24/01/2018 Outside Source

said all of that, it's a long sea

track so there will be some rain at

times. A lot of isobars there, it

will be quite windy but at least it

will be on the mild side.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins with outside

source, after seven days of

testimony and judge has jailed the

disgraced US Olympics Doctor Larry

Nassar.

I'm giving 175 years which

is 2100 months.

Joy and relief in

court. We'll have all the latest.

We'll hear from the

British men in Syria -

who are fighting for the Kuridsh

militia that Turkey is attacking.

backed forces continue

their operations against the Kurdish

forces of Y-P-G in Syria;

which includes

international volunteers.

We'll discuss what that

means for Britain.

And Brazil's former President Lula

da Silva has lost his appeal to

overturn his corruption conviction.

And his prison sentence has been

lengthened.

We're live in Sao Paolo to find

out what that means.

For more than 20 years -

this man - Larry Nassar molested

young American gymnasts.

More than 160 of his victims

and their relatives spokes at this

sentencing hearing -

today he was for at least 175 years.

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina

was scathing.

I've just signed your death warrant.

I need everyone to be quiet. Myself

contempt powers, I told you, I'm not

nice. I find that you don't get it,

that you are a danger.

Before the judge passed sentence -

she read part of a letter she had

received from Nassar -

defending his actions.

I was a good doctor, because my

treatments worked, and those

patients that are now speaking out

for the same ones that praised and

came back, over and over, and

referred family and friends to see

me. The media convince them that

everything I did was wrong and bad.

They feel I broke their trust. Hell

hath no fury like a woman scorned.

That was a letter

written by Larry Nassar.

He was more contrite in court.

BOX 3

Your words these past several days

come your words, your words, your

words, have had a significant

emotional effect on myself and have

shook me to my core. I also

recognise that what I am feeling

pales in comparison to the pain,

trauma and emotional destruction

that all of you are feeling. There

are no words that can describe the

depth and breadth of how sorry I am

for what has occurred.

Throughout this trial,

the victims have been

central to proceedings.

Today we heard from three more.

They don't see the frustration, the

exhaustion, the sadness, the

emotional and physical trauma that

haunts my everyday and my every

move. They don't see the days that

my husband finds me crying on the

floor of our bedroom. They don't see

me hiding in the bathroom at work,

begging myself to political or just

to make it through the rest of the

day.

We were ultimately strong

enough to take you down. Not one by

one but by an army of survivors. We

are Jane Does no more.

What was done

to myself and this other women and

little girls, and the fact that our

sexual violation was enjoyed by

Larry, matters. It demands justice,

and the sentence imposed today will

send a message about how much these

pressures women and children are

worth. You have seen our pictures,

your honour. Moments in time

captured when they were young and

vulnerable and violated.

The woman

The last woman we heard

there was Rachael Denhollander.

She was the first to

publicly accuse Nasser -

and the final victim to speak.

This was the reaction in court.

you are the bravest person I have

ever had a court.

Thank you.

APPLAUSE

As these testimonies have gone and

feels like this will have

ramifications not just the US port

but the US society as well.

Nada Tawfik has been

following the story.

Absolutely, the sheer number of

women and the strength of their

testimony, and the horrific accounts

that they brought to this courtroom.

I mean, the judge remarked at how

brave they were to take this

emotional toll, basically with the

world's attention on them, because

this has been such a high-profile

case. Originally 88 women were

supposed to speak, but in the end

156 victims decided to face Larry

Nassar, saying that they gained

strength from the other women that

went before him. An independent

third party will look into how this

could have gone on for so long. That

was one of the things that the women

constantly touched upon in their

testimonies. Not just the anger, and

who knew what and when.

Four Olympic gold medalists have

gone public about being

assaulted by Larry Nassar.

Simone Biles, Aly Raceman,

Gabby Douglas and McKayla Maroney.

Simone has tweeted just now in the

last few minutes.

She goes on to

say...

May you never heard or abuse another

person again. I am broken, I am

tired. I feel like the life has

literally been sucked out of me.

You

manipulated us to trust you because

you are a doctor and doctors do no

wrong.

After this is said and done,

you will be forgotten but none will

forget how I was gotten the strength

to stand up and take you down.

Perhaps have figured it out by now,

but little girls don't stay little

forever. They grow into strong women

that return to destroy the world.

The focus is now turning to how this

could have happened.

