27/11/2015 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Ben Bland.

The French President promises to destroy those responsible for

the Paris attacks, as memorials are held across the city two weeks on.

The names of the 130 victims were read out - survivors and their

families hear a pledge that France will not give in to fear or hate.

To you all, I solemnly promise you that France will put everything it

has at it's disposal to destroy the army of fanatics who have

After one of its warplanes was brought down, Russia suspends

As a result, Russians in this Turkish resort are

We'll find out what effect the exodus is having on tourism.

TRANSLATION: I starved. Bon appetit.

And a flavour of the year in film - we get the views of one critic

A memorial service has been held in Paris to remember those killed

A thousand people gathered - among them survivors

The names of the 130 people who died were read out.

The French President, Francois Hollande, said

his country would do all it could to destroy - what he called - the "army

In its monument to wartime heroes, France today honoured

They stood to gather, president, Prime Minister,

the angry and the grieving, as the names of those they lost were

Listening to the roll call of victims were

Brought from hospital, injured but determined to show their defiance.

I promise France will do everything to destroy this army of fanatics,

we will protect our children and we will stay true to ourselves.

His words echoed by France's national anthem.

A reminder that this was an attack not just on individuals,

Among the names read out in Paris was Hugo.

At Montpellier University, he was remembered not just

as a victim but as a student with a passion for punk rock.

Hugo had been staying at his flat in Paris that weekend to catch

In the park where they used to go, Stephan told me his son had

struggled with his studies, his love life, his parents' separation and

I was still his father but we became friends because I was an old guy,

he was young, so I explained to him about Led Zeppelin, The Clash.

Last month, Hugo had returned from holiday in Japan with a new

He said his problems were behind him and was ready to move

He showed me his tattoo and it was his best gift to me, because he...

"It was, OK, Dad, now I'm free, and I show you that I can go

At Montpellier Cathedral, they gathered to receive Hugo home.

His friends, family and members of his band, and the shock showing

Across France, parents are starting to bury

Amid the national commemorations, each death is being remembered,

His father said he was, "My boy, my baby, my friend, my confidant."

23 years after Hugo was born, a congregation, a town,

Moving on to the fight against Islamic State militants.

France has said for the first time that forces loyal

to the Syrian Government could be part of the campaign on the ground.

The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, was asked about it during

TRANSLATION: There are two sets of measures, firstly to carry out air

strikes and Amy must put troops on the ground.

The green groups cannot be ours because it would be

counter-productive. They must be from the Syrian Army and the Sunni

Arab sources. -- ground troops. And why not sources from the Syrian

regime? In the last hour, President Hollande

has called on the British parliamentarians to join the fight

against IS. He said he hopes MPs will meet the request of President

bat-mac Prime Minister Cameron. -- Prime Minister Cameron.

Mr Hollande has already agreed with Russian's President Putin that

the two countries should co-ordinate their military actions

But Russia remains angry over Turkey shooting

Mr Putin is refusing to meet Turkey's president

Russia has now suspended visa-free travel with Turkey.

Meanwhile, the Turkish President Erdogan said he didn't want to

damage relations with Russia but he accused Moscow of "playing

TRANSLATION: It is playing with fire to predict the Serbian regime.

The whole world admits that Turkey is correct in this incident. --

sarin. The day that this incident happened I requested a meeting with

President Putin. I wanted to hold a telephone conversation with him but

he has not returned my calls it. There is a climate change conference

in Paris and I believe he will be there. We can meet the and discuss

these matters. -- Syrian. As tensions between Russia

and Turkey continue to rise, The Russian parliament has

suggested that the country stops Russian officials say they have

found some harmful chemicals in textile and fruits imported

from Ankara. This crisis may seriously hit

the economy in the southern coastal resort of Antalya in Turkey,

where many businesses cater From there,

Olga Ivshina has this report. If you walk around the streets here

you may think that Russia is a language of 30. Four years, this

resort has been the most popular destination for Russian tourists.

There are leading international buyers of property in Antalya but

Russians are now quickly selling. TRANSLATION: The Russians in Antalya

are starting to panic. The Facebook group is looking to sell the

property. This is a good time to buy flats. I hope that things get back

to normal soon and we will not have to change the way that we live.

