01/02/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Philippa Thomas,

this is Outside Source.

Donald Trump is a day

from releasing a Republican memo

expected to accuse the FBI of bias

against his presidency.

Theresa May meets with

Xi Jinping in China,

calling it a new golden era

in the relationship,

28 Russian athletes have lifetime

doping bans overturned,

opening their avenue to compete

in the Winter Olympics.

And scientists have been

tracking polar bears to find out

why they're getting skinny.

Victoria Gill will be

here to explain their discovery.

Welcome to Outside Source.

Let's start in Washington.

Donald Trump will release

a Republican-drafted four page memo

tomorrow alleging that the FBI

is biased against him.

The President was pretty tight

lipped when pressed about

the document by reporters today.

The FBI pleaded

with the White House not

to release the memo.

In a rare move, the agency went

public on Wednesday,

saying it has "grave concerns"

about the document's accuracy.

The memo was commissioned

by this man, Devin Nunes,

the chair of the House Intelligence

Committee.

Today, the minority

leader in the house,

the Democrat Nancy Pelosi,

called

on Mr Nunes to resign.

The Democrats fear it will be used

to smear SWIPE Robert Mueller,

the man running the inquiry

into alleged Russian collusion

with Trump's election campaign.

Here's Democrat Adam Schiff.

This is not about the facts,

this is about a narrative that the

chairman wants to put out,

a misleading narrative, to undermine

the FBI, undermine

the Department and ultimately

undermine Bob Mueller.

Of course, the danger in all this,

besides the obvious one of

politicising the intelligence

process, is that it sends a message

to the White House that he can fire

Rod Rosenstein or he can fire Bob

Mueller and there are members

who are so vested in his presidency,

that they will roll over.

The BBC's Anthony Zurcher has been

following the story and gave us

these details about what we actually

know about the memo.

We know how long the memo is, four

pages. Everything else we have heard

about it has been second-hand. By

all reports, the memo looks at the

intelligence agency's investigation

into possible contact between the

Russian government and members of

Donald Trump's presidential

campaign, and it alleges that there

was this deed is done or an abuse of

power in that investigation. In

particular, to the request for

surveillance of a member of Donald

Trump's team, Mr Page. The memo

reportedly alleges this surveillance

request was based largely on that

famous steel dossier, which

contained at least unsubstantiated

allegations of contacts between

Donald Trump and the Russian

government. Essentially what the

memo is asserting that is the

initiation of this investigation was

based on citing the document that

had been funded in part by

Democratic operatives and therefore

calls into question the

investigation as a whole.

If true,

that is pretty explosive. The

governing party in Washington saying

the FBI, in a way, can't be trusted?

Exactly. And it changes the debate

on Bob Mueller investigation and the

tampering and how they conducted

that investigation, so not what they

found but how they did it. The idea

that it could have started with some

sort of abuse of power and

everything that follows from that,

that would be what the Republicans

are saying, Democrats are countering

that. Carter Page, this adviser to

the Trump campaign was on the FBI's

radar for years before so it wasn't

surprising they would be interested

in him again after it was learned he

joined the Trump campaign as an

advisor. This investigation grew out

of that everything they find beyond

that shouldn't be affected by this

one surveillance request.

You are

being very nuanced and I'm going to

be really crude here and say are the

Democrats suggesting this is a hit

job on the FBI?

I think you are

seeing they are suggesting this is

political. From a purely public

relations standpoint, this release

the memo has been very effective, we

are talking about it, will the memo

come out or not? What sort of biases

might have been in the intelligence

agencies question about is the

debate they want to have. It's

remarkable to see the FBI releasing

their own statement, saying that the

memo was cherry picking data and

misrepresent their intelligence

gathering techniques and what they

relied on to conduct this

investigation and Donald Trump's and

Justice Department has said the same

thing. So it is a very strange

conflict here, you have within the

executive branch, and between

executive agencies and Congress. I

don't think we have seen anything

like this in modern times.

Let's

spin across the globe now.

The British Prime Minister has

met the Chinese President

in the Great Hall of the People in

Beijing.

She did have Brexit

issues on her mind -

and I'll get you up to date on that

later, but this encounter was all

about the world after Brexit,

when she wants the UK

to have a bigger, more profitable

trade relationship with this

booming economic power.

In talks with Xi Jinpin,

Theresa May said

she hoped her visit would strengthen

the 'global strategic partnership'

between the UK and China.

Downing Street says the issues

of North Korea, protecting

the environment and human rights

were also discussed.

One area Theresa May

won't be visiting is

the province of Xinjiang,

in the far west of China,

and home to many Muslims.

