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Soldier killed in the jab his the soldier's widow say's he didn't have manholes when he is out here for our country and the rest of his life for our country by culture remember his name lawyers for Bowe Bergdahl the soldier who deserted his post in Afghanistan was captured by the Taliban trying to have his case thrown out a Russian journalist is in a coma after being stabbed in the neck he answered the office building the pepper sprayed the guard downstairs then took the lift up till 14th floor and basically are tax here without saying nothing basically the man jailed in Dubai for touching another man's hip has been released and a bear in mid March has had its giant tongue removed plus. Was. George Young one of the driving forces behind AC d.c. Has died I'm Lou Jones this is the news room from the b.b.c. World Service. Hello I'm Julie Candler with the b.b.c. News the widow of an American soldier killed in action in the shares says she was angered by a condolence call from President Trump because he struggled to remember her husband's name by Should Johnson would have sounded like David Johnson who on of force u.s. Soldiers killed in the share this month told the u.s. Network a.b.c. That Mr Trump's call had made her cry even more the support from John Sopel today May she Johnson the widow has spoken for the 1st time she said the u.s. Military refused to let her see her husband's body and she said the president upset her even more when he phoned but Donald Trump has refused to let my issue Johnson's comments go unchallenged he tweeted within an hour of her interview I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sergeant like David Johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation but that intervention has brought an avalanche of criticism on the president from across the political spectrum the u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has arrived in Baghdad on a previously unannounced visit amid a dispute with the Iraqi leadership over the role of a rainy and backed militias earlier the office of the Iraqi prime minister Hyder bed to party dismissed Mr Taylor since comments that Iranian backed militias fighting the Islamic state group in Iraq should disband or go home because the battle was almost over. Attention mounts before the rerun of the presidential poll in Kenya western diplomats have urged politicians to stop engaging in what they describe as dangerous behavior President Hu Kenyatta has insisted the electoral commission must deliver the election on Thursday the main opposition leader Rhino danger has pulled out saying the vote won't be credible Alister Leith had reports from the Kenyan capital Nairobi a statement from 20 Western representatives including the European Union called on President Kenyatta not to sign amendments to the electoral law ahead of the vote and warned opposition supporters. Not to resort to violence or intimidation to stop others from voting those who incite violence or undermine democracy they said should be held to account that urged all sides to work together to ensure the election is held in accordance with the Constitution a man has forced his way into the news room of Russia's most high profile independence radio station like a musky stabbing one of its best known presenters in the neck with a knife Tatiana Felgenhauer is in a medically induced coma and on dart official ventilation following surgery a Russian Interior Ministry official your duty to have briefed reporters on the investigation. Well it's the suspect has now been handed over to the police according to preliminary information to perpetrate or is a resident of a foreign state initial inquiry suggests the reason for the assault was personal enmity but we will review all the accounts of what happened well the news from the b.b.c. . Lawyers for us Army Sergeant kidnapped by the Taliban after disappearing from his post in Afghanistan have again tried to get the case dismissed because of comments by President Trump last week the president said he couldn't talk about the sentencing of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl but went on to say that people knew his views during the campaign he called for him to be executed Kerio Donahue reports the defense is trying to establish the president trumps comments constitute unlawful command influence in other words that any reasonable person would conclude that Bowe Bergdahl couldn't be treated fairly following those statements from the commander in chief himself the prosecution says the president was merely acknowledging what he'd already said during the campaign something the court has already ruled not to be unlawful influence the difference this time is of course that Donald Trump is president and the judge repeatedly questioned the prosecution on the meaning of his words. One of the most senior members of President Trump's administration to visit Africa Nikki Haley is in Ethiopia the u.s. Ambassador to the u.n. Will go to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo where she says she will stress the need for governments to stop obstructing aid workers an international team of vets has operated on a bear in me and Marta remove most of its swollen tongue the tongue was so huge that it dragged on the ground that he ever had has the details the vets describe the best tongue as monstrously enlarged and so it was they removed 3 kilos of it in a 4 hour operation in sweltering heat at a remote monastery the monks had rescued the bear is a card from animal traffickers but he'd never been able to close his mouth and his deformity had got so heavy he'd have to rest his head against the bars of his cage the bear named in too many bright is said to be recovering well b.b.c. News. Welcome to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Luke Jones lawyers in London Donald Trump has been accused of lying by the widow of a u.s. Soldier killed in an ambush in Nisha speaking for the 1st time I should Johnson told a.b.c. News that the u.s. President called her while she was traveling to collect her husband's body but he couldn't remember her husband's name an allegation he's previously denied the president had. A sound for but he hers anyway and now was it made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he say he couldn't remember my holes when they only way he remember my husband name because he told me he had my hopes were reporting for me and that's when he actually say David I heard him stumbling on trying to remember the law is one way and that will hurt