittle, a senior member in

the Ukip party and he has tweeted:

the Ukip party and he has tweeted:

speaking of Mr Adonis. He has

entered the fray. He is a supporter

of stay in the EU. He said: let's

hear from the BBC's Alex Forsyth who

has been covering this from

Westminster.

It is a strange

alliance we find ourselves looking

at here, Nigel Farage, the man who

advocated Brexit, pleasing some of

the people who want to stay in the

EU. It's a little baffling but

obviously the motivations are very

different here. Nigel Farage is

claiming a second referendum would

settle the question and stop what he

calls the Remainers, those who want

the UK to stay in the EU. On the

other hand, there are those that

want the option left open because

they think the British public might

revisit this had come to a different

conclusion. It's worth saying that

the opinion polls since the

referendum are not clear what would

happen if there was a second vote.

Some suggest that some people regret

the Brexit decision, others suggest

that some people, even those who

wanted to remain, now just want the

government to get on with it. But

both sides think that they would win

a second time round. What is also

interesting is that most of the

criticism for Nigel Farage's

comments have come from leading

Brexiteers, even members of his own

Ukip party who say this question has

been settled once and for all. It's

worth mentioning as a final point

that number ten Downing St are clear

on this. They say the British public

have decided, we will not be

rerunning this fate, there will not

be a second referendum, but I bet

that doesn't stop people talking

about it.

And if you want more

analysis on Brexit, the latest

edition of the Brexit cast pod cast

from the BBC featuring some of our

finest journalists is available

right now, just search Brexit cast

in any broadcast software that you

use. Now, let's talk about Walmart.

It's the world's biggest retailer

and it's reacted to the recent tax

reform in the US. It's going to

increase wages for more than a

million of its staff, up to at least

a $11 an hour and it is also

expanding maternity rights and

parental benefits. There will also

be a one-off bonus of $1000 but

only. You've been there for more

than 20 years. Remember, we have

covered this a lot. Donald Trump

reduced corporation tax from 35% to

21%. So, the companies are liking

it, some of the employees are liking

it, but I guess it means less money

for central government?

Well, yes,

and just to point out actually be

same company, Walmart, has also

today announced that it's going to

be closing down some of its stores.

It's Sam 's club chain, to be

precise. So that also means that

hundreds of employees will be losing

their jobs, so you have got a mixed

bag of news coming out from the same

company today. As far as the bonus

announcement is concerned, we have

heard similar announcements from

other companies, but the big

question is, this is a permanent

reduction in corporate tax that has

been brought in by the new bill. It

will mean billions of dollars and in

some cases tens of billions of

dollars over the course of the

future. The amount they are paying

their employees today, it amounts to

about $400 million. The Republican

pitch was that this money would come

back into the economy in the way

that it expand the economy here, so

it will create jobs and people's

wages are going to go up in a

significant way and if that happens,

then you could sort of see the

government owning war by way of tax.

-- earning more by way of tax. But

there are no indications from this

particular bonus that's been given

and the wage increases, there are

many states in the United States

where the amount it has been

increased to is the minimum wage and

a lot of companies were already

paying more than that amount. It

could also be competition which has

forced them to increases wages.

Thank you for taking us through

that. Let's switch to South Korea

because they are considering banning

bit Queen and other crypto

currencies as well. It's justice

minister has said there are great

concerns regarding these virtual

currencies and the Justice ministry

is preparing a bill to ban crypto

currency trading through exchanges.

Here is the Asia business

correspondence.

The decision by

South Korea which has said it is

planning to ban crypto currencies

such as bitcoins bruited exchanges

should not come as a surprise. South

Korea has been an crucial source of

crypto currencies and many countries

around the world have been trying to

find ways to regulate them,

especially bitcoins. The South

Korean justice minister says virtual

currencies like bitcoins are causing

the government great concern. This

crackdown in South Korea comes after

many other Asian countries including

China have also tried clamping down

on digital currencies. The

authorities there, the government

there, is worried about how long

investors, regular retail investors,

are piling into these currencies

attracted by potentially high

returns, but regulators have been

saying given that these are highly

volatile assets, they are also

unregulated, no one body oversees

them, they are extremely risky

investments and as a result should

be approached with caution.

Now, we need to show you this video

from Las Vegas, part of the consumer

Electronics show in Las Vegas. This

is a drone demonstration organised

by Intel above the blood your hotel

on the strip. It's quite something,

all preprogrammed as the Intel

member of staff can explain.

