:00:08. > :00:12.It's two years since 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped
:00:13. > :00:20.Today a video has emerged appearing to some of the girls.
:00:21. > :00:23.We've got stark language in a new report on Chicago's police
:00:24. > :00:27.force - it's been labelled racist and biased.
:00:28. > :00:29.Big old row at BP after its shareholders rejected a proposed
:00:30. > :00:40.We'll explain both sides of the argument.
:00:41. > :00:47.Another big night of European football. Juergen Klopp against his
:00:48. > :00:54.old club. I'll keep an eye on the score. You watch, if you have
:00:55. > :00:56.questions or comments on these stories, use this hashtag and I will
:00:57. > :01:13.pick up your comments straightaway. The BBC's correspondent in Nigeria
:01:14. > :01:15.is @martinpatience reports that "a government delegation has
:01:16. > :01:18.arrived in #chibok to meet The girls were taken
:01:19. > :01:38.from their school there. Here's Tomi Oladipo on what happened
:01:39. > :01:48.after they were taken . The Secretary-General of the UN has
:01:49. > :01:52.condemned the abduction of schoolgirls. The girls are being
:01:53. > :01:55.forced to trek through a forest. The Islamist militants have caused
:01:56. > :02:01.havoc. It has been two years since Paco
:02:02. > :02:07.hacker -- Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from north-east Nigeria. 57 of
:02:08. > :02:14.the girls escaped but 219 are still missing. You might recall the
:02:15. > :02:19.campaigning that took over social media. The hashtag bring back our
:02:20. > :02:23.girls was endorsed by a wide range of celebrities. One of the campaign
:02:24. > :02:32.groups still meets in the capital Abuja everyday. The Nigerian
:02:33. > :02:35.government initially tried to sidestep the issue but they realise
:02:36. > :02:39.the world was watching and it was forced to admit this was a major
:02:40. > :02:44.crisis. Even then it remained defiant, there were times the
:02:45. > :02:51.military claimed it found the girls or signed a peace agreement only to
:02:52. > :02:56.backtrack on the statement. That has gone and there was a new
:02:57. > :03:00.government. What has changed? It was widely expected the president with
:03:01. > :03:07.his military background would do better in fighting Haram but to
:03:08. > :03:11.bring back the girls. He has been rather bullish, claiming that jihadi
:03:12. > :03:16.group has been defeated. Technically we have won the war. He
:03:17. > :03:18.has not given any good news on the girls.
:03:19. > :03:22.The hashtag is no longer a top trend but if the world moves on, the girls
:03:23. > :03:23.families cannot. They want their girls back home alive.
:03:24. > :03:25.They want their girls back home alive.
:03:26. > :03:29.@BBCAfrica A new Boko Haram video appears
:03:30. > :03:36.to "shows Chibok girls - apparently in December.
:03:37. > :03:39.There was yet another protest in Abuja today.
:03:40. > :03:55.They have come out on behalf of the girls who could not and they are
:03:56. > :04:01.marching towards the presidential palace. Some family members are in
:04:02. > :04:08.the crowd and they want answers from the government, in almost two years
:04:09. > :04:12.not a single one of the girls has been rescued and there is defiance
:04:13. > :04:17.and anger. They want the government to dedicate more resources to
:04:18. > :04:22.finding the girls. We had news of a video emerging, the first time the
:04:23. > :04:27.girls were seen in almost two years. And there is a renewed sense of hope
:04:28. > :04:33.that some of the girls maybe one day will be brought back alive. If you
:04:34. > :04:37.want more information on this story and experiences of those directly
:04:38. > :04:44.affected, go to the BBC News website. This is one article talking
:04:45. > :04:54.to some people who wish the girls would come back soon. Martin's
:04:55. > :04:59.predecessor is based in the newsroom in London. I talked to him earlier
:05:00. > :05:01.about the challenges of getting reliable information on a story like
:05:02. > :05:08.this. I don't know why but it seems to be
:05:09. > :05:12.in Nigeria whenever a story happens there will be three or five versions
:05:13. > :05:18.of it and that is the hardest thing to verify information. Looking back
:05:19. > :05:22.to that extraordinary moment when suddenly the world was told
:05:23. > :05:26.initially more than 300 girls had been abducted, it was almost
:05:27. > :05:29.impossible to verify it. The government said no comment possible,
:05:30. > :05:38.the military said nothing has happened in the area,, the numbers
:05:39. > :05:42.were fluctuating between 150 2/300. Even the headmistress of the school
:05:43. > :05:47.who people spoke to was giving different bits of information that
:05:48. > :05:52.did not make sense when compared with other people. But it was
:05:53. > :05:56.typical that the initial breaking of the news was typical of many stories
:05:57. > :05:59.in Nigeria. The problems are more pronounced in
:06:00. > :06:02.the north-east. The north-east, the biggest problem
:06:03. > :06:10.was communication. The government shutdown mobile phone networks,
:06:11. > :06:13.almost for a year which made communication incredibly hard. It
:06:14. > :06:18.did not help the soldiers because they did not have the radios that
:06:19. > :06:24.would help with their communications to relied on mobile phones so their
:06:25. > :06:27.work was more difficult and Boko Haram was smashing the antennas and
:06:28. > :06:31.breaking down the mobile phone stations so that made it difficult.
