:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Kasia Madera.
:00:07. > :00:08.The headlines, Europe contemplates its future
:00:09. > :00:15.As the remaining 27 members have been holding a day long summit,
:00:16. > :00:18.Germany's Angela Merkel says the EU's situation is
:00:19. > :00:27.critical and illegal migration must be stopped.
:00:28. > :00:34.I am live at the summit in Russia's lover. I have just come from a press
:00:35. > :00:37.conference where they were talking about being confident and happy
:00:38. > :00:40.about the European Union's future. Setting the record straight
:00:41. > :00:42.on the birther theory: Donald Trump finally accepts that Barack Obama
:00:43. > :00:45.was born in the US - Hillary Clinton says he owes
:00:46. > :01:01.the nation an apology. President or Obama was born in the
:01:02. > :01:03.United States. I was pretty confident about where I was born. I
:01:04. > :01:06.think most people were as well. The US government has reportedly
:01:07. > :01:09.agreed to pay more than $1 million to the family of this man,
:01:10. > :01:12.who was killed in a drone And the legacy of Rio -
:01:13. > :01:16.we find out how the Paralympics is helping injured ex-servicemen
:01:17. > :01:18.who've sustained The German chancellor,
:01:19. > :01:38.Angela Merkel, has said that the 27 European Union leaders meeting
:01:39. > :01:41.in Slovakia have reached an agreement
:01:42. > :01:45.on reinvigorating the union. Mrs Merkel told reporters
:01:46. > :01:49.that they had agreed that illegal migration must be stopped
:01:50. > :01:51.or at least significantly reduced. At the first major summit
:01:52. > :01:54.since Britain voted in June to leave the EU, the German chancellor said
:01:55. > :01:57.that the leaders had agreed that there should be more
:01:58. > :02:14.co-operation on issues Security, migration, protection of
:02:15. > :02:21.external borders where very prominently discussed on our agenda.
:02:22. > :02:24.We said that we want, if possible, to stop illegal migration, at least
:02:25. > :02:30.reduce it significantly, we want to tackle the root causes of flight.
:02:31. > :02:36.Turkey agreement goes a long way to serving the purpose but we also
:02:37. > :02:41.agreed between the EU and Africa, we want to conclude agreements with
:02:42. > :02:43.countries than so far help them to improve the situation on the ground
:02:44. > :02:45.so people have no need to flee. Ros Atkins joins me
:02:46. > :02:58.from the summit in Bratislava. It looks like we have agreement,
:02:59. > :03:02.talk is through what we have here. I will be honest with you, I think we
:03:03. > :03:06.were always going to end up at this point. The EU is desperate to
:03:07. > :03:10.present a unified face to the world and desperate to change the dynamic
:03:11. > :03:13.that has been going on since that Brexit built. The spat between
:03:14. > :03:19.Luxembourg and Hungary earlier in the week about how hungry is
:03:20. > :03:22.approaching the migrant crisis did not help and 27 leaders here
:03:23. > :03:27.understood this was a moment to strike a unified, more positive note
:03:28. > :03:32.and they have just about manage that. It has proved easier to do
:03:33. > :03:36.because they never really thought to find any policy commitments. That
:03:37. > :03:40.was not what the summit was about, this is the beginning of a process
:03:41. > :03:44.that leads to a major EU gathering in Rome in March. This was always
:03:45. > :03:46.going to be about starting something, not finishing it and as
:03:47. > :03:55.such, it has been easier for a Francoise Hollande, anger Michael --
:03:56. > :04:00.Angela Merkel, where they are all striking a very similar note. One of
:04:01. > :04:04.confidence, one of being happy that they have managed to work together
:04:05. > :04:09.and one of commitment to the processes that they have now begun.
