05/02/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

Global stock markets

are tumbling downwards -

big falls in New York

where the market has just closed -

we'll find out why.

Scuffles in Johannesburg

as President Zuma refuses to step

down despite pressure

from his party's leadership.

Donald Trump says this NHS march

in London shows that British

health care is broken -

both sides of the political

divide respond in defence

of universal health coverage.

Across the world, there has been a

defence of the universal health

coverage.

It's winter in Moscow -

you might expect it

to be cold and snowy -

Well temperatures have dropped

and enough snow has fallen

that the city is struggling.

Big falls in stock

markets in recent days.

Go back just a week and the US stock

market was at a record high,

it's a different picture now.

Look at these traders

on Wall Street earlier -

they've had better days.

Quite a few of them

in fact in the last year

as the market has boomed.

The problems started last week -

by Friday shares in New York

were down 4% on the start

of the week.

In London the fall was 3%.

All of which gives the new chair

of the Federal Reserve

plenty to think about.

This is Jerome Powell

being sworn in today.

And indeed one of the reasons

traders are nervous is that he may

put up interest rates.

Donald Trump is certain

to be watching this -

he's repeatedly cited the buoyant

stock market as a sign

of the success of the economy

under his leadership.

For instance, here's a clip

from last week's State

of the Union speech.

The stock market has smashed one

record after another, gaining $8

trillion and more in value in just

this short period of time.

APPLAUSE

The great news...

The chateau there was not

Should say - there is not a direct

correlation between the health

correlation between the health

of a national economy and the level

of a stock market.

Now the falls have continued today.

The Dow Jones has closed

in the last few minutes -

these prices are delayed slightly -

15 minutes ago it

was down another 4%.

London closed down another 1.4%.

Big falls in Paris and Tokyo too.

Yogita Limaye is in New York SSOURCE

wherever the Dow ends up, it has

been an astonishing day.

Yes. All of

that started last week, as you

pointed out. Finally enough, you had

a Labour report that came out about

employment in America. It came out

on Friday morning and was something

that was positive for the economy.

200,000 jobs were added, more than

expected, and wage growth, which was

2.9% over the previous year, more

than what most people expected, but

as you pointed out, there is not

actually a direct correlation

between the strength of the economy

and the level of the stock market so

what has happened is because of that

higher than expected wage growth,

what people are expecting is that if

people's salaries go up, prices go

up, inflation goes up. What happens

when inflation goes up? The central

bank will essentially be compelled

to raise interest rates to try and

keep inflation under control, and

before Friday when I spoke to

traders and said how many rate rises

do you expect this year, they said

about 23. That is what they were

expecting. Then you have this long

-- strong employment report coming

out on Friday, now they said they

were worried there would be 46. That

is the reason why you are seeing

this fall in the stock markets. You

saw it on Friday and you see it

continue today.

I was mentioning the

files in Tokyo, Paris and London,

are they directly affected by New

York while separate individual

factors at play?

It does have a

domino effect, what happens here,

you see that kind of impact taking

place around the world. One of the

reasons, the decisions Federal

Reserve snakes, if you see interest

rates rise here in the US, but

essentially happens is people who

want higher returns, investors with

money to spend, could actually then

want to move their money here

because they would get better

returns that higher interest rates.

That means money is moving to the

US, could be moving away from other

parts of the world, because in any

case the US is considered a safe

investment destination. So it is all

correlated, there may be individual

factors in different markets but you

always see this kind of domino

effect when you have a big fall or a

big rally in the US markets.

Thank

you. To Johannesburg.

The pressure is piling onto

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma.

And the threat comes

from within his own party.

Senior politicians from

the African National Congress have

been holding emergency discussions

in Johannesburg today.

The party's National

Executive Committee is set

to meet on Wednesday.

It has the power to remove

President Zuma from office.

BOX one Also in Johannesburg,

rival protesters have clashed.

These are members of the ANC

clashing with a group known

to support the President.

Here's one ANC one member.

We don't expect trouble, and we will

say they must behave themselves as

well, because this is the piece and

you cannot expect anyone to come and

provoke just yet. Because if that

comes to that point, then to defend

the ANC headquarters and the

leadership, if it means to lose our

lives, we are ready to do that,

because if you attack is here, what

are you expecting?

Any number of reasons

the President's position is weak.

For the past decade Zuma has faced

hundreds of allegations

of corruption and fraud.

