07/02/2018 Outside Source

This is outside source. We will

begin in Germany, after months of

uncertainty the Social Democrats

look like they are going to join

forces with Angela Merkel

I am

convinced the deal can be a basis

for the good and stable Government

the country needs and many in the

world are expecting of us.

There has

been a deal done in the US Senate.

They have agreed add two-year budget

deal. That has to be sold to the

House of Representatives and of

course President too. Looks like

North Korea's leader is going to

send his sister to the opening

ceremony of the Winter Olympics, we

will find out what we know about

her. The US Justice Department says

it has taken out a major cyber crime

ring which traded in stolen

identity, we will learn more about

that.

You might remember back in September

Outside Source was in Germany for

its election, and all of these

months on, we finally look like we

have a coalition Government, Angela

Merkel will be the Chancellor, that

much was predictable, what we didn't

see in September was that the Social

Democrats would help her form a

government. We didn't see it coming

because he said he wouldn't be doing

it. But when Angela Merkel offered

the Finance Ministry, the foreign

ministry and Labour policy the

Social Democrats couldn't resist.

Here is the Chancellor first of all.

TRANSLATION:

I am convinced the deal

we have reached can be the bay

situation for a good and stable

Government our country needs and

many in the world expect of us. And

the working plan that will improve

life in Germany and will help push

our economy into the future.

This is what the new German

Parliament looks like, this big

black block represents Angela Merkel

and the two Conservative Party's

which she represents. The red is the

Social Democrats, both had poor

elections but it looks like they

will make it work. Here is Martin

Schultz, the man who said he

wouldn't form a coalition ex playing

why this is the right plan.

What we

have managed to include in the

treaty about the European Union, and

its future, will initiate a

fundamental change of direction in

Europe. With this treaty Germany

will return to having an active

leading role in the European Union.

Mr Schultz said Germany will pay

more into Europe's budget, that will

be music to the ears of Mr Macron,

he will have further reform, he

wants a joint budget for the

eurozone, but perhaps unsurprisingly

that hasn't gone down with the far

right party AFD. They were one of

the stories of the election in

September. Their hay are with 94

seats, their first reputation in the

Bundestag. This is what one of their

senior figures has been saying

today.

Mr Schultz will ensure that the

European policy is made in the

Social Democrats head quarters in

the future. We are getting a fiscal

union, a European Finance Minister,

and probably a European investment

budget.

One wonders why Macron does not

immediately move to the federal

chancery.

The reason the AFD did so

well is because both of the big

parties suffered in the election

because of their support for Mr

Merkel's open door immigration

policy, you may remember, back in

2015, summer of 2016 over two

million people came into Germany at

the peak of the migrant crisis and

some political lessons appear to

have been learned because this new

coalition deal says there will be a

cap on the annual intake of between

180 and 220,000 people. Well, a bit

earlier I spoke to European regional

editor here in the BBC News room. I

wanted to understand how much reel

influence the Social Democrats would

have, over Germany's Government and

Angela Merkel.

Well the finance ministry is the

main thing, that signals a clear

shift away from the policies

previously of Wolfgang should be

her, he hasn't been Finance Minister

since October but broadly speaking

the CDU and its epitome was driving

a policy of austerity, she was very

tightly controlled in terms of the

loans that Germany was prepared to

extend to other countries in the

eurozone and putting a Social

Democrat in charge of the Ministry

signals there may be some sort of

shift. It is not as clear as saying,

that German policy is going to

change completely because the

agreement that was drawn up now,

specifies that the broad policy on

respecting eurozone budgetary rules

must stay, but broadly speaking, the

Social Democrats in favour of a

Europe that shows more solidarity,

we might see some shift overtime on

that issue.

Let us talk about the

zero zone and the European Union,

Schultz is pro European as it is

possible to get really. Angela

Merkel still enthusiastic but not as

enthusiastic in terms of

integration. Are we likely to see

the German position shift on that?

Angela Merkel's position has shifted

slightly, in the post-Brexit years

and also with manual Macron being

such a volleyballable passionate

sport over a more integrationist

stance to Europe. There have been

signals that Germany would consider

things it would have discard. Like a

eurozone budget, these sort of

thing, now the Germans won't

necessarily come up with the same

proposals as Macron but what will

happen is that there will be a shift

broadly and that axis, the

Franco-German axis that is key on

the future of the eurozone will now

be able to form policies and move

forward. Up to now the last few

months and the uncertainty created

has left a vacuum at the heart of

Europe. . So the two big parties had

a disastrous election creating the

new Government, the party which got

the most coverage on election night

was the AFD. It is

the Bundestag, where does it fit

into the political equation? You can

be sure that eggs is egg, that the

AFD will be extremely voluble about

any attempts to increase bail outs

to indealted euro done countries,

for example they will seeks to

maximise some of the potential for

in terms of showing the German

public they are looking after

taxpayer dollars which is a very

very important issue, something that

Angela Merkel has made a big deal of

in the past, so they are very much,

they are waiting in some ways,

because at the moment this coalition

agreement hasn't been signed, sealed

and delivered, it still has to be

voted on.st result of that in a

postal ballot is expected in early

March, it is conceivable that the

Social Democrats will reject it. If

that happens all bets are off. If

that does we will look at another

election.