Everything is preprogrammed. We know

exactly how the drains are going to

fly. We have positioned the drains

so there are 1.5 metres around each

other. We know they won't collide.

This is a drone built for safety. It

is made out of plastic and foam with

a pop cage to make sure all the

props are encased. Interestingly

enough, the Intel shooting stars

Owen doesn't have any cameras or

sensors. It has a really good GPS

and then it has a barometer and

other sensors integrated for

precision, but it only has an LED

payload.

Very impressive. Now let's talk

about plastic waste. As I am sure

you know, it's becoming a potent

political issue around the world and

today, the UK Government made its

play. The Prime Minister outlined a

25 year plan, including a further 5p

plastic bag charge and the reduction

of plastic waste. Let's hear by --

star by hearing some of what the

Prime Minister said.

Its goals are

simple, clean air, clean water,

plants and animals that are thriving

and a cleaner, greener country for

Russell. Together, they add up to

something profound. A better world

for each of us to live in and a

better future for the next

generation.

I have a number of

responses to play you. This is the

reaction of Greenpeace.

It is

policies, not promises we need. We

don't think it is decisive or

detailed enough. Our oceans bear the

brunt of our plastic habits to the

tune of a truckload of plastic every

minute. They can't wait 25 years. We

need policies that tackle the

producers and manufacturers of

plastic, those architects of this

culture of throwaway plastic that we

have. They need to take

responsibility for the amount of

waste we produce.

Next, a spokesman

for the plastics industry.

A lot of

work going on in this space because

we want to get all that material

back and recycle it. In fact, I was

at a company today that could lead

to a breakthrough in recycling in

this country. So there's an awful

lot of work being done in that

space. In terms of biodegradable and

compostable is, they offer certain

benefits but they are not the

solution to litter. At the end of

the day, we have got to stop

material finding its way into the

wider environment and we've got to

get it back and put it to work.

For

more information on the extent of

plastic pollution around the world,

you can get a lot of data from the

BBC News website. Last week on

outside source, we covered the fact

that huge amounts of plastic waste

were delivered into the oceans by

ten of the world's biggest cities,

one of them being the Ganges and you

can find a report all about that.

Later in the programme with the help

of BBC Arabic, we will go back to

Mosul, one of the biggest cities in

Iraq which last year was recaptured

by the Islamic state -- from the

Islamic state. We will be seeing how

life is going now.

Hello once again. If the truth were

known, it has been a mishmash of a

day across the British Isles. At its

very best, there was plenty of

sunshine on offer across parts of

the South West of England and one or

two spots elsewhere, but the truth

of the matter is that there was a

lot of cloud to be had and some mist

and fog lingered on through the

course of the day, one of those

leaden, January days. There you see

on the satellite imagery that there

were some decent islands of

sunshine. Through the evening and

overnight, we will find that the

cloud will part in one or two

locations and that will lead to some

fog, a bit like we had last night,

and where these guys state -- where

the skies stay clear, there could be

thrust, especially in the

countryside. Here we are, Friday

morning, I think no great issues

with fog across the north-western

quarter of Scotland. As soon as you

drift further east or down into the

Borders, here there could be a bit

of an issue. Northern Ireland, not

so much of an issue. If there was

fog overnight, it would be blown

away come the commute in the

boarding. Quite chilly start in

western parts, and this is where we

will see the dentist of the fog, at

least, part of East Anglia, of the

south-east. I don't think it will be

much of an issue here. A lot of dry

weather to be had on Friday, there

will be breaks in that cloud, but

again, it will be another leaden

sort of day. As we go on into

Saturday, we freshen up those winds

which will help with this fog

situation that we have had the past

couple of nights in a number of

locations but it's just freshening

up that wind ahead of a couple more

weather fronts, with a wet start to

the day in Northern Ireland on

Saturday. Taking the prospect of

rain into western Scotland, western

England and three Wales as well.

From Saturday into Sunday, join the

dots. That's the old weather front,

a new one showing its hand across

the north-western quarter of the

British Isles. Not a bad day on

Sunday, not the coldest of days at

all, make the most of it, because

when that weather front comes

through during the course of Monday,

the rest of the week is much colder

and it could turn more wintry.

These are some of the main stories

on the programme.

A second day of

protests in Pakistan after the rape

and murder of a six-year-old girl.

The local police say there have been

12 similar murders in the last two

years. This is footage of the girl

being led away and the father spoke

to the BBC.