Our China correspondent

John Sudworth and his team travelled

there, here's his report.

Ian looks on in distance, it's

closer to Baghdad than Beijing. But

this is China. It's far western

province, and now the target of one

of the world's most intense security

crackdowns. A mainly Muslim minority

have a long history here. Today,

fear is everywhere. Under the

watchful eye of government minders,

there is only ever one correct

answer.

I know nothing. Life is good

here.

Moments later, armed police

show up. This is the China visiting

Prime Minister 's never get to see.

Police power here is all pervasive,

and growing. Millions of residents

are being forced to give DNA

samples. Mobile phones are searched

for sensitive religious content,

using hand-held plug in Devizes. And

for those suspected of even the

mildest disloyalty to Beijing, there

is now a network of secretive

detention camps, in which thousands

have been locked up without trial.

Close to what we believe is one of

them, we are stopped from filming.

China is building a total

surveillance state. It's a place

where seeing, doing or even thinking

the wrong thing can get you locked

up in an internment camp. And as you

can see, it's a place where foreign

journalists are certainly not

welcome.

Where ever we go in Xinjiang, we are

constantly hassled, detained,

monitored and followed. Like

thousands, this man has fled to

Turkey. He thought his wife and

mother would be safe at home. He's

since heard that they've been taken

to the camps. TRANSLATION:

From

early morning until late evening she

is only allowed to sit on the hard

chair. My poor mother has to endure

this punishment every day. My wife's

only crime was to be born her

religion, and because of that she

lives in a re-education camp where

she has to sleep on the ground. I

don't know whether they are alive or

dead. I can't bear it any more. I

would rather they were executed than

abused to death by the Chinese

government.

He says he has no idea

what happened to his children.

Today, the British government raised

its concerns about the treatment of

Muslims here, including restrictions

on religious practice. Such a frank

statement in the middle of the prime

ministerial visit will not go down

well. China is seeking the UK's

backing for a planned to use

Xinjiang's desert highways is a new

economic corridor to Central Asia

and beyond. It insists the threat of

Islamic terrorism with a number of

attacks in recent years is a real

one. Can I ask you some questions?

Is it difficult to answer questions?

But a police state breeds fear. And

can stop the very resentments China

says it's trying stamp out.

John mentioned China's

new Silk Road initiative -

and that takes me back

to Theresa May in Beijing

because we also want to draw your

attention to a story

that is not happening.

This is the Financial Times,

pointing out that even under

pressure Mrs May has not signed up

to support this move.

It's officially called the Belt

and Road initiative and it

will vastly expand China's global

reach over land and sea.

I spoke the FT journalist

who wrote that piece -

here are his thoughts.

I mean she did in China welcomed the

initiative, particularly for the

initiatives it would give British

businesses but what she didn't do

was sign the written memorandum of

understanding that the Chinese have

been putting quite a lot of pressure

over the last few weeks on her to

sign. I think the reason for that is

severalfold, actually. One of the

aspects is Britain's Western allies,

the US, the EU, Germany and France,

they haven't signed the memorandums

of understanding either, although

quite a lot of countries have and

even some EU members in Eastern

Europe power. So diverse reason for

not signing it was pressure. Another

reason was because the UK has

concerns over how the infrastructure

projects in the initiative are being

awarded. Most purely going to

Chinese companies. And also there

are concerns over social and

environmental impacts of these

infrastructure projects.

Because

this is an absolutely massive

project, linked to a series of

projects. For the Chinese it really

matters, doesn't it? It's about

global economic prestige?

It matters

on so many levels. This is China's

bid to change the world, really. It

is a signature policy of the

president. It embraces 70 countries

between Europe and China. There are

about 4.4 billion people living in

those countries and all of those

countries together account for about

40% of global GDP. What China is

trying to do is building and

financing infrastructure all across

this area, it intends to shift the

power balance in China's favour and

thereby start to dictate more the

global agenda.

It is a tension

Britain will face again and again,

post-EU membership. Britain

desperately wants to have China as a

partner.

Britain wants China as a

partner and desperately needs

Chinese contracts, Chinese trade and

yet, as we've just discussed, what's

happening in the world now is that

there is a fork in the road

occurring. One route follows the

Chinese roots to grow for

governments and the other route,

which is the current route, is the

world created by America since the

Second World War. The UK is firmly

in this camp, and yet in order to

get those contracts that China is

offering, China would like it to

move slightly over into the Chinese

camp. This is a very, very big

geopolitical question.

Stay with us

on Outside Source - still to come...

Scientists have fitted these

polar bears with cameras

and tracking devices,

trying to discover why

bears are getting skinny.

