08/03/2018 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source.

We have just seen the formal

start of a trade war.

Donald Trump stood alongside steel

workers announced new tarrifs

and blamed foreign countries

for flooding the market

with Steel and Aluminium.

He blames former American presidents

and foreign countries who are

flooding the market.

The industry

steel industry has been ravaged by

aggressive foreign trade practices.

It is really an assault on our

country.

Up to five million

people stop work in Spain to take

part in a day of protest

against unequal pay, sexism,

and violence against women.

A Danish inventor denies murdering

a Swedish journalist

on board his submarine last summer,

but admits disposing of her body.

And an Iranian woman

who publicly removed her veil

to protest against law

compelling her to wear

a hijab, has been jailed

for "encouraging moral corruption".

It's tariff time.

Donald Trump is

at the White House -

along with steelworkers

from across the US -

to sign a symbolic proclamation

of new tariffs on steel

and aluminium imports.

This is what he's had to say

in the last few minutes.

Before

he

steel is deal.

You don't have steel,

you don't have a country. Our

industries have been targeted for

years, leading to the shuttered

plants and males, the laying off of

millions of workers. And the

decimation of entire communities.

That is going to stop, right? That's

going to stop. This is not merely an

economic disaster but a security

disaster. We want to build our

ships, we want to build our planes,

we want to build our military

equipment with steel, alumina, from

our country. Now we are finally

taking action to correct this long

overdue problem. It's a travesty.

Today I am defending America's

national security. By placing

tariffs on foreign imports of steel,

and aluminium. We will have a 25%

tariff on foreign steel and a 10%

tariff on foreign aluminium. When

the product comes across our

borders. It's a process called

dumping. They dumped more than at

any time on any nation anywhere in

the world, and it drove our plants

out of business, our factories out

of business. We want a lot of steel

coming into our country. We want to

be fair. We want our workers to be

protected and we want, frankly, our

companies to be protected. By

contrast, we will not place any new

tax on product made in the USA. So

no tax if a product is made in the

USA, you don't want to pay tax,

bring your plant to the USA. There's

no tax.

Our Correspondent,

Gary O'Donoghue is in Washington.

I would pay more than any few

pennies for the thoughts of

officials in Paris, Berlin and so

on. He said some of those you treat

in the worst in military in trade

they call allies, or analysed is

what they like to call it.

He has in

the past singled out Germany in

particular, he did that this morning

in a separate event correcting what

he sees as their lack of willingness

to pay nothing to the defence

budget, even though they are a rich

country. That's probably what he had

in mind. There are some very big

decisions to be made in those

capitals in the next 15 days, do

they retaliate, do they, as some of

the commissioners in the EU have

said, smack duty on products that

come from states represented by

senior Republicans, that was one of

the highly bellicose politicised

that that was made already? They

will be thinking very hard about

this in Beijing as well. Their steel

imports, though they don't directly

export a great deal of steel to

America, a lot of Chinese steel does

end up here, coming to third

countries. That's what President

Trump was talking about in terms of

dumping steel. He says the Chinese

have dumped steel on the world

market for a long time. Big

decisions to be made and also, big

decisions to be made by the domestic

industries here, do they go full

steam ahead now and start opening

smelters and furnaces straightaway?

Do they see how it goes, we know

that Canada is for the time exempt

from tax. It is America's biggest

importer, exporter of steel. Most of

its steel comes from Canada and it

is exempt at moment. It will depend

on the Nafta, the Free Trade

Agreement. In a sense, America

holding Canada and Mexico over the

barrel to say, if we don't get the

new Nafta deal we want and then you

get these tariffs. It will send

enormous reverberations through the

world and you will see trade

representatives crisscrossing the

planet trying to work out how to

react.

Another key moment for me was

when the president talked about

reciprocal tariff arrangements, he

said if India puts this tariff on

one of our products, we will put an

equivalent tariff coming back. That

really undercuts the whole idea of

free trade where developed

countries, by supporting developing

countries, in turn create markets

for their own products.

