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was going to be fired with a vote of

no confidence tomorrow. History in

the making, President Zuma has

resigned as president of South

Africa. Hello, welcome to Outside

Source. It is over for South

Africa's embattled president, Jacob

Zuma, who has just said in the last

few minutes he will resign. Twin

scandals in golf the White House,

one involving a pawn star, the other

an alleged wife-beater. The Kremlin

won't confirm US air strikes killed

Russian mercenaries in Syria.

Want to run faster?

The solution could be doing one

simple thing: smile.

We'll speak to the expert

who carried out the research.

We have been waiting all day to hear

his statement, we have had it in

just the last few minutes. The

embattled South African President

Jacob Zuma has finally said he has

been compelled to resign as

president of South Africa. He went

on national television half an hour

ago, spoke to just about half an

hour, saying I have come to the

decision to resign. This has

followed weeks of intense political

pressure from his own party to stand

down. He addressed the nation a

short while ago, let's listen to a

little of what he had to say.

It is now public knowledge that the

National Executive Committee of the

ANC resolved to recall me as the

president of the republic. I have

also learned that before I respond

to the initial decision, a new

decision has been made by the ANC,

whose effect is that I have now been

compelled to resign by way of a

motion of no confidence, set down

for tomorrow, 15th Avery 2018.

So there we are, we are talking

about the final straw in this whole

process that would have been a vote

of no confidence held in the South

African parliament on Thursday

morning. That was the ultimatum, if

he didn't step down by the end of

today that he would be facing that.

So he left it right to the very end

of the day, nearly 11 o'clock South

African time, finally saying he did

not fear a vote of no-confidence

compete for that was the right way

that a president should be removed,

if a president serving the time

under the Constitution, but then

towards the end of the speech gave

those words that he will resign, and

he had been under so much pressure

to resign. This is the ANC treasurer

general, who were setting that

ultimatum to Jacob Zuma earlier

today.

We can no longer wait beyond

today. We don't want to keep South

Africa waiting. President Zuma at

some point will respond. The

decision has been taken. It must be

implemented, so my message to the

caucus today was that there must now

proceed and Parliamentary process.

It has been a day of question marks.

We thought we would hear earlier in

the day from Jacob Zuma, that was

moved, another couple of hours,

moved again, then a nearly one long

rambling interview, asking the

public to think that he has done

nothing wrong, wondering in AYA why

he had been treated as a victim. But

right at the end of the evening in

South Africa, just wondering

dash-mac -- just moments ago, Jacob

Zuma officially giving notice that

he would resign. Here it is.

I have

therefore come to the decision to

resign as president of the republic,

with immediate effect. Even though I

disagree with the decision of the

leadership of my organisation, I

have always been a disciplined

member of the ANC. As I leave, I

will continue to serve the people of

South Africa, as well as the ANC,

the organisation I have served all

of my life.

Now the expectation is

that the deputy president and new

leader of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa,

will now take the place of Jacob

Zuma, and that that no-confidence

vote in the South African parliament

will no longer be necessary. We will

bring you plenty more on this story

as soon as we get it later on

Outside Source.

Donald Trump's long-time personal

lawyer has admitted privately paying

a porn star more than $100,000

a month before the US

elections in 2016.

We turn to Anthony Zurcher

for insight into US politics -

I talked to him about

the new details in these story.

SSOURCE

What we heard today was confirmation

that payment had been made just

weeks before the presidential

election. What we didn't hear from

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump was

Makalio, was why he made it, but the

Wall Street Journal reported last

month that the payment was made in

exchange for a nondisclosure

agreement that Stormy Daniels signed

that would prevent her from talking

about a 2006 affair she said she had

with Donald Trump. We just heard

recently breaking news was that

Stormy Daniels's personal manager

has said that because Michael Coen

talk to the New York Times in the

story that she now is free from that

nondisclosure agreement, something

that Coen hadn't confirmed, but she

will be talking about the details of

this affair very soon. So I think

the story is only just beginning to

get warmed up.

Wow, OK Anthony, stay

with us. From the matter of the pawn

star to the matter of the alleged

wife-beater. Robin Porter, the White

House staffer who resigned, he was

allowed to serve as a top aide to

President Trump, even after his two

ex-wives told the FBI he had

physically and emotionally abused

them.

Let's go back to Anthony. Do we know

what was known by the White House at

the time this man was fired?

