in geneva, where ever we can. that when you have a cease fire, the next thing is not to then prolong a cease fire or replicate it or substitute it with actually hanger or -- because that's another way of actually make ingmaking. we discussed it with the russia b and turkish couldn't parts that in ostanin, once the mechanism is established, once this incident which are taking place and which are linked to encroach more on the territory, i think there are three, there are five here. and therefore, move a little bit on what is is military solution. we will start seeing general gin access. they were talking to me about it, because the people want to see that. first thing, no more bombing. it's becoming much better. the second thing is food and medicines. i know you agree gsh. >> it's not just about us agreeing. we believe do more than any county country new, syria in terms of humanitarian yad and whaid and when aleppo was liberated sh we discovered so many humanitarian packages u.n. marks on it. which were in the hand

.hat's the way to reykjavik that's dinner at geneva. you can see nancy sitting over there, done reagan the chief of staff, the deputy foreign minister. that might even be richard perle at the end. a spark of trust. here at reykjavik, the beginning of the final session. this is the moment gorbachev later describes, full of shakespearean passions. they go in full of hope, reagan stretched his trip longer than planned, to let's maybe make a deal. reaganthis session, says, i when his mind if we eliminated all nuclear weapons, all nuclear weapons. scholz says, let's do it. gorbachev says, let's do it. we have a picture in this book of that left session. gorbachev says, we can do that. let's do it. then they come to an impasse over defense, strategic defense initiative. the amazing thing at reykjavik, reykjavik. of they were feeling like that. look at the man ronald reagan. come on, don't you want -- don't you want to make a deal here? reykjavik. they were feeling like that. looking on in the middle, what's going on here? gorbachev came to re

hope inve a glimmer of geneva. let's work together to make sure it works and have the best in the world there in order to make sure we have a genuine politics of transition. >> to end this discussion. thank you all. this has been a very interesting panel. there will hopefully be much better news to discuss next year. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> very nice to meet you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> cpac is underway in the nation's capital.

german law says that -- and international law, which applies here, the geneva convention on refugees, say you have a right to be considered a refugee if you have been persecuted -- persecuted for political, religious, or other reasons. not just anyone who comes here because in their country there's a war on or because they're economically in dire straits. so we go to great lengths in germany to find out, it takes a long time and individually pro-- to individually process to find out who has a legitimate right to stay and who doesn't. it's about, with people from the western balkans, for instance, serbia, kosovo, albania, the second biggest group, 898% have their applications turned down. so it's simply implementing the law to send them back. you can go through country by country whereas, for instance, among syrian refugees, i think something like 96% are accepted. and can settle here. and have their applications accepted. so enforcing the law isn't becoming a deportation chancellor. it's finally doing what should have been done actually two years ago. >> the question of the law is up

way today in geneva. with continuing violence on the ground and political deadlock even the u.n. envoy behind the talks says hope for a breakthrough is slim. a slap in the face for lgbt activists. the trump administration revokes a landmark move from barack obama letting transgender students use the bathroom of their choice at school. the chief of staff for the french far right presidential candidate marine le pen placed formal investigation. she has been bought down by allegations she used you funds to pay her aids in france. peugeotch carmaker reveals bumper results. will it spend its cash on its rival? david go a makes music history more than a year after his death. he and george michael or honored at the brit awards. for startup story live from paris. -- first ever top story live from paris. hour top story live from paris. are being held today in geneva. hope of a breakthrough is virtually nonexistent. the u.n. envoy says the best he can hope for is just more momentum. >> mi expecting a breakthrough? no, i'm not expecting a breakthrough. i am determined for keeping a very att

already, geneva agreed to disagree on that. not a way forward except this condemnation of war and a wonderful dinner toast we show. this is in geneva at the fire place at the mason fluordoe, set up by reagan's advance team. you can see a certain affability and charm, the first meeting scheduled for 15 minutes, meet and greet get the photo taken, stretched for an hour with the interpreters because they had a lot to say. and the aides paced up and down outside, what are they doing? what are they saying, my gosh? another footnote, one-on-one sessions at the supplements, the photos are only of the two of them but they had interpreters and note takers. the final take away is a spark of trust between them became a key of gorbachev's abolition program in 1986 and led the road as gorbachev understand s if we disband tomorrow gorbachev would not attack. >> the other side won't attack, why do you need these bombs and missiles and even your own security system. that's the way. that's dinner. you see nancy reagan and the deputy of staff an