A man who drove the van into Muslims

outside a London mosque has been

found guilty of murder.

He ploughed

into people in June last year,

killing 51 yard and injuring nine

others. Darren Osborne was also

found guilty of attempted murder.

The BBC correspondent Angus Crawford

was in quart.

The judge sent the jury out just

before three o'clock today and it

took less than an hour, 59 minutes

for the jury of eight women and four

men to come back with guilty

verdicts. Guilty of murder, it

guilty of attempted murder. Osborn

in the dock made absolutely no

reaction at all. What was really

interesting about this case was the

fact that he didn't come up with any

kind of defence until very, very

late in the day. Normally a defence

is filed very early on, before the

case actually begins but in this

case, his defence came very, very

late and it was, in the words of the

prosecution, absurd.

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story is:

Donald Trump is a day

from releasing a Republican memo

expected to accuse the FBI of bias

against his presidency.

And here's a few

of the stories making news

in the BBC Newsroom.

The authorities in Myanmar say

they'll investigate a report of mass

graves containing the bodies

of as many as 400 Rohingya Muslims.

The Associated Press news agency

says it's uncovered evidence there,

of a massacre last August

by the military.

BBC Burmese are coving that story.

And many of people

are looking at this video

on the BBC website.

It's a Paris teenager taking

advantage of the city's flooding.

As you can see, he's wakeboarding

down the street near his home.

We have talked about China and

Britain.

As Britain gets ready to leave

the EU the issue of the transition

period has become a political

minefield for Theresa May.

Supporters of Brexit want a clean

break with Europe next March.

They worry a lengthy transition

could see the UK sliding

back, as they see it,

towards Brussels' control.

Well, the British Prime Minister

today made a stand in perhaps

the most contentious area -

how migrants from the EU will be

treated here after Brexit.

Speaking on her trip to China

she said, "I'm clear there's

a difference between those who came

prior to us leaving -

and those who will come

when they know the UK is no

longer a member".

The EU on the other hand

sees it differently.

Here's how Theresa May's

suggestion went down

in the European Parliament.

We shall make a transition, citizens

are part of the transition so the

status quo includes citizens in this

extended time. It is now not just

the position of the parliament but

the whole union, adopted in a

directive unanimously by the

council. It is a red line.

Looking at this - here's Rob Watson.

Let me keep this short and sweet or

short and bitter. Transition is

proving difficult because

essentially it's going to look to

most British people that Britain

will effectively be staying in the

European Union for another couple of

years. And for some on the Leave

side of the campaign, particularly

inside the Conservative Party they

think, hang on a minute, that's not

what we signed up forks and that is

why Theresa May is making a stand

over the issue of immigration, but

one I had to say that most

commentators here and in Europe

think she will lose.

It is also fair

to say that there has been some

movement, for example if the UK will

be able to make to trade deals in

transition.

That is true, although a

lot of people will to live there

won't be many countries in the world

who will want to do a trade deal

with Britain until they see what

Britain's future relationship with

the European Union will be. I think

stepping back from that, there is a

sense really that so far Britain has

had to give away to everything that

the European Union has demanded and

essentially Theresa May is seen as

really basically playing a poor hand

badly. Why? Because it is felt she

is the weak leader of a divided

government and because written is

simply not in a position to carry

out its threat, to walk away from

the talks, because there would be

too much chaos without a deal.

Donald Trump has been in West

Virginia are meeting Republican

lawmakers. The budget was on the

agenda, after the Congressional

budget office issued a warning that

the US government could run out of

money in early March. Pretty

threatening prospect, a lot to

concentrate the minds?

That is

right. The Congressional budget

office as a congressional group.

They said there would be enough

money to go on until April at the

debt ceiling was not raised but now

they say it is only up to March. One

of the reasons but that they are

saying is because the government is

earning less because of the recently

passed tax bill. You will remember

the big tax reform President Trump's

big legislative victory. It was

estimated that will cost the US

government $1.5 trillion over the

next ten years. But essentially they

are saying it is because of that.

The debt ceiling is essentially a

ceiling for how much the government

can borrow. It is large, $20.45

trillion and the moment but

essentially what they are saying is

that ceiling needs to go up. How, go

up? The Congress needs to vote on it

and agree on it. This adds one more

layer to be spending problems we

have already been seeing in the US,

where we had that shut

down. The deadline for the spending

bill is looming, next week 8th of

February, and at the same time,

President Trump and the Republicans

will be hoping that firstly they can

get some consensus on the spending

bill and also get people to agree to

raise the debt ceiling.

Yogita Limaye, thank you.