:04:10. > :04:16.We know that Donald Tusk is speaking at the moment. It is obvious that
:04:17. > :04:19.the UK was not there. This was a really important summit to show
:04:20. > :04:25.agreement because this was the first one since Brexit? Yes and lots of
:04:26. > :04:28.our viewers have been getting in touch with me on social media
:04:29. > :04:35.saying, how did this happen, is it legal? This has been an amicable
:04:36. > :04:38.agreement. The UK understands that remaining 27 members of the European
:04:39. > :04:43.Union have the right to discuss what will happen beyond Brexit. The
:04:44. > :04:48.European union leaders who have been here, they have been privately
:04:49. > :04:54.respectable about the UK saying, believe it or not, they are not
:04:55. > :04:55.talking about Brexit in detail because until the UK says it is off,
:04:56. > :05:00.we are in their strange limbo where we note the UK will leave but the EU
:05:01. > :05:04.and the UK are not yet talking about it. The expectation was perhaps that
:05:05. > :05:09.Brexit would dominate but that was not the case. The three issues
:05:10. > :05:13.dominating are the migrant crisis, security and the EU's economy. They
:05:14. > :05:19.have been discussed more than Brexit. We are just getting some
:05:20. > :05:23.more details with Donald Tusk saying that the EU are well prepared and
:05:24. > :05:29.could start Brexit negotiations tomorrow but respect the EU -- the
:05:30. > :05:35.UK's wishes to delay. In terms of migration, bring us up to date about
:05:36. > :05:40.what has been agreed? To be honest, not much. We have a situation where
:05:41. > :05:45.the EU adopted a plan, a quarter system whereby different member
:05:46. > :05:48.states would take on different amounts of migrants. The only
:05:49. > :05:52.problem was, despite this being adopted by the EU, a number of
:05:53. > :05:57.countries, including Slovakia, said, we are not doing it. The Prime
:05:58. > :06:07.Minister of Slovakia said, we will not take one single migrants.
:06:08. > :06:11.Listening to EU officials here, all they have said is, they are working
:06:12. > :06:16.hard on finding a solution and they won't talk to Turkey further to see
:06:17. > :06:20.if there are more deals or more areas of cooperation to be found but
:06:21. > :06:23.if you ask them if there is a different plan to the quota system
:06:24. > :06:37.but at the moment isn't working, the short answer is, there is not.
:06:38. > :06:43.Donald Tusk saying negotiations must be run in the interests of the EU,
:06:44. > :06:46.not Britain. For the first time Donald Trump has
:06:47. > :06:48.personally acknowledged that President Obama was born
:06:49. > :06:50.in the United States. The Republican candidate
:06:51. > :06:53.accused his Democratic Party rival, Hillary Clinton, of first raising
:06:54. > :06:56.the issue eight years ago. President Obama said he hoped
:06:57. > :06:59.that the election campaign Mr Trump first questioned
:07:00. > :07:04.the president's place of birth five years ago when Mr Obama was running
:07:05. > :07:10.for a second term in office. Let's cross to Washington and speak
:07:11. > :07:23.to our reporter, Anthony Zurcher. This is a complete reversal of what
:07:24. > :07:28.Donald Trump was saying in the first place. What do you make of all this?
:07:29. > :07:34.It is a pretty extraordinary moment here in Washington this morning. I
:07:35. > :07:37.was at the Donald Trump hotel in downtown Washington, DC where he had
:07:38. > :07:42.a campaign event. We waited for about an hour and he finally started
:07:43. > :07:46.and then we all expected a big announcement, all these rumours of a
:07:47. > :07:55.reversal started. Yesterday when told Trump denied backing away from
:07:56. > :07:59.his belief that President Obama was born somewhere besides the US but
:08:00. > :08:03.then the campaign sent out a press release and Donald Trump said he had
:08:04. > :08:06.a major announcement. He finally took the stage and brought some
:08:07. > :08:10.military advisers about his book for a while and finally, finally, he had
:08:11. > :08:19.his big announcement. Here it is. Hillary Clinton, and her campaign of
:08:20. > :08:27.2008 started with the birth controversy. I finished it. I
:08:28. > :08:35.finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in
:08:36. > :08:41.the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making
:08:42. > :08:49.America strong and great again. Thank you. Thank you very much. So,
:08:50. > :08:54.there it is. Donald Trump said that Barack Obama was born in America.
