tv Outside Source BBC News February 13, 2017 9:30pm-10:01pm GMT
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. president trump has had his first meeting with canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau. the two leaders discussed terrorism, and cooperation on trade and growth. north korea has declared sunday's ballistic missile test a success. president trump described north korea as a "big, big problem". we'll look at how his administration dealt with this first test. mr trump's security adviser is under pressure. he's accused of discussing sanctions with russia before the end of the obama administration. he's initially denied this, now he's not so sure. katty kay will be live in a moment. and in sport manny pacquiao‘s turned to a twitter poll to pick his next opponent. has the whiff of a pr stunt. we'll look at how this is going to work. this is the us national security adviser, michael flynn. he's under pressure.
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he's accused of discussing sanctions on russia with the russian‘s us ambassador before donald trump became president. doing so would have violated laws on private citizens engaging in foreign policy. a senior white house official has said... "it's not his place to weigh in on the sensitive matter." not a ringing endorsement. mr flynn had shifted, he had said sanctions weren't mentioned, no he says he "couldn't be certain". next factor in the washington post, which has nine current and former officials saying sanctions did come up. we also know michael flynn has relations with senior russians. here he is at a banquet with vladimir putin last year. katty kay is in washington.
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i get that if he has done this, it matters and it could break the law. but it feels like it matters more than that to the people covering it, this has become symbolic of something? i think it has become a test of two things. one is whether this is a functioning white house that has personnel that can do their jobs without becoming captured by some scandal or upset. the second is it isa some scandal or upset. the second is it is a test of the president's loyalty. we have just had the adviser to the president on american television in the last few minutes saying, michael flynn enjoys the confidence of the president. so there has been speculation over the course of the weekend over whether the general would be forced out of his position as national security adviser. but according to the
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president's adviser says that is not going to happen. how significant is this man within donald trump's world 7 this man within donald trump's world? it is a very important position. whilst you have a team of national security personnel including the secretary of defence and the secretary of state, and to some extent, the secretary of homeland security, the one person who sits in the white house near the g by the doesn't i through congress. he is doesn't go through congress. he is there all the time and is the last person in the room. it always gives the national security adviser and loss of influence. in this case, the two are close because in their campaign, when national security figures, including national security
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figures, including national security figures in the republican party were abandoning donald trump and openly criticising him, the one person who stuck up for him and took his position was general michael flynn. in donald trump's world, that earns you a lot of brownie points. in donald trump's world, that earns you a lot of brownie pointslj in donald trump's world, that earns you a lot of brownie points. i want to ask about the rhythm of washington and the relationship between the president and the city. he is not spending many weekends in town, yea rs he is not spending many weekends in town, years in the sunshine in florida, what are people making about? he has already been tries to what he calls the winter white house. he was there with the japanese prime minister. we have seen nothing of melania trumpet here in washington since the inauguration. that is very rare. i have not seen it in modern times since i have been covering the white house. she seems to prefer to go to florida. he will fly down to florida, he likes getting away from washington. 96% of residents in the
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city did not vote for him. he says florida is the place he feels most relaxed. there are questions how much it costs taxpayers in terms of security and be forced one flight. $3 million was the quote for the first weekend. it is within his right, all presidents have a place to retreat to, he just seems to do ita to retreat to, he just seems to do it a bit more often. tikay, thank you very much. one of the remarkable events this weekend was when the president was told what north korea had done. over the weekend, north korea announced it had successfully test—launched a mid to long range ballistic missile. this is the first time since becoming president that donald trump has faced this kind of provocation from the north koreans. at today's press conference donald trump said this: when i was campaigning, i said it is
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not a good situation. now that i see it, including intelligence briefings, we have problems a lot of people had no idea how bad they are and how serious. not only internationally, but north korea is a big, big problem. we will deal with that very strongly. earlier the bbc spoke with former us ambassador to the un, bill richardson about how mr trump has responded. i believe he made the correct response, basically saying we stand behind the japanese, without overreacting and without talking about what steps the united states and the allies might take in response to this violation of the security council resolution. i give him good marks for being restrained.
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now he has a lot of options on the table. clearly north korea was testing the new administration, they like to get into these ideological and policy skirmishes. i think the president kept his options open. the next test is, what do we do? they are not very good options. the first one is go to the security council at the un, which is what we are doing now. possibly more sanctions. at the very least, a condemnation of this ballistic missile, which was intermediate, it wasn't a long one. it was on routine, but a provocation, nonetheless. joe root is the new test captain of the england cricket team. he'll take over from alistair cook who resigned last week. for those of you watching for whom cricket is a mystery, test cricket is the longest version of the game. each match lasts a mere five days.
