25/01/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

Donald Trump has arrived at

the World Economic Forum in Davos,

where he'll be pushing his

America First message.

The US said they'd keep their troops

in Syria to make sure the so-called

Islamic State don't come back.

The Syrian Foreign Minister tells us

they're not happy with the idea.

Long-term presence of the American

troops on Syrian soil will be

considered as an aggression

against the sovereignty of Syria.

"Lacking moral leadership": harsh

words to describe Myanmar's

leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

But that's what one US diplomat did.

We find out why.

And is there a better way

to warn against tsunamis?

A group of Welsh scientists say yes.

Let's start at the World

Economic Forum in Davos.

No doubting the most

high profile guest.

There would appear to be

a tension between Mr Trump's

"America First" message

and the globalisation

favoured by the rich

and powerful who come to Davos.

None of that was putting

the President off his stride.

What's your message

to Davos, Mr President?

Peace, and prosperity.

He also talked about

the Middle East.

During a meeting with Israel's Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

Mr Trump was asked if talks can

resume with the Palestinians.

This was his answer.

When they disrespected us a week ago

by not allowing our great vice

president to see them,

when we give them hundreds

of millions of dollars in aid

and support, tremendous numbers,

numbers that nobody understands,

that money is on the table.

That money is not going to them

unless they sit down

and negotiate peace,

because I can tell you that Israel

does want to make peace.

And they're going to have

to want to make peace too,

or we will have nothing to do

with it any longer.

Donald Trump also met Theresa May.

It hasn't been plain

sailing for them.

When Donald Trump retweeted a

British far-right group in November,

the Prime Minister said this.

I'm very clear that

retweeting from Britain First

was the wrong thing to do.

To which Donald Trump replied

"@Theresa-May, don't focus on me,

focus on the destructive

Radical Islamic Terrorism

that is taking place

within the United Kingdom.

We are doing just fine!"

Also, the President cancelled

a visit to London to open

the new US embassy in London.

He said he didn't like the location.

Some thought it was because he

knew Londoners may not

be overly welcoming.

Well, things seemed cordial earlier.

There is a false rumour out there.

I wanted to correct it.

I have great respect

for everything you're doing.

We love your country.

We think it's really good.

We are working on transactions

in terms of economic reality,

trade and most

importantly, military.

We are very much joined at the hip

when it comes to the military.

President Trump will deliver

a speech in Davos on Friday.

Bob Corker is a Republican Senator

who's been very critical

of the President, suggesting

he needs supervision.

He's been talking to Katty Kay.

Many of the statements

that have been made,

many of the actions have caused

people to wonder whether we're

a reliable ally, reliable friend.

I hope that when he comes

and speaks tomorrow,

that he does so in a manner

to re-establish or at least build

back some of the trust

that our nation has had.

You have to wonder what Donald

Trump's motivation is. I have been

talking to Katty Kay about that.

I

think he has come for a bit of a

victory lap. There is certainly

quite a bit of goodwill towards him

from the business community, because

these are the people who are

benefiting from the global economy

doing so well, from the stock market

that is booming, and they are giving

Donald Trump credit for that. I have

even spoken to Democrats who say he

does deserve credit for the

deregulation and the tax cuts

helping the markets. Business

leaders like that a lot, so there is

a slightly schizophrenic attitude.

They don't like what he says about a

lot of things. They don't like his

tone. They don't like the way he

talked about Africa recently, and

they are nervous about the idea that

there could be a protectionist

movement coming. On the other hand,

they like the way the economy is

going and our prepared to give him a

warm welcome because of that.

And in

terms of those terrorists, it

presumably wasn't a coincidence that

we had about the new tariffs on

washing machines and solar panels

before he came here. Has that

dominated in the way we thought it

would earlier in the week?

No. I

have asked a couple of people about

that, and Bob Corker, the chairman

of the Senate foreign relations

committee, said the reaction has not

been as severe as it might have been

from China and South Korea over

those tariffs. There is nervousness

that this could just be the

beginning. The Treasury Secretary

today said, we do want fair and free

trade. I think the global community

is asking how far America is

prepared to go to get what it would

call fair trade.

I also wanted to

talk about President Trump and what

he said as he was getting on the

plane to fly to Davos. In impromptu

remarks, he told reporters he is

prepared to be questioned by Robert

Mulder is part of the investigation

into alleged Russian interference in

the US election.