If the police had done

their job properly they would have

phones are sinners they got the CCTV

but they were not interested.

Nigel

Farage is campaigned to get the

Kyoto of the European Union for

years, this is what he said he would

like to happen.

Just maybe I am

reaching the point of thinking we

should get a second referendum.

And

a Special Report from Mosul going

back to a city that what must

horrific battle between Islamic

state and a US coalition last year.

Before we do anything else let's

talk about the Iran nuclear deal

because there was an important

meeting today, and if the treat said

anything to go by, the talks went

well. He says, there is a strong

consensus in Brussels today and Iran

is complying, a reference to the

many things they are obliged to do

as part of this nuclear deal. In

this picture, shared that the

meeting, you'll notice the

distinctive haircut of the UK

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. It

was a major meeting of EU foreign

ministers. It was arranged by the

EU's foreign affairs chief and the

timing is no coincidence. Donald

Trump has long been a fierce critic

of this deal and on Friday he will

decide whether to extend sanctions

relief for ran. Top officials say

they expect him to impose some form

of new sanctions.

European Union

remains committed to support the

full and effective implementation of

the agreement, including to make

sure that the listing of nuclear

related sanctions has a positive

impact on trade and economic

relations with Iran including

benefits for the any union people.

The agreement has allowed for deeper

co-operation and continuous dialogue

with Iran on all issues.

Donald

Trump wants to either amend this

deal or withdraw from it, bear that

in mind when you listen to the UK

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

I

want to stress testing conclusion

that I don't think anybody has so

far produced a better alternative to

the JCP or a as a way of preventing

the Iranians from going ahead with

the acquisition of nuclear

capabilities. I don't think anybody

has come up with a better idea and

it is incumbent upon those who

oppose it relate to come up with

that better solution, because we

haven't seen so far.

And in

Washington this is the response of a

Democratic senator to Donald Trump's

imminent decision.

I am hopeful he

will take seriously the advice of

his national security adviser and

secretaries of defence and state in

the interest of our vital European

allies and he will recertify

continued participation. I am also

hopeful he will announce new

sanctions that we can impose on

their ballistic missile programme

and human rights violations or on

their support for terrorism in the

region, and there is nothing we will

have enacted within the next few

days. We need to continue this

journey with our European partners

of constraining the nuclear weapons

programme. We can and should work

together to address some of the

future challenges that we will face.

And when Donald Trump makes that

decision we will tell it to you one

BBC News. Last year on outside

source we covered the fierce battle

of Mosul. Eventually recaptured from

the Islamic state group but the

remains huge doubts over how many

civilians died. Amnesty

International is now estimating that

figure could be up to 10,000, ten

times higher than the official

estimate.

This used to be the beating

heart of the old part of Mosul.

Even for a country which has

seen many battles over

the years, the destruction

here is unprecedented.

Months of fighting to drive

so-called Islamic State out

of its main stronghold in Iraq has

left large parts

of the city in ruins.

Still, corpses of IS fighters

are lying around, buried.

And for survivors like Ahmed,

the struggle has not ended.

TRANSLATION: This is

the city that I grew up in,

and we were proud of it.

It's a shame.

Look now.

Nothing is left of it.

Especially in the west side.

It's completely devastated.

He has lost eight members

of his family here,

but he still hasn't been able

to find and Barry their bodies.

TRANSLATION:

IS came

to my family's neighbourhood

and asked them to leave,

and replaced them

with their own families.

The first one who died

was my brother-in-law,

when it was time to bring

water from the river.

He died from mortar shelling,

then my sister-in-law,

who just fell sick.

At that time, IS were removing

people from house to house,

so they didn't want to have someone

ill with them, so they killed her

and threw her body into the river.

Those who survived the air strikes

remain marked as possible

IS sympathisers.

For some, it's impossible

to return to their homes

without an authorisation signed

by the new rulers.

TRANSLATION:

This is a dilemma.

These people should go

through security checks to make sure

they are not with IS.

There are not very well-known

IS members who we can only find

through the people here.

As local people know their faces.

So we need first to identify them

before we are able to let these

people go back to their houses.

The task to rebuild Mosul

and clear the city of this

rubble will take years.

Driving IS fighters out

of the narrow backed alleys

of the old city took many months.

These same streets and buildings,

with plenty of remaining death

traps, are now proving to be

the most difficult to clear

for Iraq's defence units.

