22/02/2018 Outside Source

Hello, welcome to Outside Source.

The US gun lobby launches an angry

defence of weapons ownership

amid calls for stricter controls

following the Florida shooting.

To stop a bad guy with a gun,

it takes a good guy with a gun.

Amid more terrible suffering

in Eastern Ghouta, the UN is trying

to agree a humanitarian ceasefire.

TRANSLATION: Shame on you! This is

just a little boy who wants freedom.

Why are you doing this? I don't know

what to do.

Theresa May is meeting at her

country residence, and the only

topic is Brexit. Justin Forsyth has

resigned from a senior role at

Unicef. We will get you up to date

from New York.

The National Rifle Association

and Trump has set out

what it believes can

stop on school shooting -

more guns.

Its leader spoke earlier at a major

literal event in Washington, DC.

After every mass shooting in the US

there is a further national debate

on gun control. Wayne LaPierre said

this is playing politics with a

tragedy.

As usual, the opportunists

wasted not one second to exploit

tragedy for political gain. The

break back speed of calls for more

gun control laws and the breathless

national media, eager to smear the

NRA.

The NRA has been targeted in

this advert in the New York Times

today.

It lists 276 members

of Congress who "take NRA money

and block gun control" -

along with their phone numbers.

The NRA also has good relations

with President Trump.

Yesterday he backed the idea

of arming teachers.

And Wayne LaPierre warmed

to that theme earlier.

It is a bizarre fact that in this

country our jewellery stores, all

over this country, are more

important than our children. Our

banks, our airports, our NBA games,

our NFL games, our office buildings,

our movie stars, our politicians.

They are all more protected than our

children at school. Does that make

any sense? To anybody? Do we really

love our money and our celebrities

more than we love our children?

Yesterday on Outside Source

we brought you that listening

session in the White House

where Donald Trump came out

in favour of arming teachers.

They gathered and listened to

teachers as well survivors of school

shootings, and relatives of victims.

The President was seen holding a

check list with five points on it.

Number one was what would you most

want me to know about your

experience? Number five was I hear

you. Donald Trump has also been

tweeting today. He's been talking

about the idea of arming teachers.

You can translate that as the

President of America suggesting that

every school in the country should

have at least one gun inside it.

Later today he spoke to ask both

sides of the political divide

to join him in taking action.

I think we're making a lot

of progress and I can tell

you there's a tremendous feeling

that we're that we're

going to get something done.

And we're leading that feeling

I hope, but there's a great feeling,

including at the NRA,

including Republican senators

and hopefully Democrat

senators and congressmen.

Polling suggests the majority

of the teachers don't want

a gun in the classroom.

This is one in Pennsylvania.

In my

opinion, I think guns in the

classroom are absolutely ridiculous.

I think most teachers are not

trained, I think you are putting

students at risk having guns in the

classroom. I think it is not a bad

idea to have security people with

guns, but I am qualified on the M-16

rifle and .45 pistol, and there is

no way that a teacher should have a

gun in a classroom. There are two

money opportunities for accidents

and if you kept the weapon locked,

how would you access it if something

were happening?

Anthony Zurcher was

at that speech earlier and has been

telling me about it.

It was

interesting, I have been to a lot of

these conferences and the crowd can

be very raucous, animated. They

really weren't all that animated

during the speeches of the NRA folk.

It was interesting. In fact, they

made reference to that, I hear you

are quiet, you are afraid, and you

need to be afraid because they are

coming for your guns, essentially.

That is what Wayne LaPierre said.

Then when Vice President Mike Pence

came out, a couple of speakers

later, they cheered really loudly

for things like building the Mexican

War, Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court

nomination, tax cuts, standing for

the national anthem. It was a sombre

mood, but it was not the reaction

you would expect from some of the

red meat that Wayne LaPierre was

throwing out there, media bashing,

Democratic parishing and even

criticising the FBI, which is a

bogeyman for the right these days.

Presumably, the NRA is relatively

pleased with the current state of

the debate, given that normally in

the aftermath of a mass shooting it

comes under pressure, but it now has

the President backing one of its

primary ideas on this, arming

teachers?

