06/02/2018 Outside Source

In the last few minutes the worlds

most powerful rocket has been

launched in Florida. We will talk

about that and what this car is

doing on board. That is the payload

as Elon musk is explaining.

Normally

when a new rocket is tested, they

put something boring on like a block

of concrete. We were like that is

pretty boring, what is the most fun

thing we could put on.

In Taiwan and

earthquake has killed at least to

people. It's been a case of blink

and miss it on the Dow Jones today,

huge volatility on the market in New

York but also Tokyo and Hong Kong

too. Quentin Tarantino is under

pressure after Boomer Thurman

released this footage of her

crushing during filming with him 15

years ago, he has called the event

one of the greatest regrets of his

life. -- Uma Thurman. The world's

most powerful space rocket has just

taken off. It was built by SpaceX,

called the Falcon Heavy launcher and

this is the moment it left the

ground.

Building on the history of Apollo...

We are getting ready to throttle

down.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

It took off from the same site Nasa

used when it carried out the Apollo

missions nearly 40 years ago so

SpaceX has an eye for history. It

looks like a success so far and if

SpaceX can make the bigger rockets

work it opens up all sorts of

possibilities for what it can put

into space. This animation gives

more details on what happened during

the take off. You can see that this

particular operation is really three

smaller rockets bolted together.

These are actually from an earlier

SpaceX model number capable of

creating double the thrust of its

rival rocket. We can get an idea of

what is happening to these boosters,

the smaller ones come off and this

has already happened in the last few

minutes. The central booster

continues with the payload but it

too will separate and it doesn't

come down to Cape Canaveral, it has

got to land on the drone ship out at

sea so it is a hugely complicated

operation. So far it is going to

plan. The reason they are being

ambitious is if you get the rocket

down to earth it is a lot cheaper.

Estimates are the launch cost around

90 million dollars as opposed to 350

for one of its competitors. Because

of the high rate of failure, the

payload isn't a real payload,

normally you put whatever you want

in there with an equivalent weight.

Elon musk put one of his cars into

space, apparently it will have a

mannequin driving it and also David

Bowie playing as it goes about its

business. Here is Elon musk.

It is

just for fun. What is the purpose of

sending a card to Mars, there's no

point, it is just for fun and to get

the public excited. As you were

saying, normally when a new rocket

is tested they put something boring

on like a block of concrete. We were

like, that is boring, what is the

most fun thing we can put on because

this is just a test flights. We

don't want to put valuable

satellites on board so the car is

the most fun thing we can think of.

This graphic helps us understand how

it compares with other rockets. It

lifts 64 tonnes into lower orbit,

twice as much as its nearest rival,

the Delta four Heavy space shuttle

which used to lift around 24 tonnes

but now decommissioned. This video

is entitled how not to land a rocket

booster. It has had its ups and

downs over the years. You may

remember this from 2014, just how

difficult it is to do these things.

Jonathan Amos has been watching with

interest, quite a sight, wasn't it?

Elon musk had tried to draw spec --

drawdown expectations before the

launch but it has gone pretty much

to plan and we got spectacular views

of the side boosters coming back to

land at the Kennedy space Centre in

unison touching down, very balletic.

We are still waiting to hear of the

central core stage, one of three,

strapped together managed to land

successfully on a drone ship in the

Atlantic. It looks like it has gone

very well. It will be many hours

before we know if that roadster with

the mannequin is on its way to Mars.

The top part of the rocket has got

to do cruising around Earth and fire

its engines a few times to put it on

the path to the Red Planet but so

far so good.

These boosters when

they come back down, the idea is

they are completely reusable.

They

have to do a brush and clean. He has

got a new batch coming. This is kind

of like the old batch he is using at

the moment. The new batch, he wants

to fly them ten or more times and

that's how you get to this cheapness

is offering satellite operators. He

saying I have a rocket twice as

powerful as the next one but a third

of the price and that's how he

intends to blow them out of the

water.

