More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. Jane this is bbc world news america. Reporting from jane obrien. M President Trump offers his wellwishers to an aide who left the white house ter allegations of Domestic Abuse, stirring the controversy even more. In Winter Olympics kicks off south korea, and theeating chart puts the Vice President and kim jonguns sister seats peapart. And heormance in lady bird has landed Saoirse Ronan an oscar nomination, so what does she think about the character she plays . The sort of girl that i wish een at that age. Jane welcome to our viewers on publicca television in amend around the globe. Rob porter was a white house aide before this week was fair y known toown barely the public. All that changed after the man often seen at the president s side was accused of Domestic Abuse by his two exwives. In,y the president weighed wishing him well. Jon sopel reports. Cleancut, the harvard law and oxford educated aid in the white house. After three days of confusion andos che has quit amid a swirl of Domestic Abuse allegations. Today with the president seemed to be more concerned about porter than his victims. President trump it is a tough time for him. Job when he was i the white house. We hope he has a wonderful caer, and hefully he will ve a great career ahead of him. Jon those comments brought us with counterpunch from the former Vice President. I just read before i walked on stage a statement ft m the presidying he wishes him luck, so much talent. That is like saying that axe murderer out there, he is a great painter. Nation cameses after the emergence of this photo of one of his exwives withd a black guy, ere were reports that senior staff in the white house had been aware of the allegations for months. General john kelly, chief of staff, when the story erected in e middle of the week initially said that porter was a mantyf true integnd honor. I cant say enough good things about him. By lt night that had changed, sending a memo to white house staff saying while we are processing the shocking allegations against a former staffer, i want you to know that we take matters of Domestic Violence very seriously. All of this is made more complicated by the role of hope cks, White House Communications director. She drafted theninitial statof support for porter commute in the sheet isd repor to be romantically involved with him. That yesterday brought a rare concession fm the white house podium. Say think it is fair to that we all could have been better over the last few hours, last few days, in dealing wi the situatio jon donald trump is angry on two counts angry about the way this has been handledst, and angriel that his press spokesman admitted as much. It has not been the best couple of days for the white house. Jon sopel, bbc news, washington. Jane for more on this story i spoke a brief time ago with reid wilson of the hill. The president uld have said many things about this. Why did he decide to defend rob porter and n even mention the wives . Reid this is something President Trump has done time and again when an ally of his has been accused of improper conduct. This tendency is to back up the prison who supports him rather than the accusers, wheth it is rob porter in this instance or roy moore, the Senate Candidate in alabama who was accused of sexual and by the way, President Trump himself has been accused of improper actions when it comes to relationships with women. This is something he has experienced the acquisitions himself, so maybe there is some empathy there. Jane how damaging is this to the white house . This sort of situation has arisen before, and it is not as if we are entirely surprised by this type response. Reid no, and what damages the white house in this case is that it appears the chief of staff john kelly knew about the allegations against rob porter for a significantime. Kelly had been seen as a stabilizing force when he arrived in the white hse to take over for President Trumps first chief of staff, but th relationship between him and the president has never been as warm as o a president and chi staff might like to be. This creates more tension, and the person who was supposed to be the adult in the room is suddenly the subject of a scandal. Jane how safe is his job right now . Reid probably safer than it might be for any other character because President Trump does not like to fire people directly, despite his catchpase. He usually makes other people fireeople. John kelly is not somebody who ever wanted the chief of staff job, which makes him almost a little more invulnerable because he can walk away at any time, and his departure would plunge the white house further into chaos. Son this case, john kelly has the job as long as he wants it. How long does he want itgh th jane turning to the brief shutdown this morning, i was up on capitol hill covering that. The bill has passed, butwm ers on both sides of the aisle are not happy. Where does this leave them . Ll reid they have two years of a budget deal that will raise the budget caps, both byscretionary and nondiscretionaryundreds of billions of dollars. A whole bunch of tax breaks have been expanded, whole bunch of programs have been funded. They have a bunch of mustpass ththings off the table, bue are still other things to deal with. Number one, it looks like we will have another debate about immigration d the fate of the socalled dreamers. Speaker of the house paul ryan says he will bring up an immigration debatee but he wants nate to go first which is troubling because it is the house where the logjam is going to occur. Jane reid wilson, thanks as always. Reid thanks, jane. Jane in a display of fire and ice, the Winter Olympicsic officiallyd off in south korea. Of thening ceremony usual show of pageantry and pride, but the seating chart of treatment carries ew dignitaries lot of attention. Aws. Vice president mike pence found himself seat from north korean officials, including kim jonguns sister. A brief time ago i spoke with bruce