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here's patrick geary. tremendous performance. joe root has played magnificently. magnificent hundred from joe root in tough circumstances. he is the dynamo of the team. joe root has got used to being english cricket's great hope. now he has responsibility. the way he plays his cricket, the way he goes about his business will lend itself to be a great captain. in january, he became a great father for the first time. he will approach leading the same way as he approaches parenting. it is something you have to learn on the job. being a dad, you don't know what to do, you just have to go with it. baby alfie is in white, this is afamily it. baby alfie is in white, this is a family who stopped them early.
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fertile yorkshire cricketing soil. on the outskirts of sheffield is where it began. he still goes back to sheffield collegiate, which produced michael vaughan. his brother billy and dad also played here and the name has appeared on local scorecards further back. the family are everywhere, even upstairs where grandma barbara plays bridge. how do those who know him bestjudge his hand? i think he should be ok. you can only tell when they get in thejob. it is you can only tell when they get in the job. it is very much learning you can only tell when they get in thejob. it is very much learning on thejob. it is very much learning on thejob, being a cricket captain. a lot of responsibility being england cricket captain, hopefully it will be successful. they don't get carried away. despite his progress from yorkshire to world number one batsman, he has scored 11 test centuries and plays all three forms of the game. but there are concerns, he has only rarely led his county
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and might the captain compromise the run maker? they don't dwell on that here. it is a big job. but joe is that kind of person who will take it in his stride. he is more than capable of dealing with the pressures of what captaincy brings. he inherits a team that lost 4—0 in india last year and faces south africa in the summer before the ashes tour. who knows how he will do. but we can guess his approach. in the words of his grandfather, mad keen. here are four men who could fight manny pacquiao next. amir khan and kell brooke. jeff horn and terence crawford from the us. unusually, pacquiao has created a poll on his twitter account asking people to vote. amir khan is out in front. he has nearly half of the 16,000 votes so far. you wouldn't be wrong to raise a
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slightly cynical eyebrow. what is this about? john watson is live. is this about? john watson is live. is this real, will it work? we're wondering. of those for you mention, jeff horn, the 29—year—old australian thought he was due to be fighting manny pacquiao. a date, presumably had been set for april. in brisbane, one of the biggest fights in boxing history in australia. not only has this fight caused confusion, but one of manny pacquiao's advisers was speaking in abu dhabi over the weekend. he had a press c0 nfe re nce abu dhabi over the weekend. he had a press conference and he said that manny pacquiao will be fighting in the uae next. not only has that press c0 nfe re nce the uae next. not only has that press conference caused confusion, but this tweet has as well. it appears manny pacquiao is destined to fight someone, but we're not sure who it is going to be. hadn't he retired? this was the great debate.
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he fought a floyd mayweather in the richest boxing bout in history. after that, he felt he had one more fight left in him. he went on to fight left in him. he went on to fight timothy bradley. after that he was supposed to retire. he came out of retirement to fightjesse vargas. now it seems manny pacquiao wants another shot. 67 professional fights now, manny pacquiao. 59 of those winds. he clearly has his eyes on another. jeff horn was thinking it would be him. who knows?m another. jeff horn was thinking it would be him. who knows? if you find out, let me know, john. we wa nted we wanted to show you this. it is a unique celebration we spotted. this is corby town defenderjason lee, helping himself to a fan's pint of cider. his team had just scored to go 1—0 up. this is what jason said
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about the incident. "after the goal was scored we all went off to celebrate with ben, but a fan had spilled his pint, and anotherfan had thrown his pint up in the air." everyone was celebrating, everyone was drenched, but i didn't want the spilled pint to go to waste so ijust thought i'd have a cheeky sip." unlikely to see that any time soon in the premier league. still to come: we are going to turn to california. 150,000 people have been evacuated because of concerns over the safety of america burns—macro tallest dam. we will update you on that. the bbc has found shoppers are being short—changed because of promotions that have expired. if we see a special offer on the supermarket shelves, we expect to pay that price at the till, but that doesn't
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always happen at tesco. the gingerbread, they're are on two for £3 but it hasn't come off, and the cat food, the deal was three for £8. and here's why. the labels are out of date. the bbc‘s inside out programme visited 50 tesco stores across england and found out—of—date special offers in 33 of them. at some stores, staff say it's a recurring problem. does that happen much then? and at another store, a worker blames the error on being short—staffed. they've cut the department in half. ah, right. in most stores, workers removed the label straight away, but not everywhere. at this store, the cashier refunds the difference but doesn't remove
