a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's mike embley. our top stories: some of the cia's most sensitive hacking secrets are exposed on the internet. the agency's former boss tells us it's very damaging. it has made my country and my country's friends less safe. in the row over the killing of kim jong—nam, malaysia and north korea ban each other‘s citizens from leaving the country and the un appeals for calm. saved from slavery and worse. we meet some of the young yazidi people who escaped from the islamic state group to find refuge in germany. and in the first known attack of its kind in europe, poachers kill a rhino for its horn at a safari park near paris. hello.

wikileaks has published thousands more files which it says detail a wide range of hacking tools used by the cia. the documents, which we're not able to verify, appear to show how cyber—weapons have been developed and used to break into computers, mobile phones — cell phones, even smart tvs, to gather intelligence. the cia hasn't commented on the credibility of the leaked material but some specialists are saying, at this point, it does appear legitimate. fresh embarrassment for the us security services today. wikileaks has published details of what it says shows the tools the cia use to hack their targets. wikileaks say using them would allow the agency to break into smart phones, communication apps and electronic devices, including smart tvs, which could be used to record conversations. wikileaks say its sources shared the details with it to prompt

a debate on whether the cia's hacking capabilities had exceeded its mandated powers. the leak hasn't been confirmed by the agency. they say they don't comment on intelligence documents‘ authenticity. this is the latest leak by the whistleblowing website to hit a us government department. for the past seven—plus years, they've published hundreds of thousands of classified files from the state department and the pentagon. but this is, in some ways, wikileaks‘ most daring release yet, because these documents come from the heart of america's top intelligence agency. the source of the leak isn't clear, but more than 800,000 people have top security clearance. the man who previously ran both the nsa and the cia said that, if this was a leak, the issue could be that the next—generation recruits have a different mindset. i don't mean to judge them at all, but this group of millennials and related groups simply have different understandings

of the words loyalty, and secrecy, and transparency, than certainly my generation did. that's people like edward snowden, who previously embarrassed the nsa when he leaked their secrets. snowden tweeted that he thought the leak was real. if it is, it raises questions about exactly how secure the central intelligence agency really is. jake williams is in augusta, georgia. he used to be hacker for the us government, hacking other governments and organisations to gain intelligence for the us. jake, i know you work now at the security firm you founded, rendition infosec. and you've been reading through a number of the wikileaks documents. there are names on them apparently of real programmes and officers, perhaps only an insider with the right security clearance would know. do you think they are authentic? everything that we've read the date

so everything that we've read the date so far seems to point to the fact that they are authentic. some of the conversations are the types of conversations are the types of conversations and documents that only somebody doing nationstate hacking would be interested in. what's your biggest takeaway from them? has the cia done anything illegal as far as you are concerned? in the current documents with scene we haven't seen anything that would necessarily be illegal, but one of the things we saw is the fact that there is a lot of research into actively bypassing security programmes, like antivirus and firewall. yes. it is suggested by edward snowden that this showed the cia to have been reckless beyond words. he says using government money to keep open vulnerabilities in american products, phones, smart devices and so on so they can use them to gain access and get info themselves but thereby leaving those

devices open to other hackers. he says they could have told the makers of the iphone and eye users, but he claims they chose not to. —— iphone users. that's always a tough balance the pool. of course the terrorists use the same iphone as my mom. while i want to protect my mom i want to find out information from the terrorists. i understand the difference, but it is always a balance that the cia and other intelligence agencies have. do you think edward snowden is right?” think edward snowden is right?” think that's really delicate topic. there is no doubt that in withholding tolerability that begs eve ryo ne withholding tolerability that begs everyone must say. it'sjust withholding tolerability that begs everyone must say. it's just a question of intelligence game versus intelligence lost. we've heard retired figures from the intel community attacking younger operatives, who they feel have lea ked operatives, who they feel have leaked this material and wikileaks we re leaked this material and wikileaks were appointing themselves dodge and

jewellery, deciding to let this material out to the public a p pa re ntly material out to the public apparently without consideration for the consequences. are you aware of a different attitude these days among people who are seeing stuff go across their desk that concerns them and disturbs them and feeling almost and disturbs them and feeling almost a moral obligation to put it out there? without a doubt we are seeing bat and that's notjust in government, we also see that in private enterprise, where a 10— 15 yea rs private enterprise, where a 10— 15 years ago if somebody saw something that offered them they generally weren't going to the press. we're seeing a lot more confidential disclosures to the press now, whether that's government or private organisations. very briefly, there will be more? i think so, without a doubt. thanks very much. thank you. the united states has sought to reassure china that its deployment of a missile defence system in south korea is not a threat to beijing. china strongly opposes the deployment of the thaad system and says it will take measures to defend its security.

