his real name is mamoudou gassama.er dangling from a fourth floor balcony, the malian immigrant ran straight past the crowd of onlookers and began to climb. in less than a minute he had scaled the outside of the building. a neighbour holding onto the toddler until he arrived. with one leg swung across the balcony, mamoudou swept the child to safety. cheering the child's father is now being questioned for apparently leaving him at home alone. this morning mr gassama was invited to meet president macron, who asked him whether he had stopped to think before climbing the building. translation: no, i wasn't thinking about anything. ijust climbed. once i started, god gave me the courage to continue. the president awarded mr gassama a bravery medal and certificate and offered him a role in the french fire service. he also invited him to apply for french citizenship. mr gassama had documents allowing him to work in italy but not to enter france. translation: i am glad, because it is my first time to win an award like this. iam

his real name is mamoudou gassama.h floor balcony, the malian immigrant ran straight past the crowd of onlookers and began to climb. in less than a minute, he'd scaled the outside of the building, a neighbour holding onto the toddler, until he arrived. with one leg swung across the balcony, mamoudou swept the child to safety. cheering. the child's father is now being questioned for apparently leaving him at home alone. this morning, mr gassama was invited to meet president macron, who asked him whether he had stopped to think, before climbing the building. translation: no, i wasn't thinking about anything. ijust climbed. once i started, god gave me the courage to continue. the president awarded mr gassama a bravery medal and certificate and offered him a role in the french fire service. he also invited him to apply for french citizenship. mr gassama had documents allowing him to work in italy, but not to enter france. translation: i am glad, because it is my first time to win an award like this. i'm happy. thank you. t

his real name is mamoudou gassama.oddler dangling from a fourth floor balcony, the mali migrant went straight past onlookers and began to climb. in less than a minutsc he had aled the outside of the building, a neighbor holding on he the toddler befor arrived. they swept the child to safety. ththe child's er is now being f questior apparently leaving him at home alone., this morni. gassama was invited to meet president macron, whosked him whether he stopped to think before he climbed to the balcony. mr. gassama: no, i was not thinking about anything. i just climbed. once i started, god gave me the courage to continue. reporter: the president offered him a role in the french fire servicand offered him to apply for french citizenship. had documents allowing him to work in italy but not to enter france. >> i am glad, because it is my first time getting an award like this. i am happy. thank you. >> i asked him the question about being afraid, and he told me no. i did not think about myself. i was thinking about the child.

is a clear message, i think, gassama, isn't it? is a clear message, ithink, that gassama, isn't it? into the country, they should scale buildings, people are no doubt climbing up nelson ‘s column at the moment. you are sick. but it is a positive story at a difficult time for migrants across europe. —— nelson's column. ithink it was like that for iran, it would be easy. changes the amateur towards migrants. —— changes the attitudes. they hear seeking a better life, why wouldn't you be? —— they are here. and here is a mini show what they will do get it. —— and here is someone sure on what will do get it. —— and here is someone sure on what they will do to get it. —— showing what they will do. good morning. we are not out of the woods yet. there are more storms and heavy rain in the next few days in the warm and humid air that we have across the uk. that threatened to give us if you storms in the south of england. they weren't many at all. 27 degrees here. it will the year so far. much cooler under the grey in this disguise in the north—east of england and seacoast. that located misty

his name is mamoudou gassama. he is saturday night's hero. the video of him scaling the building went viral, viewed millions of times. it has earned him the nickname "spiderman," and made him a national hero. he is quoted as saying, "i did not think of the risks. i did it because there was a child in danger, simply." the town halltes is vowing to help him in his quest to settle down in france. he met with president and mala macron well. they wonderful and for a young man who arrived in france a few months ago. -- aççagg1ab;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ1 liliey: oh, jejesus, it't's the lawyer. [laughter] you can hear people turning to each other, "hey, do you know if there's wifi here? so,o, just type--type that up. [laughteter] so, uh, before i start the stuff here, just wanted to do some thank-yoyous. takes a lot of wok to put these events together, as everybody knows. and not just for the speakers, but also max, cameron, torin, dylan, zaba, everybody that has helelped put this--put this event together and has done so for several years.

