hello, i'm philippa thomas, this is outside source. donald trump is a day from releasing a republican memo expected to accuse the fbi of bias against his presidency. theresa may meets with xijinping in china, calling it a new golden era in the relationship, 28 russian athletes have lifetime doping bans overturned, opening their avenue to compete in the winter olympics. and scientists have been tracking polar bears to find out why they're getting skinny. victoria gill will be here to explain their discovery. welcome to outside source. let's start in washington. donald trump will release a republican—drafted four page memo tomorrow alleging that the fbi is biased against him.

the president was pretty tight lipped when pressed about the document by reporters today. the fbi pleaded with the white house not to release the memo. in a rare move, the agency went public on wednesday, saying it has "grave concerns" about the document's accuracy. the memo was commissioned by this man, devin nunes, the chair of the house intelligence committee. today, the minority leader in the house, the democrat nancy pelosi, called on mr nunes to resign. the democrats fear it will be used to smear swipe robert mueller, the man running the inquiry into alleged russian collusion with trump's election campaign. here's democrat adam schiff. this is not about the facts, this is about a narrative that the chairman wants to put out,

a misleading narrative, to undermine the fbi, undermine the department and ultimately undermine bob mueller. of course, the danger in all this, besides the obvious one of politicising the intelligence process, is that it sends a message to the white house that he can fire rod rosenstein or he can fire bob mueller and there are members who are so vested in his presidency, that they will roll over. the bbc‘s anthony zurcher has been following the story and gave us these details about what we actually know about the memo. we know how long the memo is, four pages. everything else we have heard about it has been second—hand. by all reports, the memo looks at the intelligence agency's investigation into possible contact between the

russian government and members of donald trump's presidential campaign, and it alleges that there was this deed is done or an abuse of power in that investigation. in particular, to the request for surveillance of a member of donald trump's team, mr page. the memo reportedly alleges this surveillance request was based largely on that famous steel dossier, which contained at least unsubstantiated allegations of contacts between donald trump and the russian government. essentially what the memo is asserting that is the initiation of this investigation was based on citing the document that had been funded in part by democratic operatives and therefore calls into question the investigation as a whole. if true, thatis investigation as a whole. if true, that is pretty explosive. the governing party in washington saying

the fbi, in a way, can't be trusted? exactly. and it changes the debate on bob mueller investigation and the tampering and how they conducted that investigation, so not what they found but how they did it. the idea that it could have started with some sort of abuse of power and everything that follows from that, that would be what the republicans are saying, democrats are countering that. carter page, this adviser to the trump campaign was on the fbi's radarfor the trump campaign was on the fbi's radar for years before so the trump campaign was on the fbi's radarfor years before so it the trump campaign was on the fbi's radar for years before so it wasn't surprising they would be interested in him again after it was learned he joined the trump campaign as an advisor. this investigation grew out of that everything they find beyond that shouldn't be affected by this one surveillance request. you are being very nuanced and i'm going to being very nuanced and i'm going to be really crude here and say are the democrats suggesting this is a hit job on the fbi? i think you are

seeing they are suggesting this is political. from a purely public relations standpoint, this release the memo has been very effective, we are talking about it, will the memo come out or not? what sort of biases might have been in the intelligence agencies question about is the debate they want to have. it's remarkable to see the fbi releasing their own statement, saying that the memo was cherry picking data and misrepresent their intelligence gathering techniques and what they relied on to conduct this investigation and donald trump's and justice department has said the same thing. so it is a very strange conflict here, you have within the executive branch, and between executive branch, and between executive agencies and congress. i don't think we have seen anything like this in modern times. let's spin across the globe now. the british prime minister has met the chinese president in the great hall of the people in beijing. she did have brexit issues on her mind — and i'll get you up to date on that

later, but this encounter was all about the world after brexit, when she wants the uk to have a bigger, more profitable trade relationship with this booming economic power. in talks with xi jinpin, theresa may said she hoped her visit would strengthen the ‘global strategic partnership‘ between the uk and china. downing street says the issues of north korea, protecting the environment and human rights were also discussed. one area theresa may won't be visiting is the province of xinjiang, in the far west of china, and home to many muslims. our china correspondent john sudworth and his team travelled there, here's his report. ian looks on in distance, it's closer to baghdad than beijing. but this is china. it's far western province, and now the target of one of the world's most intense security