Many victims have

criticised USA Gymnastics

for ignoring their complaints.

They've accused the federation

of suppressing their accounts

to limited bad publicity.

An investigation has been launched

into Michigan State University,

where Dr Nassar practised

for decades.

And questions have been levelled

at US Olympic officials,

and what they knew.

Back to Nada Tawfik, who's

overseeing these investigations.

The state Attorney General has said

that they will look into what

happened at Michigan state

university where Larry Nassar was

employed. When it comes to the US

Olympic Committee, again they have

said they will be having an

independent third party looking into

this. But the question becomes whose

head should roll over this? On

Monday, three board members from USA

gymnastics resigned. But you have

rally racing, an Olympic gold

medallist, saying she believed it is

rotten to the core and that their

dates to be a complete restructuring

of the sport's governing body. So it

is unclear what will happen on that

front. But again I think you heard

the girls speak to on numerous

occasions, that there doesn't need

to just be this case closed at the

end of the sentencing. There does

need to be proper follow-up, and the

judge herself said there needs to be

a massive investigation, which the

state Attorney General says they are

going to start looking into.

It's been an extraordinary day

in Brazilian politics.

This man - ex-president

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -

has lost an appeal to overturn

his corruption conviction.

Not only that, three judges

extended his sentence from nine

years to 12 years jail.

The hearing has gripped Brazil.

It took place in the southern

city of Porto Alegre.

There have been protests

in the streets for the last few

days from his supporters

as well as his detractors.

The 72-year-old was going to try

for re-election later this year.

That dream is all but over.

Before the judgment,

he said he would continue to fight

for the Brazilian people.

Here he is.

Only one thing will stop me from

what I am doing, that will be the

day I am no longer here, the day I

die.

Lula was linked to a massive

corruption probe, known

as "Operation Car Wash".

He was convicted of receiving

bribes, including a newly

refurbished apartment.

Camilla Costa has been

covering proceedings.

She joins me from Sao Paolo.

Camilla, is he going to go to

prison?

Well, not exactly, not right

now. The judges have unanimously

upheld his conviction, but they have

also said he can still appeal in

liberty and that is probably what

former president Lula and his

lawyers will probably do. They will

go before the electoral court and

the supreme federal court, so what

is more likely is that the Supreme

Court resolves the water. -- resolve

the matter. As until then, Lula

stays free.

So despite this coming

could still become the next present?

Theoretically, yes. Obviously the

decision today narrows the path that

former President Lula could have

pursued to get the accusations

overturned, and also to get elected,

and this also adds more uncertainty

to this electoral process. But

obviously keep saying his the right

person to get this country back

contract. What we don't know is if

the support will do the same after

this conviction.

You have described

in the past doubts that the

judiciary can stand up to the most

powerful people in Brazil. This is

one example of that happening.

Exactly, the country is quite

divided. Obviously Lula's supporters

say this is actually a political

conviction, and it shows the

judiciary as part of an elite, they

say, that once the ticket out of

power. This is proof that no one is

above the law.

In a few minutes, we

would talk about the new manager of

the England women's football team.

It is Phil Neville. He didn't quite

have the experience to match the job

specification. He has also tweeted a

joke about domestic violence a few

years ago. It has been a

controversial day one to him in the

job.

A witness told the jury would never

forget the driver's constant

smiling. Darren Osborne denies

murder and attempted murder. And

Guscott has more.

For the first time

we heard from an eyewitness, he was

heading home from the mosque. He had

been a late-night Ramadan players

when he saw a man collapse in the

street. Naturally he went to help

him. He saw that Macron Ali was

still talking to his eyes were open,

but then out of the corner of his

eye, he said he saw a large white

van, it was revving and

exhilarating, and then it turned

sharp left, pushed him over. He says

he fell over, got back up again and

looked around him. At that point,

the witness told the court he could

see a lot of people splattered all

over the place.

The former doctor for the US

gymnastics team is jailed

for one-hundred-and-seventy-five

years for sexually assaulting

young female athletes.

Any of you who read that article in

the Financial Times will be

surprised.

It's all over for

the Presidents Club.

It's not going to hold any more

events - like the one here it's

been a big story today -

several hundred rich,

powerful men invited to a charity

auction where they were entertained

by hostesses - two of them,

were reporters, undercover

for the Financial Times.

It is now the most read article ever

to appear on the effort he put the

website.

