francois: yes. now it is the next step.e going out of russia anymore. >> this is the first time since 2011 that a u.s. company would be sending somebody to space. francois: i think it is big. we know that spacex can launch so many more times. the previous program was a huge cost. sending people to the space the next step and then sending people to the moon and mars. how does this compare to what you are seeing a blue origin? origin started earlier than spacex. they brought to spacex makes the difference. it is a company that is going much faster. they will have the same type of engineer but they will drive differently. had financialays constraints. that is not the case with origin. that has brought more pressure on the company. >> what about virgin galactic? francois: they have a different approach. they launch small satellites. they are on their way. this is more about space tourism. of thea different here atmosphere. -- it is a is different program then sending people to the space station. it is a different is this model.

mark francois had clearly planned that stand, but should the bbc have done more to challenging?itics clipped the moment and it was shared online, leading to criticism of the bbc for allowing to use its airwaves in that way. jayne secker more tweeted... with so much focus on brexit, the bbc news has tried to take the story around the country. on tuesday the bbc news at ten featured a report hearing the perspectives of leave voters in mansfield, but did this approach do justice to the town? dear newswatch, i watched the ten o'clock news on tuesday night with trepidation. they said at the top of the programme there would be a report from mansfield. as expected, the short report featured an evening silhouette of a disused pit stop and an elderly local resident with a rich local accent in a labour club and to top it all off a rendition from a local brass band rehearsal. how much more cliched and stereotypical can the bbc get? this is so totally opposite to the mansfield area we know. come on, bbc, it is many years since the coal mines and mills closed and mansfield is recovering and

. >> excellent well, francois, stay with us i just want to bring you some highlights of what we just heard over the last 24 hours in terms of the fed. we heard that the fed chair jay poul dined with president trump at the white house on monday evening. it's the first time the pair have met since trump nominated powell for the post over a year ago and follows months of criticism from the president over the fed's rate path the 90 minute dinner was also attended by fed vice chairman richard claritta and steven mnuchin. now, the meeting came almost a year to the day since powell became fed chair cnbc's steve liesman looks back at his first year in office. >> wall street greeted president trump's appointment of jerome powell to head the fed a yoer ago with almost universal praise an experienced fed governor, powell was a private equity banker who would understand markets and most of all, spoke in english, not in economic jargon a year later some of that praise has turned to criticism. not least of which has come from the man who appointed him himself. >> i think the fed is out of control.

can i ask you about the interview with the conservative mp mark francois on the news channel.? that implies we choreographed this and it was a televisual event, but it was just another interview with a politician we have interviewed on many occasions and he chose to do that in the context of that interview. he came on clearly intending to and dodged a question in order to do it. sure, but we get feedback from people on both sides of the argument, particularly when they do not like something and it does not marry up with what they think. but we need to facilitate people hearing the widest range of opinions about big and important stories and in that sense it is different because we are here to challenge what people are saying and also to hear what they are saying. thank you very much. we know lots of newswatchers hate doorsteps, throwing questions to politicians while they are out and about in the street. but there was speculation on monday about how the labour party might approach the big vote in parliament, the bbc decided it was important to put this question tojeremy corbyn

value seat which they couldn't assess and which has nothing to do with all the pathology to use paul francois invokes. this is far from monsanto's only court battle it's also facing lawsuits in the united states in relation to other glaive based weak killers cases of this kind are likely to prove a headache for a german pharmaceutical giant buyer which acquired monsanto for sixty three billion dollars back in june unsurprisingly perhaps one of its first decisions was to drop the monsanto name. and that's certainly not the only issue buyers grappling with the company has also revealed that farmers in germany and france are digging up thousands of have tears of rapeseed fields after traces of banned genetically modified or g.m. seeds were found in them crops are widely grown across the world but they remain controversial in europe where only a few varieties are allowed the banned seed in question was sold under the decaff name previously on songs of bran. children aged fourteen and below represent twenty five percent of the world's population according to the un but in many parts of the world c

he is the conservative mp, mark francois, vice—chairman of the pro—brexit european research group, respondingy might have to leave the uk in the event of a no—go brexit. if he thinks because he runs a big company he can bully british mps out to vote, he will be sorely mistaken. my father was a d—day veteran and he never submitted to bullying by any german and neither with his son. if mr enders is watching, that is what he can do with his letter.