crackdowns. a mainly muslim minority have a long history here. today, fear is everywhere. under the watchful eye of government minders, there is only ever one correct answer. i know nothing. life is good here. moments later, armed police show up. this is the china visiting prime minister ‘s never get to see. police power here is all pervasive, and growing. millions of residents are being forced to give dna samples. mobile phones are searched for sensitive religious content, using hand—held plug in devizes. and for those suspected of even the mildest disloyalty to beijing, there is now a network of secretive

detention camps, in which thousands have been locked up without trial. close to what we believe is one of them, we are stopped from filming. china is building a total surveillance state. it's a place where seeing, doing or even thinking the wrong thing can get you locked up the wrong thing can get you locked up in an internment camp. and as you can see, it's a place where foreign journalists are certainly not welcome. where ever we go in xinjiang, we are constantly hassled, detained, monitored and followed. like thousands, this man has fled to turkey. he thought his wife and mother would be safe at home. he's since heard that they've been taken to the camps. translation: from early morning until late evening she is only allowed to sit on the hard chair. my poor mother has to endure this punishment every day. my wife's

only crime was to be born her religion, and because of that she lives in a re—education camp where she has to sleep on the ground. i don't know whether they are alive or dead. i can't bear it any more. i would rather they were executed than abused to death by the chinese government. he says he has no idea what happened to his children. today, the british government raised its concerns about the treatment of muslims here, including restrictions on religious practice. such a frank statement in the middle of the prime ministerial visit will not go down well. china is seeking the uk's backing for a planned to use xinjiang's desert highways is a new economic corridor to central asia and beyond. it insists the threat of islamic terrorism with a number of attacks in recent years is a real

one. can i ask you some questions? is it difficult to answer questions? but a police state breeds fear. and can stop the very resentments china says it's trying stamp out. john mentioned china's new silk road initiative — and that takes me back to theresa may in beijing because we also want to draw your attention to a story that is not happening. this is the financial times, pointing out that even under pressure mrs may has not signed up to support this move. it's officially called the belt and road initiative and it will vastly expand china's global reach over land and sea. i spoke the ftjournalist who wrote that piece — here are his thoughts.

imean i mean she did in china welcomed the initiative, particularly for the initiatives it would give british businesses but what she didn't do was sign the written memorandum of understanding that the chinese have been putting quite a lot of pressure over the last few weeks on her to sign. i think the reason for that is severalfold, actually. one of the aspects is britain's western allies, the us, the eu, germany and france, they haven't signed the memorandums of understanding either, although quite a lot of countries have and even some eu members in eastern europe power. so diverse reason for not signing it was pressure. another reason was because the uk has concerns over how the infrastructure projects in the initiative are being awarded. most purely going to chinese companies. and also there are concerns over social and environmental impacts of these

infrastructure projects. because this is an absolutely massive project, linked to a series of projects. for the chinese it really matters, doesn't it? it's about global economic prestige?m matters, doesn't it? it's about global economic prestige? it matters on so many levels. this is china's bid to change the world, really. it isa bid to change the world, really. it is a signature policy of the president. it embraces 70 countries between europe and china. there are about 4.4 billion people living in those countries and all of those countries together account for about 40% of global gdp. what china is trying to do is building and financing infrastructure all across this area, it intends to shift the power balance in china's favour and thereby start to dictate more the global agenda. it is a tension britain will face again and again, post—eu membership. britain desperately wants to have china as a partner. britain wants china as a partner. britain wants china as a partner and desperately needs

chinese contracts, chinese trade and yet, as we've just discussed, what's happening in the world now is that there is a fork in the road occurring. one route follows the chinese roots to grow for governments and the other route, which is the current route, is the world created by america since the second world war. the uk is firmly in this camp, and yet in order to get those contracts that china is offering, china would like it to move slightly over into the chinese camp. this is a very, very big geopolitical question. stay with us on outside source — still to come... scientists have fitted these polar bears with cameras and tracking devices, trying to discover why bears are getting skinny. a man who drove the van into muslims outside a london mosque has been

found guilty of murder. he ploughed into people in june found guilty of murder. he ploughed into people injune last year, killing 51 yard and injuring nine others. darren osborne was also found guilty of attempted murder. the bbc correspondent angus crawford was in quart. thejudge sent thejury was in quart. the judge sent the jury outjust before three o'clock today and it took less than an hour, 59 minutes for the jury took less than an hour, 59 minutes for thejury of took less than an hour, 59 minutes for the jury of eight women and four men to come back with guilty verdicts. guilty of murder, it guilty of attempted murder. osborn in the dock made absolutely no reaction at all. what was really interesting about this case was the fa ct interesting about this case was the fact that he didn't come up with any kind of defence until very, very late in the day. normally a defence is filed very early on, before the case is filed very early on, before the case actually begins but in this case, his defence came very, very late and it was, in the words of the prosecution, absurd. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom.

