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