a very serious story in teheran today. the collapse ofa story in teheran today.s what happened. we know the building had been evacuated, but unfortunately dozens of firefighters had gone into the building to try and deal with the fire. the city's mayor has confirmed that at least 20 by paul were killed. —— 20 people were killed. bbc persia have been covering this story. the building has collapsed totally. it is the way it collapsed, it is like the 9/11 print our collapsing in new york, the whole thing falling through. —— twin tower collapsing. the fire started at 7:30am. we presumed there were some people inside it. the authorities tried to evacuate the area, and the neighbouring areas. from the british embassy, the german and the turkish embassies. they did manage to put out the fire, or they thought they had. then more firefighters went in, even civilians, people who had businesses there, went into check. and then suddenly the whole thing collapsed again after the fire restarted. thanks for that update. turning from iran to west africa and the ongoing crisis in

he aimed at his victim's heads and bodies until teheran out of ammunitions.d out the attack on behalf of isis. isis has not taken responsibilities. >> it's getting closer to doomsday. the clock is meant to imitate how close the world is to imnate disaster. this is the closest the clock has been to midnight since 1953, the year after the united states and soviet union conducted tests of the hydrogen bond. >> some universities could merge or close because of financial colleges. the chancellor of the state system called current operations unsustainable. state funding $440 million is about the same as it was 17 years ago. legislative approval was needed to merge or close. >> casey told the crowd of several hundred that there's a sense of urgency now more than ever to protect the environment. casey reiterated his intention to pick scott pruitt head of the epa. >> health check at 11:00 tonight, americans are drinking as much soda and sweetened beverages as before. the rate is unchanged from five years ago among adults and children. sweetened drinks account for near

he told reporters teheran's negotiations with washington on the nuclear issue are over. he added, iran has been recognized as a powerful player in the international community becaususe of the deal. >>> after sapgnctions ended, ir signed a pact with a major oil company to develop an oil field. it also agreed to do joint production with a french car maker. >>> a jet crashed and 37 people are dead. the boeing 747 crashed as it tried to make a refuelling stop. the planene damaged 15 houses a killed residents including children. it had been on itsts wayay fromg kong to istanbul. officials are looking into the possibility that poor visibility might have caused the crash. >>> investors are exercising caution ahead of this week's inauguration of donald trump. we're joined now with more on the markets and other business headlines. >> tokyo share prices slipped monday as informs torrs avoided risk. many market players unloaded stocks while picking up the yen. our business reporter has more from the tokyo stock exchange. >> we definitely seeing a risk adverse mood as investors awai

were mentioning, he was trying to get reports on whether the american hostages had been released in teheran and otherwise distract and so reagan in the usual manner tried to warm up the atmosphere by telling old story of hollywood and hollywood moguls like jack warner of warner brother, and so, went up to the side of the capital and carter gets out and talks to one of the aides and he asked how did the ride go, and he said the ride is fine, but who is the jack warner he keeps talking about? it didn't work. >> and there is a reltively known tradition that there is a let er left for the incoming president, and we heard that r herbert walker bush left one for his successor? >> it was for president reagan saying "don't let the turkeys get you down" to h.w. bush. and then it turns into a tradition of bush telling clinton, it was a tough campaign, but don't wor i r i won't with be criticizing you and remember, i will be rooting for you. >> and has the transition process improved over the last couple of presidential transitions recently? >> absolutely. because there was no apparatus or the process

the former iranian president, akbar hashemi rafsanjani, will begin injust under two hours‘ time, in teheranleader, ayatollah ali khamenei, will perform the ceremonial prayerfor the dead. ayatollah rafsa njani's funeral is expected to become a show of force by iran's reformists and moderates who looked to him for direction in recent years. he died of heart failure aged 82 on sunday. the opposition—dominated venezuelan national assembly has passed a resolution accusing president nicolas maduro of dereliction of duty because of a failure to tackle a deep economic crisis. the symbolic move is aimed at pushing for an early election before mr maduro‘s term ends in 2019. his supporters have dismissed it as absurd. russia has called accusations by us intelligence agencies that it ran the gambian communication minister, sheriff bojang, says he has resigned his post in protest against the president's refusal to accept his defeat in last month's presidential election. yahya jammeh initially accepted the election results — but later reversed his decision. the communication minister says he's urging oth

the former iranian president, akbar hashemi rafsanjani, will begin injust under two hours‘ time, in teheran, ayatollah ali khamenei, will perform the ceremonial prayerfor the dead. ayatollah rafsa njani's funeral is expected to become a show of force by iran's reformists and moderates who looked to him for direction in recent years. he died of heart failure aged 82 on sunday. mexico's new foreign secretary says the country will opt for dignified dialogue with the united states despite what he described as the considerable challenge for mexico in us politics. donald trump has promised to build a wall along the two countries‘ border and renegotiate a major trade agreement. he's also threatened heavy tariffs on cars made in mexico. the opposition—dominated venezuelan national assembly has passed a resolution accusing president nicolas maduro of dereliction of duty because of a failure to tackle a deep economic crisis. the symbolic move is aimed at pushing for an early election before mr maduro‘s term ends in 2019. his supporters have dismissed it as absurd. stay with us on bbc news, still to c

