29/01/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

Donald Trump has repeatedly

been critical of

the Deputy Director

of the FBI Andrew McCabe.

There had been reports

he wanted him gone.

Well, now Mr McCabe

is stepping down.

The president wasn't part of the

decision-making process and we would

refer you to the FBI.

German car manufacturers face

criticism for pollution tests that

forced monkeys to inhale fumes.

We'll hear from the journalist

who broke the story.

More women in Iran have taken

off their headscarves in protest.

BBC Persian will help

us with this story.

And a new discovery

from 80 million years ago.

We will hear how a new dinosaur

species is being called the holy

grail for palaeontologists.

It has been found in Egypt.

FBI Deputy Director Andrew

McCabe has resigned.

Donald Trump has often criticised

him for being politically biased.

There were reports last week that

that the President wanted him gone -

and that he'd asked Andrew McCabe

who he voted for in a meeting

in the Oval Office.

This was President Trump's reaction

to the news a little while ago.

Have you been told Andrew McCabe is

resigning?

Thank you, thank you.

He

did not say very much.

We can talk to Barbara Plett

Usher, in Washington.

Why might he have stepped down now?

He was planning to retire in March

so this has taken us by surprise, it

was expected he would step down in

March, but not now, but broadly

speaking he has had a rough year, he

has been criticised by Donald Trump

on his Twitter a cat, accusing him

of being politically biased --

Twitter account. Some of the

Republicans have also said he is

buyers and that is because of his

association with the former FBI

director James Comey who was fired

by the President and also his

alleged connections to Hillary

Clinton through his wife, although

the FBI sees him as a very respected

professional. Why he would then

decide to step down now, so soon

before his retirement, we don't have

a clear answer, but one suggestion

in the media has been that the

director of the FBI, the new one,

had been planning to bring in a new

team and had told Andrew McCabe he

would not be part of it so he could

make a decision about what to do.

Another more political reason is

that the Republican house

intelligence committee has been

looking at a secret memo that it has

rich apparently accuses Andrew

McCabe of misusing his surveillance

powers in connection with the Ross

-- rush investigation and so he

decided to step down because this

was about to be made public -- in

connection with the Russia

investigation. The White House has

said Donald Trump has not had a

direct input into the decision but

Andrew McCabe has had a rough year

and now he decided perhaps that now

was the time to go.

After James

Comey, as well, it raises the line

as to whether the dividing line

between the politicians and the

Department of justice is as clear as

it should be.

Yes, the president

fired James Comey and there are

reports that he tried to fire the

special counsel who is running the

investigation on alleged possible

collusion between Donald Trump's

campaign and Russian election

meddling, that is Robert Mueller,

that he tried to fire him, and we

know he is unhappy with Jeff

Sessions for accusing himself from

the investigation. He said Jeff

Sessions should be protecting him,

and we know he is unhappy with the

deputy Attorney General, he has

targeted the senior FBI officials

and the partner justice officials,

and now you also have the

Republicans who are coming forward

with these criticisms -- department

of justice officials. The Democrats

think this is a way of undermining

the credibility of the investigation

itself stop we can now go to a story

which beggars belief, really.

You might have thought Volkswagen

had had enough of bad PR.

But here's another story.

According to this article

by the New York Times,

it details how VW along with other

German manufacturers, funded

experiments that reportedly

involved monkeys -

and even humans - inhaling

diesel exhaust fumes.

The story says ten monkeys were kept

in airtight chambers

while they breathed in fumes

from a Volkswagen Beetle

in an Albuquerque laboratory.

Researchers were trying

to prove the latest diesel

technology isn't carcinogenic.

This seems to have succeeded

in proving they are very out of line

with public sentiment.

Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler,

which owns Mercedes-Benz,

were also funding this research.

After seven months it was stopped

because of gathering controversy.

We have looked at how German

politicians have been reacting.

"Abominable, absurd and abhorrent",

are just a few of the words we've

spotted German politicians using.

Here are some others.

TRANSLATION:

These tests on monkeys

and humans are not justifiable in

any way and they raise many critical

questions about those who have stood

behind these tests.

TRANSLATION:

The

results that were collected that the

inhalation of diesel emissions over

several rows is not hazardous is

scientifically complete nonsense --

several hours. This is also an

assault because it is not healthy to

let test subjects breathed this in

and even to mistreat ten monkeys

this way, it is completely crazy.

