23/01/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

China, South Korea and the US

are standing off over trade.

President Trump's America First

approach is kicking in -

he's approved steep tariffs

on washing machines

and solar panels.

US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions

is questioned by the investigation

into Russian interference

in US election.

Q mass appeal has died. He was a

legend of South African music and a

fighter in the struggle against

apartheid.

I stall so much from

Africa and the need to pay back. The

only way to pay back is to make the

people see how wonderful they are.

We will look at why men who were

reporting on Vice President's Mike

Pence replaced on the front row and

women were asked to stand behind the

barrier.

women were asked to stand

behind the barrier.

Welcome to Outside Source.

America is bringing in tariffs of up

to 50% on imported washing

machines and solar panels.

It's part of President Trump's

'America First' trade policy.

Here he is talking about it

a little while ago.

So we are bringing business back to

the United States for the first time

in many, many years. Many, many

decades, really. We are very proud

of it. That is why the stock market

is reacting the way it is.

That is why the stock market

is reacting the way it is.

1.6 million washing machines

were imported to the US in 2010.

American company Whirlpool has been

lobbying for protection

against cheaper imports for years.

Its shares went up 2.5%

on the news and it immediately

announced it'd be hiring

200 more people.

So Whirlpool likes this -

much less so Chinese

or South Korean manufacturers.

This is South Korea's

trade minister.

Our government is expressing

regret for the latest US

safeguard measures against our

industry as they are excessive

and would clearly

violate the WTO rules.

We will actively respond

to protectionist measures to protect

the national interest and resolve

the industry's difficulties.

We've got the upside for the US.

Yogita Limaye, New York

explains the downside.

Whirlpool is among the companies

that complained to the US

International Trade Commission which

find in their favour. Today,

President Trump has approved these

tariffs. What is the downside? Let's

look at the solar panel industry.

One survey last year said that

installation of solar power panels,

that is one of the fastest growing

jobs in America. There are many

companies that do solar panel

installation tear. If you can no

longer import the number of solar

panels, and people are saying that

American manufacturers will be able

to meet that demand, a lot of people

here could potentially lose their

jobs. All of these electronic items,

the end of the day it is an entire

chain. There may be part in a

washing machine for example or in a

solar panel that are imported from

the US and then manufactured,

progestin career. Global trade is a

chain and if you increase the price

when it is coming back into America,

at some level you will also harm

businesses in your own country, as

well.

businesses in your

own country, as well.

Yogita was talking there

about the tax on solar panels

in terms of the broad

issue of tariffs.

Many are also pointing

out the narrower issue

of the development of renewables.

Former NY Mayor Michael

Bloomberg tweeted, "Taxing

solar panels up to

30% will destroy US

jobs, raise Americans' electric

bills and hurt our environment.

Congress should stand up

for American workers

and consumers and overturn

the administration's

harmful decision".

But this is essentially

President Trump doing

what he said he'd do.

Yogita Limaye.

This isn't the first thing that we

have heard from him as far as

traders concerned. He pulled out of

the transpacific partnership. He has

been talking about the negotiating

the North American Free Trade

Agreement and with Canada. In

Mexico, there were import tariffs

put on things like lumber from

Canada. In that sense, he seems to

be picking a fight with everyone.

Even today, that reaction, stronger

from South Korea and China because

they are the ones likely to be worst

affected. They had European leaders

saying they've regret this decision.

The Indian Prime Minister said that

protectionism is raising its head

and he defended globalisation.

and he defended globalisation.

Here is a tweet from Paul Page from

the Wall Street Journal. The first

volley in the trade war might have

been fired over washing machines and

solar panels.

Here's Yogita on how the Chinese

and South Koreans might retaliate.

It would involve them seeing if they

want to raise tariffs on things that

are imported from the US. Especially

DGS trade equation with China is

heavily tilted in favour of China,

the trade with China is four times.

In general, that is a trend that is

set, other countries, India is a

huge market for the US. If you have

then other countries start raising

tariffs on imports from the US, that

will harm anyone he is making things

here and wanting to sell them

abroad.

We can be sure that this

news is being carefully noted by

everyone attending the World

Economic Forum in Davos.

It's a gathering of the global elite

and Donald Trump's going.

The first sitting US President

to do so in 20 years.