I was showing the graphic

showing the different weight they

can lift, then the huge jump to the

one that has taken off. What have

his engineers done to allow them to

do something twice as powerful as

what has gone before?

There's a

little bit of oranges and apples in

that graphic in the sense you

compared with the space shuttle

which has more thrust off the path

than the Falcon Heavy. It has 24

tonnes of usable payload. Of course

it was lifting the orbiter off the

ground as well, that's huge rocket

plane that came back so it's a

little bit oranges and lemons.

What

we have seen today is pure lift.

Yes, five double-decker buses' worth

of payload. People have talked about

doing this

kind of thing before. Elon musk said

I can put three together, maybe I

will put another two on the sites.

The difficulty is then you have got

to control all of those engines at

the bottom and in some ways he's

already gone past this. He is

planning an even bigger rocket which

he calls the BFR and is planning to

fly it next year.

I understand how

this gets bigger kit into orbit,

help me understand why it also helps

us get further towards Mars.

You can

put something like 16 tonnes on a

path to Mars. If you think of the

curiosity rover running around Mars

at the moment, that weighs a tonne.

It took about three and a half

tonnes to get it there in terms of

all the paraphernalia to cruise

through space to get to Mars inside

a capsule to get to the surface. Now

we are talking about 16 tonnes so

imagine the rover you can put on the

surface of Mars with this particular

rocket. Then you start to think what

could I do? The biggest telescope in

the world, the James Webb telescope,

the successor to Hubble, it has to

be folded origami like. Now you have

a big rocket, you think I can build

a really big telescope and launch it

into space. Everything you put in

space is constrained by the size of

the rocket you can put it up there

with and if you have this extra

capability, you can start playing

with your imagination.

Exciting,

thanks for explaining it. Let's go

straight to South Africa because the

political drama is developing by the

minute. Jacob Zuma is under severe

pressure. South Africa's times live

new service is citing sources on

Tuesday saying the president will

resign once a list of preconditions

have been finalised. We should say

we don't know what the list of

preconditions are and we are not

able to stand the story up ourselves

but local media is saying a deal is

being worked on which would involve

the new

ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa becoming

president. Stinging criticism

although President Zuma has always

denied these allegations of

corruption.

Up until yesterday, the

ANC had been insisting that not only

would the state of the nation

address take place as planned, it

would be given by Jacob Zuma who is

still the president of the country.

As you mentioned, there has been

speculation over his future and it

has reached pretty much fever pitch

here. The opposition had been

threatening to disrupt proceedings.

We have seen them do that before but

I guess the fear within the ANC was

it would be even more dramatic than

had been seen. Certainly when the

Speaker of the house addressed

journalists earlier today, that is

what she said, that they wanted to

avoid disruption. What we are being

told here is that the internal

machinery within the ANC has clicked

into place and really it's not a

question of if but when Jacob Zuma

will go so you can imagine with all

of that happening in the background,

it would have been a pretty awkward

addressed to make, certainly at this

time.

The story is going to develop

I'm sure. We will come back to it

tomorrow but let's also tried to

work out what happened on the stock

markets on Monday. The single

biggest percentage fall since the

financial crisis in 2008 so let's

look at where we got it today and

it's been a topsy-turvy day. This is

the live feed coming from the Dow

Jones in New York. It started the

day with a fall of 2% so there have

been big swings throughout the day,

not just in New York. Here are the

figures for elsewhere in the world.

Paris down over 2%, and look at what

happened in Japan

Paris down over 2%, and look at what

happened in Japan and Hong Kong.

This is the fourth day

happened in Japan and Hong Kong.

This is the fourth day we have seen

this volatility and primarily

markets going down. If you are

wondering, should I worry? We have

been listening to lots of experts

today, most have said no and here is

one of them.

Markets have become

extremely expensive, not just high

valuation but earnings ratio. A lot

of companies have become expensive,

the price of their stocks relative

to what they earn. As we saw Asia

follow suit, part of it is

profit-taking so they have already

gained this match on the rise, maybe

it is time to take a little bit out

in case the market falls further.