You are

right that out in particular because

that is an extra spin on what we've

been hearing in the last few days,

that has not really been in the play

that until now. That is something

that will be highly controversial,

but it is part of what Donald Trump

sees as the fairness. He has a

narrative in his head which goes

back a long time, that says America

has already always been on the

receiving end of the wrong deal, has

been far too lax, far too generous

with other countries. He used the

example repeatedly during his speech

of American cars being taxed at 25%

when they go to China and Chinese

cars being taxed at two and a half

percent when they come into the US.

He said that was going to end, that

had to end. It's a very forthright

position to take, it will have

enormous implications, not just in

terms of potential trade wars but

also it could have inflationary

concerns here at home, the commerce

Department saying it does not

matter, don't worry, steel tariffs

will mean 2 cents on a six-pack is

the way they put it but it could

have inflationary pressures on the

economy here.

Let's talk about the

politics. I want to show everyone

watching this a letter signed by

around 100 Republicans were outlined

their concerns on tariffs, saying we

are writing about the prospect of

broad global tariffs on aluminium,

steel.

Also seeing some copy telling us the

US Republican Senator Jeff Blake, in

fact I can show you that here... I

guess the context we should put in

here is that Senator Flake and the

residents have some history.

Yeah,

there is no love lost between

Senator Flake and the president.

Senator Flake is leaving the Senate

this year. He is going to get

challenged from the right and will

lose. The interesting point about

that is that Congress does have

powers in terms of trade, and it's

one of those powers to the

president, to negotiate things, to

impose tariffs like that. It is

possible for Congress to try to take

back some of these powers, and that

is certainly something that has been

muted on Capitol Hill in the last

few days. Whether or not the

Republican Party will generally want

to have that kind of confrontation

at this point in time, I'm not sure.

There will also know that this

policy will be very popular in those

blue-collar areas, places like

Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,

those kinds of areas where Donald

Trump won, when no one thought he

would.

Thank you very much.

It's international

women's day.

Millions of people have been

involved in marking it.

Let's start in Spain.

Women AND men staged the country's

first 'feminist' general strike.

This was Madrid.

The message - if the

world stops, we stop.

Thousands walked out of their jobs

and hit the streets.

Organisers urged them these

ditch chores for the day.

This was inside

the offices of the El Pais

newspaper - also in Madrid.

Hardly any journalists to be seen.

Next Barcelona.

Congested roads.

Train delays.

And flight cancellations.

Another huge protest. One reason

these strikes have scaled up so much

is because they are backed by ten

unions and a number of prominent

politicians.

This was the scene in

the past hour in Madrid.

Tens of thousands of people are out.

Making a point about unequal pay,

violence against women and a range

of issues. If you want a statistic,

some estimates say women are paid as

much as 19% less than men in the

public and private sectors. Other

estimates put it as low as 14 but

nonetheless there is undoubtedly a

gender pay gap.

Here are some of those

taking part in the strike.

It has been interesting seeing these

pictures coming in, how different

women in different parts of the

world have marked this day. This is

a manila in the Philippines. Some

signs reading, this is the rise

against match over fascism, a direct

shot against their president. This

is Islamabad in Pakistan. Both men

and women in this rally, objecting

to a staggering, upsetting

statistics about violence against

women. Nearly 1000 women killed by

close relatives every single year in

so-called honour killings.

Protesting human rights as well, and

this is Gaza where people were

turning out to highlight the

mistreatment of Palestinian women in

detention. We know the Middle East

is certainly a place where women are

not treated equally to men.

Earlier I spoke to BBC Women

Affair's Journalist Feranak Amidi

and put that to her.

It is one of the most challenging

places in the world but also a place

where not much happens on

International Women's Day, there are

some state events, countries like

Jordan and Afghanistan we witnessed

for the past week the government is

holding some events for women, but

basically Afghanistan was the only

place where just a few hundred women

in Cobble March for women's rights

and focusing mostly on activism in

rural and urban areas. In Iran, the

most interesting thing happened as

well. After 11 years, for the first

time in 11 years, Iranians women's

movement, women's groups asked

people to come to the streets and

they did come. A few dozen people

but around 80 people have been

arrested. It is one of those tricky

things. In the middle east, like in

Saudi Arabia, women's rights issues

are an important challenging issue,

but nothing is happening. I am not

saying nothing is happening, of

course there are some changes, but

we don't see that sort of activism

on the streets. On the streets of

Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, different

Middle Eastern countries.