It has

been a shifting story, the White

House had tried to save a just

learned about it last week but

reports are that they have known

about it quite some time. This is

from Christopher Ray, that they had

basically closed the investigation

the middle of last year and finished

the file as recently as January. But

all this information had been passed

on to the White House, including

details about Rob Porter's spousal

abuse. Mr Porter himself had spoken

with the White House about it, so

they had known that direction and in

fact an ex-girlfriend of Rob Porter

Possum Akkad communicated with the

White House counsel about her

concerns with Rob Porter in that

position. So the fact they have been

shifting their story and moving away

from the earlier assertions that

they acted clearly, I think it is a

reflection of the fact that there is

a lack of confidence in the White

House on how to deal with this. This

is the main reason why the story

doesn't seem to be going away any

time soon.

Let's return to southern Africa for

another story that has broken in the

last couple of hours.

Morgan Tsvangirai,

the veteran Zimbabwean opposition

leader who fought Robert Mugabe's

regime for many years, has died

after battling against cancer.

Shingai Nyoka takes this

look back at his life.

As a challenging one of Africa's

ruthless and shrewdest

leaders, the odds were always

against Morgan Tsvangirai.

What he lacked in

formal education and

liberation war history come he made

up for in boldness, and his

popularity soared.

As leader of the trade

unions, he led the largest

anti-government protests

since independence, cutting

the unions's traditional

ties with government.

Disillusioned with the defector

1-party state and a biting economy,

Zimbabweans were ready

for an alternative.

The MDC was born, in contrast

to Mr Mugabe's exclusionary

politics, Mr Tsvangirai

welcomed everybody.

President Tsvangirai managed

to bring together the

students, the workers, farmers,

traditional leaders, war veterans,

business people.

Stunned by his popularity,

the response was

visceral.

With endless arrests,

beatings and an assassination

attempt and treason charges.

President Mugabe suffered his first

ever defeat at the poles to Mr

Tsvangirai, who later pulled out

of the run-off because of vote

rigging and violence.

He did not want to do the cheat,

which was then advanced to

Morgan, he would have been

president in that time.

I, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai...

Many were therefore disappointed

when he agreed to serve

under Mr Mugabe in a

power-sharing agreement.

In the following elections,

he lost heavily.

He blamed rigging.

His critics said he had lost

credibility, abandoned his

working-class lifestyle.

Ultimately it wasn't Robert Mugabe

or the numerous parties split that

ended his career, but: cancer.

He failed to unseat

Mr Mugabe, but many

here will remember Morgan Tsvangirai

as the working class hero, whose

fight for democracy triggered

the end of the Mugabe era.

If you are just joining us, let's

bring you the development from South

Africa just in the last 20 minutes

or so, Jacob Zuma, after weeks of

pressure from his own party, has

resigned. In a long half-hour speech

he gave to the nation just about 11

o'clock local time, he resigned,

saying he had come to the decision

to resign. He will not now face that

vote of no confidence in parliament.

We will have more on that in a few

minutes time.

Stay with us on Outside Source -

still to come...

What does this Olympic gold

medallist believe makes him cross

the finish line faster?

A clue - we can all do it -

I'll explain - next.

The Democratic Unionists say there's

"no current prospect" of a return

to devolved government

in Northern Ireland and called

on the Westminster government

to start making policy decisions.

The DUP has been trying to hammer

out a deal with Sinn Fein to end

a 13-month political crisis,

but they remain deadlocked

on the issue of the Irish language.

Both sides at Stormont

blamed each other for

the breakdown of the talks.

I think it is unfortunate that we

haven't been able to reach a

successful conclusion to the talks

at this time. It is by far our

preference that Northern Ireland be

governed by locally elected and

locally accountable ministers. That

remains our aim, we will continue to

work for that.

We did and had an

accommodation with the DUP, in terms

of all the issues which are

well-known to you all. The DUP

failed to close on that deal, and on

the accommodation, which we have

found.

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

Our top story...

South Africa's political

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A US judge has thrown

out a copyright case

against Taylor Swift over her use

of the phrase "haters gonna hate".

Songwriters Sean Hall

and Nathan Butler argued

that her single Shake It Off stole

from their song - Playas Gon' Play.

The judge said the

phrase is too banal.

The development has finally come

just before 11 o'clock local time,

Jacob Zuma, South Africa's embattled

president, gave a speech to the

nation, and has announced his

resignation. Let's go over to

Pretoria. It was a long time coming,

but he has finally resigned.

