:00:00. > :00:14.Hello. Our top stories... After a warm welcome, a gentle goodbye, as
:00:15. > :00:19.Pope Francis met President Obama at the Vatican. Could these satellite
:00:20. > :00:23.images show the debris of the missing Malaysian airliner? Up to
:00:24. > :00:27.300 objects are found floating in the southern Indian Ocean. After 46
:00:28. > :00:47.years on Death Row, why this Japanese man has finally been
:00:48. > :00:48.granted a retrial. The man who ousted President Morse he makes his
:00:49. > :01:05.pitch to run the country. -- Morsi. A moment of history in the Vatican
:01:06. > :01:09.this morning. President Obama has met Pope Francis for the first time.
:01:10. > :01:13.It's only a year since the Pope took office. Two of the most powerful and
:01:14. > :01:16.influential men in the world shook hands in the Vatican's Apostolic
:01:17. > :01:19.Palace before heading into a meeting which lasted an hour. Although they
:01:20. > :01:22.disagree on many issues including abortion and gay marriage, they do
:01:23. > :01:27.have some common ground, when it comes to the fight against global
:01:28. > :01:32.poverty. The BBC's Alan Johnston is in Rome and he watched the meeting
:01:33. > :01:42.as it happened. Just a warning that these images contain flash
:01:43. > :01:45.photography. We saw President Obama gets delivered by motorcade into the
:01:46. > :01:51.courtyard in the heart of the papal palace. He eventually processed
:01:52. > :01:55.through the magnificent marbled corridors of the papal palace,
:01:56. > :02:00.eventually meeting Pope Francis in a room outside the papal library and
:02:01. > :02:06.then the two of them went into the small throne room, where they were
:02:07. > :02:14.to have a meeting. The atmosphere, the body language, seemed as good as
:02:15. > :02:20.it could be. Mr Obama famously relaxed and easy. The Pope, not a
:02:21. > :02:25.man who stands on any ceremony, the two of them chatted. We know that
:02:26. > :02:33.President Obama said he was great at my of the Pope. He thanked him for
:02:34. > :02:40.the audience. -- great admirer. We know President Obama is an admirer
:02:41. > :02:43.of President Francis. There was an interview in a newspaper in which
:02:44. > :02:47.President Obama could not have been more generous in his praise of the
:02:48. > :02:52.Pope. He did not just preach the gospel, he lived it. He said the
:02:53. > :02:56.Pope is right to focus on global poverty around the world. He was
:02:57. > :03:01.right to say too many people have been left behind in the process of
:03:02. > :03:05.globalisation. He has said it is too ready to accept the gross
:03:06. > :03:10.inequalities we see around us in so many countries. President Obama
:03:11. > :03:14.clearly sees this as his fight. He's confronting the same issues of
:03:15. > :03:18.inequality back home in the United States. He hopes that in Pope
:03:19. > :03:22.Francis he can build an alliance around this crucial issue of shared
:03:23. > :03:30.concern over efforts to build perhaps slightly fairer world. The
:03:31. > :03:34.lofty ambitions and lofty ideals. Away from the great photo
:03:35. > :03:39.opportunity and warm words, what are the politics of this? Can the
:03:40. > :03:46.influence each other? Varies, perhaps, a huge amount of symbolism.
:03:47. > :03:54.You might say, less substance to this. Certainly, the Vatican is
:03:55. > :03:57.happy to see a man of this standing with the president of the United
:03:58. > :04:02.States coming to their door. It shows the president is listening.