An

interesting distinction, you say

there are some improvements in

women's experiences but there is not

much change in how women can express

themselves.

Exactly, that's the

tricky part, the tricky thing about

the Middle East, there is progress

and then there are setbacks. Let's

take a country like Afghanistan, you

have 27% female representation in

the parliaments, just a bit over

Canada, but it's also one of the

worst places in the world to be a

woman. You have people in the

government talking about passing a

law against protecting women against

violence. It's been going on for

eight years and the law has not been

passed. It's up in the air. --

passing a law protecting women

against violence.

When you see a country like Iran,

lots of social progress but the

State acts as the main barrier. In

Afghanistan the state tries to push

by the cultural thing in the

barrier, and in Iran it's the

opposite. In society people want to

push for progress but the Islamic

ideological state does not allow

that to happen, so we have seen

protests by women in the past year

in a country like Iran, but it's

going really slowly.

Jason is

watching in Mumbai and asks where

that studio is, to explain, we have

access to a different studio early

in the day so if colleagues are

leaving before we come on air cannot

speak to us later in the day, we

speak to them earlier in that studio

but normally it is used by BBC World

Service programmes, BBC Ukraine and

Russia by example. Just a couple of

floors from where I'm talking to you

from.

Stay with us

on Outside Source -

still to come of OS business...

We'll look trade and tariffs

and help everyone understand

the the Trans Pacific Partnership

and Donald Trump's

latest moves on tariffs.

Here, the UK government has

set a budget for Northern Ireland

in the absence of a power-sharing

administration at Stormont.

It includes 410 million pounds

of a 1 billion pound package

negotiated by the DUP -

in return for its backing for

the Conservatives at Westminster.

Let's get the thoughts

of our Northern Ireland Political

Editor, Mark Devenport...

That is quite right,

the Stormont Assembly

is in mothballs at the moment,

none of the politicians are meeting

and we had those talks that

collapsed last month

and after the collapse,

officials in the Stormont

departments were really getting

quite frantic, needing that

clarity with the start

of a new financial year looming,

so Karen Bradley, the Secretary

of State, has stepped in now.

She has set a budget

which will allow for around

£10 billion worth of expenditure

over the course of the next

financial year, which has been eased

by that confidence and supply money,

although these remain tight times,

so there are still complaints

from some of the parties.

This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom.

Our lead story:

President Trump pushes ahead

with a 25% tax on imported steel

and 10% on aluminium -

with the measures coming

into effect in 15 days.

The former Colombian rebel movement

the FARC is now a political party,

and it says its candidate

is dropping out of the

Presidential election in May

because of ill health.

In South Africa a crowdfunding

campaign has started

for the triathlete Mhlengi Gwala.

He was attacked in Durban

by a gang which tried to cut

off his legs with a chainsaw.

30,000 dollars have already been

raised to help with medical bills.

An initial operation has been

described as successful.

Best wishes to him.

Thousands of fans gathered

in florence for the funeral

of footballer Davide Astori -

he died of sudden

illness on March 3rd.

So as we've heard, President Trump

imposing steep tariffs on steel

and aluminium imports,

claiming the "American steel

industry has been decimated

during the past decades".

He says he will put that right.

Economists estimate billions of

dollars of trade will be affected.

The US stock markets have closed

higher after the news.

Kim Gittleson is in New York.

Some people may be surprised by

that?

Yeah, I've been waiting for

markets to react as well. I think

the way you can read American

investor sentiment towards these

tariffs is, as you mentioned, their

work are about four Mexico and

Canada, saying as negotiations were

ongoing they would not impose these

tariffs on those two countries.

Trump also said all countries would

be invited to submit proposals to

justify why they should be allowed

to be exempt from these tariffs,

according to the proclamation, they

must prove they are not a threat to

national security in the US. Some

have seen this as a bit of a

softening and as such investors

thought there could be little room

regarding the implementation of

these tariffs, perhaps indicating

they may not have this full-blown

trade war we've been worried about.