He'd also wanted his ex-wife

Nkosa-zana Dlamini-Zuma

to be his successor.

But she's lost out to Zuma's

deputy Cyril Ramaphosa.

He is the new leader of the ANC.

And some people want

Mr Ramaphosa now -

rather than in 2019 when he'll

contest and almost

certainly win the election.

Here's Pumza Fihlani

in Johannesburg.

We understand what they are trying

to do is to persuade President Jacob

Zuma to go peacefully. The ANC was

able to do this back in 2008 when

they recalled the president to then

stepped down quietly. They are

trying to have a repeat of a similar

situation but we understand that

President Jacob Zuma is putting up a

fierce fight. He will not go and we

understand he wants to have certain

conditions made by the ruling ANC,

which include a stay of prosecution.

He also has those charges, counts

rather, over his head of corruption,

fraud and racketeering, and that is

something he is keen on avoiding. We

understand this is one of the

reasons he doesn't want to leave

power. The stakes are very high the

ruling Congress, the country goes

into national elections in 2019, and

they have gotten a taste that their

powers is not guaranteed. Therefore

in recent by-elections, when they

lost a view of the provinces here,

that the ANC support base has been

shaken, and over the years President

Jacob Zuma has been seen as a

divisive figure, so they don't want

him to be the reason that they lose

their seat at the top table

effectively. If this happens, it

would be the first time the

liberation movement has been out of

power since the dawn of democracy,

say they want out of the way so they

can rebrand themselves as a party

serious about the needs of South

Africans and also a party that will

not tolerate corruption.

Here's Donald Trump on the UK's

National Health Service.

There was a march at the weekend in

London to do with the NHS, its title

was NHS in crisis, fix it now. But

the organisers have made clear these

were people who wanted to show their

love for the principles of universal

and comprehensive care, free at the

point of use. As is often the case,

the president was tweeting on a

subject that had just been covered

by Fox news. So here is the former

UK Independence Party leader Nigel

Farage on Fox talking about the NHS

just before President Trump treated.

Jeremy Hunt is the UK's Health

Secretary. He has responded...

A strong riposte from the Halle

secretary. Here are the thoughts of

the BBC's Alex Forsyth.

Interestingly you had people uniting

from across the political spectrum

to defend the NHS in light of

President Trump's comments. The

Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

the official opposition leader, he

was saying Mr Trump was wrong to

have tweeted his criticism of the

NHS. The people who organise that

march made the point they are

supporting it, and Health Secretary

Jeremy Hunt as you say with a

critique of US health policy

defending the NHS as well. So there

has been a united approach from the

UK, but a criticism of Donald Trump

is Mac intervention. Interestingly,

the Prime Minister's official

spokesman was asked about this today

and made the point that there is a

good relationship between the UK and

the US, as we have heard several

times before. Nonetheless I think it

is fair to say Donald Trump is again

testing diplomatic relations.

The only suspect who survived

the Paris terror attack two years

ago has gone on trial in Belgium -

not for the Paris attack,

but for the shoot out

when he was arrested in Brussels.

He's 28-year-old Salah Abdeslam,

He's a French national

who was born in Belgium -

and he's used day one

of the trial to say he will not

co-operate in any way.

He'd been on the run for four

month's after the Paris attack.

Getting him to the courthouse

in Brussels was a massive operation

because he's in prison in Paris.

This is his heavily-armed

convoy leaving Paris

in the middle of the night.

Every day he will be driven

or flown by helicopter over

the border to the trial.

As you'd imagine, security

at the courthouse is tight.

There is concern is the Islamic

State group may see the trial as a

target, so heavily armed people all

around. The BBC's Kevin Lee has been

covering this.

The first day of the trial of Salah

Abdul Salam is coming to an end and

it is significant because he's the

only surviving suspect of the Paris

attacks in November 2015, which

killed 130 people, multiple

coordinated attacks were stopped

that caught Kate is due in around

two years' time but this is linked

to a police raid, four months later

in a district of Brussels, in which

the police came to a hideout, and

came under heavy artillery fire.