In some parts of Mosul,

the smell of death is pungent,

even after months since the battle

for the city ended.

The bodies of many residents

are still trapped under the rubble.

And there are people still looking

to find out what happened

to their lost loved ones.

Efforts to rebuild

Mosul have started.

And the new authorities

are in the process of clearing

all visible destruction.

But the bigger underlying scars

and wounds will take

much longer to heal.

Police in Thailand have arrested

this Japanese gang boss on the run

for 15 years. He was found after

pictures of his tattoos went viral.

At a police station he took off his

top and showed his entire upper

body, cover them tattoos. One other

detail was tattoos's little finger,

that is a punishment often used in

the gang he operated in.

This man

was a member of the Yakuza crime

syndicate in Japan, similar to the

Italian mafia, although

interestingly they are tolerated as

legal in Japan. This particular

gentleman, Shigeharu Shirai, was

wanted for the murder of a rival

gangland boss. He has turned up in a

sleepy village in Thailand.

Apparently every day he would go to

the market to get food and play

chess with the locals and he would

like to have his extensive tattoos

photographed. That is what caught

him out and these were posted on the

Internet and went viral, and seen

thousands of times, and spotted by

the Japanese authorities. These

tattoos marked him out as a Yakuza

member. These gang members often

have elaborate body art, often

painfully put on them. He also had a

missing part of his little finger on

his left hand, and that the time

authorities were notified and they

went and arrested him and he has

been detained and admitted to being

part of the Yakuza crime syndicate

but not yet admitted to the murder

he has been charged with.

For more

information, the BBC website is

where to go and you can find this

story and hundreds of others.

Six years ago, these young Syrian

girls were horrifically injured when

a shell at their home exploded. They

went to Georgia where there have

been treated at a special hospital.

Caroline Powell a first met them in

late 2012 and recently she went back

to see how they got on.

She beer remembers the day six years

ago when a shell slammed into their

bedroom. -- Bierley remembers. Her

hands were so damaged she needed

help to feed and dress herself. She

was so distressed by her appearance

she could look in the mirror. Her

sister Rahaf was also badly burned

but today they were on their way to

school. It has taken immense

strength and courage and countless

operations to get to where they are

now. This was the two in Syria

before the war. We saw them

receiving surgery in Georgia, where

the family fled for treatment. Two

years later she had to wear this

mask to help another skin graft

heel.

These days they spend much more time

in school than in hospital. Syrian

refugees, in the afternoons and the

kernels love it. -- girls.

Amma has had to get used to how

other children reactor.

They are teachers worked hard to get

their classmates to accept them. She

admires Amma's bravery.

Her parents worry about the social

stigma they are daughters will face

as they grow up, will life with

their injuries be harder as young

women. When the children draw for

us, Amma's first pictures of her

dream house and then she draws a

mosque.

But Rahaf has now been discharged

from MSF's hospital. Amma is waiting

for more surgery but with all the

conflict around the Middle East the

hospital is inundated with new cases

and the waiting list is long. The

most important global stories, we

have heard from Jordan and Pakistan

in the UK and US, next on the

programme, back to Tunisia because

more than 600 people have now been

arrested during the anti-austerity

protests. We spoke about this

earlier in the week and for the last

three nights they have been

demonstrating not just in the

capital but at least four other

cities, but to see what happens

tonight we know there are big calls

for protests on Friday. Anger,

dissent and the frustrations boiled

over into this. A public bin set

ablaze on the outskirts of Tunis.

Police firing tear gas at

demonstrators and also reports of

looting. Elsewhere, there are

reports of a national security

building set alight, some 2000

soldiers since the Clwyd in several

cities and towns. Security forces

have now arrested over 600 people

across the country this week, they

are accused of sabotage and bet but

some demonstrators accuse the police

of a harsh response. One protester

was killed in clashes on Monday.

We

would like to send a message to the

people protesting peacefully. No

matter what the government does its

top priority is improving the

economic situation of the people and

returning to them trust in the

country and its institutions.

This

is a starkly different scene from

what Tunisians witnessed overnight

in the outskirts of the capital as

well as cities and towns across

country. There is a heavy police

presence and weird in the heart of

the capital Tunis. How did Tunisia

get here? In number of factors

combined, the looming deficit, a

hard tourism industry since 2015,

and some would say the government is

also lacking a comprehensive

economic reform plan that crucially

does not affect poorer sections of

society.