India's

budget

was announced on Thursday.

Farming and rural development

were the big winners,

as Devina Gupta reports from Delhi.

As India's Finance minister stepped

out of his office this morning there

was plenty of promise in the air.

But in the end, they delivered the

election-year budget many had

expected. And within minutes of him

starting his speech, it became clear

what the government's main priority

was.

My government is committed to

the welfare of the farmers. For

decades, the country's agricultural

policy and programmes has remained

programmes centric. We had sought to

affect a paradigms shift.

With

elections due next year, the

government is looking to improve the

lives of the rural population. The

government's new help scheme which

will ensure 500 million families was

the biggest announcement. Closely

followed by a tax cut for small

industry, which many help will help

boost employment.

The fact they did

it for 90% of the registered

companies, rather than the actual

business quantity, the turnover, I

think that it is pragmatic and a

move that will be looked at very

well.

The government is in a difficult

spot. India wants an 8% growth rate

but general elections are due in

just over a year. The focus of the

budget is rural areas, where two

thirds of the population live, and

the finance minister and the Prime

Minister hope that a large voter

base will be happy at the very

least.

Wall Street has been watching

tech sector earnings

from the 'big A's' -

Google's parent Alphabet,

Amazon and Apple.

Let's see if we can get you an

update on this, at least on Google.

Dave Lee is watching the results.

What are you hearing will ceiling?

There is something about Outside

Source which means whenever these

stories are wrong, the results drop.

Alphabets's results of cumin and

Amazon's as well. Alphabets as much

as a dropped after they came in

below Wall Street's expectations for

what they may earn hoping they would

earn in this quarter. I will dig

into the numbers on that, I can't

give you a specific reason. Alphabet

put out lots of software last year

which investors would hope would

boost this quarter's result, Pat

Slaven happen. Amazon in contrast

has doubled its revenues on this

time last year. Beating

expectations, which is why on this

time last year. Beating

expectations, which is why, last

glance their shares are up by almost

4%, which is a very promising result

for them. I would expect that to

rise as more people see where the

benefits are coming from. I can tell

you that their cloud computing

business, revenue from that has

risen to over $5 billion, up from

around 2.5- $3 billion last year.

Big increases there. Amazon will be

very encouraged by that. The one we

are still waiting for, of course, is

Apple and what we are looking for is

sales of the iPhone ten. If they are

strong, that will be good for Apple,

if not, we could see their shares

dip slightly as well.

Dave Lee,

thank you.

This image comes

from the harrowing footage released

at the end of last year -

showing an emaciated polar

bear in Northern Canada.

A group of scientists have been

trying to find out what's

happening to the bears.

I got Victoria Gill to come

and explain the story.

It is interesting, that picture that

went so viral back in December and

caused such a stir, it wasn't really

clear. There was controversy, it

wasn't clear if the bear was ill or

what time of year it was, what the

exact location was... It was not

clear. What researchers have done is

looked through the polar bear's eyes

by tracking down the colours that

can turn cameras. We have seen the

Arctic and the hunt from their

perspective of the colours they have

used, the team from the University

of California, they fitted the

colours to nine solitary female

polar bears in spring, a critical

time of year, when they need to hunt

to fatten up for the summer when

there is less sea ice and pray

around and they going to fast. Those

cameras, they had GPS tracking

technology. The scientists also put

metabolic tracer into the bear's

blood. They have been able to

combine all this data to show they

are taking in less energy than they

need when they are hunting. There

are several things combining fair.

They think by travelling further

because the sea ice is diminishing,

they are expended more energy

looking for food.

And that was

Victoria Gill. If you have opinions

are questions about any of our

coverage, you can talk to us on the

hashtag BBC OS. Lots more to look

at, including Russian athletes who

have had their doping ban is lifted

and why.

Hello. Let's take a look at some

interesting weather making the

headlines around the globe. Lots of

whether to tell you about. We will

head off to East Asia first. A cold

northerly wind blowing. Temperatures

for much of the Korean Valencia and

eastern China pretty low, 10 degrees

in Hong Kong. That is typical of the

overnight lows but that is the

daytime top temperature. Heavy rain

for parts of Indonesia and across

Australia. Some heavy showers and

thunderstorms through central parts

of Queensland. Not as hot as it has

been in the south-east of Australia.

Across to New Zealand, the remnants

of the tropical storm have been

moving across the South Island,

bringing extremely heavy rainfall,

gale force winds, causing

significant disruption with roads

closed and flights cancelled.