Three officers were injured. Salah

Abdul Salam, an accomplice in here

today, facing court, faced charges

of attempted murder of police

officers. The investigators are

hoping that given that Salah Abdul

Salam, who has been in prison now

for almost two years has been

silent, even to his lawyers, that he

was going to give some evidence in

court. His lawyer said he was

prepared to talk. He did, but

selectively. As I move to let this

police riot van through, we were

told today as we watch the court

proceedings that Salah Abdul Salaam

was refusing to acknowledge the

court, the process of the court,

saying he would use his silence is

not to indicate his guilt, he said,

but indicated it will recognise the

system. He said as a Muslim he felt

he was vilified. He said he was

mercilessly being judged and

ultimately he believed this was a

setup trial, that there would be no

useful evidence included, and he

refused to stand as well, saying he

was tired today. Interestingly, the

co-accused, who was found in his

flat in this Brussels suburb, also

said to have fled by foot along the

rooftops before they were found

three days later. He said he had

come from Syria, he was part of

so-called Islamic State, that he did

not fire the gun, neither man said

they did in the hideout, but that

the other man, said he was going

back to Syria to rejoin Islamic

State, showing part culpability

today. The Belgium highest

prosecutor, the federal prosecutor,

said she was seeking 20 years

imprisonment for both men.

Ultimately I think we got a sense of

where this trial is going next. It

is the first day, it is adjourned

now, there will be more hearings but

so far complete silence,

disappointment for those

investigators hoping to piece

together the wider terrorist network

and perhaps some clues as to what

happened after the Paris attacks.

The final sentencing hearing

for former US Gymnastics

doctor Larry Nassar.

We will discuss what's next

for the investigation.

He has been given yet more time in

prison. We will bring you up to

date.

Here in the UK,

Here in

Stagecoach's contract to run

the East Coast Mainline

rail franchise will end

earlier than expected.

The government said

the operator had failed

to forecast profits correctly.

The contract has already

been cut short once.

the government trying to convince

passengers it will not affect their

journeys here from Leeds or your

core Doncaster down to London, this

will be a long-term decision.

But

Chris Grayling raising the

possibility that the Department for

Transport, the taxpayer, could run

these coast main line again. That is

something the rail union the RMT

said should happen, and they have

been pushing for that all along for

some Labour telling us that the

government has a really difficult

decision to make the passengers.

What value can they get, the

passengers here in Leeds, and what

can they do to make sure people have

confidence in the railways?

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

There have been big falls in global

stock markets. In New York's Dow

Jones has closed in the last few

minutes, down more than 4.5%. Let's

turn to some of the main stories

from BBC World Service, first of

all, a Chilean man has said he wrote

the Pope Frances three years ago

complaining of sexual abuse by a

priest and a subsequent cover-up,

which contradicts a recent statement

by the Pope.

The letter gave details of abuse

by a paedophile priest.

And this was the most read

online on BBC.com today -

the Victoria Derbyshire programme

found thousands of British people

sold time-shares in the 1980s

are now trapped in the arrangement

and it's costing them hundreds

of pounds in fees each year.

Larry Nassar has been sentenced

for a third and final time.

The former USA gymnastics doctor

was given 40 to 125 years in prison.

That's in addition to

a 40-to-175 year sentence

for a separate set of charges.

He is accused of molesting 265 girls

and women over two decades.

Almost 200 victims gave

incredibly powerful testimony

across both hearings.

This is the judge in

the final sentencing.

SSOURCE

There is absolutely no question

society must be protected. It is

unfathomable to think about the

number of victims that would have

been spared, had authorities acted

upon the complaints received years

ago. But that is a discussion for a

different time and a different

place.

Nada Tawfik, New York.

Is that the end of the judicial

process?

No, Larry Nassar still does

face a civil suit and you have about

140 victims who have signed up for

that. But really what I think we

have seen from this is the fact that

it is very clear Larry Nassar will

be spending the rest of his life in

prison. The wrapping up of these

tonight sentencing hearings for

these two separate state molestation

charges really showed the victim

said was just how seriously the

judicial system was taking the

crime. Rachel was there during both

hearings, she was the one who

famously asked how much is a little

girl worth? She said she got her

answer by the strong sentence. She

said his crimes show others that the

full extent of the law will be used

to how he does these crimes were.

We

have the judge saying further

investigations into how this

happened for another day but

presumably people are turning to

those issues, not even waiting until

tomorrow, right now?