berlin international film festival also known as the berlin nolen day to showcase veteran director francois was on film the grace of god which depicts france's they guess church abuse case and its attempts of cover up the silent self has also been caught up in the scandal the priest accused of molesting more than eighty boys is now trying to block the film's release in france. it was a rather quiet night on the red carpet with the premiere of the movie technique the difficulties show. a claim french director alfonso wallace on tells the story off several men who were abused by a catholic priest when they were kids. long repressed memories awakened when they find out that the same priest is still in charge. he says you got connected to. sufficient moment had also been critical of us and call them because could you keep the faith in this based on the real case. on the french priest who is currently facing charges of sex really assaulting around seventy boss direct office while was also as he wanted to break the silence about the alleged crimes in preparation for his film he spoke extensively

hundreds of thousands displaced on alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between seleka and christian fighters known as the anti blocker continue the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french for.

killed and hundreds of thousands displaced alliance of muslim rebels known as the overthrew president francois government in two thousand and thirteen a few months later a rebel leader just to dia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the continue the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there and since then cease fires have been signed and violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes emani cheers is an assistant professor at george washington university she says achieving peace in central african republic will provide stability for the surrounding region. they're at a point now where the peace agreement a lot of it was also hoping for they hadn't seen that yet though the u.n. security council or the government wanted to have the embargo the arms embargo lifted and it was unanimously agreed to to extend that embargo for at least one year from today to see how this peace agreement works out but i mean it's not it's not a very volatile time but there's there'

he said the head of the french army under francois mitterrand said france had no choice but to remain neutral. we did not have the power to arrest people who are now considered to have taken part in the genocide. to look after those who committed ththe genocide was not our problem. i mean, we did not have ththat right. >> but the french foreign ministry disagreed at the time. ambassador, who is on the ground, is on the political side, not the military side. he is pushing paris and the french army to intervene, stop the genocide come and arrest them. in paris around that time, the french foreign minister promised that those responsible for the genocide would be arrested. but in the end, there is act and was organized and they were not arresteded. >> a reminder of what is making headlines at this hour. pedro sanchez is calling for an election april 28 after his government failed to get a budget your parliament. u.s. president donald trump is set to declare a national emergency to bypass congress in order to build his long proromid wall along t the u.s.-mexican border. india is calling f

what about al-jazeera what about françois i mean all of these are getting funded by .but it's the same thing applies when facebook every few weeks announces where they have closed seven hundred thousand accounts that they say are fake accounts because they are really russians or rain ians you know no one knows these things no one knows who or what these accounts are but it keeps the story going that the russians are the rainy and two. officially designated enemies are up to no good will moscow has weighed in on the issue calling online pressure against russia from so called on neighborly countries nothing new. really new owners the young covered rule pressure on the russian media has its effect you could it's no secret that unfortunately many big companies that provide social media and other media services are used as instruments to apply pressure on russian media that's coming from governments of neighboring countries we faced it many times it all leads to a loss of confidence and seriously damages begin respected international companies in this particular case i won'

jury's eye and of course it's also by the grace of god a guy from the film french film director francois ozone a very political film very controversial and of course this film now is not is not shy to controversy all right i mean as a fan david leavitt's down there on the red carpet for us thank you very much gus. back to some international news now nigerians head to the polls this weekend in a crucial general election well we're bringing you reports from the country throughout this week we kick off our coverage by introducing you to people working to assure that voters have access to accurate information they say fake news is increasing in nigeria as the election approaches. in ones in her team and the guardian's digital newsroom check the top social media topics every morning on twitter and advisor to the nigerian president alleges that an opposition party is offering food and money in exchange for votes the news spreads quickly so the guardian team decides to investigate it. the best that's the image found out it was a night i mean photographs dated as far back as twenty seventeen it