dominick, director of operations , joining us from geneva. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> a russian court has found the country's most prominent opposition figure guilty of investment. -- of investment -- of embezzlement. the charges against him he says are politically motivated. he says he will appeal his conviction. >> vladmir putin's leading adversary. he has been found guilty of embezzling timber worth 250,000 euros. he insisted the move was politically motivated. what we see is a message from the kremlin. the guilty verdict is deja vu for him. he was found guilty on the same charges. his sentence was overturned after the european court for human rights called the proceedings unfair. this time the same outcome and the same punishment. whether he can still legally run is uncertain and. he says his lawyers will appeal the decision. anyone convicted of a serious offense cannot stand an election. he has a long way to go. he trails in opinion polls but having his name on the ballot may be enough of a thorn in the kremlin's sid

been talks in geneva over the last couple of days, to put this oi'i the last couple of days, to put this on the table to remind people what the assad regime is capable of, it is important as we go into these talks. recently, there has been an effort to make it seem as though the regime and opposition are on an equal footing. while both sides have committed a crime, various sites, it is to say that by far, the assad regime is responsible for them. and the killing of this kind, on this scale, and coming from amnesty international, we assume that it is well sourced? yes, and it comes at a time when the attempt to rehabilitate president assad, or legitimise his rule, is gaining momentum. donald trump made overtures to the russians, and we have the guy who was the frontrunner, we will talk about it later on, francois furlong, said that he would be willing to talk to the russians and borisjohnson has intimated that perhaps the price for peaceis intimated that perhaps the price for peace is president assad staying in power —— francois fillon. it reminds us power —— francois fillon.

a year after i saw the coptic codex in geneva, the egyptian owner took it to new york city and tried to sell it there without any success. >> the owner then deposits the codex in a bank vault. it stays there for nearly two decades until another buyer finally persuades him to sell. >> here i am, opening again that safe. all the pages were glued together. and fragments of the pages were floating around. >> still uncertain what the manuscript is, tchacos takes it to yale. >> i say, do you know what you have here? this is something that's only been hinted at in antiquity. for the first time ever we're laying eyes on the actual gospel of judas. >> but there's bad news. restoration will cost a fortune. tchacos needs someone with very wealthy contacts. enter manuscript dealer bruce ferrini. >> i was told that bruce ferrini was a very reputable manuscript dealer and that he had bill gates as a client. that sounded good. >> seeing the chance to make a quick profit, ferrini decides to buy the manuscript himself and sell it on. >> ferrini writes two checks totaling $2.5 million for the gospel o

the attack comes on the first full day of a fresh round of syrian peace talks being held in geneva. today, that u.n. syrian envoy held separate meetings with regime and opposition delegates to hammer out the format for the meetings. but on thursday, he did bring them symbolically together to launch the talks. during the three previous rounds of talks in geneva last year, the rivals never sat down at the same table. and that government forces have ultered western muscle -- mos for the first time in taking full control of the city airport for it is part of the ongoing offensive to recapture the city from the islamic state group. eastern mosul was t declared fully liberated last year but many remain trapped. marine le pen is refusing to speak to police. the far right leader is wanted for questioning over a fake jobs scandal. it is alleged she made illegal parliament repayments to her staff in france. her personal ascendant -- assistant has been charged with breach of trust. she was summoned last wednesday for questioning but refused to attend. sherding to her lawyer, will not speak to

adi mentioned, we had been together five years before in geneva. i got to know sam pretty well at that time. and we went right over to the russian consulate and we got to meet some russians. i can't cite all the russians we talked to in the next five years, but there were quite a number because frequently we went abroad and we went to russia on some occasions and we became acquainted with the situation in russia, at least that things seemed to be deteriorating and difficulties were coming, so that it was not a total surprise when 1991 came along the trail. i stressed as sam did that the importance of what occurred then was in part political. quite apart from technical. the dilemma that we faced and that sam has described is that there were a great number of senators, many in my party, who said not a dime for the russians, not a dime. that's ridiculous, to be in fact even considering such a thing. this was a very strongly felt sentiment by many of their constituents. that sentiment didn't go away altogether. after nunn-lugar passed and the struggles