:06:32. > :06:35.Yes, when it comes to working out what is going on in the north-east,
:06:36. > :06:39.incredibly difficult. When you are running away from a jihadist attack
:06:40. > :06:43.it is difficult to know what is going on but they came with their
:06:44. > :06:47.stories but that did not match with what the military was telling us or
:06:48. > :06:50.the government of the day. The government of the day did not seem
:06:51. > :06:57.to care much about what was going on in the north-east. The ministers in
:06:58. > :07:02.Abuja and when it came to this, it was a turning point for people in
:07:03. > :07:06.Nigeria and abroad, this feeling that this government, the previous
:07:07. > :07:10.government, it simply does not care about what is happening.
:07:11. > :07:15.When you covered this two years ago, did you imagine a Boko Haram would
:07:16. > :07:19.have the means to take a group this large and keep it away from the
:07:20. > :07:26.Nigerian military and the government for this long no, it seemed beyond
:07:27. > :07:30.anyone's imagination it could go on for two years without a single girl
:07:31. > :07:38.being found. It shows how much of -- how much
:07:39. > :07:41.value the Boko Haram put -- team put in, they realised what a bargaining
:07:42. > :07:46.chip they were because they are using them in terms of negotiating
:07:47. > :07:49.to get their commanders released and to get money and when money is
:07:50. > :07:52.involved, they need negotiations which will become modified call.
:07:53. > :07:54.Have you seen this report on Chicago Police Department?
:07:55. > :07:57.It says the force is both racist and biased.
:07:58. > :08:03.It's the work of a task force set up after a black teenager called
:08:04. > :08:08.Laquan McDonald was shot dead by police in 2014.
:08:09. > :08:15.Listen to the strength some of these lines from it.
:08:16. > :08:21.It says the Chicago Police Force has "no regard
:08:22. > :08:23."for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of colour".
:08:24. > :08:26."Racism and maltreatment at the hands of the police have been
:08:27. > :08:28.consistent complaints from communities of
:08:29. > :08:35.The report came out on the same day a new Police Chief took over.
:08:36. > :08:56.This is the video that led to this whole report.
:08:57. > :08:58.It's a dashboard cam capturing the death of Laquan McDonald.
:08:59. > :09:05.Laquan McDonald was 17 - and he was shot 16
:09:06. > :09:23.We highlight him but also the police officer pointing a gun in his
:09:24. > :09:27.direction. If I play the video on, I will not show when he was shot but
:09:28. > :09:33.moments later in the video we see him lying on the floor. We later
:09:34. > :09:37.learned he was shot 16 times in 13 seconds and the officer who killed
:09:38. > :09:39.him was found guilty of first-degree murder.
:09:40. > :09:41.Now to try to get a sense of how this is being
:09:42. > :09:47.viewed in Chicago - here's ABC News.
:09:48. > :09:57.It is a scathing 180 pages indictment of a department described
:09:58. > :10:05.as systemic racists. People feel like the police do not
:10:06. > :10:08.respect their humanity. The police accountability task force found
:10:09. > :10:11.African-Americans are targeted for tougher treatment, blacks make up
:10:12. > :10:18.three and four people stopped by police. And killed and injured by
:10:19. > :10:23.officers. The task force recommends the review be replaced with a new
:10:24. > :10:27.civilian agency. There needs to be more transparency, more serious
:10:28. > :10:32.about the way it approaches investigations. The reports of
:10:33. > :10:37.police cannot police themselves. The CPD fell to track complaints and
:10:38. > :10:40.identify problem officers and the report recommendations to the union
:10:41. > :10:45.contract allowing officers 24 hours to give a statement after shooting.