Right. You saw Donald

Trump tweeting earlier today, saying

that the NRA are great people and

that he has their support. The NRA

supported him very early in the

presidential campaign when there

were a lot of conservative groups

that were not sure whether to back

Donald Trump when it looked pretty

clear he was going to get the

nomination. The NRA jumped in with

both feet and supported him to the

tune of about $30 million over the

course of the campaign. Donald Trump

knows who is loyal to him, and he

rewards loyalty. I think he sees

that from the NRA. As you mentioned,

there is going to be significant

pushback from turning schools into

hard targets, in his words. Donald

Trump talked about arming teachers,

there are 3.5 million public school

teachers, you're talking about

100,000 teachers conceivably, and

that idea, being given guns, a

massive undertaking, by any

reasonable understanding.

Last week,

in the immediate aftermath of the

Florida shooting, we spoke to a WR

Hawkins from Breitbart news.

He was making the argument then,

right after the tragedy,

that teachers should be armed.

Let's catch up with him

again now in Arizona.

Thank you very much for your time.

Would you support the idea of

700,000 teachers that currently

don't have guns at school being

harmed?

If the teachers want to be

--

Being armed.

You don't force them

to be, but if they want to be armed,

certainly. Sandy Hook, nobody was

armed, 27 people killed. Virginia

Tech, nobody was armed, 32 people

killed. This most recent attack, no

body was armed, 17 people killed. We

tried it that way and it doesn't

work. I am all for a social studies

teacher that can take out an attack

in the first five seconds.

What

would you say to people watching in

the UK and around the world, to whom

the idea of a gun being in a

classroom along with their young

child is horrific, in compensable?

Well, I mean, I would say that they

may not understand. Many of those

teachers have concealed carry

permits, and at night, when they

travel to the gas station, the

restaurant, they have a gun with

them and they have young kids with

them, and their friends with them.

That is everyday life, that is just

how it is in America. So, the fact

that you send them to school and

say, while you are at school you

cannot have that gun for self

defence, that is the real atrocity.

There is no atrocity and having a

gun with him when the child is with

him in other settings, why should

they be denied that right when they

are at school? You force them to be

sitting ducks and it is a ridiculous

policy.

I am interested that you are

focusing on how to deal with

somebody coming into a school with a

gun, rather than talking about the

fact they have a gun in the first

place?

That is a fair point. I'm

talking about somebody that comes

into school with a machete, with a

knife, with a hammer, with anything.

The way we are set up right now, the

teachers are defenceless, period.

You can bring in any weapon you

want. That is a good point. I don't

care if the attacker has a sword or

gun, if the teacher is arm she can

take him out. That is the important

thing. What we have seen in America

is the outward perimeter on schools

are so weak. Anybody that wants to

get on campus, they can get on

campus.

There is a broader issue of

school security, but what about the

core issue here? It struck me during

the listening session that people

were talking about dealing with

pupils that are isolated, making

sure people connect with each other,

making sure teachers are armed, but

not necessarily talking about the

fact it is just too easy to get a

gun in America?

Well, the reason

they didn't bring that up is the

left has pushed background checks,

waiting periods, all of these

things. Florida has a waiting period

of three days for a handgun

purchase, they have background

checks. This guy complied with that

rule, as almost every mass public

attacker does. So, we have tried all

of their gun controls and none of

them work. That is why I'm not

addressing it, I'm not trying to

skirt the issue, it is not worth

addressing because gun control

failed. Now we have to find out what

will work in place of gun controls,

and it is letting his teachers

defend themselves.

Help me

understand, then, why you are not

focusing on gun control, but that

would appear to be the primary

difference between America, where

there are a huge number of mass

shootings, and lots of other

countries in the world, where their

arms?

Right... Why would we focus on

gun control at any point? Let me ask

you a question, who would obey gun

control laws? Woodlore -- would

law-abiding citizens obey, or

criminals question

In a case of

Australia or the UK...

In general,

law-abiding citizens do, criminals

do not. Why would I respond to a

crime by looking at how we could

restrain law-abiding citizens?

The

reality is that if I am minded to

get a gun in London, it is awfully

harder than if I were to get it

where you are in Arizona. That is

just a fact, whether I am a criminal

or law-abiding citizen.

Well, it

might be a fact, but there is

another deal, in America, it is part

of our heritage. It always has been.

That is part of life in America

since 1791, when the Second

Amendment was ratified. In America,

we are guaranteed by the

Constitution the right to keep and

bear arms. Exercising that right is

checking the fact, that other people

are armed.

But you cut to it, in the

end, your history, your heritage, it

is actually more important than

stopping people dying in mass

shootings. I'm not saying that is

right or wrong, but is that not a

fact?

