19/02/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

Students are demanding a change to

gun laws. President Trump says he is

open to enforcing tighter background

checks.

Meanwhile the 17-year-old

suspect, Nikolas Cruz,

makes his second court appearance.

He's accused of killing 17

students and teachers.

Turkey warns Damascus

against helping Kurdish fighters

in north-west Syria where the Turks

are carrying out

a military offensive.

One of Britain's most

prolific paedophiles,

is jailed for thirty-two years.

Falder was one of the most prolific

child exploitation offenders

and blackmailers we've ever seen,

in the UK or even in the US.

BBC News just got bigger today -

we hear about the two new language

services that have just launched.

The Florida shooting suspect,

Nikolas Cruz made his second

court appearance today.

The 17-year-old is accused

of 17 counts of murder.

This was a status hearing

and not part of the trial.

We got this statement from the White

House earlier.

Last April the president said...

Some people have jumped on that and

said this is the president shifting

his position. Others have said, not

so much, it is just about enforcing

what already exists.

To a certain extent it is but it is

a step towards greater enforcement.

Arguably what would it have done to

stop this shooting in Florida?

Perhaps not very much because we

know that Nikolas Cruz did by his

guns illegally and there are

loopholes, in spite of background

checks you can still buy a gun from

a private dealer or all without any

background check. Although this is a

check whether or not it would make a

big difference in this shooting or

any other is still a matter of

debate.

A couple of other things I want to

ask you about.

We are told he is recovering but has

a long road ahead.

Some of the survivors of this attack

are now planning an attack on

Washington that will happen next

month. Here is one student on why

she will be going.

I want people to

understand how much this hurts. How

much it hurts to have your security

and your friends and people that you

see every day taken away from you

all because this 19-year-old was

allowed to buy a weapon and walk

onto a school campus. I want people

to realise that it is not OK and we

need stricter gun control laws.

America is listening to these

students at the moment. They look

like they are making the most of

that chance.

This is fascinating, the

mobilisation of these young people,

because they represent the biggest

demographic block fought in the

country. And although a lot of them

cannot afford yet give them another

year or so and they will, and they

are angry and mobilise. And Congress

is going to start listening to them

pretty quickly because this is all

about numbers. And we also see that

young people of that sort of each

group are the only lock that is

going up in terms of how many of

them fought each year. A very

significant development and eight

new developments. We have not seen

this type of reaction from young

people themselves, from the victims

themselves, after these deadly

shootings.

Next we are going to talk about

Syria.

The Government has launched a number

of attacks in this rebel on clear.

-- rebel enclave.

You can hear the pounding of the air

strikes. Activists are seeing more

than 70 civilians have died in the

last 24 hours. The question is

whether the Syrian army will launch

an all-out offensive if the rebels

do not surrender. There are 400,000

people living there.

Thank you for joining us. Given the

upper hand held by the Government

what options are available to the

fighters and civilians there?

The civilians are paying the highest

price. The fighters are still trying

to resist. There are mortars falling

over Damascus. Some areas attacked

our civilian areas.

There are many civilians trapped

there. The last few months were the

worst in terms of bombardment. And

the Government has reused barrel

bombs.

And the rebels controlling this

area, where do they fit into the

larger national picture in Syria?

There are different groups. We do

not have Isis. There are other

Islamist groups, they are locals

from the area. The vast majority of

people in this area are civilians.

There is a scarcity of food.

This escalation in the attacks,

surface to surface missiles, barrel

bombs, all launched in the past 24

of us. Over 70 civilians died in the

past 24 hours. This is a worrying

situation. When you talk to people

on the ground they feel that nobody

cares about the agony or about their

death.

Hours after Syrian state media

reported that pro-government forces

were about to enter Afrin

in northern Syria, there's still no

sign of their deployment.

The enclave is held by Kurdish

fighters who are under severe

pressure from Turkey.

Syrian State Media said

the Government was going to help

the Kurds which raised the prospect

of a direct confrontation

between Turkey and Syria.