For more than 70,000 Russian speakers who now live in Antalya,

the stakes are extremely high. Stormy. This is probably the best

word to describe the current relations between Ankara and Moscow

after Turkey downed a Russian military jet. As political

conditions get worse, more and more businessmen in Antalya are worried

about their future. This holiday season is over. So, many hotels

close for renovation. However, nobody knows how many of them will

open next spring. This man runs a hotel with his wife. They made zero

profit this year. TRANSLATION: Over the last few years we use the

customers who would stay two times each year. But because of the week

rouble they have only come once and some have not come at all. White mac

this man runs his cafe in Antalya. He is proud Russians are coming here

with their families and he is really disappointed with the officials.

Suggesting Turkey has become dangerous for Russian citizens.

If something bad happens, my talk is friends and I are to patrol the

streets in order to protect any Russians. There is absolutely

nothing to be afraid of. While politicians practice using

strong language, Russians and talks in Antalya try to find ways to live

their lives side-by-side as they used to.

Reports from northern Nigeria see a suicide bomber has blown himself up

in the middle of the procession causing casualties. At least 21

people are believed to have been killed.

Pope Francis has arrived in Uganda for the second leg

There was a warm welcome for the pontiff at Entebbe

He also held a huge youth rally at Kasarani Stadium.

In Uganda he spoke to government officials and local church leaders

It promises, it hopes, it struggles. Its achievements. The world looks to

Africa as the continent of hope. Catherine Byaruhanga is in Kampala

for us. Give us a flavour of the atmosphere

and welcome the Pope received? It has been a very loud welcome with

lots of music and dancing. Where I am at the moment that a Catholic

shrine. He was here one hour ago. There were crowds of thousands of

people, singers, traditional dancers, some have composed songs

for the Pope. Just as he was driving into Kampala, thousands of people

lined the streets. His choice of car in Uganda is actually a small black

Kia and Ugandans have been sharing images of this on social media. I

understand there are two big issues that Ugandans have been telling you

that they would like the Pope to address, tell us more about this,

please. Yes, the first one is corruption. As we have seen, the

Pope taught in Kenya and that is a big issue. Some of the people I have

spoke to this morning have said that they would like the Pope to give a

message to government and business leaders to do more to take care of

the country's natural wealth. He spoke a bit about that in his speech

at State house. The other issue is the elections. We are in a campaign

season. Voting will take place in February. Some of those we spoke to

live like the pontiff to really sort of mediate with different political

leaders to make sure that the process is free and fair and that it

is peaceful. OK, thank you very much for that

update. The International Criminal Court in

The Hague is one of the few global She's Fatou Bensouda,

a lawyer from the Gambia who's now The ICC's critics say it is slow

and expensive. There's been controversy because

so far all its cases have come As part of our 100 Women series,

Fatou Bensouda's been speaking to Zeinab Badawi about justice, gender,

race and the challenges of leading an institution that is

rarely out of the news. There are a few cases which were

very, very difficult and marketing me a lot. I have done the rape of a

school girl by the teacher in the school toilet and from the very

beginning, I just felt that this should not be happening. We must do

everything that we can to should not be happening. We must do

that this kind of crime is held to account. -- it marks to me a lot.

When you were in Gambia, did you think you would end up the head of

the criminal court? think you would end up the head of

time but what was clear to think you would end up the head of

time was that I wanted to contribute to justice and social welfare. I

wanted to serve. I wanted something to do with women, how could I help

and contribute? So, I think this is an opportune moment and really, a

privilege, to be in this position and to be able to serve as I thought

about it when I was growing up. With respect to my work, I hardly

think about my gender, I must tell you. But I believe also, as a woman,

and putting emphasis on certain crimes like sexual and gender based

crimes, I believe my gender has helped me to ensure that I draw a

line under this and a visit to a strategic level, one of the

strategic goals of my office and I put an emphasis on that. I am sure,

perhaps if I was a man, or if a man was sitting here, they would do the

same thing, but really, as the woman, I believe it is important

that I highlight those kind of crimes, and also crimes against

children, that is something that is a priority for my office. I am also

trying to put out a policy paper on children. As you know, I have

already done that on sexual and gender based crime. These type of

crimes are important for me and I believe my agenda has a lot to do

with that. Fatou Bensouda speaking to Zeinab

Badawi. To find out more about our series, there are on our website you

will find out profiles, including that of Helena Lee swing. -- Hillary

swing. -- tee-mac. -- Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. -- Hilary

It's been a big year at the cinema and as the year comes to a close and

the awards season gets closer, we start to look at which ones stood

Well, Sight Sound magazine have released their list

And I'm delighted to welcome Nick James who is the editor

Swank these are the reviews of critics?

That is correct. The 1 that has topped the poll,

Assassin, I think we can look at the trailer for that.