Mr Mueller's investigation has been

inching closer to the president.

Last week, Attorney General Jeff

Session was interviewed.

He was an advisor

on the Trump campaign.

Next week, former chief

strategist Steve Bannon

is scheduled to be questioned.

More than 20 other White House

personnel have voluntarily given

interviews to the team.

But there are a number of different

ways be Mueller investigation can

speak to people of interest, as

Katty explains.

Listen to the language that he used.

He said "I would love to do this".

Since he made those remarks before

coming here to Davos,

his legal team has been slightly

rowing that back or qualifying it

and saying he will of course take

legal counsel over this issue.

That will be the big issue.

Does he testify under oath?

Is it a one-on-one interview

with the special counsel's team?

Is some of it done

through written answers?

That is what we don't

have answers to yet.

The president was speaking,

as his lawyers said,

speaking hurriedly before he left

for Davos on this trip.

They will be going through this

with a fine comb and making sure

that any interview that takes place

with Bob Mueller is on the most

favourable possible terms

to the president and his legal team.

Katty, while I've got you,

can I ask you what it's like there?

We see the mountains, the fireside

chats and the press conferences,

but what is it like,

the bits we don't see?

My wet feet, my pocket full

of tissues and my pocket full

of Fisherman's Friends because I'm

struggling with a cold here!

Look, I've been struck by the degree

to which the antipathy

that you might expect

from the global elite

towards Donald Trump,

frankly, is not really there.

They're prepared to give him

a fair hearing tomorrow.

They like what he's

doing for the economy.

They have slightly learned to live

with some of the tweets,

and yet America is still clearly

dominating this conference.

We talk about America retreating

from the world and its president

pulling back from issues like trade

and climate change,

but when the White House,

when President Trump

and the United States of America

wants to throw its weight around

and make its presence felt, it can

absolutely do so and it's doing

it in Switzerland this week.

As ever, we are bringing you the

biggest global stories. Let's move

to Damascus.

A Syrian minister has told the BBC

that both Turkey and the US

are guilty of aggression.

In America's case,

it's because last week

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

said "The United States

will maintain a military presence

in Syria, focused on ensuring Isis

cannot re-emerge".

This is Syria's deputy

foreign minister

with the BBC's Lyse Doucet.

This is a very serious issue. A long

term presence of American troops on

Syrian soil would be considered as

an aggression against the

sovereignty of Syria. It would be

considered a violation of the United

Nations Security Council resolution.

But what can you do about it?

...

Which always talks about the

territorial integrity of the Syrian

people and their country. What we

are going to do is a different

issue. But when you consider such a

presence as hostile, as aggressive,

as against the territorial unity of

a country, then a lot of options are

open before the Syrian people and

their government.

The criticism for Turkey

is because of its offensive

against Kurds in Afrin

in north-western Syria.

These are the latest

pictures we have.

These are members of

the Free Syrian Army

advancing into the area -

they're rebels fighting

the Syrian government.

But about 25,000 of their fighters

are joining the Turkish forces.

Here's the minister with Lyse again.

The Turkish invasion is an open

violation of the sovereignty of

Syria. It is an aggression against

the sovereignty of Syria.

Russia

gave the green light for that.

We

don't think Russia can act on behalf

of the Syrian government or against

its principles which Russia has

always defended in Syria. So it is

Turkish aggression against the

sovereignty of Syria, and Syria has

every right to answer such an

aggression.

I should also tell you

about Syrian peace talks

which started today in Vienna.

They're brokered by the UN,

but this is an early stage -

the two sides are not

meeting face-to-face.

Here's an opposition figure earlier.

Our main goal is to see the

commitment of all the sides to the

implementation of UN Security

Council resolution to 254 -- 2254.

This session was described by the UN

special envoy to be a crucial one,

and we believe that it is. On our

behalf, we are committed to a free

Syria, to a democratic one, to a

country safe for its people to go

back home.

And Lyse has been following

those talks in Damascus.

I think the Syrians would not talk

about it as their last hope, and

certainly not the Syrian government,

who continue to say they will

continue to do what they can to find

a solution. The opposition, of

course, are dedicated to trying to

achieve what they regard as a

political transition, in other

words, a Syrian future without

Presdent Assad. But if the truth be

told, the mantra from the Syrian

government now is that the war is

over. Look at the map. They feel

they are prevailing on the

battlefield and what matters to them

now is not negotiating table is far

away from Syria, it's what's

happening on the ground. They are

continuing their offensive against

the last pockets held by the rebels.