for gassama, citizenship isn't the only reward. he's also been offered a job as a firefighter, so he can practice every day the same heroism he showed in that daring rescue. david wright, abc news, new york. >> we thank david for that report. >>> we turn now to politics, moving on, a critical new week shaping up at the white house. president trump laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery this memorial day. paying tribute to fallen service members and their families. at the same time, a flurry of diplomatic activity. positive new signs the face-to-face summit with kim jong-un, the same one the president called off on thursday, may still happen. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: on this memorial day, president trump greeted service members at arlington national cemetery, while half a world away, urgent preparations are under way for his on again, off again summit with kim jong-un. over the weekend, kim held an unannounced and apparently quite friendly mee

gassama told macron when he began climbing, god gave him courage.ice say the boy was at home alone. his father is now under investigation for parental neglect and is due to appear in court in september. gassama says when he saw the boy in trouble, he didn't think about himself. he focused only on saving him and nothing else. roxana saberi, cbs news, london. >> golodryga: the world tonight applauds him for his heroism. the forecast is looking a bit brighter for a summit next month between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un. a u.s. delegation is in the north tonight trying to revive the meeting just days after president trump called it off. here's ben tracy. >> reporter: at the truce village that separates the two koreas, american diplomats have taken the rare step of crossing the border to meet with their north korean counterparts. at the same time the man who is basically the north korean leader's chief of staff was spotted in the beijing airport monday en route to singapore, the site of the potential tummit. >> so we're looking at

mamoudou gassama met today with president emmanuel macron. amateur video on saturday showed gassama climbing four storieto reach a four-year-old boy, who was clinging to a balcony. gassama recounted his actions, today. >> ( translated ): no i didn think twice, i just climbed up and thank god, god helped me. the more i climbed the more i had the courage to climb up higher, that's it. >> nawaz: the video of gassama's heroism went viral on social media, and he was quickly dubbed "spiderman." still to come on the newshour: will the u.s. and north korea be successful in reviving plans for a summit? political stakes: the president blames democrats for immigrant children being separated from their parents. honoring the millions of women who have served in the united states military, and much more. >> nawaz: over the weekend the pace of diplomacy with north korea has picked up in an effort to revive the summit between president trump and north korean leader kim jung un. foreign affairs correspondentri nick schreports. >> schifrin: amna, thank you. tw

for gassama's citizenship isn't the only reward.e's also been offered a job as a firefighter so he can practice every day the same heroism he showed in that daring rescue. david wright, abc news, new york. >>> and here at home, the police chief of wildwood, new jersey, speaking out about that violent arrest on the jersey shore. police say they initially questioned 20-year-old emily weinman about underage drinking right there on the beach, but it quickly escalated, as you can see, with officers putting her into a choke hold and punching her in the head. the police chief says these images do not tell the whole story. >> i asked people not to rush to judgment looking at a 30, 40-second video. you know, there's more to the story. there always is. it could have been very easily solved just cooperating. >> his department is planning to release the officer's body camera video. the officers are on administrative duty pending an investigation, and weinman, who allegedly spit on one of the officers and kicked an officer in the groin, faces a

mamoudou gassama climbs up to save the boy.m the ledge next door — as mr gassama reaches the boy and pulls him to safety. this video was posted on facebook has had more than ten million views. here's his brother describing what happened: translation: he moved immediately to save the child. i asked him, wasn't invited for his own life? he said, no, that moment he was thinking of himself, he was thinking of the child. as soon as he started to climb, he was scared that the child would get tired and let go. luckily, it was a child who was not afraid and everything worked out well. the reaction has been incredible. he has now been personally congratulated by president emmanuel macron and awarded a bravery medal. mr gassama is an immigrant from mali. mr macron says he will be made a french citizen. and it looks like mr gassama has even been offered a job. the paris fire brigade tweeted: mamoudou shares the values of the paris fire brigade. we are ready to welcome him. here's hugh schofield. having created this sensation, he is now, i

22-year-old mamoudou gassama climbed four swords of a building in paris to rescue a 4- year-old boy.e risk his life and earning the nickname spiderman. >> no, i did not think twice and i climbed up and thanked god. the more i climbed, the more i had courage to climb higher. i asked him if he was afraid, and he told me no, i didn't think about myself, i was thinking about the child. when he started climbing he got scared that the child would get tired and let go. >> reporter: he is a mager -- migrant from molly. -- africa. he has been in france since september trying to gain citizenship. mamoudou gassama received a certificate of bravery and a metal on monday after meeting with the french president. the president also announced he is being granted legal residency and is fast tracking is citizenship. >> i took it nationally and i do not think it would have as much impact. >> i believe the exceptional nature of this gesture justifies the exceptional decision that he may. france is about willingness and commitment, and that is what he show. >> reporter: the president also offered mamoudo