Heading through Fred and into

Saturday, a few showers left but

improving. As a southerly breeze

moves in, temperatures set to

plummet in New Zealand was that in

the next few days in North America,

cold air heading in from central

Canada to the eastern states. Milder

air hanging on towards the West. If

we look at the temperatures by

Friday, things turning much colder

in New York, not getting above

freezing all day. Remaining mild

towards California, with some rain

and snow for British Columbia. Let's

take a look at South Africa. In Cape

Town, and ongoing extensive drought

situation. In fact, the drought in

Cape Town has been going on for

three years. Reservoirs only at

around 25% of their capacity. Their

fears by the 12th of April, if we

don't see significant rainfall, it

could run dry altogether. Here is

the forecast the Cape Town over the

next four days, with no rainfall.

Those temperatures are also will be

on the rise. Elsewhere across

Africa, a cold northerly wind is

blowing across parts of Morocco and

the Canary Isles. Gusty winds

developing through Algeria and

Tunisia, with a few showers around.

Could be some or hill snow to come

across the higher ground of Morocco.

Further south, some rainfall across

eastern parts of South Africa, up

towards Zimbabwe and Botswana. For

Europe, low-pressure developing in

the Mediterranean, bringing heavy

rains to the Balearics. For the

Balkans, also strong southerly gales

through the Adriatic combined with

some heavy rain and also heavy snow

across the Balkans could be

significant flooding problems across

as part of the world. We are keeping

a close eye on that. Closer to home,

the outlook for the UK weather.

Things are going to be staying quite

cold for the next few days. There

will be some sunshine, a bit of rain

over the weekend and things also

turning less windy. I think Friday

we will see the lion's share of the

sunshine, turning wetter by the time

we get to Saturday. Some stop

possible over higher ground. We will

keep you up-to-date, more in half an

hour.

Hello, I'm Philippa Thomas.

This is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom:

Donald Trump is a day from releasing

a Republican memo expected

to accuse the FBI of bias

against his presidency.

Theresa May meets with

Xi Jinping in China -

calling it a new golden era

in the relationship.

28 Russian athletes have lifetime

doping bans overturned -

opening their avenue to compete

in the Winter Olympics.

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Rex Tillerson is about

to set out on a tour

of Central and South America.

The US Secretary of State

will visit Mexico, before

moving on to Argentina,

Peru and Colombia.

And likely at the top

of the agenda is the political

unrest in Venezuela.

In a speech in Texas a short

time ago, Mr Tillerson

pulled no punches -

predicting change in the country,

adding he wanted it to be peaceful.

Take a listen.

The corrupt regime in Venezuela

claims to false claim and antiquated

vision for the region that has

already filled its citizens. It does

not purport with the norms of our

Caribbean and Latin American

partners. We urge Venezuela to

return to its constitution, to

return to free, open and democratic

elections, and to allow the

Venezuelan people voice in our

government.

The Venezuelan President,

for his part, has accused

the United States of interfering

in peace talks between his

government and opposition parties.

Let's get more on this

with Barbara Plett Usher

who joins me from Washington.

It did sound a little bit as if Rex

Tillerson was urging a regime

change?

Interestingly, he speculated on

whether there might be a military

coup to remove the president from

power. It was an interesting way to

set the tone for his trip because in

his visits, he will be talking about

those he meets. So far, only Canada

has followed the US lead in terms of

imposing sanctions on government and

former government officials. But

there is a group that follows the

little messaging coming from

Washington. For example they have

also rejected the decision for early

elections, as have the Americans,

who have said it was just a way to

entrench the regime of Nicolas

Maduro. He will carry on the

conversation with their reinforced

position and try to push it further

and he is also going to talk about

the humanitarian situation and how

to deal with that, especially when

he visits Colombia because there are

half a million Venezuelan refugees

in Colombia.

He starts with Mexico.

We know about Donald Trump and

Mexico in building the wall, the

insults that have been flying. What

has Rex Tillerson been doing?

Yes,

the wall, immigration, not to

mention the North American Free

Trade Agreement the administration

has insisted must be renegotiated.

Mexican officials have hinted they

will cease negotiation if a

breakthrough is not made. He set up

a forum to deal with the

cross-border crime cartels which

involves his counterpart and also

senior security officials have met a

number of times. He will be building

on that relationship. Is also

attracting new ones Donald Trump's

policy messages. For example, he

said Nafta was a way to modernise

the treaty for all involved, rather

than to scuttle it. He has also sent

other conciliatory messages

regarding the wall. He said the

Americans were trying to build

capacity on the Mexican side for

screwing the border. So think that's

the tone he will take when he goes

to Mexico.

