:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox.
:00:08. > :00:11.World powers agree to push for a temporary halt to the fighting
:00:12. > :00:14.in Syria to relieve besieged towns, but President Assad says his forces
:00:15. > :00:21.Pope meets Patriarch - the heads of the Roman Catholic
:00:22. > :00:23.and the Russian Orthodox churches are to hold their first talks
:00:24. > :00:31.Also coming up: The paedophiles using secret groups on Facebook
:00:32. > :00:34.Facebook promises to investigate - the Children's Commissioner
:00:35. > :00:43.for England says the company needs to do more to protect the young.
:00:44. > :00:47.From what we have shown you, are they doing enough? If these are run
:00:48. > :00:49.Facebook today, then, no. If these are run Facebook
:00:50. > :00:51.today, then, no. The Japanese MP behind a national
:00:52. > :00:54.debate about paternity leave resigns after having an affair
:00:55. > :01:12.while his wife was pregnant. Russian warplanes have been
:01:13. > :01:14.in action over Syria again today, just hours after major powers agreed
:01:15. > :01:17.on a pause in fighting. Officially, the so-called cessation
:01:18. > :01:19.of hostilities is due to begin in a week's time, but the UN says
:01:20. > :01:22.aid deliveries to some besieged areas inside Syria could
:01:23. > :01:27.begin within 24 hours. The agreement, reached in Germany,
:01:28. > :01:30.came shortly after President Bashar al Assad said he intends to fight
:01:31. > :01:33.on until he's brought the whole Our Chief International
:01:34. > :01:45.Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, reports. The anguish of Aleppo,
:01:46. > :01:47.Syria's biggest, once beautiful, This month, tens of thousands
:01:48. > :01:53.are fleeing Russia's bombing there. Moscow says it is striking
:01:54. > :01:57.terrorists, the so-called The West says it is mainly
:01:58. > :02:03.bolstering the Syrian military But now, in Munich, in the early
:02:04. > :02:09.hours, the world's most powerful diplomats emerged to say they had
:02:10. > :02:26.finally agreed a truce We have agreed to implement and
:02:27. > :02:35.nationwide cessation of hostilities, to begin in the target of one week's
:02:36. > :02:38.time. It is ambitious, but everybody is determined to move as rapidly as
:02:39. > :02:42.Russia's Sergey Lavrov talked of a return to peace talks,
:02:43. > :02:46.But in the bright light of day, the doubts became clearer,
:02:47. > :02:48.most of all about Russia's intentions.
:02:49. > :02:51.It is possible, we don't know, it is possible that the Russians had
:02:52. > :02:54.limited military objectives and actually over the last month
:02:55. > :02:58.or so they have largely achieved them and that they are genuinely now
:02:59. > :03:00.ready to see a scaling down of military activity
:03:01. > :03:04.but we will not know that for sure until we see the Russians delivering
:03:05. > :03:15.Today, Syria's rebel leaders are raising objections,
:03:16. > :03:19.so is Syria's President Assad, who spoke before the deal was done.
:03:20. > :03:21.TRANSLATION: We have fully believed in negotiations
:03:22. > :03:24.and in political actions since the beginning of the crisis.
:03:25. > :03:27.However, if we negotiate it does not mean that we will
:03:28. > :03:36.First, through negotiation and second, through fighting terrorism.
:03:37. > :03:39.The two track are separate from each other.
:03:40. > :03:43.Syria's war is also a major humanitarian crisis.
:03:44. > :03:46.Munich's deal means government and rebel forces must let aid enter
:03:47. > :03:53.besieged areas, where people are starving.
:03:54. > :03:58.Imagine that we have several convoys for several days and we repeat it
:03:59. > :04:01.every time we offer it, would that not make a difference?
:04:02. > :04:03.Do you think this is a turning point?
:04:04. > :04:11.Strong words have emerged here in Munich, but great scepticism too.