It

certainly has, and just in that last

few moments that we saw the

president, a big sense in the speech

of not knowing exactly where it was

going, very mixed messages in that

speech, but the end the President

did seem to get a bit choked up,

especially when he changed to speak

Zulu, when he used that opportunity

to directly address South Africans,

saying that everything he has done

was out of his love for South Africa

and for the ANC, and that he

believed that if he did come short

essentially asking for people's

understanding. It has been a long

road to get here, and a big surprise

to a lot of people that it took the

ANC finally depression out of power.

Remind us why they got to this

point, why we are seeing the South

African president stepping down

before the end of his official term?

Well, at the heart of that are

reports of corruption, linked to a

wealthy business family here known

as the Guptas. The draw is a very

disillusioned jibber the president,

and they are accused of using their

friendship to gain access to

billions of dollars worth of

government contracts, allegations

that they of course have designed --

denied and the president. But

increasingly the ANC has become

restless about this friendship, and

close to the elections we are

looking towards in 2019, have felt

that the president has become a

divisive figure within the party,

somebody who might even cost them

the election exchange, and he needed

to go any needed to be now.

The

ultimatum came with that threat of a

vote of no-confidence the South

African parliament tomorrow. It

really did go all the way, didn't

it, pretty much?

It certainly did,

and this is quintessential zoomer

style, really leaving things down to

the wire. During the course of the

day it really felt like a showdown

between President Jacob Zuma and his

followers comrades, and he did, when

he was addressing the nation a short

while ago, make reference to that

motion of no confidence, saying he

does not fear it firstly, so he is

not stepping down because he is

afraid to get a parliament, because

that is an avenue the ANC can

explore, but rather he doesn't want

blood to be spilled in his name, and

the leaders disagree with the

decision the ANC has taken, he is

willing to bow out. But a big sense

that the president does feel

misunderstood, perhaps even

betrayed, by his comrades.

And what

happens now, now that President Zuma

has stood down? Will Cyril Ramaphosa

immediately take his place?

That

would be the plan. The next thing is

to work out who will fill in the

post of deputy president. It all

become slightly less true Matic

because that vote of no confidence

falls away. The ANC has also just

announced their acceptance of the

President's resignation, so then

moves to a process of this Friday,

where they are planning to have the

new president give the state of the

nation address. But as we wake up

tomorrow, we could be very much

waking up to a new president in

South Africa.

So many twists and

turns that finally that develop and

that Jacob Zuma has announced his

resignation.

The latest inflation numbers

from the world's biggest economy

surprised markets today.

Consumer Prices in the United States

rose faster than expected

in January, bouncing by 0.5%.

Economists were expecting a rise...

...of just 0.3%.

Investors are worried this

could prompt the central bank

to raise interest rates

faster than expected.

Yogita Limaye is in New York.

What is behind this?

Well, I think

you have seen a pretty strong US

economy in the past few months. You

have seen economic growth is

steadily going up, but also the last

them is that we had, especially on

jobs, as well as on wage growth,

that were strong as well. So wage

growth was faster than expected, and

the number of jobs has actually been

at the lowest point it has in 17

years, sorry, no number of jobs,

unemployment has been at the lowest

point in 17 years. So that is the

reason why we are seeing this kind

of inflation. Traders were really

bracing themselves as to what would

happen because this number was

raised before markets opened today,

and when there are fears, and we saw

this today, that interest rates will

rise faster here in the US, we saw

how markets reacted. They fell very

steeply, last week, so a lot of

people were expecting that happen.

It hasn't happened. One of the

reasons for that, traders as well as

analysts are saying, is perhaps the

markets have factored that income in

a sense.

What we think the Federal

Reserve might do now?

Their meeting

is not until March. They have

already said that they believe that

they need to gradually increase

interest rates here in the US. The

expectation has been that there

would be about two or three interest

rate rises this year, and we will

have to wait until March to see what

indication they give us. It is I

have to say widely anticipated as

well that there will be a rate rise

when they meet in March.

Thank you

very much.

Valentine's Day is a ponderous, but

thanks to be smartphone, Cupid now

has another string to its bow. The

online dating industry worth more

than $5 billion every year. There

are even apps that have few to find

a potential partner using the thing

from your music taste to your DNA.

Tender, yes.

I have been known to

tender around.

I have used tinder

that I deleted it.

We have all been

on Tinder.

Too call, too sporty, too

vain.

Many of the traditional dating

websites try to bag you that special

someone by asking you about your

personal preferences. And while

experts agree that online dating is

good at widening the overall pool,

is more day to relieve the solution

to finding Mr or Mrs right?