:04:03. > :04:06.You get a sense this Pope is making a real impact. If you want to talk
:04:07. > :04:13.about some of the lower-level politics on the American side, then
:04:14. > :04:18.of course it is -- he is a very popular Pope. The president is
:04:19. > :04:22.struggling just before mid-term elections. This is a photo
:04:23. > :04:26.opportunity that will do no harm at all, particularly with those many
:04:27. > :04:34.Hispanic voters, most of them, of course, Catholic, who missed the
:04:35. > :04:38.Bama looks to come election day. -- President Obama. Thailand says its
:04:39. > :04:41.satellites have spotted up to 300 objects, which may be debris from
:04:42. > :04:45.the Malaysian Airlines passenger plane which disappeared nearly three
:04:46. > :04:48.weeks ago. This grainy satellite image shows the objects which
:04:49. > :04:51.measure between two and 15 metres in length. They were spotted 200
:04:52. > :04:54.kilometres south of the area in which French satellite photos
:04:55. > :05:01.indicated more than 100 objects could be floating in the sea. As for
:05:02. > :05:05.the search itself, bad weather and near zero visibility have forced all
:05:06. > :05:12.planes to pull out of the area, deep in the southern Indian Ocean. The
:05:13. > :05:15.purple boxes, that you can see here, are where the Australian-led search
:05:16. > :05:19.team was concentrating its efforts before heading back to Perth. So
:05:20. > :05:22.far, no debris at all has been recovered and there's been no sign
:05:23. > :05:25.of the so called black box flight recorder which might unravel the
:05:26. > :05:38.mystery of what happened to flight MH370. Our correspondent, Jonathan
:05:39. > :05:41.Head, is in Perth. I have almost lost count of the number of times I
:05:42. > :05:46.have watched these aircraft coming back from their long missions over
:05:47. > :05:52.the Indian Ocean, only to report that they have seen almost nothing
:05:53. > :05:56.at all. We are standing here at the airbase. It is hard to imagine rough
:05:57. > :06:01.conditions can get over the open ocean. We are approaching the
:06:02. > :06:05.Southern Hemisphere winter. The weather can deteriorate very quickly
:06:06. > :06:09.to the point, like today, where any kind of searching by these aircraft
:06:10. > :06:15.is almost completely impossible. Remember, even when they are able to
:06:16. > :06:19.stay out there for maybe two or three hours, finding anything at all
:06:20. > :06:23.amid the waves is extremely difficult and requires intense
:06:24. > :06:28.concentration and a great deal of luck. That tells you how tough this
:06:29. > :06:32.operation is. It is not for nothing that aviation experts are saying it
:06:33. > :06:37.is probably the most difficult search in modern aviation history.
:06:38. > :06:41.There is no doubt at all doubting the dedication of these crews. They
:06:42. > :06:46.know how important their job is. Remember, unless they find
:06:47. > :06:50.something, unless they spot debris, even if it was seen on a satellite
:06:51. > :06:56.photograph days ago, they have to find it first before it was picked
:06:57. > :07:00.up. There is no way the investigation into what happened for
:07:01. > :07:04.flight MH370 can be completed unless these guys find something. They have
:07:05. > :07:10.not had any luck that they have said they will keep going. So much
:07:11. > :07:13.depends on the weather. Chinese insurance companies have started to
:07:14. > :07:17.pay compensation to the families of passengers aboard the Malaysia
:07:18. > :07:21.airlines plane. The Chinese state news agency says the families of
:07:22. > :07:27.seven passengers have received almost $700,000 all up. The money
:07:28. > :07:32.comes from one of the country 's largest insurance companies. Earlier
:07:33. > :07:37.I asked our reporter what else they knew. We did have an announcement
:07:38. > :07:41.very recently from the Malaysian government that the aircraft almost
:07:42. > :07:46.certainly came down in the southern Indian Ocean. It does seem that has
:07:47. > :07:55.probably triggered these payments. China Life has paid out $670,000 to
:07:56. > :07:59.the families of passengers. It expects to make further pay-outs.
:08:00. > :08:02.The overall pay-out will be $1.3 million. A number of other firms are
:08:03. > :08:10.reportedly making pay-outs, including China Pacific and Sun Life
:08:11. > :08:13.insurance. These are insurance payments on the lives of the
:08:14. > :08:18.passengers who were on board. It would have been part of their
:08:19. > :08:21.ticketing arrangements. It does not stop them receiving other
:08:22. > :08:24.compensation. Passengers on any aircraft anywhere in the world are
:08:25. > :08:28.covered by the Montreal Convention, an international agreement about how
:08:29. > :08:34.much passengers should be compensated in the event of an
:08:35. > :08:37.accident, or their relatives. Malaysian airlines has strict
:08:38. > :08:43.liability of $175,000 per passenger. That is what they have to
:08:44. > :08:46.pay out. Obviously, they could appeal for higher pay-outs. We will
:08:47. > :08:53.talk about that in a moment. That cost will have to be met by the
:08:54. > :08:58.Malaysian airlines in Shiraz. We just seeing a bit of news about some
:08:59. > :09:04.sort of lawsuit out of the US. Tell us about that. This is an American
:09:05. > :09:08.law firm which specialises in aviation accidents, among other
:09:09. > :09:12.things. It says it is planning to file a lawsuit in an American court
:09:13. > :09:19.against Malaysia airlines and Boeing, the manufacturer of the
:09:20. > :09:26.aircraft. It seems speculative at this stage. The firm says it expects