Then again we have seen the EU has

already drawn up a list of American

industry is that it plans to target

if it is not given sufficient

exemptions. It remains to be seen

how these tariffs will go into

effect. We have 15 days to see how

the cards play out.

Let me pick up

on one of those points, the

expectation this will not happen in

quite the form the president has

announced. Mrs Jeff Flake saying he

will introduce a law to nullify

these tariffs. The Republican

chairman of the finance committee

also criticised what is happening. I

don't suppose the White House would

put it that way, mitigating the

damage. There is an expectation the

political process has some way to

go.

We saw on Wednesday a letter

signed by over 100 members of House

Republicans who said they were

deeply concerned by the

implementation of these tariffs, I

want to say that the Congress

granted the president the powers to

do these proclamations, to institute

these tariffs that Congress could

take these powers away from

President Trump should they decide

they needed to act unilaterally. We

are obviously not at that stage yet

but we are seeing a significant

amount of this agreement within the

Republican party here in the US.

In

terms of the steel and aluminium

industry in the US, the president

would like to present this as the

clearest possible boost for these

industries, is that how they see it.

The steel industry has come out in

support of it, the aluminium

industry has said they are deeply

concerned about these tariffs and

were not sure this was the best way

to help their industry. Yesterday I

was that a brewery down the street

from our offices here in Brooklyn

and there were lots of industries

that will be impacted by these

tariffs in the US that aren't just

in the steel and aluminium sectors.

The cost of this brewery's plans

will go up and they may have to pass

that cost along to their consumers.

They have to bide his steel cakes

that may also have a cost increase.

-- they also have to buy these steel

cakes.

Thank you very much.

Despite Trump's actions,

a new global trade pact

with was signed in Chile today.

The US pulled out

of the Trans Pacific Partnership

but the pact still has clout with 11

nations from Canada to Japan

making up a marketplace

of 500 million people worth

nearly to $14 trillion.

Donald Trump did not think it was a

good deal which is why he got out.

Here is our South America

correspondent.

Now comes the hard

part for all these countries. They

had to prove it to their

constituents, to their citizens that

this is worth doing. This deal must

be approved in each of these

countries parliaments and then if

the deal is successful they can come

and ask for other countries like the

US, even the UK or anyone to join

the rebranded deal.

Should global car makers

still be using models to sell cars?

It's still common to see beautiful,

elaborately dressed models at motor

shows but is this still appropriate?

Standing up to the competition with

the three lovely it out for

comfort...

It's not a good situation right now,

to find some women like that but at

the same time, women are responsible

for themselves, they make their

choice.

Ideally you give

non-knowledgeable people, the ball

back and talk about the products,

everyone is here to see cars. --

ideally you give knowledgeable

people.

I was a glamour model myself

when I was very young. I actually

quite liked it, I think the cars are

beautiful but you need a bit extra

to bring them to life. I'm not

against it, I think they add just a

bit of a spice.

Plenty to discuss there, I'm saying

nothing.

China dominates

a list of global self-made

woman billionaires again.

The top four women in

the report by Hurun come

from the Asian superpower.

One Chinese technology billionaire

has a rags to riches story.

Female

leaders at the top ranks of China's

Communist Party are almost

nonexistent particular at companies

and the rich list, it is home to

most of the world's self-made female

billionaires. The number one spot is

held by a woman who grew up in a

really poor village but she is now

working in $10 billion, after she

founded a company that makes glass

covers for laptops and smartphones,

and Apple and Samsung are now among

her biggest customers.

We will be

turning our attention is to the

Russian election next week in the

next half hour of Outside Source,

and the details on that Russian spy

who was living in the south of

England.

We say goodbye to most of the snow

as we head towards the weekend. We

are about to say hello to some

higher temperatures. Smoke was some

disruption of across parts of

northern England but many more

places turned into a sunny one. --

snow caused some disruption. Where

we had sunny skies by day we will

have clear skies by night, allowing

temperatures to drop. Some showers

in the North West of Scotland,

wintry over high ground and more

cloud into the far south-west. Not

as cold here, for degrees in

Plymouth but other areas down below

freezing. The mist patch as well to

take us tomorrow morning. After the

mist has cleared, the majority will

see large amounts of sunshine

tomorrow. These showers still

feeding in across the western side

of Scotland with wintry nests over

high ground. Southern parts of

England and a good part of Wales

will cloud over with some outbreaks

of rain beginning to splash in by

the middle of the afternoon.