This is the tweet from James Hughes

who says the Dow is back-up, panic

over. He's right, there doesn't seem

to be panic at the moment but I

don't think we are back to normal

yet. A broker called Jason Lawlor

says "Trader's paradise right now...

" because they see it as a chance to

make money. Curiously Donald Trump

has not been tweeting about this. He

has not turned to the subject in the

last 24 hours. It is worth saying

those things don't directly

correlate, anyway the president

hasn't been talking about this but

his Treasury Secretary has.

We are

very focused on the long-term

economic growth and we believe the

policies we have enacted including

tax reform are very positive for

long-term economic growth. We are

already beginning to see that in

terms of corporate investments back

into the US and the impact on

corporate earnings. As you said the

stock market is up significantly,

over 30% since President Trump was

elected. We are monitoring the stock

markets, they are functioning well

and we continue to believe in the

long-term impact of the stock

markets.

We spoke an hour ago and

things were chopping and changing,

where have we got to now?

Markets

just closed about ten minutes ago

and the Dow seems to have closed 567

points up. At the start of the day

it had gone down 500 points, it made

up those losses and has closed

higher and that seems to be the case

with the other industries as well

which means it has closed higher

than it closed yesterday. It has

made up some lost ground but

definitely not all because on Friday

and yesterday we saw the massive

slide but essentially it is an

indication of what people have been

talking about on the stock market

today which is volatility and they

expect that won't go away so soon.

Even though we have seen a

relatively good day on the markets

today, they believe this volatility

were last at least for the rest of

the week.

And how do we understand

the New York market is up whilst

others have all gone down

significantly?

We will have to wait

and see what the Asian reaction is

to what the US markets have done

today because to some extent the

Asian markets were reacting to what

happened in the US markets

yesterday. How all of this is

connected, the sell-off started on

worries interest rates would rise

rapidly. If that happens essentially

investors with money to spend could

think of moving it to the US and

away from other countries and that's

the reason you have seen this domino

effect on other stock market. Seeing

what has happened today, we have to

wait and see how Asian markets react

now. OK, thank you. In a few minutes

we will talk about the Premier

League because it is considering a

winter break, perhaps in January.

We

will bring you up-to-date on that.

The former chairman of the

construction firm Carillion has said

he takes full responsibility for its

collapse and is devastated. Philip

Green was giving evidence to MPs on

a committee investigating why the

firm went into administration. It

will delay a hospital project in

Liverpool.

Subcontractors are waiting to find

out what sort of money they will

secure when liquidation proceedings

are finished with Carillion. In the

meantime they are struggling to make

plans and commit resources to the

Royal Liverpool.

Our lead story is that in the last

few minutes, SpaceX has launched the

most powerful rocket from Cape

Canaveral. Two of its boosters are

already safely back down on Earth.

Some stories from World Service, a

judge in London has ruled the arrest

warrant against the WikiLeaks

founder Julian Assange remains

valid. He has been living in the

embassy in London for five years.

Morgan Tsvangirai is reported to be

critically ill at hospital. He is

being treated in South Africa, and

was a vocal opponent of Robert

Mugabe. And thousands of you have

been watching this drone footage

from Missouri of a huge pile-up that

involved over 100 vehicles and

several independent accidents. It

happened on Sunday but the video has

only just been released. You will

find it on the most watched list on

the BBC News app. BP's quarterly

profits are quite something, for the

last three months of last year the

profits quadrupled to $6.2 billion.

That's not unrelated to oil prices,

they have hit a recent four year

high of $70 per barrel. Here is one

analyst on what is going on, and on

the ongoing impact of the deep water

Horizon disaster.

This spill still

casts a shadow over BB and its

results. The net debt ratio is still

high and that has been a stubborn

problem for them and that weighs

against them compared to some major

oil peers. With oil prices up, that

has helped them, but they announced

to investors there was a $1.7

billion charge last month and they

cannot quite close the chapter on

that.

We often talk about electric

vehicles on the programme, much less

so about aeroplanes with electric

engines. Here is a new report on

this.