The event was held here

at the Dorchester Hotel, one

of London's top venues.

The event programme gives you

an idea of the tone of the event -

lunch with the Foreign Secretary one

of the lots on offer.

Another was plastic surgery

to "spice up your wife".

As the drink flowed,

the behaviour in the room

took an unpleasant turn.

Here's what happened.

Multiple women told me they had been

touched inappropriately, and that

ranged from holding their hands to

touching their stomachs to Hans near

the bottom of their back, things

that maybe you might not find the

offensive, but then touching their

bombs, touching, kind of grabbing

them, pulling them into their laps,

yes, there was a complete range of

sexual harassment, basically.

There

has been an enormous reaction. This

was the House of Commons earlier as

MPs from across the political

spectrum reacted.

At this event,

allegations of inappropriate and

lewd behaviour. It is quite a Jordan

Veretout me Mr Speaker that in the

21st entry allegations of this kind

are still emerging.

What happened

was that women were bought as bait

for men, Richman, not a mile from

where we stand, as if that is

unacceptable behaviour. It is

totally unacceptable.

There's been plenty of fallout today

- one of the men who organised it

has resigned from a role

in government, the businessmen

David Meller was a nonexecutive

board member of the Department for

Education.

Also attending was

a government minister

at that same department -

Nadim Zahawi.

He said he left the event early.

The compere for the evening

was the comedian David Walliams -

The evening did raise £2 million

for childrens' charities but people

who work in fundraising now consider

that money to be

tainted - here's why.

Laurie, do you think it is

appropriate this money is turned

down?

Absolute no, I think they

should keep the money. I understand

why they want to send it back

because obviously it is money that

comes from this tainted place, but

honestly, the guys at this event,

this appalling horrible event, which

seems to be normal, honestly one of

the things that is shocking is the

sudden outrage that this event that

has been hosted many times before,

these people over money. They over

money in taxes. Philip Green was one

of the people attending, Sir Philip

Green, former owner of BHS. He owes

personally at the minimum £150

million tax that he has avoided, and

he owes that money to the

government. That money should be put

towards the NHS. The reason these

children's hospitals are having to

solicit charity donations at all is

that we are not properly funding

them. That is one of the things

shocking me. I think the hospital

should keep the money as a down

payment on the money that these

people over.

There is a broader

issue about whether the wealthiest

in the country pay enough tax, but

what about the specific nature of

this event. If there had been no

groping and everyone had behaved

themselves, could you accept a men

only event in any form?

Look, I

think one of the difficulties here

Kamui heard what the government

minister said, I will never go to a

men only event, as of the reason

this event was so horrific for the

women who were working there was the

fact that it was meant only. This

discussion has been taking place

along the lines of, oh well you know

what men are like when they have had

a few drink, you know what they are

like, they can't give the hands of

young girls. No, I think that is

offensive to men, and I think that

you as a man are offended by that.

By the suction that if you had had a

few drinks you would behave in this

vile, sexist way and put pressure,

to offer you the services they

probably don't want to offer. I

think that is really offensive to

men, not to mention putting the onus

on young women to take responsible

at it for that behaviour when they

should be just getting on with the

job of work.

Some people have

pointed the fact that the FT doing

this investigation is evidence that

there are major cultural shift

happening, the FT being the

traditional paper for those who work

in high-level corporate jobs. Do you

agree that that is evidence of

something shifting?

Absolutely, I

think there is a huge change taking

place across the world right now,

starting with the me too movement,

which began many months ago now.

Women in all walks of life are

coming together to say that sexual

harassment is not OK and we deserved

to be treated as equal human beings

in every line of work we go into.

But what is interesting is that the

focus is moving on to different

kinds of inequality. Some of the

first people to come forward were

very rich, Hollywood celebrities,

but it turned out that women in jobs

where they don't necessarily have a

long career path, like waitress

Ting, hostess in jobs, also have to

put up with this kind of discussing

behaviour of men and it has to stop

-- disgusting. With everything like

this, with ceremony forms of

prejudice, when it comes out and

civil to say this is not OK, you get

people in Parliament saying we are

terribly shocked, we had no idea

this was happening. When actually

things like this are normal and

fine, right up until the day when

they are not normal and they are not

fine, and people realise that they

have never been fine. I think that

is what is happening now, and it is

painful and difficult, and you will

hear a lot of people saying all

considerable things, and asking that

these young women, saying that these

young women probably asked for it.