klingner, who is now at the heritage foundation. What is the significance of the seating . It certainly was a show that they were so close together and did not acknowledge the presence of the others. You have the leaders of south korea and japan and the almost leaders of norths. Orea and the but it is as if there were a wall between Vice President pence and kims sister. Jane did you know she was going . Bruce it was a surpri to everyone that she was coming. People have been excited that the minal head of north kore was going. They saw that as important. And even more important, someone isso close to kim jongun, sister, was going be there. There was some discussion that pence was playing it coy. We will see what hpens with meeting with the north koreans, some kind ofti m, but obviously, that didnt occur. Jane how much do we know about the leaders sister . What is her role in th sregime . Bruc has been behind the scenes in photos with kim jongun and there were times when she was out of the picture, on the periphery, but she has been closer, literally, as well as in her title. In a way the titles are less important than the family ties,o and she is s that kim jongun trusts when we have seen so many of the Senior Leadership in north korea has brged and permanently set out for reeducation and brought out later or demoted. She really is close to kim and will have a lot of real power. Jane her proximity to mike pence, does that raised security concns at all . Bruce i dont think so. Clearly, both sides uld be nervous about the other, and the Security Service would be there, and no one expects that mike pence or kims sister would be a closet assassin. Itical. His is more p this photo will be seen around the world. Who do you think will benefit the most . Maye i think north korea see it as they ten try to rtray any photos as a victory for them even when the outside , world was providing aida to north koring the famine and people thought this would be a victory for us because they oruld see it as from america, from the u. N. , but korea turned it around and said that we forced them to give it to us. They may s this as the nearliter of the u. S. Has come, and wasnt able to deter us orom our courobtaining nuclear weapons. Jane very briefly, all eyes on the olympics, but has anything changed in the relationship brtween north korea and the u. S. . E not at all. Certainly, mike pences inclusion of the parents of otto warmbier, and visiting the second ship that was attacked by north korea, clearly that is a signal that e u. S. Has not changed its view on pyongyang. Jane thank you for joining me. The families of the victims of jihadists they go o into the Islamic State group have called on them to face justice er court. They part of a team of british i. S. Members nicknamed the beatles. U. S. Officials said the group were accused of executing 27 hostages. Daniel sandford has more. Daniel they became the most infamous gang of foreign fighters in the selfstyled Islamic State. Callous tourers and public executioners of hostages. Jihadi john his real name Mohammed Emwazi now dead. Aine davison in prn turkey. In the two men we know were captured last month, kotey and el Shafee Elsheikh. The man suspected of beheading alan henning, a driver d aid worker, and david haines, a longtime aide worker from per his daughter is now contempting the punishments his newly captured suspected killers should face. He should die a long, slow, paful death. Quite a lot of people understand that. But realistically, that is not god g to happen. U have to come to terms with that. The best thing for them is to lock them up and throw away the key. Ey should never be allow back into society, because they do this again. Daniel for the sake of her , fath they end up in court, she will go to watch. If it goes to trial, i will certainly be there, i will look them in the eye and let them know that they have destroyed a part of my life. And hopefully there will be some sort of justice. Daniel some of the gangs hostages were freed, including the former french reporter who wants them to have the fairest trial possible. Ot i woulde happy if they wore just sent to guantanamo bay, because thid be denial of justice. Danielel Shafee Elsheikh arrived in britain in alexanda 2012. Kotey left oa convoy and ended up in syria. The gang is accused by the u. S. Of beheading at least 27 hostes, including alan henning, david haines, and americans james foley, peter kassig,nd steven sotloff. They are suspected of waterboarding, mock executions, crucifixions, and ectric shock torture. Alexandaey k el Shafee Elsheikh havlo grew up to each other in a small area of west london. Ec ite infamous as an i. S. Recruiting ground, as well as ndMohammed Emwazi,thers from the sisters died these streets died fighting for i. S. H syria or iraq. Elsheikh and kot their british citizenship removed by the home secretary. Now a trial wil possibly in the united states, seeli like the lit outcome. Has settled its courtroom battle with self driving car unit waymo. The legal dispute was over stolen trade secrets related to self driving technology. As part of the settlement, uber has agreed to paymo w percentage of its equity ic state, works out to 245 million. An airport in press has been shut for the second time this week because of snow and bck ice. The french capital is covered by a heavy blanket of snow, bringing the transport system to a halt i. Not everyocomplaining. Here is hugh schofield. This for the second time week, snowy weather has blown into paris from the west. The city was jt getting over the previous heavy fall on tuesday. That caused some disruption to transport on road and rail. Parts were shot as freezing temperatures overnight turned two ice. I love it. I am used to coming to paris when it is sunny. N here in the snow before. As a tourist, i dont enjoy it, because metro line is closed. But it is beautiful, isnt you cant not enjoy it. I think the roads should have been. Cleared quick but that is the weather. I think we should look atve the positi the snow is actually quite beautiful. Hugh at the air base just west of the capital, snowprows have beenht out to clear the runways. And one adveurous soul had a flaky answer to the transport problem. Now there is a skiing fan. Hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. Jane what fun. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, capturing iimate photos of complete strangers. For more than a decade, one photographer has been turnin his focus on this eyeopening project. It a has been on displ Londons Natural History Museum since 1905, and now the giant replica of a dinosaur skeleton has begun a u. K. To her u. K. Dippy roamed the earth years ago. Reporter it has taken 150 million years i think we are in business now. Reporter and five days to bring dippy the dinosaur to dorsett. Haveippys 292 bones may been made out of plaster, but cthis iconi replica is still paleontology perfection. This absolutely perfec very happy. Has been called the peoples dinosaur. 105 feet of the historic inspiration prehistoric inspiration. No wonder the slightly younger visitors wer wowed today. What is the best bit about him . His tail. He can whack people around. Reporter what is so great about dippy . That he is ginormous. N theter dippy was Natural History museum since 1995. But the museum decided it was titime instr outside london. Now he is embarking on a huge nationwide tour of england, heotland, and wales, and they reckon that over worst of the next three years, 5 Million People will engage in the project. Wherever dippy gs, it will be ee to see him. A chance for older visitors to relive childhood memories and the younger ones to creat some. Jane it is the comiofage film that has captivated audiences worldwide. Lady bird highlights the sometimes rocky relationship between mothers d daughters by using director Greta Gerwigs own life as inspiration. She is only w the fifan in history to be nominated for a best director oscar, and getting the best actress nod is irish s stirse ronan. She has been talking to will gompertz. Want to go where culture is, like new york, or at leat connecti new hampshire. Will is lady bird your sort of girl . Saoirse yes, absolutely. She is the sort of girl i wish i could have been at that age. Will i beyour parents are delighted you werent. Saoirse yes. But yeah, she is very outspoken, which i am, too, but she sort of pushes things a little further. Sure. Hey, not paying you to flirt. I wasnt flirting. Wish you had been. Saoirse you see her have two romantic relationships in the film with these two greatgu , and both cases she goes after them, so she pursues it, and i think the same even when it comes to the career she wants to have or the university she wants to go to, she is very driven, and for young people to see that, especially young girls , i dont think we are used to seeing ourselves portrayed that will the movie is semiautobiographical about greta gerwig and how she grew up in sacramento, and she and you got oscar nominations. Were you both surprised, for to do think it was coming our way . Saoirse more than anything else, to hear that she was nominated fobest director was the best thing. To is the fifth woman eve be nominated for best director in 90 years, which is crazy, and she deserves it. Lady bird, is that your name . Yes. Why is it in quotes . I gave it to myself. S itven to me by me. Will it has been seismic this year in terms of your industry. L does it ike that on the inside . Does it feel like business as usual . Saoirse no, it feels differentt it feels diffeecause there is new stories coming out every day, and the conversis ongoing, which is only a good thing. It is great that with movements like the times up movement, action is actually being taken. But i think the important thing after the award season is done is that this obviously is. Ana lot of people have been asking me, canee youhe effects of it already, and i think you can see it the sense that people are asking questions and their perspective is anging. And womens view on themselvesng is cg. Ive felt that personally. Will do you feel more empowered onset now . Saoirse i havent been onset since this all happened, but i felt empoweredn mary queen of scots last year, i dont know if it was because i was surrounded by so many women, but slow i was playing someone who was incredibly strong, that is a really good message for the films and the theater sat going to be produced in the future. If we get to play people that are empowered and strong, pele get to see that on screen, it does affect you. I think it does affect your perception of yourself. U i wanted be the very best version of yourself. What if this is the best rsion . Eportingll gompertz ther most of us are used to posing for family photos or snapping a selfie with friends, but what if e someone asks you to embr complete stranger . For more than a decade that is what this photographer has been doing. The result is a series of intimate photos calledhing strangers. Recently he spoke to us about the project. When i walk up to people to make a touching strangers photograph, i introduce myselfd told him im a photographer, and i am doing an unusual project, series of portraits. I learned as the practice of making these went on and on how far to push people and how far i could ask people. I wanted to touch on all the different types of relationships that you could imagine. I hope people think when they look at my pictures, and how or a hope that they feel. W they feel or think is up to them. It is a subjective interpretive experience of looking at art. The bride in the Wedding Dress image, he is wearing the bandanna with the dorag. There is veiling with both of them, and he has embroidery on his bl jeans. There is nice little touches. This picture ended up being the most interesting, provocative, and complex, because there is this sense of both protector a predator. It leaves you with more estions than answers. I think there are universal truths the potential for