That not going to happen.

We will see. Martin Schultz believes

he has done enough in the

negotiations to deliver that

something he his party will back. He

better hope so, if not it's going to

be a very interesting election with

support for the CDU, they all have

slipped in the polls since the last

election in September.

We can be

sure neither of those parties want

an election soon.

sure neither of those parties want

an election soon. The leaders of

parties in the Senate say they have

reached an agreement on a spending

build.

No-one would suggest it is perfect,

but we worked hard to find common

ground and stay focussed on serving

the merge people.

After months

ground and stay focussed on serving

the merge people.

After months of

legislative log jam, this judgeest

deal is a genuine breakthrough,

after months of fiscal bring

manship, this budget deal is the

first real sprout of bipartisanship

and it should break the long cycle

of spending crises, that have

snarled this Congress, and hampered

our middle class.

If you are

watching those clips, you can be

forgiven for thinking, what exactly

is changed? There was a huge gulf in

positions between the Republicans

and the Democrats so what has given?

I have been talking to catty in

Washington.

It was that a retherapy a rare thing

in Washington of Senators doing what

they are meant to do, working

together to try and get things done.

As you heard there both sides being

pretty complimentary ant the other.

They didn't deal with the tricky

issue of immigration is what

changed. They took that out of the

bill all together and dealt with the

financing and managed to come to

something that satisfied both sides.

The Republicans got more financing

for the military, Democrats got more

for health care programmes and

emergency relief. This have to send

to it the House of Representatives

and see whether king men there sign

on to it.

Where did the immigration

go? It hasn't been resolved.

That is

what Democrats are saying in the

House of Representatives. You

haven't said you would have you a

proper discussion on the dreamer,

young people brought to America

illegally by their parents and some

Democrats are saying we are not

going to carry on funding to budget,

because our agreement is the

leverage we have, so that whole

immigration issue has the capacity

to muck up this deal.

The

President's press secretary says he

is pleased the deal is being

reached. That is interesting because

did you see what the Presidents we

saying yesterday?

I would shut it

down over this issue, I can't speak

for everybody at the table but I

will tell you I would shut it down

over this issue, if we don't

straighten out our border we don't

have our country.

We know the

President wants to build a wall

along one of America's borders with

Mexico. Here is catty on whether

there has been progress to funding

Mr Trump's wall.

No, because so far

the Democrats need to sign on to

funding that way and not agreed to

do so, along with other restrictions

to what are legal immigration

programmes like the viva lot

trisystem, that is what the

Democrats didn't want to do. It is

interesting to hear the President

saying that. Last time round he felt

when there was a shut down that was

a win for Republicans and for the

White House and a lot for the

Democrats so he is trying to run the

second part of this movie and see if

he can get himself another one and

blame the Democrats F the President

doesn't want to keep the Government

open, whatever people in Congress do

isn't going to make much difference.

I wanted to talk to her about this.

Do you remember this photographs? It

seems the President was inspired.

Here is a Washington Post story

reporting that last month Mr Trump

met top generals to tell them to

think about a parade of their own.

There is an unnamed official quoting

him as saying it was one of the

greatest parades we have seen. We

will try and top it. The White House

has been claiming Mr Trump was

joking there, but evidently some

people took it seriously, and if

America did go for this, it wouldn't

be the only one. We have mentioned

France, international parade dates

back to the 1880, it is to celebrate

a key turning point of the French

revolution. Then there is this,

Victory Day in Russia where you see

a lot of military hard wear in

Moscow, if that is your thing, you

also get a lot of that in Pyongyang

every year where the North Koreans

go for it. Interestingly and I only

found this out today China has upped

the number military parades since Xi

Jinping became President. The

Chinese are flexing their military

muscles a bit more. This isn't

something the Americans have sought

to do. National public radio told us

while the President tends to shy

away from this because it can seem

like they are trying to be like

their would war adversity --

adversaries. It's a New World order

now, perhaps Mr Trump...