his real name is mamoudou gassama. and began to climb. of the building, a neighbour holding onto therived. the child to safety. leaving him at home alone. climbing the building. translation: no, i wasn't thinking about anything. ijust climbed. once i started, god gave me the courage to continue. and offered him a role in the french fire service. he also invited him to apply for french citizenship. but not to enter france. an award like this. i'm happy. thank you. and he told me, "no, i didn't think about myself. i was thinking about the child. would get tired and let go. tonight, tasting sudden celebrity. before the french state even knew he was here. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. heard of slacklining? suspended more than 1,300 meters in the air, in central china. 00:24:18,648 --> 1073741526:06:36,343 give 1073741526:06:36,343 --> 2147483051:48:54,039 me 2147483051:48:54,039 --> 3221224577:31:11,734 a 3221224577:31:11,734 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 minute. give me a second. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. good morning. on monday, there was some respite. the woods yet. w

mamoudou gassama is on the fast track to citizenship, president macron is very impressed but when i lookedderstand why the neighbour does not grab the baby. the neighbour that is leaning over? any today hollywood ending. and roman abramovich, a feel—good story for france. this one has real geopolitical implications. we know that roman abramovich has not had his visa renewed for the uk and has taught as part of the wider freeze in russian relations. as israel is rolling out the red carpet for him, it may suggest to britain that israel isn't backing london when it comes to moscow. roman abramovich is jewish and he is entitled to israeli citizenship if he wants to move there. interesting timing, though... we will end there. thank you to both of you. just to remind you that if you want to catch up on all of the papers, take a look at those front pages... you can get it all online on the bbc news website. it is there seven days a week. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you henry and lynn. next, it's bollywood's dark secret. rajini vaidya nath

speaking on television last night, gassama said i wasn't thinking about being brave, i just did what, i had to save him. the boy's father is facing charges after he left the child in the apartment to go shopping. >>> that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we have a lot of heroes to follow on the show, online, on facebook and twitter. we'll post all of tha that @mitchellreports. craig melvin next. >> he may not consider himself a hero but my goodness. andrea, thank you, good to see you. coming to you from msnbc headquarters in new york city. racist tweet. growing calls for abc to cancel tv star roseanne barr's show. she tweeted a racist message, comparing one of obama's top senior aides to the child of the muslim brotherhood and "planet of the apes." >>> starbucks are shutting their doors for bias training, but can people change? do we have ingrained biases that we may not even know exist? >>> plus, 4,645, that's how many puerto ricans died during and as a result of hurricane maria. that staggering new death toll from harvard university experts who have been study

22-year-old mamoudou gassama scaled four stories of a building in paris to rescue a 4- year-old boy,isking his life and earning the nickname spiderman. >> i did not think twice, i just climbed up and thank god. god helped me. the more i climbed, the more i had the courage to climb up higher. i asked him if he was afraid, and he told me know that i didn't think about myself, i was thinking about the child. when he started climbing, he got scared that the child would let go and luckily the child did not let go and he was able to rescue him. >> reporter: mamoudou gassama is a migrant and he said he made that dangerous miniature raring -- mediterranean crossing . he received a certificate of bravery and a metal on monday after meeting with the french president. the president also announced he is granting him legal residency and fast tracking his citizenship. >> i am happy for this young man and it is great for him. >> the exceptional nature of this gesture justifies the exceptional decision that he may. france is about willingness and commitment, and that is what he show. >> reporter: th

informant, mamoudou gassama. 22 year-old.ting to see whether he was going to get permanent asylum. sprang into action. he saw the child and had to do something. >> we came here to watch the football match at a restaurant. i saw a lot of people yelling. cars were honking. i got out and i saw the child who was about to fall from the balcony. i have children. i will hate to see him get hurt in front of me. i ran and thought of ways to save him. and thank god i scaled the building to that boy. >> how did you climb? it seemed easy. >> i got on top of the door and managed to pull myself up from balcony and thank god i saved him. >> a humbling intervention for his hero. it took a great deal of bravery to do that. and president macron said that. this morning when he met him. he said bravo at the end of the discussion and said in fact he will be given french nationality. it said life expands and contracts with courage. and certainly gassama's life expanded today. >> europe is considering a ban on single use plastic such as straws, cup