Lest we forget, back in 2015,

Volkswagen was at the centre

of the diesel emissions scandal.

It installed software in its cars

to alter its emissions data.

Two people have already been

jailed because of this.

This is one of them -

Oliver Schmidt jailed for 7 years.

And so far it's cost VW

$30 billion in fines.

The companies have been keen to put

out statements.

Here are some statements.

The EUGT is the umbrella group that

commissioned the work -

and which the companies

in part fund.

Jack Ewing is the New York Times

journalist who broke the story -

author of a book about

the VW emissions scandal.

He joined me earlier from Frankfurt.

I was able to get hold of some

documents some months ago, testimony

from a scientist in a lab in

Albuquerque that had conducted the

test and then I had to do legwork to

find out exactly what happened and

get reaction from the companies and

so on. And then I came out with a

story last Friday which frankly had

more of a reaction than even I

expected.

It is hard to imagine the

moment when these big car companies

said OK to this idea.

It tells you

how industry lobbying works, they

formed this organisation and the

idea was to commission scientific

research which would help them argue

that diesel was not harmful to your

health. This is when diesel is under

increasing attack and there was

increasing evidence that it was

causing cancer and all sorts of

serious health problems. They were

looking for a way to push against

the negative news that was coming

their way but clearly they messed up

pretty badly.

Does the car industry

use animals in any other tests that

may be we are not aware of?

I'm not

aware of that but we will see what

comes out in the next couple of

weeks because when you have a story

like this people start coming out of

the woodwork and tell you about

other examples but this is the only

one I know about.

The context of

this in Germany, especially, huge

enthusiasm to maintain the diesel

car and even Angela Merkel has been

very supportive of it in the past

few months for the German Liverpool

car industry is very invested in

diesel and the Germans were the

first

to claim diesel for passengers

cars and that is why they have the

dominance they do now. Diesel is

also very important for the luxury

car-makers because it is what runs

these luxury cars. Diesel is losing

a share of the car market and that

is a big problem for German car

makers.

Now we are going to turn to Iran.

Last week on OS we told

you about the woman behind

a remarkable protest in Tehran

in late December.

This is the video that's

been heavily shared

in the weeks since.

The woman stood on what looks

like a grey electrical box

waving her hijab as a white flag

on the end of a stick.

The hashtag whoisshe

was heavily used.

But as we discussed last week,

social media users have

identified her as 31

year old Vida Movahed.

Here's a close-up photo that's been

widely shared of her.

She was arrested for that protest

but was released three days ago.

Since then more women

have begun protesting.

One woman appears to have

gone back to the site

of the original protest -

Eng-el-ab street.

Eng-el-ab means revolution.

This looks like it has been taken on

the same box. This is the original

protest and this is the follow-up

protest.

These are other

pictures being shared.

All the women have their hijabs

on the end of sticks.

As they stand still.

Hijabs have been compulsory

for women in Tehran ever

since the Revolution in 1979.

These are some comments on Twitter

from activists.

BBC Persian's Rana Rahimpour first

told us about this -

got back in touch today -

here's her update.

Women have done this and they know

about the consequences and I know

what happened to her. -- though no.

The organiser of the campaign, based

in New York, she started a campaign

called White Wednesdays and she

asked women in Iran who opposed

compulsory hijab to wear a white

scarf, and initially it was quite

discreet, with a selfie in a car,

places that are not obvious but this

time around it is very public and

they are clearly trying to humiliate

the Islamic republic which has been

forcing women in the last 40 years

to wear the headscarf. It is a

message to them that they will be

peaceful but they want to have a

choice. It is interesting, the

debate.

Are we sing a connection

between these women and their

protests against the hijab and the

broader protests we have soon? --

seeing a connection.

This is part of

the broader protests, the demands on

the younger generation, and there's

a clear gap between the richest

leaders of the country and the 70%

of the population which is under 35,

by a very well connected and

educated and they want to live in a

free society. Some politicians

understand that, President Rouhani

has acknowledged it but the

political religious elite are out of

touch with this which in my opinion

can be the beginning of a larger at

least women's movement.