Friday's rush hour does look like a

soggy one from Plymouth to Cardiff

to London as these outbreaks of rain

pushed north. Much of the rain will

be light and patchy but it could

turn a bit heavier as we get deeper

into the evening. That rain courtesy

of this frontal system working

North, all driven by an area of low

pressure sitting in the south-west.

The positioning of this low means

that into the weekend we will be

getting southerly winds across the

country, feeding in a mild air.

Miles is the big theme for our

weekend forecast. Some rain at times

but not all the time, Natalie rain

to start on Saturday across the

Midlands and into Northern Ireland.

As that drifts into Scotland, could

give some snow over the high ground

but at low levels we expect this to

fall as rain. All the while, milder

air up from the south. 14, 15, maybe

16 degrees if things brighten up in

the south-east. South-eastern areas

may get a glancing blow from this

rain on Sunday, generally southern

parts will see showers that further

north, the fog clears and we should

see spells of sunshine, temperatures

for most in double figures.

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins,

this is Outside Source,

and these are the main stories

here in the BBC Newsroom.

President Trump is pushing ahead

with a 25% tax on imported

steel and 10% on aluminium -

with the measures coming

into effect in 15 days.

The American steel industry has been

ravaged by aggressive foreign trade

practices. It is really an assault

on our country.

Up to five million people stopped

work in Spain to take

part in a day of protest

against unequal pay, sexism,

and violence against women.

The use of a nerve agent on a UK

soil as a brazen act. This was

attempted murder any cruel and

public way and people are right to

know who to hold to account. If we

are to be rigorous in this

investigation we must avoid

speculation and a the police to

carry on the investigation.

The US Government said today is

ready to support the UK and other

action takes about the size of what

that means in practice is not clear.

This is the US undersecretary for

public diplomacy who is in London.

I

have heard quite a lot about this

and talk to a number of people in

the UK Government to have mentioned

in this episode to me and it is very

concerning and we'd respect the work

of the British investigators and

trying to get to the bottom of this.

We now know that Twenty-one people

have been been treated

in hospital after the incident.

This is the police officer,

who was in intensive care:

Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey.

He is now said to be

conscious and stable.

BBC Russian's Olga Ivshina has just

come back from the crime scene.

I spoke to her earlier.

It depends on the new reaction from

the UK. A lot of loud voices and

concerns but actually petition it

all became quiet and go back to the

usual state of events. Relations

between the UK and Russia are at a

low point already so it is hard to

make them even worse but once again

it would depend on the UK's reaction

because Moscow say they know nothing

about that so they are taking it

easy.

We have seen you talking to

colleagues of Sergei Skripal, what

have you heard?

They told us some

details about his wife and said he

was actually dreaming about working

for the military intelligence since

was a child and tried to go to the

Russian equivalent of Sandhurst and

was trained and join the

paratroopers and serve their

brightly and managed to join the

Russian military intelligence and we

were told he was quite proud of that

by his relatives. They could not

believe he was working for the

bullets and condemn the allegations.

His friends and relatives thought he

was living modestly so he and his

wife and children were living and a

one-bedroom apartment in Moscow. He

had an old car for example. Everyone

describes as a Russian patriot,

heart and soul of the company

optimistic and ended positively a

loud man.

At any of his relatives

able to visit him on isolated?

He

was living in England with his son.

Initially the whole family moved

here his wife and son and daughter.

His wife died in 2012 and son

stadium but his daughter missed

Moscow because Salisbury is very

quiet compared to most which she

went back and was based here and

what they are but she was coming

back and forth visiting him quite

often especially in the last two

years because there were

particularly hard for survey. His

elder brother died and next year his

son died and he was very close to

him. This year to day he is in a

critical situation hospital.

We're getting very

close to the Russian

election - it's next week.