We have had

general Mattis, the secretary of

defence saying the Pentagon is

looking at plans that it is their

job to look at them, he has

confirmed that America is mulling

this idea of a militaryer parade. In

the last hour on our programme I

spoke to a Republican Congressman

and a Republican who is the former

US Defence Secretary Bill Coen, both

told me they didn't think this was

awe good idea, they said why are we

spending this money on military

parades which can cost millions of

dollars, when what we need to do is

make sure that American planes are

flying enough, that American

military members are getting pay

checks, there are useful things that

they should spend it on. The

Congressman said it wasn't a very

American idea. 1993 George W Bush

held a military parade in order of

veterans but it was a one off event.

This isn't something that American

Presidents have wanted to do.

Stay with us on Outside

Source - still to come.

This video

of Korea expert Robert Kelly

being interrupted by his children

became world famous.

He tells us what it's like to become

an unwitting celebrity.

Victims of the serial sex attacker

John Worboys have been given

permission to challenge the decision

by the Parole Board to release him.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent Danny

Shaw explains the next

stage of the process.

A dossier of evidence, the

reasoning, the material, everything

that underlines the Parole Board's

decision is being delivered to

lawyers for the victims and also the

lawyers for Sadiq Khan the Mayor of

London who is bringing the

challenge, it is a lever arch file

of documents and files, so they will

be going through that to find out

for the first time why has this

decision been taken? When they have

seen the reasoning behind that, then

they can formulate their arguments

to take them to the next step, which

is the hearing next month. There is

a possibility, I suppose, that if

the reasons were so solid and so

grounded in, in evidence, they might

decide to abandon it. I think that

is unlikely at this stage,

everything is up in the air.

Republicans and Democrats

in the US Senate have hailed

a breakthrough in efforts to avert

another government shutdown.

But it still needs to be approved

by the House and the President.

Syrian activists say the continuing

bombardment by government forces

of the last big rebel-held area

near Damascus has killed

another 32 civilians.

More than 100 people have died

in the Eastern Ghouta region

in the past two days.

The United Nations says the scale

of the Syrian government's offensive

has increased dramatically in recent

days and has called for an immediate

humanitarian ceasefire.

Taiwan has been stuck by a second

earthquake in two days.

This time it was magnitude

5.7 quake - and again

the east coast was affected.

67 people remain unaccounted

for after Tuesday's earthquake.

And 7 people are

confirmed to have died.

Police in China have started

using sunglasses with mobile facial

recognition technology,

that are hooked up to a database

of suspects, allowing

officers to scan crowds.

That story's on BBC.com.

36 people in various countries have

been charged for their alleged

involvement in running a cyber-crime

service responsible for more

than $530m of losses.

The gang is said to have dealt

in stolen credit cards and passwords

and engaged in bank fraud and ID

theft.

Are all these people in America or

other countries?

Absolutely not,

they are across five different

continent, including Asia, Europe,

Australia, and of course, the United

States, in countries as diverse as

Ukrainian, Kosovo, the UK, the US

and Russia, this is a global

operation, and the data they stole

and sought to sell also comes from

round the world including about

three-quarters of a million bank

details from HSBC customers in the

UK.

If they had these bank details

who would they be looking to sell

them too?

Too? To? They ran this

forum which has been round on the

dark web since about 2010, and what

they would do is they would have

various levels of membership, anyone

could apply to become a member and

you could buy various illegal things

including identity, bank

detail,,viruses from different

sources round the world with Krypto

currencies and other forms of

unidentified transactions so it was

a global market place, very similar

to I suppose a legal market place on

the regular internet that just sold

all of this stolen date that that

was presumably gained in various

hacking attempts.

The charges have

been issue, Joe but have the people

been picked up?

Only 13 have been

picked up. It is an ongoing basis

Gateshead, the Justice Department

won't tell us which 13 of the 36

have been found, but what they have

told us it is an operation that

involvings more than 20 law

enforcement agencies is round the

world, including British, one of the

people who was picked up is a

29-year-old Brit, and this is an

operation that is carrying on in

many countries round the world so no

doubt we will hear about some

further arrests in the coming days.

Days.

Who co-ed or naits this?

This

has been co-ordinated by the Jussi

Jaaskelainen -- US Justice

Department. Interpol has played a

big part of this, I suppose, many of

the crimes have taken place in the

US, in the US Justice Department

saying that all 50 states are

affected. People in all 50 states

have suffered on behalf o, because

of these crimes, so out makes sense

that the US Justice Department has

taken the lead. It includes law

enforcement agencies is across the

world, including in Ukrainian the

ringleader supposedly comes from

Ukrainian, the guy who started the

forum in 2010.

Thank you Joe. There is Joe live

with us from New York. Let us about

the and Goldman Sachs.

Let us about the and Goldman Sachs.

