:00:08. > :00:15.Live in Washington in a moment, President Obama is going to speak
:00:16. > :00:24.The point is, isolators cannot hide and next message to them is simple,
:00:25. > :00:26.you are next. Also: Angela Merkel says Germany has
:00:27. > :00:29.been doing the right thing by letting in thousands
:00:30. > :00:31.of migrants and refugees, I'll play you some
:00:32. > :00:37.of that statement. An Australian court has banned some
:00:38. > :00:40.types of Nurofen because they claim to be different but in fact
:00:41. > :00:42.are the same. The new Stars wars film premieres
:00:43. > :00:47.later. It's certain to make lots of money -
:00:48. > :01:11.we'll look at how all the different Plus we have a strange story from a
:01:12. > :01:14.French school who claimed there was an Islamic stabbing, that turned out
:01:15. > :01:37.to be nothing of the sort. Here is some of what President Obama
:01:38. > :01:43.said earlier. As I said before, Isil is dug in, including in urban areas
:01:44. > :01:49.and the high behind civilians, using defenceless men, women and children
:01:50. > :01:53.as human seals -- Shields. We need to be smart, targeting them
:01:54. > :01:57.surgically with precision. At the same time our partners on the ground
:01:58. > :02:03.are rooting them out time by time, locked padlock. That is what this
:02:04. > :02:08.campaign is doing. We are hitting them harder than ever. Coalition
:02:09. > :02:14.aircraft, firefighters, bombers and drums have been increasing the rate
:02:15. > :02:19.of air strikes. Last month in November we dropped more bombs on
:02:20. > :02:22.Isil targets since this campaign started. We are taking out Isil
:02:23. > :02:29.leaders, by one. Back in 2008, Barack Obama
:02:30. > :02:41.defeated John McCain in the run to the right -- the White House. John
:02:42. > :02:57.McCain says that his strategy has failed. Did you hear anything new
:02:58. > :03:02.today? More firepower, special operations, that is only stepped it
:03:03. > :03:06.up. He did not have anything new to add to that list today. The message
:03:07. > :03:13.from the White House is that we are doing better than you think. The
:03:14. > :03:19.fight against IIS is having an impact, they are losing ground, we
:03:20. > :03:23.are making progress, we are bombing their bomb-making factories and we
:03:24. > :03:27.are getting their top guys. I had a similar thing senior state
:03:28. > :03:32.department official over the weekend that this is our concerted effort by
:03:33. > :03:36.the White House address to the American public, you might not think
:03:37. > :03:41.we are making progress, the new sounds bad, but on the ground we are
:03:42. > :03:45.having success. Looking at social media, there is an ABC News
:03:46. > :03:49.executive saying it is OK to talk about Iraq and Syria, but Islamic
:03:50. > :03:56.State has also struck in Tunisia, Egypt, France and maybe even in
:03:57. > :04:01.California. Yes, that's the Department official did say to me
:04:02. > :04:05.the trouble that they are seeing, but there are most worried about, is
:04:06. > :04:09.as they kept them in a rack and Syria, where they say they are
:04:10. > :04:13.managing to shut that border with Turkey, making it harder for them to
:04:14. > :04:16.go in and out of Syria, what they are most worried about is they are
:04:17. > :04:23.seeing an influx of Islamic radicals into Libya. They are putting
:04:24. > :04:28.pressure on them and Syria and Iraq, they are moving over to Libya. And
:04:29. > :04:32.the political dynamics in Washington, presumably there is a
:04:33. > :04:35.point of which are president ceases to be as relevant as the two
:04:36. > :04:45.contenders trying to take over from him. Yes, to some extent. Barack
:04:46. > :04:51.Obama came into office absolutely determined to end the waters of
:04:52. > :04:55.America in the Middle East. The last thing he wants to do is commit more
:04:56. > :05:00.ground troops on a big scale before he leaves office. You can control
:05:01. > :05:04.that. The message from the White House is we are having success is
:05:05. > :05:12.that we are not proposing big numbers of American forces in
:05:13. > :05:16.another war in the Middle East. If you are watching outside of the UK
:05:17. > :05:25.you will see her at the top of the hour on BBC world News. Let's turn
:05:26. > :05:29.to an otherworldly cutter -- and other world leader.
