16/01/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

Donald Trump has just been talking

about immigration. I will play you a

clip of the statement.

Also a major development

in the investigation into alleged

Russian interference in the US

Presidential presidential election.

Reports say President Trump's

former chief strategist,

Steve Bannon, has been ordered

to testify before a grand jury.

Doctors treating the thirteen

siblings rescued from being shackled

in a house in California say they're

being cooperative and hoping

for a better life -

here's how one of them

raised the alarm.

A 17-year-old girl called 911 from a

deactivated cell phone and reported

that her siblings were being held

against their will and some were

chained.

What's it like to live

and work in a place where

the temperature falls

to minus 68 celsius?

We'll be finding out from one

of my BBC Russian colleagues.

And Venezuela's most wanted man has

been killed in a government

operation to capture him -

we'll have the latest.

Every day we distil all of the

biggest local stories. We will start

in Washington.

Donald Trump says he wants

immigrants from "everywhere".

This came when he was pressed

by a reporter in the Oval Office

during a photo opportunity

with the president of Kazakhstan

a short time ago.

Did you say you wanted more people

to come in from Norway? Did you say

that?

Thank you very much. I want

them to come in from everywhere.

Thank you very much, everybody.

Thank you, everyone.

Out.

Thank you.

The president has always given the

impression he wants immigrants to

come in from everywhere. Most

recently there was controversy at

the end of last week over

allegations the president used the

word shithole to describe African

countries and 80. -- and Haiti.

Anthony Zurcher joins

me from Washington.

It simply isn't true, he has been

saying directly the opposite for the

last few years.

The way they have

tried to say this is talk about

merit-based immigration. The current

system, one of which is a green card

lottery system, where people who are

here can bring in family members,

they view that as not merit-based.

When he says everywhere. The way the

White House would frame this is as

long as a person is qualified, they

bring skills and a love of America,

and an ability to speak English,

they can come from anywhere. That is

in stark contrast to what we heard

last week at the White House when he

was talking about specific places he

wants people to come from, say

countries like Norway, places which

are ethnically white, versus, as you

described, shithole countries,

Central Africa, Haiti, those are

predominantly not white countries.

This is a strange issue, this, for

the president. One of the reasons he

got elected was for tough line which

about immigration. But at the same

time he can't be seen to be owning

abrasive language like this.

It's

been really strange the way the

White House has tried to handle this

since the reports came out about

Donald Trump's language in the Oval

Office. White House aides were first

saying that this is great, we will

be loved for this, Donald Trump was

on the phone bragging about it to

friends, saying this will play well.

The next morning he tweeted that he

didn't use that language. But that

he was talking about countries that

were economically depressed. Then

later on you saw the White House

this morning saying the president

did use harsh words, but those were

not the exact words. The main thing

was that he wants to stand up for

people coming to America who are

qualified and interested and can

bring something to the country. They

did not deny that Donald Trump --

they did not deny it, Donald Trump

then denied it, we are trying to

find out exactly what the White

House's line is on this.

In the last

few minutes, at the White House,

there has been everything for the

presidential position, Ronnie

Jackson. He has been giving an

account of Donald Trump's health.

Here is some of it.

I have got to

know him pretty well. I have no

concerns about his cognitive ability

or his neurological functions. I

wasn't going to do a cognitive exam.

I had no intention of doing one. We

did the cognitive assessment because

the president asked me to do it. He

came to me and he said is there

something we can do, a test, some

kind of screen we can do to assess

my cognitive ability.

That's very

interesting because it means the

president wants to see off that idea

that the 25th amendment could see

him being taken out of the White

House.

Exactly. It had to be viewed

as a step by the president to head

this off and proves that those

allegations in Fire And Fury, the

book that came out last week, saying

he was mentally incapable of serving

as commander in chief were ill

founded. The remarks on his health

from the doctor where that Donald

Trump is currently very healthy and

will remain so for the remainder of

his presidency. Although his weight

is 239 lb, which is one lb away from

being obese at his height. His

doctor said he needed to lose ten to

15 lb in the coming months and

years.

Thanks very much. In a moment

we will talk about a New York Times

piece on Steve Bannon. In the

meantime, the press conference is

still going on in the White House,

we can listen in.

Had I seen a large

bump them I would have found that

concern, but I didn't, so we are not

going down that path.

Do you have a

weight measurement? 239 lb, just shy

of obesity. You are confident of

that number, did you do regiments?