And there's no shortage of people

warning against protectionism.

Justin Trudeau for one.

We are working very hard to make

sure that your neighbour to the

South recognises how good Nafta is

and how it has benefited his

economy, the world economy. We are

open to more trade deals involving

more people as long as it is in the

best benefit of all of our citizens.

The US Attorney-General,

Jeff Sessions, has been interviewed

by the Mueller investigation.

It's looking into alleged

collusion between the Trump

campaign and Russia -

and this is the first member

of President Trump's

cabinet to be questioned.

Here's Anthony Zurcher

on what we can read

into this development.

Jeff Sessions sits in an interesting

position, had a crossroad of

different lines of the Robert Miller

investigation. He served as a

campaign adviser to Donald Trump. He

had meetings with Russians

ambassadors during the campaign that

he was not forthcoming on when asked

about during his confirmation as US

Attorney General. As US Attorney

General he was involved in a

conversation possibly with Donald

Trump about James Comey who was

fired, the FBI director, fired by

Donald Trump. Another part of Robert

Miller's investigation is to look at

any possible evidence of obstruction

of justice on part of the president

or his staff. Sessions may have

information that could be valuable

to that aspect of the investigation

as well.

In terms of the format, how does it

work?

This appears to be the same

sort of setup that other members of

Donald Trump's inner circle have had

when they appeared before Robert

Miller and his team. It is not a

subpoena, not a grand jury

questioning. It is a sit down with

either Robert Muller himself or a

member to visiting to talk about the

issues. He can take breaks. It is

different to the grand jury that it

looked like Steve Bannon was going

to be subjected to, until he made

his own deal with the Mueller team.

There's been a series of earthquakes

and volcanic eruptions

in the past 24 hours.

Mount Kusatsu-Shirane

has erupted in Japan.

Mount Mayon in the Philippines began

erupting a few days ago.

And then there have been

earthquakes off the coast

of Java in Indonesia,

and off the coast of Alaska.

Let's look at images

from these events.

1 These from Japan, where

the eruption caused an avalanche.

A soldier was killed.

14 others were injured.

These are timelapse images

of Mount Mayon in the Philippines.

These pictures are from Indonesia.

These workers and residents

in Jakarta fleeing from high rise

buildings that swayed

after a 5.3 earthquake.

And this is a traffic jam in Alaska

after people followed

police orders to evacuate.

That earthquake measured 7.9

and triggered a tsunami warning.

That warning is no longer

in place, by the way.

The UN office for Disaster Risk

Reduction sent out this tweet

with details of those

quakes and eruptions.

But what's most interesting is it

says the Ring of Fire is active

today and included this map that

shows the ring of fire -

you can see it includes Indonesia,

the Philippines, Japan and Alaska.

That obviously begs the question,

what exactly is the Ring of Fire

and does it mean these

events are connected?

Jonathan Amos can help.

The ring of Fire is just this great

region of activity that extends all

the way around the Pacific

Basin. From Alaska, dined through

Japan, the Philippines, down three

New Zealand. Anywhere along the line

then you will get activity of some

sort. It is responsible for more

than half of all the volcanoes above

sea level. You find them on the Ring

of fire. What is the cause? It is

this idea of plate tectonics. We

have these great slabs covering the

surface of the Earth and as they

move and jostle bigoted geological

response. Today we saw in Alaska are

big earthquake that was the result

of the Pacific late, the Pacific

ocean floor putting up against the

North American plate and diving

underneath the North American plate,

they are colliding at about six

centimetres a year. Where that

happened you get earthquakes but

also volcanoes because as the rock

coastline, it melts and comes up as

magma to islands. You see activity

all around the basin. Are these

events connected? No, they are not,

other than that underlying driver of

plate tectonics, there is no

connection between a net quake in

Tokyo or Chile or Alaska or have

volcanoes may be in New Zealand. The

only time that there is a connection

is where you get events that are

very close together. Today, for

example, with a big earthquake in

Alaska you got a number of

after-shocks, so clearly they are

related.

related.

So those events aren't connected,

they just happen a lot

on the Ring of Fire.

The BBC's Rebecca Henschke

is based in Jakarta -

tremors are part of life there.