Next, an extraordinary statement

from US diplomat Bill Richardson

on Aung San Suu Kyi.

He says the international

panel that she set up

on the Rohingya Crisis

in Myanmar is a "whitewash" -

and that she lacks

"moral leadership."

Given that they consider themselves

friends, this is quite something.

The quotes come in this article

in the New York times.

He also says Aung San Suu Kyi has

"developed an arrogance of power."

And she's "basically unwilling

to listen to bad news," and "this

board was being used

as a cheerleading squad

for the government."

Myanmar's already responded,

saying Richardson has an agenda.

All of this is connected

to the Rohingya crisis

in which over 600,000 people have

crossed from Myanmar

into Bangladesh.

They're living in camps like these,

though there are plans

to try and get them home

in the next two years.

Jonathan Head has more

on this in Yangon.

Bill Richardson clearly felt that

the panel he was part of was

ineffective. He has described how he

felt it didn't have a mandate to

address the real issues. He could

have resigned more quietly. He used

to visit Aung San Suu Kyi as far

back as the early 1990s, when she

was under house arrest, and has

remained deeply engaged in Myanmar,

with a lot of projects here. It's a

very detailed statement. He

describes her as having an arrogance

of power, of being trapped in a

bubble, surrounded by sycophants and

psychopaths, telling her what she

wants to hear. He

said he was taken aback by the

hostility that she and other

officials showed towards

international organisations, the

media, the UN and human rights

groups, blaming them for the

troubling Rakhine state and he felt

he could not continue in his role.

He has said that she is in effect

parroting the generals, speaking

their language and not speaking up

for the things that she once said

she believed in. That is why he says

he is so disappointed, that he

expected her to show moral

leadership. He accepts that she is

in a difficult position, but said

that is no excuse for not showing

any leadership. The picture he

paints is of an isolated leader,

somebody stubbornly sticking to her

views and parroting the military. He

referenced those Reuters

journalists. He came here perhaps

mistakenly believing that his

influence would get them released.

He raised their case consistently

with Aung San Suu Kyi. A lot of

people feel they were targeted by

the military for their

investigations into Rakhine state.

He said her response was to insist

that they had broken the Official

Secrets Act and to get so angry that

he felt that at one point, she might

hit him.

In a few minutes, we will

report on a story from El Salvador.

A teenage girl has been sentenced to

30 years in prison after having what

she claims was a miscarriage. The

prosecution say she killed her baby.

This is Outside Source,

live from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story comes from

Switzerland.

Donald Trump has arrived at

the World Economic Forum in Davos,

where he'll be pushing his

America First message.

He gives a major speech tomorrow.

Let's turn to some of the main

stories on BBC World Service.

The new leader of South Africa's

governing ANC party has told the BBC

that the country has been badly

affected by corruption

and that the state had been captured

by people purporting to be close

to President Jacob Zuma.

The president of Michigan State

University has resigned over

the scandal surrounding years

of sexual abuse by the former

USA Gymnastics team

doctor, Larry Nassar.

Nassar used to work

at the university.

And Jose Mourinho has

extended his contract as manager

at Manchester United until 2020,

with an option for another year.

Mass vaccination campaigns

are getting under way in Nigeria

and Brazil against yellow fever.

This is a mosquito-borne disease.

The World Health Organisation says

approximately 45,000 people died

of yellow fever globally in 2013.

In Nigeria, it's hoped 25 million

people will be immunised this year.

And in Brazil, the mass vaccination

programmes will start

in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janerio

before moving north

to Bahia next month.

Let's speak to Julia Carneiro in Rio

de Janeiro. It sounds like a huge

undertaking.

Yes, it is. We have had

yellow fever over the years in

Brazil, but cases have started to

spread and the authorities are under

alert because new cases are

appearing in areas in the south-east

of Brazil that didn't have yellow

fever yet. The fear is that it may

reach urban centres like the big

cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao

Paulo. So far, we have seen yellow

fever cases in smaller cities and in

rural areas, but if it gets too big

cities, it will be hard to control.

So their anticipated this campaign

to start in almost 150 cities to

vaccinate people, responding as well

to a rush to health centres that we

have seen over the past weeks, with

huge queues forming for people to

get their vaccines.