:05:30. > :05:31.Angela Merkel been talking at her party's annual conference -
:05:32. > :05:34.a number of important lines - she says Germnay has helped averted
:05:35. > :05:46.a humanitarian disaster by taking in so many refugees.
:05:47. > :05:51.TRANSLATION: we will noticeably reduced the number of refugees
:05:52. > :05:56.because it is in the interest of everyone. It is in Germany's
:05:57. > :06:00.interest to help us deal with the accommodation of refugees and their
:06:01. > :06:04.integration into society and the labour market. It is in your's
:06:05. > :06:09.interest because of our relationship with Europe and a role in the world
:06:10. > :06:11.and, dear friends, it is in the interests of the refugees themselves
:06:12. > :06:13.because nobody, no matter why they make the journey, thoughtlessly
:06:14. > :06:24.leaves his home. More than than 750,000 migrants
:06:25. > :06:33.and refugees have entered But last month Macedonia and Serbia
:06:34. > :06:44.introduced tougher border controls - only Syrians,
:06:45. > :06:46.Iraqis and Afghans were That meant thousands
:06:47. > :06:59.were getting stuck in Greece. Well, the EU is trying
:07:00. > :07:02.to help ease that pressure. Now the European Union has agreed
:07:03. > :07:04.to spend 80 million euros subsidising accommodation
:07:05. > :07:15.for migrants in Greece. From Athens - Nick Thorpe
:07:16. > :07:24.sent this report. Athens is becoming a dumping ground
:07:25. > :07:30.for the migrants that the European Union does not want. Several strife
:07:31. > :07:35.-- several thousand stranded here, with many more arriving every day.
:07:36. > :07:43.Some are even thinking of giving up and going home. They have got stuck.
:07:44. > :07:48.They don't have any way to go. They know that their time is up. This
:07:49. > :07:52.stadium is a temporary, uncomfortable shelter for many. They
:07:53. > :07:58.have been forced back to happen is by the partial closure of Greece's
:07:59. > :08:02.Northern border with Macedonia. The authorities have been overwhelmed.
:08:03. > :08:05.There are tensions between different nationalities and the migrants have
:08:06. > :08:15.to leave by Wednesday to make way for the next sports event. Victoria
:08:16. > :08:21.Square in Athens is another place where migrants gathered to seek
:08:22. > :08:26.solutions. Some arrange for money to be sent here by relatives, to buy
:08:27. > :08:31.fake documents or pay smugglers. Others will try once again to go
:08:32. > :08:38.north. The people who have just boarded this bus are on their way to
:08:39. > :08:43.the Greek -Macedonian border. That is a reflection of this difficult
:08:44. > :08:47.situation here in Greece. Many people are trapped in this country,
:08:48. > :08:51.some are being allowed on to this bus and there is no information
:08:52. > :08:55.about what the next they will bring. Buses arrive to bring people back to
:08:56. > :09:02.the stadium for the night. Where is this bus going? They told us they
:09:03. > :09:13.are taking us to camp. It is a safe camp.
:09:14. > :09:26.Chris Chester handled this crisis by letting the migrants leave, but now
:09:27. > :09:30.they have to find shelter for them. Tim Peake is going to fly to the
:09:31. > :09:35.International Space Station. Allard Ghosh is there.
:09:36. > :09:41.If he is nervous, he did not show it.
:09:42. > :09:44.As he gave his last press conference on planet Earth along
:09:45. > :09:50.What is the thing you're most looking forward to personally once
:09:51. > :09:55.It really has to be the view of planet Earth and as much
:09:56. > :09:59.as I have spoken to flown astronauts and as much advice as they have
:10:00. > :10:02.given me, I do not think anything can truly prepare you for that
:10:03. > :10:04.moment that will occur in the Soyuz spacecraft once we get
:10:05. > :10:08.injected into orbit and I will be able to look out out of the right
:10:09. > :10:15.window and see that wonderful view of planet Earth.
:10:16. > :10:17.This is what he will see as he approaches
:10:18. > :10:24.He will be in orbit 250 miles above Earth
:10:25. > :10:35.Tim was selected for Europe's astronaut corps six years ago.
