17/05/2014 BBC Weekend News

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has called for

West African countries to work together at a security summit in

Paris on the threat from Boko Haram, the militant Islamist movement

behind the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria.

The country's president, Goodluck Jonathan, is attending along with

The leaders of five African countries, Nigeria and its

neighbours, have come to Paris to talk about security. The Nigerian

leader was the first to arrive at the Palace for a one-on-one with the

president. Also taking part, representatives from the United

States, the European Union and the UK. Making sure that there is a

strategy to defeat Boko Haram, more broadly, and this is one sickening

and terrible incident but they continue almost every day to commit

terrorist attacks and atrocities of the kinds and so they have to be

defeated in the region and that requires regional strategy among the

African countries but with our support. Boko Haram's kidnapping of

more than 200 teenage girls one month ago in the North-East Nigerian

time horrified the world. Britain, France and the US are already

helping in the task of locating the girls with drones and intelligence.

But in the longer term, it is how to do with the continuing threat from

the extremists that is the issue. In the past, they have been able to

make use of the poorest borders to hide and regroup. The French took

the lead last year in fighting Islamist 's in another North African

country, Mali. Now, the task is to encourage cooperation between

English speaking Nigeria and its Francophone neighbours to crush a

Jubilant crowds have greeted India's new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,

to Delhi after a crushing victory by his party, the BJP.

Thousands of people, waving BJP flags and chanting slogans,

In a brief news conference, Mr Modi thanked voters for their support.

Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder, is in Dehli.

There is some flash photography in his report.

The cavalcade inched its way towards the city.

Roads were cleared and policemen lined the streets as the country's

A tumultuous welcome at the BJP headquarters.

Exuberant and excited supporters delighted to see him.

Mr Modi said he was humbled by the outpouring of support.

Through your sweat and hard work, all of you party volunteers have

spread the BJP's lotus symbol throughout Delhi.

You all deserve congratulations for creating this new trust.

They are all lined up, craning to have a look at India's

Mr Modi was always their hero, but after his incredible victory,

the biggest in the BJP'shistory, he has been elevated in their eyes

The problem is that expectations are sky-high.

So India's next Prime Minister will have his job cut out for him.

It slowed down in recent years and Mr Modi has

But many believe that if anyone can do it, he can.

Proposals to fundamentally reform the Co-op Group are being discussed

by members at a special meeting today

The former City Minister, Lord Myners, has suggested

a major shake-up after a disastrous period which led to the departure

of several senior executives and losses of ?2.5 billion.

From across the country they came to Manchester this morning to save a

battered business. The next few hours will determine whether they

can do that. Today's meeting will ask members to agree on radical

proposals to how the group is run. There is no doubt that the Co-op

Group needs to change, it is how it changes, do we become more like a

plc with unaccountable directors or a cooperative with more transparency

and accountability? What are the proposals) they include a new Board

of Directors with qualifications needed to run a modern business.

That would replace iteration of hiring elected members. Those

members will instead be represented by a new group designed to hold the

board to account. The plans include changes to voting, given the 8

million members, one vote each and a yes vote would give the bosses the

support they need. To begin the reform of a dysfunctional

institution. We will vote in favour of the resolution put forward by the

board and I think there is a good chance that it will be carried, it

needs to third is and that is a very strong sign that the reforms would

be approved later in the year. But the vote is far from won, critics

oppose plans, say it would make the company more corporate and could

raise 150 years of traditional values. Even if today's wrote is

one, the tougher, painful decisions on job losses and store closures are

still to come. Getting support for those plans could prove much harder.

This is not yet a done deal and critics say the proposals on the

table would damage the Co-op. Supporters say it is so badly

damaged already, these changes are long overdue. The meeting is

continuing behind me and we expect a vote within the next half an hour.

The Chief Executive of the Premier League, Richard Scudamore,

is facing further calls to resign following sexist comments he made in

Heather Rabbatts, the Football Association's

independent board member, says there is growing evidence

of a closed culture of sexism and that there needs to be a review of

And it's a big day in the football calendar.

Arsenal head into the FA Cup Final this afternoon to try to give

Arsene Wenger's club their first silverware in nine years.

They play Hull, who have reached the final for the first time ever.

Give us some sense of the atmosphere. It is really building up

and a lot of Arsenal fans are here already and they hope that today is

a perfect day to put the ghost to rest because nine years since last

trophy in the FA Cup Final, 35 attempts and they have failed. These

fans think they will never have a better chance because they are

against a side they have beaten twice already this season, the last

time just a few weeks ago. And Hull finished 16th in the Premier League.

But the manager, Steve Bruce, these are the types of games that the FA

Cup is all about, David versus Collider and he thinks they have a

big chance and the former Man United defender has taken them from the

bottom have the Championship to the Premier League and first Cup Final

inside only two years and they will be in Europe next season because

Arsenal have guaranteed themselves Champions' League foot well. He says

this is his proudest achievement and he has called on the players to

enjoy the occasion and write themselves into the club and

football history. Scientists

in Argentina have discovered bones they believe could have belonged to

the largest dinosaurs ever to have The creatures are thought have had

long necks and tails It's the first time they have

been found in South America. It looks something like this. It is

thought to have been the biggest creature to have ever walked the

Earth. The weight of 14 elephants and the height of a seven story

building. The thighbone, the length of a fully grown man. Here we have

the FEMA, the largest bone. Goes from the hip to the knee. Here, we

have the head of it, where it attaches to the head. The bones of

seven of these creatures were discovered among the plains of

Patagonia. A BBC natural history unit obtained this exclusive footage

as they were on earth. These are the bones supporting all of this

Bollywood. We need to get accurate estimates and measurements of these

bones to estimate just how heavy this animal was. We are trying to

see if it was the largest dinosaur ever find on land. These titanic

creatures lived 100 million years ago. At a time when Giants walked

the Earth. You can see more on all

of today's stories over on the That's all from me -

we're back at 6.45pm this evening. Some decent weather out there today,

lovely sunshine on offer. And so, that means someone is well. The

weekend remains the same, sunny spells,