I suspect we

will be talking to her again in the

week.

Stay with us on Outside

Source - still to come.

We have a report on artificial

intelligence.

Everyone who currently receives

the main disability benefit will now

have their claims reviewed -

after a court ruled that new changes

to personal independence payments

discriminated against people

with mental health conditions.

The overall bill could cost

the government nearly

£4 billion.

It comes after the the Department

for Work and Pensions decided not

to challenge a court ruling that

said changes to PIP

were unfair to people

with mental health conditions.

Our social affairs correspondent

Michael Buchanan explained what this

could mean for claimants.

Everyone will have their case

reviewed, and this is a complex

exercise, but we know at the end of

the process an estimated 220,000

people will see extra money and that

the cost of the government by 2022

will be somewhere in the region of

£3.7 billion.

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story:

The Deputy Director

of the FBI, Andrew McCabe,

is stepping down, several weeks

before he was due to retire.

It comes a week after reports

suggested President Trump

wanted him removed.

North Korea has abruptly cancelled

a cultural event it was

supposed to be hosting

with South Korea next week.

A telegram from the North reportedly

blamed "biased" and "insulting"

media coverage in the South.

Russia's Paralympic team has been

banned from competing in next

month's games over doping

allegations - however some athletes

will be able to compete

under a neutral flag.

The International

Paralympic Committee

says about 35 athletes will be able

to compete in five sports -

that's on BBC Russian.

David Beckham has unveiled some

details of his new US

Major League Soccer team in Miami.

"It's has been a hell of a journey",

Beckahm said at a press conference.

Certainly has - but after four

tortuous years a stadium

and financing is sorted.

We await the name.

Right, Brexit.

The EU has approved negotiating

terms for a transition

period for the UK.

This is for the period

of time that follows the UK

leaving in March next year.

The EU says the UK must follow

the rules of the EU -

but won't have any say in them.

Also, EU citizens must be able

to settle in the UK as they can now.

And the transition will

end in December 2020 -

so it'll be under two years.

This is the EU's lead brexit

negotiator Michel Barnier.

TRANSLATION:

The UK will continue to take part in

this and go market and the customs

union and all union policies -- in

the single market. It will continue

to have all direct benefits and

therefore it must also apply all the

EU rules, the single market cannot

be a la cart.

Here's Adam Fleming in Brussels:

The technical name for this is the

negotiating directives that the EU

member countries have given to

Michel Barnier to negotiate the

transition period with the UK, UK

would like a broadly agreed by the

end of March so businesses and

families get as much certainty as

possible about what the transition

period will involve but it is not

clear to me how much the EU side is

prepared to negotiate. For example

David Davis the Brexit secretary,

the thing he's worried about is what

happens if the EU comes up with a

new law at flag regulation that

could affect the UK in the

transition period and UK is obliged

to accept it and he wants a

mechanism by which the UK could get

involved but Michel Barnier says the

best UK can hope for is to be

involved in for consultations if the

other countries agree.

If the UK

doesn't want to swallow this and the

EU is not prepared to negotiate,

what happens?

Under the transition

proposal the UK would be subject to

all the rules and the regulations

and the supervisory and judicial

mechanisms that exist as it is a

member and that means the commission

doing some surveillance to make sure

you are sticking to the rules and

you are implementing new legislation

and the European Court of Justice

being able to sanction you and levy

a fine if you are not complying by

EU laws. The UK Government would

like something written into this

agreement so they would be consulted

and have some kind of say, but their

full-back this vision is they are

crossing their fingers and saying,

look how long it takes the EU to

come up with new legislation, it is

actually very unlikely that within a

two-year period in the transition

period the EU will come up with

anything big enough or serious

enough that could affect the UK in

that period.

While that is all

happening in Brussels, in London

there have been questions about

Theresa May's leadership of the

Conservative Party and the country,

primarily connected to her handling

of Brexit, one Conservative MP said

it was time for her to a Herath

oratory but that time was running

out -- for her to assert.

Here's our Political

Editor Laura Kuenssberg.

