speaker of the house, paul ryan, for refusing to discuss gun legislation. the president reacted to the florida killings by saying school safety would be his top priority. the newly elected president of south africa cyril ramaphosa has been sworn in. shortly after his unopposed election in parliament, mr ramaphosa said fighting corruption would be one of his priorities. he replaces jacob zuma who faced numerous corruption allegations and resigned on wednesday. it's the beginning of what could well be the biggest annual celebration worldwide, the lunar new year, also known as the spring festival. more than 1.4 billion chinese people marked the official entry into the year of the dog with lanterns, banquets and colourful celebrations. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. the israeli defence force sees

itself as an institution, which binds the nation together. most young israelis serve in its ranks after leaving school. it claims to combine defence of the state sacrosanct institution in. all e‘kes' ~~ i thought i wasn't silent when i

asked my soldiers what they thought about these operations. but it actually took me

a while after my service where i actually thought that i could put my military service behind me, to realise that i, myself, was also silent. that i, myself, was also not really frank when i was looking myself in the mirror. so you were, to use that phrase, a good soldier, you followed orders and you did things, which... and i'm now asking, rather than stating. i'm guessing you did things which your moral conscience told you you should not be doing, but you did them anyway and did not speak out against them. that's true. i mean, i was the sergeant of a snipers team, and one that we call the straw widow. straw widow is when you take over a palestinian home, every house in the west bank actually has a number. each and every house has a number, so we would open up the maps and look at the specific house that looked into the right place that we had to enter, a city centre or a road.