our lead story is: donald trump is a day from releasing a republican memo expected to accuse the fbi of bias against his presidency. and here's a few of the stories making news in the bbc newsroom. the authorities in myanmar say they'll investigate a report of mass graves containing the bodies of as many as 400 rohingya muslims. the associated press news agency says it's uncovered evidence there, of a massacre last august by the military. bbc burmese are coving that story. and many of people are looking at this video on the bbc website. it's a paris teenager taking advantage of the city's flooding. as you can see, he's wakeboarding down the street near his home. we have talked about china and britain. as britain gets ready to leave the eu the issue of the transition period has become a political minefield for theresa may. supporters of brexit want a clean break with europe next march. they worry a lengthy transition

could see the uk sliding back, as they see it, towards brussels' control. well, the british prime minister today made a stand in perhaps the most contentious area — how migrants from the eu will be treated here after brexit. speaking on her trip to china she said, "i'm clear there's a difference between those who came prior to us leaving — and those who will come when they know the uk is no longer a member". the eu on the other hand sees it differently. here's how theresa may's suggestion went down in the european parliament. we shall make a transition, citizens are part of the transition so the status quo includes citizens in this extended time. it is now notjust the position of the parliament but the position of the parliament but the whole union, adopted in a

directive unanimously by the council. it is a red line. looking at this — here's rob watson. let me keep this short and sweet or short and bitter. transition is proving difficult because essentially it's going to look to most british people that britain will effectively be staying in the european union for another couple of yea rs. european union for another couple of years. and for some on the leave side of the campaign, particularly inside the conservative party they think, hang on a minute, that's not what we signed up forks and that is why theresa may is making a stand over the issue of immigration, but one i had to say that most commentators here and in europe think she will lose. it is also fair to say that there has been some movement, for example if the uk will be able to make to trade deals in transition. that is true, although a lot of people will to live there won't be many countries in the world

who will want to do a trade deal with britain until they see what britain's future relationship with the european union will be. i think stepping back from that, there is a sense really that so far britain has had to give away to everything that the european union has demanded and essentially theresa may is seen as really basically playing a poor hand badly. why? because it is felt she is the weak leader of a divided government and because written is simply not in a position to carry out its threat, to walk away from the talks, because there would be too much chaos without a deal. donald trump has been in west virginia are meeting republican lawmakers. the budget was on the agenda, after the congressional budget office issued a warning that the us government could run out of money in early march. pretty

threatening prospect, a lot to concentrate the minds? that is right. the congressional budget office as a congressional group. they said there would be enough money to go on until april at the debt ceiling was not raised but now they say it is only up to march. one of the reasons but that they are saying is because the government is earning less because of the recently passed tax bill. you will remember the big tax reform president trump's big legislative victory. it was estimated that will cost the us government $1.5 trillion over the next ten years. but essentially they are saying it is because of that. the debt ceiling is essentially a ceiling for how much the government can borrow. as india's finance minister stepped out of his office this morning there was plenty of promise in the air. but in the end, they delivered the election—year budget many had expected. and within minutes of him starting his speech, it became clear what the government's main priority was. my government is committed to

the welfare of the farmers. for decades, the country's agricultural policy and programmes has remained programmes centric. we had sought to affect a paradigms shift. with elections due next year, the government is looking to improve the lives of the rural population. the government's new help scheme which will ensure 500 million families was the biggest announcement. closely followed by a tax cut for small industry, which many help will help boost employment. the fact they did it for 90% of the registered companies, rather than the actual business quantity, the turnover, i think that it is pragmatic and a move that will be looked at very well. the government is in a difficult spot. india wants an 8% growth rate but general elections are due in just over a year. the focus of the