Not at all. We have problems

that have nothing to do with guns. I

think Trump is right when he looks

at the mental health issue. Our

mental health is a broken system,

because of the left. The same people

that push gun control, they help

themselves by not taking care of the

mentally ill and then when the

mentally ill do something wrong,

instead of addressing the mentally

ill problems, they say we need or

gun laws. They use everything, they

let a certain degree of chaos exist,

in order to feed arguments for gun

control. I would agree with you,

there are some things we can do, but

addressing gun laws is not one of

them. We have so many thousands and

thousands of gun laws and they don't

matter. They will never met. --

never matter.

Good to talk to you, I

have gone over the time I had to

talk to you because it was so

fascinating. That was AWR who writes

for Breitbart news.

We want to bring you the latest now

on the crisis in Syria.

A UN resolution had been

tabled in New York -

calling for a 30 day truce.

That's been blocked by Russia,

Moscow wanted it amended -

it said it only put pressure

on the Syrian government,

which it backs.

Also, the awful situation in eastern

Ghouta. It is the last major rebel

stronghold near to the capital.

And for five days, Syria -

backed by Russia -

have been carrying out

an intense bombing campaign.

More than 400,000 people

are trapped there.

And more than 400 people have died,

94 of them children.

These are some of the latest

pictures - I want to warn

you they are disturbing.

This video is from the

so-called White Helmets,

a civil defence group.

They have been giving lots of

details on their Twitter account.

They say some residents have no

access to food or clean drinking

water. Lots of people are living

underground to try to stay safe.

Medical facilities and staff are

being targeted and the UN is now

warning of a massacre.

We've also been following videos

posted by two girls

trapped in eastern Ghouta.

This was put up a day ago.

Warplanes attacked...

They say warplanes and helicopters

are attacking their neighbourhood.

And that there's nowhere

to run for cover.

They are pleading for help.

A Twitter account has been set up

using their names.

This video was posted earlier today.

You can see very clearly that one of

the girls has been injured. Even

hear them screaming in Arabic,

crying for help. You can see the

snow that has been left from the

shelling. Her mother told us later

that the house had been bombed and

that her son was also hurt. We have

been contacting doctors working in

eastern Ghouta. They say the

situation is going from bad to worse

and personnel are under so much

stress.

Ahmad Tarakji is President of

the Syrian American Medical Society.

I was just talking to my colleagues

in Ghouta as I walked into the

studio. They are terrified, the

situation is terrible and they feel

they are facing a massacre coming up

soon.

Where are they able to work?

Are there still medical facilities

they can use?

The medical capacity

has dropped by about 60% compared to

what it was last week before the

situation started. There are still

some medical facilities operating.

Not to the point where they can help

people. We have seen many casualties

and people dying from treatable

conditions. The doctors are

committed to continue serving, and

chewing Nickell Robey humanitarian

workers. With limited resources and

the constant bombing of hospitals,

they can't do that as effectively as

they should.

Do the doctors believe

they are being politically targeted?

Absolutely, it is a clear pattern of

attacking by the Syrian air force.

It is completely paralysed in the

medical sector. I was communicating

with my colleague, the head of the

White helmets team, and he said most

of the ambulances are also targeted.

They are not even able to evacuate

patients from the building, or from

the basements, to the hospitals.

Whoever gets to the hospital might

not get treated correctly because

they are destroying hospitals.

I

assume the casualties and injuries

are caused by bombs from fighter

planes?

Absolutely, they are coming

from the Syrian air force, we're

starting to see different missiles

being utilised. Everybody is hiding

in basements. We are seeing the

missile similar to what we have seen

in Aleppo.

The last seven years have

seen any number of horrors in Syria.

How do your colleagues compare what

we are seeing in eastern Ghouta with

other situations that have played

out?

It is a replay of three

displacement scenarios. We have seen

comparable escalation of the

situation as we have seen in Aleppo.

We have seen situations in other

places. The doctors in Ghouta the

same doctors that treated the

chemical attacks in 2013, the very

famous ones. They have been besieged

for the last three and a half years.

We are seeing the worst days we have

ever seen over the past five or six

years.

Background information is

available whenever you need it

online. Alijaz Bedene tweeting about

how she has not opened Snapchat very

much and that appears to have had a

significant impact on the market

value of the company that owns

Snapchat. We will be live in New

York to find out what is going on.

We'll be talking to

Yogita Limaye about it

Police say they're investigating

a letter sent to St James Palace

as a racist hate crime.

Scotland Yard say it was delivered

along with a package containing

what's reported to be

a white powder.

It was reportedly addressed

to Prince Harry and his

fiancee, Meghan Markle.

Tests on the substance

confirmed it was not harmful.