:08:55. > :08:59.This was supposed to be a press conference where he would take media
:09:00. > :09:03.questions. He didn't. After he finished that line, he walked out
:09:04. > :09:07.with the media shouting questions after him about why he changed his
:09:08. > :09:12.position and what he was going to do now. If he thinks he can put this
:09:13. > :09:16.issue behind him and it does seem to be hurting him in the polls a bit,
:09:17. > :09:21.particularly with black voters, I think that will be difficult. He
:09:22. > :09:26.said Hillary Clinton was responsible in this interpersonal and get which
:09:27. > :09:31.people have found not to be true. Some of her supporters may have then
:09:32. > :09:34.raised those questions but her campaign never did. Hillary Clinton
:09:35. > :09:37.doesn't seem that she is going to let this drop. Earlier today she had
:09:38. > :09:47.her own comments about what Ultram has said.
:09:48. > :09:54.For five years, he has led the birth movement to D legitimise our first
:09:55. > :10:03.black President. His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie.
:10:04. > :10:07.There is no raising it in history. Just yesterday, Donald Trump again
:10:08. > :10:14.refused to say with his own words that the President was born in the
:10:15. > :10:20.United States. Now, Donald's advisers had the temerity to say he
:10:21. > :10:28.is doing the service -- the country a service by pushing these lies.
:10:29. > :10:37.Now. He is not. He is feeding in to the worst impulses, the bigotry and
:10:38. > :10:40.bias that looks in our country. So, Hillary Clinton obviously is not
:10:41. > :10:46.willing to let this go. She tweeted last night, calling Donald trump the
:10:47. > :10:54.birth in chief. Her campaign released a statement that said they
:10:55. > :10:59.are not going to let anyone forget about Donald Trump's role in this
:11:00. > :11:05.and his ongoing from 2011 to this year raising the spectre of Barack
:11:06. > :11:07.Obama may be not being born on US soil so I think we will see this
:11:08. > :11:12.play out in the campaign running forward and I would not be surprised
:11:13. > :11:17.to see a key exchange between the two campaign candidates in a debate
:11:18. > :11:21.later this month. Barack Obama was his usual relaxed self about this
:11:22. > :11:23.saying he was confident where he was born but you have already mentioned
:11:24. > :11:30.that this is damaging Donald Trump in the polls? It is, it is hurting
:11:31. > :11:35.him, not among black voters only but also among moderates and swing
:11:36. > :11:39.borders in places like Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia suburbs who are
:11:40. > :11:43.traditionally Republican. They look at Donald Trump embracing what is
:11:44. > :11:46.pretty clearly a fringe conspiracy theory and that puts him outside the
:11:47. > :11:51.political mainstream in this country. The irony also is that even
:11:52. > :11:54.if Barack Obama was born in tenure as some people allege, he would
:11:55. > :11:59.still be qualified to be US President. All it takes is being a
:12:00. > :12:05.natural born citizen and that requires one parent being a US
:12:06. > :12:10.citizen. His mother was born in Kansas. He is a US citizen.
:12:11. > :12:22.Remarkable that we are still speaking about this!
:12:23. > :12:25.In other news: Russia has said it is ready to extend the Syria
:12:26. > :12:28.ceasefire set to run out Friday evening for another 72 hours,
:12:29. > :12:30.despite accusing the US and rebels of not fulfilling the deal.
:12:31. > :12:32.Numerous ceasefire breaches by both sides have been reported,
:12:33. > :12:35.with UN aid workers saying they are unable to secure safe
:12:36. > :12:39.A suicide bomber has attacked a mosque in north-west Pakistan
:12:40. > :12:43.killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens of others.