So vaccines are

one way of defending people against

yellow fever, but presumably there

are broader strategies as well?

Vaccines are the main strategy. By

focusing on Rio and Sao Paulo, they

are trying to keep the areas that

were still unharmed by the virus

from being affected. It is like they

are building a cordon of

immunisation to protect areas from

the virus. Here in Rio and in Sao

Paulo, we have seen cases of monkeys

which are carriers of the virus.

They are not the ones that transmit

the virus. It is transmitted by

mosquitoes, so they are victims as

well. And when the monkeys start

buying, it's a sign that the disease

is approaching. So here in Rio and

Sao Paulo, there has been lots of

alarm, with the monkeys appearing.

That is a sign that the disease

could be approaching. But the

authorities here are campaigning to

protect the animals. Because of this

fear, there are signs that people

might be poisoning or harming

animals, thinking that they are the

culprits. They are not, they are

victims as well. This is one more

mosquito borne disease that Brazil

is trying to cope with, yet another

summer after the Zika epidemic, the

dinky -- dengue fever as well.

Perhaps we can catch up with you

later and find out how that

vaccination programme is going.

President Trump's at

the World Economic Forum in Davos.

He's been talking about UK-US trade.

Trade discussions will be taking

place and are going to lead to

tremendous increases in trade

between our countries, which is

great for both in terms of jobs. We

look forward to that and we are

starting that process as we speak.

Now to a story that Theresa May and

Donald Trump will be paying

attention to. Samira Hussain joins

me. We have been exchanging messages

and you were telling me there was a

big moment coming for bombardier

tomorrow?

Exactly. The international

trade commission is going to weigh

in in a dispute between the beer,

the Canadian plane-maker, and

Boeing, the US plane making giant.

This is a dispute we talked about

last year. Boeing says that

bombardier has made this whole fleet

of planes, but they have done at

below cost and that is a no-no in

international trade. So the US has

slapped a 300% tariff on any of the

specific Bombardier planes coming

into the United States, which

basically cuts of these Bombardier

planes from the US market. Why is

Theresa May getting involved in this

dispute? Well, it is because there

are a lot of jobs in Northern

Ireland that are at risk. Bombardier

is the largest private employer in

Northern Ireland, some 4000 jobs. So

if they are no longer able to sell

these planes to the United States, a

lot of those jobs could be in

jeopardy.

We often talk about

rulings and I sometimes wonder if

they are the end of the matter.

Could it continue beyond that

decision?

Of course it's not the end

of the matter! There are many more

avenues for this to go. Canada has

said that if it doesn't rule in

their favour, they will want to take

this to other avenues. They could

take it to the World Trade

Organisation. Prime Minister Justin

Trudeau has said he will take it to

the Nafta tribunal. Those are the

trade mechanisms that have been put

in place by the North American Free

Trade Agreement. But those dispute

resolution mechanisms are actually

something that President Trump wants

to get rid of altogether.

Thank you.

Now, we are being told we are 30

seconds closer to the end of the

world.

This message is coming courtesy

of the Doomsday Clock.

Here it is - it's

a symbol designed to give

an assessment of how unstable

the world is - the closer

it gets to midnight,

the worse things are.

It's run by a team of science

leaders, and now they've moved us

to two minutes to midnight.

They say the world is

a more dangerous place

because of nuclear concerns

and because of how world leaders

are handling the crisis -

that's a reference to Trump

and Kim Jong Un.

The last time the clock was so close

to midnight was in 1953 -

that's when the US and Soviet Union

were testing hydrogen bombs.

Here are two of the scientists.

In 2017, we moved the clock from

three to two and a half minutes to

midnight, an unprecedented step that

reflected a darkening security

landscape, characterised by an

increasing recklessness around

nuclear rhetoric and the increasing

attacks on expert and expertise

worldwide, at the exact moment when

such expertise is needed.

For the

first time in many years, no US-

Russian nuclear arms negotiations

are under way. If the draft US

nuclear past review is any guide to

US policy, there will be no US -

Russia nuclear arms control

negotiations for the foreseeable

future. Instead, we could see a

return to a nuclear arms race.

Thank you for watching the first

half of Outside Source. We will be

back with you in a couple of

minutes. If you want to see that

speech by Donald Trump at Davos,

whether you are watching in the UK

on the new channel or elsewhere on

BBC World News, you will of course

see it live.