There have been Tory ministers

talking about Theresa May's

leadership, no one calling for her

to go but some Brexiteers putting

the idea of a table that she would

have to do things their way if they

are going to support her, but

transition is providing the latest

flash point in a long-running saga

of Tory divisions over Brexit. Yes

there are some differences over the

EU's position and the UK

Government's position over how they

manage the transition period after

we leave in March next year, but it

has again exposed the real divisions

on the Tory benches over this, and

some Tory backbenchers and many

voters may feel if in the two years

after Brexit date, not very much

changes, much of the status quo

remains the same, and we have no say

over the rules, what was really the

point of the referendum and choosing

to leave? On the flip side, for

those who voted remain and many in

government, that period is vital so

that businesses are not suddenly cut

off their biggest market overnight

and so that people have time to get

used to the world outside the

European Union but these divisions

are not going away, the divisions in

the Tory party if anything are

intensifying and there is a real

demand now for the Prime Minister to

be clear about what she wants, not

just over transition but over the

long term deal, as well.

From one

set of fiendishly difficult

negotiations to another.

US officials say there's

been progress in talks

to save the NAFTA trade deal.

That's the agreement governing trade

between America, Canada and Mexico.

President Trump has threatened

to pull out unless changes are made.

Now, the Americans are

expressing some optimism.

Yogita Limaye is with us now.

This round of talks, firstly we have

the trade Secretary come out and say

they are making progress, although

the progress is very slow. That is a

big change from a situation where

there were fears that the US would

pull out of the free trade agreement

altogether. We have also learned in

the past two hours that there is now

a seventh round of talks that will

be held in Mexico City from the 26th

of Briatte until the 6th of March,

and then there is what could be the

final round of talks in Washington

in March -- 26th of February. These

are new talks which have been added

in Mexico City. Progress has been

made but there are sticking points,

and broadly there are three sticking

points, one to do with the auto

sector and one with disputes redress

and the other with the sunset

clause, so basically America saying

that this agreement that they have

should have a finish line and it

should terminate at the end of five

years and then the three countries

can either renegotiate it. Those are

the three sticking points, but we

know Canada has put forward some

proposals that were not made in the

last round of talks and that is the

reason why these talks have

progressed this time around.

Who

does the negotiating? Presumably the

politicians don't sit down very

often.

Of course, bureaucrats, but

there is US trade Secretary and from

Canada and Mexico the foreign

ministers of those countries, so

those are the leaders of the

negotiations so to speak, and then

an army of bureaucrats because this

is a very complex agreement. Each

side, knows that the word war are

always tough and I'm sure there is a

big army of bureaucrats, as well. --

each side knows that the

negotiations are always tough.

Report now on how

Artificial Intelligence

could impact on education.

Katie Silver's been looking at some

of the products already

coming onto the market.

If you look down you should be able

to see the magma underground for

them going inside a

volcano... To

New York... Even a trip to space,

all without ever leaving the

classroom, Virtual reality is the

future of education.

You can create

your own content, plug a camera in

and create 360 content.

Simon's

company has partnered with Google to

sell virtual reality sets to

schools. A robotics company also

wants to educate tomorrow's

workforce.

There will be several

different skills, getting the

introduction to computer science and

mechanical engineering and

electrical systems, setting them up

to pursue careers in those fields.

Companies are also using drones, to

inspire children to code, using

software by the company, parrot,

children pilot the machines and

learn mathematical concepts at the

same sign. Global technology is

expected to reach $150 million by

2020 -- $150 billion. All these

companies are looking for a bit of

the pie, there are even companies

which allow children to print 3-D

pens to match their handgrip. But

whether they will be using pens and

paper is anyone's guess. In the next

half an hour we have reports on

Nairobi and from Egypt and from the

border between Iraq and Syria.

Time for a look at some of the big

stories on the go in terms of the

weather forecast and we look down

under, New Zealand with a very hot

start to 2018, and January is on

course to be the hottest on record,

aided by some unusually warm waters

off the West Coast. In the South

Island we could have temperatures in

Canterbury hitting 40 on Tuesday.

Not far from their all-time record,

but the heat wave will break down in

spectacular fashion later this week.

A tropical cyclone near new

Caledonian will move south and join

forces with a weather front coming

from the Tasman Sea and across the

South Island, very strong and

damaging winds but also a month's

worth of rain falling in two days

enough to cause widespread flooding.