:04:12. > :04:15.The next week will make it clear whether this was a major
:04:16. > :04:18.breakthrough that can help ease the suffering of Syrian civilians,
:04:19. > :04:21.or whether it is another major setback that will make a devastating
:04:22. > :04:37.If you The Pope and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch will meet in Cuba
:04:38. > :04:40.on Friday - the first ever encounter between the heads of the two
:04:41. > :04:42.churches since they split in the 11th century,
:04:43. > :04:45.The Vatican has been pushing for such a meeting ever
:04:46. > :04:47.since the collapse of the Soviet Union,
:04:48. > :04:52.The meeting is being seen as a major step towards warmer relations.
:04:53. > :04:57.Our correspondent Will Grant is in Havana.
:04:58. > :05:07.we are expect when Pope Francis at any time now. This is the most
:05:08. > :05:10.historic varying of hatchets, isn't it? Isn't it? And what an
:05:11. > :05:16.extraordinary place for it to happen, in Cuba, a country that has
:05:17. > :05:20.been gone through its own warming of ties with the United States, and
:05:21. > :05:27.Pope Francis was important in bringing Washington and Havana
:05:28. > :05:35.around the negotiating table. This time he is on a diplomatic mission
:05:36. > :05:39.of the zone to help rebuild the eastern and western sections of the
:05:40. > :05:47.Christian faith. It will be welcomed, not only by the many
:05:48. > :05:54.millions of followers of Pope Francis, but at least two thirds of
:05:55. > :06:05.the more than 200 million Russian Orthodox followers, many of whom
:06:06. > :06:08.will have wanted to see these tensions ease, these lingering
:06:09. > :06:17.suspicions that in some cases are centuries old. What will it mean in
:06:18. > :06:22.concrete terms? I think this is very much about her spirit of fraternity,
:06:23. > :06:27.that is a word that Pope Francis users and likes to make the most.
:06:28. > :06:33.That was the word his lips when he became the Havana late last year. In
:06:34. > :06:41.these terms I think it is about the Catholic faith and the Orthodox
:06:42. > :06:44.faith finding common ground in times in which Christians around the
:06:45. > :06:49.world, particularly in the Middle East, feel that they are being
:06:50. > :06:55.persecuted, under attack again on a number of different fronts. We have
:06:56. > :07:01.seen, particularly during the Cold War, there was a lot of suspicion
:07:02. > :07:05.between Pope John Paul II and previous patriarchs. Pope Francis is
:07:06. > :07:10.a very different character to the men who came before him and I think
:07:11. > :07:16.it took aim and the took a different kind of papacy to bring this about.
:07:17. > :07:22.What is the reaction where you are in Havana. We are just watching live
:07:23. > :07:34.pictures of dignitaries walking around at the airport. There is Raul
:07:35. > :07:46.Castro, Whittington greets... Sorry, yes, these are live pictures.
:07:47. > :07:54.There is a more nuanced feeling towards Catholicism in Cuba, isn't
:07:55. > :07:59.there? There was great excitement ahead of his visit in September.