:12:44. > :12:47.According to local officials, the bomber struck during Friday
:12:48. > :12:50.prayers in the village of Butmana in Mohmand district bordering
:12:51. > :12:55.July and August were the joint hottest months ever recorded
:12:56. > :12:59.across the planet, according to the UN weather agency.
:13:00. > :13:03.2016 is on course to be the hottest year since temperatures
:13:04. > :13:06.were first recorded in the nineteenth century.
:13:07. > :13:08.The World Meteorological Organisation describe it
:13:09. > :13:13.as the planet sending out distress signals.
:13:14. > :13:16.A judge in London has ruled that an autistic man accused of hacking
:13:17. > :13:20.into government computers in the United States can be
:13:21. > :13:25.Lauri Love is accused of breaking into the computer systems
:13:26. > :13:28.of various agencies, including the US Federal Reserve,
:13:29. > :13:50.Mr Love has previously said he fears dying in a US prison.
:13:51. > :13:53.The US government has agreed to pay $1.2 million to the family
:13:54. > :13:56.of an Italian aid worker killed in a drone strike in Pakistan.
:13:57. > :13:58.Giovanni Lo Porto and American aid worker, Warren Weinstein,
:13:59. > :14:01.were being held hostage by al-Qaeda when they died in a US
:14:02. > :14:02.counter-terrorism operation on the Pakistan-Afghan
:14:03. > :14:06.The White House has confirmed that payments were made to both families,
:14:07. > :14:10.But the Guardian's Stephanie Kirshgaysner has seen the documents
:14:11. > :14:13.and broke the news on the settlement together with the Italian
:14:14. > :14:29.The US have not outlined the details but you have seen the initial
:14:30. > :14:41.reports. Ring us up-to-date. What details? They obtained the details
:14:42. > :14:45.of this extraordinary payment by the US government. The reason is such an
:14:46. > :14:51.important moment is that it is the first time the US government made a
:14:52. > :14:55.document payment to a victim of a drone strike that was killed outside
:14:56. > :15:02.a declared war zone, in this case Pakistan. The document is pretty
:15:03. > :15:08.standard legal document. A representative of the US embassy
:15:09. > :15:15.here in Rome met with some other officials and agreed to make a
:15:16. > :15:21.payment of 1.2 million euros to the parents of Giovanni Lo Porto and
:15:22. > :15:27.there was no acceptance of responsibility or apology in this
:15:28. > :15:33.document but it said that it was made as a donation in the memory of
:15:34. > :15:35.Giovanni Lo Porto. They describe the money as a condolence payment,
:15:36. > :15:39.adding that no figure would bring back the families of loved ones. I
:15:40. > :15:42.know that you have been in conversation previously with the
:15:43. > :15:47.brother of Giovanni Lo Porto, have you had a chance to talk to the
:15:48. > :15:53.family? It is really an extremely development also because when we
:15:54. > :16:00.spoke to Giovanni Lo Porto's brother earlier this year, it became clear
:16:01. > :16:04.that the family felt abandoned both by the US government and the Italian
:16:05. > :16:10.government, even though President Obama did accept responsibility for
:16:11. > :16:13.the accidental killing of both aid workers. They had never heard from
:16:14. > :16:21.the US government again. In fact they had trouble transferring
:16:22. > :16:28.Giovanni Lo Porto's body from Rome to his home. We have gone from bad
:16:29. > :16:37.to suddenly this extraordinary payment of 1.2 million euros. I did
:16:38. > :16:40.have an e-mail chat with his mother who was really just talking about
:16:41. > :16:44.her grief and loss of her son and didn't the payment at all. His
:16:45. > :16:58.brother did confirm the payment. The United Nations is still waiting
:16:59. > :17:01.to deliver aid to the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo four days
:17:02. > :17:04.after a ceasefire came into effect. At least 250,000 people
:17:05. > :17:07.are in desperate need of food and medicine, but the UN says
:17:08. > :17:10.the Syrian government has failed to provide permits to trucks
:17:11. > :17:13.into rebel-held east Aleppo. The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy
:17:14. > :17:16.Bowen filed this report from a university campus
:17:17. > :17:30.in government-controlled This is the campus of Aleppo
:17:31. > :17:37.University and since 2012 it has been used as a shelter for displaced
:17:38. > :17:43.people. I am told that around 20,000 people live here. It could be worse.