:10:46. > :10:49.We believe collective bargaining agreements help institutionalise a
:10:50. > :10:54.code of silence. It is easy to point fingers and because we are the union
:10:55. > :10:59.protecting the police officers, we are the bad guys. I don't agree. The
:11:00. > :11:06.report presented to the mayor. The question isn't do we have racism. We
:11:07. > :11:14.do. The question is what to do about it. Many thanks to ABC News for
:11:15. > :11:20.sharing that report. We thought this story would happen on Wednesday.
:11:21. > :11:21.@AP "The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament
:11:22. > :11:26.is elected prime minister amid a months-long political
:11:27. > :11:38.He takes over from Arseniy Yatsenyuk who's done the job since
:11:39. > :11:51.Here's a briefing on the new man from Tom Burridge in Kiev.
:11:52. > :11:59.He is 38, the youngest prime minister in Ukrainian history. He is
:12:00. > :12:04.a close ally of the president Poroshenko. His appointment as prime
:12:05. > :12:10.minister will sharpen the focus on the record of Mr Poroshenko in the
:12:11. > :12:13.role of president. The two men have a Herculean task, they have to get
:12:14. > :12:17.on top of corruption, they have to push reforms through and streamline
:12:18. > :12:21.the bureaucracy of this country which is a hangover from Soviet
:12:22. > :12:25.times. They have to reduce the amount of people working in the
:12:26. > :12:30.government and kick-start an economy which is failing. Not to mention the
:12:31. > :12:36.conflict in the east and the Russian annexation of Crimea. President
:12:37. > :12:39.Putin has had a busy day. doing his annual phone in -
:12:40. > :12:44.we'll pick over the most important We will show you some of the most
:12:45. > :12:51.interesting answers. Here in the UK the leader
:12:52. > :12:59.of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn has urged his supporters to vote
:13:00. > :13:02.to remain in the European Union in Britain's referendum
:13:03. > :13:04.on membership in June. Mr Corbyn is well known for having
:13:05. > :13:06.criticised many aspects of the EU in the past,
:13:07. > :13:09.but he later denied that his call for the UK to remain
:13:10. > :13:15.a member was half hearted. There is nothing half-hearted about
:13:16. > :13:21.what we are doing or the campaign. There is nothing half hated --
:13:22. > :13:25.half-hearted. I have attended meetings, I have had lengthy
:13:26. > :13:30.conversations with prime ministers and party leaders across Europe on
:13:31. > :13:34.the social justice case, the environmental case, the issues of
:13:35. > :13:39.climate change, trade and steel and those issues. I have made numerous
:13:40. > :13:42.speeches on the subject, there is a big half-hearted about what we are
:13:43. > :13:45.doing, we are putting forward a political agenda about social
:13:46. > :13:50.justice in this country could driving down tax evasion, but were
:13:51. > :13:52.also putting the international case on human rights and justice and
:13:53. > :14:03.social justice across Europe. There's renewed hope
:14:04. > :14:08.for the schoolgirls abducted from the Nigerian town of Chibok two
:14:09. > :14:11.years ago after the uncovery of a video believed
:14:12. > :14:22.to show fifteen of them. BBC World Service is carrying claims
:14:23. > :14:25.by a German media network that documents about a German nuclear
:14:26. > :14:27.research centre were found at the home of Paris attacks
:14:28. > :14:31.suspect Salah Abdeslam. BBC Brasil reports that US health
:14:32. > :14:36.officials have confirmed that the Zika virus in pregnant
:14:37. > :14:39.women does cause birth defects A mother in Wales has been banned
:14:40. > :14:52.from naming her baby Cyanide. The woman also chose the name
:14:53. > :14:55.Preacher for the girl's twin brother saying she had a human right
:14:56. > :14:58.to name her own children. She said Cyanide was a "lovely,
:14:59. > :15:06.pretty name" with positive "connotations as it was the poison
:15:07. > :15:13.taken by Hitler. That story is true, check the BBC
:15:14. > :15:17.website! Vladimir Putin has been holding his
:15:18. > :15:20.annual televised phone in. No-one's short-changed -
:15:21. > :15:24.it's very long. Questions come from
:15:25. > :15:29.members of the public - We watched it all -
:15:30. > :15:48.just in case you didn't want to. We left the Syrian army in a
:15:49. > :15:53.position where with the support of part of the contingent left it could
:15:54. > :15:57.carry out serious offensive operations. Or ready after the
:15:58. > :16:02.withdrawal it has taken pal Meera. It is taken other important
:16:03. > :16:11.strategic settlements. TRANSLATION:
:16:12. > :16:15.It is a part of a media holding belonging to the US financial
:16:16. > :16:20.Corporation Goldman Sachs. The ears of the instigator are sticking up
:16:21. > :16:28.everywhere but they don't even read it.