we will ask that to geneva advisers don gimbel. about south korea's ongoing political scandal, investigators planning to raid the presidential office over that scandal. whenll have the details bloomberg markets: asia continues in two minutes. ♪ ♪ su: from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> we begin with the supreme gorsuch ise neil president trump's nominee. president trump made the announcement in the east room of the white house tuesday evening. >> millions of voters said this was the single most important when they voted for me for president. i am a man of my word. i will do as i say. something the american people have been asking for from

the proof is in the fact of the so-called peace process has been relocated to geneva. -- from geneva. american invitation was an afterthought. >> that is the one sort of motif of russian involvement in the region is now we are back in charge. >> but also what putin is doing is he is guaranteeing power to populists. he's guaranteeing ergdogan that he will back his regime in turkey. that is a kind of organization that i think putin is setting up against nato, against the u.s. he is saying each of these populists, your home is with the kremlin. >> europeans may not like it, they are raising an eyebrow of what you are doing. it is a human rights issue. >> your nato ally is backing a proxy that you've been at war with for 40 years. >> here's a question for you -- in the shakeup of the grand gop political shakeup have been playing for the last 40 years, -- 40 minutes the suspicion in , the circle surrounding donald trump is the great threats strategically might be china. that it will be china that steps into the void. there has pulls back , to be somebody who steps in. and what you hear in

displacement of hundreds of thousands of people already living there, in to tuned to the mines israel geneva and any more than knowledge seeing the trend -- the trail of tears anybody will jeopardize the united states of america. i did not come here simply to leave his but the question here today on all of our minds munis what now practice but that should be the u.s. policy to end the conflict that has gone on for so long to assure the occupation to create ford jews and arabs and palestinians alike. [cheers and applause] but those the have taken so much from so many. would know whether countries spend such nobody gains with children. children and do an engine and an 10 become suicide bombers. ninety-eight it is about war and hatred rather an increase -- peace in the gulf. [applause] so think for a moment about the incredible potential that is being lost when israelis and palestinians are not coming to kill their in with those economic touches of the region spirit guide did get a small set of the from jordan and dejected the other countries, not to talk about the political differences but the

muslim countries many to defeat that to extremism. >> if that any point in the conversation of the geneva convention or would not lead the chancellor could. >> get the risk of repeating myself several times already we have expressed our clear views of refugees from those seven named countries. >> mr. speaker my honorable friend it raised and important point did appears the prime minister that that was the case of a of ban? >> i do not comment on the confidential conversations take place between the prime minister. we have worked with our friends in the white house and state department to understand exactly how this is implemented. >> mr. speaker the state is presented from trump and his cronies. so does the foreign secretary knocked appreciate the way that we've react? >> i understand the feelings of many people in this country and around the world . i will just repeat my point that is our job to work with the most powerful democracy in the world whose leadership is absolutely indispensable. that is what we will do. miss the preside >> this week, heather mcgee, os sheent of dem received a

meanwhile, peace talks between the syrian opposition and the sume inare set to regi geneva next week. >> benjamin netanyahu has arrived in washington. he says that he will work with advisers this tuesday to make betweent there are israeli and u.s. thinking on the middle east. >> in the united states at a time when -- benjamin netanyahu was putting confidence, of ahead of his meeting on wednesday. >> the alliance as always been strong and it is about to get even stronger. trumpet and i see i do i on the dangers and opportunities in the region. we will talk about both, as well relations in many, many fields. he looks to secure common ground on the settlement questions. that areive in areas considered to be illegal by most world powers and israel wants to increase the number. palestinian representatives say that israel is on dangerous ground. bethis approach is liable to disastrous in the pursuit of peace. , it makes the united states complicit in this lawlessness , inthe act of criminality stealing peoples lands. >> this is likely to bring about more cohesion. washington has condemned t

led peace talks underway in geneva. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, said the veto shows russia and sadna refusing to hold the as regime accountable. >> it's pretty amazing, because you have unity in the fact that we need to be concerned about chemical weapons use in syria and elsewhere. that is why the blocking of this resolution is so troubling. russia and china made at outrageous and indefensible choice today. they refused to hold bashar al-assad's regime responsible for the use of chemical weapons. they turned away from defensive -- defensive men, women, and children who died gasping for breath when they dropped trumpous gas. >> donald is set to address a joint session of congress for the first time since assuming office. the president is expected to deliver clarity on key issues like health care during his speech. republicans are discovering how difficult it will be to make good on campaign pledges to replace a obamacare. say what you want about donald trump, he's been making good on much of what he p