but a us state department spokesman said the deployment was designed to prevent an attack from north korea. we have been very clear in our conversations with china that this is not meant to be a threat and is not a threat to them or any other power in the region, it's a defensive system and it is in place or will be in place because of north korea's evocative behaviour. the north korean embassy in kuala lumpur continues to be cordoned off as the diplomatic crisis between north korea and malaysia intensifies. inside, according to police, are two suspects in the killing of the half brother of north korea's leader at kuala lumpur airport. there is widespread suspicion pyongyang was responsible. the two nations have banned each other‘s citizens from leaving their countries. the un has called for calm. the bbc‘s sharanjit leyl is outside the embassy in kuala lumpur gauging reaction in the press and on the streets.

ican i can tell you how malaysians are acting and that's furiously. these are the front pages of the newspapers today. as you can see, the star in malaysia, trapped in tom young. this huge amount of interest in the story in malaysia. inside this paper you can see there is one staff member, a councillor in the malaysian embassy in pyongyang, saying, don't worry, we are safe. that's on paper. we've also got the new straits times paper which has on the front cover the prime minister calling a national security council meeting, when he returned from ja ka rta meeting, when he returned from jakarta yesterday. essentially saying the safety of malaysians are a priority, so they are working on trying to ensure the safety of the 11 known malaysians who are in north korea. the paper says that although they can't vouch for any others who might be there on business or pleasure. finally we've got the sun which is saying that... held

hostage. so a lot of dramatic headlines. 0f hostage. so a lot of dramatic headlines. of course we've also got a lot of reaction on social media. a lot of malaysians are furious, saying preventing free movement of their citizens in north korea is tantamount to war. in other news: the british government has suffered a second defeat in parliament over its legislation to trigger the process of britain leaving the european union. the house of lords voted by a majority of more than 100 to get a legal commitment that parliament will have a meaningful vote on the deal britain negotiates when it leaves the eu. but, as our political editor laura kuennsberg explains, the amendment cannot block the bill to invoke article fifty of the lisbon treaty, the mechanism for leaving the eu. the big picture, this is not going to delay breakfast on stop it. —— brexit. remember, theresa may still has three weeks to get this parliamentary rambling out of the way before she meets her own

self—imposed deadline of getting brexit started at the end of march. the french presidential candidate francois fillon is facing fresh allegations over his financial conduct. a newspaper has accused him of failing to declare to the independent public standards office an interest—free loan from a businessman friend. mr fillon‘s lawyer told the paper the loan was repaid in full. at least four people have been killed after a freight train slammed into a bus at a railroad crossing in southern mississippi. 35 passengers on the bus were taken to hospital with just a few people escaping unharmed. witnesses say the bus appeared to get stuck on the tracks. let's show you some pictures of an extraordinary fashion show in bangladesh that featured survivors of acid attacks. those appearing had been attacked by relatives, spurned by partners and by neighbours. many are now shunned socially. the show was devised by the bangladeshi designer bibi russell and timed to take place on the eve of international women's day. 0ne survivor said it was the attackers who should hide their faces, not those

who'd been disfigured. as fighters from the islamic state group are gradually being driven out of their stronghold in iraq, the scale of their atrocities is being revealed against one ethnic group in particular. the yazidi people are ethnic kurds and they are the victims of a genocidal campaign, according to the un. but some have managed to escape and seek sanctuary in germany. the bbc‘s naomi grimley went to meet them. a secret location in south—west germany. it is a place of exile. 80 yazidi women and children now live here. they were violently persecuted by so—called islamic state, and chased out of northern iraq. these two boys were captured by the extremists and sent to a military training camp, aged just 14 and i6. this is their story. translation: the training was about weapons. we learnt how to load and fire a weapon. we were training to be soldiers.