The epicentre of the quake was a

kilometres away from where I am in

central Jakarta, but office building

on the 15th floor of a high-rise

building shook for about 15 seconds

and we were forced to evacuate down

the stairwell. All the buildings in

this area were evacuated, workers

told to get out from these buildings

and onto the street for their own

safety. This included a number of

government buildings as well as

schools. There is no immediate

tsunami threat and no reports of

injuries. We are hearing of minor

damage done to hundreds of buildings

in the town closest to the

epicentre, but today's events very

much a reminder that we live here in

the ring of fire, an area where

tectonic plates often collide making

earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

part of daily life here.

In a few minutes to Jerusalem and

bring you up-to-date on Mike Pence's

visit. He has been to the Western

Wall. Female reporters invited to

cover this were asked to stand

behind the men who were asked to

come along.

It's emerged that police

are investigating a new allegation

of sexual assault made

against the convicted

rapist John Worboys.

Convicted in 2009, Worboys

is due to be released

by the end of the month.

We learned today that Scotland Yard

have received a fresh allegation of

sexual assault dating back to 1997,

so five years earlier than was

thought his offending started. That

allegation was made this month. It

is being taken extremely seriously I

understand by detectives from

Scotland Yard, but the enquiry is in

its early stages and they haven't as

yet arrested Worboys or interviewed

him, but potentially this is

significant because there is growing

unrest about his impending release.

If that investigation moved swiftly

and effectively, and potentially

lead to a criminal charge, it is

impossible to see really high

Worboys could then be left out.

Worboys could then be left out.

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story:

President Trump's approved steep

tariffs on washing machines

and solar panels from Asia.

China and South Korea have vowed

to defend their interests.

Pakistani authorities say they have

arrested the main suspect

in the rape and killing

of six-year-old Zainab Ansari.

The chief minister of Punjab

province accused the suspect

of being a serial killer.

Russia's culture ministry has

withdrawn the British and French

film The Death of Stalin

from distribution in cinemas two

days before its release.

A member of the ministry's advisory

council called the film

ideological warfare.

Neil Diamond is retiring

from performing after being

diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

He turns 77 tomorrow and says

on this website he's made

the decision "with great reluctance

and disappointment".

US Vice-President Mike Pence visited

the Western Wall in Jerusalem today.

Reporters were allowed

to cover the event.

But male and female journalists

were kept segregated.

This is a rule enforced by Jewish

ultra-Orthodox authorities

at the site in Jerusalem.

Men and women are not allowed

to pray together at the wall.

It's the holiest site where Jews

are permitted to pray.

And the third holiest site in Islam.

To be clear, this is not new.

There were complaints

when women were segregated

when Donald Trump came in May.

But this time, journalists

there say women were

kept behind the men -

not at an equal distance

like on previous VIP visits.

On Twitter, Washington

Post Jenna Johnson said,

"As Vice President Pence visits

the Western Wall, male journalists

are given the front-row spots.

Female journalists are standing

in the very back, standing on chairs

to try to see over all of the guys."

In fact, the hashtag #PenceFence

quickly gained traction.

Reporter Noga Tarnopolsky said male

journalists were also allowed

access to the Vice-President

in a tent.

She posted this video.

Here you can see life as all of the

men are given access to cover the

vice President's visit directly and

personally and we women are

literally stuck in a pen behind

them, just stuck in a pen. Here you

can see our events.

Here you can see our events.

Tal Schneider was there.

She is the political

and Diplomatic Editor for Globes.

While it wasn't a nice experience,

we went there being invited by the

American Embassy in Israel to cover

the vice President's visit to the

wall. Obviously they say it is a

private event for him, but they

wanted coverage. As you know, the

area is segregated between men and

women in the last ten years, but it

wasn't always like that. That is a

new tradition. It was a common area

in the past. Today, in order to

accommodate the vice president they

closed the entire place, so no

people, ultra-docs -- orthodox or

rather, were not allowed in. We

protested. We said it is not a

regular line of business to have

woman behind not been able to work,

take photos or be equal with the

photographers and reporters. That

were male. Are you upset that

segregation happens at all at the

Western Wall or that the Americans

allowed it to happen in this

particular circumstance?

I am upset about this segregation at

all times. It shouldn't happen.