Yes,

absolutely. For example it was

breaking reporting that shed light

on Larry Nassar's rhymes to begin

with. We had again over the weekend

another example that journalists are

continuing to dig into this. The New

York Times had a piece over the

weekend showing that the FBI took

over a year to look into Larry

Nassar's molestation of young girls

at USA gymnastics, and they said

they had identified 40 girls at that

time period who continued to be

molested because they were slow to

react. The FBI claimed the delay on

the fact they had several different

departments overlooking this over

several jurisdictions. But again it

just points to the fact it was not

just the FBI, you had Michigan state

police and Lansing Michigan coming

forward to apologise to one victim

who reported that she was molested

by Larry Nassar in 2014, and when

they met with the doctor, he was

able to convince them by showing him

a PowerPoint slide that what he did

was medical treatment. There has

been a lot of blame going back and

forth about how they handle that

case. Again, Michigan state

university also coming under

scrutiny for them properly not

handling allegations, so there has

certainly been a national discussion

of where all these failures took

place that allowed him to take

advantage of these young girls in

such a long thank you.

A trial pitting two of the biggest

players in self-drive technology

against each other has begun in San

Francisco.

Ride-sharing firm Uber

is being sued by Waymo,

the self-driving company spun

out of Google.

Dave Lee is outside the court house

in San Francisco....

Help me understand exactly what they

are disagreeing over?

This is the

big disagreement over trade secrets

in self driving technology. Waymo,

the company spun out of Google, they

allege that Uber store documents,

specifically they say a former

employee, Anthony Lewandowski,

diverse, left Google, set of his own

company that was then bought by

Gruber after less than a year and

that became their self driving

division. They are saying, Waymo,

that was all a front in order to

steal these documents. The birth of

their point say that simply is not

the case. They don't really dispute

that the documents were stolen. What

they are trying to argue and what

the jury has to decide is that they

are saying that although the

documents were taken, that doesn't

necessarily mean they were used to

create anything at Uber. So while

they have them in their possession,

unless they were used to gain an

advantage in self driving technology

then Uber would be culpable. That is

what the jury has the side, whether

it gave Uber an unfair advantage in

developing itself driving tech.

And

I guess the reason they are squaring

up with such passion is that the

prize, the self driving market, is

so vast?

Potentially. This is one of

the interesting things about this

case, we don't really know the

extent to which self driving

technology will change the world.

Most people here will tell you a

quite a profound way but it still

very much in its development. What

Waymo hopes to achieve if you can

win this case is that Google will be

forced to stop itself driving

programme, widely stop using some of

the technologies that have been

disputed here, and that could

greatly hindered Uber's progress in

an area that of course it really

wants to be one of the market

leaders. If it can't do that, it

does put Uber's future on some shaky

ground, because many people seek

self driving as the future of how

many of us get around.

Keep us posted.

A surprise in South Korea -

The heir to Samsung has walked free

after an appeals court

upheld his bribery conviction,

BUT cut his prison sentence -

meaning his immediate release.

Here's Karishma Vaswani

with this update.

It was amongst 45 different legal

options, and certainly not at the

top of the list. So the fact that

the scion of the Samsung group, J

Whaley, who has been in detention

now for a year since last February,

the fact he has walked free and can

technically get back into the hot

seat, technically go back to work,

although I have been told by folks

at Samsung that may not be the case

right away, given that he still has

to face a Supreme Court challenge

because the prosecution have said

they will challenge this decision at

the Supreme Court level. And JY Lee

himself has decided he wants to

challenge. He has maintained he is

not guilty and will take it all the

weight of the Supreme Court.

To Moscow - the amount

of snow is causing havoc

and breaking records.

People were told to

leave their cars at home

and take public transport -

this is why - cars skidding.

But buses weren't

always much better.

This bus had to be pushed

out of its station.

Here's another option.

Snowboarding.

Good for short journeys, I guess.

Good for short journeys, I guess.

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg has

been braving conditions.

It is no secret that in Russia, in

the winter, it snows. But it doesn't

normally snow quite like this. In

the last two days, we have seen more

than one month's worth of snowfall

in Moscow, the biggest snowfall here

since records began. And that is

causing problems for the

authorities, who are normally good

at dealing with all this white

fluffy stuff. Thousands of

snowploughs have come onto the

streets to try to clear the roads.

It is not just affecting Moscow, but

cities across central Russia too.

The Moscow authorities have been

sending out text messages to people,

I got one this morning, telling us

to leave our cars at home and to use

public transport. What happens to

all of this now once it's fallen?

Well, wants the snowploughs have

cleared it and piled it out, it is

taken to the edge of the city to be

disposed of in special snow disposal

centres. Steve Rosenberg, BBC News,

Moscow.

If you want weather

forecasts, download the BBC whether

app, whether over you the world you

can get a forecast.