we would do exercises, crawling under barbed wire, things like that. translation: to learn how to fire a gun on human beings, they took us to big graves where they had the dead bodies of muslim traitors, spies of the regime, or those who took drugs. they said we had to fire on the bodies, to get used to it. translation: if we didn't do what we were told, or broke the rules, they would beat us with a stick. everything had to be like they wanted. i had to pretend to be a muslim to survive. translation: their books were just like magic. they quickly changed your mind, and made you into one of them. i bet, notjust me, even a man's mind would have changed. after a year, a smuggler helped them escape the camp. translation: by god i knew it was dangerous, but there was nothing left to be afraid of.

we had seen death with our own eyes. we saw how they killed. when you lose everything, you have nothing left. we had nothing to lose. this is mainly a community of women and children, most of the men are missing, presumed dead. the women were originally brought to germany for trauma counselling after the mass rapes under islamic state. baden—wurttemberg in south—west germany has welcomed more than 1,000 yazidis in two years and the man who runs the project says several towns volunteered to give them shelter. of course, it's hard. of course, they have bad dreams. of course, they are struggling. but they can start, like, you know, just start a new future. get into school, get an education, dream about falling in love, and all the things that are so normal. all that may take time. but, at least for now,

this refuge is far away from those religious zealots who are trying to wipe them out. naomi grimley, bbc news, south—west germany. much more to come, including this. in the land of the car, politicians are planning big spending including oi'i are planning big spending including on public transport. will it work? first, the plates slid gently off the restaurant tables. then suddenly the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards and it was a matter of seconds as the ferry lurched onto her side. the hydrogen bomb on a remote pacific atoll. the americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshima. i had heard the news earlier and so my heart went bang and bang. the constitutional rights of these marchers have their rights

as citizens of the united states and they should be protected even in the right to test them out so they don't get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy, i know you don't want to say too much about it, but does it worry you it's going to boil up when you get to the stage? well, it worries me, yeah. i hope everything will be all right at the end of the day. very glad to have you with us. the latest headlines this our: —— hour. the website wikileaks has released what it says are thousands of secret cia documents containing details of a wide range of hacking methods used by the us agency. the un has called for calm between malaysia and north korea — after the two countries banned each other‘s citizens

from leaving their countries in a row over the assassination of kimjong—nam. there's once again a pitched battle over health care in washington. repealing and replacing the affordable care act — also known as 0bamacare — was was one of the republicans' chief election pledges — and a new bill is now on the table. but its not just democrats who're opposed. some conservative republicans have labelled it obamacare lite, arguing it doesn't go far enough. despite that president trump came out in support of the proposal. i plan to lower gusts, expand competition, and inshore health—care access for all americans. this will bea access for all americans. this will be a plan where you can choose your doctor. this is a plan where you can choose your plan. and you know what the plan is, this is the plan. and we're going to have a tremendous success. rush hour is often a way of life for those of us who live near city centres — but los angeles is in class of its own.

with perhaps the worst traffic in the world during peak hours. politicians are planning big spending to improve public transport and reduce pollution. as part of our continuing series on efforts to clean the air, the bbc‘s james cook has this report. the city of angels is the devil by traffic. every year, commuters here spend more than 100 hours going nowhere in rush—hour jams. spend more than 100 hours going nowhere in rush-hourjams. as bad as this looks right now, with every hour, it will get worse. economists think it cost los angeles $10 billion annually. but now technology is fighting back. now we are looking at the road network in los angeles. this committee uses light darter from 300 million cars around the world to point drivers in the right direction. —— data. in chris lee, the information it gathers in this control room is used to shape policy, too. instead of building an entirely new highway, maybe targeted investments and spending in bottlenecks. targeting smarter