budget is rural areas, where two thirds of the population live, and the finance minister and the prime minister hope that a large voter base will be happy at the very least. wall street has been watching tech sector earnings from the ‘big a's' — google's parent alphabet, amazon and apple. let's see if we can get you an update on this, at least on google. dave lee is watching the results. what are you hearing will ceiling? there is something about outside source which means whenever these stories are wrong, the results drop. alphabets‘s results of cumin and amazon's as well. alphabets as much asa amazon's as well. alphabets as much as a dropped after they came in below wall street's expectations for what they may earn hoping they would earn in this quarter. i will dig

into the numbers on that, i can't give you a specific reason. alphabet put out lots of software last year which investors would hope would boost this quarter's result, pat slaven happen. amazon in contrast has doubled its revenues on this time last year. beating expectations, which is why on this time last year. beating expectations, which is why, last glance their shares are up by almost 4x, glance their shares are up by almost 4%, which is a very promising result for them. i would expect that to rise as more people see where the benefits are coming from. i can tell you that their cloud computing business, revenue from that has risen to over $5 billion, up from around 2.5— $3 billion last year. big increases there. amazon will be very encouraged by that. the one we are still waiting for, of course, is apple and what we are looking for is sales of the iphone ten. if they are strong, that will be good for apple, if not, we could see their shares

dip slightly as well. dave lee, thank you. this image comes from the harrowing footage released at the end of last year — showing an emaciated polar bear in northern canada. a group of scientists have been trying to find out what's happening to the bears. i got victoria gill to come and explain the story. it is interesting, that picture that went so viral back in december and caused such a stir, it wasn't really clear. there was controversy, it wasn't clear if the bear was ill or what time of year it was, what the exact location was... it was not clear. what researchers have done is looked through the polar bear‘s eyes by tracking down the colours that can turn cameras. by tracking down the colours that can turn cameras. we have seen the arctic and the hunt from their perspective of the colours they have used, the team from the university of california, they fitted the colours to nine solitary female polar bears in spring, a critical

time of year, when they need to hunt to fatten up for the summer when there is less sea ice and pray around and they going to fast. those cameras, around and they going to fast. those cameras, they had gps tracking technology. the scientists also put metabolic tracer into the bear‘s blood. they have been able to combine all this data to show they are taking in less energy than they need when they are hunting. there are several things combining fair. they think by travelling further because the sea ice is diminishing, they are expended more energy looking for food. and that was victoria gill. if you have opinions are questions about any of our coverage, you can talk to us on the hashtag bbc os. lots more to look at, including russian athletes who have had their doping ban is lifted and why. hello. let's take a look at some interesting weather making the

headlines around the globe. lots of whether to tell you about. we will head off to east asia first. a cold northerly wind blowing. temperatures for much of the korean valencia and eastern china pretty low, 10 degrees in hong kong. that is typical of the overnight lows but that is the daytime top temperature. heavy rain for parts of indonesia and across australia. some heavy showers and thunderstorms through central parts of queensland. not as hot as it has beenin of queensland. not as hot as it has been in the south—east of australia. across to new zealand, the remnants of the tropical storm have been moving across the south island, bringing extremely heavy rainfall, gale force winds, causing significant disruption with roads closed and flights cancelled. heading through fred and into saturday, a few showers left but improving. asa improving. as a southerly breeze moves in, temperatures set to plummet in new zealand was that in the next few days in north america, cold air heading in from central canada to the eastern states. milder

air hanging on towards the west. if we look at the temperatures by friday, things turning much colder in new york, not getting above freezing all day. remaining mild towards california, with some rain and snow for british columbia. let's ta ke and snow for british columbia. let's take a look at south africa. in cape town, and ongoing extensive drought situation. in fact, the drought in cape town has been going on for three years. reservoirs only at around 25% of their capacity. their fears by the 12th of april, if we don't see significant rainfall, it could run dry altogether. he“? ' f 77 don't see significant rainfall, it could run dry altogether. us“? is ' f 77 could run dry altogether. here is the forecast the cape town could run dry altogether. here is the fo temperatures 5 town could run dry altogether. here is the fo temperatures are wnl will be those temperatures are also will be on the rise. elsewhere across africa, a cold northerly wind is blowing across parts of morocco and the canary blowing across parts of morocco and the ca nary isles. blowing across parts of morocco and the canary isles. gusty winds developing through algeria and tunisia, with a few showers around. could be some or hill snow to come across the higher ground of morocco. further south, some rainfall across eastern parts of south africa, up