I like the way you talk

about Rex Tillerson adding new ones

to remarks from the president. A lot

of people saying Rex Tillerson

wouldn't last out the first year of

this presidency, but he's still

there are.

Yes, and I think he may

be here for the rest of the year.

There was a period late in the year

when there were lots of reports and

rumours about his pro-relationship

with the President. He has struggled

at the State Department with reforms

he is bringing in there and his

management style, but he is also

Kenneth again I think. He says he

plans to stick around and it is

looking more and more likely that he

will, for the time being.

Thank you.

28 Russian athletes who had been

banned for life for doping have had

the decision overturned by the Court

of Arbitration for Sport or CAS.

They include cross-country skiing

star Alexander Legkov -

who won gold at the 2014

Sochi Winter Games.

The ruling means he will have

his medal reinstated.

To remind you, the IOC banned

the athletes for alleged

doping offences at Sochi.

Their cases were tied to allegations

of systematic cheating

by the Russian authorities.

Now sport's top court says

there was insufficient evidence

to prove they had broken the rules.

Now some of these athletes

want to take part in next week's

Winter Olympics in Pyongchang -

though that would have to be

as neutrals, not Russians.

Needless to say the International

Olympic Committee isn't

happy with the decision.

Here's the spokesman.

This may have a serious impact

on the future fight against doping.

Therefore, the IOC will analyse

the recent decisions very carefully

once they are available and consider

consequences including an appeal

to the Swiss Federal tribunal.

So what does this tell us

about anti-doping in sport?

Here's one analyst who runs

an initiative aimed at fighting

corruption.

It tells us that in 20 years, it is

still pretty messy and not very

efficient, especially when there is

a big power involved in this game. I

think if we had had that situation

with Honduras or Malaysia, we

wouldn't have had that fast. The

athletes would have been excluded

from being part of a systemic doping

setup. Fortunately there might be

some rescue on the way because the

World Anti-Doping Agency has

recently tightened procedures so it

should now be possible to make

collective bands in the field of

anti-doping.

It's not yet clear whether these 28

athletes can compete in South Korea

but we do know 169 Russian athletes

are already competing

as what are called neutrals.

Here they with president Putin

before they left yesterday.

Russia has always denied it ran

a state-backed doping programme

Here's Mr Putin celebrating

today's decison.

TRANSLATION: We are happy for the

athlete to have been cleared, but

not everyone has been exonerated.

Secondly, there is still work may

need to do. It is absolutely clear,

as far as perfecting our anti-doping

programme and our policy, this is

something we will be doing together

with wider, the IOC and other

international organisations. --

together with W a DA.

Olga Ivshina from the BBC's

Russian Service has more.

They have always said this is a

collective punishment instead of a

collective punishment to athletes.

They will use it again and again. A

number of high-ranking officials

today made their political

statements, including President

Putin, the Prime Minister and

others. He has said he will be

representing their country, even

though they will act as neutral

athletes. And of course all this in

Russia is viewed in upcoming

presidential elections. Some of the

sports people are actively

supporting Vladimir Putin. At least

from Moscow, it all looks like a

huge political game, rather than

just purely sport.

Don't forget you can get much more

detail on our top stories on our

website including much more on the

memo and everything you need to know

about the Trump-Russia

investigation.

Now, we will move from

the Pyeongchang to Nigeria.

For the first time ever Nigeria

will compete at the Winter Olympics.

Take a look at this though

The average temperature

in the capital Lagos doesn't get

below 25 degrees celsuis.

in the capital Lagos doesn't get

below 25 degrees Celsuis.

But that hasn't stopped three female

athletes who make up the country's

bobsled team qualifying

for the games.

Alex Capstick went to meet them.

We are the Nigerian

women's bobsleigh team.

We are the first team

from the country of Nigeria...

The first team from

the continent of Africa...

And the first team to be represented

in the Winter Olympics

in the sport of bobsleigh...

..In Pyeongchang.

They're known as the Ice

Blazers, going where no

African has gone before.

Heading to a bobsleigh

track at the Olympics.

The opening ceremony,

that would be really cool.

We were just like, gosh,

we are carrying the Nigerian flag

in a Winter Olympics.

Gosh!

Born in America, like her

team-mates, Seun Adigun qualifies

for Nigeria through her parents,

and it all began in her

garage in Houston with

a home-made wooden sled.

Cool running!

The exploits of the Jamaican men's

team at the Calgary Olympics in 1988

inspired a Hollywood movie.

Comparisons are inevitable.

It's really honourable,

to say the least, that

30 years later people

are still singing their praises,

and to say that we are along that

same path of what people consider

to be legendary.