:08:00. > :08:03.This time I would say it has been greeted with more surprised than
:08:04. > :08:10.excitement. Cubans woke up to the news on the state run newspaper that
:08:11. > :08:21.the Pope will be returning again. Many thought, my goodness, I so
:08:22. > :08:27.quick, he was here very recently. There are reasons I think that it is
:08:28. > :08:33.Cuba., one, that the patriarch has very warm ties with the Castro
:08:34. > :08:39.brothers. The Pope off the back of that recent visit has a real
:08:40. > :08:43.affection for Cuba and Cubans. And truly logistical terms, it is en
:08:44. > :08:50.route to Mexico where he will be carrying on from here, having an
:08:51. > :08:55.eight-day visit there. There is an interesting reason that it is Cuba,
:08:56. > :08:59.despite the fact that it is a secular state, it is a country that
:09:00. > :09:03.has been associated not with the Catholic faith over the years, but
:09:04. > :09:11.with Communist beliefs. That is changing, though. Thank you. If you
:09:12. > :09:18.are just joining us, Pope Francis arriving at Havana airport where he
:09:19. > :09:25.will be meeting the patriarch. That is the first time that has happened
:09:26. > :09:34.since the great schism of 1054 when Pope Leo the ninth and
:09:35. > :09:35.excommunicated the patriarch we will discuss this in more detail in a few
:09:36. > :09:43.moments. Now a look at some of
:09:44. > :09:46.the days other news. Thousands of farmers
:09:47. > :09:47.from across Greece have taken their protest
:09:48. > :09:49.against austerity measures Fires have broken out among
:09:50. > :09:52.the crowds and there've been The workers are angry at government
:09:53. > :09:59.plans to increase their taxes. A five-story building has collapsed
:10:00. > :10:01.in the centre of Istanbul. Local news organisations say
:10:02. > :10:03.the building came down near Istiklal Avenue,
:10:04. > :10:08.a busy pedestrianised street. The Istanbul governor has told
:10:09. > :10:13.reporters that noises from the building alerted people
:10:14. > :10:16.that it was about to collapse, the area was evacuated
:10:17. > :10:18.and it appears that no one Former FIFA Secretary General Jerome
:10:19. > :10:24.Valck has been banned from all football-related
:10:25. > :10:28.activity for 12 years. Valcke was found guilty by FIFA's
:10:29. > :10:31.Ethics Committee of a wide range of offences, including taking
:10:32. > :10:39.private jets for personal use, destroying evidence and trying
:10:40. > :10:41.to force through an undervalued sale European scientists have decided
:10:42. > :10:48.to give up trying to contact the Philae space robot,
:10:49. > :10:50.which became the first craft to touchdown on a comet
:10:51. > :10:53.more than a year ago. Philae operated for just 60 hours
:10:54. > :10:56.after an awkward landing. Contact was briefly re-established
:10:57. > :10:59.with the lander last July, but Mission Control has now given up
:11:00. > :11:01.hope of any further communication as the comet heads towards a much
:11:02. > :11:12.colder part of its orbit. A BBC Investigation has found that
:11:13. > :11:15.paedophiles are using secret groups on Facebook to groom children
:11:16. > :11:17.and exchange obscene images. Online settings mean these groups
:11:18. > :11:20.are invisible to ordinary users - The Children's Commissioner
:11:21. > :11:28.for England says the company isn't doing enough to protect children
:11:29. > :11:31.by policing the groups. Facebook has now agreed
:11:32. > :11:33.to investigate. Angus Crawford has this
:11:34. > :11:40.special investigation. Neil Ivel calls himself
:11:41. > :11:43.a "paedophile hunter." He and his wife pretend to be young
:11:44. > :11:46.girls online to expose the men that This man, Lee Hardy, pleaded guilty
:11:47. > :11:54.and was sent to prison. Why would you go and
:11:55. > :12:01.do that to a child? Hardy was a member
:12:02. > :12:04.of a secret group. Facebook settings mean
:12:05. > :12:06.that these kind of groups We all know there's
:12:07. > :12:13.a dark side of the web. Everyone thinks
:12:14. > :12:16.Facebook's brilliant. Put a little status on,
:12:17. > :12:19.you know, go to the shops. We decided to find
:12:20. > :12:25.out for ourselves - setting up our own fake profile,
:12:26. > :12:28.gaining access to closed Many of the pictures