:10:36. > :10:38.Since then, his training has involved surviving in a cave
:10:39. > :10:49.He's got what it takes, according to an astronaut
:10:50. > :10:59.He is of course a good pilot as well so he has got good
:11:00. > :11:09.The launch will be from the cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
:11:10. > :11:13.It is where the human exploration of space began.
:11:14. > :11:17.More than 50 years ago, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go
:11:18. > :11:23.Soon, Tim Peake will follow in his footsteps on his
:11:24. > :11:28.Yuri Gagarin's flight marked the beginning
:11:29. > :11:37.With a wave goodbye, Tim Peake sets off on his
:11:38. > :12:01.There will be extensive coverage of that launch on BBC. Let me show you
:12:02. > :12:06.these amazing pic jurors. This is a unique view of the lunar eclipse.
:12:07. > :12:10.The satellite's camera is normally trained on the sunlit face of the
:12:11. > :12:15.earth tracking things like clouds and dust storms. On the 27th of
:12:16. > :12:26.September it was in the right position to see them and go behind
:12:27. > :12:30.the earth and into shadow. In a few minutes we will turn to what Egypt
:12:31. > :12:34.has been saying about the Russian passenger plane became done in the
:12:35. > :12:39.Sinai Desert. Russia says terrorism brought down, as do the West, but
:12:40. > :12:50.Egypt says there is no evidence of that being the case.
:12:51. > :12:56.The radio presenter Neil Fox has been cleared of a string of sex
:12:57. > :12:59.offences against women and girls. People dying as the verdicts were
:13:00. > :13:03.read out in court. Afterward he said the last year had been long, hard
:13:04. > :13:06.and stressful that he was pleased to have been vindicated. This guide
:13:07. > :13:11.contains flash photography. Following my arrest over 14 months
:13:12. > :13:13.ago, I have strenuously denied all the allegations and today
:13:14. > :13:16.I have been vindicated. It has been a long, hard
:13:17. > :13:19.and stressful 14 months and a lot has been said and written about me
:13:20. > :13:22.in that time and over the next few days, weeks and months
:13:23. > :13:39.that will need to be This case has exposed again about
:13:40. > :13:43.how high-profile cases like this are investigated by the police under
:13:44. > :13:58.CBS, but this is not the time or place to address these matters. --
:13:59. > :14:01.and the CPS. Our lead story is that Washington President Obama has said
:14:02. > :14:05.that American forces are hitting the Islamic State with harder than ever,
:14:06. > :14:13.but he has admitted that the battle against IIS is difficult and the
:14:14. > :14:19.progress needs to be faster. More than 40 people are known to
:14:20. > :14:25.have died as a police bus fell off a bridge in Argentina. They were
:14:26. > :14:28.mainly border police. Ecuador and Sweden have signed an
:14:29. > :14:32.agreement allowing Julian has launched to be questioned by the
:14:33. > :14:38.Swedish authorities at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He has
:14:39. > :14:44.been there for three years trying to avoid deportation to Sweden on
:14:45. > :14:52.charges of sexual assault. This is a video from the BBC News app. It is a
:14:53. > :14:57.way of using radio waves to increase the speed of wi-fi, particularly in
:14:58. > :15:03.busy locations. To go to the BBC News app for a more detailed
:15:04. > :15:08.explanation. Egypt is saying that there is no evidence that terrorism
:15:09. > :15:12.brought down the Russian passenger planes in sober. That is not how
:15:13. > :15:20.Russia says it ordered the West sees it. Here is a report on the
:15:21. > :15:24.different perspectives on the story. Egypt has said there is no evidence
:15:25. > :15:27.to suggest the plane crash in October was the result of a
:15:28. > :15:31.terrorist attack but it is the latest chapter in a confusing story.
:15:32. > :15:37.Other countries have been terrorism. So, he has been saying what? Egypt
:15:38. > :15:40.has been reluctant to establish a causing other countries would
:15:41. > :15:45.jumping to conclusions. Their stance has at times been muddled. On the
:15:46. > :15:48.ninth consent of the black box on board have recorded the sound of a
:15:49. > :15:53.bomb. There were also reports that two airport staff were detained,
:15:54. > :15:58.although this was denied by the Interior Ministry. All this with
:15:59. > :16:01.so-called Islamic state claiming so-called Islamic state claiming
:16:02. > :16:06.responsibility. There are Sinai branch published a picture of the
:16:07. > :16:11.bomb they said they planted on board. After initial scepticism
:16:12. > :16:15.about terrorism, Russians concluded that a bomb to bring down the plane.