Here's the Turkish Foreign Minister.

TRANSLATION: If they regime is sent

into the area to confront PKK there

is no problem but that comes in to

protect YPG nobody can stop the

Turkish army.

This map shows the parts of Syria

held by the Government -

That is controlled by Kurdish forces

known as YPG. A huge swathe of

territory, much of which borders

Turkey. Since news of this imminent

arrival of troops supporting the

Syrian Government, The Kurds have

now reported an increase in shelling

on their positions by the Turks. The

consequences are already kicking in.

Here is our reporter on why the

Syrian Government has chosen to get

involved.

The Syrian Government offers to get

involved two weeks before the

Turkish offensive started because

one of their targets is to take back

as much territory as they can from

Syria. This was under Kurdish

control for months. It is for the

interest to enter Afrin. It was for

The Kurds to understand maybe they

have to ask for help. Yesterday it

was leaked, this agreement was

leaked, by that Kurdish forces. It's

made headlines this morning in the

region in all newspapers. Later this

afternoon and this evening, another

spokesman said there is no deal. We

have been waiting all day for this

agreement is to be implemented. But

it seems that there were some means

that exploded when the

implementation of this deal, and

nothing happened all day, so the

Syrian Government said some popular

units are entering, it is not the

regular army.

These are troops who are sympathetic

to the Syrian Government, offering

their help to The Kurds. How

significant a military intervention

is that given that their opposition

as the Turkish military?

These popular units, according to

how the Government called them, ARC

pro-Iranian and union backed

militias that are operating in

neighbouring villages. These people

are pro-government but they follow a

different agenda as well.

Entering in this region could be

problematic for The Kurds and could

be problematic for the Turkish

forces as well. We started reading

into these statements to understand

why the agreement wasn't permitted

all day and why Turkey has raised

the tone. We have a number of

statements by the Turkish Government

saying this will complicate things

and we will fight, we will not let

the Syrian forces destroy our

achievement in that area. All these

several messages, there is something

that is not understood in this deal,

was not agreed on the higher level,

was at local? Did the Americans and

a few in that? Were the Russians on

board with this? All the information

that we have got, that the Russians

were present in this deal. And if

they are present they have informed

the Turkish side. But where things

blew up we still don't understand.

And as we try and understand, our

colleagues are helping us.

And later we will be telling you

about new language services with the

prospect of helping millions of

people.

Prime Minister Theresa May has

announced a review of university

funding in England saying that

students face some of the highest

funding in the world. She also

called for an end to outdated

attitudes to technical education.

Most journalists, politicians, took

the academic group themselves and

will expect their children to do the

same. And there remains a perception

that going to university is the only

decidable route while going into

training is something for other

people's children. If we are going

to succeed in building a fairer

society and a stronger economy we

need is to throw away this I stated

attitude for good and create a

system of tertiary education that

works for all our young people. That

means quality of access to

university education not dependent

on background, a greater focus on

the technical alternatives also.

Welcome back to Outside Source.

The

White House is saying President

Trump is supportive of efforts to

improve background checks on gun

ownership following on from the

shooting dead of 17 people at a

Florida school.

The Government of Iran says it

cannot confirm that the passenger

plane which crashed on Sunday has

been spotted in a mountain range.

65 people were on board. Israel says

it has signed a multi-billion dollar

gas deal with Egypt. We understand

that gas will be imported into

Egypt, some of it may be liquefied

there, and then exported again.

Chinese authorities are demanding

severe punishment for a man who is

accused of stabbing fun stealing the

thumb of this terracotta Warriors

statue -- accused of breaking off

the farm.

We now have nearly 40 language

services.

BBC Bernie 's, BBC Russian.

Today's focus is BBC Nigeria.

This can be primarily accessed

through your mobile. We have been

asking people if they can sing the

Nigerian national anthem in that

language.

THEY SING.