The investment bank Goldman Sachs

is warning that many

crypto-currencies could continue

to fall and may reach zero.

Bitcoin has fallen about 70%

from its peak of almost

$20,000 in December.

Here's one analyst.

He is saying this is is a move by

the big banks to warn about Krill

toe currencies is.

This is the sort

of thing they kind of, the

pessimists have been saying for a

long time. Time. Really they are

questioning the economic value, the

Krypto currencies add. They are

questioning whether or not it can

behave as a currency. There is an

argument that the mainstream finance

world don't like it because it will

disrupt the market so the point you

do away with banks but I think

really, the concerns are justified.

There is do we need currencies that

don't have central banks backing

them up. I don't know if there is a

case for that, accept in the dark

markets they talk about in the

report.

markets they talk

about in the report.

A Pakistani court has sentenced

a man to death for murdering

a student who was falsely

accused of blasphemy.

Five others got life sentences.

The student was Mashal Khan.

Last April rumours spread that he'd

posted blasphemous material online.

He was dragged out of his university

accommodation in the province

of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

by hundreds of fellow students.

They killed him.

Mr Khan was studying

at Abdul Wali Khan University.

It's named after a local secular

political leader and its website

talks about "the crying need to join

together the human society

irrespective of caste,

colour or creed".

Evidently his murderers

didn't concur.

Shumaila Jaffrey has

more from Islamabad.

Dough due to security concerns, the

proceedings were held in the central

jail. There were dozens of policemen

deployed around the venue and a

large number of people, including

lawyers and journalist, and

activists and families of the

accused were present. Only those who

have got security passes could go

inside.

And the mood outside the

jail was sombre and there was a

feeling of anxiety. Mr Kahn's family

in its reaction the judgment has

said that they don't feel that the

justice has done, and that they will

appeal against the acquittal of 26

accused in this case. Mr Kahn's

case, many people believe was a

watershed moment for the country,

because it triggered a debate round

Pakistan's controversial blasphemy

laws. Mr Kahn was accused of

blasphemy by his university fellows

and he was dragged out of his hostel

room, and he was later shot and was

lynched by the mob. But despite the

fact that there was a discussion,

even on the floor of the Parliament

this issue was discussed for the

first time, and legislators from

different political parties the were

of the view this law should be

amended, but nothing has been done

so far to change it.

Now a break from the news of the

day.

Remember this moment?

What will it mean for the wider

region, I think one of your

children...

children...

It was one of the most

watched videos of the year.

Professor Robert Kelly

was in the middle of a live

interview with the BBC from his home

in South Korea when his two children

burst into his office.

They were followed shortly

after by his wife who tried to do

a bit of damage limitation.

Professor Kelly's in London

for the Broadcast TV

Awards tonight, the video is up

for TV moment of the year.

We couldn't let him come so close

to our studios without getting him

to talk to us again.

I don't think of myself as a

celebrity or anything like that. It

certainly didn't, I don't mind it.

Many people have sent us gifts and

wrote kind e-mails and we is have

had a lot of communication about the

video in the last year, but it mean

it's not anything that we really

sought, it is kind of like, because

I'm not in that kind of profession,

I'm not in the media business,

people like take photographs of me

like, getting out of my car and

buying milk as Kos toe and I came

through immigration, immigration

officer recognised me, it is weird,

anything that we really sought, it

is kind of like, because I'm not in

that kind of profession, I'm not in

the media business, people like take

photographs of me like, getting out

of my car and buying milk as Kos toe

and I came through immigration,

immigration officer recognised me,

it is weird, everywhere people are

like "You're that guy? " Yes I am. I

don't know anything about being a

don't know anything about being a

celebrity.

If he wins I'll let you

know.

The weather is on the Wayne. -- way.

The ongoing drought in South Africa

Cape Town, this was the satellite

picture on Wednesday, this cloud

producing rain in Zambia, storms in

the eastern cape, western cape still

dry but we have a bank of cloud

coming in. That will steam its way

towards Cape Town, later on Friday.

And this is how we get rain in this

part of South Africa, at this time

of the year. Bands of cloud coming

in from the Southern Oceans but it

is normally dry at this time of year

and this rain isn't going to amount

to much. It won't last long, dry

sunny weather and the temperatures

continuing to soar again. Now, a

different story this time in

Indonesia, this is near Jakarta, a

ranging dangerous river as a result

of some very heavy rain we have

seen, leading to some mudslides as

well. This is the wettest time of

the year in this part of Indonesia,

you usually get an average of about

300 millimetres of rain during

February, and you can see the clouds

there, round Jakarta, continuing to

bring rain. Let us move northwards.