human rights council open its annual session in geneva. time the united states will claim defeat under the presidency of donald trump. the president international agenda remaining murky for now. reporter: don't trump has been an outspoken supporter of israel and criticized united nations for treating it as a second-class citizen. there is a definite feeling times have changed. the u.s. president has stirred up controversy by promising to move to the city of jerusalem, effectively it effectively recognizing israel's claim. he appeared to move away from the long-standing u.s. policy of ace -- of a two state solution. trump: i'mdent looking at a two state and one state, and a very happy with what both parties like. reporter: despite his opposition, the president remained diplomatic. >> we reiterate we are disposed to work in a positive spirit, including administration to the thank you trump presidency. reporter: he underscored a series of points he would not move on. the two states solution goes back to the pre-1967 borders. he called the cap

we need to think about how to the back some about support the thatical process in geneva will address long-term stability in syria. grievances of the civil war have to be addressed, the humanitarian assistant that needs to be brought me is to be addressed, and the multiple divergent stakeholders need to be addressed. i think we all know, it is about as complex and environment as you can be. thehave iran, russia, syrian regime, turkish concerns, kurdish concerns, arab concerns, shia and sunni concerns, so all caps -- what you are getting at is we do need to have the vision of how our military actions set conditions on the ground that actually then become a platform from which secretary tillerson goes to geneva to come up with a political solution. again, i think this. bulls have to be addressed in the cannot agree more. so thosemy last -- issues have to be addressed and i cannot agree more. michael: my last question is about china. china has been a concern about president trump across all aspects. even though it has been unsettling to watch the process sometimes, i have to say the issu

. >> before talks go any further, the delegation in geneva want to set the ground rules or former -- further negotiations. >> further negotiations, markets, what do you think -- marcus, what do you think? why is this different? >> the momentum has shifted to the assad regime with the reoccupation of aleppo and the conference two weeks ago meaning iran, turkey and russia are in the drivers seat of the political process in syria. things have changed a little bit and finally we do not have any idea what the united states strategy towards syria or isol will be. >> we don't know what the u.s. wants, do we know what the future of president assad will be? >> it is easy to guess. regardless of any accusations of human rights violations, he is in the drivers seat. supported not only by iran but more importantly by russia and he has openly dated he wants to rule the whole syria again. on the one hand we continue to have political pillars of the security council resolutions scheduling a roadmap for the transition but on the other hand it is not realistic. >> as always, we appreciate you coming

everyone is saying the political track in geneva is important. no one is laying out a mp to get there. differences of opinion and perspective are still very big. if you are looking at peace in the region and all the players have a different position, that's not conducive to a positive outcome in the short-term. >> certainly not great for the more than 6 million people that have been displaced by this war in syria. you spoke of the peace talks that are set to begin in the coming days. what are the main sticking points right now? >> reporter: what would be the political future. there is broad agreement about a cease-fire but then how do you implement and who are theal plitheal allies and partners. you have the turkish foreign minister saying we can not abide and have kurdish elements playing a role in that. you have from an iranian perspective the support that is going to remain in power. for the opposition on the ground, that is an absolute an@ma a athema for them. what is the political situation even if you can make the cease-fire stick? we heard

further you in peace talks are set to resume in geneva on february 23. time now for a spin through some of the days world news. killed in has been the e french alps after an avalanche that swept through the resort. the bodies of a 49-year-old ski instructor, a 48 year old father , and 15-year-old son, and have been retrieved from the site. other members of their party may have been buried by the snow, but those reports have proven to be false. a ruling petey democratic party. losing a referendum on constitutional reform. they seem to retake the rain monday. in the group have had an in parliamentary elections. in taiwan,n, a trip out to seeee seseasonal cherry blossssom in e center of the country has ended in tragedy. officials say 32 tourists a are dead. been treated in hohospitals for our injuries. next it was a shooting that shocked the world for its callousness in december. now the photograph that capture the scene of the assassination of russia's ambassador to turkey is this world's world press that is this year's world press photo prize. -- is this

