hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is outside source. it's unanimous, the communist party votes to enshrine president xi's name and ideology in the constitution, it's being hailed as a new era for china. and on the other side of the atlantic, president trump is heckled by a protester , and comes under renewed attack from a senior member of his own party. it isa it is a sad place for our nation, and the worst is going to be just the whole debasing of our nation. and the worst is going to be just the whole debasing of our nationlj have children and grandchildren to answer to, have children and grandchildren to answerto, and so, mr president, i will not be complicit or silent. the fate of the re—run of kenya's presidential election is — once again — back here in the supreme court — two days before polls are due to open. and isjihad a suitable name for a french child, given the country has suffered the worst terror attacks in western europe in the last few years?

a prosecutor has to decide. welcome to outide source. let's go back to one of our main stories — the chinese president xi jinping becoming as powerful as mao zedong. as you might imagine, it's dominated domestic coverage. this is the english language version of people's daily and xinhua. we also showed you this more nontraditionalform of outreach the other day — this is one of several rap videos that's been released around the congress. in case you're wondering, he's rapping about how the government has dealt with some of the problems young people face — like smog, corruption and housing prices.

that's the domestic media — as for how foreign media are covering the congress — well, chinese audiences might have had some problems viewing that. @stephenmcdonell said, "so the bbc and cctv just on air discussing the congress where xi jinping has just amassed great power. guess which one is being censored?" you can see the screen with bbc on it has gone blank. earlier i spoke to kerry allen at bbc monitoring to talk about how the chinese congress has been covered at home. over the last week, there has been blanket coverage of the congress in china. people turn on the tv and see it practically on every channel, they are seeing live programmes and programmes about the congress. the same with radio, people on their way to work over the last week have been tuning into various radio stations

infinding tuning into various radio stations in finding it's the only thing on, and on newsstands, even today you've got provincial and local newspapers, practically every paper you see on the stand has the front cover to do with the congress. so for the last week there has been no other story. and is there a genuine interest from the people you meet? not really. there has been so much of a push online. if you look on platforms like weibo, the equivalent of facebook or twitter, practically every newspaper and radio station, they have been posting, and they have just been providing so many updates that i think people have got a bit overwhelmed. and we are hearing that there is a certain amount of censorship of foreign coverage of the past week. how do

you understand it? there is, and this is traditionally what happens a nyway this is traditionally what happens anyway with a sensitive political event, that foreign coverage, they will just event, that foreign coverage, they willjust go black screen, if it is anything that the government doesn't agree with. but even domestically, we have seen that posts that people have posted on weibo have been removed, particularly ones that mention disruption to people's lives in beijing, so locals who are trying to go to work have found that because of extra security checks, they have been queueing outside onto they have been queueing outside onto the streets, so people have been posting pictures of massive queues at subway stations in saying that has been frustrating, and such images are embarrassing to the government, so these have been removed. and what about and

sculpting the president and his level being elevated to that of 7 ? this idea that has been agreeing caring ina ? this idea that has been agreeing caring in a lot of coverage, it is pushing this idea that xi jinping has achieved more than recent leaders, and he released a book of his ideas and cracking down on corruption, and changing things like abolishing the one child policy is that people could have more children, so there have been a

number of elements of society he has changed, and now these will be introduced into schools, and if you go in book shops in china, you will see these massive racks about mao zedong, and it is likely that a lot of these books will be brought into schools and for the general public to read so they can learn more about the impact that xi jinping has to read so they can learn more about the impact that xijinping has had on people's lives. thank you very much, a very interesting day for china. the next few days will be interesting to kenya. kenya's supreme court says it will have the final say on whether the country's presidential election will go ahead— and so is holding a last minute hearing tomorrow— just 2a hours before the polls are meant to open. it's responding to petitioners who want the court to intervene and postpone the election, saying the country's not ready. here's the lawyer representing them. people will have confidence in the

rule of law, in our legal systems, and have confidence that our problems, however big, can be solved through an amicable process. sophie ikenye sent this report from nairobi. all eyes are now on the supreme court as kenyans await further decision on whether they will actually go to the polls on thursday. three went to court with an urgent petition on whether the chairman will be able to conduct a free, fairand chairman will be able to conduct a free, fair and credible election. they want a 90 day extension to conduct reforms within the body, and of course follow the ruling made by the supreme court when it allowed the supreme court when it allowed the presidential election. we don't know what it means if it upholds the petition, which is urgent, given there is just one day to go. constitutionally and electoral law