Battery technology is one of the key

thing is big companies around the

world are investing in today. I

think we will see a progressive or

electric power on the bigger

aeroplanes and we will see this

concept of hybrid electric.

The way the technology works is

similar to how an electric car

works. The batteries power an

electric motor and in the case of

the aeroplane it powers the

propellers that get the aeroplane

into the air.

I think it is just a

question of when and not if really.

We think in ten years there will be

some very finalised design is

available but then it will have to

go through tough certification

process.

Let's look at this story in detail,

the English Premier League is

considering a winter break. The

league is saying "We are open to

this in principle". Over Christmas

in England it is pretty much nonstop

football, six games in 20 days is

not unusual. Pep Guardiola at man

city says how many injuries will the

players have to have, he's not happy

about this. In February the

Champions League starts and that

puts more pressure on. Jose

Mourinho, he thinks English clubs

are handicapped in the Champions

League whereas other sides for

example in Spain are fresh because

they have had a winter break. None

of this will go ahead without

support of the broadcasters which

have spent $7 billion on the right.

The reason this issue has come

around now is the next round of

broadcast rights are about to be

auctioned. He was the BBC sports

editor giving his thoughts, you can

find that on the BBC sport website.

They have been running a poll on

this issue. 58% of people voting

support the idea. Here is a tweet

from the football fans Federation

saying...

So I guess it depends who you ask.

Chelsea not having a great time at

the moment, a couple of bad defeats

including to Watford last night.

The

Football Association will be

thinking about the fact the England

national team have got -- not been

to a World Cup semifinal since 1990.

This is the first time the Premier

League, who also have a massive say

of course, have ever even considered

it. They cannot bring it in

straightaway and the main reason for

that is the current TV rights. TV

companies pay billions of dollars

for the right to show Premier League

football matches. If they do bring

it in, it may have a big impact on

the tiredness of England players,

but at the same time the theory goes

that if they do bring in a winter

break, some of the top Premier

League clubs might use this as an

excuse to make more money. In

preseason, June and July, they often

leave the country and go to the

Middle East, to China and America to

make money through pre-season tours.

What the likes of Manchester city

and Manchester United use those

weeks to have a quick moneymaking

trip abroad? It is possible they

would be Premier League are keen to

talk about it, and it could be that

in early January, rather than over

Christmas, a deal is struck to suit

all parties.

Just before we finish

this half, I want to show you again

these extraordinary pictures from

Cape Canaveral in Florida in case

you missed them at the beginning of

the programme. This is the most

powerful rocket in terms of what it

can lift that has ever been fired,

the latest from SpaceX and we will

get you more on that as we go

through the programme.

Good evening, thank you for the

joining me for a look at the world

weather. You will notice the

graphics are different this evening,

I hope you enjoy them as we take a

closer look at what's going on

around the globe, and restart in

North America and temperature

contrast. A lot of cold air digging

its way south across the plains of

the US but bumping into this from

the Gulf of Mexico, forming an

active weather front bringing heavy

rain into the southern Mississippi

Valley, through the appellations on

Wednesday running into the

north-east. It's a wintry outlook

for Montreal and New York. This will

exit through the east coast quickly

so the forecast for New York, by the

time we get to Thursday, much

brighter but it will feel

significantly colder. That cold air

is digging its way into Atlanta too.

Heading to south Africa now, where

drought is still a major headline

for Cape Town. The worst drought in

over 100 years and it looks like the

water may be cut off completely once

we get into May unless we get

significant relief. The weather

front is set to approach on Friday,

any rain is a good thing here. That

clears away at the start of the

weekend, then back into sunshine on

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, but at

least some respite hopefully. Into

North Africa now, not such a lively

looking weather front but this cloud

is significant, the border between

the warm air from the tropics and

cooler air that has moved down from

Europe. Along with the cool air,

active weather systems so some

unusual weather across northern

Africa, snow at quite low levels,

and for Wednesday a pretty nasty

area of low pressure focusing on the

Canaries. We are going to get some

heavy showers here and further along

the north African coast the weather

becoming increasingly unsettled for

Tunis and Tripoli on Friday and

Saturday. Casablanca stays pretty

unsettled throughout. Heading

further north, let's look at that

low as we centre on the

Mediterranean. If we take off some

of the cloud from this picture we

can see what's going on with the

snow, with the northerly airstream

and snow in the forecast on

Wednesday for the Pyrenees, still

wintry weather on the way for France

and heavy snow affecting the east

side of the cops for some time.