:16:16. > :16:20.They said their investigators had established that one kilo of
:16:21. > :16:24.explosives had detonated under two passenger seat is causing the plane
:16:25. > :16:29.to break up in midair. President Putin five the find and punish the
:16:30. > :16:35.culprits, offering a $50 million reward for the capture. The US and
:16:36. > :16:38.UK were amongst the first countries to suggest foul play. They said
:16:39. > :16:41.intelligence services pick-up chatter of a plot to die on the
:16:42. > :16:46.plane on the days before the incident. The West and Russia are
:16:47. > :16:52.still warning holiday-makers to stay away from Sinai. So, why such
:16:53. > :16:55.confused responses? Egypt worry about their tourism industry. There
:16:56. > :17:00.has already been a 10% drop this year and for a country that relies
:17:01. > :17:05.on tourism it is a worrying development. Russia initially
:17:06. > :17:12.battered away questions that I S was involved. But, as Rocher ramped up
:17:13. > :17:16.its operation against IIS in Syria and Iraq, perhaps accepting that
:17:17. > :17:20.terrorism was to blame was politically useful. Today's
:17:21. > :17:26.statement is pretty vague. The Egyptian postal concluded was
:17:27. > :17:28.terrorism, but in such a politically charged environment with security
:17:29. > :17:36.concerns all over the world is in the headlines the truth can be hard
:17:37. > :17:46.to decipher. Let's go to Rwanda. It is 20 years and six treatments --
:17:47. > :17:51.since extremists vowed to... The legal process designed to bring
:17:52. > :17:56.those to justice came to an end. It is estimated 200,000 people took
:17:57. > :18:07.part in the Rwandan genocide. Three quarters of the Tutsi population was
:18:08. > :18:15.killed. There were six guilty verdicts on people on crimes against
:18:16. > :18:21.humanity. It has performed well. It has been difficult. It is a hard
:18:22. > :18:27.slog to investigate crimes as widespread as the genocide of 1994.
:18:28. > :18:32.It kills 800,000 people in less than a hundred days. It has taken two
:18:33. > :18:38.decades but I believe the tribunal has fulfilled its mandate, which was
:18:39. > :18:43.to bring to justice the leaders responsible for the genocide and it
:18:44. > :18:49.has done that. All but eight of the people indicted that have been
:18:50. > :18:52.brought before the courts, and the leaders including a former prime
:18:53. > :18:57.minister had been sentenced to long periods of imprisonment in a number
:18:58. > :19:02.of countries in Africa and some to life in prison. For more
:19:03. > :19:09.information, you can find it from the BBC online. Let's start in South
:19:10. > :19:13.Africa with her business. It has been a week to remember for its
:19:14. > :19:22.finance ministry. It is in the -- it is onto his third Finance Minister
:19:23. > :19:28.in six days. First of all, this man, who did the job from 2,000 and 92
:19:29. > :19:34.2014. He is getting a second go at Sunday because he replaced this man,
:19:35. > :19:41.who was only four days in the job. He was sacked. So was this man, the
:19:42. > :19:53.man he replaced. Both the sackings came from President Zuma. What we
:19:54. > :19:59.were told is that President Zuma has received representations from
:20:00. > :20:09.various quarters and he had listened carefully to people's concerns about
:20:10. > :20:21.his very unannounced firing of the minister before it happening.
:20:22. > :20:30.He replaced Nlanlha Nene with that pretty much unknown person. The
:20:31. > :20:36.economy went into it freefall. Now that Pravin Gordhan has taken over,
:20:37. > :20:42.the rand has rallied a bit. Is this a short-term political storm, maybe
:20:43. > :20:48.not so significant to people outside South Africa, or is there something
:20:49. > :20:53.more fundamental about the position of the ruling party in South Africa?