Hello, it is that time an evening

where we take a look at what the

weather is doing elsewhere around

globe. Cold here in the UK, it is

called across much of Japan, Korea

and northern and eastern China. The

majors in recent weeks have been 10

degrees below average. As we go

through the week we lose the frost.

It looks as though temperatures will

return to closer to normal by the

time we get the Friday at least,

even in Hong Kong, Giuseppe Whelband

apart.

Cold embedded across much of north

America and Canada but not in the

south-west, temperatures are above

average and with the desert wind it

exacerbates the risks of wildfires.

The developing system of moisture

and warmth of the Gulf of Mexico,

heavy snowfall, freezing rain, even

some severe storms forecast as we go

towards the middle part of the week.

There could be some disruption but

only three degrees in New York. We

still have that cold air further

north. It is the heat I want to draw

attention to a cross-border series,

much of central and southern

Argentina will suit coverage of some

10 degrees above average, but very

little rain forecast. Very little

rain forecast for Cape Town, most of

the rain will be across parts of

southern and eastern Africa but

unfortunately the Cape Town, the

drought will continue for much of

this week. It has been ongoing for

the past three years. There are

water usage restrictions. There is

rain in the forecast for Cape Town

by Friday but it will not be enough

to alleviate the problems that we

have here. Not just rain we are

talking about in the North of Africa

through Algeria and Morocco but snow

again. Some of these heavier showers

coming in could fall as now on the

Atlas mountains but possibly in the

heavy ones to lower levels. We will

have a problem again through the

Mediterranean across Albion area --

Iberia into the Alps, more rain at

lower levels, snow causing

disruption across France on Tuesday

possibly and that means the

avalanche risk rises across the Alps

and the Pyrenees just because the

temperatures are seesawing. Nasty

river into the Balkans, storm force

winds through the Adriatic, cold air

across much of Europe and in fact

from Moscow, some of the coldest

weather of the year so far, -10

degrees. We are seeing some of the

coldest weather of winter so far,

with disruptive is now making its

way southwards during the coming

night and into Tuesday. Stay tuned

to the forecasts, look at the

website for the latest warnings. As

for the rest of the week, Tom will

have more for you later.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom.

Global stock markets

are tumbling downwards -

big falls in New York

where the market has just closed -

with the Dow Jones index

down more than 4.5%.

Scuffles in Johannesburg

as President Zuma refuses to step

down despite pressure

from his party's leadership.

His supporters say there is no need

for him to step down.

The President of the Maldives

declared a 15 day

state of emergency -

now the former president

has been arrested.

We will find out what's happening

on the island nation.

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It is rare we get this far in a

programme without talking about

Washington. Let's put that right.

We have the Devin Nunes memo -

the Republican-drafted document

the White House declassified

on Friday that alleges FBI bias

against Donald Trump.

The Democrats say it was inaccurate

and omitted facts, and want to rebut

it with their own memo.

And the House Intelligence Committee

is preparing to review it.

The committee's top

Democrat is Adam Schiff.

That's the President calling

the former head of the FBI a liar.

To which Mr Schiff quickly replied:

It is getting nasty.

Anthony Zurcher in Washington.

I guess it is not a surprise that

Republicans are being rude about

Democrats and vice versa, but what

does the memo potentially contain?

The way the Democrats describe it,

this is a rebuttal to the Devin

Nunes memo, that that one did not

paint a full picture and it omitted

information which would have been

useful in explaining why the FBI

opened up surveillance of Carter

Page and that there is more

information that the FBI provided

and that the judge was reviewing

this surveillance request. And that

it was not directly related to the

Kristina Stiller dossier, so they

will try to point out what they say

is inaccuracies -- Christopher

Steele.

One colleague said he was

suffering from memo fatigue. For

people sitting at home, why does

this matter?

What this says, there

is a traditional process by which

congressional committee

investigations take place, you talk

to witnesses and bring people in and

you put heads together and you try

to issue a bipartisan report at the

end of the resignation that says

these are the conclusions. Sometimes

it becomes mired in partisanship and

you will get a minority report that

accompanies the committee findings

by that happens at the end, and what

we are seeing here is a

short-circuiting of the process

where you have members of the

majority of the committee issuing

their own memos and the minority

issuing a competing memo and there

are probably more memos coming out,

all while the investigation is

ongoing and this is a reflection of

the system that the processors are

breaking down because of

partisanship is both sides tried to

manoeuvre as the independent Robert

Mueller investigation is looking at

Russian ties to the president and

could come out with a report at some

point. They are trying to repair for

any political fallout from it. --

prepare.