We know who's going to win but it

still raises many important issues -

And Sarah Rainsford is going to be

at the heart of our coverage.

She's based in Moscow but has

travelled to Rostov -

as you'll see in her latest report.

They see themselves as born

warriors, the Cossacks,

defenders of their country

through the centuries.

It is a past they are fiercely proud

of, replayed in the muddy

borderlands of southern Russia.

These days, the Cossacks' brand

of patriotism is on the rise.

TRANSLATION: Cossacks

want to serve their country

part in the war because,

if they didn't, their cities

would be shelled next.

He paints the uprising in Kiev

as a coup, backed by the West -

views that sound radical

are now mainstream here.

TRANSLATION: Volunteer fighters

felt they had to take

part in the war because,

if they didn't, their cities

would be shelled next.

Ukraine is just the beginning.

We know who this is done by,

it is the West that wants

to divide up our country.

In Rostov there's a memorial to

those who died fighting in Ukraine.

Despite all the evidence, Russia

still denies sending soldiers there.

Russia's relations with the West

have been cooling for some time

but it was the war in Ukraine that

really marked a breaking point.

Whilst for many here,

those who fought are seen

as patriots and as heroes,

for the West this was the moment

that marked Russia as an aggressor.

The West imposed sanctions

but Russia did not

buckle, it retaliated.

It banned fresh meat from Europe,

among other things, so no one

here is too flustered by sanctions.

They have boosted local production

and staff think Western

firms would struggle

to recapture the market.

We are ready for the

competition, Dimitri says.

Russia today looks more

Western than ever,

with similar tastes and styles.

The crowd in this bar see their

country as European, culturally.

This young owner would like to be

closer politically too but

the climate has cooled dramatically.

Maria also has a fashion label

and big plans for the future,

including expanding sales

to the West.

But under Vladimir Putin,

she fears Russia will only

increase its isolation,

with assertive policies

sold to the public by

a powerful state-run media.

TRANSLATION: Instead

of talking about problems

we have inside the country,

they talk about how

we are surrounded by enemies

who all want the worse for us.

It is really scary because it whips

everything up and then people think

you need to push back otherwise

we will be overrun and destroyed.

That siege mentality is growing

here, as is the sense that Russia

has chosen a deliberate path away

from the West, with no sign

that it plans to turn back.

The election is next week and we

know that Vladimir Putin is going to

win that doesn't mean that are not

interesting questions about Russia

is positioning itself and how its

article environment is evolving or

not.

I've just seen a tweet saying

it is International Women's Day and

with ten minutes of Donald Trump and

then three or four minutes of the

national women's Day can stop when

the president says he is greater

than is back on the principles of

free trade that is a moment of

future Americans particularly when

he points his finger straight at

America was my closest allies, some

of the biggest economies and the EU

and it had just happened so

inevitably be were going to talk

about that but in terms of

International Women's Day we brought

you coverage already from Gaza and

Turkey and Spain and the Philippines

and a couple of other stories to

come between now and the end of the

programme.

This is from earlier in the week -

there's Kim Jong Un.

And this is South Korea's head

of National Security.

Then this is today.

The head of National Security

with South Korea's head

of National Intelligence.

They're at the airport in Seoul -

and they're about to fly

to Washington to pass on a message

from Kim Jong Un.

America has been clear

that is prepared

to have direct talks -

but only if there is a commitment

to denuclearisation.

And unless it's it that letter,

North Korea hasn't offered that.

This is the US Secretary

of State Rex Tillerson speaking

during a visit to Ethiopia.

I think as President Trump has

indicated potentially positive

signals coming from North Korea

about the dialogue with South Korea.

We maintain a very close

communication with the Republic of

Korea, president we are keeping us

well informed of the content of

those meetings and we are providing

them input as well. In terms of

direct talks with the United States

and US that was huge and we are a

long way from negotiations. We need

to be realistic about that.

And then this is China's

foreign minister

who became a little poetic.

It's takes more than one called

today to freeze three feet of ice

despite light at the end of the

tunnel the journey I will not be

smooth. Ashley has remained at this

time and time again that whenever

tensions survey did the situation

would become cloudy again. Now is

the crucial moments to test the

sincerity of the parties to solve

the nuclear issue.