In Australia, the heat has been

brought down thanks to this cloud,

but let's focus on this area cloud,

this is a tropical low which could

strengthen over the next few days

because of what is called the Brown

ocean effect, saturated ground in

western parts of Australia and it

will strengthen rather than weaken

as it moves over that, bringing

strong winds and torrential rain

storms. The could see flooding in

the next few days. We will stay with

the flooding theme -- we could. Into

the United States and also Canada,

the ribbon of cloud is producing

huge amounts of rain, flash flooding

and mudslides, and also snow in the

Northern Rockies which will ease off

in cheese day afternoon but further

south, Southern California is hot

and windy -- Tuesday afternoon.

Wildfire risk in Cape Town but the

problem is the lack of rainfall, and

there's a chance we would have a few

spots of rain on Tuesday but the

rest of the week is dry and day zero

is when they will turn the taps off

in Cape Town, that is getting ever

closer. In Asia it is all about the

cold, ongoing cold, lots of snow in

northern parts of Japan,

temperatures struggling above

freezing, and in Europe, the coldest

area is in the north-east, where

there will be so in western Russia.

High pressure in central areas will

keep things quiet, but down towards

the south of Spain, Gibraltar and

Morocco, some very very strong winds

at the moment, and it could give --

it could mean some tough times, but

for the UK, many will be waking up

to a touch of frost, the cold

weather is back.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom.

Donald Trump has been repeatedly

critical of the Deputy Director

of the FBI Andrew McCabe.

We would refer you to the FBI.

And we are going to be live in Rio

to understand why a city in the

middle of the Amazon in Brazil is

the country's new murder capital.

President Trump will give his State

of the Union address this week.

Of course we will be covering it.

In it he's expected

to outline his plan to rebuild

America's infrastructure -

including how to pay for it -

expect some disagreement on that.

Jane O'Brien's made this report

on what needs to get done.

Day break in the nation's capital ap

already traffic is grinding to a

halt on one of the busiest bridges

into the city. This bridge is

clearly struggling to deal with the

volume of traffic. Is that typical?

This is typical of our entire

network. Our infrastructure, our

transportation network is failing to

meet the needs of our communities.

Kristina is President of the

American society of civil engineers

which rates the nation's

infrastructure every four years. The

current grade is D plus.

If we don't

invest in our infrastructure it will

cost the US economy $3. 9 trillion

in GDP by 2025. Seven trillion lost

in business sales in that same

timeframe and 2.5 million lost jobs.

This will hurt our economy and it

hurts us each individually.

President Trump wants to focus on

infrastructure this year and some

areas need urgent attention. A

broken water main at New York's JFK

international airport compounded the

effects of a winter storm early

January, causing chaos and

additional flight cancellations. US

airports serve more than two million

passengers a day but buildings and

systems aren't keeping pace and

aviation gets a D.

Traffic delays cost the US economy

an estimated $160 billion a year in

wasted time and fuel. One in five

miles of highway is in poor

condition. Roads also score a D.

Even worse is public transit,

despite an increase in demand,

chronic underfunding has left an

ageing infrastructure and a $90

billion improvement backlog. D

minus.

When you own your home, the last

thing you really want to do is pay

for that roof until water starts

coming in and then you realise that

you have no choice. I think that's

what America's done. We have kept

putting band aids and temporary

fixes on our infrastructure system

and we have done that for decades

and we are now seeing the results.

Washington is doing slightly better

than the US as a whole with a score

of C minus. One bridge is almost 707

years old and in urgent need of

replacement. -- 70. The estimated

cost of the new structure is $441

million. But city planners say the

project will create 1300 jobs and

boost the economy. President Trump

wants to invest a trillion dollars

in the nation's infrastructure and

speed things up by cutting the time

to process permits. Exactly who will

pay remains an open question. The

one thing the President really needs

is already in short supply,

co-operation from Democrats.

Everybody gress the problem is

urgent but much like America's

roads, getting from A to B could be

a bumpy ride.

We also publish hundreds of articles

in over 30 different languages as

well. This is the BBC Brazil

website.

Brazil have just published

this story on latest

crime statistics there.

Crime is up generally -

but there's attention on MAP a city

called Rio Branco in the middle

of the Amazon - it's

the new murder capital of Brazil.

In 2016, it had the largest spike

in violence in Brazil -

with 86% more homicides

than the previous year.