:09:27. > :09:30.to represent at least half the passengers on board and is working
:09:31. > :09:34.on a theory that the plane was downed by mechanical failure, there
:09:35. > :09:38.were some kind of problem with it which led to it going missing in the
:09:39. > :09:43.southern Indian Ocean and ultimately it going into the water. They
:09:44. > :09:47.believe one of the theories is that there was a failure in the cockpit
:09:48. > :09:52.which may have caused a fire that rendered the crew unconscious. It
:09:53. > :09:56.seems only to be talking about this speculation because we have not
:09:57. > :10:00.found anything. There is no proof about what happened. The proof will
:10:01. > :10:04.not be found until the flight data recorder is found. That is lying
:10:05. > :10:12.somewhere under the ocean, probably about four kilometres down. We are a
:10:13. > :10:15.lot closer to finding it today. There are images on satellites of
:10:16. > :10:23.potential debris. Until one is found which is part of the aircraft, it is
:10:24. > :10:27.impossible to narrow down the surface area so that we can find the
:10:28. > :10:29.missing black boxes. German airports are being subjected to widespread
:10:30. > :10:32.disruption as ground staff, baggage handlers and maintenance staff hold
:10:33. > :10:35.a strike. Most of the country's major airports including Frankfurt,
:10:36. > :10:39.Europe's third largest, are affected by the strike. Germany's biggest
:10:40. > :10:43.airline, Lufthansa, has cancelled around 600 flights, a third of its
:10:44. > :10:50.services. The strike is due to finish in around two hours. It's
:10:51. > :10:53.been one of the worst kept secrets in the world. The head of the
:10:54. > :10:57.Egyptian Army Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al Sisi has confirmed that he
:10:58. > :11:00.will stand in Egypt's forthcoming presidential elections. He announced
:11:01. > :11:01.his intention in a televised address, in which he also resigned
:11:02. > :11:17.his military position. As I said, the worst kept secret in
:11:18. > :11:22.the world. The timing is interesting. Since the ousting of
:11:23. > :11:35.the Muslim brotherhood government in June of last year, he has managed to
:11:36. > :11:38.ride a wave of nationalistic and anti-Islamist sentiment among
:11:39. > :11:43.Egyptians, which put him in the position he is in now, in a place
:11:44. > :11:49.where he is almost guaranteed to win the elections. He enjoys support
:11:50. > :11:53.from a considerably large section of the Egyptian public but, of course,
:11:54. > :11:59.on the other hand there is the pro-Muslim brotherhood supporters
:12:00. > :12:02.who are vehemently against him. We're just watching the televised
:12:03. > :12:05.address where he announced his intention to stand as president but
:12:06. > :12:12.he also resigned from the monetary as well. What do you make of that?
:12:13. > :12:21.It was a 30 minute statement that was played on prime-time television
:12:22. > :12:27.last night in Egypt. It was a very straightforward message. He made
:12:28. > :12:34.some indications about wanting to restore respect to the Government
:12:35. > :12:37.authority and that, you know, he does not have magical solutions but
:12:38. > :12:47.he urges Egyptians to work very hard. That indicates he would not be
:12:48. > :12:51.very willing to tolerate strikes and demonstrations in cities which have
:12:52. > :12:57.been disrupting life for the past few years in eject. We're talking
:12:58. > :13:04.about a presidential election. -- eejit. In terms of opponents, will
:13:05. > :13:18.there be any? So far, we know of one candidate. He enjoys some popularity
:13:19. > :13:22.but not as much popularity. He has the whole government media machine
:13:23. > :13:27.backing him. I'd agree you are Egyptian, how do you think people
:13:28. > :13:39.feel about the fact that another military man may resume power in
:13:40. > :13:44.eejit? -- Egypt. Supporters see him as a saviour and somebody who was
:13:45. > :13:50.the only person who has the power and the authority to transform the
:13:51. > :13:55.country and return it into stability. On the other hand, if you
:13:56. > :14:00.are somebody from the Muslim Brotherhood, they will say that he
:14:01. > :14:05.killed their colleagues, jailed many thousands of people, and they are
:14:06. > :14:10.the him and Lee and very strongly against them. Thank you for your
:14:11. > :14:17.analysis. -- we look at the chances of Oscar
:14:18. > :14:31.Pistorius giving his own testimony. Five days after a massive mudslide
:14:32. > :14:34.engulfed the tiny American town of Oso near Seattle, rescue workers say
:14:35. > :14:37.90 people are still missing. The number of missing had been
:14:38. > :14:41.fluctuating, at one point reaching as high as 220. Scores of bodies are
:14:42. > :14:43.thought to lie beneath the thick mountain mud. 24 people have been
:14:44. > :14:58.confirmed dead. Platt to safety from a sea of mud. A
:14:59. > :15:04.four-year-old boy who somehow managed to survive a massive
:15:05. > :15:09.mudslide. Jacob Spillers was on the second floor when his home was hit
:15:10. > :15:15.by a deadly tide of mud and rock. His father and three siblings were
:15:16. > :15:19.downstairs and are still missing. A fellow survivor told me when she
:15:20. > :15:24.came across him, he was scared and shivering. I stripped him down and
:15:25. > :15:29.bundled him in a blanket and put him on my lap. I said, I am a grandma
:15:30. > :15:36.and I am going to take care of you. We are going to find your mummy. I'd
:15:37. > :15:47.searching continues apace. 90 bodies could lie buried only the wreckage.