These latest launchers are part of a

bigger expansion of BBC world

service and that is funded by the UK

Government. It is giving around

$120,000 per year and it is aimed at

reaching half a billion people by

2022 all around the world. This was

a next two years ago when the UK

Government strategic defence and

Security review said,

There is nothing new in this. Lots

of countries are investing in

broadcasters. Russia, Turkey and

China invests hugely in their

broadcasters. It is worth adding

that the UK Government might be

funding this expansion but it is not

telling BBC News what to say. We

have been talking to some of the

people in Nigeria who are about to

get these new services.

Last year

the service was launched, it has

attracted a young, vibrant,

digitally connected audience. For

months now there has been

anticipation about the launch of the

new services.

What do people make of

them? I learned very well from it.

They will understand what is going

on.

Some of us cannot speak English

fluently but if it is in our

language.

It is important to have

something in our mother tongue.

If

you want to get their news from the

BBC in one of 40 languages head to

the website and the rest will be

easy.

Protectionism. Donald Trump is keen

on it. He thinks free-trade deals

have been bad for the US. He was to

overhaul the free trade deal between

Mexico, Canada and the US. He has

pulled the US out of the

transpacific partnership. And steel

and aluminium production is central,

he is proposing tariffs.

And this is what the head of the UN

trade body says.

Anxiety amongst a

large section of the population as a

function of two different processes.

At one level there is globalisation

really assume that markets can fix

things on their own. Trade cannot

automatically create equality, there

has to be a regulatory authority in

the country that tends to distribute

the benefits of trade. Having said

that a lot of the jobs are being

lost to automation. You have to

combine these different things. The

decline retreat of the welfare

state. The absence of a mechanism

that he distributes the benefits of

trade.

This is proving controversial

because there are accusations that

Donald Trump's Sun is exploiting the

family's political influence.

--

Donald Trump's son.

This is the advert that has been in

the national dailies. Join Donald

Trump Junior in conversation and

dinner. This seems to be doing the

trick. Just within one month of its

launch, Trump Tower has already

booked about 70 houses. That is a

2-storey property. Already 70 people

have pre-booked these flats. The way

it works out as that the developers

would be taking over the

construction and that Trump Tower is

just involved with the branding and

would be taking royalties. Although

the developer of this project says

that this was signed before Donald

Trump became president, the timing

of Donald Trump Junior could not be

more curious because this is the

time where we have seen a slump in

the real estate market, especially

in the area read this project was

launched. It seems that this sales

pitch is a booster for both builders

to get that interest from luxury

buyers.

If you go to the BBC News website

and look at the most red list right

at the top is one story concerning

KFC. It has had to close lots of

outlets in the US -- in the UK

because of a lack of chicken.

No!

When you've been promised KFC

as a half term treat

but there is no chicken.

Nine-year-old Maxine is not happy.

Angry.

Sad.

And disappointed.

And hungry?

Very hungry!

Are you more hungry or angry?

Hungry!

It's not just Maxine's local outlet.

Hundreds across the UK are shut

because KF has no C.

They've run out of chicken.

Pretty shocking, really, to be fair.

Pretty shocking.

Especially when you're hungry, like,

you know what I mean?

KFC have blamed teething problems

with the new delivery contract.

They switched to DHL last week,

who say operational issues have

disrupted the supply.

It's a chicken place,

so they should have enough chicken.

They should be able to store it.

It's a big chain, so it does seem

unbelievable, really.

All the chicken...

There's farmers, surely

there should be enough chickens.

We tried several outlets

across Bristol today but found no

fingers being licked.

Almost every store closed.

It's lunchtime.

You'd expect these hatches to be

really busy at this point

but the kitchen is empty,

the fryers switched off.

Chicken with fries, please.

Chicken with fries.

It's a far cry from this.

Tonight, the company is encouraging

staff to take holidays until it can

meet the demand again.

KFC says its own employees will be

paid, but the large majority

of restaurants are franchises.

It just seems amazing.

I thought everything was pretty much

automated these days

and as they use chicken,

more's ordered.