And the rates are still growing.

Julia Carneiro,

is in Rio de Janeiro.

Hi, Julia. What's going on in this

place?

Well, this seems to have to

do with the expansion of the drug

trade in the Amazon region in the

north of the country. There is the

growing use of routes of drugs

through the Amazon forest and this

is affecting the security situation

in states in the north of Brazil,

but here in particular it's a state

that borders Bolivia and Peru, which

are countries which have production

of cocaine there is a long border

1400 kilometres of border between

these countries and that are very

difficult to monitor because it's

basically areas of rivers, covered

by rain forests, so it's difficult

to monitor which means it's easy for

the drugs to stream in and this drug

trade, these cartels, are being

disputed by two or more different

criminal factions so there is a very

bloody battle going on there to

retain control of the drug trade

which is a very profitable market.

Does that mean that even though the

statistics are shocking, the

majority of people dying are

connected to the drug trade?

Well,

according to state authorities

around 50% of the deaths happening

there are regarded as drug-related,

it may be even more, but we have

very many cases where the homicides

involve people in these drug cartels

and many cases, several cases that

we have seen, videos are disclosed

of executions, grewssome videos

showing people decapitated,

sometimes people quartered and these

videos are shared, it looks like the

strategy there is to show the other

cartels, the other drug groups, what

each group is capable of and to

scare them off. Like a menacing

strategy. These videos are shocking

the population, this is a city, one

of the smallest capitals in Brazil,

of around 380,000 inhabitants, it

was a quiet city in a very remote

area until recently but now it's

become hostage of the security

situation.

We often talk about corruption in

Brazil and how that's dominating

politics. Presumably corruption

makes it harder to fight these drug

cartels.

Yes, that's always a big

problem here when you look into the

whole structure of public security,

policing, police in Brazil is

historically underpaid so you have a

system that ends up fostering cases

of police getting involved in

corruption, extortion schemes, but

this is not the only problem. You

have this lack of national

intelligence and you have these drug

cartels that are very powerful

acting more and more on a national

scale and expanding now more to the

north of the country.

Thank you for

taking us through the crime

statistics.

If you speak Portuguese you can get

news through BBC Brazil, Brazil with

an S.

I want to update you on the fighting

on the Turkey Syria border.

Turkey says it's that have seized

an area which overlooks

the border town of Azaz.

Syria is accusing Turkey

of destroying a 3,000-year-old

temple with its airstrikes.

This image which appears to show

the damaged temple has been

circulated by the UK-based

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

While this has been playing out

in the last few days -

in Turkey, more than 300 people have

been arrested for posting messages

on social media that criticises

this military offensive.

Mark Lowen has more details.

This is a climate of ultra

nationalism now in Turkey with this

military offence I have a and really

you are either seen as with the

military offensive, or a potential

symphathiser of terror, an enemy of

the state, if you like. 300 or so

people here who posted antiwar

messages on social media have been

detained. They're charged with

terror propaganda. Over the weekend,

the Turkish medical association

which represents 83,000 doctors and

nurses in Turkey said war is a

threat to public health and can

cause a humanitarian tragedy,

Turkey's President denounced them as

terrorist lovers, accused them of

filth, betrayal and being agents of

imperialism and anybody who was seen

to challenge the Government's view

especially on an issue like the war

on the Kurdish militants in Syria or

war on terrorist groups as Turkey

sees it is seen as a challenge to

the Government, symphathiser with

terror, a terror propagandaist,

150,000 people have been stripped of

their jobs or suspended or dismissed

since the failed coup, 60,000 people

in prison, so there's been a real

crushing of free speech and in a

climate of ult nationalism today you

are kind of either seen as with us

or against us.

You can get more on that story and

all the others on our website.

Eleven Afghan soldiers have

been killed by militants

in the capital Kabul.

Insurgents targeted an army unit

at the National Defense University.

The assault lasted five hours.

So-called Islamic State says

it's behind the attack.

This is the third major

attack in a week.

On Saturday, an ambulance

packed with explosives

detonated in a busy area of Kabul,

killing 100 people.

And on 21st January

insurgents stormed a luxury

hotel killing 22 people.

Here's one analyst in Kabul.