:17:44. > :17:47.They can go out and work and come and go as they please. It is very
:17:48. > :17:50.different from the situation in eastern Aleppo where they do not get
:17:51. > :17:55.the supplies in the way that places like this are supplied. This was
:17:56. > :18:00.student accommodation. The rooms that used to hold a single student,
:18:01. > :18:08.maybe two, now hold one family, maybe two. It is overcrowded but the
:18:09. > :18:12.people who live here are keeping it as clean as they can. The
:18:13. > :18:17.humanitarian side of things is a big component to the ceasefire
:18:18. > :18:21.agreement. It was how they got a lot of the rebel groups who did not like
:18:22. > :18:27.the agreement because they felt it let the Assad regime off the hook,
:18:28. > :18:32.the way they got involved in it. The idea is, that humanitarian aid will
:18:33. > :18:38.flow into areas that the government had deliberately cut off from food
:18:39. > :18:45.supplies. Now, so far, that has not happened. By now, the hope was that
:18:46. > :18:52.convoys of relief aid be moving along the highway. The road runs
:18:53. > :18:56.into the north-western sector of Aleppo. The UN has blamed the Syrian
:18:57. > :19:02.government for not giving the relevant permissions to let the
:19:03. > :19:06.lorries in. Now, if the humanitarian part of the ceasefire does not work,
:19:07. > :19:10.the rest of it probably won't stand either. The longer this road stays
:19:11. > :19:16.empty, the more likely it is that the ceasefire will collapse.
:19:17. > :19:18.The Italian Prime Minister says the state cannot intervene
:19:19. > :19:20.to prevent people posting intimate or salacious material online.
:19:21. > :19:23.Matteo Renzi was speaking in response to the suicide
:19:24. > :19:26.of a woman who fought for months to have her sex video
:19:27. > :19:28.removed from the internet, after being mocked
:19:29. > :19:45.Her funeral procession was broadcast live on television.
:19:46. > :19:49.She was 31 and she killed herself on Tuesday.
:19:50. > :19:57.1 million people viewed an explicit video of her on the internet.
:19:58. > :20:00.She sent it to her ex-boyfriend and three others.
:20:01. > :20:05.After it went viral she left her job, moved home
:20:06. > :20:08.and was in the process of changing her name,
:20:09. > :20:12.In court she won the right to be forgotten.
:20:13. > :20:16.Websites and search engines including Facebook were ordered
:20:17. > :20:21.Four men are now being investigated for defamation.
:20:22. > :20:24.Campaigners say this is a global problem and people who post these
:20:25. > :20:28.kind of images and those who share and copy them have to be tackled
:20:29. > :20:33.There are no boundaries and borders to the internet.
:20:34. > :20:36.What happens online certainly affects us offline.
:20:37. > :20:42.And that can be no more clear than with revenge porn.
:20:43. > :20:50.Recently need criminal laws which are prohibitive.
:20:51. > :20:53.The dissemination of someone else's private images,
:20:54. > :20:59.there needs to be an expectation of privacy around the world.
:21:00. > :21:02.International model Leomie Anderson spoke out earlier this year.
:21:03. > :21:06.She experienced pressure from boys to take intimate pictures of herself
:21:07. > :21:11.and she now campaigns to warn other women of the dangers of sending
:21:12. > :21:18.Sending these pictures to your partner or whoever,
:21:19. > :21:21.I think they feel it shows that your relationship is more grown
:21:22. > :21:26.And they are devastated when they receive a backlash,
:21:27. > :21:36.Many countries are time to take action on these crimes.