Something has gone seriously wrong.

The company says it's working flat

out to rectify the problem.

But, for some, that is

little consolation.

Jon Kay, BBC News.

In a couple of minutes time we are

going to turn to their Winter

Olympics and talk about this Russian

Cara who has tested positive for a

banned substance. We are awaiting

the second test butterfat is also

positive he and his wife who won

bronze in mixed doubles, FA are

found -- if he is found to have

cheated, they will lose their

medals.

We are going to start this week at

the world whether in a place you do

not normally associate with heavy

outbreaks of rain, the Middle East.

But this cloud has worked steadily

eastwards and brought heavy falls of

rain which would have been welcomed

but also brought localised flooding.

80 millimetres fell across parts of

Lebanon, 70 millimetres in parts of

Iran, and almost 100 and parts of

Iraq. And as the winds picked up

dust storms blew into Kuwait,

turning the sky is orange. That area

of low pressure has worked eastwards

bringing heavy rain and mountain

snow across Eastern areas of Iran

and into Afghanistan. In the United

States there is an area of cloud

stretching from the Rocky Mountains

to their Great Lakes, heavy snowfall

across parts of Utah, South Dakota

over the last 24 hours. That weather

is working its way eastwards. Risk

of flooding. Temperature contrasts

across north America at the moment.

Arctic air is entrenched in Canada,

-15 in Winnipeg, but highs of 29

Celsius in Miami.

Double trouble in Australia and New

Zealand, this is extra pickle

cyclone Kelvin. This will be a

double whammy of whether for New

Zealand. Torrential falls of rain

are on the way. 150-200 millimetres

of rain across the South Island.

Widespread flooding over the next

couple of days. Then there is the

winds, damaging and destructive

gusts of wind reaching 80 mph. And

the remains of Kelvin will bring

heavy rain to parts of south and

Western Australia. 150 millimetres

of rain. There could be localised

flash flooding. Big thunderstorms as

well affecting Queens land. Closer

to home, in Europe, if you love

across Eastern Scotland, Eastern

parts of England, I am sure you have

noticed cloud and rain, it is tied

in with this weather system which is

bringing wet weather across France,

Belgium and Holland. We will

continue to see that mixture of

Claudio Bravo weather lasting into

Tuesday. There are signs that the

weather is starting to turn colder

across Europe and that could be a

sign of things to come.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom

Students stage a "lie-in" outside

the White House to demand changes

to gun laws in America

as President Trump says

he's open to enforcing

tighter background checks.

Meanwhile the 17-year-old

suspect, Nikolas Cruz,

makes his second court appearance.

He's accused of killing 17

students and teachers.

One of Britain's most

prolific paedophiles,

Matthew Falder is jailed

for 32 years.

US Homeland Security describe him

as the worst of his kind.

He was one of the most prolific

child exploiters in the UK and even

the US.

Olympic doping scandals come in many

forms. Try this one out. This is a

Russian athlete, he won a bronze

medal, along with his wife, in the

mixed doubles curling at the Winter

Olympics in South Korea. He tested

positive for meldonium, which can

increase an athlete's injuries and

recovery. I should show you some

curling footage, just some general

action to give you an idea. You

probably wouldn't call it an injury

in sport, so this has had a few

people rubbing their heads. Here is

a Russian curling coach at the

Olympics. TRANSLATION:

Let's wait

for the official result. I can't

comment on this yet but for me it is

absolutely obvious that this cannot

be possible, because after such a

huge scandal in the last two years

with meldonium, I did believe that a

normal person could have taken it

and use this method for the

Olympics. He would have to be

completely stupid. I just don't

believe it. Sasha is an intelligent

and normal boy. I don't believe that

this is possible.