Meanwhile closer to home for the UK,

we stay with plenty of cold weather

and further snow showers for the

coming days. More from my colleagues

in half an hour.

I'm Ros Atkins with Outside Source,

the main stories, SpaceX has

launched the most powerful rocket in

the world in Florida, then it is

lifting up with a big crowd cheering

it on. As you may have

lifting up with a big crowd cheering

it on. As you may have seen, SpaceX

box Elon Musk used to the sports car

as part of the load, he explains

why. He isn't there but I can tell

you that the Dow Jones has closed up

but London, Tokyo Paris and Hong

Kong were all down and it's still

volatile markets. If you want to get

in touch please use our hashtag.

Just days until the Winter Olympics

in Pyeongchang, and there is no

doubt we'll see a lot of high-grade

sport. Although it's interesting

that at the moment the whole thing

is looking awfully political.

Yesterday on Outside Source we told

you North Korea's delegations will

be led by this guy, the second in

charge after Kim Jong-un. The

American delegation will be led by

Vice President Mike Pence. And he

has been warning today that despite

the sporting and cultural overtures

from North Korea, we shouldn't be

taken in.

We will tell the truth

about North Korea at every stop. We

will ensure that whatever

co-operation existing between North

Korea today with their Olympic teams

doesn't cloud the reality of a

regime that must continue to be

isolated by the world community.

Let's stick to our correspondent. A

curious lion they have to walk

because they like the idea of

playing broker between two sides

that don't get on but they hated if

the games become political.

That's

right, I think the games are already

political so this is a lost cause.

You heard Mike Pence taking the

tough line, he and his people say

he's going to the Olympics to

counter the propaganda value of the

North Korea charm offensive and

remind everyone what a bad actor

North Korea really is. When asked if

they will be a chance for a meeting

with the North Koreans at the

Olympics, he said, we'll see what

happens. He said this after a

telephone call with Rex Tillerson

who said the same thing, we will see

what happens. Then we heard from an

administration official, message has

been sent, not quite clear what it

involves but they have left the door

at least ajar from a possible

meeting, and if there are going to

be some, Kim Yong-nam is a senior

official but the public messaging

anyway is about North Korea's bad

record and its nuclear threat and in

Washington President Trump has also

used that same messaging in fighting

North Korean defectors to the White

House to highlight human rights

abuses.

North Korea and South Korea

are allies, and you get the

impression that the USA is irritated

by their enthusiasm to have joint

teams and joint cultural events and

so on?

I think it makes them a bit

uneasy. Publicly President Trump has

said we hope something positive can

come out of North Korea's

participation and the Americans are

pleased that it has at least the

peaceful because American athletes

are going there as well and they

don't want anything to go wrong but

the government has been quite

enthusiastic about this

participation of North Korea and

says they hope it will lay the

foundation for better relations.

What administration officials say

when asked is, we have a lot of

talks behind the scenes with South

Korea, they've been very clear that

in order for relations to improve

North Korea has to deal with its

nuclear programme as the world is

asking so that is the messaging we

get here. It is quite a different

sort of feel that the South Koreans

are giving, then the message that

Mike Pence was talking about which

is, we need to make sure that North

Korea is isolated and under

pressure.

One more story about

Syria, a spokesperson has spoken

about the recent chemical attacks

there, she was asked if the

Americans are thinking about

military action to deter this kind

of attack and this is the response.

We have taken military action

before, you are all familiar with

the steps our government took to do

that. We're watching the situation.

We're very concerned about it. Sex

attacks in a month is of tremendous

concern not just to the United

States but to the entire world. I

want forecast any action that may or

may not be taken.