:21:37. > :21:38.There has been an outpouring of support for Tiziana
:21:39. > :21:40.The very thing that destroyed her life.
:21:41. > :21:43.Tiziana's family have called the justice system in Italy to act
:21:44. > :21:50.At the Paralympic Games, the athletes' impairments
:21:51. > :21:53.may reflect disease, lack of prenatal care and high
:21:54. > :21:56.rates of car accidents - but they also mirror the harsh
:21:57. > :21:59.reality of armed conflicts around the world.
:22:00. > :22:03.Soldiers wounded in wars, civilians injured by land mines
:22:04. > :22:08.and now refugees are part of the Paralympics and testament
:22:09. > :22:25.Arms open to real and picture taken for the US football squad, a first
:22:26. > :22:29.day off after the seven aside competition at the games. Four
:22:30. > :22:35.members of the team, from the US military. Three suffered dramatic
:22:36. > :22:40.brain injuries at wars overseas. The co-captain was injured in
:22:41. > :22:46.Afghanistan. 29-year-old Joshua dedicated a third of his life to the
:22:47. > :22:50.Army until a helicopter crash and explosions in Afghanistan took him
:22:51. > :22:53.out of action for good. There is now returning to work so I had
:22:54. > :22:57.difficulty deciding what I wanted to do after that and I found this team
:22:58. > :23:03.and I found a new purpose in life and now I get to play soccer every
:23:04. > :23:07.day. I get to meet all these great people. The US was one of several
:23:08. > :23:11.teams in real with athletes who were wounded in the battlefield. The
:23:12. > :23:16.Paralympic movement has its roots in war. Veterans from World War II
:23:17. > :23:22.competed in Stoke Mandeville in England in 1948, the birthplace of
:23:23. > :23:29.the games. The link to war is remembered in this international Red
:23:30. > :23:33.Cross exhibition to provoke thought and at this Swiss hospitality house.
:23:34. > :23:38.These pictures reflect the lasting impact of conflict around the world
:23:39. > :23:45.and the power of sport to help overcome the traumas and injuries of
:23:46. > :23:48.war. These athletes have had a difficult journey. This is the
:23:49. > :23:54.Paralympics response to the world's most decent crisis, the first ever
:23:55. > :24:00.refugee team. Syrian swimmer Abraham had his leg blown off in 2012 and
:24:01. > :24:07.paste the risky crossing agrees. He says 2016 has been the best year of
:24:08. > :24:12.his life. TRANSLATION: our presence in the Paralympic games is very,
:24:13. > :24:16.very important. It brings awareness to the refugee crisis and shows that
:24:17. > :24:25.sport can help put an end to the bloodshed. I hope that each ethnic
:24:26. > :24:34.can compete in his own flag. Tony was moved when I asked about his new
:24:35. > :24:39.role leading refugee team. I was the chef to mission of the British team
:24:40. > :24:46.and I was very proud to do that but this is on a different scale. As
:24:47. > :24:53.these athletes prepare to leave real, it is with a renewed sense of
:24:54. > :24:56.ambition. You don't just get on the couch and do the job were not happy
:24:57. > :25:04.with, we can find another direction and make our families proud.
:25:05. > :25:05.Violence has changed the course of their lives but sport is helping
:25:06. > :25:23.them move forward. Let's return to the presidential
:25:24. > :25:25.campaign. Until his Donald Trump could have been argued as being
:25:26. > :25:49.famous for his hairstyle as his success. Can I mess your hair up? I
:25:50. > :25:53.will be gentle! The answer is yes but the people in New Hampshire
:25:54. > :25:56.where I will be in one hour, I hope they'll understand! Did you say yes?
:25:57. > :26:14.Go-ahead. Temperatures or where they should be
:26:15. > :26:16.for this time of year.