:12:29. > :12:35.in these groups are obscene, indecent, but what is as disturbing
:12:36. > :12:38.is that many other pictures appear to have been stolen and disgusting
:12:39. > :12:40.comments have been written Facebook actively promotes
:12:41. > :12:53.its family values. And takes pride
:12:54. > :12:56.in its safety standards. Surely, they'd quickly remove
:12:57. > :12:58.this type of material once So, we used Facebook's own report
:12:59. > :13:06.button to tell them about some They did not breach
:13:07. > :13:14.the company's standards. The picture of this girl in bra
:13:15. > :13:20.and pants wasn't taken down. Nor was this one in a group called
:13:21. > :13:25."Cute teen schoolies". We reported a whole group called
:13:26. > :13:28."We Love Schoolgirlz." We showed what we found
:13:29. > :13:33.to the Children's Commissioner for It would be completely necessary,
:13:34. > :13:40.in my view, for Facebook to be very proactive about recognising these
:13:41. > :13:42.are here seeking out, at very least, the very obvious titles of these
:13:43. > :13:48.groups and closing them down. From what we've shown you,
:13:49. > :13:50.are they doing enough? We asked Facebook for an interview,
:13:51. > :13:58.but our request was refused so we caught up with the company's
:13:59. > :14:01.Head of Public Policy at an event When it comes to specific groups
:14:02. > :14:06.I think it's really important that we investigate the group,
:14:07. > :14:09.so if you're able to share the details of the groups with me
:14:10. > :14:12.then I can work with my colleagues who do the investigating on these
:14:13. > :14:15.and make sure we are investigating and removing the content
:14:16. > :14:17.that shouldn't be there, also dealing directly with law
:14:18. > :14:19.enforcement to make sure that they are aware of these
:14:20. > :14:22.groups and that we follow That's really important that
:14:23. > :14:26.were going to do that and we can give you that commitment
:14:27. > :14:28.that we are going to do that. The worst of what we found
:14:29. > :14:31.we handed to police, Facebook says it will
:14:32. > :14:32.also investigate. But how many more such groups exist
:14:33. > :14:35.and are Facebook's procedures robust enough to find them
:14:36. > :14:56.and shut them down? Let's return to the arrival of the
:14:57. > :15:03.Pope in Havana, where he is due to meet Patriarch Kirril. It is an
:15:04. > :15:08.historic moment, the first time that both leaders, the Pope and the
:15:09. > :15:09.patriarch have met for a thousand years.
:15:10. > :15:18.He is the author of Francis: Pope of Good Promise.
:15:19. > :15:24.It is a symbolic moment. Will there be some sections of both churches
:15:25. > :15:30.who will not be quite so happy? Yes, let's not forget that we have a
:15:31. > :15:34.section of the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine who consider themselves
:15:35. > :15:44.Catholics who are obviously on the wrong side of the Crimea crisis, who
:15:45. > :15:47.were accused by Moscow of stimulating uprising against the
:15:48. > :15:52.pro-Russian president. There is quite a lot of attention on that.
:15:53. > :15:56.Your correspondence before was talking about the tensions that the
:15:57. > :16:02.reduced to be with Pope John Paul II. He was Polish, don't forget. The
:16:03. > :16:06.Polish Catholic bishops were trying to reach some sort of agreement with
:16:07. > :16:09.Patriarch Kirril and reached the conclusion about two years ago that
:16:10. > :16:17.there was nothing doing because he was very for President Putin. Also
:16:18. > :16:21.the human rights people in Russia. This is patriarchy he has said very
:16:22. > :16:29.little about human rights violations, hasn't spoken by the --
:16:30. > :16:36.spoken out about President Putin. What is the point of this? The point
:16:37. > :16:40.of it in one word is Syria, I would of thought, given the news that you
:16:41. > :16:47.were headlining before. Everything is coming together, as Europe
:16:48. > :16:52.correspondence pointed out there is real concern about the persecution
:16:53. > :16:58.of the Christians in Syria and North Africa. The threat of terrorism by
:16:59. > :17:01.Isis and others. They want to form some kind of common front on this.
:17:02. > :17:04.What is some kind of common front on this.