Su Min Hwang, editor of BBC

Korean, told me more

about the diplomatic mission.

The special envoys the diplomats

have flown into the USA Today and

allegedly they have a very private

message from Kim Jong Un and nobody

knows apart from five people and

South Korea including these

diplomats and the president. Nobody

knows what is in it. We can guess at

and a lot of people think that

rather than containing detailed

action plans that contains the

sincerity of Kim Jong Un's message

about denuclearisation.

The

Americans have been cleared of that

is not a commitment talks do not

happen.

That has stayed the same,

they have asked for a complete

irreversible digitalisation and it

is whether North Korea is willing to

provide that.

We talk a lot about

North Korea, South Korea could do

chain Atherton? -- where do chain

Atherton? Where do China fit in?

It

is the priority that it is no war on

the Korean peninsula and they are

very willing to see the tension

being diffused.

People will think

the reason Kim Jong Un wants nuclear

weapons as it makes him secure, why

would he even think about agreeing

to stop that programme when it is

the one thing that makes sure she is

safe?

You are correct, nuclear

weapons and importance to North

Korea, not only a national symbol of

power and advanced country to the

citizens, it also acts as a

deterrent from the foreign invasion.

For North Korea to give up will be a

revolutionary change but if they are

sincere about giving up the weapons

it could mean tough sanctions that

have been imposed actually working

so they want some sort of breather

out of that and the economy to

flourish. On the other hand it is

also the view that this is another

tactic from North Korea to buy time

to fully develop the nuclear

weapons. They need time to develop

it to the full extent. One would be

building more facilities to equip

this and they need the warhead

re-entry technology to be fully

developed for them to have a

complete nuclear weapon.

A top European trade official

says... While they may think that

that doesn't mean Donald Trump will

agree. He has been very critical of

the EU and said it was being

impossible to do business with. It

did not mention it by name today but

said some countries and

organisations supposed to be allies

are not behaving in that way in

terms of the military and trade. He

is clearly not happy and the idea

that the EU should be excluded, we

will see. A couple of points, Canada

and Mexico are being temporarily

exempted from these tariffs because

of the ongoing negotiations, the

North American Free Trade Agreement

which Donald Trump said of getting

rid of and then tied to the fashion

it and that is what is going on.

Some people are suggesting the

tariff introduction as a way of

saying to all of America's trading

partners will have to revisit a lot

of issues so perhaps the EU will get

what it wants, and exemption. But

there are only 15 days so there's

not too much time for that to be

resolved.

The Danish Inventor accused

of murdering the Swedish journalist

Kim Wall has gone on trial

today in Denmark.

Peter Madsen admitted

dismembering her body

and throwing it out to sea...

but denies murder.

This all relates to last August.

Kim Wall boarded Mr Madsen's

self-built submarine off the East

coast of Copenhagen at 7pm.

She'd arranged to conduct

an interview aboard the sub.

At 2am her boyfriend

reported her missing.

We know the submarine was spotted

travelling south over night.

It sank here at 11am next morning -

and Mr Madsen had to be rescued.

When asked where Kim Wall was, he

said he'd dropped her off earlier.

Eleven days later Kim

Wall's torso was found

here in a nearby bay.

Weeks later, police divers

discovered more parts of her body.

Now Mr Madsen has changed his

story multiple times.

And the prosecutor wants

convictions for murder,

dismemberment and aggravated sexual

assault.

If that happens he could face 15

to 17 years in prison.

Maddy Savage has more.

I should warn you that

the details are disturbing.

Court proceedings for the first day

of what is one of the most

high-profile murder trials in

Scandinavia for years have now

wrapped up. More than 100

journalists from around the world

turned up to see a Peter Madsen the

Danish inventor giving evidence in

the court room. The day started with

prosecutors outlining the argument,

some of the evidence they have

collected that they hope will see

Peter Madsen locked up for life for

Kim Wall's murder. That included a

back-up of his phone which showed he

had googled beheading and the days

and months before Kim Wall died and

I was before she was on her

submarine he had watched a video of

someone slitting the throat of a

woman. When he took to the stand he

was dressed in black with casual

jeans and a stuck to the story that

Kim Wall had died in an accident due

to carbon monoxide poisoning, she

had inhaled the fumes filled he had

been on another part of the 70 metre

long submarine. He denied having any

kind of sexual act with Kim Wall or

himself while he was on the

submarine despite evidence presented

I prosecutors showed that sperm had

been found in his underpants. He

said there was simply no sexual

attraction between them. The trial

continues with the verdict expected

next month.