me the most because if my husband is out here fight employ our country and him with his life for our country why can't you remember his name and that will make me outstanding cry even more because my hurdle was awesome so which President Trump has responded on Twitter saying that the conversation was very respectful and that he used the soldier's name quote without hesitation life in Washington the B.B.C.'s Laura because Laura this is a rather it's been going on for quite a while now take us back to the beginning how did it start Well this is a few did it has been going on for a week culminating in the widow of a fallen soldier having to dispute the accounts of the president's condolence call on national television it started last week when the president was asked about what happened in the share he wrongly accused his predecessors of not calling the families of fallen soldiers and then congresswoman and in Florida Frederica Wilson stepped forward to say that Mr Trump's call to Sergeant Johnson's widow was inappropriate and she was in the car at the time of the call. Now President Trump hit back describing her as wacky and describing her as a role and now a President Trump is disputing the widow in a tweet that you've just read out saying that a conversation was respectful and that he did speak his name from the beginning without hesitation and Lord Donald Trump is someone who especially during the campaign portrayed himself as a friend of the military a friend of military families is it wise do you think him to be starting a battle with Gold Star families yet again look this is a no win situation for for the White House and for the trumpet ministration a century goes to the heart of what many critics have been saying for months that they have a credibility problem that when met President Trump speaks he needs fact checking and that when he speaks there needs to be even during press conferences that have been out for Porsches of stood up and said no that's wrong so when it comes to that he blames fake news he tweets about fake news but this time he's talking about the widow of a fallen soldier he simply doesn't seem to want to back day but you can bet your dollar that there will be people within the White House right now I hear urging him to do just that and. Also has questions about the circumstances under which her husband died Well Sergeant Johnson was one of 4 soldiers killed while patrolling the share Mali border he was on pierced by 50 Islamic state militants at There's never a call for an inquiry to find out what happened to him and his colleagues and he managed to set off a flee are and the group were declared missing before being declared dead she and I should Johnson has also said that she's not being allowed to see the bodie so there are going to be calls for an inquiry there already calls for an inquiry with regards to what exactly went on there and why $800.00 u.s. Troops are in need share in a so-called assistance will to local forces but it's worth remembering this is a highly decorated decorated soldier this widow is also. Evilly pregnant she's due in January Sergeant Johnson had the name of his widow and his 2 children tattooed on his arms this was a close family unit and this is a grieving widow that is now at the center of a huge right Laura because reporting live in Washington thanks very much across to North Carolina now where a u.s. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is facing charges of decision and misbehavior the story which has fascinated the u.s. For years started in 2009 when Sergeant Bergdahl walked off his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban now his defense team are trying once again to get the case dismissed life in North Carolina is our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue and Gary why exactly is the defense team trying to get this case to be dismissed. Well simple to say mission that has pleaded guilty to those charges so we are in what we call the sentencing phase of this court martial all the defense arguing they have done before is that press present Trump has effectively prejudiced this process by his public comments and and they're referring to an incident last week when President from in the Rose Garden was asked about Bergdahl and he said I'm not allowed to comment but people know my views and by that he's referring to what he said on the campaign trail where he called him a no good traitor and said he should be executed Now the defense is saying that prejudice is the sentencing phase of this part of the trial and that either things should be dismissed altogether or more likely that the judge ought to agree to Him not going to prison for example so that's what the defense will argue the prosecution say look all the president was doing was referring to comments that are already out there was acknowledging it and he was also acknowledging that he shouldn't get involved and we're waiting for the judge to come down on one side of the other probably on Wednesday morning and what else have we heard in court. Well that's really. In the substance today you see this has to be resolved before they can get on to hearing from witnesses and and it's a peculiar process because they do have witnesses in the sentencing phase and the government in other words the army are going to bring forward 2 soldiers who were injured in the search for Bowe Bergdahl after he deserted he's he's posed they will argue that means he should get a severe sentence he could get up to life imprisonment bear in mind for one of the charges he's admitted and the defense will bring witnesses to talk about his mental state and to talk about the fact that he suffered significantly during 5 years in captivity that he was tortured kept in a cage and that he tried to escape on a couple of occasions which they say will prove that it you know he wasn't the the guilty party in the sense that the government want to present him as but he will face some kind of sentence unless the judge throws this out altogether which I think is pretty unlikely at this stage Gary Gary O'Donoghue reporting live in North Carolina thanks very much. A prominent Russian news presenter is in a medically induced coma after being stabbed in the neck taxi on f.l. In galleys attack a forced his way into the news room of Russia's most high profile independent radio station echo of Moscow He's since been arrested have abandoned office from the B.B.C.'s Russian service frankly right now we don't know much about him Russian mass media widely reported his name already we can't say how how