parking and intelligent traffic signals. with the data will we collect, officials can customise what has the maximum bang for the buckin what has the maximum bang for the buck in their cities. all of which sounds a long way from this. los angeles' love of a would—be car is the thing of legend. but the freewheeling lifestyle had a deadly results. from the 1950s to the 19705, results. from the 1950s to the 1970s, smog choked the city, causing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths. the outlook now is much brighter. modern day california has some of the toughest mission standards in the world, and smog has been partially reduced. but there is still worker do. our air quality is nowhere near where it needs to be. it is still not healthy to breathe on perhaps 100 or more days a year. essentially, los angeles, and the greater surrounding area, still has

the worst inequality in the united states. public transport is part of the answer. compared to other big cities, the los angeles metro is quite in rush—hour, but it is becoming more popularfor the simple reason. because traffic is insane. traffic. traffic. too much traffic. there is too much traffic. traffic. traffic. too much traffic. there is too much trafficlj traffic. traffic. too much traffic. there is too much traffic. i would be sitting in traffic rows, citing the subway. it is overdue for a shot in the arm. citizens have chosen to raise thousands for a splurge. a0 projects are promised for the next yea rs. projects are promised for the next years. some of those projects a huge la ke years. some of those projects a huge lake subways and you like rail and more buses. there is a strong chance that it will change the face of los angeles. do you think the city could be transformed ? angeles. do you think the city could be transformed? the city will be transformed. perhaps, the getting there will also mean cutting pollution from lorries and from

industry. and in the end, persuading people that los angeles is more than just a great big freeway. a rhino has been shot dead by poachers at a zoo in france in what is believed to be the first such incident in europe. keepers found vince, a four—year—old white rhino, in his enclosure on tuesday morning. one of his horns had been hacked off with a chainsaw. 0ur paris correspondent lucy williamson reports. this is where poachers came looking for their latest kill, a safari park west of paris. their victim, this four—year—old rhino called vince. they shot him three times before cutting off his horn with a chainsaw. park staff say the attackers broke through two fences and a wall to reach the rhinos. it's thought to be the first time poachers have targeted live animals in a european zoo. it's horrific that vince, our rhino, was shot. we've got this notion that here they're protected from poaching and that poaching happens far away

in their natural habitat and here they're safe and poaching has come here now so that's extremely destabilising and shocking. tonight there's extra security in place at the rhino enclosure behind me where the two surviving animals are still being housed. this was a well—planned operation with apparently detailed knowledge of the park and it's put zoos across europe on alert. poaching has been growing in parts of africa. new tactics to stop it, like air lifting animals to safety, are now being tried. 0r soaring off the prized horn to prevent them being targeted, fitting a monitor can track their movement but the rewards of poaching are great and as supply dwindles, prices and incentives rise. these criminals are looking for the weakest link to get their hands on a rhino horn. today it might be paris, tomorrow it might be a population of rhinos in sumatra,

indonesia or a population of rhinos in kenya. it's about finding the weakest link, getting their hands on the product. as long as the incentives and the profits are high enough to take the risks, they will go for the risks. like vince, the other young male at thoiry might one day be used for breeding. europe's zoos, designed to protect the species, are now themselves being targeted for the animals in their care. lucy williamson, bbc news, thoiry. now, you may have never heard munira ahmed's name, but you may know her face. the image of her in a hijab made from the stars and stripes of the american flag was carried by thousands protesting the trump administration, both here in the us, and around the world. the picture of munira was taken more than a decade ago, by the artist best known for his portrait of barack 0bama. we've been speaking to munira about the picture which has now gone global.

to me, the picture represents empowerment. it represents inclusion. it represents america. the original photo was shot in 2007. the original photo was shot in 2007. the concept behind the original photo was to shoot a muslim woman wearing a hijab, but instead of the fabric of a nonprint fabric, the fabric of a nonprint fabric, the fabric was the american flag. and to haveit fabric was the american flag. and to have it shot in the proximity of ground zero during a time when there we re ground zero during a time when there were still a of questioning of the allegiance of muslim americans. as someone allegiance of muslim americans. as someone who is american and a muslim, that appeal to me. the most visually compelling photo of a muslim woman is a woman wearing a hijab. what i wear a hijab is