We don't, we do height and weight.

We put him into the BMI calculator.

We've never done measurements. There

isn't much point. The president has

acknowledged that he would be

healthier if he lost a few pounds.

That is what we will try to do.

Doing measurements, getting some

other form of calculation wouldn't

really have changed anything

clinical for us.

We are listening to a doctor talk

about the president of America's

waistline measurements, but that is

the level of interest in Donald

Trump and his health. The physician

has just said that apart from

needing to lose some weight he is in

good health. Both physically and

mentally. I was just showing you

this article from the New York Times

a moment ago.

Steve Bannon is reported

to have been subpoenaed

to testify at a grand jury.

That is just the New York Times

saying that. We have not been able

to confirm it. But if that was the

case, it would have been instigated

by...

Robert Mueller who's

leading the inquiry into alleged

collusion between the Trump

campaign and Russia.

Here's Katty Kay's analysis for why

Steve Bannon will be summoned.

It's no surprise that he would want

to talk to Steve Bannon. This is

only coming from the New York Times

at the moment. It would suggest that

Steve Bannon, if true, is not

himself a target of the

investigation, but somebody Robert

Mueller would like to get evidence

from about what was happening

between the Trump campaign and any

possible ties to Moscow. This has

more relevance now after that book

Fire And Fury because in that book

Steve Bannon is quoted talking at

some length about the Russian

investigation. No surprise Robert

Mueller would like to speak to him.

And it comes on the same day Steve

Bannon has been appearing before the

house intelligence committee. Also

on the crash investigation. And

answering questions to them.

Steve Bannon's also been in the news

because of those quotes

in the Fire and Fury

book which criticised

President Trump's son.

He's also in the news today.

Here he is arriving to testifying

at a closed session

of the House Intelligence Committee.

We can turn back to Katy to break

down all the ongoing investigations.

Three investigations going on on

Capitol Hill. Two in the Senate,

while in the house. There is the FBI

investigation with Robert Miller.

All of these investigators looking

at those in Trump world from the

campaign days and the White House.

They spoke to Steve Bannon today. We

don't know what they said. He's also

going to talk to Lewandowski who was

involved in the campaign earlier.

And the house intelligence committee

also is going to talk to Hope Hicks.

She is the 28-year-old aide to

President Trump, communications

director in the White House, she has

been with him for a very long time.

Spends a lot of time with the

president. Has been involved in a

lot of these meetings. And she has

also been in the White House. She

somebody who is still close to the

White House, and somebody the

investigators want to talk to.

Let's

go from the east coast to the West

Coast of the USA.

Police in California tell us this

couple had their 13 children

"shackled to their beds with chains

and padlocks in dark

and foul-smelling surroundings".

David and Louise Turpin have now

been charged with torture

and child endangerment.

Doctors looking after the siblings

say they are being very cooperative,

and are hopeful their lives

will now get better.

MAP The family home is in Perris -

which is around 100km

south-east of Los Angeles.

This is the house.

And this is streetview showing us

the Muir Woods Road.

It's a classic suburban scene.

The alarm was raised on Sunday

when a 17 year old daughter escaped

through a window and called 911

on a deactivated cell phone.

When the police arrived they found

children as young as two -

and adults as old as 29.

Here's what they saw.

When they arrived inside the house

they noticed the children were

malnourished. It was very dirty. The

conditions were horrific.

They are now receiving

medical treatment.

Here's the head of one

of the local hospitals.

I can tell you that they are very

friendly. They are very cooperative.

I believe they are hopeful that life

will get better for them after this

event.

Let's look at what we know

about this family.

This picture is on

their Facebook page.

We can see pictures of them

at Disneyland and in Las Vegas.

One of the reasons they were in Las

Vegas is because the couple renewed

their wedding vows.

So far so normal.

But this is what their

neighbours have had to say.

The kids were not sociable. They did

not want to look at people. They

were just doing what they were

doing. No eye contact with society.

You would never see anybody visit.

You would never see anybody come out

side. You were just see that they

might go out, make a grocery run,

and that was about it.

As you see I

have a daughter, I am finding this

horrifying that this can happen in

this community.

We also know from public records

that Mr Turpin declared

bankrupcy - twice.

And it's thought the children

were home-schooled.

This is the California Department

of Education website.

It lists Mr Turpin as the Principal

of Sandcastle Day School.

Sandcastle was in fact a private

school operated out of his home.