Got it. Thanks for joining

us. And now two more intrigued. --

two more intrigued.

There have been

a series of political

developments in the Maldives.

First let me show you

where I'm talking about.

It's this tiny

collection of islands -

it's often associated with tourism.

But we are also regularly reporting

on its political turmoil.

Earlier on Monday President

Abdulla Yameen declared

a 15 day state of emergency.

Then later in the day

the former president

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was arrested.

Security forces have also

entered the Supreme Court.

Well, for more on this I'm joined

by the BBC's Olivia Lang.

Where are we at the moment?

Everything has been moving very

swiftly since the state of emergency

was declared. Please have entered

the Supreme Court building and we

believe the police are holding the

Supreme Court judges against their

will -- police have entered. They

have arrested the former president

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who is the half

brother of the current president but

is a member of the opposition now.

He has been arrested and there are

concerns that basically describe --

basically this crackdown is going to

intensify the opposition have called

this a purge.

This is connected to a

Supreme Court ruling regarding the

opposition?

Yes, on Thursday the

supreme court announced double

ordered the government to release

political prisoners and to reinstate

12 opposition MPs -- announced,

ordered. Essentially if those 12 MPs

were reinstated that would allow the

opposition to have a majority. So

clearly the current president has

seen this as a serious threat and he

is taking drastic measures to

prevent this.

You are a keen student

of politics in the Maldives, and I'm

probably not, but I have an

impression that this is borne of

longer term political turmoil?

Yes.

The bigger picture here is whether

the Maldives will be a democracy in

the future. In 2008 it became a

democracy and had its first ever

multiparty elections, I was there

reporting on the ground. We had a

few years of essentially when the

Maldives was this rare shining

example of an Islamic democracy but

that changed when the president at

the time, who is now in exiles, he

was forced from power in 2012 and

now we have after a event. -- we

have had event after event. The

question is what happens to the

democratic rights that the Maldives

people got in 2008 but which are now

under threat.

Thank you very much.

We might come back to Olivia later

in the week as the story develops.

You can get more information on that

on the BBC News website. Now to a

story we were covering last week.

After several days of protests,

two private Kenyan TV

stations are now back on air -

a week ago they were shut down

for trying to show the opposition

leader being sworn in as President.

NTV are back on air.

But Citizen TV remains off air.

Worth reiterating

that Uhuru Kenyatta

is actually the president -

he won last year's rerun election.

Mr Odinga boycotted it, and has

refused to accept the result.

Many people have been following the

situation regarding these TV

stations. Plenty of people have been

upset by the fact these TV stations

are fair. But everyone, though. --

not everyone.

"People are talking

to each other more".

Not sure if we can back that up with

hard facts.

Mercy Juma has more from Nairobi.

It is only available to those who

access TV through pay-TV, but those

people who are on free to air cannot

access these two channel still and

the government says it is working on

this. Citizen TV, there are couple

of things which come into play

about, one is that a few days after

the stations were switched off

Citizen TV went to court on its own,

suing the government for damages,

saying it is losing thousands of

dollars every day by being off air

and that is still in court. Another

case is that when it comes to

digital transmission each of the

stations has their own way of

getting the signal out and for KTM

and CTV, they have different

channels on different platforms, and

they take their signals to a

carrier, so they have different ways

where they channel the signals, but

for Citizen TV they only have one

digital platform and that is the one

they used to transmit signals to all

the other carriers.

Yet more Brexit talks

in London today.

The EU's chief negotiator

Michel Barnier in Downing Street.

There he is alongside David Davis.

Remember, the UK government has

still to say exactly

what kind of Brexit it wants.

We got some clarity, though.

No 10 said today the UK would not

seek a relationship equivalent

to membership of the EU customs

union - that's a tarriff-free

trade area with the EU.

Here's Michel Barnier reacting

to this development.

Without the customs union and

outside the single market, barriers

to trade in goods and services are

unavoidable. Time has come to make a

choice.

The EU still wants more

detail from the UK

on what it's asking for -

that's hard for Theresa May

because she needs to satisfy a range

of opinions in her party and beyond.

Here's Vicky Young.