Is that a warning

to the Syrians?

I have been clear,

we've put out two strongly worded

statements about the use of chemical

weapons, I'll just leave it at that.

Back to Barbara on this, in reality

America knows that the strongly

worded statements don't get you far

in Syria.

It's true, she was careful

not to forecast military action but

last week the Defence Secretary

seemed to suit a failed threat, he

said the regime would be ill-advised

to violate the chemicals weapon

agreements again. The US is at the

forefront of getting a response to

these reported attacks by chlorine

gas, they have been blocked at the

United Nations by Russia but they

are trying to set up a mechanism for

an alternative investigation but

that wouldn't have the same cloud or

scope as United Nations

investigative team.

Thank you

Barbara. I began by talking to

Barbara about the Winter Olympics.

Back in 1988 when South Korea last

hosted the games, just months before

them and North Korean spy blew up a

Korean airlines plane and the person

who carried out that attack has now

issued a warning. She says the North

Korean regime recruited her and

trained her to murder those 150

South Korean people has not changed

and she's been telling her story to

the BBC's Seoul correspondent, Laura

Bicker.

She was under heavy sedation,

with her mouth covered

with adhesive tape.

TRANSLATION:

I was told

that I was on the front

line to unify Korea.

That I would be freeing South Korea,

like a revolutionary hero.

I was full of pride and dignity.

But I realised it was murder,

killing my own people.

Innocent, everyday people.

It was a Japanese radio,

a small radio, and that's

where I put the detonator.

Next to it was the liquid

explosives in a liquor bottle,

in a plastic bag, which I placed

on a shelf in the plane.

In the North, we are

taught that the South

is a colony of America.

Poor and corrupt.

That the US is an aggressor.

We are told they are the arch

enemy, and we cannot

live under the same sky.

In a blaze of publicity this

morning, the South Koreans paraded

the woman they claimed

was a North Korean agent.

Kim Hyon-hui apparently told

intelligence officers she'd blown up

the South Korean airliner to disrupt

the Olympic Games.

Do you think right now

all of this is fake?

Do you think the run-up

to the Olympics, the overtures

of peace coming from Kim Jong-un,

do you think it's fake?

TRANSLATION:

Of course it is fake.

The ultimate goal of North Korea is

to complete its nuclear programme.

They have nothing in their minds

but nuclear weapons.

North Korea will not

change through dialogue.

North Korea cannot be

changed by soft words.

I believe only pressure

will work on North Korea.

So, you have life,

you have love, and now,

I believe, you have children.

Do they know what you did?

TRANSLATION:

My children are not

old enough to know the story,

and I haven't tried to tell them

the details yet.

But these days, with

internet readily available,

and my interviews in the media,

I suspect they must know something.

My son is quiet,

but I think he knows.

As the bomber, I have a lifelong

work of atonement.

It is my cross to bear

for the rest of my life.

Much more on all the stories that we

cover on Outside Source via the BBC

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Taiwan, there has been a 6.4

magnitude earthquake, several

buildings have partially collapsed

and the epicentre of the earthquake

was 20 kilometres from a city,

several smaller after-shocks

followed. Let's follow with this

update. At 11:50pm, this magnitude

six earthquake struck in eastern

Taiwan off the coast of Hualien

city. It was quite shallow and

caused an intensity of about seven

in Hualien. Three buildings tilted

of including a ten story hotel,

another ten story residential and

commercial building and a 5-6 story

residential building. They told us

that amazingly they been able to

rescue 28 people, a few minutes ago

when I spoke to them. Most of them

suffer only light injuries but it is

still early because many people are

still trapped inside a hotel. Local

media reports that 29 people are

trapped inside a hotel alone and the

authorities say they don't know how

many people were trapped in the

other tall building, the residential

building. So they are still trying

to find people inside. The images

you see of the hotel show that the

first floor and B one have been

crushed so what you see at the

bottom floor is actually the second

floor. The local media says that

what you can see is the fourth floor

but what I've heard from the

authorities is that two floors have

been crushed and they frantically

trying to find the people still

inside. There was a moment when a

woman in Hualien was talking to the

BBC when another after-shock struck.