James Cook is outside

the Turpin's house in Perris.

There are lots of unanswered

questions. They were only at this

house behind me, according to the

authorities, since 2014. Where were

they before that? What sort of

conditions were they being held in?

This home-schooling we are hearing

about, what was it? The family are

described as deeply religious. One

neighbour said she thought they had

originally come from West Virginia,

although authorities said they had

most recently moved to California

from Texas. There are also

investigating, this house was

registered as a home-school. It's

unusual in California, but not

unheard of, there are quite a number

of people who choose to go down the

home-schooling root in this state.

They say there is no record of any

other pupils being registered here.

But they are checking to see if

anybody had any other involvement

with this family. One other thing

which are striking, talking about

malnourishment, it suggests that the

conditions they endured had gone on

for a long time, is that both

neighbours here and police saying

the same thing, which is that they

were stunned to discover that what

they thought were children were

actually adults. Both in terms of

their physical stature, but also in

terms of the way they moved. One of

the neighbours I was talking to hear

said that the young woman skipped

along as if they were children. The

young men walked awkwardly as if

they were adolescents. That perhaps

tells you something about the way

they were brought up, and the

condition, the way they were

conditioned by their parents, who,

of course, it should be set, haven't

been convicted of any crime yet.

They face these charges. They will

have their day in court. They argue

in court on charges of child torture

child endangerment.

Thanks very

much. Later we will head further

south for the latest on the killing

of Venezuelan's most wanted man. We

knew he was involved in a gunfight

with the authorities. That ended

with him dying. Some of his

supporters dying. And two policeman

dying.

Trade union leaders whose members

are affected by the collapse of the

construction company Carillion have

held talks with Government ministers

this evening. Len McCluskey says

there are lots of unanswered

questions.

We will press the

Government at some juncture. There

needs to be an enquiry. We want to

know why directors were allowed to

pay themselves massive bonuses,

paying massive dividends to their

shareholders at a time when the

company was clearly not in a

position to do that. £600 million

deficit, yet these massive bonuses

were still being paid. We want to

know why some ex-directors are still

being paid on the books now. The

former boss of this company is

getting £55,000 a month. He isn't

worried about where his mortgage

payments are coming from. Right up

until October. We will be putting

pressure not only on the Government

but also the administrators.

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story is:

There is a major development in the

investigation into alleged Russian

interference in the US election,

reports say Steve Bannon has been

ordered to testify before a grand

jury.

Let's turn to some of the main

stories on BBC World Service radio.

BBC Arabic reports that the United

States are withholding millions of

dollars in aid funding for the UN

relief agency for Palestinians. The

Trump administration has withheld

$65 million and urged other

countries to pay more.

BBC Mundo report that a bridge

in central Colombia has collapsed,

killing at least 10 people.

Workers were constructing the 450

metre long suspension bridge.

The cause of the collapse

is under investigation.

Lots of you have been

getting a sneezing lesson

on the BBC News website.

Doctors are warning people not to

clamp their nose when they sneeze.

One 34-year-old man has

ruptured his throat doing that.

The sneeze apparently has the power

to rip through soft tissue.

You've been warned.

You can find this on the website.

We've been talking a lot

about North and South Korea -

and how the Winter Olympics

in Pyeongchang next month seem to be

helping to warm relations -

all be it from a very

cold starting point.

A meeting in Vancouver today

is unlikely to impress Kim Jong Un.

Here's US secretary of state

Rex Tillerson from the US -

along with the UK's Boris Johnson

and around 20 other

foreign ministers.

Their collective goal

is to get North Korea to give

up its nuclear ambitions.

This is Rex Tillerson earlier.

First, we all must insist a full

enforcement of the UN Security

Council sanctions. This is the

latter of the law. We especially

urge Russia and China in this

manner. Bolton fermentation is an

essential measure for the security

of their people and a clear

indication of their willingness to

honour their international

commitments. -- bold implementation.

We will continue to call attention

to and designate entities to

individuals complicit in such

actions.

All of the countries who were

present talk regularly about North

Korea. You can be forgiven for

asking what is different about what

is happening in Vancouver today. It

is a question I put...