There are associations in Israel,

religious associations that protest

this every month. I am a working

reporter. I am a secular person. I

am not normally going to pray at the

Western Wall, I came over to work

and be professional. It is another

example of something that shouldn't

happen here. Israel is a western

democracy. We have equal rights laws

and this is unacceptable to us.

Obviously I am upset that the

regular scene that goes on over

there, but as a working professional

today the fact that I was there to

see it with my eyes, I will protest

against it, that's for sure.

Bill Cosby has

returned to the stage.

In a few months he has a retrial

on charges of sexual assault.

QUAD The performance was a Jazz

club in Philadelphia.

This is some of it.

My wife, who loves me and does not

want me to walk into anything

said... Why is it these people can

talk?

Why is it these people can talk?

Cosby's trial begins in March.

It's happening because last year

a jury was unable to reach

a unanimous verdict.

Mr Cosby is accused of drugging

and molesting university

basketball coach Andrea Constand

at his home in 2004.

She is one of around 60 women

to have accused Mr Cosby

of being a sexual predator.

You may remember this

powerful front cover

of the New Yorker in 2015,

when 35 of his accusers spoke out.

Now, despite a fairly

appreciative audience,

he didn't have things

all his own way at last

night's performance.

He was asked about his retrial.

NPR radio journalist

Billy Allyn was also there.

He tweeted this picture,

saying: "Here is the unforgettable

face Cosby made when I asked him how

he thinks jurors will see his case

differently in the #MeToo era."

Mr Allyn joins me now.

Hi, Bobby. Thank you for your time.

Can you tell us more about what

exchange you had with Bill Cosby.

Was he willing to talk? Yes, his

handlers were keeping him away from

the press during his whole

performance, which was quite bizarre

and freewheeling. Even after the

performance a bunch of camera people

and other journalists tried to

huddle around him and his publicist

just said that asking questions

about the trial, he will not and to

any questions about his accusers. He

didn't come here to talk about that.

I thought, look, Bill Cosby is going

to make this big public performance

in Philadelphia, invited the press

and then not talk about the elephant

in the room? I said to him, Mr

Cosby, are you prepared to defend

yourself in your second criminal

trial? You didn't say a word. I

said, in this neat, too, era, the

jurors might view your case

eventually this time? He made this

very animated kind of frown that

said, I don't know, then he walked

away.

Did anyone in the crowd want

to talk about it? It sounded like

they were having a good time.

It is

a small little jazz club in

Germantown neighbourhood, a section

of Philadelphia that is

predominantly African-American. The

drive there was mostly older,

probably grew up watching his

television shows. He is very beloved

in this community in Philadelphia.

Long before the accusations of

sexual assault really melted against

him he would come to this jazz club

and do his kind of impromptu drum

playing and do storytelling. He does

this bit at this small little club

for a while, so he walked into it in

front of a very favourable audience

who warmly received him. When I talk

to some of the attendees afterwards,

most of them are Bill Cosby

supporters. Most of them have a real

emotional connection to their

hometown comedic legend. A few

others said it was kind of

offensive. It looks like a charm

campaign, I way of trying to change

public opinion ahead of his trial

and it is maybe a little

manipulative and the little

mean-spirited. You should be keeping

his head down and focusing on being

a criminal defendant in a serious

criminal trial this spring. That was

the view of some of the people who

were there watching his performance

last night.

I only have 30 seconds,

but this isn't part of an temp two

get back to the heights of fame

before all this question might know,

I don't think so.

His career

imploded two years ago when the

accusations started. This is to try

to remind the public ahead of jury

selection, hey, don't you remember

Bill Cosby, this American legend,

this practised funnyman? Trying to

instil those images into the public

consciousness before his trial

starts.

Great to chat with you. I

will be back in a couple of minutes.

Let's take a quick tour of the

world's weather and have a look at

the weather events happening around

the world. In Japan, heavy snowfall

here, 23 centimetres in Tokyo. Cold

north-westerly wind and a cold

plunge of their into eastern China.