No arrests have been made.

Richard Lister has more.

It seems to refer to something

written on the letter. The couple

themselves have not made any comment

and it has not been formally

acknowledge that the letter was sent

to them. Of course, Meghan Markle is

of mixed race. Prince Harry spoke of

last November about the racist abuse

he said she received on social

media. This would clearly take it to

another level if they were the

targets of this. One interesting

thing that the police will be

looking at, the following date:

February 13, another letter

containing a suspicious powder was

received the Palace of Westminster,

addressed to Amber Ruud, and clearly

the police will be looking at

whether those letters are linked.

We live in the BBC newsroom.

Pressure is growing for more gun

control in the US, but the powerful

NRA are calling for armed security

at every school. Donald Trump has

been tweeting that teachers could

have the option to the answer they

can fire back if a Savage Dzeko

comes into the school. From BBC

Russia...

Russian opposition leader

Alexei Navalny has been detained

by police in Moscow -

and then released

shortly afterwards.

He's already barred from running

in the presidential

election in a few weeks -

and is calling for a boycott.

These Egyptian policemen

were guarding a bank

when they noticed that a child

was hanging from

a third floor window.

One of them manages to catch the

child, who was not in any way

injured.

Shares in Snap, the company

behind social media

app SnapChat, plunged

by

around 8% today.

That means the company

lost around $1.5 billion

in market value.

What caused the slump?

Well reality television star

Kylie Jenner tweeted

that she doesn't use the social

media platform anymore.

You would not think that was enough

to move the market value of a

company by over $1 billion. But

perhaps?

Yogita Limaye is in New York.

Is it as simple as that?

Well, I

don't think anybody can say with

certainty that is what has happened.

But she tweeted yesterday at 4.50

local time, 50 minutes after the

market closed. Suddenly, today, once

the market opened, it has been a

pretty bad day for Snap. They have

ended more than 6% down, but that is

a very dramatic fall. I have to say,

the other thing that had happened,

which involves the company, is that

they released a report, and in that

report, they talked about the

compensation that chief executive is

getting. He actually gets a stocks

grant of more than $600 million.

There are also analysts that are

saying that perhaps it is a

combination of those two factors.

Generally, a lot of Snapchat users

have been very unhappy with the new

update that they have released on

Snapchat. Kylie Jenna's tweet, and

she has about 24.5 million

followers, if that is going to

result in less users.

The redesign,

which a lot of people are not happy

about, it sounds like they are not

backing down? The statement I saw

basis it had to get used to it?

Is

Ashley, there was even a petition

online by people who want them to go

back to the original Snapchat. The

company saying they have segregated

content on the app, so stuff that

you see from friends and things that

you see from celebrities that you

follow or other platforms, that are

making content for Snapchat, you

sort of see that separately. People

are quite unhappy with how the

stories have been mixed up. Snapchat

says that it is an effort to

segregate the content and make it

easier for people to use. But I

think a lot of people are unhappy

with that.

OK, thank you very much.

This is the Financial Times telling

us that Evan Speigel's pay has hit

$638 million. Nice work if you can

get it!

A German Federal court has failed

to come to a decision today over

whether to allow cities

to ban diesel cars.

Instead, the court has delayed

the decision until Tuesday.

The car industry is watching this

very closely.

Theo Leggett explains

the complexities of the issue.

Cities across Europe have to abide

by European limits on emissions,

like nitrogen oxide, which can cause

respiratory problems. We have a

court looking at whether or not, in

order to achieve that goal, and

people driving diesel cars into city

centres should be considered. If

they were to decide that it should

be an effective way of reaching the

quality targets, cities across

Germany would feel pretty much

obliged to introduce them, otherwise

they could face legal challenges

from environmental groups. They

would pretty much have to do it.

That, then, would have a knock-on

effect for millions of drivers, who

bought diesel cars in good faith. We

are even told by the German

government and other governments, a

few years ago, that diesel cars were

environmentally friendly. So, the

ramifications are profound. It could

affect millions of consumers, affect

the industry, affect the policies of

local government. It is a

complicated matter.

Straight after the end of this first

half of Outside Source we are going

to be looking at Brexit. It has been

a huge day for Theresa May. She

gathered some of the most senior

ministers at Chequers, her country

retreat. Their job is to thrash out

what kind of relationship the UK

once with the EU after Brexit. We

will get you all of the details and

a few minutes.

Killyman.

-- good evening. It has been rather

dreary, but it looks like we will

see more in a way of sunshine as we

head towards the weekend. This was

the story further north and west.