If there is

going to be any major change as to

how North Korea is approached, China

have to be involved. They are hoping

to send a message. A message that

they are united in keeping up the

pressure campaign and also in their

demands that North Korea ultimately

denuclearise. That message was more

important to send now than before

because of this diplomatic opening

between North and South Korea. There

have been questions about whether

the pressure campaign would become

less strong, and whether North Korea

might get away with trying to get

some concessions without actually

giving up what people wanted to give

up. That message came through loud

and clear. The practical thing they

are going to be talking about is how

to try to stop sanctions busting,

how to stop smuggling the way North

Korea invades sanctions. Rex

Tillerson made mention of it. There

have been some documented incidents

where ship to ship transfers of

fuel, for example, which have been

banned under sanctions. They want to

look at more ways which will empower

nations to stop and search ships to

prevent that kind of smuggling.

Sanctions are already in place.

Rex Tillerson is also calling for

North Korean ships to be intercepted

at sea. Back in December the North

Korean...

KCNA

news agency said:

The idea is that a naval

blockade in the Sea of Japan

and the Yellow Sea would prevent

North Korea from getting raw

materials and equipment -

disrupt its exports

of coal and iron.

But look at North Korea -

those two long coasts

would be hard to police -

and as Barbara explains isn't

likely anytime soon.

The idea of a naval blockade is very

controversial. It could lead to some

kind of conflict, or something like

that. That's something the Americans

did mention in a way. Trying to get

into the most recent UN sanctions

resolution. They want to tighten

rules about being able to stop ships

in international waters, stop them

and expect them to make sure they

were not sanctions busting. That

would enable a sort of blockade.

That did not go through in the UN. I

don't think we're looking at that

kind of measure from here. What they

will be talking about is some of the

legal areas. Where they can feel

comfortable. Where they can feel

they are able to take strong steps

than they have taken before. Where

things stand at the moment, there

can be a certain amount of

intercepting ships, but not in

international waters. It is a

question of how you get from banning

ships from port to actually stopping

them in international waters.

Barbara will keep us posted from

Vancouver.

Quite a pledge from

McDonald's today -

it says all its packaging worldwide

will come from sustainable

sources by 2025.

That is quite an ambitious goal. Why

are they doing it?

A few reasons.

There is pressure from customers,

who have always said that this is

something they really want. Given

all of the turbulence McDonald's has

suffered over the last few years.

They have revamped their menus to

try to get more people to come

through to their stores, to try to

adhere to what the customers really

want. That's part of it. The other

part is that the industry is

changing. If you look at a lot of

fast food restaurants that have come

onto the market many of them use

sustainable items when it comes to

cutlery, and when it comes to their

packaging, they make an effort to do

a lot of recycling. There is that

pressure within the restaurant

industry for McDonald's to do this.

They have set the goal. Is it

practical? It sounds difficult to

do.

It will be difficult to do. If

you look at North America and

Europe, for example, those

facilities already exist to make

sustainable utensils and packaging.

In other parts of the world that is

going to be a lot more difficult.

McDonald's' response to that is that

they would invest money into

infrastructure in countries that

don't have that already. It looks

like they are actually going to want

to put some sort of personal

investment into this, as well.

Thanks very much.

Drivers for the ride-hailing app

Uber will have a cap

on the number of hours they can work

in the UK from next week.

I was going to show you a tweet from

Alan Jones which said drivers must

an uninterrupted six hour break

after ten hours work.

There are currently 50,000 drivers

operating in London and it's

estimated about 3.5 million

people use the service.

Uber is locked in a legal

battle with the city

of London over safety concerns -

and risks having its operating

licence suspended.

The London taxi drivers Association

has been very critical. They say

that the drivers will still be able

to do too many hours.

When one of the biggest names

in the world of money

talks - people listen.

The boss of BlackRock, Larry Fink,

one of the most influential

investors on the planet,

has sent a letter telling

the biggest public companies

they need to give back to society

or face loosing the support

of the investment firm.

-- or face losing the support

of the investment firm.

Management expert

Chris Roebuck explains

the significance of this letter.

This is a watershed moment for the

leadership of all investors, or

corporate. If we go back. He said

the only responsibility of the

corporate was to get shareholders to

make profits. Everyone has been

quoting that. But we forget he said

that 56 years ago. Since then we

have had globalisation, we have

climate change, the world has got

challenges that Milton Freeman

wouldn't have even dreamt about. At

last what is happening is that the

corporate world in terms of the

relationship with wider society is

being forced to accept that it has

the change.

In a few minutes time we

will turn back to Venezuela.

Yesterday we were talking about how

one of the country's most wanted men

was involved in a gunfight. He has

died. We will bring you up to date.