I think it has been a bit of a joke

in the EU, saying we can't respond

to you unless you tell us exactly

what you are aiming for, and that is

partly a negotiation, you can see

where the differences are going to

be in all of this, but Theresa May

has been trying to tread this very

careful line. Not only her Cabinet

split, but the Conservative Party is

split and then within Parliament,

they have got to work out the

numbers, there are many in the

Labour Party who say it was not

right and it is in fact reckless to

build up being in some kind of

customs union if it ever came to a

vote, and what would the result that

they? That has to be considered --

what was the result of that be? UK

would like a bespoke deal, which has

never been done before, and the

question is whether the EU are

prepared to give one to us.

Syria's government is being

accused of using chemical

weapons against its citizens -

again.

The attack in question happened

in Idlib province on Sunday.

There are unverified claims

by activists that a government

helicopter dropped barrels

on a rebel-held town called Saraqib.

This is what one

survivor had to day.

TRANSLATION:

We were in our houses

and guarding the houses of civilians

who fled because of the strikes, and

we were hit. There was a small

explosion and someone said,

chlorine, and after ten minutes we

suffocated and some people began

vomiting and others were screaming

and then the civil defence team

saved us and took us to hospital.

I want to show you some of the key

pictures on this story.

Some of them you may find upsetting.

This is the aftermath.

Five people were treated for what's

being called "suffocation".

There was also several

air strikes on Saraqib.

This is from the town's

hospital where

the injured were treated.

Doctors there say a "toxic gas"

was used in the attack.

In the nearby city of Ma'arat

al-Numan babies were among

the evacuated from a hospital.

Activists say it was hit

by Russian air strikes

and that four people died.

The opposition is claiming that

Russia stepped up attacks

in Idlib after this -

one of its planes was

shot down on Saturday.

The Russian pilot died

after detonating a grenade

to avoid capture.

Along with the strikes

I've just described,

six civilians are reported to have

died in regime attacks

in a town called Kafr Nabi.

Also - much closer to

the capital Damascus -

in the rebel enclave Eastern Ghouta,

28 civilians are

reported to have died.

This area is supposed to be in one

of four de-escalation zones.

And one other statistic.

The UN says 59 children

were killed in Syria's

conflict in January alone.

At the UN Security Council

in New York, the Assad regime

was roundly condemned.

Here's the UK's representative,

Jonathan Allen.

If it is confirmed that Assad has

again used chemical weapons on his

own people it would not only be

another entry in the catalogue his

war crimes, it would also be another

attack on us all, members of the

United Nations who have worked for

decades in the chemical weapons

Convention, for the sake of all

mankind, to exclude completely the

possibility of the use of chemical

weapons.

You may have noticed the UK

representative said at the

beginning, if this happened.

I spoke to Rash Qandeel from BBC

Arabic a short time ago.

And asked her why it's hard

to determine exactly

what was used in this attack.

The access to the area, this is the

main point that makes everything

difficult even for the humanitarian

organisation, to get into somewhere

and look at the people and speak to

them, and speak to both parties. The

accusations coming from the United

States in the Security Council

cannot be verified by what we call

an independent source, especially

and there is always a denial by the

Syrian regime of using these kind of

weapons.

But the Russians have been

involved more generally in air

strikes and a few months ago we

spoke about how Vladimir Putin said

their work is almost done, but by

still heavily involved.

Back then we

spoke about a couple of scenarios,

Russia is genuine about announcing

that their operations in Syria, the

air raids, are about to end, and the

other scenario that there was a line

of communication between Russia and

the United States going under the

table dividing the areas and talking

about which areas should be under

the supervision of each one of them,

especially that there are allies of

Russia on the ground, Iran and his

-- sometimes the United States does

something that no one expects, and a

few weeks ago we were talking about

the serene northern borders with

Turkey and the US announcement, the

Kurdish forces that they are

supporting, it made everything look

different for Russia, and the Syrian

regime and even for Turkey.

In terms

of the state of the conflict, it is

not a question of when the

opposition loses, just when it

loses. -- not a question of if the

opposition loses.

There were clashes

between an Al-Qaeda faction and

other factions on the ground which

can be called radical, and there are

fears amongst the opposition,

despite the support I got from the

Syrian -- they got from the Syrian

negotiations, and what I got from a

the Russian raids, but on the other

hand, if the opposition is divided,

especially in a place like in the

north of its lip, this will be

presented another fear for the

government and for the opposition

had been divided on so many fronts.

Thanks for joining us.

We have covered one story from Kenny

and now we have got to go back to

another. -- Kenya.

One of the world's leading

investigators of the illegal trade

in ivory and rhino horn has been

killed in Kenya.