You can see these pictures of the

Scottish Borders. After a dreary

start in the south-east the cloud

broke up from the south-east coast

and we will have some beautiful

spells of sunshine. We continue to

see clear skies through the evening,

with the exception being further

west. Clear skies at this time of

year leads to a widespread hard

frost, particularly through the

spine of the country. The cloud

prevents the blue tones arriving in

Northern Ireland, said temperatures

here holding up above freezing. A

cloudy, great start through Northern

Ireland and parts of Scotland. We

will also see a bit of cloud coming

in of the North Sea coast. If we

look at the afternoon in more

detail, you can see where the cloud

will tend to linger of the North Sea

coast, and also through the Western

Isles and into Northern Ireland. For

much of Wales, central and southern

England, just a little bit of fair

weather cloud across Cornwall.

Elsewhere, more sunshine coming

through. Not a particularly warm

day, four or 7 degrees. Don't start

moaning yet, it is going to get even

colder as this high-pressure across

Scandinavia is really in the driving

seat with the weather patterns at

the moment. It means quite a quiet

story with the wind coming in off

the cold, European coastline. As we

move into Saturday, there will be

more of a breeze, particularly on

the exposed east coast. That will

feel quite fresh. Hopefully some

lovely spells of sunshine to

compensate. Perhaps into Northern

Ireland we will have more in the way

of cloud. It will be a chilly day on

Saturday. Into Sunday it is almost a

repeat performance. A bit of cloud

coming from the North Sea to the

north and east. A stronger breeze

down into East Anglia and the

south-east, and it will feel much

colder than these temperatures

suggest, highs of about five to 7

degrees. You have probably heard

that it is going to get even colder

still, with the air originating from

Siberia, and over the next few days

it looks like temperatures are set

to fall. You can see that in the

city outlook through Monday and

Tuesday, temperatures really

struggling to climb above freezing.

You have been warned!

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

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The US gun lobby launches an angry

defence of weapons ownership

amid calls for stricter controls

following the Florida shooting.

To stop a bad guy with a gun,

it takes a good guy with a gun.

Amid more terrible suffering

in Eastern Ghouta, the UN is trying

to agree a humanitarian ceasefire.

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We'll get into Brexit a moment.

Theresa May and a group of senior

British ministers have spent the day

trying to find agreement

on what relationship

they want the UK to have

with the EU after Brexit.

This is happening at

Prime Minister's country

retreat, Chequers.

Here it is - it's about 50km miles

north-west of London.

Here are the ministerial

cars arriving earlier.

It takes quite a while to get done

belonged either.

The key issue is the degree

to which UK should seek

to align with the EU -

and what terms the UK

should accept in exchange

for access to EU's market.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

is on one side of the debate -

seeking the ability to diverge

from EU rules and regulations.

Chancellor Philip Hammond

is on the other - wanting

Britain to be aligned

as closely as possible.

Theresa May's job is to find

some common ground.

Let's hear the closest she's come

to stating a clear position

on managing the future relationship.

This was in Florence Glastir.

There

will be areas of policy and

regulation that are outside the

scope of our relations. There will

be areas where are we and our

European friends may have different

goals or may have the desire to

share the same goals, but by the

different means. And there will be

areas where we want to achieve the

same goals in the same way is

because it makes sense for our

economies.

The outcome where Britain opts

to diverge a bit in some areas,

a lot in others, and not

at all in others, has been described

at the "three baskets approach."

Not a great title but it's

what we've got to work

with.

But even if Theresa May gets

agreement among her colleagues

on the three baskets -

of course that doesn't mean

the EU will also agree.

Here's the BBC's reality check

correspondent Chris Morris.

We already know, in fact,

that they are not that

keen on this approach.

Last night, they released a series

of slides which had been shown by

the European Commission

to member states.

So you can see a little bit of one

of the slides there.

This is the key one.

Basically, what it says is,

in summary, the three basket

approach is not compatible

with the principles

of the European Union's guidelines.

Basically, it says it

would undermine the integrity of the

single market.

That gets back to the age-old

argument about are we just

trying to cherry pick the best bits?

It would also, they fear,

allow other third World countries,

Switzerland, Norway,

to say, "Well, hang on,

if the UK has this great,

special relationship, we want some

of that.

We want to make it better."

-- other third countries.

It also says it would mean that it

would be more difficult for the you

to make decisions after Brexit,

because it would be hamstrung by

this strange new

relationship with the UK.