meanwhile, syrian peace talks have resumed in geneva for the first time in 10 months. the future of president assad remains a sticking point for russia. he says it is absurd. forces are continuing to bomb civilian areas despite agreeing to several cease-fires. expectations of a breakthrough at these u.n. talks are low. >> i am not expecting miracles. task.e an uphill it will not be easy. and ais a lot of tension lot of suffering that everyone has been bearing. but we must apply ourselves to this task. laura: i am joined in the studio by a professor for the university here in paris. think you for being here on france 24 tonight. six years on, half a million people killed, many more displaced. we heard that the u.n. response, they are not expecting miracles. is anyone expecting anything from this meeting at all? >> now. -- no. they do not expect to be in the same room to lead the negotiations. we are not sure about that, usually it is two different rooms. there are lots of problems regarding who is in the position. the main group, it was not the case in afghanistan. it i

if they don't follow the geneva conventions, were crimes are committed. -- war crimes are committed to the crimes you are looking at how -- when the serbs took over and the men and boys fled in july of 1995,in when they captured the boys, they were executed in different places. the crimes against humanity is defined that this was systematic. this was widespread. when you get to work crimes -- war crimes. there's a great pressure on the prosecutor to really have sound evidence because the sentences, the penalties will be quite high. we are going to see it through history and have seen through history that certain people who we would allege that are war criminals will get away with it. there are others who are not. it hinges on political will and to really go after these sorts of criminals and now, we are in a winning -- waning period. i don't think the international griddle court will collapse, but it is certainly losing support. that's international criminal court will collapse, but it is certainly losing support. chosen societies have alternatives to prosecution like truth and reconci

ladies and gentlemen, at geneva the president gave an analogy. he hopes an analogy. he hopes we can make for the world an exquisite swiss army knife, whenever there is a problem, we can fix it with one of the tools of this knife. i believe that in the tool kit at our disposal, there are quite some tools that are carefully designed by countries that crystallize collective wisdom that have been proven effective. and they can be used to solve all kinds of challenges facing the world today. of course, in this process, we need to pay attention to make sure that they work in coordination and work with each other, not against each other. and we also need to be creative and improve them along the way. first we need to remain committed to multilateralism. history tells us time and again, self-centered unilateralism will bring more trouble. multilateralism is the pathway to peace, development and solution of global issues. after the second world war, countries have learned the hard lesson, and designed and built collectively the multilateral framework mechanism. the united nat

way today in geneva. with continuing violence on the ground and political deadlock even the u.n. envoy behind the talks says hope for a breakthrough is slim. a slap in the face for lgbt activists. the trump administration revokes a landmark

. >> they met in reykjavik, in iceland, they met in geneva, that was the side of ronald reagan that i appreciate enormously and deeply. and only he could have done that. only he as an arch capitalist could have done that and met with gorbachev. >> y & r i was surprised to learn started out as a three month stint for you. how do you take three months and turn it into almost 40 years? >> most important thing is the change of story lines. and there was a moment when my wife nikki on the show, played beautifully by her all these years, asked me about my background. this mysterious character who's ruthless and a billionaire, and she didn't know anything about him. so bill bell came up with a story line that made me stay. he -- i then explained it to my wife, that i had been left on the doorsteps of an orphanage at the age of seven. once i played that scene, i said, i'm staying, it opened up -- i've been playing nothing but bad guys, bored to tears with it, russian bad guys, german bad guys, every bad guy imaginable. and this opened a whole array of possibilities. and i've been there ever s

you had a previous role with the you and and geneva -- -- un role in geneva. bringing down the soviet union, maybe there is a union of that needs taming? what do you think needs to happen to tame the eu? reporter: basically overstepping its capabilities. the question is what the european states want to see for the european union. the most significant political facts on the immediate horizon is brexit. there are other elections of course in the next number of months and over the course of 2017. the whole question of european integration, the future of the euro, the european union in or out is very much on the ballots. i would like to see more countries have referenda. the citizens of the countries make democratic decisions about their own sentiments of a european union of one sort or another. states,t for the united clearly, to define what a european union is. me still ask you to get a shot of the definition of what it should be. don't you think it has been allow people and to travel, commerce across borders without having to ?eal with red trait -- red tape gue