Good evening. Time for our round-up

of the world weather. We will start

with Stormy weather. Not here, but

out in the Indian Ocean. A powerful

cyclone is bearing down on reunion

and Mauritius. It could be the most

powerful cyclone to hit the region

since 2002 and possibly since the

mid-90s. The cyclone is a nasty

storm. It has already been bringing

heavy rain. It looks like the colour

of the storm may directly go over

the islands. Just a wobble to the

north and south. -- the core of the

storm. Likely problems will come in

for Reunion and Mauritius. Back

home, we are expecting stormy

weather over the next couple of

days. This is Wednesday, snow across

the Alps, very unsettled around the

Balkans, as well. We are keeping a

close eye on a developing storm just

coming out of North America,

tracking across the Atlantic. By

Wednesday it is just approaching

Ireland. Then it will be moving

across the British Isles, the rest

of the British Isles. A nasty storm.

Tightly packed isobars, which means

severe gales expected. It'll be

blowing very strong from tonight

onwards across Ireland. The next

storm will bring the severe gales.

Not just of the UK, but other parts

of Europe. Winds could be damaging.

Let's take a look at western parts

of Europe on Thursday. That is when

we will be feeling the impact.

Across more Western and central

parts, you can see the rush of wind.

By this stage the Kyle Wood has

swept across the UK, gone through

Belgium, Holland, and now northern

parts of Germany. -- by this stage

this wind will have swept across. We

will have the impact Wednesday night

into Thursday. Severe gales expected

tomorrow night across the UK. Let's

start the forecast with the season.

Already a strong north-westerly

breeze, snow settling across

northern hills. Winds briefly died

down tomorrow with sunshine around.

More snow showers in the north.

Behind me, the next weather system

ramping up, racing towards us at a

rate of knots, and that will be

bringing us severe weather

conditions as we go through the

course of Wednesday evening at the

early hours of Thursday. Here it is

trekking across Ireland, the Irish

Sea, and those isobars with very

strong winds, disruptive winds,

across the North.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom.

A major development

in the investigation into alleged

Russian interference in the US

Presidential presidential election.

Reports say President Trump's

former chief strategist,

Steve Bannon, has been ordered

to testify before a grand jury.

Doctors treating the thirteen

siblings rescued from being shackled

in a house in California say they're

being cooperative and hoping

for a better life -

here's how one of them

raised the alarm.

A 17-year-old girl called 911 from a

deactivated cell phone, and reported

that her siblings were being held

against their will, some of them

chained.

A renegade police officer

has been killed on the run in

Venezuela.

Venezuela's most wanted man

Oscar Perez is dead.

He was a vehement opponent

of President Maduro.

Last year he was the pilot

as a helicopter dropped grenades

on the Venezuelan Supreme Court.

He's been on the run since.

That was in Caracas.

Then this week Perez

and several other men were cornered

in an area nearby

among these houses.

As they came under attack

Perez starting posting

videos on Instagram.

In this one he says

he wants to surrender.

TRANSLATION:

They are shooting at us

with RPG 's, grenade launchers and

snipers. There are civilians in

here. We said we would turn

ourselves into Federer want to let

us, they want to us.

Mr Perez's mother issued a plea

saying "He is trying to give

himself up and they will not

let him in.

Let him surrender."

To many including the President

though, he was a terrorist.

Six of Perez's supporters died -

but so did two policemen.

And 10 were injured.

This is President Madura

today ahead of a state

of the union address.

He's said action had to be taken

because the group was planning

a bomb attack on an embassy.

TRANSLATION:

The command groups were

Fulston to action, some of the

terrorist groups fell, others were

captured. More than five were

captured and they were already

giving their statements and telling

all. The plans they have horrifying.

When news emerged that

Oscar Perez had died BOX 4

this started happening.

This was relatively close

to where Oscar Perez was killed -

and these supporters

are chanting "freedom".

Here's what one

demonstrator had to say.

TRANSLATION:

This shows that

Venezuela is fed up with what's

happening, this demonstration is to

defend Oscar Peres who has done a

lot for us, much more than the

opposition has managed.

Some people are asking why

the government didn't take Perez

alive after he'd said

he wanted to surrender.

Here the BBC's Daniel

Garcia in Caracas.

The interior Minister said today

that there was a very different

story, that this rebel group

attacked police officers, then they

had to respond. Then there was this

shoot out, there were nine

casualties, seven members of the

police rebel group and two police

officers. It's a very different

story from the story we heard

yesterday, watching the video was

posted by Oscar Peres on Instagram.