There is a lot of dry weather across

other parts of Asia, we have seen

snow in Japan but the high pressure

is moving in so we will lose the

snow shower, it has been cold in

South Korea in the run-up to the

winter games but it is likely to get

colder. Cold air this time, in

Europe, this is Paris, France, and

considering how mild it has been

over the past few weeks and we had

the flooding in the river Seine,

this is the first taste of winter we

have seen for a some time. Not a lot

of snow but it meant the Eiffel

Tower was closed on Tuesday,

disruption to travellers as well.

And there is probably more snow to

come. We have a lot of cold air in

France, Spain, some colder air for a

while in the UK. This weather front

is significant because there is more

on it as it an rears in that colder

air, we may find significant snow

fall. Temperatures above average and

snow to lower levels in France, not

just Paris, so further travel

disruption is likely. That is

Friday. Bear that in mind. We have

some sunshine in the Alps. The

earlier snow is heading to North

East Europe and we have heavier rain

in the Eastern Med train yasm at

home we will have more of an

Atlantic influence, I won't be as

cold, wet and windy at times, more

on that later on. Goodbye.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source and these

are the main stories here in the BBC

Newsroom.

After months of uncertainty,

Germany's chancellor closes

in on a deal to form a coalition

with the centre-left

Social Democrats.

TRANSLATION:

I am convinced that the

deal we have reached can be a basis

of the good and stable government

that our country needs, but many in

the world are expecting of us.

Just two days before the US

government runs out of money,

senators say they've reached

a two-year budget deal.

Now they have to sell it

to the House and the President.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

is sending his sister

to Friday's opening ceremony

of the Winter Olympics

in South Korea.

We look into what we know

about Kim Yo-jong.

It is not much, to be honest.

A Pakistan court has

handed down sentences

in a blasphemy lynching case.

One man has been given a death

sentence and five others life terms

for murdering student Mashal Khan.

South Africa's embattled

President Jacob Zuma could step down

within the next few days.

He's facing extensive corruption

charges after a nine years in power.

He has always said he is not guilty.

Nonetheless, there are increasing

calls for the deputy President,

Cyril Ramaphosa, and the new head of

the governing party, to take over.

He is holding direct talks with

Jacob Zuma over how that might work.

Here's the official photograph

of the two men meeting.

It might be all smiles, but it is

serious stuff, Jacob Zuma's days as

President may be numbered. Both men

have acknowledged this needs to be

resolved one way or another.

Has

been a dramatic few days, but it

seems like we are in the endgame

today. Cyril Ramaphosa released a

statement saying there would be a

speedy resolution to the leadership

crisis. Mr Ramaphosa met with the

President last night in a private

meeting that has been described as

both fruitful and yielding

constructive constructions. --

discussions. We understand that Mr

Ramaphosa has been able to come to

some sort of agreement that would

see President Jacob Zuma resigning

in the next few days. People in the

African National Congress itself

have been desperate to have the

President to leave power, not least

because under his leadership the

party has suffered a great

reputational damage. He is seen as

the man who has ruined the

reputation of Nelson Mandela's party

because of the allegations of

corruption that have happened under

his watch, and also the report of

the incredible looting of State

funds. Mr Ramaphosa, hoping to

succeed Jacob Zuma as the President

of the country, has promised to

rebuild the party. For South

Africans here, for that to happen,

the first move will be seeing a

definitive end to the Jacob Zuma

era. That is the moment all South

Africans are looking for.

I want to

turn to one of the main stories in

the UK.

Tesco is the UK's

biggest supermarket.

It is facing a potential bill of up

to £4 billion - $5.5 billion -

because of an equal pay claim

brought by thousands of women.

They claim that the mainly male

staff in its distribution centres

are paid more than its mainly

female in-store workers.

Different jobs of course -

but they are making the case

they are equivalent.

Here is one Tesco employee of more

than 20 years, Pam Jenkins.

the jobs are slightly different, but

they are of equal value. We deal

with customers, they don't have too.

We take the stock and reload the

stock, they loaded off the lorry and

we loaded onto the shelves.

The company operates in 13

countries around the world,

including the United

States, parts of Asia,

including China, Turkey,

and a number of European countries.

In Britain, it's the country's

largest private sector employer.

it has more than 310,000 staff.

If this claim is successful,

thousands could receive

back-pay of up to £20,000 -

over $27,000 dollars.

And the case could have big

implications for other businesses.

Lawyer Paula Lee is

representing Tesco women.

The law has been there since 1984

that you can compare with a

different job. That is 34 years to

get your house in order. That is 34

years of having the advantage of

paying an equally, and 34 years of

making pay decisions and financial

strategic decisions, 34 years where

you have chosen to walk around what

is hiding in open site.