There's pressure coming

from all angles on this issue.

Around 60 Brexit-supporting Mps

are crucial to her ability to get

things through parliament.

They are demanding "full

regulatory autonomy" -

in other words complete freedom

to do as it wants -

they argue this will help with trade

deals with places like China.

Their leader is Jacob Rees Mogg.

Pro-EU MP Chuka Ummana says...

Of course, it was sold

in many different forms,

and that's one of the issues here.

The vote to leave wasn't a vote

for one type of Brexit or another.

It was simply a vote to get out.

Here's the BBC's Political

Corresponent Alex Forsyth,

outside the Chequers meeting,

on what we can expect from it.

I think what we will get is some

sort of broad statement, perhaps not

necessarily today, but in the next

week or so when we are expecting

Theresa May to give

a speech with a bit more

detail, fleshing out

the

endgame that the UK hopes to

achieve, but of course it is worth

mentioning this...

This is the senior level

ministers trying to

work out what they want

from Brexit the long term.

That is just a starting position.

That then has to be

negotiated with Brussels, and

once again we are hearing from

the EU that there can be no cherry

picking.

The UK can't have all the benefits

of the EU without the

rights and obligations.

So I think Theresa May's

balancing act, that

she is probably conducting

round the dinner table right now,

well, that is going to continue

for some time.

An interesting subtext to all this.

Since the vote for Brexit,

the number of EU citizens leaving

the UK has risen to its highest

level for a decade.

130,000 emigrated in

the year to September.

Though 220,000 EU nationals moved

TO the UK in the same period.

That means net EU migration

was 90,000, that's

the lowest for five years.

This is The UK's Immigration

Minister on the impact of Brexit.

Our first priority was for those EU

citizens already living here and are

living here prior to the 29th of

March next year.

People who come here after it will

have different expectations. They

will come here knowing we have left

the EU, so what we must do now is

negotiate very cosy with our

European partners as to what the

position of those people will be

going forward.

Now we turn to the scandals

involving charities -

two days ago we were telling

you about the complaints

of inappropriate behaviour levelled

against Justin Forsyth

while he was chief executive

there at Save the Children.

Now he's resigned from Unicef.

Here's what he said...

Nada Tawfik is in New York for us.

This was looking more and more

untenable, wasn't it?

Absolutely. I

spoke to a fewer employees at Unicef

and one of them told me this was

becoming a distraction for them to

be able to do their important work,

and so I think we clearly saw that

with Justin Forsyth's decision today

to hand in his resignation this

morning. He said point-blank wasn't

doing this because of the complaints

from his role in his former employer

at the charity Save the Children.

Those were of course the fact that

he was accused of texting young

female staffers inappropriately,

commenting on how they worked. He

said he had apologised and the

proper process had been taking care

of a few years back, but he said the

reason he was doing this was because

he didn't want to do any more damage

to Oxfam and Save the Children, and

so I think a lot of people at Unicef

would agree with him that it was

time to take this step to have him

resign.

I also wanted you to get us

to fill us in on Oxfam in Haiti,

because there has been a development

there.

The Government has now said

they are not going to authorise

Oxfam Britain to work in Haiti for

the next two months. They want to do

an internal investigation into

whether any of the staff members

sexually abused miners in the

country. They said was a serious

error that Oxfam didn't come to them

immediately when they had

allegations of misconduct, and they

said that this was a violation of

the dignity of the Haitian people.

That investigation they say will

take about two months, and in the

meantime, Oxfam has said that they

are concerned that this could affect

their work in the country.

In the

last couple of weeks, Oxfam and Save

the Children have been in the

spotlight, but either broader

indications for other organisations

in terms of sexually inappropriate

behaviour?

This is one of the issues

the Secretary-General has taken on.

He want the UN to be seen as

transparent when it comes to

allegations of sexual abuse, and so

it is picked out as public record

the number of sexual assaults or

harassment allegations that

different parts of the UN family

get. We know it has affected UN

peacekeeping, the U in refugee

agency, and the Secretary-General

himself has acknowledged this is a

problem in need charity and NGO

sector. It underscores what we have

known from this past year that the

Ruby is no point, industry, sector,

walk of life that is immune from

sexual assault.

Thank you very much.

Don't forget you can get much

more detail on our top

stories on our website.

I want to update you on a story we

have covered through the week on

outside source. Girls are missing in

Nigeria. We know the president has

sent eight team to this town. It is

next ought to another state where

over a 200 girls were taken in 2014.