:16:29. > :16:33.I don't think in the near future our partners will cancel restrictions
:16:34. > :16:38.and limitations towards our country. They will make something up and keep
:16:39. > :16:41.these restrictions. And this means we will keep relevant restrictions
:16:42. > :16:54.on access of their fast goods to our market. It is interesting, we turn
:16:55. > :17:01.to BBC Russia to find out more. I have been following these direct
:17:02. > :17:08.lines for more than 14 years from the first one back in 2001. And in
:17:09. > :17:11.the beginning there were a lot of reports about how people were
:17:12. > :17:17.carefully selected and the questions were carefully selected for those
:17:18. > :17:22.two people were herded into the cameras to ask the President by
:17:23. > :17:30.questions and the whole show was well orchestrated. And that is quite
:17:31. > :17:34.obvious and the show is meant to show the president is perfectly in
:17:35. > :17:38.control of everything. But he answered questions on a range
:17:39. > :17:42.of subjects. He did not dodge the big issues.
:17:43. > :17:50.No, but in a way, yes, some people accuse him. The format of, one
:17:51. > :17:57.question, one answer. It allows the president to evade answers. And if
:17:58. > :18:03.there are questions on issues of a delicate nature, the president
:18:04. > :18:08.sometimes does not tell the whole truth and people do not have the
:18:09. > :18:12.opportunity to enquire further. Were you surprised he was asked
:18:13. > :18:18.about his marriage? No, sometimes they do ask him but
:18:19. > :18:23.there was no answer. No answer. He just said he has great relationship
:18:24. > :18:28.with his former wife who read it first three years ago.
:18:29. > :18:38.Is it popular, it is very long, not as long as Hugo Chavez did on his TV
:18:39. > :18:48.show but it is very long. Now he looks somehow tired of the
:18:49. > :18:53.shows. But, yes, as we know from people do believe him. He spits out
:18:54. > :19:01.a great number of various figures, he says the industrial output is
:19:02. > :19:06.growing and economy is growing. No, it is not. Your official statistics
:19:07. > :19:12.tell if it is not growing but he tells people industrial output is
:19:13. > :19:16.growing and the Russian currency and gold reserves are growing which is
:19:17. > :19:21.simply not true. People do believe it. If you speak Russian, get your
:19:22. > :19:23.news at BBC Russian .com. BP is in the middle of a massive
:19:24. > :19:27.pay row - with itself. The board proposed a pay rise
:19:28. > :19:32.for CEO Bob Dudley of around 20%. That'd mean taking home
:19:33. > :19:36.$19.6 million dollars. BP made a loss of $6.5bn-dollar
:19:37. > :19:46.loss last year. At BP's AGM earlier 60% of
:19:47. > :19:53.shareholders rejected the pay rise. One said "We think it sends
:19:54. > :19:55.the wrong message. That vote's non-binding by the way -
:19:56. > :20:02.so the board doesn't have to listen. BP's chairman has already said
:20:03. > :20:08.'Let me be clear. We hear you.' It's important
:20:09. > :20:30.to note that in 2014, If you compare to BP with its
:20:31. > :20:36.closest rivals, the CEOs of other companies, they get more. I should
:20:37. > :20:41.say their salary has gone down a little and so has the salary of
:20:42. > :20:57.Shell CEO. It went down 77 last year. Clearly, still a lot of money
:20:58. > :21:02.and a controversial topic. He has had something of a bad press, but
:21:03. > :21:06.this is the sky who came into BP at its worst time in the wake of the
:21:07. > :21:10.deep water rising disaster. He steadied the ship, he made it
:21:11. > :21:16.financially viable and did a good job. He has improved safety and
:21:17. > :21:22.environmental standards but remember 2015 was a really bad year for BP.