Welcome to a look at the weather

elsewhere around the globe. Real

contrast in the temperatures showing

up across Asia, from the -4 to start

the morning on Thursday in Tokyo.

That is the coldest it has been in

Tokyo for 48 years, almost

record-breaking, with a lot of snow

on the ground. It will stay cold and

the north-westerly wind will

continue to blow across the sea of

Japan and deposit more snow across

parts of Japan. It is also bitterly

cold across the Korean peninsula.

Drier here. The highs on Friday are

about -10 Celsius. The chill is

across parts of China as well. We

could see more snow around Yangtze

and Shanghai. In contrast, we are on

track for the warmest January on

record in parts of New Zealand. 37

was the highest average we have seen

in a significant amount of time,

seven years, and that was in north

Canterbury. The heat is not just

happening in New Zealand, it is also

with us across Australia.

Temperatures continue to rise for

Adelaide and Melbourne, pushing its

way east with those interior winds,

picking on Sunday. Pretty hot for

the men's tennis final on Sunday.

Then it will all culminate in some

nasty stormy weather because of this

weather system. You have the

interior winds, the heat building

ahead of it and then storms to

follow. We could have a tropical low

with us across northern territories.

It has been a quiet rainy season in

northern territories so far, and we

are expecting much wetter weather to

come which could result in flash

flooding. Unfortunately, we need the

rain in Cape Town and other parts of

South Africa, but there is no sign

of it at the moment. There will be

some further east towards Pretoria,

but it is looking dry and warm. The

warmth that is building with these

southerly winds later in the week

across the USA's Southern states and

later central and eastern states

gives concern for flooding because

it has been so cold. We will see the

snow melting on top of heavy rains,

so there is concern for flash

flooding in this part of the world.

And the flooding risk remains high

across parts of Europe. We have seen

the River Seine break its banks. We

have further rain to come here and

snow across the Alps. The weather

fronts will continue to blow across

Norway and Denmark, with yet more

snow through Friday to Saturday

across the Pyrenees and the Alpine

regions. Temperatures will

fluctuate, meaning the avalanche

risk will remain high if not very

high at times. The unprecedented

season continues with more snowfall

to come, and significant amounts as

well. In the UK, Darren will have

more for you in half an hour.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom

Donald Trump has arrived at

the World Economic Forum in Davos -

where he'll be pushing his pushing

his America First message.

The US said they'd keep their troops

in Syria to make sure the so-called

Islamic State don't come back.

The Syrian Foreign Minister tells us

they're not happy with the idea.

Long-term presence of American

troops on Syrian soil will be

considered as an aggression against

the sovereignty of Syria.

In El Salvador, a teenage girl has

been sentenced to 30 years in prison

after having what she claims

is a miscarriage.

The prosecution say

she killed her baby.

And is there a better way

to warn against tsunamis?

A group of Welsh scientists say yes.

I want to return to our top story.

There have been clashes

between Hardline Hindus

and police in northern India.

The hindus are angry

about a Bollywood film -

and they've been threatened

cinema-goers too.

These pictures

show the police guarding

Indian cinemas today -

this involved thousands

of them across the country.

The film is called Padmaavat -

the protestors are upset

by what they believe is a romance

between a Hindu queen

and Muslim ruler -

though many people who watch

the film say there is no romance.

These protests have

been going for weeks.

Vehicles have been burned,

a school bus was attacked,

some cinemas have refused

to show the film.

More serious still -

the actress who plays the queen

is Deepika Padukone -

massive star - and she's been

receiving death threats.

Here she is talking about this.

As I was saying, this

is a confusing story,

but a romance is not depicted

in the film.

Pratiksha Ghildial in Dehli

can help us with this.

I'm outside a popular cinema complex

in central Delhi where the

controversial film is being screened

right now. As you can see, there is

heavy security presence outside the

theatre to ensure that there is no

violence. For months now, this film

has been at the centre of violent

protests, and this week marks

clashes with police across the

country. They have set vehicles on

fire and randomised cinema halls.

Schools have been shot in certain

areas outside Delhi because a school

bus was attacked, and its windows

smashed.

I did not find anything

controversial in the movie. All the

rock going on now is uncalled for.

There is nothing controversial in

the film except the scene where she

comes outside, nothing else,

everything is fine in the movie.

So

why is this done so controversial?

