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