Tesco says it is yet to receive

notice of the claim,

and it has always been

a place for people to get

on in their career, regardless

of their gender, background

or education, and we work hard

to make sure all our colleagues

are paid fairly and equally

for the jobs they do."

We are about to get a lot more

information on the gender pay gap. A

new law mandates companies to

publish the data by the end of the

year.

Here's the British Business

Secretary Greg Clark on this case.

One of the reasons we have

introduced this requirement to

disclose what companies pay and how

they pay men and women is to shine

the spotlight on this. It is

absolutely unacceptable that people

should be paid less because of their

gender. This transparency, I hope,

will cause people to scrutinise

practices that are revealed.

An agreement between Bangladesh

and Myanmar to repatriate more

than 700,000 Muslim Rohingyas

who fled to Bangladesh last year

faces big obstacles.

One of them is the intense hostility

felt by the Buddhist population

of Myanmars Rakhine state to living

alongside their Muslim neighbours.

Five years ago there was an outbreak

of sectarian violence,

and some of the worst

of it was in the ancient

Rakhine capital of Mrauk U.

Jonathan Head reports from there.

These old temples are all that is

left of what was once a powerful

Buddhist kingdom. They are a

reminder to the Rakhine people, some

of the poorest in Myanmar, of how

far they have fallen. It is that

sense of humiliating decline, a

favourite theme of local

politicians, which has stirred up a

dangerous fear of being squeezed on

one size by the Burmese state, and

on the other by a massive Muslim

population. Five years ago, they

turned on their Muslim neighbours.

Dozens died in this part of Rakhine.

Many Rohingya communities were

completely destroyed. The survivors,

confined by the government to

squalid camps. This was the start of

a bitter ethnic conflict which led

to the flight of 700 refugees to

Bangladesh last year.

But the Rakhine neighbours have

little sympathy, they have their own

complaints. They blamed the

government for their poverty. And

they all had tales to tell of

violent disputes with Muslims. We

can't have them here, they said. And

yet they remembered living together

peacefully once. Nobody was sure why

that had changed.

All of the

statues, the images...

Ten works as

a tour guide and is also a Rakhine

political activist, fearful for his

community. He was asked if he could

accept the refugees coming back.

If

we except the Muslims now, they

really have to follow the rules of

law in our country.

The existing

laws?

The existing laws.

They cannot

be citizens?

There will be some

muscle and people that can be

citizens by citizenship law, but on

the other hand, we are sure there

are a lot of illegal Muslims from

Bangladesh.

Today, in this part of

Rakhine, you can see Rohingyas only

as ghostly figures by the roadside.

There are Muslim Rohingya

communities in Mrauk U, but they are

very tightly segregated. We have

just been passing through one now.

We have been followed by police

special Branch. For most people,

most foreigners visiting, the

Muslims may as well be invisible. We

did eventually shake off the police

escort and found a group of

Rohingyas working near the road.

Talking to us was risky for them. We

have concealed their identities.

They described a life of constant

restrictions and constant fear. They

live far from the Bangladesh border.

It would be a dangerous journey. And

yet, even now they think that they

may eventually have to join the

refugee exodus.

There is more on that story and all

of the stories that recover on the

BBC website. -- that we cover.

Interesting legal conundrum

in the Netherlands.

A judge has asked the European Court

of Justice to decide

whether a group of Britons living

there will retain

their EU citizenship once

the UK leaves the EU.

This matters because if it rules

that those citizenship rights remain

for these people in the Netherlands

- that could apply across the EU.

Anna Holligan's in The Hague.

This group of five British nationals

described themselves

as the forgotten people.

They say they've been living

in a state of limbo,

They described the Dutch judges'

decision as incredible

and say they are delighted.

The case refers to Article 20

of the Lisbon Treaty,

which lays out a European citizens'

rights when they are members

of a European, EU state.

But it doesn't say what happens

to those European citizenship rights

if a country leaves the union.

Lawyers representing the of five

British national is the Dutch judge

to seek clarity from the ECJ, what

would become of those rights after

Brexit, after March 20 19. In phase

one of the negotiations they

confirmed, negotiators, Britain, and

the EU 27, that British nationals

would be allowed to continue to live

and work in the EU, in the country

in which they currently reside. Many

of these people fear they would be

landlocked if their freedom of

movement is not guaranteed. So, that

is what they are seeking clarity on.

This is really only the first stage.

It is a small case. If the ECJ

agrees to provide that clarity and

decides that the EU citizenship

rights are inalienable, in other

words they will continue to exist

after Brexit, they could potentially

affect more than a million UK

citizens that are currently living

and working here on the continent.

The UK Government has been looking

into how different kinds of Brexit

may affect the economy.

It's not good news.