Hindu hardline groups allege the

film is disrespectful of their

culture because at a betrays a

romantic relationship between Hindu

Queen and a 14th century Muslim

ruler. According to them, that is

historically inaccurate. However,

here's the thing. While historians

agree that the ruler and existed,

there is little proof of the Hindu

Queen's existence. Still all this

unrest, quite extraordinarily, over

a film.

A teenage girl in El Salvador has

been sentenced to 30 years in prison

after having what she claims

is a miscarriage.

The prosecution allege

she killed her baby.

Abortion in all forms

is banned in the country -

and cases of miscarriages

and still births are often

considered abortions Since 1998 over

600 women have been imprisoned

under these laws.

Evelyn Hernandez told

the BBC she didn't even

realise she was pregnant.

Well, Evelyn's mother

also spoke to the BBC.

Here she explains how

the police got involved.

But not everyone in

the country has sympathy

for the teenager's situation.

Here's a politician who thinks her

punishment should be harsher.

I don't see the difference between

killing a kid and killing a baby

inside the womb of his mother.

Evelyn was sentenced because of a

homicide?

Yes, homicide.

She did not

know she was pregnant, she gave

birth, a stillbirth?

She killed the

baby. She did not know that she was

pregnant? For real? That is the

argument?

Have you ever been

pregnant?

No, I am a man.

There are

cases where women do not know they

are pregnant.

There are cases, go

read the file.

Let's speak to Beatriz Diez from BBC

Mundo in Los Angeles.

I'm interested to ask you what

public opinion is on these laws,

doesn't support them?

Actually, this

case has been very controversial,

because there is some support in the

public opinion and also even in the

medical sector of trying to make

amends to the law, because they say

abortion should be allowed in

certain cases. In this case, public

opinion is supporting Evelyn

Hernandez, and not only help the of

many women that find themselves wet

miscarriages are considered

abortions, and there is no way for

them to be taken into account.

In

terms of the political dialogue in

El Salvador, is this a live

political issue or is there

consensus that the laws are

generally correct?

Actually, there

is an initiative trying to reform

the law. There was a proposal in

October 2016 where they want to make

it easier, for example in cases of

rape, or danger for the health of

the mother, or even in cases of an

unviable foetus, but the problem is

that law, that proposal has not seen

any advancement. It has laid there,

it has not even left the committee

where it has been discussed. It is

now a year and a half later and

there is no new advances.

You cover

countries across southern and

central America, how does El

Salvador compare with the other

countries you report on?

Actually,

if we think about Central America,

it's very similar, because there are

only five countries in the world

where abortion is completely banned.

There are many of those countries in

South America, El Salvador,

Honduras, Nicaragua and the

Dominican Republic. In that area it

very similar. It compares very well

to the situation in all the other

countries, because Chile for example

was also in the same situation

recently, where last August abortion

was analysed in some circumstances.

Now we see mostly countries in the

world that are so strict in art in

Central America. -- abortion was

penalised.

We are indebted to the

BBC's language 's sources, we have

amazing journalists working all over

the world in over 30 languages. You

can get news in Spanish, news and

pharmacy, news in Arabic and so on.

You can find them all online.

The issue of cancer has been thrust

into the spotlight today

after former government minister

Tessa Jowell, now Baroness Jowell,s

spoke in the House of Lords.

She has a brain tumour known

as glioblastoma - or GBM.

There's less than 3,000

people diagnosed with this

every year in the UK.

And it generally has

a poor prognosis.

Despite that less than 2%

of cancer research funding

goes to brain tumours.

And it's been 50 years

since new drugs have been produced.

Well, now Baroness Jowell is calling

for new cancer treatments and trials

to be available on the NHS.

This is what she had to say.

Seamus Heaney's last words

were, do not be afraid.

I am not afraid.

I am fearful that this

new and important approach may be

put into the "Too difficult" box.

But I also have such great hope,

so many cancer patients collaborate

and support each other every day,

they create that community

of love and determination.

That they find each other every day.

All we now ask is that doctors

and health systems learn

to do with the same.

And for us to work together.

To learn from each other.

In the end, what gives a life

meaning is not only how it is lived,

but how it draws to a close.

but how it draws to a close.

I hope that this debate will give

hope to other cancer patients,

like me, so that we can live well

together with cancer.

Not just dying of it.

All of us for longer.