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the label, so it's still on display when we go back in the next day, the next week... and one month later. the fourth cashier finally removes it. there are obviously major problems with their control of the special offers, and it's the special offers that bring customers in, make people reach for more and perhaps spend a little bit more than they meant to when they came into the store. so that is very, very worrying. throughout our investigation, tesco did refund the difference when informed about the discrepancies. the company wouldn't provide anyone for interview but after reviewing the bbc‘s evidence, said: we take great care to deliver clear and accurate price labels for our customers so they can make informed decisions on the products they buy. following our investigation, britain's biggest supermarket has
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said it will be double checking the accuracy of every price in every store. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. donald trump has met with the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau. they discussed terrorism, cooperation and refugees. if you are watching outside the uk, it is world news america which will look ahead to benjamin netanyahu visiting washington on wednesday. next here in the uk, it is the news at ten. more than 180,000 people in northern california have been told
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to evacuate their homes. it's because an overflow channel at the tallest dam in the us was weakened by heavy rainfall. the extraordinary pictures of the water. the emergency spillway of the tall oroville dam was close to collapse. there was gridlock on roads heading out of the town. these are some of the pictures that have been coming in. the dam is in california, located on lake oroville. water levels in the reservoir have risen following heavy rain and snow after years of severe drought. here you can see the main spillway which was close to collapse. i spoke to dave lee earlier from san francisco and asked him if the all clear has been given,
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why are people not going home. two reasons. there is a lot of rain expected in the area later this week. this weekend has been quite sunny camp led to the previous few weeks, so if anything it is a bit of relief, weather—wise. more rain expected later this week. but also the spillway, as you mentioned, is in sucha the spillway, as you mentioned, is in such a state of disrepair. literally dropping in bags of rock to fill this hole but crumbled to pieces when the heavy amounts of water were gushing down the spillway to try to alleviate the pressure on the dam. so any signed this may need to be used again in this way, could be very serious. although it seems like the main threat that both
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emergency plans were looking like they could fail at one point on sunday, now it seems that threat has subsided. they have managed to avoid that. people are seeing it as a lucky escape, the weather held off this weekend. had they not, we could have been looking at a devastating flood in that area. evacuation order is still in place at the time being, because of those fears it could not because of those fears it could not be over just yet. because of those fears it could not be overjust yet. can you give me more details on what needs to be done to the dam and how long it might take? they need to fix it, basically. there is two spillway is to the left—hand side of the dam. the first is concrete and is designed to be a big drainpipe that brings water down and disburses it into the river below in a controlled way. that has been used in the past, but it has been crumbling because of the weight. they need to get it
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fixed, have enough good weather so they can get in and solve this for they can get in and solve this for the long term. thank you, dave. the syrian government and its allies are accused today of "deliberate and systematic destruction" in aleppo. this is in this report making the accusations. it comes from the atlantic council which is a prominent think tank based in washington. it's funded in a range of ways, including contributions from nato and some western countries. the report also says that hospitals were bombed and it provides videos to support its claims. alex forsyth is in beirut. she's been taking a look at the report for us. the syrian regime and its allies we re the syrian regime and its allies were able to break the opposition's hold on a leper with the use of siege, indiscriminate bombing in civilian areas, chemical weapons and targeting infrastructure, including hospitals. those claims have been
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denied by president assad and his allies, notably russia. but this report says it is a deliberate campaign of misinformation. it is highly critical of the actions of the syrian government in aleppo, but also the role of america. it said the us was left seriously damaged by the us was left seriously damaged by the fall of a leper because the us allied opposition was discredited and asa allied opposition was discredited and as a consequence, the refugee crisis was worsened. it urges a new strategy from president trump and his administration. what it calls are bolder and wiser approach. this report says that doesn't mean stepping up of direct military presence on the ground, but instead the focus should be on protecting densely populated civilian areas and also ensuring any ceasefire agreement is in force, so those who violate it have sanctions imposed against them. the conclusion of this report is the us must learn the lessons of what it calls be in action in aleppo, make sure nothing like this happens again. a d raft
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a draft law in the philippines means children as young as nine could be jailed for drug offences. the president supports the proposal. the philippine president, he campaigned ona philippine president, he campaigned on a pledge. he said there was a loophole by criminal gangs and using children to act as careers and they could ferry drugs all over the country. and because they weren't responsible because they were under the age of 15, he said he would change the laws so children as young as 12 could be liable. his allies have put forward a bill that would make children as young as nine liable for prosecution for any crime, notjust drug crimes. but there is evidence these criminal gangs are using children? not much, actually. child advocacy say only 1.796 actually. child advocacy say only 1.7% of crimes are committed by children. usually they are petty crimes, petty theft and glue