Their forecasts suggest all areas

will suffer lower growth,

especially if Britain leaves the EU

without a deal.

Over 15 years, London would see 3.5%

lower growth than it

would otherwise have had.

In the West Midlands it

would be 13% smaller.

And in the north east it

would be 16% smaller.

Those figures are already

being challenged, and it's important

to point out that forecasts

are often wrong.

All this comes as the Prime Minister

is under pressure to spell out

exactly what sort of a partnership

she wants with the EU.

Here she is speaking

in Parliament earlier today.

We will be robust in our arguments,

as I have said right from the

beginning. We will hear noises and

all sorts of things being said about

positions being taken. What matters

is the position that we take in the

negotiations as we sit down and

negotiate the best deal. We have

shown we can do that, we did it in

December and we are going to do it

again.

All this come as Theresa May holds

the first of two key meetings

with her senior ministers

to try to hammer out their Brexit

positions for the next

stage of negotiations.

Iain Watson, in Westminster.

There may some people scratching

their heads and thinking, how come

they haven't thrashed this out a

little bit earlier?

Maybe because

you talk about negotiations.

Negotiations are still going on in

the Cabinet, the so-called war

cabinet, a Brexit subcommittee

meeting. Today it was discussing

Northern Ireland and such issues.

Over Northern Ireland, a lot could

rest. There is a backstop option

that the government has agreed. If

all else fails, we would have full

alignment between Northern Ireland

and the Irish public. That is not

being they will be following the

same rules after Brexit, but they

will be looking for the same kind of

outcome, a similar outcome for food

standards, for example, energy

supply. What isn't clear yet in the

Cabinet is what they are going to be

asking for in trade talks. They

think that might unlock a better

relationship between the UK and the

Republic of Ireland after Brexit.

But so far there has been no

consensus around the Cabinet table

as to what that should be. As far as

we are aware, from this evening, the

lack of consensus persists. Some of

it is incredibly technical about

what kind of equipment would

constitute new infrastructure, would

make it a hard or soft border? Some

of it is far more ideological driven

and we were not expecting, and have

not got a definitive answer from

today Fulham talks. Another Brexit

subcommittee tomorrow. This is all

focusing towards the main

discussions on our future

relationship with the European

Union. On a day-to-day basis, a lot

of the Cabinet members are

concentrating more on what they want

to get from a transition deal from

what happens, effectively, in two

years or so immediately after we

leave. That is something the

Government is hoping to get thrashed

out with Brussels by the third week

in March. To some extent, that is

taking up the time. But they are

still unresolved issues.

Help me

out, just before you go. It feels

like we get two points where they

really have to decide what they want

from Brexit. Is the final backstop

tomorrow, or could it actually be

fudged for the next few weeks and

months and still deal with the EU as

the negotiations go on?

I don't

think the next few months, there

will have to take a decision before

that. It could well be a few weeks.

First of all, as I say, the

transition needs to be thrashed out.

Then the future relationship. They

are still trying to work towards

getting that sorted out by October.

They could have time to give MPs

what they call a meaningful vote.

There are some rumours, no stronger

than that, that perhaps the Prime

Minister might make her third big

speech on Brexit. She may go to

Lancaster house to set the ball

rolling, and again in Florence, when

she was increasing the financial

contribution, it might be that she

makes a speech in the next few weeks

that allows the Cabinet to add

differences. She might come to a

conclusion. That is by no means

definite. We hear that the Foreign

Secretary is making a speech of his

own on what he calls a liberal

Brexit. No date on that, but we may

have some sense, until this is

settled, of competing visions.

Good

to talk to you. A liberal Brexit, we

can add that to the lists of Brexit

we are considering, soft Brexit,

hard Brexit, now liberal Brexit.

It has been intriguing to watch

North Korea manoeuvring as the

Winter Olympics approaches. We

understand that Yunjong Won is

sending his sister to the opening

ceremony in Pyeongchang in South

Korea. His sister is called's. --

Kim Yo-jong. She was promoted last

year. She is a full sister of Kim

Jong-un. When she makes that trip

she will be the first immediate Kim

family member from across the border

to go south for 65 years. Stephen

McDonald is in South Korea. Here he

is.

The South Korean government is

interpreting this visit by Kim

Yo-jong as a big push by the North

to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough

during the Olympics. The problem is

that she is subject to the United

States sanctions following

allegations of her involvement in

human rights abuses. For this

reason, the South Korean government

has been in talks with allies in

Washington to try to achieve a green

light for her to attend. However,

another member of the North Korean

delegation is even more problematic.

He is subject to United Nations

sanctions, a travel ban and assets

freeze. That means if he were to

cross the border into the south,

this country would technically be in

breach of UN sanctions. So, the

South Korean government is also in

talks with the UN Security Council

to try to find out what the

implications of that are.