Oh, my God. This is an after-shock.

I'm sorry.

My goodness, my goodness.

We have been told to go into the

road and stay in the road but we are

having some after-shocks, maybe this

is our seventh of the hour. After

the initial shock they came about

every five minutes and now they have

been happening maybe every 20

minutes. Not as regular but still

happening.

Let's go to Germany. Some

workers in Germany have won the

right to reduce weekly hours from 35

down to 28. That is, if they need to

look after children or elderly or

sick relatives. If they are allowed

to do that they may do and two US.

The unions also wanted workers doing

that to get paid the same as you

would for doing a full working week.

They didn't get that but these

workers instead will get a pay rise

of over 4%. In return the companies

can increase the working week to 40

hours but only for workers who would

like to do the extra hours. At the

moment this deal just covers one

state in Germany, Barden Burton

Berg. It involves about 1 million

workers. There could be a point with

this spreads across Germany's

industrial sector, at which point

millions of people would be

affected, here's Damian in Berlin.

Over the years the power balance in

Germany has shifted from bosses to

employees. That's because the

economy has been growing for nine

years now. That means an appointment

is at record low and as a result

it's hard for many in many sectors

to find skilled workers or any

workers at all for that matter. That

means employees now feel them bold

and and have been asking for higher

wages and also for more flexible

working conditions which is why this

new optional 28 hour working week

has become a contractual obligation

hundreds of thousands of workers in

this particular sector. The question

is, though, our work is going to

want to take this up because it

would mean less money for 28 hours

working week, if it proves popular

it could expand to other parts of

the union because this company, IG

Metall, has set the standard for

many types of working conditions.

It'll be interesting to see if it

does in fact expand to the rest of

the economy, this has been a topic

in Germany figures, the idea of

work- life balance and how to

combine the family with the

commitments of the job. This is the

first time it has become a

contractual obligation. Thank you.

Doing that report my screen went

black which was not the development

and was looking for so we will try

to resolve that and will talk about

Quentin Tarantino because he is

under pressure for a couple of

reasons. Firstly when you must

sermon -- Uma Thurman spoke to the

New York newspapers sheet said

Harvey Weinstein tried to hit on her

and also spoke about on the an

accident on the set of the film Kill

Bill. She put this image on

Instagram, we see her driving a car

at speed and hitting that tree which

she said injured her neck and knee,

injuries that have never properly

healed. She says she didn't feel

safe when this was proposed but

Quentin Tarantino refused to let you

use a stunt double. He says he

doesn't remember that exchange that

Uma Thurman has also said the

circumstances of this event were

negligent to the point of

criminality, he doesn't see

malicious intent, she says that the

direct is deeply regretful. Quentin

Tarantino, for his part, says the

crash is one of the biggest regrets

of his life. Earlier ASBO to

entertainment journalist Kay Jay

Matthews in Los Angeles. This is her

take on this development.

We know

what is interesting, a lot of people

think the timing of this interview

fits in with the MeToo movement, and

because of that, but Quentin

Tarantino has allegedly said he

wants to do the interview with the

New York Times, because they had to

go through a lot of facilities, he

wanted her to tell her story to the

New York

Times, she seems to think there is a

systematic allegiance against to

prevent her from showing this video.

This is the second reason why

Quentin Tarantino is under pressure,

audio from an interview with Howard

Stern which has resurfaced, in this

interview Quentin Tarantino defends

Roman Polanski, a director who has

lived in Europe figures to avoid

charges to do with the alleged rape

of a 13-year-old girl in the 19 70s.

This is what Quentin Tarantino says.

Nine it is not started to retake. He

has sex with a minority Mac. That is

not rape. When you talk about rape,

it means throwing them around, is

one of the most violent crimes,

throwing the word rape around is

like throwing the word racist

around. She was down with that.

She's talked about it.