It could be heavy snow in the

Yangtze Valley region and into

Shanghai. Further south, heavy

rainfall in the southern

Philippines. Here is a satellite

image across northern parts of

Australia showing all this cloud to

stop the Australian monsoon is

getting going. Heavy rainfall in the

forecast on Wednesday across the

Northern Territory, particularly

hammering the Gulf of Carpentaria

that could be an metre of rain in

the next five or six days. In North

America low-pressure both to the

east and to the west. This system

will bring heavy snowfall across the

Rockies and brisk winds. That heavy

rain also will still be cleared away

from the north-east states with

further snowfall to come towards the

eastern Canada. Looking ahead,

things will stay cold in New York

and Montreal with further heavy

spells of room for Vancouver and San

Francisco, with some hail showers

mixed in, too. In South America,

particularly heavy rain in Paraguay.

It is because of this central belt

in South America, we could see

flooding problems with

thunderstorms, also the risk of

tornadoes in northern Argentina,

Paraguay and southern Brazil in

particular. Let's head towards

Europe. It is a mix in weather

types. Unsettled in the north-west

with the pressure moving in. Higher

pressure holding on the southern and

eastern parts of Europe. Heading to

the Alps skiing, have window of

decent weather after all of that

snow, but milder air moving in. Some

of the School on the Alps could

floor for a while. Cold conditions

across eastern parts of Europe with

the wind is coming in from a

northerly direction. Things will

turn more stormy in northern parts

of France, Scandinavia and across

the UK with low-pressure sweeping in

here. If we have a quick look at the

forecast closer to home, the outlook

you in the UK, things are staying

pretty mild but windy over the next

few days. We have the low-pressure

moving into the cause of Tuesday

night and on through weapons they

bringing severe gales at times

towards the north-west, and also a

quick look at the forecast closer to

home, the Outlook year in the UK,

things are staying pretty mild but

windy over the next few days. We

have the low-pressure moving into

the cause of Tuesday night and on

through weapons they bringing severe

gales at times towards the

north-west, and also abandoned heavy

rain. It is moving fairly quickly as

it pushes towards the south and

east. By Thursday it should be less

windy and it should be drier. More

on the weather for the week ahead in

half an hour.

This is Outside Source, some of the

main stories. China, South Korea and

the US are standing off over trade.

President from's America first

approach is starting to kick in as

he approves steep tariffs on washing

machines and solar panels.

You're

going to have people getting jobs

again and we're going to make our

own product again.

US Attorney

General Jeff Sessions has become the

first member of the President's

cabinet to be questioned by

investigators looking into alleged

Russian interference in the

presidential election. The red view

of life in the seas around

Antarctica as scientists discover

unique ecosystems that they want

protected.

No one can deny this

region needs protecting but what is

the best way to do it? If a line on

a map going to make much difference

and who is going to police anything

here?

Staying with the story which we have

covered every day for the last week,

the fight for a place called Afrin

in Syria which is controlled by

Kurdish militia and Kurdish leaders

are asking civilians to join the

fight against the Turkish offences.

You can see it here in the

north-west of Syria close to the

Turkish border. Turkey says the

Kurdish militia based there are

terrorists. These are new pictures

we have had from the Turkish side of

the border, artillery fire coming

out of Turkish territory and

targeting Kurds who are in Syria.

This is the fourth day of the

offensive and already the UN is

saying 5000 people have been forced

from their homes. Our colleague from

BBC Arabic is an expert on curbs

whether in Iraq or Turkey or Syria

-- on Kurds.

The Turkey say that our

branch of the PKK party in Syria but

the reality is, they have a picture

of the imprisoned leader of the PKK

leader, they follow the same

ideology but they have said

repeatedly that they don't have any

organisational link but they have

some ideological link. But the

Kurdish people inside Syria and in

Turkey, which is a large number, are

from the same I could even say tribe

because the border was drawn at the

fall of the Ottoman Empire. The

Kurds in Iraq and Syria and Iran are

different from each other but these

are completely similar and the

Turkish authorities say that not a

single bullet in the past seven

years after the Arab uprising in

Syria, they have been controlling

the city, had been shot from Afrin

towards Turkey. Turkey say it is for

their security but again, none of

those terrorist attacks against

Turkey have been carried out by

Kurdish, it has been Isis militants

which the Kurds have been fighting

in Syria.

We mentioned Islamic

State, I wanted to clear up one

thing, how involved have the militia

in Afrin been in the fight against

IS in that part of Syria?