. >>> a high rise building collapsed in a high rise building in teheran.t was among the first high rises in the iranian capital. >>> well wishes are coming in from all over the country for former president george h.w. bush. >> he went into icu for a problem with munoenia. >> reporter: good morning. president president bush is stable in the icu. had had seen me and i -- he took a turn yesterday and doctors had lungs. a family spokesperson says he is resting comfortably. garb rupush was also admitted for the same vimptms as you. and she was admitted as a precaution. now, well wishes have been pouring in from across it world. president eselect thanks ii and saying he was sorry he could not attend. also hillary clinton saying she wanted bush 41 back on his feet, wild sox and all. he's in stable condition at the icu. barbara bush issall se, we're told, resting comfrtdably. >> he has about 30 hours now until he is no longer thanking president obama in southwest washington. >> they are saying good dsbye a well. >> we are seeing lots of videos like this one behind

that fire took over a high rise building in teheran and that building as we understand it, collapsed. we're working to get you video and as soon as we do, we'll have it for you. as ma@. as 75 and there's a huge cloud of smoke in the air right now. i'm erika gonzales. >>> storm team 4 for look at our forecast. nice mild start. >> except if you're in cullpepper or fred rkericksburg. but most of us are in the mid-40s. as we go through the afternoon, back in the 50s. fairfax city, 49 and the district we're e49 and fredericksburg, that temperature 37 degrees. starting off inauguration weekend, for today sunny skies, cool temperatures in the morning by noon. mid50s to low 50s. we'll take a closer look at tomorrow but we have a new issue on the roadways. >>> southbound 95 we have a tractor/trailer crash blocking the ramp to center port 270 southbound here just after shady grove road you can see they turned the camera for us. it's in the main lane on the left side of the roadway. so the local lanes are the things to take if you're headed out. still have the right lane getting by that crash an

teheran is exempt from a cut. >> if it's exempt, that would mean any ramp up in production shouldn'tas a big surprise to the market, right? >> it shouldn't. they're allowed to get back the levels they were at before the sanctions were put on them but it's also a strong dollar, right. >> and still coming up. mixed news for vw as the share price recovers, other problems strike. >>> hi everybody and welcome back to "street signs." the fbi has reportedly arrested a vw executive on conspiracy charges. he led the car maker's compliance from 2014 to march of 2015, accusing him of trying to defraud the united states. this is a ramp up in the criminal investigation of the volkswagen's emissions scandal. they hope to settle the prone as soon as possible. >>> hitting their highest level since september 2015 after reports say that the german automaker is nearing a deal with the u.s. justice department. the brand deliveries hit nearly 6 million vehicles and shares up by 4%. >>> mercedes benz appears to have won the it race over taking bmw. they sold more than 2 million passengers cars in 2016 thn

irans and while serving in congress was against anything that the largest state sponsor of terror in teheran going to do and felt that sanctions were the least that we should be doing. now i am not familiar with that report. i don't know what is subsequent to the statement that you just read to say whether exxon was in compliance with the law. you heard mr. tillerson in the report just prior. he was interested in making sure that a company that he was in compliance with the law. >> i have a little bit more information for you governor. the oil giants said the transactions were legal because they were managed by a european company co-owned with shell. are you concerned about some of these alliances? >> well, i'm concerned. obviously there isn't u.s. sanctions. maybe there's a grey area but yeah it concerns me that anyone has business with sudan. this is state sponsored terrorism with iran at the same time but i have real concerns and here we have one of america's biggest companies. >> any chance that his nominations will be tripped up by any of this? >> secretary of state and a good part of i

the building had been an iconic part of teheran's skyline. >> breaking news out of italy.ne person dead where an avalanche buried a hotel in italy after a series of earthquakes. there's been several over the last few days. this is the scene right now. look at the snowstorm. it's slowing everything down. only two people have been pulled from the wreckage. the best information right now is there were at least 22 guests staying at the hotel when it was hit by the earthquake. several staff members were on duty and there's a huge degree of unknown and that stone is making everything harder in an already vulnerable region. >> former president george h.w. bush and former first lady barbara bush are waking up in a houston hospital today. doctors transferred the nation's oldest living president to the intensive care unit on wednesday while his 91-year-old wife barbara was admitted there as well. nick is live with all the latest. how are they? >> we should start with george h.w. bush in stable condition. his wife barbara bush also recovering. this comes a day after the health scare

years later serving in cairo, we will never truly be friends with the iranians while a main street in teheran is named after the assassin of president saddam. symbolic, perhaps that it really cuts deeply into this psychological being of many egyptians, including at the top education l echelons. number two, the egyptians have been staunch defenders of the nonproliferation treaty and in this respect their target has always been israel as a nonmember of the nonproliferation treaty and as a undeclared nuclear power. so the iranian nuclear issue always seemed to the egyptians to be almost of secondary importance. iran's far away. egypt was not really going to be a target of iranian aggression. but the egyptians were always over the past few years trying to get the world also to focus on the israeli program as they've done in each review conference since the treaty was established. so that accounts in part for the fact that egypt has basically been sigh r silent over the agreement, letting the saudis and the gulf states take the lead. hoping to get some tangible benefits in terms of increased secur

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reportedly violated the united nations resolution with a ballistic missile test about 140 miles east of teheran on sunday. fox news reporting the launch of the missile about 600 miles before it exploded in a failed test of a re-entry vehicle. that report from fox news. they'll be back in about 15 minutes, as you heard, at 2:30 for more discussion on the iran nuclear agreement. we'll have it live here on cspan 3 and more live programming later today at 5:30 p.m. eastern. former secretary state madeline albright welcome talking about the importance of american leadership and engagement in world affairs. the refugee crisis, the middle east and president trump's executive orders on migrants. also tonight at 6:30 p.m., sean spicer joining one of his predecessors and the white house correspondent on media coverage on president trump all of that this evening. until the forrum resumes again, we'll show you one of our conversations of a new member of congress. >> congressman david