towards zimbabwe and botswana. for europe, low—pressure developing in the mediterranean, bringing heavy rains to the balearics. for the balkans, also strong southerly gales through the adriatic combined with some heavy rain and also heavy snow across the balkans could be significant flooding problems across as part of the world. we are keeping as part of the world. we are keeping a close eye on that. closer to home, the outlook for the uk weather. things are going to be staying quite cold for the next few days. there will be some sunshine, a bit of rain over the weekend and things also turning less windy. i think friday we will see the lion's share of the sunshine, turning wetter by the time we get to saturday. some stop possible over higher ground. we will keep you up—to—date, more in half an hour. hello, i'm philippa thomas. this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom: donald trump is a day from releasing a republican memo expected to accuse the fbi of bias against his presidency. theresa may meets with

xijinping in china — calling it a new golden era in the relationship. 28 russian athletes have lifetime doping bans overturned — opening their avenue to compete in the winter olympics. every day outside source features bbc journalists working in over 30 languages. your questions are always welcome. #bbcos is the hashtag. welcome to outside source. rex tillerson is about to set out on a tour of central and south america. the us secretary of state will visit mexico, before moving on to argentina,

peru and colombia. and likely at the top of the agenda is the political unrest in venezuela. in a speech in texas a short time ago, mr tillerson pulled no punches — predicting change in the country, adding he wanted it to be peaceful. take a listen. the corrupt regime in venezuela claims to false claim and antiquated vision for the region that has already filled its citizens. it does not purport with the norms of our caribbean and latin american partners. we urge venezuela to return to its constitution, to return to its constitution, to return to free, open and democratic elections, and to allow the venezuelan people voice in our government. the venezuelan president, for his part, has accused

the united states of interfering in peace talks between his government and opposition parties. let's get more on this with barbara plett usher who joins me from washington. it did sound a little bit as if rex tillerson was urging a regime change? interestingly, he speculated on whether there might be a military coup to remove the president from power. it was an interesting way to set the tone for his trip because in his visits, he will be talking about those he meets. so far, only canada has followed the us lead in terms of imposing sanctions on government and former government officials. but there is a group that follows the little messaging coming from

washington. for example they have also rejected the decision for early elections, as have the americans, who have said it was just a way to entrench the regime of nicolas maduro. he will carry on the conversation with their reinforced position and try to push it further and he is also going to talk about the humanitarian situation and how to deal with that, especially when he visits colombia because there are half a million venezuelan refugees in colombia. he starts with mexico. we know about donald trump and mexico in building the wall, the insults that have been flying. what has rex tillerson been doing? yes, the wall, immigration, not to mention the north american free trade agreement the administration has insisted must be renegotiated. mexican officials have hinted they

will cease negotiation if a breakthrough is not made. he set up a forum to deal with the cross—border crime cartels which involves his counterpart and also senior security officials have met a number of times. he will be building on that relationship. is also attracting new ones donald trump's policy messages. for example, he said nafta was a way to modernise the treaty for all involved, rather than to scuttle it. he has also sent other conciliatory messages regarding the wall. he said the americans were trying to build capacity on the mexican side for screwing the border. so think that's the tone he will take when he goes to mexico. i like the way you talk

about rex tillerson adding new ones to remarks from the president. a lot of people saying rex tillerson wouldn't last out the first year of this presidency, but he's still there are. yes, and i think he may be here for the rest of the year. there was a period late in the year when there were lots of reports and rumours about his pro—relationship with the president. he has struggled at the state department with reforms he is bringing in there and his management style, but he is also kenneth again i think. he says he plans to stick around and it is looking more and more likely that he will, for the time being. thank you. 28 russian athletes who had been banned for life for doping have had the decision overturned by the court of arbitration for sport or cas. they include cross—country skiing star alexander legkov — who won gold at the 2014 sochi winter games. the ruling means he will have his medal reinstated. to remind you, the ioc banned the athletes for alleged

doping offences at sochi. their cases were tied to allegations of systematic cheating by the russian authorities. now sport's top court says there was insufficient evidence to prove they had broken the rules. now some of these athletes want to take part in next week's winter olympics in pyongchang — though that would have to be as neutrals, not russians. needless to say the international olympic committee isn't happy with the decision. here's the spokesman. this may have a serious impact on the future fight against doping. therefore, the ioc will analyse the recent decisions very carefully once they are available and consider consequences including an appeal to the swiss federal tribunal. so what does this tell us about anti—doping in sport? here's one analyst who runs