:17:05. > :17:11.will really break the ice theologically, is that this is the
:17:12. > :17:17.first Catholic Pope that on his election day comes onto the balcony
:17:18. > :17:22.at St Peter's and 30 much the first word he said is that I am the Bishop
:17:23. > :17:28.of Rome. He is saying I am not the huge authority, commanding authority
:17:29. > :17:32.over all the Christians, he is saying I bishop like anybody else.
:17:33. > :17:39.Given that the system a thousand years ago was begun as I sleep over
:17:40. > :17:45.the issue of primacy, this is a real olive branch to the Orthodox
:17:46. > :17:51.churches. We will see extraordinary images. Here is the humble Pope
:17:52. > :17:57.Francis meeting this Orthodox patriarchy he will have a slightly
:17:58. > :18:04.more elaborate vestments. Superficially chalk and cheese.
:18:05. > :18:08.Let's hope Pope Francis brings a bit of humility to the Russian Orthodox
:18:09. > :18:12.Church. The reason it is in Cuba, which is an interesting choice,
:18:13. > :18:18.given the Communist background backcountry the fact that it is a
:18:19. > :18:26.more secular country? Yes, don't forget that the Cubans were Catholic
:18:27. > :18:37.before they became Communist. Fidel Castro was educated by the Jesuits.
:18:38. > :18:42.In northern Spain. It is a perfect meeting point, particularly again
:18:43. > :18:46.that correspond to -- correspondence pointed out, very soon after this
:18:47. > :18:52.dramatic reconciliation between Cuba and the US, which the Vatican had a
:18:53. > :18:55.huge play in terms of mediation. A young Japanese MP who made
:18:56. > :18:58.headlines last year for his insisting on taking paternity leave
:18:59. > :19:01.has quit parliament after confessing to an affair with a bikini model
:19:02. > :19:06.while his wife was pregnant. Kensuke Miyazaki made
:19:07. > :19:10.waves inside the ruling Liberal Democratic Party
:19:11. > :19:12.when he announced he would be the first Japanese MP ever
:19:13. > :19:14.to take paternity leave, but this week a Japanese magazine
:19:15. > :19:32.revealed the scandal. Bowing deeply and repeatedly,
:19:33. > :19:36.Kensuke Miyazaki went before the cameras today to confess his
:19:37. > :19:40.infidelity. Young, handsome, successful and apparently a devoted
:19:41. > :19:44.husband, Kensuke Miyazaki had become the poster boy for those who want
:19:45. > :19:49.Japanese men to do more to help raise their children. Kensuke
:19:50. > :19:54.Miyazaki and his wife are both Members of Parliament for the ruling
:19:55. > :19:58.Liberal Democratic Party. In December he made headlines when he
:19:59. > :20:02.announced he would become the first Japanese sitting MP ever to take
:20:03. > :20:10.paternity leave. It was supposed to begin this week. In Japan, only 2.3%
:20:11. > :20:17.of the Father's Day paternity leave. The government wants to raise it to
:20:18. > :20:23.13% by 2020. I thought that by declaring I wanted to take paternity
:20:24. > :20:27.leave I could cause a bit of a stir. Instead, Kensuke Miyazaki is out of
:20:28. > :20:30.a job and in disgrace. Earlier this week a Japanese scandal magazine
:20:31. > :20:36.published a story alleging that while his wife was preparing to give
:20:37. > :20:42.birth in Tokyo, Kensuke Miyazaki was in his apartment in Q2 with another
:20:43. > :20:47.woman. Today, he admitted it was true. There is now concerned from
:20:48. > :20:52.former supporters that his scandal will be used by those who oppose
:20:53. > :20:56.Japanese men taking time off to be with their newborn children. Japan
:20:57. > :21:05.has one of the most generous paternity leave systems in the
:21:06. > :21:08.world. Men can, in theory, take up to a year off work, but many bosses
:21:09. > :21:13.still refuse or threatened meal workers with dismissal or demotion