The

research is now clear that using

individual level information,

personality, values, preferences, to

try to predict who will be

compatible in the future is a losing

game.

So if data isn't helping, how

else can apps be used to track down

our soul mates? One firm thinks it

has the answer, and they think true

love is all about chemistry.

I am

one of the co-founders and the CEO

of Paramore.

I am Chief scientific

officer and co-founder. Paramore is

a dating apps that matches singles

based on their genetics and meta

data from social media.

We send you

a kit, extract the portion from your

cheek cells that in codes for your

DNA, and this way you would be of to

look at who you'd be chemically and

biologically attracted to.

DNA is

not everything, but that pheromones

is what love at first sight is all

about.

Let's take you to a

developing story that has been going

on for a while, the scene of a

school shooting in Florida. The

police say that the gunmen they

believe are still on the loose. This

was footage from a bit earlier,

students leaving their classes in a

very formal manner. Police still

continuing their investigation.

There are casualties, according to

the local authorities there in

Florida, and we will bring new

developments on that as we get them

here. Now, before you put on your

running shoes tomorrow morning

perhaps, here is a tip. Smile.

Researchers have found that

grinning while you are out

on the pavement will help actually

make our efforts feel easier.

Don't believe me?

Well - this man, Kenyan

marathon runner Eliud

Kipchoge, is an advocate.

He reckons that smiling in those

last few miles of race helps him

cross the finish line faster.

Well, I tried it this morning

on my run, and I can tell you that

I think it might work.

Earlier I spoke to the lead

researcher, Noel Brick.

Yes, so this was a study with did

with 24 club level runners. We

basically have them run for six

minute blocks, even smiling,

frowning or grimacing, trying to

consciously relax or just maintain

their normal thoughts. What we found

was when runners were smiling, they

were about 2.8% more efficient than

when they were frowning, and also it

felt a little bit easier.

So nearly

3% over the course of a competitive

marathon is a fair chunk of time

off. Hiya yes, 2.8% improvement in

efficiency would probably equate to

about 2% in a marathon, so for a

four hour marathon runner,

potentially it could be about three

minutes of their time, if they save

energy in their way. What is going

on physiologically that makes the

difference, do you think?

We think

is happening is when we smile and

experience a positive, pleasant

emotional state like that, we become

more relaxed, and a relaxed run is

an efficient runner. We think by

smiling people in our study relaxed

and were more efficient as a result.

So it is having a change in your

demeanour, even if you are not

provoked a smile by the actual

experience of running?

Yes, and as

you mentioned earlier, some top

level runners use it you mention

one, he has said in interviews it is

a very deliberate strategy to relax

when he is really suffering at the

end stages of a marathon, and it

seems to work for him. He is Olympic

champion.

I tried this out on

particularly hilly part of my run.

Apart from feeling self-conscious, I

have to say something felt a bit

different. You are a runner as well,

you have tried it out, what is it do

for you?

Similar to you, I think,

and by the way I may be the worst

person to ask, I may have a certain

bias to believe that it will work

for me, but it does make my run feel

a bit easier and certainly feel a

bit more pleasant, and certainly at

the stage is where I am beginning to

suffer, and I do feel tired,

fatigue, bored even sometimes, it

can be a useful strategy to try.

Do

you have any recommendations on how

big a smile it has to be, and could

it help us get through other tasks,

doing something like smiling,

through things that are difficult?

Yes, it is a really good question.

What we suggested in our study and

what we found was probably the most

of all things that it was a real

smile, and individual enjoyment

smile. Whether it works for other

sports, we're not sure. If the same

mechanism applies, the written a

reason why it couldn't be effective

for cyclists and other injuries

athletes.

Smiling through the pain.

Let's update you on what we have

heard out of South Africa in the

last half hour or so. South African

President Jacob Zuma has announced

his resignation in a long speech, in

which he seemed quite emotional at

times. He said he had come to the

decision to resign, after a huge

amount of pressure from his own

party, the African National

Congress. Thank you for watching.

Back in a few minutes.

A lot

A lot of heat and a lot of energy in

A lot of heat and a lot of energy in

the tropical were specific which has

produced a lot of wind and rain.

Most of it has come from this major

cyclone, Cyclone Gita. Lovely

picture on the satellite but you

would not want to be underneath

that. It battered Tonga and Maury

Sunli Fiji, gusts of 170 mph. It is

now moving just to the south of new

Caledonia and over the next few days

we will see the winds easing to a

certain extent, and eventually that

wet windy weather could sweep down

towards New Zealand, early next

week. That is something to watch out

for certainly. By this stage on

Saturday we are looking at this area

of wind and rain, which could be a

cyclone across the north of

Australia, to the north of Port

Headland. It will release during

from the winds along the coast and

intensify the already wet weather we

have seen here.