:20:54. > :21:00.It is a good question. I think that President Zuma's personal reputation
:21:01. > :21:10.will be tainted for a long time to come by this decision. The ANC is
:21:11. > :21:13.likely to stay intact. There is of course our threat hanging over its
:21:14. > :21:18.own votes next year in the local government elections so they might
:21:19. > :21:24.be punished for being part of this fiasco, but it is not entirely clear
:21:25. > :21:31.that they will be losing swathes of constituencies because of this.
:21:32. > :21:38.Certainly President Zuma's reputation has taken a knock.
:21:39. > :21:40.Countries are going to have to paid close attention to the commitments
:21:41. > :21:55.they made on climate change in Paris. Have we heard from businesses
:21:56. > :22:03.in the states about this? Yes, you have chief executives of some of the
:22:04. > :22:06.blue-chip companies like Coca-Cola, HP, all expressing support. Richard
:22:07. > :22:10.Branson, the chief executive of virgin, went as far as to say that
:22:11. > :22:14.they have the opportunity to build a new economy. What we are seeing is
:22:15. > :22:22.that companies that were already on this path, they have been welcoming
:22:23. > :22:28.this, saying it is a global path to help these businesses manage their
:22:29. > :22:31.investments better. For those who were already going to invest in
:22:32. > :22:35.clean energy, whosoever starred as their corporate responsibility, they
:22:36. > :22:40.welcomed this. You also have those who are critical, like the US
:22:41. > :22:46.chamber commerce that lobbies Washington on behalf of some large
:22:47. > :22:50.-- on a half of some large US companies. They say this is forcing
:22:51. > :22:54.them to turn to more expensive and less readily available energy, and
:22:55. > :22:58.they think it will hurt them competitively globally. They were
:22:59. > :23:06.happy to say that this was not globally binding. I am guessing the
:23:07. > :23:11.fossil fuel industry is not as confused as some other areas of the
:23:12. > :23:19.economy? Exactly. Call is very frightened about this, Hants oil.
:23:20. > :23:27.They may be forced to change the way they do business. Each nation has to
:23:28. > :23:32.put their own plans in place but if you look at the DS Barack Obama has
:23:33. > :23:41.a clean power plants and he wants deep reductions in carbon dioxide --
:23:42. > :23:45.plan. That is why the coal industry has been fighting back on this, not
:23:46. > :23:49.being republicans and others in Congress to fight President Obama on
:23:50. > :23:53.this because they are concerned over how this will affect their business.
:23:54. > :24:05.Stocks of the fossil fuel companies are falling, and renewable energy
:24:06. > :24:09.stocks scooped skyrocket. The new Star Wars film premiers
:24:10. > :24:18.tonight. In terms of business it will be a huge success. Here is why.
:24:19. > :24:23.High energy and mastalgia for the original trilogy, the trainers offer
:24:24. > :24:28.no clues to the actual plot but fans are promised the same look and feel
:24:29. > :24:32.of the love at first films. This is not the same franchise. Its full
:24:33. > :24:41.force has been awakened by the empire. Their purchase of Lucasfilm
:24:42. > :24:47.adds these icons to their already famous characters. The future of the
:24:48. > :24:53.franchise is limitless. I see no reason that Star Wars can continue
:24:54. > :24:56.in the hands of gifted storytellers. A huge factor in the success of the
:24:57. > :25:01.franchise is as broad appeal across three generations. A retailer's
:25:02. > :25:09.dream that Disney has been more than happy to fulfil. We will be doubling
:25:10. > :25:16.our space in our stores the scar was -- Star Wars. Merchandising has
:25:17. > :25:21.driven much of the revenue. Sales are expected to be about 5 billion
:25:22. > :25:29.within a year of the release of the movie. Toys, novelty items, even
:25:30. > :25:34.video games. Star Wars battlefront is estimated 2 billion $700 billion.
:25:35. > :25:39.Is already planning for a couple of huge theme parks. Disney's strategy
:25:40. > :25:44.has been to make fewer of the two movies, leaving it to Pixar, Marvel
:25:45. > :25:49.and Lucasfilm to make the blockbusters, instead they will
:25:50. > :25:55.focus on marketing. What started in a galaxy far, far away has become
:25:56. > :25:59.self-sustaining business that could outlive first fans. I will be back
:26:00. > :26:04.in a couple of minutes with more outside source.