In the capital, anger with

politicians and how they are

handling the economy but also

weariness that instability protests

can cause.

The protests can be

peaceful and the price hikes are

real and the cost of living but we

can't treat these issues like this

when criminal gangs come out at

night.

The price hikes are

problematic but the youth need to be

aware today there are people taking

advantage of the instability to

achieve negative things.

They are

with them, fear with the people who

took to the streets spontaneously.

Where are we headed to?

The trust

that officials are looking for is

difficult to come by these days. It

has been a painful economic Germany

for Tunisians over the years as they

try to engineer a path for a

smoother ride.

This is the global head of the World

Health Organisation, the first

African to hold that post, and he

has been talking to the BBC, seeking

to emphasise how vital it is to

detect disease epidemics hourly.

This is some of the interview.

The

are some improvements but the

weakness is still out way, so we are

still vulnerable. We have to really

tighten up. That is why we are now

building on what was built before in

order to have a very responsive

system.

Sudden outbreaks of disease

are common in Africa and if we take

Madagascar is one example. Last

August that was how it by pneumonic

plague. This was the World Health

Organisation's report on that, and

bought 2500 cases and over 200 died

but if you read the whole report,

what they are saying is this is an

example of how an outbreak has been

successfully contained. He and his

wife.

The response was really good.

-- here is why. All parties were

mobilised, but the most important

thing is that the government itself

contacted quickly and mobilised

support.

It moved quickly so the

credit goes to them.

This is a

collaboration. They have to work

together because the World Health

Organisation does not have the

capacity to be any chant every place

across the world, so they have to

depend on the countries and NGOs,

MSF, and they came and criticism

during the break of Ebola, but the

WHO took time before they admitted

there was an outbreak and by that

time it had really spread across

three countries, so those were hard

lessons to learn and that is what

the Director General was saying.

There are still a lot more that

needs to be done. They are making

improvements but not yet at the

position where they can confidently

say that they will be able to deal

with an outbreak of the nature of

Ebola that we saw in the West

African region, as effectively as it

should be dealt with.

And as we were

saying we have an African in charge

of the World Health Organisation for

the first time, is that making a

difference to the way it operates?

I

asked him his priorities in terms of

dealing with health because across

the board, Africa has a

disproportionately higher disease

burden compared to the rest of the

world and that the same time the

health systems are relatively

weaker. The countries are some of

the poorest in the world, so they

have so much against them, but the

new Director General says that his

top priority is Africa and he has

already sent up a strategic plan in

how to improve the health care

systems in Africa. One of the key

things he is focusing on is

universal health care coverage. We

are seeing already success stories

and bland and Ghana but he would

like to see it across all the 54

countries.

And he has got that

strategic plan but does he have the

money to put it in place?

That is

the big issue and the World Health

Organisation constantly has to go

back to the donors but also working

with the countries to try to

encourage them to spend more money

in their health care systems. This

is a continent where even heads of

state do not have confidence in the

health care. We saw four African

heads of state going abroad last

year for health care and bat is a

huge statement on the nature of

health care that people can receive.

Nigerians are some of the wealthiest

Africans we have and they spent more

money seeking medical treatment

abroad than the government spends

per year on health care for that

country, so there's a lot that isn't

working in Africa and they are

having with many other partners,

including no the WHO, to try to

focus on what really helps all the

people.

Health care is that the core

of development.

This is quite a story to begin with.

Police in Italy are investigating

people behind an exhibition of

paintings by Modigliani, because it

appears most of them are straight.

It opened in March in Genoa but then

had to close in July because it

became clear something might be up

and six months of investigations

have discovered something definitely

is up.

Modigliani's style is instantly

recognisable. He would paint

elongated, languid figures

preferably doing nothing more

serious than sitting in a chair. He

himself died in 1920 but his works

have continued since then painted by

forgers hoping to cash in on his

popularity and those forgeries have

got everywhere. It now turns out

that almost an entire Modigliani

exhibition held in Genoa last year

was made up of six. -- fixe. Art

historians believe 20 of 21 on

display were not done by the artist

himself. Suspicions were raised at

the time of the exhibition and it

has been under investigation by both

experts and the arts police. The

carabinieri have impounded the

pictures and put under investigation

the curator. The works themselves

once proved to be thick will be

destroyed and one consumer rights

organisation in Italy says that

everybody who paid money to go and

see that exhibition last year should

now be given a refund. Thanks to

James for wrapping up today's

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