Heat building across the interior,

it has been 45 degrees, building

towards Queensland. Through the

tropical belt, this area of cloud,

this was tropical storm Sambu. It

brought over 200 millimetres of

rain, some flooding out of the

Philippines. What is left of this

system will be tracking through the

South China Sea, weakening further

that still being the potential for

some heavy rain, clipping southern

parts of Vietnam by the end of

Friday. Some warm and wet weather

around here. Head northwards,

though, and things are very

different. To the north of this band

of cloud, we have some cold air

across the Korean peninsula and into

Japan. It has been very windy as

well and are still very windy across

northern parts of on shoot and

Hokkaido in Japan. For the Korean

peninsula, it looks like it will

generally be dried. We have had

rough weather for the Alpine event

at the Winter Olympics will stop

this is the Mountain forecast,

called on Saturday, very much milder

on Saturday that the Windsor -- on

Sunday. Much lighter winds for those

events going ahead on Sunday. Let's

move into Europe, some wet and windy

weather across the eastern

Mediterranean, some snow over the

high ground, and we have also got

somewhere to whether fishing away

from the UK into central Europe on

Thursday. That will bring some snow

for a while, as it but into the

colder air, something much milder

across France, those temperatures

slowly recovering in Iberia. That

weather front will continue to push

its woods across Europe. Less cold

in the south, but the big picture,

the long-range forecast, is on the

way a little later.

Hello, I'm Karin Giannone,

welcome to Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom.

America's top intelligence

agencies have been

I have therefore come to the

decision to resign as president of

the republic with immediate effect.

Even though I disagree with the

decision of the leadership, of my

organisation, I have always been a

disciplined member of the ANC. As I

leave, I will continue to serve the

people of South Africa as well as

the ANC, the organisation I have

surfed all of my life.

President

Zuma announcing his resignation in

the last hour. Another developing

story we're going to update you on.

Out of the US. A gunman has opened

fire at a school in Florida, we

believe killing and above people.

The high school in Parkland is in

lockdown and has issued a code red.

Let's speak to Patricia from BBC

Monday oh. She's in Florida. -- BBC

Mundo.

The county sheriff department

office just confirmed there are at

least 14 victims as a product of

this apparent shooting at the

school. And they have been

transported to two hospitals. The

shooter is now in custody of the

authorities.

The news the shooter

was still on the loose has been

updated. They have somebody in

custody.

Yes. It's been updated

about 20 minutes ago. This whole

incident started about an hour, an

hour and a half ago, when the police

received reports of victims and an

active shooter in the Marjorie Stone

high school in parklands. One hour

and a half north of Miami.

We saw

those pictures of students filing

out of the school in rows, it must

have been a terrifying experience

for them. Yes. We've heard some

students have been speaking to local

media and that at first they thought

it was a drill because earlier in

the school day they listened to some

construction movement outside of the

school. What we saw from helicopter

images was they were being evacuated

in small groups. They looked very

frightened and we saw some

ambulances taking care of what may

have been victims of this incident.

Sadly school shootings are not a

rarity in America.

No, this happens

quite often in the United States.

What we see from the reports of

local media is that students here

especially in the public high school

district all over the US are quite

prepared to run away from situations

like this and protect themselves

until the authorities take care of

it.

Patricia joining us from Florida

with the latest detail, thank you

very much. Berra we've been talking

about two places in Syria a lot, a

suburb of the capital Damascus has

been under siege since 2013 but for

the first time in three months and

aid convoy has entered the rebel

held enclave delivering food and

medical supplies for over 7000. It

is thought 400,000 people are stuck

in the district. The other place,

where at least two Russians were

killed during US air strikes a week

ago, the Kremlin has denied

knowledge of Russian mercenaries

fighting in Syria.

What we know at the moment is at

least two deaths, two people were

killed, two Russian citizens killed

in the air strike. Other journalists

also confirmed six other deaths,

eight people allegedly killed during

the air strike. All allegedly

members of a private military

company, it's not registered.

Private military companies are

illegal in Russia but this group is

known to have operated in Syria for

quite a while already, they started

in 2013. Allegedly, according to

sources who know the situation, they

moved to East in Ukraine and helped

pro-Russian separatists. In 2015

when Russia officially started its

operations in Syria, they are

officially started to help pro-Assad

forces. It's not the first

casualties of the Wagner group, but

this is supposed to be the biggest

single loss, the biggest loss which

happened at one moment over that big

period of time.