an initiative aimed at fighting corruption. it tells us that in 20 years, it is still pretty messy and not very efficient, especially when there is a big power involved in this game. i think if we had had that situation with honduras or malaysia, we wouldn't have had that fast. the athletes would have been excluded from being part of a systemic doping setup. fortunately there might be some has recently tightened procedures so it should now be to recently tightened procedures so it should now be - to make should now be possible to make collective bands in the field of anti—doping. it's not yet clear whether these 28 athletes can compete in south korea but we do know 169 russian athletes are already competing as what are called neutrals. here they with president putin

before they left yesterday. russia has always denied it ran a state—backed doping programme here's mr putin celebrating today's decison. translation: we are happy for the athlete to have been cleared, but not everyone has been exonerated. secondly, there is still work may need to do. it is absolutely clear, as faras need to do. it is absolutely clear, as far as perfecting our anti—doping programme and our policy, this is something we will be doing together with wider, the ioc and other international organisations. —— together with w a da. olga ivshina from the bbc‘s russian service has more. they have always said this is a collective punishment instead of a

collective punishment instead of a collective punishment instead of a collective punishment to athletes. they will use it again and again. a number of high—ranking officials today made their political statements, including president putin, the prime minister and others. he has said he will be representing their country, even though they will act as neutral athletes. and of course all this in russia is viewed in upcoming presidential elections. some of the sports people are actively supporting vladimir putin. at least from moscow, it all looks like a huge political game, rather than just purely sport. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our website including much more on the memo and everything you need to know about the trump—russia investigation.

now, we will move from the pyeongchang to nigeria. for the first time ever nigeria will compete at the winter olympics. take a look at this though the average temperature in the capital lagos doesn't get below 25 degrees celsuis. in the capital lagos doesn't get below 25 degrees celsuis. but that hasn't stopped three female athletes who make up the country's bobsled team qualifying for the games. alex capstick went to meet them. we are the nigerian women's bobsleigh team. we are the first team from the country of nigeria... the first team from the continent of africa... and the first team to be represented in the winter olympics in the sport of bobsleigh... ..in pyeongchang. they're known as the ice blazers, going where no

african has gone before. heading to a bobsleigh track at the olympics. the opening ceremony, that would be really cool. we were just like, gosh, we are carrying the nigerian flag in a winter olympics. gosh! born in america, like her team—mates, seun adigun qualifies for nigeria through her parents, and it all began in her garage in houston with a home—made wooden sled. cool running! the exploits of the jamaican men's team at the calgary olympics in 1988 inspired a hollywood movie. comparisons are inevitable. it's really honourable, to say the least, that 30 years later people

are still singing their praises, and to say that we are along that same path of what people consider to be legendary. it's really humbling and it's an honour to receive. just over a year ago, seun recruited two team—mates who take it in turns to sit behind the driver. they knew nothing about the sport and its risks. after going to whistler, that's the fastest track in the world, it was like, ok, this sport is actually pretty dangerous. you know, like people can get seriously hurt. behind all the excitement, the fun, the global exposure, is a group of women who have no desire to be considered a novelty act. rank outsiders, yes, but they also want to be taken seriously in their bid to set a new benchmark for africa at the winter olympics. people didn't think we had a chance to make it to the olympics so i think when you talk about things like that, anything can happen and we are here to compete.

the team know they are unlikely to become the first africans to stand on the podium at a winter games but they also know the olympics is about more than just medals. 263 million children worldwide are not in school. now there's a growing awareness that the risks of a missed education include everything from radicalisation to migration. a high—level summit taking place in senegal is aiming to raise 3.1 billion dollars to address the crisis. our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet is there. let's take a closer look at some of the challenges. one of the overwhelming issues in senegal is the modernisation of koranic schools — which are called daaras. those are schools where children only study the muslim holy book, the koran. laeila adjovi reports. the hash tag for this conference is to fund education. it is the first time they're holding this conference ina time they're holding this conference in a developing nation. tomorrow, emmanuel macron will arrive to host

it. let's take a closer look at some of the challenges. one of the overwhelming issues in senegal is the modernisation of koranic schools — which are called daaras. those are schools where children only study the muslim holy book, the koran. laeila adjovi reports. it is a regular sight in dakar, pupils of daaras or koranic schools begging in the streets. most of them are from rural areas, their parents think they are receiving a religious education, but some will not learn a single verse of the koran. a lucky few will end up at this safe house, the children's empire. there is food here, shelter and fun, salvation from the harsh conditions on the streets. translation: if he doesn't return with the right amount of money, he will be beaten.