wise, we need to find out what direction the courts will give if they do that. august's poll was won by the incumbent, uhuru kenyatta. he says thursday's re—run must go ahead. but opposition leader raila odinga has pulled out of the re—run, calling it a sham. well all this uncertainty has put the country on edge. this tweet from a journalist with kenya's ntv station: ms mwilu was one of four supreme courtjudges who voted to annul mr kenyatta's win in august. she was not in the car at the time. and this was earlier in the western city of kisumu— when hundreds of supporters of odingya took to the streets to protest against the planned re—run. just a taste of what's been going on in kenya for weeks. here's sophie again on what the security situation looks like ahead

of thursday's possible vote. as we speak, security has been beefed up across the country. officials have been accorded security and the internal security minister has assured kenyans that no military will be deployed in any area during this poll. raila odinga, the opposition leader, has called on his supporters to boycott the poll, but he also added a line, boycott the poll but do not leave your home is. so we all wait to find out what the supreme court's ruling will be tomorrow. we will be covering it very closely. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our website. there's full coverage on the republican head—to—head — trump versus corker — as well as the chinese congress, all on bbc.com/news. the president of the european council has suggested that brexit could be stopped.

this is him addressing the european parliament earlier today on how those brexit negotiations are coming along. it is in fact up to london how this will end — with a good deal, no deal or no brexit. but in each of these scenarios we will protect our common interest only by being together. but when those suggestions of halting the withdrawal process were put to downing street, it said, "brexit is not going to be reversed". professor amelia hadfield, director of canterbury university's centre for european studies is in canterbury. one of the first questions i often get asked if i meet viewers on the road. could it be reversed? is this

something that could happen, realistically? you know, it's a good question, and it's interesting that people keep asking it. i think the senseis people keep asking it. i think the sense is that there is an opportunity, and it is interesting that tusk himself keeps coming back to it. it is not over until it's over, and we have seen the lib dems suggesting a vision with an idea of a second referendum, we have also seen labour's stephen king atjust the other day suggesting that they should table a vote of no—confidence in theresa may as soon as possible simply because they are unconvinced that the vision she has four brexit will be able to push the country forward. so i think she has an increasing sense of what the government has been able to put together is just not sharp enough, not strategic enough, it is not being bought by the vast majority of folks here in britain, particularly in the political classes. in higher education as well. but also in

brussels, there is a question mark as to whether london can genuinely deliver on any of the scenarios they are beginning to map out. there were obviously so many countries that we re obviously so many countries that were against brexit, and members of the european union, but would they wa nt the european union, but would they want a reversal? i think they would. i think want a reversal? i think they would. ithink in want a reversal? i think they would. i think in our hearts they are very conscious that the idea of brexit politically doesn't play well with regards to the integration project of the european union as a whole, that it could be the first domino that it could be the first domino that falls. economically and financially, there is going to be very real negative impact to the union, notjust to the deconstruction stage by stage of the single market, but the whole idea of the trade bloc itself being slowly on picked from the outside, so i think if brexit were stopped in its tracks or slowly begun to be

unpicked during the time of transition period, which doesn't necessarily have to be only two yea rs, necessarily have to be only two years, in factories may was not as sharp as she could've been in her florence speech about that, and philip hammond has suggested maybe that needs to be longer but if the transition period extends further and further, the idea of it being staggered, perhaps more evidence will flow through that time back to britain to indicate that it is simply unworkable, it is impossible politically and unfeasible economically as well. stay with us. meanwhile a eurosceptic tory mp has kicked up a row after sending this letter to universities asking for names of professors who teach brexit courses. mr heaton—harris said, "to be absolutely clear, i believe in free speech in our universities and in having an open and vigorous debate on brexit." but the lecturers' union said the attempt to compile "a hit list

of professors" had "the acrid whiff of mccarthyism". just to clarify, mccarthyism refers to a period in 19505 when there were attempts to purge alleged communists in america. a government minister had this to say. chris has made clear he believes in free speech. i think universities are bastions of free speech, and thatis are bastions of free speech, and that is a courteous letter asking for some information. there is nothing sinister about it and i would take it in that light. he is not compelling anybody to do anything. he is asking the question isa anything. he is asking the question is a member of parliament, and i personally don't see anything sinister about asking that question. not everyone agrees. let's cross back to professor amelia hadford. what do you make of this? your university had the letter?