The UN has released research that

shows that women are much more

likely than men to be affected

by climate change.

For example, 80 percent

of people displaced

by climate change are women.

Here are two examples

the UN highlights.

Take Chad, nomadic groups close

to Lake Chad have had to move

as 90 percent of it has disappeared.

Now women go further collect water

and men go to towns for work.

Or there's Hurricane

Katrina in New Orleans.

Flooding hit low lying

areas of the city,

and many were low income.

More than half the lower income

families in the city

were headed by single mothers.

Here's the BBC science reporter

Mary Halton giving me more details.

Quite often the problem with climate

change as we struggle to humanise it

and the real issue here is that it

is affecting women globally so often

we estimate is happening in places

like Lake Chad with the effects of

climate change are very visible but

in the example of New Orleans and

urban population and places like

Jakarta and globally woman and would

like to be in poverty and socially

deprived than men so they will be

more impacted when infrastructure is

damaged.

That is an issue about our

societies are constructed rather

than being an issue specific to

climate change?

Absolutely, we tend

to talk about natural disasters but

these events do not impact everybody

equally and the impact according to

the structures we have in place as a

society so climate change is

affecting indigenous women and women

of colour disproportionately to the

rest of the population.

Reading your

article you are seeing Europe the

Paris climate change agreement

acknowledges this.

Any small

paragraph, disabled people and

indigenous groups and mentioned

alongside women. More probably needs

to be done to set out how specific

way it can be...

Can we understand

how that can be done practically.

Countries decided to acknowledge

women are disproportionately

affected by climate change and will

do X and Y, what options are

available?

Involving women really.

The need to be involved in

policy-making decisions and the

power to access educational levels

of Government. Once they are

involved from local to national

levels and global levels the

sessions will be made that they

benefit women.

I do not mean to be

awkward but that would be something

people would aspire to but it is not

going to happen tomorrow, it'll take

a long while for those wheels to

happen tomorrow, it'll take a long

while for those wheel straight

answer other practical measures

known to the Mac now?

That might not

take as long as people think and

people are actively engaged and

climate change policy and we have

seen a lot of change recently of

policies friendly at women and basic

moves are making more economic than

empowered within their own countries

and better able to access these

solidly basic level things I can

people need to evacuate from a

severe weather events people who add

economic deprived are less able to

do that. Putting structures in place

that looked to AIDS particular

groups when they need to evacuate

from certain areas. After hurricane

Jeanne things like they did not have

enough sanitary products and all

these small things can be done to

improve the situation and longer

term change might take a longer time

but I think it should not take as

long as people think.

We've talked about this picture

a lot on Outside Source.

It was taken in December in Tehran -

and the woman has her hijab off -

and is holding it in the air.

The picture went viral.

On Wednesday prosecutors

found her guilty of 'encouraging

moral corruption' and ordered her

to seek psychiatric help.

Most of her two year jail

sentence was suspended.

Many pictures of support come in.

This was taken in Hungary.

This is from France.

And this in Germany.

More than 30 women have been

arrested in Iran since December.

More again from Feranak Amidi.

The first centre thing happened

yesterday and one of the women was

sentenced to two years in prison and

another one the first woman who went

and did that iconic protests were

she took off her scarf and put it on

a stick and stood on a platform in a

busy street was sentenced to getting

psychiatric help and medication so

what we are seeing that the state is

doing and are run is giving them

heavy sentencing and labelling them

loose women who are promoting and

decency and society and labelling

them as insane and mentally ill

people. That is quite worrying

because our round 20 other women are

waiting to go on trial and this is a

worrying time, a lot of anxiety

right now among women and women's

rights activists in Iran.

Thank you

for watching, we will be back next

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