Esmond Bradley Martin was found

in his Nairobi home on Sunday

with a stab wound to his neck.

Police suspect it was

a botched robbery.

The former UN special envoy

was known for his undercover work

investigating the black

market in ivory.

Here he is speaking in 2015.

We have about 400,000 - 450,000

elephants in Africa and we are

losing 20 - 25,000 a year and most

of that seems to be going into China

where I have been working in the

last year. There are these very

large ivory markets in Africa that

need to be closed down. You can go

to Angola and C 23 tables with

10,000 pieces of ivory, it's

completely illegal. You see the same

kind of thing in Nigeria and Egypt

and Saddam and sometimes if the OP,

but we must close down these illegal

markets -- Sudan and sometimes if

you are.

The BBC's Alastair

Leithead has more.

He was a colourful man, with

colourful suits, and that shocking

white hair, and he would walk into

some of the most dangerous and

difficult ivory and rhino horn

markets in the world and he

travelled across Africa for many

years. And Asia. Going to see people

who were working with ivory and

finding out where the tasks had come

from and where the trafficking

routes were. Posing as a buyer to

find out the prices and most

recently he was in Miami --

and before that he was all over the

world, finding out the price of

ivory, and discovering that Laos was

one of the fastest-growing ivory

markets in the world. His work has

been hugely valuable, he was in

Kenya over 40 years, his old friend,

the founder of save the elephant,

called him the unsung hero in the

work that he did in these underworld

is across the globe, governing this

important information. He was found

dead in his home -- gathering. He

had been stabbed in the neck and his

wife discovered him. It is not known

whether he was killed for his work

or whether it was simply a robbery

that have gone wrong but he will be

hugely missed by the conservation

community around the world.

For a month now, North

and South Korea have been

ironing out the details

of joint-participation in this

month's Winter Olympics.

And it's all been about sport

and cultural co-operation.

That's now being added to, though.

This is Kim Yong Nam -

he's nominally the North's number

two leader to Kim Jong Un -

and he will lead the

delegation to the games.

Here's the head of the International

Olympic Committe's thoughts on this.

The Olympic spirit has brought two

sides together that for too long

words of I did by mistrust and

animosity -- were divided by

mistrust. The Olympics but has

brought real hope for a brighter

future for everyone. -- the Olympic

spirit.

The South has always been clear

that it wanted to use these Olympics

to bring it closer to the North.

Here's NPR's Seoul

correspondent Elise Hu.

This overture has been made towards

North Korea by South Korean

President who has favoured a more

pro-engagement policy ever since he

was elected in the spring of 2017

and he has made several overtures to

the North Koreans to participate in

the Olympic Games. It wasn't until

the 1st of January when Kim Jong-un

signalled in his New Year address

that he would be willing to consider

sending a delegation of North

Koreans down to the games and that

led to this moment we are about to

see, the opening ceremony where the

Koreans will march together under a

unified neutral flag. As the US

policy has been this maximum

pressure, lots of sanctions

increasing over time, and South

Korea has now wedged itself in the

middle come at St, we want to make

peace with North Korea who we are

technically at war with -- as now

wedged itself in the middle of it,

saying. This is an authority

position and it requires some

diplomatic threading of the needle

for South Korea and a lot of

coordination between South Korea and

the US, will be required in order to

keep that alliance as strong as it

had been previously.

Philadelphia Eagles

surprised us all by beating

the New England Patriots 41-33.

It's the first time the Eagles have

ever taken home the Super Bowl.

Justin Timberlake

performed at half time.

Pink sang the nation anthem -

got through despite being poorly.

Fan's have been causing

trouble on the streets

and there have been incidents

of looting and riots in the streets

by Philadelphia.

Most of the people celebrating were

just having a good time, though.

But the BBC's Jane O'Brien is there,

and says, over all,

it's a massive celebration

and feelings of jubilation

on the streets of Philly.

It is party Monday and the

atmosphere is palpable, most people

were up until three o'clock this

morning, and many have taken the day

off work. Those who managed to

struggle in said their commute has

been the easiest babe remember

because the roads are so quiet. --

they remember. I spoke to Luigi at

the pizza place behind me, he said

Larsson was out of control, he sold

2000 wings. -- he said last night

was out of control. There are

preparations in place for the

victory parade and I'm reliably

informed it will be the biggest

parade ever seen in Philadelphia.

Fly eagles fly.

Thank you.