well the alliance of muslim rebels known as the select overthrew president francois it was he says government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel just a day i was sworn in as into him president he was forced to resign after fighting between the slacker and christian vices known as the anti lacka continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated all sides have been accused of war crimes. more on this from kos in we don't have the details about how many of those warlords who what names and so on and what is the basis on which. will be created of the the world itself will be pardoned within the framework of this agreement an agreement that has been proposed by the african union and supported by the united nations hosted by sudan but it is not the first time this happens seven at least seven agreements of this kind had been agreed on in the past but soon to be violated now the hope is that this one can hold because. probably it is the first time that all of the arab league

and alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois government in two thousandnd thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the and continue the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes irani cheers is an assistant professor at george washington university she says achieving peace in the c.a.r. will provide stability for the surrounding region. they're at a point now where the peace agreement a lot of it was also hoping for they hadn't seen that yet though the u.n. security council or the government wanted to have the embargo the arms embargo lifted it was unanimously agreed to extend that embargo for at least one year from today to see how this peace agreement works out but i mean it's not it's not a very volatile time but there's there's high hopes because the first time that there's

an alliance of muslim rebels known as the celica overthrew president francois busies government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the anti alaca continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces that are already there since the cease fires have been signed and violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes in mali cheers is an assistant professor at george washington university she says achieving peace in central america african republic will provide stability for the surrounding region. they're at a point now where the peace agreement a lot of it was also hoping for they hadn't seen that yet though the u.n. security council or the government wanted to have the embargo the arms embargo lifted it was unanimously agreed to to extend that embargo for at least one year from today to see how this peace agreement works out but i mean it's not it's not a very broad little time but there's there's h

statement was over, a senior conservative criticised the remarks about ali robbins made by mark francoisr comments from another conservative, andrew pridgen. they did so in terms that suggested he had been drinking too much when he had been drinking too much when he was overheard, which as far as i'm aware, there has never been the slightest indication, even in any of the newspaper reports on which they we re the newspaper reports on which they were relying. mr speaker, people like that have no opportunity whatever of even knowing these allegations are going to be made or replying to them. there is an increasingly unpleasant personal tone creeping into the debate about europe, mainly from the right—wing members of my party. and it will get quite out of hand if you don't issue a word of rebuke and say that that is an abuse of the privileges of the house of commons, that is not conduct that should be repeated. house of commons, that is not conduct that should be repeatedm is not strip the speaking an abuse of the procedures of the house and is not disorderly, but i think it is extremely un

what about al-jazeera what about françois i mean all of these are getting funded by governments but it'sthe same thing applies when facebook every few weeks announces what they've closed seven hundred thousand accounts that they say are fake accounts because they are really russians or rain ians you know no one knows these things no one knows who or what these accounts are but it keeps the story going that the russians or the radiance to. officially designated enemies are up to no good. thanks today a program french military officer who helped coordinate the fight against islamic state in syria could be set to face punishment after he published a devastating critique of the u.s. led coalition's anti terror tactics more on this this lunchtime shall we do been reporting from. damning criticism from a senior french military official this is the guy in charge of the french artillery ating could forces on the syrian a rocky border he's criticized the u.s. coalition tactics saying that it's actually putting civilians at risk the battle of hygiene was one at least on the ground but by refusing