video of the rescue went viral, earning gassama the nickname "spiderman." he was welcomed at elysee palace by president macron monday, offered french citizenship and a job as a firefighter. hungary's government has proposed n new laws and a consnstitutional amendment that wowould crack downwn on anyone offering aid to migrants seeking asylum. under the legislation, offering food, water, or legal advice to migrants would be outlawed. even printing leaflets with information for asylum seekers would become a criminal offense. in ukraine, a prominent russian journalist and kremlin critic was ambushed outside his home in kiev tuesday in an apparent assassination. arkady babchenko, a veteran war correspondent who was sharply critical of russian president vladimir putin's annexation of crimea, was shot three times in the back by an unknown assailant. babchenko had been living in ukraine since 2017 after calling russia "a a country i no longer feel safe in." the justice department has approved a takeovever of the u.. agribusiness giant monsanto by the german pharma

gassama says he didn't think about whether or not he should try to rescue the boy.gave him courage. french authorities say the boy's father had left the child alone in the apartment while he went shopping for groceries and then got distracted playing pokemon go. he now faces charges of criminal child neglect. >> wow. >> he really had superhuman strength and i'm so happy he's getting all the accolades. >> what a hero. >> great story. >> thank you very much. linzie. >>> coming up next, why the creators of "sesame street" are suing over this movie with the motto no sesame, all street. f. at a-a-r-p, we're all about hikes, bikes... swims... and... whatever this is... because we're here to help you become your healthiest self. it's why we offer health tips for your body... ...and your brain. yeah, your brain! today is your day to make fitness happen... and a-a-r-p is here to help take on today and every day with a-a-r-p. one dark chocolate rises masteringabove the rest.inement. lindt excellence created by our master chocolatiers. pure, rich, elegantly thin. experience ex

mamadou gassama scaled the building, climbed to the fifth floor just in time to save the boy's life.he french president aworded him with citizenship and a job as a firefighter. ( applause ) >> trevor: i'm shocked every time i watch that. i wouldn't climb that high for my own baby. ( laughter ) although i am proud of him, i am a bit disappointed he gave the game away for other africans. you can't let white people know we can do that kind of stuff. supposed to keep the wakanda stuff on the down low. every time the white people can't find their phone, it's, damn africans, they must have climbed in -- oh, yeah, they can do that. they can dhoovment it's cool france gave this guy citizenship. all the other migrants will try to save kids. every other game of hide and seek will be broken up by africans. i found him! he was behind the kittens! i'm a citizen now, yes? it shows you why every country needs immigrants. they work so much harder. at the bottom of the video, a white guy is also trying to climb up. ( laughter ) ( applause ) yeah. that's the result of ten generations eating croissants

take the recent incident with the man called mamoudou gassama in paris, who came to save a young boyunts, he was a muslim man and talked about god, but none of his godliness or faith played any part in the french media coverage. had he done something wrong, god forbid... you would agree there is a need to normalise the perception of muslims rather than just normalise muslims, which is what you are saying, you know, normalise muslim conversation and say extremism is not the majority. it is not a problem with muslims. not with the vast majority. that's right, i would not say that for a moment. my new book talks about the fact the vast majority of the world's muslims are peaceful and are the birth givers to a new type of culture. but the house of islam is on fire and we have to identify the arsonists, like the muslim brotherhood and a whole range of organisations. iranians would say they are a sovereign state and do not... ask the saudi allies... one of your solutions to trying to douse the flames of the house of islam, which you say is on fire, is to set up a middle east union, a bit l

that's mamoudou gassama on the left, who in less than a minute pulled himself up with his bare hands, and grabbed the child — while a neighbour was trying to hold on from another flat. in the past half hour, president emmanuel macron has thanked him personally during a meeting at the elysee palace. and situation, and the speed with which he scaled up there was incredible, grabbing the child and pulling him to safety —— obviously not a safe situation. there is present. president emmanuel macron, thanking him personally at the ely isa thanking him personally at the ely is a palace. a pretty proud moment. you can see him talking to the french president after what was certainly a very heroic deeds —— at the elysee palace. calling that tell to safety. lucy martin has the weather. hello there. yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far for scotland, northern ireland and wales and we've also seen some pretty spectacular thunderstorms. bank holiday monday looks like it will offer something similar. some good spells of warm sunshine but still the risk of thundery showers, parts of east a