The helicopter attack

I showed you earlier made

It happened

in June last year -

at the height of street protests

against President

Maduro's government.

And for many, he became a sort

of martyr and symbol of resistance.

This protest movement is very quiet

right now. There has been some

outrage, because of this shoot out

yesterday, but there are some

people, opposition supporters,

saying that Mr Peres is a kind of

hero because he was fighting for the

freedom of the country, on the other

hand the government supporters say

he was a very dangerous terrorist.

So far, there are no protests. It's

very difficult for us to see the

kind of protests we were seeing last

year.

Pope Francis has said

he feels "pain and shame" over a sex

abuse scandal involving

the Catholic Church in Chile.

He also asked the victims

for forgiveness.

All of this was in his first

official address in Chile, it

took place in the capital Santiago.

Constanza Hola is Chilean

BBC journalist based

here in the BBC newsroom.

She recorded this for us.

This visit by Pope Francis in Chile

has been marked for mass today, an

open-air Mass that was completely

fully booked, people were queueing

at 2am. In that mass, the Pope said

something that was really important

for delaying people, he said he was

orally and ashamed about the child

abuse. -- he said he was sorry and

ashamed. This has been really

interesting. This is the first time

he has done this in the country. The

reception yesterday when he arrived

was not that massive. We could not

see as many people as the visit of

John Paul II in 1987. Back then,

there was a dictatorship, under the

rule of Pinochet. People were

wondering if the Pope could act as a

mediator, to get a way out of

General Pinochet's rule. At that

time, people were quite united in

terms of seen the figure of the Pope

as a mediator. This time, not all

the people, not most of the people,

are that excited about Francis, Pope

Francis, coming to Chile.

Don't forget you can get much

more detail on our top stories

on our Website.

I want to quickly talk about Donald

Trump. In this press conference

earlier he took some questions from

journalists, insisting he has no

issue about immigration, saying he

wants immigration from everywhere.

That's one of several Trump

presidency stories we are covering.

Another is that the president has

been expected by his physician and

we have heard from the doctor today

who has been saying how the

president is in good physical health

and has no cognitive problems. He

actually gave a press conference,

here is some of what the doctor told

us.

I have got to know him pretty

well. I had no concerns about his

cognitive ability or his

neurological function. I was not

going to do a cognitive exam, I had

them intention of doing one. The

reason we did the assessment was

plain and simple because the

president asked me to do it. He said

is there something we can do, a test

of some type of screen we can do to

assess my cognitive ability?

This

website has a sample of the kind of

cognitive assessment Donald Trump

may have done, this type. You have

to name certain animals, connect

letters and numbers in order, and so

on. We can find out more about that

online, you can also get details of

all these Donald Trump stories on

the website.

We have also been talking about the

situation in California where some

children, some of him were actually

adults now, have been held in

captivity by their parents, now

being treated in hospital.

Larry Nasser was a physician

for USA Gymnastics for two decades -

he is accused of molesting about 100

girls during his time in that role.

The highest profile is made herself

known just yesterday.

Simone Biles tweeted this.

And attached amounts

to her victim statement.

Nasser already pleaded

guilty to assault -

today is the first day

of his sentencing hearing and he's

being confronted by his accusers.

Our sports editor

Dan Roan posted this.

"Little

girls don't stay little

forever" This has to be seen

to be believed.

Courageous Kyle Stephens

confronts Larry Nassar -

the man who abused her aged 6

- in court.

We have it for you, in this

report from Natalie Pirks.

COMMENTATOR:

The final move

of her Olympic championships.

Full twisting doubleback...

She was the poster girl

of the Rio Olympics,

her four gold medals

secured her place

in sporting legend.

COMMENTATOR:

How does she do it?

CO-COMMENTATOR:

Absolutely

amazing performance.

But last night, Simone Biles,

the self-proclaimed happy,

giggly and energetic girl made

international headlines

as she admitted to feeling broken.

Olympic champion Simone Biles comes

forward to say she was also sexually

abused by former USA gymnastics

doctor, Larry Nassar.

Larry Nassar is accused of sexually

abusing more than 130 women under

the guise of medical treatment

and is already serving 60 years

in jail for possessing images

of child sexual abuse.

After pleading guilty to seven

counts of criminal sexual conduct,

he was in court again today

and heard impact statements

from some of his victims.