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sniffing. there is not a lot of evidence drug gangs are using children as careers. does the death penalty fit into this? it is part of this criminal reform bill that has been put forward. it has already passed through the congress and it is now headed for the senate. it would reintroduce the death penalty in the philippines and that would also lower the age of criminal responsibility to the age of nine. because they are intertwined, it would mean a child aged nine he was found guilty of a crime could face the death penalty, in theory. a lot of people are outraged by this, but we cannot argue that president duterte isn't doing what he said he was going to do when he was elected? he is often called the trump of asia. he campaigned on his extreme pledges to crackdown on crime. however, the fact this issue has gone through the congress has now amplified this issue in the philippines. a lot of people are
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talking about it. it has child advocates from well—known organisations, who don't normally speak up on such grand terms. i spoke to the chief representative from unicef and she has spoke in passionate terms about the dangers of putting children to an adult prison system. if a nine—year—old is arrested in the philippines after this law is passed, even before they faced trial, they could face months locked up in the same overcrowded cells as adult prisoners. the bbc world service is telling us more than 7000 people have died during president duterte's war on drugs. that is it, thanks for watching. we are back tomorrow at the same time. goodbye. winter is not over yet. but over the
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next few days there is a mild prospect. by monday, it felt like spring across a part of the uk with some welcome sunshine. no more so than across parts of the west country. beautiful shot ta ken outside exeter, the head office of the met office. 1a celsius. it was a lovely day across other parts of the uk except the far north—east of england and the eastern half of scotland. shrouded in cloud it was cold in aberdeenshire. snow on the ground. even here over the next few days it will be mild. sunshine and the price we pei is a bit of rain at times. we will see rain pushing in the western part of the uk as a weather front comes in from the al antic. the high pressure still holding sway further north and east. so the best of the dry weather here. the dampness across the south—west. rain will be hit and miss on
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spreading into the west country, maybe wales and some other southern counties and maybe northern ireland. behind that, it will brighten up across the far south—west. still chilly in the breeze of further north and east, despite brightness and the cloud hanging on across the east of scotland. this front comes across the country. a more active front with more rain arrives on wednesday across south—western areas with some sharp bursts of rain. don't take the blobs of rain too literally, but it means rain pushing up literally, but it means rain pushing up from the south—west. dry spells, but temperatures are turning milder nationwide. that clears north eastwards. it hangs around across northern part of the uk where there will still be some showers around on thursday. but the trend will be as we end the week for things to dry out again. there will be a bit of cloud, but i think there will be some sunshine around as well. with light winds, that does give the
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possibility of some frost and perhaps some fog patches which could linger into the day in some places, most likely across the southern half of the uk on the saturday. further north, another set of runs coming from the north—west with rain turning up across western scotland during the course of saturday. that isa sign during the course of saturday. that is a sign of things to come. the jet strea m is a sign of things to come. the jet stream will liven up and deliver weather systems, outbreaks of rain along its track, even from the atla ntic along its track, even from the atlantic and down across the uk. it is going to be a mild wind direction, milder than recently. the brightest weather across north—western areas. as i also mentioned, we will keep our eye on developments in the tropics where, we tend to get pulses of energy moving west to east. around the globe. these pulses of energy and hands the rainfall in the tropics, but it also has the effect of influencing ourjet but it also has the effect of influencing our jet stream but it also has the effect of influencing ourjet stream closer to
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home. it could be that as we end the month, the effect on the jet stream could be to block it again and deflect it away from the uk. if that happens, things will be drier and a bit colder again as we end the month. i know it is a long way off, but a dry signal, not ideal because winter rain is very useful when it comes to the summer. i will update you again tomorrow. tonight at ten: new evidence of drug abuse and security failings at one of britain's biggestjails. a bbc undercover investigation at northumberland prison reveals chaos and unrest and the constant threat of violence. move away from me. you not going in your pad? move away from me, unless you want me to use it on you. i'd prefer you didn't. well, can you move away from me, then? amid calls for a reduction in the prison population, ministers say there's no "quick fix"
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and that numbers will fall if courts intervene earlier. the criminaljustice system has got better at catching and convicting criminals who've perpetrated some of the most appalling crimes imaginable. the justice secretary also called for a sharper focus on tackling high levels of re—offending. also tonight: the co—op bank is for sale. the chief executive says its ethical stance shows its potential for success.
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