so when the mp francois ruffin, who is one of the few political figures of the movement, says, "angerdent of the republic, his deafness, his obstinacy, his lack of concessions are a machine of hatred", and he says "he must leave before making our country crazy", do you have any sympathy with that view? no, no, idon‘t. because i don't have sympathy with violence, and i don't have sympathy with political manipulation, the fact that they try to use a movement to win elections and to be in the front of the spectacle, i don't like that. i think that we should alljust try to understand the situation in its complexity, without violence and without trying to be the star of this thing. leila slimani, thank you for coming on hardtalk. thank you. hello there. there's a trend for our weather to turn, really, very mild towards the end of this week. what's happening on the big picture is we're seeing southerly winds develop over the next few days, and those winds will be dragging up all this warm air from the tenerife, 2,000 miles to our south, and pushing it northwards across the uk. there's a que

so when the mp francois ruffin, who is one of the few political figures of the movement, says, "angernt of the republic, his deafness, his obstinacy, his lack of concessions are a machine of hatred", and he says "he must leave before making our country crazy", do you have any sympathy with that view? no, no, idon‘t. because i don't have sympathy with violence, and i don't have sympathy with political manipulation, the fact that they try to use a movement to win elections and to be in the front of the spectacle, i don't like that. i think that we should alljust try to understand the situation in its complexity, without violence and without trying to be the star of this thing. leila slimani, thank you for coming on hardtalk. thank you. hello there. we may well be heading towards the final few weeks of winter now, but actually, the weather is feeling almost springlike, some slightly milder conditions certainly on the cards over the next few days. this was the scene taken near eastbourne by one of our weather watchers on monday. some blue sky, a bit of sunshine around too. now, as we head

ann jones, rosie casals, francois durr and i were the first four real contract players in the modernn, ever, as pi’os. and george mccall signed us. and that was when? that was back in ‘68, just when open tennis were starting to happen. we wanted to be pros, we wanted to get paid, we wanted everything out in the open because you know, before that, you were getting money under the table. money came into tennis for the first time in 1968, when the associations agreed to have what they called open tennis — where they could be prize money, amateurs could play against pros. billie was thrilled. finally, players were going to be able to learn a living playing tennis, and i remember hertelling a story of how excited she was about open tennis and then, she got to wimbledon and she won wimbledon in 1968 and got £750, while rod laver won the men's singles and got £2000. and i think she really felt that finally, tennis was open, but the fight really was only beginning because the women were having, you know, less and less opportunities. and i think that was when the penny dropped that "we're goi

began in twenty thirteen when the alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president françoisbusies government a few months later rebel leader michel joy to was sworn in as interim president and he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the anti black began the un sent in peacekeeping forces to support african union and french forces are already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated but all sides have been accused of war crimes mohamed el has more from car too. the government of the central african republic and fourteen rebel leaders have signed a peace agreement that has been long in the making difficult negotiations for over a week here in the sudanese capital khartoum the heads of state of sudan and the central african republic have attended the signing with initials here today the final signing will be on wednesday in the capital bangui the capital of the central african republic what distinguishes this agreement is that it is a it is the fruit of first time head to head face to face negotiations between

hundreds of thousands displaced on alliance of muslim rebels known as the celica overthrew president francois government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between seleka and christian fighters known as the anti continue the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there and since then cease fires have been signed in violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes or money cheers is an assistant professor at george washington university she joins us live now from providence ya'll in the turks and caicos via skype thanks very much for being with us now we don't know the details of this peace deal but i suppose the the obvious question is going to be. is what are the chances that this is this is going to work with other attempts have been tried and failed. absolutely i mean we've seen now to fighting her she mentions her own since two thousand and thirteen and we were truly at a point and we were on the brink of genocide i mean we saw that as you

he is the conservative mp, mark francois, vice—chairman of the pro—brexit european research group, respondingthe event of a no—go brexit. if he thinks because he runs a big company he can bully british mps out to vote, he will be sorely mistaken. my father was a d—day vetera n mistaken. my father was a d—day veteran and he never submitted to bullying by any german and neither with his son.