That place

has been surrounded, one part was

IS, another was another Islamic

group and the FSA and the Syrian

government so there has been

fighting in that region but not

Kurdish YPG in other places like

Kobani. But in that place it was

pretty much defending themselves and

even sometimes pushing back from

surrounding villages.

If you want

background information on Syria you

can get it online from BBC News.

Turning to a UN report that says

that UN peacekeepers should be

prepared to use force when

necessary. This is a direct response

to the fact that almost 200

peacekeepers have died in the past

five years. This was footage from

Mali recently and you can see them

wearing those distinctive blue

helmets but the UN says that no

longer offers what it calls natural

protection. They have given us this

map which marks the countries where

its 15 peacekeeping missions

operate. Eight of them are in Africa

and those missions have been the

most vulnerable. This is an image

from a funeral last month in

Tanzania 14 Tanzania and soldiers

died in the Democratic Republic of

Congo which was the worst attack on

UN peacekeepers in over 20 years.

More broadly around Africa, Mali has

the highest number of fatalities of

any mission, the next on the list is

the Central African Republic and

Sudan more specifically in Darfur.

We can hear more from the UN.

The

context in which we have deployed

forces has fundamentally changed, we

are being directly attacked and

targeted. We have taken more

casualties in the last year than in

the previous two combined and the

old ways of doing business are not

sufficient to deal with the changed

environments. There are a couple of

issues, one is to do with the

equipment and technology and there

is also mindset, having clear

instructions, being trained to use

the equipment you have but also

willing to take action. Defending

yourself is one thing but sometimes

projecting strength is necessary

because that deters against attacks.

In these particular contexts, when

we are being directly targeted, we

have to be more robust and sometimes

that might mean going on the

offensive and having different

technologies and equipment than

before and the troops that have been

trained to handle these types of

environments.

A new BBC News report

on new research on Antarctica's

underwater ecosystems. Scientists

are saying they are so rare they

need special protection and there is

now a campaign to make the entire

region in the world's largest

wildlife sanctuary. If that

happened, that would mean banning

all fishing in a large part of the

seas around the Antarctic Peninsula

and that is not without its dispute

about whether it should happen.

Claire Marshall has been a long way

south to cover this. Antarctica, the

most remote continent in the world.

It is still largely unexplored and

we know even less about the icy seas

ring it. Now machines are making it

possible for us to catch a glimpse.

A mini submarine is taking marine

biologist Doctor Susan Lock down

into Antarctic deep. -- Susan

Lockhart. Above is a land of frigid

ice, below a thriving mass of life.

That is really pretty.

No light

penetrates this deep, plants cannot

grow, these are all animals. Then it

was my turn to go down with pilot

John. We dropped much deeper, or

more than 1000 feet down we fight a

wall of life. Sponges and corals.

See stars are stars, all thriving

complete darkness. A robot arm

captures samples. Some of the

species and never been filmed

before. They are threatened by an

increase in fishing in the region.

Too sooner we have to leave. There

is apparently a storm brewing on the

surface so the ship have asked us to

come up. We surfaced close to some

icebergs. That will be a massive

chunk of ice. At last the diver gets

a hawk on the sub. -- hook. But then

the crane breaks and we are stranded

for an hour. It feels good to

finally be down. That is nice!

We gathered evidence of a unique

ecosystem that deserves protection.

It is really exciting, really dense

sea bed full of life, huge

diversity. And also organisms living

together and creating a 3-D

structure so that more organisms can

live and these can be very

vulnerable to disturbance and they

need special protection.

No one can

deny that this region needs

protecting but what is the best way

to do it? Is a line on a map going

to make much difference? And who is

going to police anything out here?

The proposal to protect all of these

creatures and their world will be

held by the Antarctic nations in

October. Claire Marshall, BBC News,

the Antarctic Peninsula. Much more

on our environment reporting and

signed reporting online on the BBC

website. You will also find analysis

of Jeff Sessions being the first

member of President Tom's cabinet to

be questioned by Robert Mueller's

investigation. -- President Trump's

Cabinet.

Let's talk about tennis, this was

not something we saw coming, Kyle

Edmund it into the semifinals of the

Australian Open. Here is the moment

when he did it. Bear in mind he went

into this tournament unseeded and is

ranked 49th in the world but he beat

the world number three Grigor

Dimitrov.