It's really humbling and it's

an honour to receive.

Just over a year ago,

Seun recruited two team-mates

who take it in turns to sit

behind the driver.

They knew nothing about

the sport and its risks.

After going to Whistler,

that's the fastest track

in the world, it was like,

OK, this sport is actually

pretty dangerous.

You know, like people

can get seriously hurt.

Behind all the excitement, the fun,

the global exposure,

is a group of women who have no

desire to be considered

a novelty act.

Rank outsiders, yes,

but they also want to be taken

seriously in their bid to set

a new benchmark for Africa

at the Winter Olympics.

People didn't think we had a chance

to make it to the Olympics

so I think when you talk

about things like that, anything can

happen and we are here to compete.

The team know they are unlikely

to become the first Africans

to stand on the podium

at a Winter Games but they also know

the Olympics is about

more than just medals.

263 million children

worldwide are not in school.

Now there's a growing awareness

that the risks of a missed

education include everything

from radicalisation to migration.

A high-level summit taking place

in Senegal is aiming

to raise 3.1 billion dollars

to address the crisis.

Our chief international

correspondent, Lyse Doucet is there.

Let's take a closer look

at some of the challenges.

One of the overwhelming issues

in Senegal is the modernisation

of Koranic schools -

which are called daaras.

Those are schools where children

only study the muslim

holy book, the Koran.

Laeila Adjovi reports.

The hash tag for this conference is

to fund education. It is the first

time they're holding this conference

in a developing nation. Tomorrow,

Emmanuel Macron will arrive to host

it.

Let's take a closer look

at some of the challenges.

One of the overwhelming issues

in Senegal is the modernisation

of Koranic schools -

which are called daaras.

Those are schools where children

only study the muslim

holy book, the Koran.

Laeila Adjovi reports.

It is a regular sight in Dakar,

pupils of Daaras or Koranic schools

begging in the streets.

Most of them are from rural areas,

their parents think

they are receiving a religious

education, but some will not learn

a single verse of the Koran.

A lucky few will end

up at this safe house,

The Children's Empire.

There is food here, shelter and fun,

salvation from the harsh

conditions on the streets.

TRANSLATION: If he doesn't return

with the right amount

of money, he will be beaten.

The children are really maltreated.

How can anyone bear to see

children in that situation?

They need love, affection and to be

with their families.

It is their right.

This children's rights activist

argues that the government is not

doing enough to regulate Koranic

schools and enforce

an existing ban on begging.

The bill to modernise Daaras

was also drafted years ago but it

has yet to become law.

Over years there have been efforts

to widen the curriculum

of Senegalese Daaras by introducing

subjects like maths,

history or French classes.

There are even attempts to change

the learning for entire generation

going to Koranic schools.

In most pre-primary Koranic schools,

this would not happen.

There would be no playing

with toys or drawing,

there would be no girls,

or at least not sitting

in the same classroom as boys.

And the core of the activities

would revolve around

memorising the Koran.

The director of this Daara,

based in working class

neighbourhood, is among one

of the imams encouraging change.

TRANSLATION: I encourage all parents

to support Daaras that aim

to modernise Daaras.

We have done a lot of work

to understand the need to improve

the quality of the element

in the schools and the

quality of education.

There are open 5000 Koranic

schools here, in this

secular Muslim country,

many parents are in favour

of modernising the Daaras,

striking the balance is one

of the major challenges facing

education in Senegal.

Have you heard of deepfakes?

They're videos where one person's

face is replaced with another's -

and the result looks really

convincing.

It's a technique that's been used

inevitably for pornography videos,

where the face of an actor

or actress is replaced

with that of a celebrity.

Now the company that hosted

many of these videos has announced

that it's tracking them down

and deleting them from the internet.

Here's what we're talking about.

The programme - the software -

has been downloaded 100,000

times in the month

since its release.

Don't worry, I'm not

going to show you pornography,

because the programme

is also used with non-pornographic

content, so here's our example.

This is Germany's Chancellor Angela

Merkel - take a look and see

if you can make out whose face

has been super-imposed.

If you could make that out,

it was Donald Trump's face.

Well, to find out how these videos

are causing so much harm,

I spoke with our technology desk

editor, Leo Kelion.

That's right.

What these are is basically

a computer-generated video

of a subject's face that is then

merged with a real video clip.

And the way this works

is that there is a piece of software

out there that you stick about 500

images of the person whose face

you want the person to stimulate,

plus the video clip,

hit a button, go away for several

hours, come back and you come back

to what looks like a special effect

from Hollywood where

the is effectively changed.

the face is effectively changed.

The issue is that this

is being used for pornography.