Even according to our own standards

of violence, daily violence in

Afghanistan, this past week was

terrible for Afghans because life is

almost paralysed in the capital

city. The Government is not flunging

and people are not going out of --

not functioning and people are not

going out of their houses and

schools are closed and even

according to our own standards it is

terrible for people and people are

frustrated. The frustration is not

only because of the current level of

violence, the frustration is advise

aadvise of the Afghan Government, we

ask why the Government is not able

to prevent these kind of attacks, we

don't know what extent of these

sophisticated networks, the attack

this morning in the military school

is not something easy and simple, it

requires a lot of work, a lot of

preparation and planning and

execution, we don't know if the

operational level Isis is as well

developed, because we know that

behind many attacks in Kabul, we

don't know to what extent Isis is

capable of conducting similar type

of sophisticated terrorist attacks

in the city.

This story is all about heat maps.

This app creates them and it seems

to have caused a major security

alert. Strava produces these mats by

showing paths users are taking as

they run or cycle. This is how the

heat map works. You can start by

looking at a heat map of the world

or Europe as we have there. But then

if you want to you can drill down on

anyone -- on any one location. We

are drilling down on London as we go

in and into central London, you can

start to see the Thames and where

people are running and cycling

around there. If we go in even

further you will see we have

highlighted one of the main parks or

in the centre of London. You can see

exactly where people are running and

cycling. In the case of a major park

that's obviously not an issue. But

could be if you are running around a

military base. What you are seeing

here is accumulated activity between

2015 and September of last year.

Lots of military personnel have been

using these trackers and so it's

revealed the shapes of some military

bases. For instance, this one,

Bagram air base, the largest US

military facility in Afghanistan.

The guy to thank for this story is

20 and is studying at the Australian

national University and released

what he spotted on Twitter. He says.

He says US bases are clearly

identifiable and mappable. He shares

another example where again you can

see the facility outlined. Here is

another tweet from him.

Here is another diagram he has

released. He talks about patterns of

life meaning he shouldn't be able to

tell how people are living on these

bases but from this data he can.

More context, in 2013 the Pentagon

distributed these fitness trackers.

It was concerned about obesity among

military personnel, review - using

that kit is now being reviewed.

It's an app used by millions of

people around the world to measure

their cycling routes, running

routes, generally their exercise

routes. There is a competitive

element. People like to compare

themselves with others doing the

same thing. There are privacy

settings in the app. It appears most

people kind of ignored them and are

effectively broadcasting where they

are. Strava in November published

this fantastic resource, this global

heat map showing where everybody in

the world had been running, cycling,

swimming, whatever, and it took a

couple of months but an eagle-eyed

researcher over the weekend has

zeroed in on places around the world

and said, hey, you can see - and it

obviously applies more in places

where the app is used sparsely, so

that an air base in, I think it's in

Afghanistan, that you are seeing

there, because nobody else around

there, the general Afghan population

are not using it, it becomes very

obvious that is where military

personnel are based. People have

been drilling through this data over

the weekend and saying you can

actually identify individuals if you

are one of the app users and what

time of day they'll be making those

routes. Obviously, severe security

implications and a bit of a wake-up

call to how much data we are all

putting out there. You sign up for

one of these apps, in the first

flush of excitement there may be a

little box to tick and we all tick

the box and it turns out we are

sharing that data. We want to share

that data in a certain way because

we want to say I am ahead of my

friend Fred, I cycled further or run

further or whatever. I have done it

myself on a running app. Then what

surprised people is Strava, which

has taken pride in this, it's

published a blog post in November

about the huge exercise, the

software programming exercise

involved in producing this heat map,

very proud of it, but unseen

implications. They have said they

put out - they put it in that blog,

private activities are excluded

outright, athletes with the opt out

privacy setting have all data

excluded. I think there will be

harsh messages coming, particularly

from the military, to personnel

about be careful out there.

In Kenya, thousands have been left

homeless and at least four people

have died after a fire in Nairobi.

Residents in the Lang'ata area used

sewage water in an attempt to fight

the fire because emergency services

struggled to get access.

David Wafula has been there.

A slum in Nairobi, now destruction

left behind by a raging inferno

which lasted for six hours last

night. Mariam leads me to the place

she has called home for many years.

She was a neighbour -- she was

unable to salvage anything.