:21:23. > :21:27.They racked up an operating loss of three points ?6 billion and they're
:21:28. > :21:31.getting rid of 7000 jobs so is now the time to reward the Chief
:21:32. > :21:39.Executive a pay packet of ?14 million? Picking up the live feed
:21:40. > :21:46.from Washington, a statement made by Finance ministers from Europe who
:21:47. > :21:51.are at a World Bank meeting. Five of the largest economies confirmed they
:21:52. > :21:57.will clamp down on tax havens and urging G20 countries to remove the
:21:58. > :22:01.secrecy of shell companies and these countries are agreeing to share
:22:02. > :22:06.information of secret owners of businesses. We will keep listening
:22:07. > :22:12.to that feed and when further news comes out I will share them.
:22:13. > :22:15.Speaking of the World Bank, leaders of the International Monetary Fund
:22:16. > :22:18.have been meeting in Washington and the top of their agenda is the state
:22:19. > :22:34.of the global economy. Michelle Fleury spoke
:22:35. > :22:43.to the World Bank president. The notion you can hide illicit
:22:44. > :22:48.wealth or avoid paying taxes, I hope that will be an idea that gets
:22:49. > :22:51.eroded more and more. For us it is straightforward, when a state
:22:52. > :22:57.officials take state resources or when people don't pay taxes or when
:22:58. > :23:02.corporations don't pay taxes it is bad for the poorest. Even in the
:23:03. > :23:07.official tax systems in many countries they are more aggressive
:23:08. > :23:11.in developing countries than in the developed countries which is the
:23:12. > :23:20.opposite of what you want to see. Oxfam revealed this week that 84% of
:23:21. > :23:26.loans from the private sector go to sub-Saharan Africa but end up in
:23:27. > :23:30.offshore tax havens. What do you say to taxpayers in developed nations
:23:31. > :23:35.who are worried about where their development money ends up?
:23:36. > :23:39.When the money is given to us, we ordered every project, we have an
:23:40. > :23:43.entire team looking at corruption, most of the reports of corruption in
:23:44. > :23:48.the projects come from our own staff, our own staff know we have to
:23:49. > :23:51.watch out for these corrupt practices so if you want to look at
:23:52. > :23:57.an organisation that follows the money carefully, we are best
:23:58. > :24:02.equipped to do it because so many other people are finance people and
:24:03. > :24:06.follow the accounts so I would say to taxpayers you have nothing to
:24:07. > :24:07.worry about in terms of the World Bank group. Staying in America
:24:08. > :24:08.are... 40,000 workers of Verizon -
:24:09. > :24:10.the largest American telecoms company -
:24:11. > :24:13.remain on strike. They're protesting cuts
:24:14. > :24:25.to health care and pensions. Live from New York, I mentioned the
:24:26. > :24:28.core issues but give us more details about why they feel a strike is
:24:29. > :24:36.necessary? Well, basically these 40,000 workers
:24:37. > :24:40.have been out of contract since August because they have not been
:24:41. > :24:45.able to come to an agreement with the management about health care
:24:46. > :24:48.payments and pensions. The workers say the company is trying to make it
:24:49. > :24:57.easier to lay them off to replace them with contract workers, despite
:24:58. > :25:01.the company making a quite a decent profit and if anything, the protest
:25:02. > :25:05.which started yesterday got quite a lot of publicity when Bernie
:25:06. > :25:10.Sanders, one of the presidential candidates, joined the rally
:25:11. > :25:13.yesterday calling it the poster child of corporate greed. The
:25:14. > :25:19.company CEO has been fighting back saying that Bernie Sanders's
:25:20. > :25:23.comments are based on ignorance about how the company does not pay
:25:24. > :25:31.tax, the CEO has been paying millions in taxes and the comments
:25:32. > :25:36.are nonsense but that kind of heated debate got quite a lot of publicity,
:25:37. > :25:40.even though despite the protest we have not seen any of the service
:25:41. > :25:44.disruptions to much although I should say the protest is ongoing,
:25:45. > :25:50.there are more events being planned for late in the week. We could see
:25:51. > :25:55.some real impact. Good to talk to you. Thank you. We end this half in
:25:56. > :26:07.New York. I will speak to you in a few moments time.
:26:08. > :26:14.We will update you on the European weather seen in a moment but firstly
:26:15. > :26:18.towards the Middle East when not for the first time in recent days some
:26:19. > :26:22.areas have seen torrential rain, flash floods, the good news is drier
:26:23. > :26:23.conditions are