It might seem

unbelievable that a cola would cheat

using a drug well-known, but it is

also worth mentioning that when

Russia hosted the Olympics in Sochi

four years ago it also seemed

unlikely that the host would be

planning a huge operation to

systematically doped many members of

its own team, thus fundamentally

undermining many of the events and

being tired games. But that's what

happened. That might also seem

unlikely that four short years

later, more than 150 Russian athlete

would be allowed to compete in the

Winter Olympics, despite Russia

being banned, and despite us knowing

about industrial scale cheating

organised by the Russians. That's

happening too. The athletes are

called Olympic Athletes of Russia,

not Russian Olympians, though you

could be forgiven for not spotting

the difference, they still wear red

and white. There was another

positive test at the Olympic 's last

week, this Japanese speed skater was

thrown out. So here is one

anti-doping expert, looking at where

we have got on this issue, this time

around.

This must be a huge

disappointment for those who are

trying very, very hard to make this

a very clean games, but it is the

second doping offence, or doping

violation, rather, that is being

reported. But it is perhaps more

interesting to know that this

particular substance is somewhat

controversial. It was only added to

the list in 2016, and perhaps the

most famous athlete involved in this

particular substance use was Maria

Sharapova. So we know it has a

medicinal use, but whether or not

this particular individual had

applied for and received a

therapeutic use exemption, we may

not know just yet. Initially, these

strict liability will apply, and the

athlete will be disqualified, unless

they can somehow show there is good

reason to consider this as a

completely non-intentional, perhaps

even a situation where the athlete

has been spiked or targeted in some

way, it was not their fault.

For

more on this particular drug, BBC

Sport.

The substance that he tested

positive for cover meldonium, was

developed in Latvia and still widely

available over-the-counter in many

Eastern European countries. Away

from sport it is used to treat heart

conditions, but the world

anti-doping agency put it on the

banned list in 2016 because of the

standard could have informants

enhancing qualities because it

increases blood flow and as a result

could be used as a drug to boost in

June. Since it was put on the banned

list, a number of Eastern European

athletes have tested positive for

this. As far as this one is

concerned, I understand he has told

Russian officials it could be as a

result of a spiked drink at a

pre-Olympic training camp. He has

gone to Seoul to witness the opening

of a B sample, if it comes back

positive he will have the right to

hearing from the Court of

Arbitration for Sport, he could

provide any evidence that could

explain how the substance got into

his system. If he is found guilty of

a doping offence, that bronze medal

they won in the mixed curling will

be taken away, he could face a band

of four years as well. This would

have ramifications not just for him

that for the neutral athletes, over

150 of them competing in Jung Chang,

because they hoped that Russia would

be reinstated by the closing

ceremony. The IOC said they would

take all factors into consideration

as to whether they have met all the

rules and regulations, and also this

case as well, it could have

ramifications on that. They will

make a decision, the IOC, as to

whether Russia can march under the

elliptic flag by the end of this

week so we wait the outcome of this

case.

Now to one of the top stories

here in the UK.

A British paedophile who blackmailed

victims has been sentenced

to 32 years in prison.

Matthew Falder was a

university lecturer -

and he admitted 137 offences.

He was caught after an operation

involving the UK, Australia,

New Zealand, Slovenia

and Israel and America.

Here's what the US department

of homeland security has said.

Matthew Falder was one of the most

prolific child exploiters and

blackmail as we have ever seen or

the US. It became the volume of

victims and the techniques that were

employed and the discipline that was

employed around the internet not be

identified and the court was

something we had never seen before.

More on this from the BBC's Sima

Kotecha, who has been covering the

entire trial.

So what was it I have

done, what is it I was supposed to

have done?

Dr Matthew Falder being

arrested at his workplace last year.

The 29-year-old spent years posing

as a female artist online to trick

his victims into sending him naked

pictures of themselves.

It sounds

like the rap sheet from hell.

He

then researched their profiles on

social media, and use that

information to blackmail them into

sending him more obscene images. He

even installed secret cameras in

people post Zack Holmes to film them

in the shower and using the toilet.

Falder contacted more than 300

people worldwide. One of his victims

told us she can no longer trust

anyone.

