demonstrators will hold events in the capital, abuja, and in lagos, to mark the anniversary. captivity. let's cross to nigeria now and speak to 0by ezekwesili, she's a former education minister and one of the founders of the bring back our girls campaign. thank you very much forjoining us on this third anniversary of the kidnappings. everyone had hoped we wouldn't be marking this anniversary with many of the girls still missing. indeed. it's a tragic day. historically tragic. we never imagined that this would take three yea rs. we imagined that this would take three years. we never did. i think it was backin years. we never did. i think it was back in october that 21 of the school girls were released, were freed. what do you know about the effo rts freed. what do you know about the efforts that are continuing to try to free the others? we know very little about the efforts and that's pa rt little about the efforts and that's part of the problem. what usually happens is that our governmentjust simply does not say much, it doesn't even say anything until there is a collaboratio

let's speak to isa sanusi from amnesty international, who joins us from the nigerian capital, abuja.s are missing but do we have any more information in terms of their welfare or where they are? well, there is not any clear picture of what they are going through or what is happening to them but yesterday the government issued a statement saying that they are steel negotiating and they are making, doubling their efforts to ensure the girls are rescued from boko haram. we are talking about this now because it is the three—year anniversary. do you get the sense that the girls have slipped from public consciousness? well, i can say actually the momentum is going down. if you remember in the last two years there was a global movement, there was global advocacy, so movement, there was global advocacy, so many international personalities and celebrities were actually taking pa rt and celebrities were actually taking part for the rescue of the chibok girls. but momentum is actually reducing, maybe because of the gains made in rescuing some of them but here in nigeria actually the momentum is

demonstrators will hold events later today in the capital, abuja, and in lagos, to mark the anniversarye still being held in captivity. 0ur nigeria correspondent martin patience reports. they were kidnapped as schoolgirls, but will now be young women. three yea rs but will now be young women. three years ago today, the students preparing forfinal years ago today, the students preparing for final exams were abducted from this school. the islamist extremist of boko haram oppose western education. they loaded the girls onto trucks, and then drove them into the darkness. the mass kidnapping shone a spotlight on the brutal boko haram insurgency, which has killed thousands and forced millions to flee their homes in north—east nigeria. the abductions sparked international condemnation, and led to the campaign bring back power girls. and then, late last year, joyous scenes. —— 0ur girls. and then, late last year, joyous scenes. —— our girls. more than 20 of the schoolgirls were freed, following negotiations. now, nigeria's president says talks are ongoing with a boko haram, and that he will ben

demonstrators will hold events in the capital, abuja, and in lagos, to mark the anniversary.ar—old harris binotti, from dumfries, has not been seen since he went out drinking with his colleague gary ferguson in the capital yangon. mr ferguson was later found dead. the man's wife discovered her husband's body. she told police the dear men had been out drinking and the following day, the victim left me an ma and flew to thailand. police have been wanting to speak to him ever since about his disappearance and have issued this red notice. it is not an arrest warrant but it does but international police on alert that they want to question harris be knotty because he has to return to my an ma. gary ferguson's brother said on facebook that he was very pleased that this red notice had been issued. he said the family were very relieved and after such a long and hard fight, he was in tears to announce that mr binotti had finally been put on the interpol list of wa nted been put on the interpol list of wanted persons and can now be arrested internationally. the headlines on bbc news...

authorities in nigeria telling reuters they have thwarted an attack by boko haram in abuja.the day. >>> secretary of state tillerson is being scolded today during crucial talks in moscow. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov did not mince words and told tillerson the u.s. missile strike on syria last week was an unlawful attack and lavrov said russia is concerned about what he called the ambiguous and contradictory ideals of the trump administration. yesterday trump accused russia of trying to cover up the attack and during an interview last night president trump said, quote, we are not going into syria, but he made his contempt for dictator bashar al assad very clear. >> putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person and i think it's very bad for russia. i think it's very bad for mankind. it's very bad for this world. this is an animal. >> secretary of state tillerson will meet next with putin as he tries to convince russia to stop supporting assad. >>> there is a new development stemming from the investigation into russians meddling in the u.s. presidential electi