Perhaps you have figured it out

by now, but little girls don't

stay little forever.

They grow into strong women that

return to destroy your world.

In a lengthy statement last night,

Biles said that for a long

time she'd asked herself

if she was to blame.

She now knows she wasn't and isn't

afraid to tell her story any more.

"I love this sport too much

and I have never been

a quitter," she said.

"I won't let one man

and the others that enabled him

to steal my love and joy."

Biles' Olympic gold medal winning

team-mate, Aly Raisman, is another

who says she was abused by Nassar.

She has accused

authorities of a cover-up.

What did USA gymnastics

do and Larry Nassar do

to manipulate these girls so much

that they are so afraid to speak up.

USA gymnastics says it's heartbroken

and sorry and angry if any

of our athletes have been harmed

by Larry Nassar.

Only one American woman has ever won

gold on the vault, Simone Biles.

She's used to making the spectacular

look effortless but for Simone Biles

the pain of reliving her experience

has been incredible.

Yesterday we talked

about the biggest refugee

camp in the world.

It's home to over half

a million Rohingya Muslims

who fled Myanmar for

Bangladesh last year.

Today we're going to focus

on efforts to get them home.

A deal has been agreed

where 1,500 Rohingya

will return each week.

In theory over two years,

everyone will returned.

BBC's South East Asia correspondent

Jonathan Head has more

on how this will work.

There is still an awful lot of

detail of what would have to happen

for a viable repatriation, missing

from this agreement that has come

out of the first joint working group

meeting that the two countries have

held. They are talking about

numbers, but I think these are very

much ambitions at this stage, not

really based on what is practical.

1500 people a week, which is what

the Myanmar government has agreed

to, would be a great many when you

think that most of the refugees are

very reluctant to go back until they

have better assurances about their

safety. Even at 1500 a week, it

would take something like ten years

to get back all the Rohingya who

fled over the past year and a half

from violence in Rockland State. The

Bangladesh side has said they want

those numbers to increase but nobody

is talking about what has to happen

inside Rakhine State before

repatriation can happen. They can't

be sure until international agencies

are given better access to Rakhine

State. There are none of the UN

agencies who would usually smooth

the return of refugees. Also what

has to happen is preparation for how

the Rohingya will live, their entire

livelihood and villages have been

destroyed, rebuilding villages will

help but then you have to persuade

the non-Muslim community to accept

them.

Donald Tusk has been speaking about

the possibility of the UK changing

its mind. He was speaking at the

European Parliament in Strasbourg,

saying the UK is entitled to change

its mind and would be allowed to

stay if it did so.

If the UK

Government sticks to its decision to

leave, Brexit will become a reality

with all its negative consequences

in March next year. Unless there is

a change of heart among other

British friends. Whether it is David

Davis himself who said, if a

democracy cannot change its mind, it

ceases to be a democracy. We hear on

the continent have not had a change

of heart. Our hearts are still open

to him.

Interesting to hear that,

though he has said something similar

in the past. He has always said

before the David Brexit actually

occurs, he opens the UK changing its

mind, we should say the UK

Government says that will not happen

and it is pushing on with those

Brexit negotiations.

President Macron

visited Calais today.

It's a port and city

on the north coast of France MOVE

This is where the migrant camp known

as 'the jungle' was.

It's been closed for just over

a year - but there are still around

600 people sleeping rough

in the area area.

This is what it

used to look like.

There were around 8,000 migrants

living there when it was closed.

This is a more recent image.

Once everyone had left, the

authorities burned down the camp.

Now, given many of those migrants

want to reach the UK, this

is a British and a French problem.

Here's the President earlier.

We need to better manage the issue

of isolated miners, reinforce police

operation in Calais with the

departure and transport countries

and unblock funds for the Calais

region, I will raise these points

with our British friends in 48

hours.

The idea behind closing the jungle

camp was that the migrants would be

transferred to other areas of France

- and then they'd be invited

to apply for asylum or return home.

Well, French government figures show

that 100,000 people had made asylum

requests in the last year.

And 85,000 people had been turned

away at its borders.

Mr Macron is due to meet

Theresa May on Thursday.

They're certain to talk about a 2003

agreement which effectively moved

Britain's border to Calais.

Paul Adams has more.

The French government wants to look

again at that agreement reached in

2003, get a bit more money to help

with security on the side of the

channel. And to take more people.