With that ball going long, it was

over in four sets. It was the first

time Kyle Edmund had beaten a player

ranked the top five and he is now

the sixth British man ever to get to

the semifinals of a grand slam and

understandably it is big moment.

I

am loving it right now! The way I am

playing, I'm 23 and in my first

grand slam semifinal, the first am I

played on one of in the world and to

beat a quality player like Grigor

played on one of in the world and to

beat a quality player like Grigor,

these things aren't aware of and

their great feelings, you don't play

in a grand slam semifinal every day,

or the quarter is. I tried to enjoy

it as much as possible and I knew I

was in a good place and there was no

reason why my tennis was not good

enough to win pulls up it is

obviously about going out there and

doing it.

And he did just that. He

was born in Johannesburg in 1995 to

a Welsh father and South African

mother but his family moved to

Yorkshire when he was three years

old. Jo Wilson picks up the story.

Kyle Edmund may have peaked on the

other side of the world but he was

made right here in Yorkshire. As an

eight-year-old you might have

spotted him on one of these courts.

And it is here in Beverley where you

will find a man who was hitting

against Kyle Edmund as a boy.

He

always had the ability. He seemed to

come off second best in tight match,

may be down to the mental side of

the biggest thing I have been

impressed with his mental side and

how he has applied himself on court.

Will this change in?

Absolutely not

come he is very grounded and level

have that -- level headed.

A

talented junior, he has worked hard

on his physique and he was brought

through the LTA National training

programme. It was in the winning

Davis Cup team of Britain in 2015

although the Murray Brothers won the

match is in the final. While Andy

Murray moved to Spain as a junior,

Kyle Edmund it's at least in part

the LTA's man.

He has come through

the system and also had tremendous

support from family and friends with

a big supporting and has found a way

to get himself to the top of the

game.

He will play Marin Cilic in

the semifinal, certainly beatable,

and the man from Beverley's Hills

may soon be a softly spoken

superstar everywhere.

And you can follow the tennis

through the BBC sport app on your

smartphone. If you have been

watching regularly for the last week

or so you will know we have covered

the extra Merhi scenes in the

sentencing hearing of this, Doctor

who once worked with the US National

gymnastics team. One development is

today with this statement in which

three members of the governing body

of the sport resigned and the

testimonies of the victims we have

heard at make that all but

inevitable and they have continued

today. While these people have

spoken, Larry Nassar has had to sit

there and listen to more than 150

women taking the stand to talk about

the consequences of his sexual abuse

and the sentencing has been delayed

as more and more athletes have asked

to speak. Yet already pleaded guilty

to ten counts of molesting female

gymnasts and among those speaking

works one victim who is just 16

years old and another who is the

mother of an underaged victim.

Not

only me as a little girl but my

parents and friends and many others

just like me. I trusted him to take

care of me, my parents trusted him

and he used me as a toy for his own

leisure. Larry Nassar destroyed my

childhood innocence and shattered

any positive experience that I had

in gymnastics.

I willingly took the

most precious gift in this world to

you and you hurt her. Physically,

mentally and emotionally. And she

was only eight. I will never get rid

of the Guild that I have about this

experience -- with the guilt.

The

judge in the case is this woman.

The judge has been widely praised

for allowing all of these

testimonies to be heard and because

Larry Nassar has already pleaded

guilty, she has no need to be

neutral and she has not been, she

had been praising each of the

victims and their families for

speaking out and this was a response

to the mother we heard just a moment

ago.

Red flags may have been there

but they were designed to be hidden.

You are not alone in this and I have

heard it in your voice at how you

love your daughter, and the only way

to do that is to forgive yourself

and leave the blame here with him.

We have been following proceedings

in the court in Michigan. Thank you

for being with us. The cumulative

effect of these astonishing

testimonies must effect not just the

victims and their families but

everybody present?

Yes, it really

does. What started out last Tuesday

when I first got here is something

around 98 women who were signed up

to testify and share their stories

has ended at 158. There are three

more testimonies expected tomorrow

and then the sentencing will begin.