But this is just kicking and

screaming against a change in

culture coming in from a change for

the better the stop

thank you for

talking to us, the vast majority of

the reaction I have seen from public

figures has been these women were

definitely not asking for it. We

mentioned Sir Philip Green in the

interview, it was definitely on the

seating plan but it has not been

confirmed whether he was at the

event.

Pueldoes not biggest manufacturer of

mobile phone chips has paid out for

use its chips exclusively an Apple

phones. The EU competition

commission is told well, it

prevented rivals from competing in

the market. Misses learn more about

this. Samira Hussain, as a layman

looking at the story it seems

amazing that has ever considered to

be possible. It seems quite clearly

against the rules.

It does. If you

ask QUALCOMM, they would say it

absolutely to happen and that was

not the way it went down. QUALCOMM

has only made it clear that they

dispute this ruling and they will

try to fight it. That said, it comes

at a time in which chip-makers are

under the microscope these days,

first because of the risk to data

breaches that we have been talking

about, and of course full, itself,

it was -- QUALCOMM itself, it was

looking to be taken over by another

chip-maker, and it rejected that an

initial offer. They are ripe for the

taking.

Are Apple also in trouble

with this order does the blame lay

with QUALCOMM?

It does stay with

Krall, primarily. The competition

agency had said it was not an Apple

deal, this really had to do with the

chip-maker itself was not

thank you

to stop staying in New York.

Elton John has announced

he is to retire

from touring...in three years.

He's saying goodbye with one final

trip around the world.

Here he is making the announcement.

It is the last time that I will be

touring and travelling the world,

because quite a lot has changed in

my life is to ten years ago if you

had said I was stopped touring, I

would say IS, I am a working

musician, I always play, but we had

children. And my life has changed.

The priority in my life have

changed. My priority now my

children.

There had been rumours Sir Elton

was retiring due to ill

health, but the Rocket Man has

proven to everyone

he's still standing -

his Yellow Brick Road Tour

will have 300 dates.

So his children won't be quite

so young by the time he's done.

But he says fans deserve

a proper goodbye.

I have been touring since I was 17,

with various bands and as Elton John

in 1969, and I thought the time was

right to say thank you to all my

fans around the world globally, and

then, you know, to say goodbye.

When making the announcement

Sir Elton couldn't resist a song.

And it was an appropriate one -

let's take a listen.

#

I'm still standing, better than I

ever did, looking like a true

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

#

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

# I'm

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

# I'm still

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

# I'm still standing,

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

# I'm still standing, after

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

# I'm still standing, after all

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

# I'm still standing, after all this

survivor, feeling like a little kid.

# I'm still standing, after all this

time, picking up the pieces of my

life without you on my mind.

# I'm still standing, yeah, yeah,

yeah.

# I'm still standing,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Fear not, there are three years more

of touring before he stopped doing

that. If you want more on that

storing Dunn story, you can download

the BBC News app from your app

store, and all of the stories we are

covering here. See you in a couple

of minutes.

Hello, thank you for joining me for

our round-up of the world weather.

We starred in a very chilly Asia,

where Japan, China and the Korean

peninsular are all experiencing the

hard blast of winter. This is a

recent scene from Tokyo, meanwhile

in China, people taking extreme

measures to wrap up from the cold.

In some spots to the north of the

country, temperatures as low as -40

have been recorded. And things

aren't going to change in any great

hurry in the coming days, very cold

air extending quite a good way south

into China. Right the way across

Korea and Japan. Warm air to the

south, to swear these two come

together that we get a weather front

establishing, and that in itself is

going to cause us further issues in

the next few days. It is hitting

just the long length of the Yangtze

Valley, this weather system could

bring 50 centimetres, a couple of

feet of snow before the end of this

week, snow reaching as far east as

Shanghai. More showers coming down

across the Sea of Japan, affecting

particularly the North half the

country. Let's Head to America. Some

action towards the north-west.

Another low pushing some further

rain into the Pacific Northwest. The

balance is definitely going to be

redressed by the weekend. The area

of high pressure holding things

steady in the east will start to

weaken through Thursday into Friday.

Initially it will bring some very

mild air through eastern states,

then the slow starts to chase across

from the north-west, cold air

testing and behind it were those two

air masses need, a deep area of low

pressure developing, some pretty

violent storms heading through the

these coast of USA today. Further

lows coming into the Pacific

Northwest so little respite there.

