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A libyan man has won the right to sue the former Foreign Secretary, jack straw, over claims of kidnap and torture. An 18 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage girl in rotherham. Three years after the Malaysia Airlines flight mh370 went missing, the search is called off, leaving families devastated. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Theresa may is due to set out her strategy for brexit this lunchtime. In a speech in central london, the Prime Minister is expe...

Of spirituality. most inventory gelicals, including those i talk to, dont take falwell jr. too seriously as one of their own. he is mainly there because, as frank pointed out brilliantly, hes a grifter with a last name. oh, look at the picture you just showed when i said that. so, you know, the main thing about it is that for so many years, hes able to do this, and these modern-day pharisees have really got a clever racket going. this is a guy who endorsed donald trump after trump promised to tu...

Argue it. this was a period of time when we had been attacked -- >> is it the right move to discontinue those programs today? >> if it were my call i would not discontinue those programs. i would have them active and ready to go. >> dick cheney came out of the shadows this week to embark on a full blown campaign to bring back torture. the former vice president took to fox in us to promote the revival of so-called enhanced interrogation programs like water boarding which were utilized under presi...

Just one day after president trumps decision to unilaterally withdraw from the iran nuclear deal, there are troubling signs of renewed tensions and violence. but hours after a missile strike killed 15 people, according to the observatory for human rights that monitors these things. tonight iran fired about 20 rockets from the golan heights from syria according to an israeli military spokesman. the presidents decision to pull out of the deal that ostensibly would prevent iran from becoming a nucl...

And lets look at the promises kept and unfulfilled. we have a list to show you there. he has managed to get a new tax law, with draw from the paris accord, and reversal of all the environmental restrictions and calling jerusalems israels capital, and he did not have the border wall, bringing jobs back, and bringing back torture, and muslim registry, repeal and replace. what are your thoughts on his puffery over the most ever? >> this is president trump. whether he is president or not he will nev...

Protesters, and we also heard this from now president donald trump. so to say that he was joking, to me that insults the intelligence of the american people, but i think another important part of this story is what president trump has talked about on the campaign, not just the disregard for the rule of law here in america, you know, for domestic policies, but also internationally, too. hes talked about war crimes, talked about bringing back torture. talked about a lot of these things that were b...

But the question is now given that is your policy, that is your world doctrine, what is your response. >> tim? >> i think as a candidate for the presidency, donald trump was the only republican in recent memory that both served some red meat to the neoconservative crowd and also the libertarian crowd. he criticized the war in iraq, the war in libya, also talked about george w. bush being responsible for 9/11. but at the same time talking about bombing the expletive out of isis, taking their oil,...

And the answer was yes. absolutely. i want to do everything within the bounds of what youre allowed to do legally but do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. >> the president of the united states last night explicitly endorsed the idea the u.s. might bring back torture. while claiming he would stay within the bounds of what youre allowed to do legally, trump repeatedly praised torture. to be clear, even when the bush administration called torture enhanced interrogation techniques, it was...

>> this was going to be a wonderful meeting, basking in the -- with the president. trying to get this deal between the uk and the u.s., and the brexit negotiations, it would really burnish her credentials, although her visit is very much overshadowed by whats just happened when the u.s. and mexico and the war and the wall and who is going to pay for it and plus shes going to have to on behalf of her own country, challenge or advice the president not to bring back torture, or black sites all the ...

That the governments eyes and ears are everywhere surveilling citizens is not any more concern during trump administration than during barack obamas term. the book also saw a spike in sales in 2013 when edward snowden leaked information about nsa surveillance. >> very, very interesting. coming up breaking news in the first interview since inauguration president trump says he supports water boarding. senator john mccain is warning him we are not bringing back torture. americas beverage companies ...