:15:48. > :15:52.We need to take a step back and look at the magnitude of what happened.
:15:53. > :15:56.It is huge, complex and dangerous. I do not think we have a lot of
:15:57. > :16:02.answers. All I can definitively say is we have a number that is 90 and
:16:03. > :16:08.we will pursue it as much as we can. There are pockets of mud which 40
:16:09. > :16:13.feet deep. Factor in the presence of toxic chemicals from crushed cars,
:16:14. > :16:16.and it amounts to a difficult and dangerous recovery operation.
:16:17. > :16:21.Rescuers biggest problem is the weather. It has been raining
:16:22. > :16:25.constantly these past few days and that has not only hampered the
:16:26. > :16:26.recovery operation, it has also raised the possibility of further
:16:27. > :16:40.mud slides here. This is BBC World News. The latest
:16:41. > :16:44.headlines, at a warm welcome, a gentle goodbye as Pope Francis met
:16:45. > :16:50.President Obama at the Vatican. It is their first meeting and they
:16:51. > :16:55.focused on global property. -- poverty. Investigators examined
:16:56. > :16:58.satellite images appearing to show debris from the missing Malaysian
:16:59. > :17:04.airliner. 300 objects work seen floating in the southerly Indian
:17:05. > :17:07.Ocean. The family of a Japanese man who's spent 46 years on death row
:17:08. > :17:10.are celebrating, after he was granted a retrial. Iwao Hakamada, a
:17:11. > :17:13.former professional boxer, was convicted of murdering the boss of
:17:14. > :17:23.the factory where he worked, and his family, including two children.
:17:24. > :17:28.Whitney is our Asia editor. -- with me. But for I do, I think we have
:17:29. > :17:34.just received these pictures of Iwao Hakamada being released. 46 years on
:17:35. > :17:38.death row. Indeed. A judge earlier today ordered the release of Iwao
:17:39. > :17:46.Hakamada and we're now seeing that he is walking from prison in Tokyo
:17:47. > :17:52.to the celebration of his family and supporters, who have argued all
:17:53. > :17:59.along that he was innocent. What happened was that in 1966, four
:18:00. > :18:03.people died, Iwao Hakamada's boss, his boss's wife and their children.
:18:04. > :18:07.They were found stabbed in their home in the home was set on fire.
:18:08. > :18:11.Iwao Hakamada was accused of the crime and initially admitted to it
:18:12. > :18:14.but later at his trial pleaded not guilty, saying that the confession
:18:15. > :18:17.had been beaten out of him by police. Nevertheless, he was
:18:18. > :18:23.convicted and sentenced to death. Over the decades, there been a
:18:24. > :18:26.number of legal battles, knitting in this one, where an appeal court
:18:27. > :18:32.judge ordered his release. He has been released and we now waiting to
:18:33. > :18:36.see whether there will be a retrial. That was what the judge
:18:37. > :18:41.initially ordered. In terms of him spending so much time on death row,
:18:42. > :18:45.this might sound like a silly question but how was he on death row
:18:46. > :18:52.for so many years? Had come the execution was never carried out? The
:18:53. > :18:55.legal process just took so long. From the very beginning, he appealed
:18:56. > :19:02.against it but it took a long time to go through. Years, decades even.