To Barack, a country

trying to rebuild after the

devastating war with so-called

Islamic State. $30 billion has been

pledged to help in the form of

financial donations from

infrastructure and trade deals from

countries around the world. That is

a lot of money. It falls well short

of the $88 billion in Baghdad

wanted. The donations were promised

at a conference in Kuwait in doubt

helping Iraq rebuild. Here is the

United Nations Secretary General.

It's not only the physical return,

it's the reintegration and

re-conciliation within communities

in order to be able for life to

start normally. And for violent

extremism not to be reborn. We don't

only want to reconstruct physically,

we want to rebuild society and to

rebuild society, we need to

strengthen the links among

communities and create conditions

for the stability of the country. If

not, you're building one day to

destroy the next.

74 countries are

pledging donations and investments.

Iraq could struggle to get many

more. It's the tenth most corrupt

country in the world according to

transparency International. Here is

our correspondent.

Turkey has been

the most generous with $5 billion of

investment and loans to Iraq. The

hosting country, Kuwait, has pledged

two million dollars in loans and

investment. What is different here

unlike other donors conference, this

conference has focused on investment

and most of the pledges coming from

the countries have been investment

opportunities or loans. The

conference is over and it is now the

turn to see how these pledges will

translate to projects that will make

more than 2 million Iraqi displaced

people going back to their homes.

We brought you a story published in

a Malaysian newspaper which listed

how to spot gay people. You may

remember it said gay men like to

wear tight clothes to show off their

six-packs, have adopted brothers,

adore beards, moustaches and branded

clothes. It had lesbians hate men

and enjoy belittling them, love to

spend time alone and enjoy hugging

and holding hands. Remember,

homosexuality is illegal in

Malaysia. The article has prompted a

backlash from the LGBT community

worldwide, including the British

actor, singer and self-made gay icon

John Barrowman who posted this on

his Instagram right after seeing the

story yesterday an Outside Source.

Good afternoon everybody, we just

saw an article on the BBC news

report about the article that came

out in a Malaysian newspaper.

Everybody's pussyfooting around the

whole situation. It's an article

there to incite violence, totally

incite violence against LGBTQ

people. And for those of you who are

LGBTQ and in a Malaysian, more

strength to you and support from

over here and is your brothers and

sisters around the world. We need to

help you fight this and in ways in

which to do it, we have to think

about, we can't let this kind of

thing happen.

That is John Barrowman

responding to the story we ran an

Outside Source yesterday. Of course

we love hearing your thoughts. If

you want to get in touch, the

hashtag is... #BBCOS. Britain's

Foreign Secretary has argued it

would be a disaster to stop the

process of withdrawing from the

youth. In a policy speech in London

Boris Johnson said he had recognised

the feelings of grief and alienation

among those who wanted Britain to

remain in the EU but said it was the

duty of the government to tackle

fears about security and economy and

he asked people to think positive.

If we are to carry this project

through to national success, as we

must, we must also reach out to

those who still have anxieties. I

want today to anatomise at least

some of the fears and show to the

best of my ability that these fears

can be allayed, and that the very

opposite is true, that Brexit can be

grounds for much more hope than

fear.

The BBC has correspondents all

over Europe, we turn to them to

explain what other countries want to

hear from Europe over Brexit. First,

Paris, where Emmanuel Macron wants

to retain a strong relationship with

the UK. But on the EU's terms.

He in

France the good news on Brexit is

that a response to preserve a good

working relationship with London. It

is important in all sorts of areas

notably security and defence. It

doesn't mean Paris is being an easy

pun in the Brexit negotiations,

quite the contrary. President Macron

has made clear in more than one

occasion that in the city there will

be no preferential arrangements. If

you want to be part of the club, pay

the fees. Overriding everything is

not good or bad feeling, simply the

world and confusion. France doesn't

know how to react to react to the

British position on Brexit because

France doesn't know what the British

position on Brexit actually is.

Theresa May will be hoping to find a

new negotiating partner in Poland.

The government has supported some of

deal for Britain but at this point

Warsaw is walking the Uihlein.

London and the government in Warsaw

have good relations. In fact Downing

Street thought Poland might break

away from the EU consensus. That

hasn't happened. Warsaw has already

achieved its main Brexit goals.

Securing the rights of polls now

living in the UK and maintaining the

current EU budget. What it now wants

is a trading relationship that gives

certainty to Polish businesses.