the children are really maltreated. how can anyone bear to see children in that situation? they need love, affection and to be with theirfamilies. it is their right. this children's rights activist argues that the government is not doing enough to regulate koranic schools and enforce an existing ban on begging. the bill to modernise daaras was also drafted years ago but it has yet to become law. over years there have been efforts to widen the curriculum of senegalese daaras by introducing subjects like maths, history or french classes. there are even attempts to change the learning for entire generation going to koranic schools. in most pre—primary koranic schools, this would not happen. there would be no playing with toys or drawing, there would be no girls, or at least not sitting in the same classroom as boys. and the core of the activities would revolve around memorising the koran. the director of this daara, based in working class neighbourhood, is among one of the imams encouraging change. translation: i encourage all parents

to support daaras that aim to modernise daaras. we have done a lot of work to understand the need to improve the quality of the element in the schools and the quality of education. there are open 5000 koranic schools here, in this secular muslim country, many parents are in favour of modernising the daaras, striking the balance is one of the major challenges facing education in senegal. have you heard of deepfakes? they're videos where one person's face is replaced with another‘s — and the result looks really convincing. it's a technique that's been used inevitably for pornography videos,

where the face of an actor or actress is replaced with that of a celebrity. now the company that hosted many of these videos has announced that it's tracking them down and deleting them from the internet. here's what we're talking about. the programme — the software — has been downloaded 100,000 times in the month since its release. don't worry, i'm not going to show you pornography, because the programme is also used with non—pornographic content, so here's our example. this is germany's chancellor angela merkel — take a look and see if you can make out whose face has been super—imposed. if you could make that out, it was donald trump's face. well, to find out how these videos are causing so much harm, i spoke with our technology desk editor, leo kelion. that's right. what these are is basically a computer—generated video

of a subject's face that is then merged with a real video clip. and the way this works is that there is a piece of software out there that you stick about 500 images of the person whose face you want the person to stimulate, plus the video clip, hit a button, go away for several hours, come back and you come back to what looks like a special effect from hollywood where the is effectively changed. the face is effectively changed. the issue is that this is being used for pornography. it could be fun, could be artistic, but it is being used a lot for pornography, obviously without permission from the people whose faces are being used. but now this company has been the focus on a lot of these images says it finds it objectionable, or has realised it is objectionable.

that's right. there is a service based in san francisco where people upload short clips and by doing that they can then post it on to other sites on the internet, such as reddit, where a lot of the stuff is being shared. this company has said it finds this is objectionable and on those grounds it started to delete the clips, so that if you click on them, up comes a notice saying you can't watch it. does it say objectionable because it's only just noticed what's happening? i think objectionable because of the controversy. this has actually been going on in one form or another for a couple months, but two things have happened. first of all, we have had somebody about the algorithm for a piece of software so that you really don't need a lot of computer knowledge to be able to do this. and the other thing is motherboard, the news site, picked up on it. then a whole bunch of the rest of the press started writing about it as well.

sending objects up into space has become a booming business so it's no surprise every now and then one goes missing. this is the image satellite launched by nasa in the year 2000. it's mission was to observe the magnetic field around the earth which it did sending back images like this in 2002. but three years later it suddenly went quiet. something had gone wrong and it stopped communicating. a team of experts from nasa investigated but in 2006 their final report failed to resolve the mystery. 11 years later, the satellite has been found. the man responsible isn't in mission control — he's in a small community on the west coast of canada. amateur astronomer scott tilley told me earlier about the moment he made his discovery. it was one of those kind of moments where you read all the technical information and you just have this emotion in the pit of your stomach. it's like wow, it came back to life. it was just an emotional moment.