You are

crazy!

I am right, she's talked

about it. She's said, it didn't

really do anything, it was the

technicality of being 13.

That

hasn't aged well. Back to our Los

Angeles correspondent.

That is

awful, you cringe when you listen to

that ordeal. It hasn't aged well. He

was on the Howard Stern show,

everyone knows Howard Stern is a

shock jock. When you have someone

like Howard Stern trying to tell you

right from wrong you know something

is wrong. Howard Stern claimed the

crime was raped and Quentin

Tarantino said no, he read the book,

this is blown out of all proportion,

it's not the same thing as some

violent rape that happens between

strangers and even though the girl

was 14 she was perhaps mentally

older than 14, she was partying and

taking drugs. So far the reaction in

Hollywood has been shock and

disgust, some people are saying that

you shouldn't even work with Quentin

Tarantino any more. It's hard to see

how he will come back from this. So

far Quentin Tarantino hasn't

released a statement regarding the

resurfacing of this audio clip from

the Howard Stern show. It will be

interesting to see how he explains

this.

A day of the utmost

significance in the UK because it

has been 100 years since some women

were first given the right to vote,

the law that came into effect on the

6th of February 1980 and gave the

vote to women who were over 30 and

who owned land. This followed along

campaign by members of the

suffragettes, who campaigned

vigorously for women's rights to

vote. Theresa May spoke at an event

today to commemorate the centenary.

Those who fought to establish their

right, my right, every woman's right

to vote in elections, stand for

office and take their full plays in

public life did so in the face of

fierce opposition. They persevered

in spite of all danger and

discouragement because they knew

their cause was right. Eventually

through a free encounter of opposing

views their arguments won the day

and we are all in their debt.

Some

campaigners are demanding pardons

for the women jailed in this

struggle but Helen Pankhurst the

great granddaughter of suffragette

Emily Pankhurst has told the BBC

this is not a priority.

If there is

something that the suffragettes and

the suffragists knew it was how long

and difficult the journey would be

so they would understand that 100

years later we are still fighting

those same issues. S I think they

would also say, grab the moment now

when there seems to be something in

the air and use it to the maximum

advantage. I also feel we have a

decade of action ahead of us because

2018 is the centenary of the first

vote. 2028 will be the centenary of

the equal franchise so let's use the

ten years we have now and come

together, different organisations,

different individuals saying, what

do we really care about.

We can show

you part of a lovely interview from

earlier, Greta was just two years

old when women were granted the

right to vote and cheese but to

Victoria Derbyshire from her care

home in the south-east of England.

It is very important, the women

thought, wait, during the First

World War, we did a man's job. We

worked in the factories and worked

in the fields. We did a man's job so

why can't we have a vote. Equal

rights. But men are, by nature,

control freaks. There's no argument

about that.

And I wouldn't argue

with her! While it has been 100

years since women could vote in the

UK, it has been a much more recent

change in many other countries. We

will play you some tips of Alma, the

woman's affairs added to add BBC

Arabic.

There's a large gap between

the first and the last Arab

countries whose women have gained

the right to vote. For example

immediately the Second World War,

women in some countries like

Djibouti, Syria and Lebanon have

this right but however only recently

in Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia

for example, only in 2015 have women

got that right. And we were all

observing that online activism. Also

what is observed in the region is

that although women like the Arab

women's movements started in the

late 19th century and the struggle

has been really long, it is thought

that after independence and gaining

these rights women will enjoy and

play a more active role, but because

of political instability in these

countries, the whole political

climate was not really helpful for

women and citizens, to participate

politically. We spoke to women in a

few days ago who said, yes, I will

be voting now, I won't abandon this

struggle and women took part four,

others are not convinced that these

societies are democratic enough or

that they believe in this whole

political gain.

For much more on the

centenary, find it online, there's

an entire section on the BBC News

website, more fascinating stories

about the women who fought for

women's right to vote, I will see

you tomorrow for another hour of the

biggest stories in the world. Bye

bye.

biggest stories in the world. Bye

bye.