ididn't i didn't personally receive it i believe it went out to vice chancellors. maybe some of them dumped it into file 13 where such things should go. they say that the mp has no right whatsoever to ask such questions. let's be very clear, this chap is way off base. academic freedom in this country is enshrined in law. the government cannot interfere with the teaching of content and modules, and to put together a list to name and shame academics who specialise in international studies and specifically european politics and possibly as well have a degree of

expertise in terms of brexit, i think is rubbish and reprehensible in the extreme. but do you think it could be a one—sided view if stu d e nts could be a one—sided view if students get if so many academics are against it? not at all, if you are against it? not at all, if you area are against it? not at all, if you are a decent academic, and all of the ones i know are credible in every sense, if you get further up the food chain to read or professor, you are there because you are an extraordinary teacher and you can project clear—sighted objective analysis of a faster moving topic regardless of your own opinions. you separate your opinions in a dispassionate way from the learning objectives of a module, the government should trust us to get on with ourjobs. professor amelia hadfield, thank you. s

a french couple has chosen to name their babyjihad, and it didn't go down well with the mayor's office in toulouse, who referred the choice to prosecutors. nowjudges are set to rule on whether the name can stay or needs to be changed. jihad, here it is in arabic, means "effort" or "struggle", not specifically "holy war", though it has become associated with the extremists who have attacked france repeatedly in recent years. french law only restricts parents‘ name choices for their children, if a name is thought to harm the child's interests. not that long ago, until the 1980s, there was a list of names the french could give their children, a prescribed list, from the christian calendar, from heroes of greek and roman, that was it. there was a big

liberalisation in 1983, is now in theory parents can call their child anything, except for this one caveat that if a name is deemed as being potentially harmful to a child and its future development, the authorities can step in and say no, and that has happened on one occasion, when a child was going to because megane renault after the car, and they said that the family couldn't do that, and then there was another case when a family wanted to call their child nutella. another solution when somebody wanted to call a childjihad solution when somebody wanted to call a child jihad at one time before, they were persuaded to change it to jahid. but what about the islamic world? here's rasha qandeel from bbc arabic. the literal meaning is struggle or

effort, and it can mean a holy war, and so many academics and scholars wrote books about jihad as it and so many academics and scholars wrote books aboutjihad as it meant in the very early islamic context, the expansion of the islamic empire in the age of prophet muhammad. and afterwards, it has been connected to radical islam and has been related to violence, so that is why the connotation in french was trying to prohibit that. do you think it has changed for people within the arab world as well? there are two types ofjihad in the arab world. one is

very much connected to the global radical islamistjihad, very much connected to the global radical islamist jihad, and very much connected to the global radical islamistjihad, and pretty much connected to violence now, and the other is connected to the patriotic jihad the other is connected to the patrioticjihad as the other is connected to the patriotic jihad as palestinian jihadists groups, for example, and for the second one is is pretty much not having the same bad connotation as for the first one, so the name is not necessarily connected to the bad connotation as we heard in the french language or the french culture. so probably in the arab world it is still not having the same bad connotation, because it still has this period of the linguist meaning of the good word. still has this period of the linguist meaning of the good wordlj just have 30 seconds, but a debate we have been hearing in france, is that something you have seen in bbc arabic as well? we have been following the same story, and the not so many people now would want to call their girls or boys jihad

because of the trouble is that they might be exposed to. as in france, it might still be happening in other european countries and sometimes in the arab world as well. let's move other from poaching. elephant poaching in africa is declining for a fifth year in a row. that's the latest from the organisation which monitors illegal trafficking. but cites' say there is still further progress to be made. here's their report — we've broken down some of the key bits of information. a record amount of illegal ivory was seized around the world last year — some a0 tonnes, the largest figure in nearly 30 years. and the overall weight of seized ivory is now almost three times greater than that of 2007. what else to the figures tell us? the bbc‘s alastair leithead has been investigating — here's his report from nairobi.