More unaccompanied minors, more

migrants who already have some kind

of family connections over in the

UK. I think the Lethbridge will be

that Theresa May, who is in a weak

position, vis-a-vis the Brexit

negotiations, could do with all the

European goodwill that she can

muster. Getting that from President

Macron would be certainly an

advantage.

Now to the story of a migrant

who has returned home.

Reeyan Ali is an 18-year-old whose

family recently returned to Somalia

from a refugee camp in Kenya

and she has been attracting

the attention of her colleagues.

Now, within the Somali

community, fishing is

traditionally a man's job.

However, Reeyan

is bucking the trend.

Here's her story..

I was born in a refugee camp in

Somalia. I have faced a number of

challenges to find a job, I have six

siblings all younger than me and I

struggled to take care of them. My

mother does not work, I make a

living from the sea. I arrived early

at 3am on board a boat to catch

fish. I use a net and hooks. If I

haven't got access to any of these

things, I put on goggles and dived

to catch the fish. I only recently

started this kind of work. I'd use

to drive it took took but I stopped

doing this because the public was

not happy I was driving. Now I make

a living out of the sea. You don't

need permission from anybody. Once I

go far out from the shore, I can

make good money. When I only fish in

shallow waters, I do not earn a lot.

It used to be very cold, at times

when I dived into the sea my nose

bled because of the pressure.

Finally I got used to it and I have

started to make a living. I face a

number of challenges, I hate insults

that really upset me. But I ignore

them, because the ones that insult

me are far fewer in number compared

to the ones that encourage me. My

dream is to succeed and make an

income myself.

Some grim stats on the weather

in Moscow this December.

It had the least amount of sunshine

every recorded for a month.

This is the Russian weather

website Meteo-novosti -

it says "The sun didn't come

out even once."

Russia's main weather centre says

in fact it did - for six minutes.

If you think that's bad, spare

a thought for people in the region

know as the Sakha republic.

Temperatures there dipped

to -68 degrees celsius.

These pictures give

you of what that involves -

These pictures give you an idea

of what that involves -

the Ministry of Emergency Situations

- and yes there is a

ministry of that name -

is advising travellers

to plan their trips meticulously.

We got BBC Russia to

explain how people cope.

It is quite usual. I have spent

roughly half of my life in Moscow

and half my life in my country, in

Estonia, which is 1000 kilometres

further north. North-west of Moscow.

It is always in November and

December, very cold, dark, and

pretty depressing I would say. I

have some stark memories from my

childhood, when you are a little

child and you have to wake up around

seven when it's dark, you go to

school and finish school when it is

again dark, those pictures of little

children including myself plodding

through snow and ice early in the

morning in that darkness, I would

say they still want me, those

pictures. Even for adults, it's

depressing, it's really depressing,

but at the same time some people

like the winter. They say they like

the snow and frost, or they say so,

because they get used to it, and

that's their homeland.

They might

like the winter in some

circumstances but I was just

mentioning that in some parts of

Russia is going down to minus 60.

Once it gets that called it must be

incredibly difficult just to go

about your normal life.

Yes. -60 is

extreme. In most parts of Russia

it's not that extreme, it is cold in

Russia but in most parts where

people actually live, it's not that

cold. In some places, yes, it is. As

far as I know, they dress

appropriately, they say you always

have two where several layers of

very thick clothing. For coats. They

need to be of natural fur, because

every synthetic will get frozen and

snap in that cold. So they dress

appropriately, and of course they

don't spend much time outside,

outdoors, and there are some very

funny details about the living in

those areas when it's -60, for

example, as far as I know they never

switch off the car engines because

otherwise it won't be able to start

again.

This is all good advice in

case any of us who are listening end

up in -60, but in Russia more

generally you say you are haunted by

that experience. Did your family all

your school ever talk to you about

how the Russian winter can be

depressing, or anything you can do

to stop it affecting your mood?

No.

I would say at least in my time,

when I was a schoolboy, people did

not pay that much attention to say,

psychology, and things like that.

That's one thing, then the other

thing, we have lived there for

generations, it's quite usual.

Nothing special for us.

I guess it's

just a surprise when the sun comes

out.

In December, yes, sometimes it

is.

Those kind of surprises were in

short supply in Moscow. One source

saying no sunshine at all month,

another saying six minutes. Either

way, not a great month! If you

watching there, hopefully things

pick up in January. We will be back

tomorrow with another hour of the

biggest global stories. See you

then.