Scientists at Cardiff university

in Wales are developing a more

advanced early-warning alarm

system for Tsunamis.

It uses sound waves,

here's how it works.

You can see the sea bed

shaking with an earthquake.

The current early warning

system for a Tsunami uses

a worldwide network of buoys -

here you see it, it relies

on the Tsunami physically

reaching the buoy before

triggering the alarm.

Now here's how the new

system will work...

It's based

on measuring underwater sound waves

- these 'Acoustic Gravity Waves'

travel more than ten times faster

than the tsunami, the waves

are picked up by an underwater

hydrophone triggering

the warning in minutes.

This study of sound waves to monitor

an incoming tsunami dates back to

the 80s. Because sound waves travel

so much faster than the waves

actually do, there has been a lot of

interest in whether we can use this

for a tsunami warning system. What

these scientists have done in a new

research is to generate information

from that sound wave in terms of how

much the sea floor has been

displaced. What you need to know is

basically, if you think of a fault

is collapsing at the point of an

earthquake, that up push, that

displacement, that gives you the

volume of the wave, that gives you

the way. They have studied for a

long time the properties of that

sound wave, and now they have

figured out a way to mathematically

break that down and they what they

can work out from the information

that tells them just how big and

destructive that wave will be.

That's the thing they need to factor

in to build this into a tsunami

warning system.

Given the Boxing Day

tsunami over ten years ago, I'm

surprised we were talking about this

technology earlier.

It is such a

huge offence, 230,000 killed in 11

countries, this is a hugely

destructive potential issue. But

they are very difficult to study.

What these scientists from Cardiff

had to do was with a series of

underwater microphones, waiting for

a Woakes to happen in order to get

their data that they can then pull

apart. Then figure out how big that

wave will be. In order to create

this model that they build into

analytics, they needed tsunamis.

They have to wait for all these

unpredictable seismic events to

happen to get their science done, so

that's why it takes a long time to

study this.

Assuming this new system

is better and everyone agrees, how

practical is it to have it in

position and all the places in the

world where we might need to measure

these kinds of things?

Actually,

very practical, and much cheaper

potentially than this relay network

of boys that we have at the moment.

That looks for the displacement of

the actual wave, because it just

uses microphones. That's what's

exciting about this study. Because

they have drilled down the maths to

get the information from the way,

that is the missing link. We have

the microphones and the events, what

we need is that in between bits to

be able to plug in and say yes, we

have a sin army coming that could

potentially be disastrous so we

trigger the warning and set the

alarm. -- we have a umami coming.

The headline benefit is that we find

out soon and have more information

coming as well.

Those sound waves

coming from the event itself travel

so much faster than the wave.

Donald Trump in Davos has spoken

about the middle east.

He was meeting with Israel's Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

when he was asked if talks can

resume with the Palestinians.

Let's hear his answer again.

When they disrespected us a week ago

by not allowing our great vice

president to see them, and we give

them hundreds of millions of dollars

in aid and support, tremendous

numbers. Numbers that nobody

understands. That money is on the

table and is not going to them,

unless they sit down and negotiate

peace. I can tell you, Israel does

want to make peace. They will have

to want to make peace, too, or we

will have nothing to do with it any

longer.

The State Department has

now confirmed all US

assistance to the Palestinians

is being reviewed.

That announcement was followed by

this from US Ambassador to the UN,

Nikki Haley: "The United States

remains deeply committed to helping

the Israelis and Palestinians

reach a historic peace

agreement," she said.

"But we will not chase

after a Palestinian leadership that

lacks what is needed

to achieve peace.

To get historic results,

we need courageous leaders."

Well, for reaction to those

comments, I am joined

by the Palestinian Ambassador

to the United States,

Dr Husam Zomlot.

Thank you for your time. What do you

make of what the president has said?

Very shocking indeed. It's shocking

the statement itself and the state

of affairs of international

relations altogether. Number one,

about the Palestinian people and the

leadership being disrespectful, we

were not disrespectful. We were just

respectful of our rights and

defending our internationally

endorsed rights, we were respectful

of our people, a people that have

been struggling for many many years

for their birthrights. We were

respectful for the international

community, international resolutions

and consensus.

But the Vice

President Mike Pence would have

liked to have met the Palestinians

and you did not want to. In that

specific moments, you did turn away

from the Americans?

In that specific

moment, we were just saying meetings

are not for the sake of meetings.