The sky is the state governor and he

said some girls had been rescued,

but strangely that story is now

changing. -- this guide. Look at

this copy. Our colleagues have been

helping us.

Our correspondent discovered this

story as well. We have met almost a

wall of silence from authorities

today. Whether it is the Army, the

State Government or federal

Government. The only information we

have had today as con from the

parents who has told us what the

governor said to them. Very little

information coming out, almost

nothing today, about the whereabouts

of these girls. We heard from the

army over the past few weeks, they

have been recording significant

successes against Bogel her ram

since December, but they have

reclaim to a lot of hardware,

munitions and trucks. We saw an

attack of this size. We haven't seen

attacks quite as co-ordinated as

this in quite some time, so this

flies in the face of ever being that

the Army, the authorities and the

Government are trying to tell is

about the capacity and the

Government's operation against them

stands. We tried to bring you the

biggest global stories every day.

Let's bring you to North Africa now.

Egyptians will vote in presidential

elections next month.

The former army

chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi is almost

certainly going to get re-elected.

Human rights groups say

the election will be a farce -

and you can see where

they're coming from.

Serious challengers have been

disqualified, arrested or have been

pressured to drop out.

Orla Guerin is our

correspondent in Cairo.

Welcome to Egypt. Enticing images of

timeless hospitality and ancient

attractions. The picture postcard

view the authorities are keen to

promote. But there is another Egypt,

a military backed regime. Where

dreams of freedom have been crushed.

And human rights groups say at least

1500 people have vanished from the

streets in the last four years.

Egypt's disappeared. This is one of

them. She is 23 and wants to open

her own business. Her mother says

she and her daughter were jailed in

2014 after being arrested near a

protest. She says they were in the

wrong place at the wrong time, and

were later acquitted. Then in 2016,

her daughter was detained at a

police checkpoint, she tells me. She

was dumped by the roadside after 28

days. A change to girl.

But her legal papers show the

anguished and not end there. As her

daughter were struggling to recover,

she disappeared for the second time

last April. Her mother says

neighbours saw her being taken by

armed and masked police.

Her treasured keepsakes are just as

she left them. Her mother refuses to

give up hope. She says her family

has done nothing wrong and she will

speak out for her daughter even if

she hangs Fred. -- hangs for it. We

wanted to ask the authorities about

her daughter's case, but they

wouldn't give us an interview. In

the past, they have denied there are

enforced disappearances and

widespread human rights abuses. Most

who are taking turn up in custody

facing terrorism charges. Human

rights groups say anyone who opposes

the regime is at risk. They say

Abdel Fattah al Sisi is waging war

on dissent and this is a dark hour

for Egypt.

The study led by Oxford University

has found anti-depressants work.

It's published in The Lancet -

21 drugs were considered

via the data from over 500 trials.

Sima Kotecha has more.

There were times, you know, I felt

really low, to the point I didn't

want to be around anyone or anybody

or have any interaction

with family or friends.

There were times when I didn't

understand my position in life.

Jon needed help.

He was struggling to cope.

His doctor prescribed

antidepressants.

I still think there's a lot

of stigma around it, as to,

you know, are you weak

because you take them?

Are you are a nutnut

because you take them.

I had an image of Jack Nicholson

in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

at the end when he's a complete

and utter zombie and you lose

something about yourself,

something that makes you you.

And that's what I was concerned

about, you'd turn into zombie

without any feeling.

But the only way I can describe

it is that it gives you a kind

of buffer around some

of the negative thoughts

and your mind racing.

Today's report found that 21 of some

of the most common antidepressants

were more effective at treating

anxiety and depression

than dummy pills.

Those behind the report

as well as other GPs say the results

show that these tablets could help

more people cope with low moods.

For too long, healthcare

professionals have been denigrated

and slated for prescribing drugs

that they know will work.

So many patients tell us they work.

We only want to do this

for the best of our patients.

It is not about fobbing people off,

it is genuinely trying to help them.

In 2016, 65 million prescriptions

for antidepressants were issued

and the numbers are rising.

But some critics say

depression can be solved

through positive mental attitude.

You say you've been

on them for five years...

The research also outlines

which pills work best.

However, the authors are urging

people not to switch medication

before getting advice.

Hopefully it made me an easier

person to be around for my family.

Yeah, the plan is, in regular

consultation with my GP,

to wean myself off of them.

But that's got to be

when the time is right.

Saudi Arabia has announced it

will spend 64 billion dollars to

develop its entertainment industry.