irrelevant. it is something i feel a connection to. the photographer contacted me, basically a month before, in early december, and said that famous photo of hours, an artist contacted me to try to recreate it. of course i will knew that it would be used in the women's march, but i did not know how prominently. i was done in washington, dc, and i went to a rally. every shade, every gender, using this as their protest image. they could have used so many other protest images, and they choose to use this one. all over the world. i like that it is the protest image, but it is not a part as an ideal, to be pro— inclusion and pro—democracy. it is just what this country represents. even if i did not know that that was me, i think esther would have felt —— i still think i

would have felt —— i still think i would have felt as proud that a muslim woman was so prominent. at that moment, i thought things might not be so bad after all. the expression itself of the photo, you canjust see, expression itself of the photo, you can just see, right there, you are not going to move me from here. i am not going to move me from here. i am not going to be moved. just briefly, a reminder of our main story: the website wikileaks has released what it says are thousands of secret cia documents containing details of a wide range of hacking methods used by the us agency. much more on that to come. you can get more information on our website, as well as me and most of the team on twitter. i am @mikeembley. hello there.

good morning. tuesday was a decent day for the eastern side of the uk. we've seen more cloud, though, coming in from the west, and all our weather is coming in from off the atlantic at the moment, all this cloud spilling across the uk. it's driven by an area of low pressure that's running between iceland and scotland, with these weather fronts too. the rain across the northern half of the uk is running across fairly quickly, but to the south, things grind to a halt towards the end of the night. so after the rain across the northern half of the uk we get some showers rattling into the north—west of scotland early on in the morning, and again, there could be a bit of snow across the mountains. there'll be a strong wind, gales probably for northern scotland. by the morning, sunshine is out across northern ireland, and the cloud continuing to break up across northern england, brightening up quite nicely as that rain is out into the north sea. but across east anglia, southern england, perhaps the south midlands, mid and south wales, we've got more cloud. quite low cloud, quite mild. but there will be some rain in the air as well. it's never really going to clear away for much of the day.

rain on and off across mid and south wales, perhaps the midlands, east anglia, and southern england. much more sunshine, though, arriving across north wales, northern england, northern ireland, and it is quite windy here in scotland, again, across the north and there will still be a few of those sharp showers. temperatures will be that bit lower. highest temperatures probably in the south—east, where we have all that cloud and the threat of rain. still some rain around across southern parts of england and wales on wednesday evening. that rain eventually transfers southwards into the english channel. but to the north, we'll see the showers pepping up again across northern ireland and then into scotland, again, there could be some snow over the high hills. a drop in temperature later in the night perhaps in northern ireland, scotland, north—east england but nothing too cold out there. as we head into thursday, though, showers across scotland become fewer and lighter, largely confined to the north—east as the wind eases down. many places, thursday will be a dry day, some sunshine around. more cloud, though, towards the south and south—west, with that rain sitting through the channel, and it threatens to come back northwards again overnight and into friday on a fairly weak weather front taking rain across the northern half

of the uk primarily. and then behind that weather system, we're drawing in our air from a long way south. so this is really quite mild air, but it's going to be accompanied by a good deal of cloud. so little if any sunshine around on friday. but the uk at least, not much rain at all and temperatures as high as 13 or 1a degrees. now, as we head into the weekend it looks pretty unsettled, at least to start with. outbreaks of rain on saturday. quite a mild day as well. getting more showery on sunday, but then temperatures beginning to slip away later on. the latest headlines from bbc news. i'm mike embley. wikileaks has published thousands of documents revealing what it says are top—secret hacking tools used by the american central intelligence agency. the documents, which haven't been independently verified, give details of malware apparently used to hack into smart phones, computers and tvs. the united states has attempted to reassure china that its deployment

of a controversial missile defence shield in south korea does not pose a threat. the government in beijing strongly opposes the system, known as thaad, because it fears its powerful radar can monitor far into chinese territory. a un has called for north korea and malaysia to deal with their differences calmly. the two governments have banned each other‘s citizens from leaving their countries. malaysia wants to interview two north korean diplomats over the killing of the half—brother of the north korean leader at kuala lumpur airport. now it's time for tuesday in parliament.