The decision taken by this

administration regarding Jerusalem

was a decision that effectively shut

down the conversation, these are the

peace prospects. We have never ever

negotiated principles, Jerusalem and

the UN Security Council resolutions

and the commitment of the US over

the last 46 years has been firm in

writing, and therefore we needed to

make sure our rights are very

well-known and nobody would actually

take off our legitimate issues. Any

table, I just want to say...

Let me

be clear on this because it's

important, do you consider the

decision to recognise Jerusalem as

Israel's capital to have shot down

the talks, ie without a reverse that

decision, the talks cannot possibly

begin?

Talks about what, my friend?

We have been engaged in talks since

1991 on very firm international

basis, consensus, including the US,

they led the international efforts.

These talks were about to enter

Israel's occupation began in 1967,

including injuries and. These talks

were clearly not about recognising

by America or the rest of the world

Israel's control or annexation.

I

understand your border concerns

about what has happened over the

last few decades but you seem to be

saying, without a reverse of that

decision, there cannot be talks. The

Americans seem to say unless you

change your position, you will not

be getting a lot of money you

currently receive. Are you concerned

about what consequence that will

have for many hundreds of thousands

of Palestinians?

Yes, of course we

are concerned. This will directly

affect hundreds of thousands, if not

millions of innocent people,

vulnerable people, refugees, all

over the region, not only in

Palestine, but in Jordan, Lebanon

and Syria. It is extremely

unfortunate the state of affairs is

at this level. Let me say this

clearly. Financial pressure for

coercive political agendas does not

work. It does not work when a

dignified nation like ours, it does

not work, especially when our

position is supported by the

international community, and for a

very well rooted, ancient nation

like ours. When you offer a choice

like this between their very

legitimate rights, to have a state

of their own, to their own city,

east Jerusalem is a city we own.

Let

me ask you this finally, then. I

hear your passion. There is no

possibility Donald Trump is going to

change his mind about recognising

Jerusalem, he has only just done it.

What happens now?

Well, the most

important thing is that we solidify,

strengthen our commitment as

Palestinians and the Palestinian

president has been clear we remain

absolutely committed to the two

state solution from 1967, we remain

committed to international consensus

and we remain committed to

nonviolence and our adherence to a

genuine peace process, and that

requires international intervention

for many years. We remain the

exception in all other conflicts, it

was only international mechanisms

for implementing international

principles that delivered success.

Now we say, no way. We need an

international table. President Trump

has not taken Jerusalem off the

table, he has taken the table

altogether. We need to establish a

genuine table that can take us where

we want to go.

Thank you very much

for joining us.

We're not trying to be funny here,

but do you see a likeness

between these two pictures?

Left, a mummified woman

from the 18th century.

Right, the Uk's Foreign

Secretary, Boris Johnson.

Scientists have just found

out they're related.

Her body was discovered in 1975

buried in Switzerland in Basel

cathedral and they've been trying

to identify ever since.

Only now thanks to DNA

techniques they finally know

she is Anna Catharina Bischoff,

here's an artists impression of her,

they also discovered

she's Boris Johnson's

great-great-great-great-great-great-

-great grandmother.

Imogen Foulkes, Basel.

Back in 1975 workmen were renovating

this church in Basel and they made

an unusual discovery.

The body of a mummified woman.

She had been buried right in front

of the altar and was wearing

good-quality clothes.

She was also quite plump.

That indicates a wealthy lady.

But although there are many clues

as to Basel's historic merchant

families around here,

there didn't seem to be anything

to indicate who this lady was.

There were a couple of hints.

For one thing, the body

was riddled with mercury.

Mercury was a common treatment

for syphilis in the 18th century.

What's more, Basel's historians knew

that members of the Bischoff family

had been buried around here.

But it wasn't until the 21st

century, and DNA testing

from the mummy's big toe

and from a living member

of the family that the mystery

was finally solved.

Anna Catarina Bischoff,

she married a church minister.

She contracted syphilis,

it's believed, while tending

to patients with the disease.

Her mercury treatment

finally killed her.

There is one big twist

to this story, Anna had

a daughter, also called Anna,

and she married a man.

And they are the distant

relatives of Boris Johnson.

That ends Outside Source this week.

Further coverage from the World

Economic Forum in Davos, including

that speech by Donald Trump online.

It will be interesting to hear what

he says. See you Monday.