The relationship between Turkey and

the United States is under pressure.

For almost three weeks,

the Turkish military has been

attacking Kurdish fighters

in the Afrin region

in northern Syria.

Those Kurdish fighters had actually

been armed by the US.

It's the latest step

in a confrontation that's pitting

two key Nato members

against each other.

The BBC's Turkey correspondent

Mark Lowen reports.

Sport is friendlier than politics by

a long shot. Turks and Americans

training together in an Istanbul and

American football team. The rivalry

is amicable between the countries it

is less so. The Nato allies are at

each other's throats over Syria,

politics, human rights, even

suspending the granting of visas

last year. A relationship in crisis

felt here.

In the political climate

currently, you don't know exactly

what is going to happen. I think the

leaders of both countries have quit

triggers in terms of temperament.

That has been shown with the Visa

ban. We have two individuals leading

two big countries with this type of

mentality. You can't predict what is

going to happen tomorrow or the next

day.

Turkey is now bombing Turkish

fighters in Syria who were armed by

the US. For Ankara they are

terrorists, for Washington, partners

against the Islamic State group. The

risk of a direct clash between

Nato's two biggest armies is

growing.

We don't have a problem

with the United States. We have

suffered together, we have voted

together. But if we have lost 30,000

lives in this country because of the

terrorist organisations, and if we

look at the United States, seeing

that they are giving ammunition,

giving expertise, American soldiers

are turning out. This is the point

where we must start.

But the row

goes deeper, to a cleric blamed for

the failed coup here, who lives in

the US. With his extradition looking

unlikely, Turkey detains US

diplomatic staff, enraging

Washington. Pro-government media is

hammering home the message. Polls

showed nearly two thirds here CV US

as the main threat to Turkey, a

relationship crucial for Security

and trade is worst for decades.

Joining Nato and could take you to

the West. This country, which

struggles continents, started EU

membership talks 13 years ago. As

relations with both have grown more

hostile, Turkey has realigned itself

towards Russia and Arab countries

that do not criticise the state of

democracy here. That is serious.

Turkey is too important for the West

to lose. It has left these Turkish

students aiming to study in the US

watching anxiously, caught up in a

wider conflict.

I am most concerned

about my family. The situation with

the United States, if it gets worse,

they cannot come to the United

States. Once they remove the travel

visas, nobody can go there.

When you

go to say you are going to study in

the US to somebody in an eastern

part of Turkey, they don't like

that. They think you are betraying

your own country.

Back on the pitch,

the Turks and Americans practice

their moves. But for the leaders,

solving a relationship close to

breaking point is the urgent problem

to tackle.

We have just got time to talk about

this. I am glad we do.

New analysis calculates that

a Briton 10,000 years ago

would have looked liked this -

dark brown skin and blue eyes.

He's known as Cheddar Man

because his skeleton

was unearthed over a century ago

here in Cheddar Gorge

in the South West of England.

It was found in Gough's

Cave and this replica

now lies in its place.

Jon Kay can explain how scientists

tried to estimate what this

person looked like.

One, two, three.

Putting flesh on his bones.

The face of Cheddar Man

finally revealed.

By extracting his DNA

and scanning his skull,

experts say they have created him

in unprecedented detail.

And he looks very different

from what they were expecting.

The hair, the eyes, the face.

That combination of blue eyes

and dark skin, really very striking.

Something we would not

have imagined.

And to also get from the DNA

details of his biology.

The fact that he couldn't

digest milk as an adult.

That is something that came really

with the advent of farming.

And 10,000 years ago

people didn't have that.

Look how he's changed.

This is what scientists used

to think he looked like.

A reconstruction from 20 years

ago when DNA analysis

was nowhere near as developed.

Cheddar Man and I share

a common female relative.

This is modern-day Cheddar Man.

Adrian Targett lives in the same

village and shares DNA

with the skeleton found

in the gorge.

So, time to meet his ancestor.

Do you want to see your great,

great, great, great,

great, great, great grandfather?

OK, here he comes.

And...

Oh, my.

What do you think?

It is remarkable, isn't it?

I think there is probably

some resemblance.

Yes, I think there are certainly

other members in my family

who he bears a resemblance to.

Yes, some of my cousins.

You can see that in there?

Yes.

I think my eyes are blue!

Lets have a look.

They are blue!

They are blue.

His hair is not quite

as grey as mine is.

Or my beard!

So 10,000 years after he died,

100 years after he was found,

finally a face to fit the name

of Adrian's ancestor.

Jon Kay, BBC News,

Cheddar in Somerset.

John Huh finishes this edition