hundreds of thousands displaced an alliance of muslim rebels then as the select overthrew president francois poses as government in two thousand and thirteen a few months later a rebel leader michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fights as then as the anti baleka continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes there at a point now or the peace agreement a lot of it was also hoping for they hadn't seen that yet though the u.n. security council or the government wanted to have the embargo the arms embargo lifted it was unanimously agreed to to extend that embargo for at least one year from today to see how this peace agreement works out but i mean it's not it's not a very volatile time but there's there's high hopes because the first time that there's been direct talks with all of these these different players fourteen militia groups of course as well as the gove

hundreds of thousands of others so an alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois governments in twenty thirty in a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the anti balika continued and the un sense of peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes mohamed joining us from khartoum so as usual the devil is in the detail mohamed what do we know about this peace agreement. that's right daryn we know already that they have agreed on two major points to a long week of difficult discussions on those points are the creation of an inclusive government and an amnesty to the warlords this particular point about amnesty to the warlords has been very difficult in terms of the discussions between the different sides but now they say they have agreed on it but as you said we don't have the details about how many of those warl

after the mainly muslim seleka group rebelled in the north they overthrew the christian president francois bose easy a predominately christian militia calling itself the. rosa defense thousands of civilians have been killed since the former colonial power france sent troops under a u.n. mandate his fears grew of a possible genocide. a quarter of the country's born a half million people have been forced to flee their homes. the silica were forced from power in two thousand and sixteen a former prime minister four star to our data was elected president but the celica still control around eighty percent of the country. fighting off in iraq over mineral resources including gold diamonds and you bring you the latest peace deal was agreed after talks in sudan set up that. we've brought peace back from sudan harmony national unity a muscle reconciliation. they have been seven peace agreements over the years to end one of africa's bloodiest conflicts in one of the poorest countries in the world all of failed. but. sudanese protesters are calling for the release of activists detained during weeks o

began in twenty thirteen when an alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois busy zs government a few months later rebel leader. was sworn in as interim president now he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the anti black began the un sent in a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces that were already there and since then cease fires have been signed and violated all sides have been accused of war crimes one hundred well as our correspondent monitoring events for us from khartoum and these are small and steady steps from all sides to sort of find a long lasting peace but this is apparently sort of just the first stage mohammed. that's right so small steps but this one is described here today by the heads of state there so then is president and president to add that of the central african republic ours a huge step ahead they have called on the rebel leaders to this time around this peace agreement and make sure that it is implemented and that it holds the head of the chairman of the african

among one of those who campaigned vigorously for brexit, i am joined by mark francois.the polish people have been allies for very many yea rs, have been allies for very many yea rs , we have been allies for very many yea rs, we have have been allies for very many years, we have lots of links going back a long way, we have many polish people living in the uk who have made it their home. for president tusk to come out with this outburst is really curious and i'm not sure it is going to profit him. what do you think he was trying to achieve? is not entirely clear to be honest. 0ne is not entirely clear to be honest. one thing! is not entirely clear to be honest. one thing i do know is that the house of commons overwhelmingly rejected the withdrawal agreement, the biggest defeat any government has ever said that in the history of parliament, so perhaps this isjust frustration on his part. but if he thinks that by using bombastic language he's going to bully the house of commons to give in, i suspect he's going to be very sorely disappointed. i was going to ask you, do you t

's francois says the slowdown is the second. kit and maya are still with us.look at monetary tightening around the world, are we going to take a long pause, not only interrupt europe, but also given the uncertainties, or could it come that quickly? maya: i think in the u.s., we have certainly taken a positive pivot.r response to is in the sharp tightening in financial conditions we had 20 and the year. insofar as i see that as the real driver of the pivot, as opposed financial conditions are lanes in terms of what we get from the fed next. more broadly, if we look at japan, the bank of japan has told us they are going to be low. i think that is about right. in europe, i think it is a bit more challenging. so far, we have had a pretty savage discussing of gdp forecast. the street, more broadly is cutting growth expectations. the drivers are being slightly are that we see a lot of temporary factors having driven the weakness in european growth from protests in france to conditions in the rhine and so on. certainly temporary factors being one aspect, but also the