Its General Entertainment Authority

has said over 220,000 jobs

in entertainment will be

created by 2030.

Bear in mind that figure

was 17,000 a year ago.

This all part of what's

called Vision 2030 -

it's the grand plan

of Prince Mohammed bin Salman or MBS

as everyone refers to him.

He's the son of King Salman -

and leading the drive

to diversify the Saudi economy.

Here's BBC Arabic's Hadya Al-alawi.

He is trying to shepherd the

businesses in his country from the

oil to the entertainment to

encourage little to spend more money

on that sector. Anyway, a lot of

Saudi Arabians travel to nearby golf

country such as Emirates to buy or

Abu Dhabi Bahrain do-gooder concerts

or have fun. They are trying to get

money out of the entertainment

business in a reserved way, keeping

the balance between keeping Saudi

Arabia as a reserved state, but at

the same time giving people that

kind of way of having fun in their

own country without having to go

across the Borders are else to do it

every weekend. How do you do it in a

reserved way, though? I saw a report

saying Ricky Martin might be coming,

and openly gay man with a very

sexualised routine when he performs,

had that fit in with Saudi Arabia

and its way of doing things?

That

will be the main challenge, because

the problem is not just that there

are laws in the state that restrict

people from going to concerts, there

are no concerts in the country, but

also that is a social restriction of

rounded, so families who actually

want their kids or daughters to go

to concerts might face some kind of

backlash from the society around

them that they allowed their

daughters to do that. Also because

of sharia laws in the country there

is going to be religious backlash as

well. They are going to be mixing

females and males in the same

environment and we saw women

attending football matches in a

stadium, that is a largely dominated

environment by males. There will be

a lot of restrictions and challenges

around that. To allow people to

enjoy their time anyway that doesn't

actually go against their religion,

but at the same time opens the

society slightly and slowly towards

that change.

It has happened in some

forms. Behind me as a picture of a

Greek artist has already performed.

Had that goal and how are the

dealing with these issues already?

As I mentioned? They are trying to

encourage people to open the society

a little, so when they allow artists

like that, who is not a sexy

performer...

He is not Ricky Martin.

They are slowly introducing out into

the country in that way they are

hoping they can bring that change,

but let's not be completely

optimistic about it. We have to

accept this will be a difficult

mission, whatever the Government at

the family. There are so many

reservations around at that it's

going to be very, very difficult to

bring that change into the country.

Within that period of ten years,

maybe we will see it slowly moving,

but we cant expect it to happen

overnight.

We've been talking a lot

Black Panther the film because

of its extraordinary success.

We've a report now

on the Black Panther movement

of the 1960s and 70s in the US.

It fought an armed struggle

for racial justice

and black empowerment.

A new exhibit in New York focuses

on 20 former members

who remain in prison.

Here's Nada Tawfik.

It's been having a century since the

Black Panther marched through the

streets with Opera raised fists

crying out for power to the people

in their black berets and jackets.

Many of the black nationalists was

controversial figures remain

imprisoned today. They are the

subjects of artist Sylvia Dawson 's

macro new exhibition,

correspondence. -- Sofia Dawson. But

I think it's important to have

people whose stories have been

forgotten, to have them on the

outside for people who may be

experiencing their stories free

press time. Sophia this is about

passion. She has visited Black

Panther activist still incarcerated.

Even her technique is a nod to black

empowerment.

I start on all black,

it is an act of protest, a political

statement, and also solidarity with

the Black Panther movement and

embracing the fact that the colour

black is beautiful. I think it is

will it run to have to pool B

Collins out of black service.

CROWD CHANT

They were black revolutionaries who

openly carried weapons. They said it

was to protect against police

brutality. To the FBI, they were

militants, to others, they were

freedom fighters.

I didn't know that

freehold clinics and exist before

the Black Panther movement, I didn't

know that free breakfast programmes

didn't exist before the black and

moment.

This exhibition weaves

personal stories with larger

societal issues that the Black

Panther movement was fighting. Since

severe Dawson started this, a number

of them have been released. They say

the same injustices they saw a

number of years ago are still

present. This was the leader of the

Black Panther in New York. He served

his time for charges of attempted

murder after gun battle with the

police. He was given a hefty

sentence for activism.

The media are

always presented as is being

terrorists and Wales and of Ireland.

Unprovoked attacks on police. They

never talked about Hamley black men

and women and children were dying at

the hands of the police every day.

-- the media always presented us as

terrorists and wild and violent.

Sophia believes understanding how

past generations fought will help

today's activists pave the way Ford.

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