:21:14. > :21:15.if they do. Right now, only to prove -- 2.3% of Japanese men to take any
:21:16. > :21:24.paternity leave at all. Sometimes the online world can be
:21:25. > :21:27.cruel and its targets One of them was a four-year-old boy
:21:28. > :21:30.with Pfeiffer Syndrome, which leads to facial deformity,
:21:31. > :21:33.who became a meme online. But his mother decided to fight
:21:34. > :21:37.back, using the internet to educate I was going through my phone
:21:38. > :22:04.on Facebook and one of the moms in a group I'm in on Facebook,
:22:05. > :22:07.she posted it and said, Within a couple of minutes people
:22:08. > :22:12.had tagged me in it and said, It just didn't even resonate with me
:22:13. > :22:35.as even attempting to be funny. I just didn't understand the intent
:22:36. > :22:45.behind someone that made that. Every time we would finally get
:22:46. > :22:50.Facebook to take one down, it's like within an hour somebody
:22:51. > :22:52.would send us a link You click on the report button
:22:53. > :23:05.and you and you just report it for whatever content you think
:23:06. > :23:07.it's being misused for, I don't know that that is
:23:08. > :23:09.what necessarily takes But when I looked into it more
:23:10. > :23:13.and I found the copyright claim, every time I filled out
:23:14. > :23:15.the copyright form, that photo was taken down usually
:23:16. > :23:17.within 24 hours. People share stuff that
:23:18. > :23:19.engages them in some way. Often times that engagement
:23:20. > :23:21.is something they makes them And then a subset of that is
:23:22. > :23:28.engagement that's humorous She enlisted friends,
:23:29. > :23:31.she enlisted people to spread the meaning of, let's take these
:23:32. > :23:34.down, in a way that used the same tool that spread the image to
:23:35. > :23:39.the service of removing the image. I've had a lot of people reach out
:23:40. > :23:42.and say, "I didn't know that was a real child in that photo
:23:43. > :23:46.and I saw your story on the news and I want to thank you for sharing
:23:47. > :23:50.what he has and what it is about. And I'm so sorry for
:23:51. > :23:56.posting that meme." It's turned into something more
:23:57. > :23:58.than just distorting the photo Those of you who can't
:23:59. > :24:17.send a message on phone, tablet, or computer without an emoji
:24:18. > :24:23.attached may well already know that US reality TV star Kim Kardashian
:24:24. > :24:26.has released her own set of wildly Now these icons are facing
:24:27. > :24:31.new competition from a set that mock another famous Kim -
:24:32. > :24:33.the North Korean leader, The "Kimunji" series
:24:34. > :24:39.features Mr Kim, his father and his grandfather,
:24:40. > :24:45.as well as various military weapons. They were created by US-based web
:24:46. > :24:47.designer Ben Gillin who says he hopes they will get people
:24:48. > :24:54.talking about North Korea. Mr Gillin also says
:24:55. > :24:56.he created the icons to mock Kardashian Kimojis, which he says
:24:57. > :24:59.are damaging to society. The reality star's Kimoji app became
:25:00. > :25:01.the top-selling app on iTunes A reminder of our main news: World
:25:02. > :25:14.powers have struck a deal It stipulates a cessation
:25:15. > :25:22.of hostilities in a week's time and an immediate start of aid
:25:23. > :25:24.deliveries to some besieged towns. But in an interview recorded before
:25:25. > :25:27.the deal was announced, President, Bashar al-Assad,
:25:28. > :25:28.says he intends to fight on until he's brought the whole
:25:29. > :25:48.country back under his control. President, Bashar al-Assad,
:25:49. > :25:50.says he intends to fight on until he's brought the whole
:25:51. > :25:55.country back under his control. But for now from me,
:25:56. > :26:10.Tim Wilcox, and the rest There is a cold weekend in prospect,
:26:11. > :26:11.some to