precious time explaining to trump that he couldn't refuse refugees in need because of a thing called the geneva convention. yeah, she had to explain that to a president. in britain, prime minister theresa may is struggling with brexit, but because of trump, who wants to meet the queen, she has to spend time schooling him on royal protocols, teaching trump on how to meet the queen. rule one, donald, it's not okay to grab the queen's pussy. or as the queen calls it, the gray corgi. now--now as irritating as those trump problems may be, at least they're side issues. for some countries, trump is problem numero uno. - fighting with friends. - president trump escalating his fight with mexico. - president trump threatened to use u.s. military force to halt mexico's drug trade. he reportedly said he's ready to send u.s. troops to stop what he calls, quote, "bad hombres down there." - hey, hey. look on the bright side, trump's learning spanish. of course trump and his administration aren't just making new enemies. they're also rebooting old ones. - the white house is raising the stakes with iran, and na

offices in geneva, he approached the country whose soldiers were the first to be accused of abuse. he leaked the report to the french, prompting them to start an official investigation. the u.n. was furious, claiming his actions potentially endangered children. >> i was asked to resign for having given this report, and the accusation was i've used my authority -- i have used my authority. reporter: the alleged abuse continued, years after he learned the authority -- alerted the authorities. this 14-year-old was approached by a soldier from the democratic republic of congo. the mother was ill and couldn't feed her children. >> drove my daughter to see this soldier. she was invited to eat. took hers, he virginity. rations,er money, food and took her to watch videos. reporter: the views had a life altering consequences. the girl became pregnant and was infected with hiv by the soldier. the abandoned her when he went home. >> there is no hope. no possibility for my children to go to school or my daughter to go to hospital. i suffer constantly thinking about my children's future. month,

we done a short, but stern strike, we might have given impetus to the syrian government to go to the geneva talks and actually engaged seriously with the opposition to find a political settlement. joce: the civil war in syria that began in 2011 as a tiny -- city protest against an unpopular president spiraled into chaos, as hundreds of opposition groups, including isis, fought for control of the country. more than 400,000 syrians have been killed and the mass exodus of millions has created a crisis in europe and helped launch a populist movement around the world. outside of those very obvious humanitarian concerns, can you tell us why should the ara americans care in terms of strategy in syria? ambassador ford: we have u.s. military forces in combat operations in syria and i don't think many americans understand that. but we have 400 u.s. special operations forces deployed next to syria or in syria, helping with syrian fighters against the islamic state. every day with new combat operations, there's a risk to our own young people in uniform who are over there. we have seen how extremists op

government compounds in the city of homs were designed to derail the current peace talks taking place in geneva. at least 30 people were killed and dozens injured. the former al-qaeda affiliate, the al—nusra front, which now calls itself fateh al—sham, said it carried out the attack. 0ur correspondent rami ruhayem is in beirut and told me how the bombings could happen in a city supposedly under tight government control. this is an infiltration, not a battle. whoever did this probably fateh al—sham, the rebel group which claimed this attack, managed to get through to this well guarded, highly sensitive spot, a couple of well guarded, highly sensitive spots, to carry out this attack. this has happened before. the regime has faced attacks in area it controls before. several of them in homs, mostly before. several of them in homs, m ostly o n before. several of them in homs, mostly on civilian targets. this one unlike the others was not on a civilian target but possibly on a target that matters more to the regime than other targets, because of the nature of the targets will stop intelligence

reporter: the newest revelations has come for the philippines foreign minister who is currently in geneva for a meeting has been u.n. human rights council. >> abu sayyaf have decided to eliminate and neutralizes hostage because he was too sickly and infirm. he was more a liability to them, whether or not that is true. reporter: the foreign minister asked allies for technological aid to help them pinpoint the rest of the hostages. the philippine armed forces say they exhausted all women -- all assets to save jurgen kantner's life, but sadly to no avail. the abu sayyaf is not to hold 20 other hostages, many from countries within the region. the terrorists are known to operate in the seas between the southern philippines and eastern malaysia where jurgen kantner was abducted from his law -- from his yacht lester. his partner was found dead on the boat, killed by gunshots. reports indicate the terrorists demanded a ransom of 570,000 euros, something the german government has not confirmed. the group usually free their hostages after a ransom is paid. however, the philippine government strongl

precious time explaining to trump that he couldn't refuse refugees in need because of a thing called the geneva convention. she had to explain that to a president which is a waste of her time. and that's german time, so you know it's super precious. in terms of value, it goes swiss time, german time, hammer time. and hammer time is extremely valuable because there is not any left. it's one of those things. in britain, prime minister theresa may is struggling with brexit, but because of trump who wants to meet the queen, she has to spend time schooling him on royal protocols, teaching trump on how to meet the queen. rule one, dolled, it's not okay to grab the queen's (bleep). ( laughter ) grey corgi.ueen calls it, the ( laughter ) now, as irritating as those trump problems may b at least they're side issues. for some countries, trump is problem numeralo uno. >> fighting with friends. >> president trump escalating his fight with mexico. >> president trump threatening to use u.s. military force to halt mexico's drug trade. he reportedly said he's ready to send u.s. troops to stop what he calls "ba

