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Spoke about the issues at stake with the president of the un generalassembly, dennis francis. Thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news, president. This is obviously a very busy week at the General Assembly, but also special summits on the sdgs, global finance, Un Security Council is meeting as well, High Level Health meetings, but leaders of some of the most powerful countries have chosen not to attend france, the uk, india, china, russia. Do you consider that a snob . No, i dont. I dont at...

Canadian Security Agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government Of India and the killing of a canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh nijjar. Canada is a rule of law country. The protection of our citizens and defence of our sovereignty are fundamental. Ourtop defence of our sovereignty are fundamental. Our Top Priorities have therefore been firstly that our Law Enforcement and Security Agencies ensure the continued safety of all canadians...

Our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, sent this report from doha. The first steps to freedom. Finally, leaving iran. Two hours later, touching down in doha. Imagine the emotion inside this plane. Opening the door on a new life, five former prisoners. Relief and joy palpable as they embraced american and qatari officials. The success of months of indirect talks here between arch enemies, iran and america. These are three of the freed prisoners. Two others did not want their identity...

Earlier, i spoke with the Executive Director of the center for human rights in iran, hadi ghaemi, about the prisoner swap, and what it means for both countries. Let mejust open let me just open first and foremost by saying how happy we are and congratulate the families and individuals� s hostages that should never have beenin hostages that should never have been in this place and they were just been in this place and they werejust in been in this place and they were just in the wrong place at ...

It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. Ijust wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of isr...

May i first of all, congratulate the Prime Minister on her triumph last friday. Here, here. Can ijoin my right honourable and learned friend in congratulating my right honourable friend in driving through an improved agreement on friday against what many thought could not have been feasible. Today really was an illustration about old Harold Wilson cliche that a week is a long time in politics. So how did theresa may go from humiliation in brussels to widespread praise on her own benches . Well, ...

The latest advice to tackle obesity. In sport, there is no fairytale ending for one of the most successful sportsmen of all time. Debutant rob cross outplayed phil the power taylor in his final world darts final. 16 time champion taylor retiring with a defeat. And matt has the weather. Morning. Good morning. Lovely bright and frosty start in northern and eastern areas, but wet and windy weather in the west. Even if you miss out on the rain today, there is going to be storms on the way tonight. I...

It is an investigation from the ft but they are making some pretty serious allegations about what they are presented as an evening of debauchery. This was two report going undercover at this president s clu b going undercover at this president s club dinner which i had never heard of but apparently has been going for 33 years and it is men only, the guests, 360 guests and they hire 130 hostesses to entertain the men in the evening. Hostess inc happens a lot in clubland and so on but some of this...

Hear. Get in touch with us using the hashtag beyond0nehundreddays. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london, jane obrien is in washington. He had fooled his employer, he had fooled the parents, some of whom were doctors themselves, some of them serving Police Officers. He was so well practised in his abuse that larry nassar believed he was untouchable. But this week the former doctor of usa gymnastics was unmasked for the monster he is. And today he was sentenced to up to 175 years in pri...

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