Reflecting on the time I have been

here, there has been a real sense of

collective empowerment as more women

share their stories and more have

come forward and in the corridors

during the breaks women have been

going up to each other and

encouraging each other. There has

been a real sense that it is very

difficult, if you are a survivor of

sexual abuse, to be able to share

your story but there is a sense that

there is safety in numbers in this

case and many feel that the judge

has been incredibly encouraging and

supportive. One thing that has

struck me sitting in the courtroom

and watching testimony is that it

takes a lot for anyone to relive the

ordeal of sexual abuse but to relive

it when your attacker is only a few

metres away, that takes some real

determination and courage.

And

following this from afar, the more I

listen to these women, the more it

seems astonishing that this man was

able to do this on this scale

without anyone knowing.

Absolutely.

One of the things that the women who

have been speaking to want to make

sure is that Larry Nassar is served

justice and he spent the rest of his

life behind bars but they are also

looking for accountability from the

organisations that they say enabled

him to carry on his behaviour

unchecked. He was for two Michael

Beckett a team doctor for USA

Gymnastics -- two decades. We have

heard many testimonies from women

who have condemned the organisation

for not believing them, not

listening to them when women came

forward over the years and raised

concerns about his behaviour. They

have also been complaining about

Michigan State University from where

he worked in this state as well. The

head of USA Gymnastics was at the

court the first two days last

Tuesday and Wednesday but she has

been seen here since an overnight we

heard that members of the executive

board of the organisation had

resigned as well. USA Gymnastics say

that athlete safety is their biggest

concern but that does not wash with

a lot of the women here who believe

there is a wider culture here in

gymnastics where women are often

physically abused and in this case

of course Larry Nassar was the

culprit, but also emotionally

abused. They believe the whole of

the sport needs to take a good hard

look at itself in the wake of this

case.

Thank you very much. Next we

will talk about tea growers and

elephants in India. This is because

tea plantations are expanding which

means they are encroaching into

forests and people believe that is

making elephants more aggressive. It

is particularly pronounced in the

north-eastern Indian state of Assam

which is one of the biggest tea

producing areas in the world but we

know that around 800 people in that

region were killed by wild elephants

between two dozen six and 2016.

Hundreds of elephants have also been

killed -- 2006. This shows a section

of forest which has been cleared for

a tea garden and that will shrink

the natural habitat of the elephant.

This war has been built to enclose a

tea garden but it has been damaged

by the elephants because it blocked

one of their favourite routes. This

was a video we have been given, if

you look at this man over here and

this very agitated elephant, you can

see the man throwing something

towards the elephant trying to scare

it away. All of these images have

been supplied by the BBC's Koss

pondered who travelled to Assam to

cover the story.

The government has

brought out a report which said that

tea plantations have contributed to

the loss of forest covered in Assam

but when you talk to people who are

running the business, for instance

the major Association of tea

companies, they say that this is

baseless because they also need

forests for the tea plants. And then

they say that this is baseless and

they also say say this allegation

that their land has never been

surveyed. That is not for us to do,

that is for the government to do,

the government Kalex the revenue and

they have no influence in that, that

is their position -- the government

Kalex 's revenue. Somerby small

growers accept it is a problem. They

don't want to use the word encroach

but they say they have moved in

because that is what the government

promised, they promised them land

and the government is not living up

to its words. Therefore people had

to take the land themselves and as a

result you see this.

And all of the

people who would like fewer

elephants to be dying, fewer people

to be killed by them, is that a

solution, simply that these tea

Gardens should not expand in this

way?

The thing is, what officials

say is that these forests actually

acted as a buffer between the real

reserved forests of the wildlife

Sanctuary 's and national parks, and

the villages. But what has happened

now, the villages have moved into

the buffer area and that has been

the problem and it is just not the

habitats. These places are also

natural corridors which elephants

have been using for ages. I showed

Bojan, and the elephants come from

there into Assam -- Bhutan. There

are 56,000 the moment registered

small growers and unofficially there

are an equal number not registered,

over 100,000 small growers and that

is mushrooming. Hence the question,

can tea gardens and elephants

survive side by side?

We finish the

programme in South Africa because it

is morning Hugh Masekela, the father

of South African jazz and the huge

figure in the struggle against

apartheid. President Zuma has said

that he kept the torch of freedom

alive, fighting apartheid through

his music. This is what the Kenyan

president said. Tributes have been

pouring in from all over the world.

Hugh Masekela actually had a number

one hit in 1968 with Grazing In The

Grass and we will finish the show by

watching him perform it a few years

ago.