I was ashamed of what I have

done. All relationships broke down.

You can't be friends with someone

that doesn't trust you, and I didn't

trust them. Even though they did

nothing wrong. And I did nothing

wrong. There was no trust any more.

Last year, he pleaded guilty to 137

charges, including encouraging the

rape of a child and possessing a

paedophile manual. Today he was

sentenced to more than 30 years.

The

feeling of helplessness he embodied

in the victims, and took them to a

place where they never wanted to go,

is truly horrific. And those videos

will be with me and the team

probably for the rest of our lives.

Falder was under surveillance for

several months during a four-year

investigation. The Cambridge

graduate was identified by the

National Crime Agency. They'd worked

with partner agencies across the

world, including the Australian

Federal police and homeland security

in America to find the man who was

behind the messages. Falder lived in

this block of flats. He worked at

Birmingham University. Now, officers

say his motivation was power and

control. He wanted his victims to

feel embarrassed and humiliated, and

he was confident he could outwit the

authorities. He contacted vulnerable

people seeking work on websites. He

then used names such as 666 double

and evil mind on the dark net, to

communicate with other paedophiles.

The dark net is a type of private

computer network that is closed off

from the rest of the World Wide Web.

Have you sent pictures of your

blackmail victims to the parents of

the victim?

No comment.

The

grandparents?

When questioned,

Falder did not cooperate. Today the

judgment called him a internet

highway man. The paedophile showed

no remorse or emotion throughout the

proceedings. More information on

that story and all the stories we

cover on Outside Source on the BBC

news website.

There is full coverage

on the Florida School Shooting

and you can read more

about President Trump and the gun

control debate.

The leaders of eight British cities

were in Brussels today to hold talks

with the EU's chief Brexit

negotiator Michel Barnier.

They are making the case

to keep strong links

with the EU after Brexit.

These are the cities

that held the meetings -

London's not listed -

the rest of the cities believe

London is getting all the attention

in Brexit negotiations.

They are arguing they deserve the

intention because Brexit will impact

on their people.

This is about

putting UK cities on the map. In our

region, we are really concerned we

will end up with a Brexit that only

works for the City of London. It has

got to work for the whole of the UK

economy forced there are thousands

of jobs in our region at stake, and

I've been making the case in the

heart of Europe to make sure our

region has a voice in these

negotiations.

But the British

government is doing the what can you

really do?

We have been raising the

point our cities are raising,

representing our communities,

talking at the interests of

businesses and making sure this is

not just seen as a London centric

solution to Brexit, this is a

solution that benefits the whole of

the UK and puts all of our UK cities

firmly on the map.

Just before

Christmas, we covered a story that

the EU began unprecedented

disciplinary proceedings against

Poland.

It argued that Poland's government

was flouting the rule of law

by attacking the independence

of Polish courts and judges.

The issue hasn't gone away.

Not least because Poland's allies

are clear they will stand by it.

Hungary, Poland and most recently

Austria have seen right-wing

nationalist parties do

well in elections.

This week, Jenny Hill is looking

at these divisions this

is creating within the EU.

Today, Jenny reports

from Zambrov in Poland,

on the success of the Law

and Justice Party.

When your country has come a long

way, it is easy to feel left behind.

Poland has gone from communism,

to the EU, to relative prosperity.

But out here, many felt

forgotten - until now.

Generous child benefits,

a lower retirement age,

small wonder perhaps the Pis

government gets the family vote.

TRANSLATION:

Everyone,

all the other parties make

promises, but they don't deliver.

Pis kept their promises,

it is good and I support them

and I don't see anything wrong

with what they are doing.

Quite the opposite.

But they have divided

a country, enraged the EU.

Last year, protests in Warsaw,

Pis attacks press freedom,

access to abortion and

the independence of the judiciary.

TRANSLATION:

The system

is already broken.

There is no balance of power.

We are moving towards

an authoritarian state.

One party will dominate Parliament

and will destroy independent

justice.

