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this is bbc news. the headlines: the un secretary general calls for an immediate ceasefire in sudan after at least 56 people were killed in clashes between rival military factions. the leader of the nurses�* union says theyre prepared to continue strikes in england right up to christmas unless the government puts more money on the table for a pay deal. the chief minister of the indian state of uttar pradesh appeals for calm after a former politician convicted of kidnapping is shot de...

the nuremberg trials have made genocide and other crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today? ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. you were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. you moved to the united states with your family when you were a little baby. you really epitomise the american dream, a kind of rags to riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to harvard law school. we arrived i...

years thinking about the medal that never was, congratulations on a well deserved honor, erin burnett up front starts now. ♪. ♪. ♪. >> next russian going broke, a russian old guard close to putin with a warning tonight, one of hardest fought battles oh. war and well go live to the ground >> alex murdaugh vowing to appeal life sentence for murdering his wife and son says hes innocent, a brand new picture >> and jim gordon, the fbi and doj for playing politics, major signs his case...

Into the army and i was a buck private, the lowest rank you can get, assigned to be in the artillery battalion. in that capacity, we landed on the beaches of normandy. france was occupied by the germans. the only way to...move the war forward, get rid of the war, was defeat the germans. i sailed from lands end at the tip of england across to omaha beach, which was still... had been cleared by the time i got there a bit, but there were many soldiers in american uniform still lying in the sea face...

100 flying hours per year and the u.s. counterpart is 200 to 250 hours a year. >> sanctions and withdrawals of so many countries from russia is punishing their economy severely and the ukrainians are putting to excellent use the weaponry supplied to them by the west, and the anti-tank missiles donated by the brits are one example. it has been become clear that the ukrainians have good intelligence gathering and weaponizing the disillusionment of many slavic brothers in the russia military. but i...

Well, it did excite my interest in not being on the criminal side, i mean, put it that way. there was crime all around, and i had made up my mind early that i didnt want to be a cowboy, and i didnt want to be a fireman, ididnt want to be a crook, either. and that sort of much left me to go to the law, and i have focused on that ever since. after you graduated from harvard law school in 1943, you joined the us military and joined a battalion preparing for the invasion of france. what are your key...

I enlisted wherever i could get into the army, and i was a buck private, the lowest rain you can get, assigned to be in the artillery battalion. in that capacity, we landed on the beaches of normandy. france was occupied by the germans. the only to move the war forward, to get rid of the war was to defeat the germans. i sailed from lands end, the tip of england, across to omaha beach, which was still, er, had been cleared by the time i got there a bit, but there were many soldiers in american un...

Night. we bring you what his perfect presidential kaed will look like. we start in libya tonight. richard engel is in benghazi tonight following all the developments. richard, the opposition has had a pretty good set of 48 hours. thats been clear, just watching your reporting. the progress that they made. what is the latest? where are they -- how successful have they been at pushing gadhafis troops back? >> reporter: theyve been very successful the last 48 hours because they didnt have to push...