Off to Europe, and here is Paris,

like many parts of France actually,

just a lot of water around and

significant issues with flooding,

part of it due to snow melt, part of

it due to the fact we have seen so

much rain, and another weather from

sinking at the, but also to give

early Friday, a discrete area of low

pressure from some pretty nasty

weather on the way across alpine

regions. A top-up of heavy rain

across south-eastern France as well.

The snow across the Alps could be

problematic, some quite strong winds

around the low, that can mean poor

visibility, mild air getting pulled

up meaning the high avalanche risk,

so I think skiers in this region

most definitely beware. Elsewhere

across Europe, some pretty

reasonable weather shall we say that

this point in the year. Still some

cold air in the east, some mild and

by the conditions of West. As for

the UK, a good deal windier than it

has today, that won't be difficult,

there should be some sunshine as

well. Why colleagues will have a

better outlook for you as we head

towards the top of the hour.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom.

Following seven days

of emotional testimony

from his victims, a judge has jailed

the disgraced US Olympics

doctor Larry Nassar.

Sir, I am giving you 175 years.

There was joy and relief in court.

We'll hear from the

British men in Syria

who are fighting for the Kurdish

militia that Turkey is attacking.

And yesterday's school

shooting in Kentucky brings

the number of shootings at schools

in the US to 11 this year.

We will bring you more on that as

well.

Save the Children was targeted

in Afghanistan today.

Three staff and a soldier died -

the Islamic State

group has claimed responsibility.

It happened in Jalalabad,

in the east of Afghanistan.

Nangarhar province is

a strong hold of IS.

The Taliban also operate there.

Save the Children has recently

tweeted an updated statement.

"We have temporarily

suspended our operations

across the country following today's

events, however we remain fully

committed to helping the most

deprived children of Afghanistan."

Here's Secunder Kermani with more.

This happened when a suicide bomber

blew himself up at a gate of Save

the children's offices in the city.

He was in a car. Then another gunman

began

He was in a car. Then another gunman

began shooting. I was speaking to

one survivor who told me that he and

45 other members of staff managed to

lock themselves in a secure room

where they hid from the attacker,

although one of the gunman was just

the other side of the door. He said

they later managed to escape,

although this comes just a few days

after another larger attack in Kabul

at the Intercontinental Hotel in

which 19 people were killed, 14 of

whom were foreigners.

Save the Children isn't the only

charity to come under

attack in Afghanistan.

The International Committee

of Red Cross, has also been

targeted in the past.

One of their staff spoke

to the BBC earlier.

We stand in solidarity with them and

express our outrage and how much we

are sorry that this happened. Also

we would like to extend our

condolences to the families of the

colleagues who unfortunately have

lost their lives today. If you are

not able to move around and we are

not allowed by security restrictions

to do our job, definitely the impact

will be felt by the population, by

the civilians we are trying to help.

No to the US. -- now to the US.

I want to show you this article.

It's a story in the New York Times.

Its headline: "School Shooting in

Kentucky Is Nation's 11th of Year.

It's January 23."

The shooting they refer too is this

one at a high school

in small-town Kentucky yesterday.

Two fifteen year old students

were killed and more than 18

people were injured.

Like the article suggests, school

shootings have become a common

occurrence in the US.

And they are happening

across the country.

A school cafeteria outside Dallas.

A charter school parking

lot in New Orleans.

A school bus in Iowa.

A college campus in

Southern California.

A high school in Seattle.

Researchers say that since 2013

there has been about one

school shooting a week,

and we're losing our

capacity for shock.

Katherine Schweit is

a former FBI official.

She has been following

this issue closely.

And has co-authored a study of 160

active shooting incidents

in the United States.

She joins me from Phoenix.

Thank you for joining us. Our

schools disproportionately targeted?

I don't think so. They make the news

more. In fact in the United States,

these types of shootings occur most

often in businesses, almost twice as

often in a business environment than

in a school environment. I just

think that school environment really

shocked our conscience.

Some sources

claim Americans have become

normalised to this, does this in any

really do is the chances of them

happening because some people are of

course motivated by the attention

they will get.

I think time will

tell whether or not we know that

that is true. There is certainly an

element of the people who commit

these kinds of facts, they want to

become famous, certainly they want

to have that notoriety, and as it

drops away, hopefully that is what

we will see. But think it will take

a number of years to see

statistically whether that is

accurate.