It could be fun, could be artistic,

but it is being used

a lot for pornography,

obviously without permission

from the people whose

faces are being used.

But now this company has been

the focus on a lot of these

images says it finds it

objectionable, or has realised

it is objectionable.

That's right.

There is a service based

in San Francisco where people upload

short clips and by doing

that they can then post it

on to other sites on the internet,

such as Reddit, where a lot

of the stuff is being shared.

This company has said it finds this

is objectionable and on those

grounds it started to delete

the clips, so that if you click

on them, up comes a notice

saying you can't watch it.

Does it say objectionable

because it's only just

noticed what's happening?

I think objectionable

because of the controversy.

This has actually been

going on in one form or another

for a couple months,

but two things have happened.

First of all, we have had somebody

about the algorithm for a piece

of software so that you really don't

need a lot of computer knowledge

to be able to do this.

And the other thing is motherboard,

the news site, picked up on it.

Then a whole bunch of the rest

of the press started

writing about it as well.

Sending objects up into space

has become a booming business

so it's no surprise every now

and then one goes missing.

This is the Image satellite launched

by NASA in the year 2000.

It's mission was to observe

the magnetic field around the earth

which it did sending back images

like this in 2002.

But three years later it

suddenly went quiet.

Something had gone wrong and it

stopped communicating.

A team of experts from Nasa

investigated but in 2006

their final report failed

to resolve the mystery.

11 years later, the

satellite has been found.

The man responsible isn't

in mission control -

he's in a small community

on the West Coast of Canada.

Amateur astronomer Scott Tilley

told me earlier about the moment

he made his discovery.

It was one of those kind of moments

where you read all the technical

information and you just have this

emotion in the pit of your stomach.

It's like wow, it came back to life.

It was just an emotional moment.

And then I set to work

in trying to work out

how to communicate

what I had just discovered.

Perhaps you knew you find out

that an entire Nasa team

with all their funding was looking

for this and you stumbled across it.

And then I think you had

a conversation with your wife over

breakfast about what to do

with the discovery?

a lost satellite in space,

surely you are smart enough to find

someone's e-mail address and find

out who was the guy who built it,

reach out to him and let him know

what you've got.

Like a small child, I went

to the computer and did my final bit

of homework and found the doctor's

e-mail address and sent him a note.

And did you not say, hello,

I've found your satellite?

Essentially, yes.

I was a little bit more

technical about it.

I wrote a blog on the internet,

provided evidence that I hoped

would at least attract enough

attention for them to look.

Tell us why you were looking

in the first place, why you spend

so much time scanning

the skies for us?

I track and classify military

satellites as a hobby.

I was looking at a classified

government mission that was

launched in late January.

Myself in a small group

of amateurs around the world

are doing that right now.

But instead I found this

missing Nasa space probe.

This weekend marks one

of the high-points on the American

sporting calendar.

I'm talking of course

about the Super Bowl.

The game is being

played in Minneapolis.

The two teams to make

this year's big game are Boston

and Philadelphia, two cities that

are steeped in history,

rich in culture, and populated

by obsessive, and somewhat

obnoxious fans.

As Mat Morrison explains.

This year's Super Bowl pits the city

of brotherly love against Beantown.

Rocky against Paul Revere.

This guy against that guy.

Yes, but Philadelphia and Boston

are known for their rabid fans,

sometimes a bit too much so.

I am ready for the Super Bowl!

Philadelphia, self-described Crisco

cops have greased up the light

bulbs, they do not want trouble.

Then there was the inebriated

fan in Philadelphia

who punched a police horse.

That happened twice.

For Patriots fans, that that wraps

up fans the wrong way,

sense of entitlement appearing

in eight of the last 17

Super Bowl is will do that.

Philadelphia where is

the face of the underdog.

Dog mask fans have sold out.

And do not get other

side started on food,

ask a Philly fan it's

all about cheesecake.

In Boston clam chowder.

All this rivalry on and off

the field is a shame because the two

cities have a lot in common.

Both are East Coast port cities

are found in the 1600s when the area

with a collection of British

colonies are both hotbeds

of revolution before

America split from Britain.

Boston has Ironsides and

Philadelphia has Constitution Hall

and the Liberty Bell.

In the end, there can only be one

winner and there is more than just

a football game at stake.

There was also a wager

between the mayors of Philadelphia

and a Massachusetts town near Boston

the home of real-life

boxer Rocky Marciano.

The winning city gets to dress

a statue in team colours.

Now it is Patriots versus

Eagles, city versus city,

Rocky versus Rocky.

Or that is left to do

is play a game of football.