mamoudou gassama, a recent immigrant to france, scaled the building in less than a minute before hauling a neighbour was also trying to hold the child from the balcony next door. president emmanuel macron invited him to the elysee palace this morning, to thank him personally and gave him a medal of courage. mamoudou's brother explained what happened. translation: he was eating in a restaurant with his girlfriend, watching a champions league match, when he heard car horns and people shouting. he went outside and looked up, and there was a child. so, what happened? he moved immediately to save the child. i asked him, wasn't he frightened for his own life? he said, no. at that moment, he wasn't thinking of himself, he was thinking of the child. as soon as he started to climb, he was scared that the child would get tired and let go. luckily, it was a child who wasn't afraid and everything worked out well. 0ur paris correspondent, hugh schofield, has been following the story and told me about the french reaction to this brave act. well, he is the hero of the day. ”g - . . of his bid to become

that's mamoudou gassama on the left, who in less than a minute pulled himself up with his bare hands,mmanuel macron has thanked him personally during a meeting at the elysee palace.

malian man, who's been hailed a hero after rescuing a child dangling from a balcony in paris, mamadou gassamass than a minute before hauling the child to safety. a neighbour was also trying to hold the child from the balcony next door. president emmanuel macron invited him to the elysee palace this morning to thank him personally. let's talk to our paris correspondent, hugh schofield. not surprisingly, these pictures have been beamed around the world, gone viral. a pretty incredible story, isn't it? it is and a very happy story. the speed and agility with which the man scales that wall isa with which the man scales that wall is a sight to be held. the story behind it is as uplifting because it was really a case of him being in the right place at the right time, looking up, seeing a child in danger and without a moment's reflection, it seems, rushing towards the building and climbing up the outside, hauling himself up, as you can see in the video, from one balcony to another, i mean, as it is nothing. he's obviously a man of great physical prowess. he gets to the top and holes in the child and

a child who was dangling from a balcony on the fourth floor of a building... 22-year-old mamoudou gassamaas about to watch a soccer match at a nearby restaurant when he saw a lot of people yelling and cars honking... whe he looked up he saw the child dangling and then quickly jumped into action and climbed up four floors of the building with out any tools... the man successfully made it to the four-year-old and pulls him to safety from midair... <"i saw the child who was about to fall from the balcony. i like children, i would have hate to see him getting hurt in front of me. i ran and i thought of ways to save him. thank god i scaled the front of the building to that balcony." "i got on the top of a door and i managed to pull myself from balcony to balcony. and thank god, i saved him.">(grant) earlier today-- french president emmanuel macron met with the man to personally thank him for his heroic actions. president macron promised to make him a french national-- and also offered him a job with the parisian fire brigade. (grant) that wraps up kron 4 news at nine...(pam) but our primetime

an anxious crowd cheered as mamadou gassama scaled the structure in less than a minute. maui said he was walk big when he heard the crowd shouting and cars honking. he said when he saw the child he went into action without thinking. this morning he met with the president of france who promised ho to give him citizenship and a job in the fire department. what? that's great. >> incredible. >> phard core. >> good for him. >>> the director of "once on this island" found inspiration from his own family's courage after a tragedy. >> this production is dedicated to their memory and to all those who give shelter and love to those they find in trees. >> ahead, how michael arden believes trees help tell a story of love. your local news is next. san jose firefighters say they've already shifted into summer mode.. after several weekend fires.. the departme >>> good morning, it is 8:25 am. san jose firefighters say they have already shifted into summer mode after fighting several fires over the weekend. the fire department has quadrupled the number of trucks it sends to brushfires. t

his real name is mamoudou gassama. and began to climb.side of the building. a neighbour holding onto the toddler until he arrived. the child to safety. leaving him at home alone. climbing the building. translation: no, i wasn't thinking about anything. ijust climbed. once i started, god gave me the courage to continue. and offered him a role in the french fire service. he also invited him to apply for french citizenship. but not to enter france. to win an award like this. iam happy. thank you. and he told me, "no. "i didn't think about myself. "i was thinking about the child. would get tired and let go. is tonight tasting sudden celebrity. before the french state even knew he was here. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. going to do that and how will that child survived? going to do that and how will that child survived ? going to do that and how will that child survived? it is amazing pictures. where did he learn to do that? that? it is like parkur, where you leap across buildings... leap across buildings... just did he want to do it, is i