But resistance is giving way

to resignation, the government

is backed in part by

the Catholic Church,

the voice of tradition

is growing louder.

TRANSLATION:

Most importantly

was patriotism that drove me

towards Pis, the

patriotism I inherited

from my grandparents and my parents.

I could only find that kind

of patriotism in the Pis party.

It is as if there is

a battle going on here

for the very soul of this country.

It divides society into liberal

elite or populist patriot

and it is a struggle which

symbolises, perhaps even feeds,

what is happening within the EU.

This is no longer a defining

moment simply for Poland,

but for the whole European project.

Because, it seems, no one

is really sure how to deal

with what is arguably the EU's

most troublesome state.

Silvio Berlusconi has been speaking

to the BBC. He was Italy's Prime

Minister, trying to make a comeback.

He says he is the best option for

Italians in the general election. He

says his criminal conviction for tax

fraud in 2013 was shameful, but that

Italians never lost faith in him. We

shall see about that. He has had a

bizarre exchange the BBC, as you

will see.

Forts and Italia!

Many

thought he was politically finished,

done. But Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's

four-time Prime Minister, is making

a comeback. His centre-right

coalition is set to win the most

votes in the general election in two

weeks' time. Outside of Italy,

Berlusconi's famous for his love of

women, and his ability to remain

freshfaced. But in many parts of

this country, he is much more than

that. TRANSLATION:

I am voting for

Berlusconi, his experience, I trust

him, I am sure he has learned from

his mistakes.

TRANSLATION:

He has

built a good coalition, he has my

full confidence.

Berlusconi can't

technically become Prime Minister.

In 2013, he was banned from public

office because of his criminal

convictions for tax fraud. But he

can still lead his party. When I

caught up with him, I asked why he

thinks he is the best person for the

job. TRANSLATION:

I was ousted from

politics because of an unbelievably

shameful sentence. The Italian

people know that everything that's

been said about me is false, that

all the accusations are made up.

They never stopped trusting me, and

I have governed this country for

longer than anyone else.

His main

challenge will come from the 5-star

movement, an antiestablishment

political party on the right. So in

a couple of weeks, Silvio

Berlusconi, a man who can't be

elected as an MP, and isn't even

allowed to vote, could be back in

power, leading a grand coalition in

Parliament here. This would be in

effect the fifth time he has led

this country. Despite the prominent

of feminist campaigns worldwide,

including movements like me too, it

seems many Italian women can look

beyond Berlusconi's alleged sex

scandals. TRANSLATION:

He is my

idol. All men are like that. He was

just a fool because he got caught.

Me too is not so strong in Italy as

it has been in the Anglo-Saxon

countries. People don't remember

very well the night of Berlusconi,

all the scandals. It is something

far away in our memory.

And not many

interviews with covenant interviews

in like this these days.

TRANSLATION:

Don't shake hands like

that, too strong. Men will think

this one is going to beat me up and

no one will marry you. Let's try

again. No, a little less! Who is

ever going to marry you? I'm joking,

you have to joke every once in a

while.

For many, the idea that

Berlusconi would run the country

again was itself a joke a year ago.

But the man Italians either love or

hate seems on the verge of yet

another comeback. And of course on

the cover of weeks' time we will

tell you how Mr Berlusconi got on.

In Zimbabwe, a huge crowd gathered

earlier for a memorial service

for former opposition leader Morgan

Tsvangirai.

He passed away last week

after a long battle with cancer.

He was 65.

Many people wore red

at the service, the colour

of the party he founded,

the Movement for Democratic Change.

Mr Tsvangirai lived long enough

to see his political foe

Robert Mugabe forced from power

a couple of months ago.

Although of course Mr Mugabe was

replaced by somebody else from

within the same party.

Today's service was held

in the Civic Square in Harare.

This is where opposition

protests were often held

during the Mugabe era.

Shingai Nyoka was there.