the good news is that after a 10—year surge in elephant poaching across africa, the level of killing for ivory is on the decline, particularly in east africa which has lost half its elephants in a decade. but the animals are still being killed, and elephant numbers continue to fall. according to a report from cites, which regulates trade in endangered plants and animals. there were a record number of seizures last year, perhaps because of better law enforcement but also because ivory is trafficked in smaller quantities. there is an increasing being carved bangles and pendants in africa, rather than being exported as tasks which are easier to intercept. the global effort is starting to reap positive results. let's hear little more from john

scanlon. now is the time to say yes, we are definitely on the right track. we are starting to turn this around, very good results in eastern africa. we must persist, to win the fight we have to push it all the way home, and the next 2a months will be critical. across the world, children get married all too often too young, so much so, that ending the practice is one of the united nations‘ goals. this week world leaders are meeting here in senegal‘s capital dakar, to try and find ways to make that happen. laeila adjovi has more. this woman is a survivor. she was a child bride. one day when she was 14, child bride. one day when she was 1a, her father told her she child bride. one day when she was 1a, herfather told her she had to marry a 28—year—old man who she had never met before. she was determined to stay in school, but she had to fight for it. i threatened my family that if they didn't let me go to

school, i was going to kill myself, andi school, i was going to kill myself, and i think they listened. they renegotiated with the groom that he had to wait until i completed high school before i could be married. musu was lucky to be of the stay in school graduate from university, and now she advocates for the rights of women and girls in the same situation. despite the disadvantages like my throat you, there is still hope at the end of the day that you do not need to be a child bride, you can also have a voice and advance yourself, and you can be a better person. this week, musu is joining government officials and un agencies to eliminate child marriage. some of the main points of agreement so far that all 26 countries in western central africa must raft and national plan in order to tackle the issue of child marriage, that the legal age for marriage can't be

younger than 18, the law must be clear and better enforced, and last but not least, the focus should be on community work. the first lady of sierra leone is adamant that nothing will be achieved without working at grassroots level. a child must not be given in hand to marriage, and you will be fined if you do. it is an important strategy that is working, and change at the bottom is the real change. many here like musu know that although the talk may be positive, the real job know that although the talk may be positive, the realjob is to empower and protect all children and it will begin what the delegates go home. thank you very much for that final report on this edition of the programme. we are back again tomorrow, i do hope you willjoin us. thank you forjoining me. yesterday

i was talking about how mild this week is going to be, and on tuesday week is going to be, and on tuesday we managed to get to 20 degrees across southern parts of the uk, and it will stay mild for the next few days and as we head into the weekend, probably around friday that temperatures will start to drop. but in the short term, this cloud pattern across the atlantic has not changed the last 48 hours or so, we have cloud streaming in out of the south—west, but the difference on wednesday will be that the weather front with all of that vibe will be further south, just about hugging the south coast and through the english channel, but the vast majority of the country will have a fine day, not far off 20 degrees in london, not so bad in yorkshire, around 15 degrees. wednesday evening into the early hours of thursday, we start to see the thick cloud being drawn back northwards, and also low cloud and drizzle, especially across

western areas of the uk, again a very mild night into thursday morning, and thursday itself looks like the weather front will probably be slicing the uk and more or less in half, central parts of the uk will have the thickest of the cloud, spots of rain either side of that, and the brightest of the weather, edinburgh around 13 degrees with some sunshine. on friday, there will bea some sunshine. on friday, there will be a subtle difference, and we no longer have these fresh air coming down from the north, more like 12 degrees in the north, and a proper north—westerly wind on saturday, so we have completely cut off the south—westerly, and the temperatures are starting to drop across southern parts of the uk, and saturday night

into sunday, we see high pressure building very close to the uk, the wind and high like so, could be quite strong around some of these north sea coasts, and with temperatures of only 10 celsius in newcastle, it might feel pretty cold, but it will be bright and not too bad at this stage. early next week, this is what the jet stream is doing, going around the uk and then we have an area of high pressure, meaning the start of the week could be crisp, a touch of frost around, temperatures by day around 10 degrees, the middle part of the week might be tricky, but by the end of next week, low pressure will take charge, and we will see colder air coming in, and this is one example, some of the computer models are

suggesting pretty strong blustery wind out to the north and perhaps temperatures across northern areas of the uk of around six or 7 degrees, so we have very mild weather right now, but into next week, the knights will be chilly, certainly a touch of frost around, something we haven't seen for quite awhile, and it could be very blustery, particularly around the sea coasts. tonight at ten. china's president xijinping becomes the country's most powerful leaderfor a generation. his name and political

philosophy have been added to the communist party's constitution, an honour only given to two previous leaders. china has a new red emperor in xijinping and his party comrades are already calling him the helmsman and the saviour of socialism. so what does mr xi's consolidation of power mean for china, and the west? also tonight. the retailer brighthouse is to pay out nearly £15 million in compensation to customers who'd signed hire purchase deals they couldn't afford. a briton who went to syria to fight against the so—called islamic state has been killed.