You have studied 160 of

these incidents, what conclusions

have you drawn, are the common

elements to all of them.

I think one

of the things that surprised me,

even when I was doing the research,

is that this is a very balanced

situation. Very often a law

enforcement officer is killed or

injured, more often than in any

other type of incident in the United

States so it's a very dangerous

situation even for the law

enforcement officers would respond.

The other thing probably more

powerful for the public to recognise

is that of the 160 incidents were

studied during that time period, 21

of them or where the shooting was

stopped by an unarmed civilian who

selflessly stepped in and interfered

with the shooter, whether through

words or actions, or with a group of

people. So the power to stop this,

if it happens, is most importantly

in the hands of the people who were

with the shooter at the time.

That

is interesting. And every time we

report on one of these shootings,

the debate about gun control plays

out, are there other measures aside

from gun control that you think

would reduce the frequency or the

impact of these attacks?

Definitely.

I think ideally we all want to

prevent these kinds of incidents

from happening in any way. I should

tell you, American schools,

statistically the data collection,

American schools safer today than

ever before in the United States in

terms of all the types of crime and

violence that might happen in them.

So the schools are safer today that

these particular types of incidents

have been increasing in the United

States, and some of it points to the

fact that we really need to

individually have a handle on

everybody around us and be aware of

what is going on. Because we know

that in 80 or 90% of the instances,

there were peers, family members,

teachers, people who heard things

and new things ahead of time and did

not stub out and say something

because they didn't take the person

seriously they did not want to get

someone in trouble -- did not stab

at. That just won't help. You've got

to step but if you are concerned,

you've got to see something, you've

got to say something.

Can I ask you

about the media, I am particularly

interested in this. The role of the

media in these stories is often

criticised, they turn these events

into a movie, the drama of it all,

do you think the international media

get it wrong when these events

happen.

If you had asked me that

question when the Columbine shooting

at the high school occurred in 1990

and I said yes. I would've said in

retrospect it's easy to see that the

media, back then, and even even

during that time of one of our most

horrific shootings at Virginia Tech

University, at a theatre where

dozens were killed and injured, the

shooter was often the focus of the

media stories. I would say in the

USA, even look at this conversation

we're having now, we are not talking

about the shooting in Kentucky, we

are talking about other things. But

as with the media is getting it

right in terms of being a

responsible and social part of the

community to our focus has to be not

on glorifying the shooter, it has to

be on how can we prevent how can we

help some and recover when they are

involved in it.

One last question,

which led Americans becoming

desensitised, when you look at that

2018 list are you shocked or do you

see another couple of normal weeks

in America?

That is a good question.

I'm kind of sad. This is all I've

worked on for the last four years, I

was in the FBI, and I always thought

we would have less, and we still

seem to have more, and that makes me

sad.

We appreciate you joining us.

Thank you very much for joining us

live from Phoenix. And the article

that I showed you at the beginning

of the story, you can see it on the

New York Times website.

Don't forget you can get much more

detail on our top stories

on our website.

BBC.com/news.

Next on Outside Source.

Let's spend time looking

at how Phil Neville has

become the new manager

of the England Women's Football team

- despite not meeting the job spec.

And how he's kept the job

after the emergence of a tweet

with a joke about domestic violence.

This is the FA website, where you'll

find the job description.

The FA were looking for someone

with "a track record

of successful management".

We know Phil Neville has managed.

But only for one game.

With Salford City FC.

They won that game 2-1.

Neville co-owns this, much smaller

club alongside some of his former

Manchester United teammates.

Next, to the tweets from 2012.

First we have some casual sexism.

"When I said Morning, men,

I thought the women would be too

busy preparing breakfast/getting

the kids ready/making the beds"

"Women always want equality until it

comes to paying the bills -

#hypocrites."

And then this.

Relax, I'm back, chilled.

Just battered the wife.

Feel better now."

Two things to note here.

If this was a tweet with a "joke"

about racist or homophobic violence,

he'd almost certainly be out

of a job.

Two, it's estimated 1.2

million women in the UK

experience domestic abuse every year

- so this issue directly affects

many, many families in the UK.

Next this is the UK government's

Sports Minister ....

Tracy Crouch says it is right that

Phil Neville has apologised, sexism

of any kind must not be tolerated.

Next, the campaign group Kick It Out

asks if the FA will be charging Phil

Neville for discriminatory remarks.