definite This information is so we don't know much about motive because all we know that he entered the office building where the radio station is based pepper sprayed the guard downstairs then took the lift up till 14th floor and basically attacked here without saying saying nothing they simply and what about the station what kind of station is it radio come of Moscow is probably the most prominent opposition radio station in Russia so it is it is probably not the most popular radio station in the country but it it is really important because it can still it can attract people from the government to to speak out or various former politicians who can't make their way to the Russian federal to the vision stations and it's quite dramatic instant reaction there has been to this I would say there is all over social media I'm on the professional community there are calls for assistance and help you know to touch on the amount of friends what the same time everybody is now waiting for some sort of a statement from investigation because as you as you know Russia is not the safest place for John to for Been journalist so that is why any sort of more of that it might happen because of your professional active. It would trigger wider discussion on what previously happened to opposition media for example radio echo of Moscow was a target from a couple of federal pro-government television station which accused the been the voice of of enemies of Russia and accused it of been financed by by foreign funds well despite the fact that the main shareholder of this station is gasp from media which is the government the pro government media Holden but. Still you know it is in a position worse so that is why it's wrecked all sort of attention from from government media Pavel Banda cough from the B.B.C.'s Russian Service You're listening to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service Still to come this bear in me a man who has had 3 kilos of his gigantic tongue removed his helmet always been pretty triggering And now remember he grew well and got worse become got bigger and bigger and heavier and heavier reported what because if you have a crisis now 1st Julie has the headlines of fall and u.s. Soldiers widow has spoken of how the president upset her in a phone call to express his condolence Donald Trump has contradicted her account of their conversation in a single day the American secretary of state Rex Tillerson has made brief surprise visits to both Iraq and Afghanistan and western envoys say the political climate in Kenya is deteriorating ahead of the rerun presidential election. West and Central Africa have some of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. For instance 3 quarters of girls are married before they're 18 tends to mean they drop out of education likely to suffer dangerous complications in pregnancy and childbirth they are vulnerable to domestic violence and their own children are more likely to die or suffer ill health today a 3 day summit began in Senegal aimed at eliminating the practice in the region Lakshmi some of the Global Partnership girls not brides spoke to Jackie learned from the some. Parents aren't necessarily aware of the enormous negative consequences of child marriage for girls consequences on their health consequences on their access to education and the like trajectory. That if you marry off your daughter your tearing right by her parents don't necessarily think about it in that context of marriage all of the different types of violence girls faces and what does a summit like this achieve it brings together high level political leaders from some of the most affected countries and gives them an opportunity to actually make public commitments and talk openly with development partners donors. Legislators and others on what it will take to try marriage provides an impetus for for all of these groups to work together and report this kind of summit doesn't absolute value as a standalone event but it can really galvanize progress in the region and you bring together political leaders but do you campaigners ever find pushback from communities who can see no reason why they shouldn't carry on doing things the way they always have there's often pushback from the sea level and that's why it's incredibly important that you bring together a whole host of factors not only girls and boys themselves who are affected but families community leaders religious leaders made the summit. A number of religious leaders and traditional leaders who are coming to talk as well because they often have a kind of pull and sway that even government leaders don't and what's really important to recognize as well as rights brings together 800 sort of society organizations many of these organizations actually were set up by people who had tried marriage in their own families who come from the communities who really understand the local context and so by connecting them with the political leaders you can really create a national regional and global movement that can help convince communities that this is not the right thing or for the girls in the communities and it's not the right thing if you want to develop effectively that was. From girls not broads. Japan's prime minister Shinzo arbor has said he's not in a hurry to change the country's pacifist constitution after his decisive win in Sunday's snap election Mr Armey had previously said that by 2020 he wanted to rewrite the commitment to pacifism which is imposed after the 2nd World War though Mr r. Be his retained his 2 thirds majority Any change the Constitution would have to be approved by both chambers of Parliament and backed by a referendum as our Tokyo correspondent Rupert Winfield Hayes reports convincing all parties is likely to be a challenge there is a good case for saying it's time for Japan to change its pacifist constitution it's not just the threat from North Korean missiles China is building the world's largest navy and has claims on islands that Japan controls America is growing weary of protecting its wealthy Asian ally but no one should underestimate the depth of opposition the twin traumas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have left a deep scar on Japan's collective psyche to many here war still equals nuclear destruction and then there is Prime Minister Shinzo Abbott more than half of Japanese people say they do not trust him Mr Abbes views on Japan's wartime history are highly controversial his own grandfather was detained as a suspected war criminal many here worry that his ambition to reform the paci