Hundreds of opposition supporters,

leaders from across the political

divide, as well as diplomats and

representatives from some African

countries, have gathered here did to

Morgan Tsvangirai, and the speakers

in this service remembered his

contribution to democracy in this

country. They say that he is an icon

that should be honoured but there

has also been reference to the fact

that in his death his supporters

should now unite behind one leader.

We've talked a lot recently about

political protest in Ethiopia -

there's been very different kind

of protest today.

People stayed at home.

They're opposed to a six-month state

of emergency that was imposed

after the Prime Minister

resigned last week.

And he resigned because of

other protests, like

these from last week.

The unrest dates back to 2015

and has claimed hundreds of lives.

Most of the unrest has

centred on Ethiopia's

two largest regions,

Oromia and Amhara.

Mary Harper...

The people who are staying at home,

they are mainly in the Norma --

Northern region and they are one of

the ethnic groups that feel very

aggrieved with the Ethiopian

government. They are particularly

angry because on Friday the

government reimposed a state of

emergency, and introduced very

strict rules about what people can

and can't do under the state of

emergency, and they are essentially

are protesting against that.

And

that is justified in the name of

stability, presumably?

It followed

before the state of emergency was

imposed, the Prime Minister

unexpectedly resigned, and so it is

a response to that because the

country is basically in political

turmoil. No new Prime Minister has

been announced so they have imposed

a state of emergency to try to

control what are basically three

years of anti-government protests.

So who is bossing this, the

politicians or the military men?

At

the moment the politicians, because

even within the governing

commission, which has essentially

been a very authoritarian form of

rule, that is split and there are

fears now that Ethiopia's military

might start to really muscle in. And

that would really spell disaster for

the country, because it's so

important that Ethiopia is kept

politically stable, because it is in

such a fantastically unstable part

of Africa. So if the military start

to really move in, that will mean

that Ethiopia has become another

basket case in a region which is

already full of basket cases.

It was

only a few weeks ago you were

standing here and we were talking

about this big announcement of

political prisoners being released,

and there was a stain -- sense of

optimism. That seems to have

evaporated somewhat.

Yes, it is very

strange because Ethiopia had these

months and months and months of

protests, and it was scrambling

around trying to work out what to do

and eventually decided start

releasing. It released about 6000

political prisoners, and people

started to think, OK, the government

is making some concessions to these

two big ethnic groups who are in

opposition. But then the Prime

Minister resigned, and a new state

of emergency was imposed, and so it

looks like it is back to square one.

Thanks to Mary, and if you heard

someone shouting in the background,

it sounded rather dramatic, we never

found out who it was, but whoever it

was, I think they were OK.

Oxfam has directly apologised

to the Haitian government today

following the prostitution scandal.

Oxfam's regional director

for Latin America and the Caribbean

said "We came here to share

the report with the minister

and express our shame and apologies

to the Haitian government

and to the Haitian people.

We've taken lots of measures

to improve internal

safeguarding measures."

The report he's talking

about was an internal

investigation from 2011.

Here it is.

Parts are blacked out

to protect identities.

Oxfam published it today and it

reveals that three of the men

accused of sexual misconduct

in Haiti physically threatened

witnesses during that

2011 investigation.

Here's Theresa May's reaction -

given to BBC London radio.

This is absolutely horrific, this is

exactly the problem that we see,

which means that all too often

people don't feel able to come

forward to report what has happened

to them, the behaviour that they

have been on the receiving end of.

Here's some more of what's been

revealed in the report.

One employee

was dismissed and three resigned

for using prostitutes

on Oxfam premises.

Two more were dismissed

for bullying and intimidation.

Another was sacked for

failing to protect staff.

Here's a member of the UK's

International Development Committee.

I don't think these sorts of reports

should be secret. Now that it is out

in the open, we can actually do

something significant about it, and

that's what I'm going to be asking

difficult to do, to have a central

register, so we know anyone we give

money to, any charity, has got the

right procedures in place, and that

the children and women are

absolutely safe.

See you tomorrow,

goodbye.