The answer to that is No. Instead

they say he will be reminded about

his future conduct.

It's worth adding Phil Neville

has worked for BBC

Sport as an analyst and pundit

since these tweets were sent.

Well, Neville's apologised.

He says that following comments made

several years ago, I wish to clarify

that they are not a general

reflection of my character and

beliefs.

And he's got plenty

of support from journalists

saying he's a good bloke.

Oliver Holt who says

"I don't know many men

in the football world who show more

respect towards women than him".

@michaelVaughan

Questioning Phil Neville

the manager I understand ..

That's fair even though I think

he will do a fantastic job ..

But questioning the person !!!!

I find totally unfair.

I haven't met a more

hard-working humble guy

across my 28 years in pro sport.

But what's being questioned isn't

what kind of a guy Phil Neville is -

it's whether it's appropriate

for a man who sent tweets

of this nature to manage

the national women's team.

And remember we have

to see all of this

in the context that the last manager

of the women's team, Mark Sampson,

he was dismissed after evidence

of "inappropriate and unacceptable"

behaviour with female

players in a previous role.

BBC Sport's Natalie Pirks gives

us her take from Wembley.

The Twitter storms seems to be

obscuring the issue of whether Phil

Neville is qualified for the job,

having never managed before and

never worked in the women's game.

The FA has confirmed that two of the

last four candidates to the job were

female and all four withdrew from

the process.

The editor of women's

soccer zone and spoke to me, I asked

what the FA should do next.

They

have some difficult questions to

answer. They haven't had a press

conference yet with Phil Neville. As

we have seen from the reaction early

doors the media across the country

have some questions to ask him in

relation to things exposed over the

last 24 hours, they have meant that

he's entered the job under a cloud

much as Mark Sampson left and one.

This isn't how he would have wanted

to start his tenure.

It beggars

belief that when your points you

don't go to the social media and

check what they are saying.

The FA

outlined from the start that due

diligence would be a big factor in

the recruitment of the new coach,

after what we saw the Mark Sampson

they indicated that they wanted to

take their time and do checks, but

these tweets have come back to haunt

him and as a result he's got a lot

of people to win over because from

what I know and what I followed the

women's football community are not

happy with what they have seen.

Many

male sports journalists have come

out and said, I know Phil Neville,

he is a nice guy, and I am not one

moment saying that he is not. This

is more about girls and women who

support this team, maybe want to

play for this team, why a man who

said this is this job.

, Exactly,

one of the key things is not just

about the team being successful, it

is about grassroots football,

getting young women into the game

and when you have somebody heading

up the team who has said these

things although he has apologised

and said they do not reflect who he

is, it is difficult because now they

need to figure out how they will

play this.

Some claim it is

difficult because they should have

found a woman to do this job. But it

is not unusual for women's national

teams to be managed by men.

I would

have liked it to be a woman, some

candidates made the short list but

fell short, but there are examples

of men who have taken on coaching

roles and men who haven't had

experience in the women's game,

Nielsen Nielsen was the Danish coach

and took that into the 2017 final,

worked out, there was also the

French put a couple of years ago,

although he only lasted one year, it

didn't go according to plan for him.

I'm sure you've been in contact with

many people in the women's football

scene in the UK today. Do they want

Phil Neville to apologise, as he

has, or wanting to go.

I don't think

anyone has said they want to go,

they need to see how he works, I

think we will see quite early how

good he is as a coach. He's got to

win a lot of people over and he has

to do it quickly.

There will be a

raft of comment pieces arriving in

the sports pages in the next few

days.

This is a combo Kit story we have

been following.

We've been reporting

on Turkey's operation

against Kurdish forces

here in Afrin, in northern Syria.

The situation is particularly

complicated for the West

because both sides are its allies.

It gets more complicated still -

because the BBC has established

that British men are among a group

of international volunteers

who are fighting with the Kurdish

forces, known as the YPG.

This is a video they

uploaded on Youtube.

We have been training for a

significant amount of time, tactics

that work against any force.

Well this story has come

from the BBC's Emma Vardy -

I've been talking to her.

We know dozens of British men and

one women have gone out to vote for

the Kurdish forces against IS. This

is a group of international

volunteers, one from the US, others

going to Afrin to fight against

Turkey so a twist in what is a

complicated situation.

Mercenaries

or ideological leap motivated?