Poland is arguing with the EU on

many issues. On Brexit it's sticking

to Brussels line.

What about

Germany. Angela Merkel may have been

preoccupied by coalition talks over

recent months but when it comes to

Brexit her message has been clear.

Berlin is very very unlikely to

shift from its basic stance on

Brexit and that is this: if Britain

wants access to the single market,

it will have two preserve freedom of

movement. It's not going to change.

Secondly what is unchanging is the

broader view in Germany on Brexit.

Britain matters to Germany and

particularly to the very important

business lobby. That relationship is

key, considered crucial. What

matters more here in Germany of

course is holding together the

future integrity of the European

Union.

Jenny Hill. If you have an

Amazon Alexa you might want to

switch it off for the next story. A

TV commercial as automatically

ordered cat food for a UK viewer by

accidentally activating the Amazon

Alexa Smart speaker in their living

room. In case you don't know it's a

voice activated device, you can ask

it to play music, search the

Internet and order things. Let's

show you the advert that caused the

issue.

Alexa, reorder Purina beyond

cat food.

Order confirmed.

The

viewer cancelled the order and

complained about the commercial but

the advertising standards authority

says it doesn't breach broadcasting

codes. But it's not the first time

this has happened, last year in the

US a newsreader's voice was picked

up by a number of Smart speakers and

they ordered dolls houses and tins

of cookies. Let's go to Sydney and

talk to Charlie Brown. What do you

make of all this?

It's really a slow

march forward to a new age of how we

ordered goods. We want the

convenience of being able to order

by voice and it is a convenient way

of doing it. Unfortunately we'll

have to see a few slippages along

the way. When we look at how we

purchased goods traditionally, went

to the store, bought them, then

moved to the Internet, then apps,

then voice. In the near future we'll

use cameras and beacons in our

pantries and refrigerators that have

the ability to order food

automatically as it used up. This

isn't the first example we'll into a

few problems, but I think having one

issue out of hundreds of thousands

of millions of people that use Alexa

globally, it's a good strike rate so

far.

I believe there are controls or

parental controls you can put into

effect on the Alexa to try to stop

this sort of thing from happening.

There are. The way you order by

Alexa is is because the instruction

or the order and Alexa repeated back

to you, then you have to confirm it.

-- repeat it back. That method of

ordering is built in. But also Alexa

and other voice engagement services

like Google home and that kind of

thing, they can take a voice print

of your voice, so the kids can't

come up and pretend to be Hugh and

order some presents, that kind of

thing. -- pretend to be you. They

are building safeguards in. I think

we'll see a few more examples of

this along the way somehow.

It

wouldn't surprise me. I wonder how

unnerving you think it is to have

these devices in our homes listening

all the time, could they be

considered spyware?

They actually

are spyware when you look at the

mechanism of how they work. We've

had listening devices in our home

way before voice controlled

speakers. Our smartphones have a

microphone and the ability to listen

to us. It's the app that decides

whether it is listening and

engaging. These speakers are a new

example. More frightening because

the response is more instantaneous.

I know people that put their phones

inside containers in what we call

faraday cages which don't allow

frequencies to transmit through

them. When they start meetings for

example, they are so worried about

the listening ability of our tech

devices, TV, fridges, that kind of

thing are coming in, they will all

do the same. The important thing to

remember is you understand the

privacy policies associated with the

products you are using and how the

technology works.

Thank you very

much. Let's go to but more in the

US. For 11 days the city has gone

without a homicide, its longest

streak without a murder for four

years. It began with a community

ceasefire initiative starting on the

2nd of February. Let's show you the

group, the Baltimore ceasefire 365,

locals desperate for a reprieve from

the violence. Streak ended with the

death of a young man shot the chest

on Tuesday, however. Baltimore has

one of the highest homicide rate in

the US, 26 people were killed there

in January alone. The last time it

had ten days without a murder was in

March 2014. The BBC's correspondent

has been following the story and

joins me from Washington. How

remarkable is this?

Is pretty big

deal, this is a city that is

exhausted by homicide. Last year

they had a murder almost every

single day and to have a reprieve

like this was a big relief for a lot

of people. They were hoping for a

weekend long ceasefire and it ended

up being technically 12 days long.

This was a big accomplishment, a big

deal for people in Baltimore. Sadly

it ended but it is still worth

noting.

Tell us why Baltimore has

such a problem with violence.

I

think it is a multifaceted problem.