I was

using this...

TRANSLATION: The situation is really

bad. I don't know what we will eat.

Although I have no appetite at all.

I don't know where the children will

sleep and what they will eat, it's

very devastating.

It has been over 12 hours since the

fire broke out and burned this slum

to ashes. Right now residents are

combing through the rubble trying to

salvage what they can when many are

questioning disaster preparedness in

Nairobi.

TRANSLATION:

The fire engines came

but only worked for a short time.

Then they didn't have enough water

so the firefighters just stood by

and watched as the fire continued

raging. I haven't saved anything

from my house and besides that I

lost my brother. I have just

identified his body.

The Kenyan fire

service has been accused of slow

response and already a senior

officer in the Government has been

sent on compulsory leave over the

handling of the incident.

There were

fire engines that responded but

there were challenges in terms of

access. But we managed to put it

out, having about 6,000 households

here require food and food items for

support. So far, four people

unfortunately have died

A temporary

camp for those affected has been set

up at a nearby school and a team is

on the ground gathering evidence to

establish the cause of the fire.

Let's learn about a new

species of dinosaur.

Its fossilised remains

were unearthed in Egypt

in the Sahara Desert.

You can see the dessert covers

most of the country.

-- You can see the desert covers

most of the country.

Palaeontologists from Mansoura

University made the discovery.

This is a sketch -

it was giant plant-eater -

about as long as a school bus,

it would have weighed

about the same as an elephant -

and it lived around 80

million years ago.

I spoke with Dr Matt Lamanna,

from the Carnegie Museum

of Natural History about what this

story means for him.

We are superexcited about this

discovery, this was something me and

other people had been looking for a

long time.

Why did you have a

feeling it existed?

Well, because we

were pretty sure that dinosaurs must

have lived on the African continent

towards the end of the age of

dinosaurs but no one had ever found

a good Skelton before. When the

people at the university found this

thing it was very exciting for all

of us that were involved with the

study of the animal.

And what has it

told us about dinosaurs in Africa?

Well, it tells us that surprisingly

at least this dinosaur, was closely

related to dinosaurs that were

living at almost the same time in

places like Spain and France. In

other words, in southern Europe.

That tells us that dinosaurs, at

least some, weren't isolated from

dinosaurs living on other continents

at the end of the age of dinosaurs,

but rather had close relatives in

Europe and also to some extent in

Asia.

The remains of this dinosaur

were found in the Sahara, does that

mean it was able to cope with

extreme environments or would it

have been different that long ago?

That's a great question, it would

have been a very different

environment back then. We have

evidence from fossil pollen, so

fossilised pollen grains that tell

us that lots of different kind of

plants were also living in the

environment where this dinosaur

lived, so it would have been a lush,

humid, well, possibly semi-arid, but

coastal environment on the southern

shore of the ancestor of the

Mediterranean sea. What today is the

middle of the desert in Egypt, would

have been the southern shore of the

ancestor of the Mediterranean.

Can

you help me understand the process

between finding a Skelton and

delivering a sketch like the one I

have just shown, how do you work out

exactly what they look like?

Yeah,

it is a long and involved process.

So, unfortunately, the team didn't

find the entire dinosaur but that's

extraordinarily rare. We almost

never have entire dinosaur skeletons

to work from. We took the pieces we

had and after we determined which

were most closely related to this

one, we used bones of those other

relatives to fill in the skeletons

of the missing bones of this animal

to give an overall picture as to

what the animal might have looked

like.

Presumably now you have an

expectation you may find another and

start filling in the picture in

Africa?

That's exactly it. In fact,

we know, I don't know how much I can

say... Will

Go on, tease us!

At

least, I think I can mention this,

we know of one other skeleton from

this same time in Egypt, so, within

the next few years I think we are

going to have a much better idea of

the dinosaurs that were living on

Africa at the end of the age of

dinosaurs.

That's intriguing, if you

find one does it make it easier to

find a second?

It can. There is an

olded aage that the hardest fossil

to find is the first. There is some

truth to that. Each rock formation

that yields dinosaur fossils, the

fossils look different in different

formations, so once you find the

first one, it does tend to be the

case that others will follow.

You

heard it on Outside Source, the

hardest fossil to find is the first.

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