:19:03. > :19:06.It was only in 2008 at another appeal was launched by his elderly
:19:07. > :19:12.sister, who we can perhaps see in pictures, celebrating with
:19:13. > :19:16.supporters at his release. It has been a long legal process and it
:19:17. > :19:20.seems as though very few people since the Second World War have
:19:21. > :19:24.successfully overturned a conviction in Japan. Just a handful of people.
:19:25. > :19:28.The legal process they seems to move very slowly. But it appears to have
:19:29. > :19:33.come up with a new verdict in this case. Pictures of people
:19:34. > :19:38.celebrating. He has had a lot of supporters campaigning for him. And
:19:39. > :19:41.they have never given up. You can see how pleased they were when they
:19:42. > :19:47.got the news from the appeal Court that he had been granted a retrial.
:19:48. > :19:50.An extraordinary story. Government officials in the former
:19:51. > :19:53.Soviet state of Georgia have threatened to issue an international
:19:54. > :19:55.arrest warrant for the former president Mikhail Saakashvili,
:19:56. > :19:58.unless he returns to the country today. They want to question him in
:19:59. > :20:02.several criminal investigations, including the suspicious death of a
:20:03. > :20:05.former Prime Minister. Mr Saakashvili, who currently lives
:20:06. > :20:11.abroad, claims there's been a political witch-hunt against him and
:20:12. > :20:14.the previous government. One of Osama bin Laden's sons-in-law
:20:15. > :20:25.has been found guilty in New York of conspiring to kill American
:20:26. > :20:30.citizens. Suleiman Abu Ghaith is married to Bin-Laden's eldest
:20:31. > :20:34.daughter, Fatima. He's the highest ranking Al-Qaeda figure to be
:20:35. > :20:37.brought to trial on US soil for the September the Eleventh attacks. Nada
:20:38. > :20:39.Tawfik reports from New York. The attacks of September at the 11th for
:20:40. > :20:43.ever changed America. Almost 3000 people were killed that day and the
:20:44. > :20:52.country's war on terror began. This is the man who led Al-Qaeda's began
:20:53. > :20:55.the war. Some and hours after the attacks to a cave in Afghanistan and
:20:56. > :21:01.told to deliver his message to the world. US officials say he was part
:21:02. > :21:05.of Al-Qaeda's homicidal hierarchy, using the power of words to recruit
:21:06. > :21:10.new members and incite hatred against America. In one video, the
:21:11. > :21:17.Kuwaiti national promises no end to the storm of aeroplanes. He evaded
:21:18. > :21:22.capture for years. In 2002, he fled Afghanistan for Iran, where he
:21:23. > :21:28.remained for more than a decade. In February of 2013, he was arrested in
:21:29. > :21:30.a hotel in the Turkish capital. And it was decided that he would be
:21:31. > :21:36.deported to his home country, Kuwait. And on his way they are, he
:21:37. > :21:40.was picked up by US agents in Jordan and flown to the United States.
:21:41. > :21:45.Blocks away from the site of the World Trade Center, he faced trial
:21:46. > :21:49.here in federal court. On Wednesday, he was convicted by a jury of
:21:50. > :21:54.conspiring to kill Americans and providing support to Al-Qaeda after
:21:55. > :21:59.a trial that lasted three. His lawyer says that they will appeal
:22:00. > :22:04.the decision. It is not about words. It is not about association. There
:22:05. > :22:10.are clear requirements under the law. If you want to turn around and
:22:11. > :22:16.indict people for words, there are about 270 Congressman right now that
:22:17. > :22:20.I've said some pretty incendiary things about a lot of things and
:22:21. > :22:24.maybe we should start there. It is likely that Suleiman Abu Ghaith will
:22:25. > :22:28.be sentenced to life in prison. The administration will certainly see
:22:29. > :22:32.this as a legal victory. This case strengthens the President's argument
:22:33. > :22:35.that it is possible to try high-profile terror suspects in
:22:36. > :22:40.civilian court and that it is an alternative to detaining suspects in
:22:41. > :22:43.Quant animal Bay. -- want animal Bay.