Just one aspect, last year 88% of

the homicides were committed with a

firearm, so illegal firearms are

gigantic problem in Baltimore. There

is also a problem with poverty, with

the education system, however far

back you want to trace it. There is

also a policing problem, the

community doesn't trust its police

force. A very big corruption trial

ended in Baltimore this week which

brought to light a lot of Baltimore

residents have been saying about

their own police force, they don't

trust them, with information, when

somebody's killed they don't report

everything they know because they

fear the organisation themselves.

How strong was the feeling of the

people who set up this group to get

Baltimore to have murder free days?

It was really palpable, one of the

co-founders of ceasefire who I met

and spend time with, Erica

Bridgeford, is a force of nature.

She is desperate to give the people

she cares about in the city a break

from this violence, but also has a

clear eye about how difficult the

task is. She takes these homicides

to hard. The first Baltimore

ceasefire weekend I joined her on,

when somebody was killed in the

ceasefire was broken, she cried at

the scene even though she didn't

know him. They care about this

mission. They've called for a new

ceasefire in May.

How does this

compare to the situation in

Baltimore, to other cities around

the United States?

Baltimore is one

of the highest per capita homicide

rates. We hear about Chicago but

Baltimore's per capita rate is

worse, it's worse in the city of

syllabus Missouri only. It's right

there at the top. Gun violence is a

huge problem. People don't feel

safe, they fear gangs in the street

and fear their own police force.

They are trapped in no man's land to

a certain extent.

Thank you very

much. The Winter Olympics are still

going on in Seoul, let's take you

through some of the main stories.

The first one involves this short

track speed skater disqualified for

grade Piero after finishing second.

She was awarded bronze. Almost

immediately she started receiving

online comments. Many abusive or

threatening. The Canadian Olympic

Committee has come to her defence,

it says the health, safety and

security of all our team members is

our top priority and as such we are

working closely with speed skating.

South Korea has approved a plan to

pay for the cost of hosting North

Korea's delegation. There are just

22 athletes competing, the entire

delegation has more than 400 people

in it and part of that is their

cheerleading squad. We've got this

look at the team.

The North Korean propaganda machine

is huge, but it's normally used

within the country. To big up the

personal reputation of this guy, the

country's leader, Kim Jong-un. But

over the last few days, the

machine's most colourful part has

hit the big time. The North Koreans

have sent 22 athletes to the Winter

games in South Korea. But they've

sent a whopping 230 member cheer

team. It is their first global

appearance. They're making quite a

show, one that is pretty different

from that of their country's

militaristic leader. The

cheerleaders are in their 20s and

30s and have been trained from a

young age. The women are sometimes

referred to as Kim's army of

beauties and his wife was once part

of the so-called cheer squad. They

are chosen because of their looks,

height and family background.

Loyalty to the cause is paramount,

according to one defector, who said

their job was to conquer with a

smile. More than South Korea are

bitterly divided. But the two

nations are performing together at

the games. The chip eaters aren't

having quite the desired effect on

the medal table yet, though. The

Korean women's hockey team boss 8-0

to Sweden. The real question is

whether these displays of unity

could have a lasting impact outside

the sporting arena.

I want to bring you a story about a

small medieval town in Slovakia that

is capturing hearts this Valentine's

Day. You've probably never heard of

this town it's been attracting

couples for years because of its

treasures. Not gold or diamonds, the

hype is over this vault. It is known

simply as the love bank. Inside more

than 100,000 tiny drawers where

couples deposit tokens of love in

the hope of preserving their stories

for eternity. Let's hear a little

about how it works. A picture, a

love letter, a ticket, anything that

preserves the magic of your love

story into these boxes.

It's

story into these boxes.

It's now

story into these boxes.

It's now the

story into these boxes.

It's now the main

story into these boxes.

It's now the main attraction

story into these boxes.

It's now the main attraction at

story into these boxes.

It's now the main attraction at the

story into these boxes.

It's now the main attraction at the

museum celebrating the world's

longest love poem. A national Slovak

treasure, as this local explains.

I

remember the pro-marina because it

was compulsory reading at school.

His elevation of a passionate but

unfulfilled love.

--

this measures a couple's strength of

love. Would you put your

compatibility to the test? If you

wanted to bang to love this

Valentine's Day, you have to wait,

it only opens on certain days. Let's

show you a taste of how you could be

celebrating next year.

There you go, book flights for next

year. Before we the news in the last

hour, the South African President

Jacob Zuma has announced his

resignation. Thanks very much for

watching Outside Source, I'm back