Very heavy going that one. It looks like an action movie, but it isn't,

it is actually a very beautiful film. It has a simple story, a woman

assassin is said to assassinate someone she is in love with and that

is the basic frame of the story but it takes place in these times of

courting and these gorgeous costumes, it is a film that is

literally like a moving painting rather than an action server. It

looks like an action thriller, but it has other delights. -- action

thriller. What about arthouse films, they are

notorious for hard to please, the critics.

Yes, the director from Taiwan has made a lot of beautiful forms over

the last few years. This is a kind of pinnacle of achievement for him

in terms of, you know, how beautiful the film is. It is an aesthetic

experience primarily. Do you think that this film will

reach more people because it is top of this poll? I would hope so. I do

not think it will do as well at the box office as the second or third

film. There is that wonderful lesbian drama that everyone should

see this weekend. And we also have at number three Mad Max. A number of

your viewers will have looked at. Before we look at that, you

referenced the lesbian Fulmar, Carol. Let us have a look at that.

-- lesbian film. I start. Bon appetit. What do you do

on Sundays. Nothing in particular, what do you do? Nothing, really.

Maybe you would like to come and visit me sometime. You are welcome

to. There is some pretty country around where I live. Would you like

to come and visit me this Sunday? Yes. What a strange girl you are.

Why? Flunk out of space.

Watching that, so close to the clip that be so at the top of the poll.

You could not have two more different films at the top of this?

Our poll reflects a great variety of modern cinema, there is a greater

span of things on offer. If you are interested in of... The blockbusters

that you see in the multiplexes come from a narrow band, but films like

those two are, you know, treasures to be sought out by more people, I

would hope, than sometimes do. Whether any particular films in the

top ten or the top 20 that surprised you?

I was surprised that Mad Max, given our bunch of critics, was at number

three. Even though I love it myself, it is a tremendous film. There is

quite a solemn and sad documentary about a famous film-maker in the

middle of the poll. She sadly died recently and I think that may have

affected some of the votes that that got. I was pleased to see any in the

top ten, that is my favourite film of the year. It is in at number

nine. -- Amy. When you disappointed with any of

the films in the poll? Sometimes you get huge numbers of

funds that might have been done well. The film Macbeth, that did not

do well in our poll. It might have done better.

Nick James, thank you very much. A unmanned NASA space rocket which

broke up in mid air above Cape Canaveral last year appears to have

reached an unlikely new destination. What looks like a large fragment

of the fuselage was found floating It is currently being guarded

on a beach at Tresco We sent our reporter Johnny O'Shea

to find out more. On the beach a local boatyard

worker has been busy cleaning It was towed here yesterday

after the skipper of the island's We were all quite intrigued

as to what it was. At first they thought it might have

been part of an aeroplane, but it was pretty shocking to scrape

the barnacles off and find out it The debris is believed to be

from this spacecraft launched from It was taking part to

the International Space Station. Photographs from

before the launch show the same It has caused quite a stir on Tresco

and everybody is talking One enterprising local man started

charging ?5 to have photos taken of it, ?10 if he was in the photos

as well, trying to capitalise on Now it is here, nobody is

sure what happens next. Its American owners are trying to

verify exactly which rocket it is. Perhaps they will want it back

in Florida or perhaps it will find a permanent home year

on this remote island. The breaking news now. There has

been a shooting in the US state of Colorado. Colorado Springs police

have said they are responding to reports of an active shooter at

eight plan parenthood clinic. Planned parenthood is an

organisation that of its reproductive health services in the

United States. Police officers have said they have been deployed but the

situation is not yet stabilised. We will keep you across that and bring

you more as it comes in. Four rare white lion cubs have

been unveiled at a zoo in Toronto. The males were born to their mother

Makali eight weeks ago and have just The cubs are some of just 300

white lions in the world. While they're not technically

albinos, their blonde-white fur is caused by a recessive trait in

the same gene that causes albinism. Before we go,

let's return to our top story from France, where President Hollande

has led a memorial service to remember the 130 people killed in

gun and bomb attacks two weeks ago. It is a day of national mourning

and everyone in the country has been encouraged to join in, by

displaying France's national flag. TRANSLATION: Today we can allow

ourselves to get out the flags. We are not the only once, I think

many have been buying the French flag.

I think everyone looked into their heart and found something stronger

and harder. It is a very public display of togetherness. I have been

speaking about it with everyone I care for, my friends and family. I

really think something has changed and this is the proof that the

French people are more united now than ever before.

Just some of the images they are from France on a national day of

mourning as we remember the victims. Thank you for