They

say they are not mercenaries, they

volunteers, they don't get paid.

Motivated for different reasons,

initially the desire to fight

against what they saw as the evil of

IS, is motivated by the Kurdish

ideology of setting up an autonomous

region. In terms of setting up

against Turkey it's a different

mission. Legally they could face

different consequences in the UK.

Fighting against what is technically

a Nato ally of the UK.

To the

express concern that they are

involved in a mismatch between the

Turkish military and a relatively

small Kurdish militia?

I asked them

just that, you could be facing the

prospect of death. We've seen seven

deaths among British men fighting

against eye as Mac. Now they will

face shelling from the Turkish army,

Turkish tanks coming over the

border, the prospect of death is

something we have considered, but

they feel a sense of

comradeship, when they come back to

the UK,.

Delicate for the British

with these sides turning on each

other.

Diplomatically and legally

difficult. Those who have gone

against IS, when they return many

have been arrested yet no one has

been charged. If they are fighting

against Turkey and the Turkish

military, the British authorities

may see that differently. They could

be arrested, they could face

prosecution.

They could be helping

Kurdish people in one form or

another indefinitely.

I think when

they went to fight against Islamic

State those I spoke to do not expect

that one day there might have defied

against the Turkish army. Dot-mac

that one day they might fighting the

Turkish army. What could happen is

that the conflict might escalate and

they could become sucked in.

There are other British volunteers

who continue to fight against the

remnants of IS who have not decided

to fight against the Turkish army,

they feel a sense of comradeship

with the Kurdish people and they

seem to be the ones who have decided

to go.

I want to tell you about some

new research on cheetahs.

And the animals that they chase.

We already knew they were

the fastest land animal on Earth.

They reach speeds of up to 120kph.

So you think they'd be great

at catching their prey.

In fact only 50% of Cheetah

hunts end in kill.

This is because the animals that

they are chasing, like impala, I

incredibly good at getting away.

Scientists have been looking at both

parties.

Victoria Gill,

science correspondent.

Scientists have been fascinated by

the cheater, the ultimate athlete of

the animal world. They like to look

at how they achieve this incredible

acceleration. But this study looked

at hunting. The colours the cheetahs

Paul Waring were designed by

veterinary scientists, and they

track the position of the Cheetah

200 times every single second. So

they can capture every movement in

that chase. The same time were

tracking the impala, the antelope

being hunted. So they can track down

just what is happening, what

decisions the animals make, the odds

of success and failure. What did we

learn that we can't simply learn by

watching the video?

You can see the

clues from what they mathematically

figured using the colours in the

video, the high-speed pursuit is not

all about speed, the Cheetah is the

fastest land animal but I don't

always catch their prey, in fact

they catch them less than half the

time. The reason that this is

manoeuvring. The impala can control

the chase by making a turn at the

last minute and because the Cheetah

is going so much faster it's more

difficult to so it's more about

that. It's about ecology and how

they live in a world with a fine

balance of survival, the predators

need that equal survival rate for

that whole ecosystem to function. So

we need to protect both of the

predator and prey.

I guess from this

conversation we should give the

impala more attention than perhaps

we have because in their own way

they are remarkable because they are

escaping Brigid.

Exactly. The study

looked at Lyons, cheetahs, the

impala and the zebras that they

chase. And it's a very close match

in terms of athleticism between

predator and the praise so that

evolution is something that these

remarkable high-tech colours have

shown the scientists. So we

absolutely need to give more

attention to the biomechanics and

how these animals move in the wild

and what we can learn from their

incredible athleticism, what we can

see in the drama of the hunt when we

watch these amazing documentaries.

We've had crows, cheetahs and impala

is this week, what about next week?

I won't spoil it, we've got more

animals next week.

She has a lot of

stories but I don't think she has a

camel controversy.

Twelve camels have been

disqualified from a beauty

pageant in Saudi Arabia

after it was discovered

their owners gave them Botox.

This is true, honestly!

The King Abdulaziz Camel Festival

is held here, in Rumah,

that's 120 kilometres northeast

of the capital, Riyadh.

Let me show you pictures

of the event where thousands

of camels are paraded.

Judges look for shapely lips,

perfectly placed humps, muscular

physiques and leathery mouths.

It involves dozens of events,

including the beauty pageant,

camel racing and camel milk tasting

and it has a combined prize

money of $57m (£40m).

We'll see you tomorrow!