:22:44. > :22:45.The government of the Philippines has signed an historic peace
:22:46. > :22:49.agreement with the country's biggest Muslim rebel group -- in a move to
:22:50. > :22:53.end one of Asia's longest and deadliest conflicts. Formal peace
:22:54. > :22:56.talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front began
:22:57. > :22:58.in 2001. The agreement grants largely Muslim areas of the southern
:22:59. > :23:09.Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end to
:23:10. > :23:12.armed rebellion. Two firefighters have been killed
:23:13. > :23:15.and 13 injured in the US city of Boston. Lieutenant Edward Walsh and
:23:16. > :23:18.Firefighter Michael Kennedy were overcome by flames in the basement
:23:19. > :23:21.of the three-storey block of flats. A number of residents were rescued
:23:22. > :23:25.from the upper floors. The city's mayor has called it a sad day for
:23:26. > :23:27.the city of Boston. An outspoken opposition legislator
:23:28. > :23:30.in Venezuela who's been stripped of her job says she'll continue her
:23:31. > :23:33.political activities. Speaking to hundreds of supporters on her return
:23:34. > :23:41.to Caracas, Maria Corina Machado described her dismissal as illegal.
:23:42. > :23:44.The National Assembly said she breached the constitution when spoke
:23:45. > :23:47.at the Organisation of American States as a guest of Panama. Ms
:23:48. > :23:51.Corina has repeatedly called for the removal of President Nicolas Maduro.
:23:52. > :23:54.Lawyers for the South African paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius
:23:55. > :24:00.will open the case for the defence in Pretoria on Friday. He's standing
:24:01. > :24:07.trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on
:24:08. > :24:11.Valentine's Day last year. But the big question is whether they will
:24:12. > :24:13.put him into the witness box to give the court his first-hand account of
:24:14. > :24:19.what happened. Karin Giannone looks at what we've learned so far from
:24:20. > :24:23.his trial. Here in Pretorius where the killing that has gripped South
:24:24. > :24:26.Africa took place in the luxury housing estate behind me, the
:24:27. > :24:30.prosecution has finished putting its evidence before the court. They
:24:31. > :24:35.tried to paint a picture of Oscar Pistorius as gun crazy, jealous of
:24:36. > :24:38.his girlfriend. And neighbours from around here were among the first
:24:39. > :24:44.witnesses to testify, telling the court what they heard in the early
:24:45. > :24:49.hours of Valentine's Day last year. One witness told of being woken by a
:24:50. > :24:55.woman's bloodcurdling scream. She says that the cries for help were
:24:56. > :24:58.followed by gum charts. -- gunshots. Another neighbour heard
:24:59. > :25:02.loud voices in the hours leading up to the murder. She thought that
:25:03. > :25:06.people were fighting. But the defence says it is a case of
:25:07. > :25:10.mistaken identity and that Oscar Pistorius was the only one to call
:25:11. > :25:13.out for help. The toilet door which Pistorius fired through has also
:25:14. > :25:17.made an appearance in court. A ballistics expert testified that
:25:18. > :25:21.Reeva Steenkamp was standing up, facing the door when the first
:25:22. > :25:25.bullet hit her right hip, suggesting there was enough time for her to
:25:26. > :25:29.scream for being shot in the head. We have also heard character
:25:30. > :25:34.evidence. Chris Boxer told the court that he was injured after Oscar
:25:35. > :25:38.Pistorius accidentally set off a gun in a crowded restaurant. -- this
:25:39. > :25:44.boxer. He says that Pistorius asked a friend to take the blame, the
:25:45. > :25:48.opposition hoping to portray Pistorius as trigger-happy. If
:25:49. > :25:51.firearms specialist later testified that the story is understood he was
:25:52. > :25:57.only allowed to shoot if his life was in danger. -- a firearms
:25:58. > :26:01.specialist. Messages between the couple have also been read out in
:26:02. > :26:10.court. One from Reeva Steenkamp to Pistorius said: I am scared of you
:26:11. > :26:12.sometimes. The prosecution says that Oscar Pistorius murdered Reeva
:26:13. > :26:18.Steenkamp in a fit of rage. He says that he shot her thinking she was an
:26:19. > :26:22.intruder in his bathroom. If convicted, he could face a life
:26:23. > :26:27.sentence. Before we go, let's remind you on
:26:28. > :26:31.our top story. President Obama has met Pope Francis for the first time,
:26:32. > :26:35.only a year since he took office. They are two of the world's most
:26:36. > :26:42.powerful and influential men and they shook hands in the apostolic
:26:43. > :26:47.Palace at the Vatican. They disagree on many issues including abortion
:26:48. > :26:51.and gay marriage, they do have some common ground when it comes to the
:26:52. > :26:57.fight against global. That is it from me. Still plenty more to come.
:26:58. > :27:00.-- global poor.