and then i set to work in trying to work out how to communicate what i had just discovered. perhaps you knew you find out that an entire nasa team with all their funding was looking for this and you stumbled across it. and then i think you had a conversation with your wife over breakfast about what to do with the discovery? a lost satellite in space, surely you are smart enough to find someone's e—mail address and find out who was the guy who built it, reach out to him and let him know what you've got. like a small child, i went to the computer and did my final bit of homework and found the doctor's e—mail address and sent him a note. and did you not say, hello, i've found your satellite? essentially, yes. i was a little bit more technical about it. i wrote a blog on the internet, provided evidence that i hoped would at least attract enough

attention for them to look. tell us why you were looking in the first place, why you spend so much time scanning the skies for us? i track and classify military satellites as a hobby. i was looking at a classified government mission that was launched in late january. myself in a small group of amateurs around the world are doing that right now. but instead i found this missing nasa space probe. this weekend marks one of the high—points on the american sporting calendar. i'm talking of course about the super bowl. the game is being played in minneapolis. the two teams to make this year's big game are boston and philadelphia, two cities that are steeped in history, rich in culture, and populated by obsessive, and somewhat obnoxious fans. as mat morrison explains. this year's super bowl pits the city of brotherly love against beantown. rocky against paul revere.

this guy against that guy. yes, but philadelphia and boston are known for their rabid fans, sometimes a bit too much so. i am ready for the super bowl! philadelphia, self—described crisco cops have greased up the light bulbs, they do not want trouble. then there was the inebriated fan in philadelphia who punched a police horse. that happened twice. for patriots fans, that that wraps up fans the wrong way, sense of entitlement appearing in eight of the last 17 super bowl is will do that. philadelphia where is the face of the underdog. dog mask fans have sold out. and do not get other side started on food, ask a philly fan it's all about cheesecake.

in boston clam chowder. all this rivalry on and off the field is a shame because the two cities have a lot in common. both are east coast port cities are found in the 1600s when the area with a collection of british colonies are both hotbeds of revolution before america split from britain. boston has ironsides and philadelphia has constitution hall and the liberty bell. in the end, there can only be one winner and there is more thanjust a football game at stake. there was also a wager between the mayors of philadelphia and a massachusetts town near boston the home of real—life boxer rocky marciano. the winning city gets to dress a statue in team colours. now it is patriots versus eagles, city versus city, rocky versus rocky. or that is left to do is play a game of football. it was a lot colder for the 1st of

february. the arctic wind is here to stay. seems like this were sent him on thursday. this was fort william. we will continue to see some snow showers through friday, particularly the north and eastern parts. year, a risk of ice. low pressure in the north sea ensuring wendy weather once again hear. elsewhere through friday, fewer showers, lighter winds, more sunshine. it won't feel as cold as it did for today. already

by the end of the day, this next weather front is coming and. cold eric sits over much of europe. various weather systems come in from the atlantic, bringing in caldaire. the risk of some more snow to come through the week ahead. initially, it will be called with wintry weather over the hills. a lot of this peters out. eastern parts might not see much in the way of cloud. dry and bright. not as cold is friday. the weather front stays with us friday. the weather front stays with us through the weekend. high starts to build in. for england and wales, a lot of cloud around and we're

seeing that rain and wintry mix peter out. it will be quite interesting. it is likely to bring in some wintry showers for east anglia and the south—east. the snow showers could be disruptive. this next weather system is coming in from the atlantic. again, the uncertainty lies in how far east the weather systems progress. it doesn't look like they will make much progress eastwards. they will tend to fizzle out. we might initially have some snow from the north—easterly wind. we could have seems like this summer on tuesday

causing some disruption. a real risk of that. we repeat the process later in the week. cold air is established. frosty and icy. the next weather system starts to come and. as it comes across the caldaire blocking it, it will turn to snow and ten to peter out. later in the week, we could awaken to seems like this. risk of snow but towards next weekend there is just a this. risk of snow but towards next weekend there isjust a hint this. risk of snow but towards next weekend there is just a hint that we might get the milder air pushing right the way across and bringing milder air. it is a long way. we will keep you posted. more on the website. tonight at ten: an act of terrorism — the man who deliberately drove a van into a crowd of muslims in north london is found guilty of murder and attempted murder. darren osborne carried out the finsbury park attack last june, killing one man and injuring several others.

radicalised online within weeks, he wanted to kill as many muslims as possible — and waved as he was arrested. the online material played a significant role in relation to his mindset and how he was radicalised. he'll be sentenced tomorrow. also on tonight's programme. the government and brussels are in dispute over the rights of eu citizens to live and work in britain after brexit. the prime minister holds talks with the chinese president — they discuss trade, the environment, and north korea. human rights was also on the agenda. we have a report from china's troubled western region, where a security crackdown is under way.