exploration, whether it is telescopes going very big, microscopes going smaller, the large hadron collider in geneva looking at tiny subatomic particles, the more chance you have about discovering. that is why there is huge excitement about what has been discovered today, particularly combined with the new telescopes coming on screen, the new telescopes coming on screen, the james webb telescope next year is very powerful. it will unveil things that people cannot imagine now. if they focus it on these new seven worlds, who knows what they will find? thanks to david for that. well, in the last few hours we saw this come through — white house says education and justice department is reviewing transgender bathroom guidance. multiple sources had been reporting that president trump will revoke the landmark guidelines instructing public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms matching their gender identity. the guidelines he's referring to can be found online — they were sent out in may last year. this came from the us department of justice, us department for education. they said th

from geneva, manila's foreign minister perfecto yasay said the killers would be hunted down. we have to be tough and exterminate them and we have to make sure that the hostages will be kept from harm's way, we will undertake operations to make sure we give a premium to saving the lives of the hostages and because of this our task has not been easy but we are prepared to crush them. abu sayyaf are a muslim group fighting a religious war, but they have become as feared for their habit of kidnapping for ransom. those who don't pay are sometimes killed, just like this canadian, shown here in the middle, who was murdered last year. the militants hide injungle—clad mountains, which means they're difficult to find. there were more than 20 other hostages out there. incredibly, jurgen kantner and his partner were taken hostage before in 2008 by somali pirates. they were freed after 52 days. afterwards the yachtsman said he didn't deliberately seek danger, but he prayed he would never be kidnapped again. michael bristow, bbc news. much more to come on bbc news. including this. a time

on to government compounds in the city of homs were designed to derail peace talks taking place in geneva. at least 30 people were killed and dozens injured in the co—ordinated bombings. a 73—year—old man has died after being severely injured when a man drove his car into pedestrians in the city of heidelberg in south—western germany. police say the driver was a 35—year—old german, armed with a knife. he was arrested shortly after the incident. the motivation for the attack is still not known. riot police and protesters have clashed in the city of nantes in france. over 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate against the far—right national front leader and presidential candidate marine le pen ahead of her rally on sunday. french police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. the indian embassy in washington has expressed deep concern over the killing of an indian man in kansas. another man was injured in the shooting. more than 100 people gathered at this vigil honouring the victims in what the authorities suspect could be a hate crime. srinivas kuchibhotla died

on two government compounds in the city of homs were designed to derail peace talks taking place in geneva. at least 30 people were killed, and dozens injured, in the coordinated bombings. a 73—yearold man has died after being severely injured when a man drove his car into pedestrians in the city of heidelberg, in south—western germany. police say the driver was a 35—year—old german, armed with a knife. he was arrested shortly after the incident. the motivation for the attack is still not known. riot police and protesters have clashed in the city of nantes in france. over 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate against the far—right national front leader and presidential candidate, marine le pen, ahead of her rally on sunday. french police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. police in albania have charged the leader of the opposition democratic party for inciting violence. they say lulzim basha had called on albanians to commit violent acts against state institutions. hundreds of people have been protesting in the capital tirana for the past week, demanding he re

at the un offices in geneva, kompass approached the country whose soldiers were the first to be accused of abuse. he leaked the report to the french, prompting them to start an official investigation. the un was furious, claiming his action potentially endangered children. i was asked to resign for giving this report and the accusation was that i had abused my authority. the alleged abuse continued. a year after anders kompass alerted the authorities, this 14—year—old was approached by a soldier from the democratic republic of congo. her father was killed in the war and her mother was ill and couldn't feed her children. translation: hunger drove my daughter to see the soldier. she was invited to eat. afterwards... he took her virginity. he gave her money, food rations, and took her to watch videos. the abuse had life altering consequences. the girl became pregnant and was infected with hiv by the soldier. he abandoned her when he went home. there is no hope, no possibility for my children to go to school or my daughter to go to hospital. i suffer constantly thinking about my childre