john simpson, bbc news. newsnight is coming up on bbc two.ight, a special election debate from newsnight and newsbeat in newcastle on the generation gap. an audience of under—305 and over—60s will challenge each other and politicians. join us now on bbc two. here, on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. have a good night. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm hugh woozencroft. our main headlines this evening. ‘arsene wenger — we want you to stay‘ — he signs a new two year deal to continue as arsenal boss. fans line the streets to pay tribute to huddersfield town after their premier league promotion. and the british number 0nejohanna konta is out of the french open — stunned by the world number 109, well, whether you sit in the ‘wenger in‘ or the ‘wenger 0ut‘ camp the news remains the same. the arsenal manager won't be leaving. arsene wenger has signed a new two year deal to extend his 21 year stay at the club. an official announcement will be made tomorrow. however, it has been a season of ups and downs in north london as our sports e

john simpson reports. john: american politicians used to say of leaders like manuel noriega, "he may be a son of a bitch, but he is our son of a bitch." noriega went too far. the cia used him to get information about fidel castro in cuba. then found out he was giving information about the cia to castro. they decided not to turn a blind eye to his large scale drug dealing anymore. especially when he started attacking america. " i say to the north americans, stop threatening because i am not afraid of death." by 1989, president george h.w. bush had had enough. noriega's threats and attacks on americans in panama created an imminent danger to the 35,000 american citizens in panama. hid in the vatican embassy in panama city. the u.s. army bombarded the building with heavy metal music at unbearable levels. in 1990 he was flown to miami and charged with drug trafficking. although the defense argued the cia had known about this, he was sentenced to 40 years in jail in 1992. pineapple face, as he was known from his

our world affairs editor, john simpson, looks back at his life. he may be a son of a bitch, but he'soriega — he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. they selected him, trained him, encouraged him to be a bulwark against communism, but noriega went too far. the cia used him to get information about fidel castro in cuba, then found he was giving information about the cia to castro. they decided not to turn a blind eye to his large scale drug dealing any more, especially when he started attacking america openingly.

simpson. and close friend, john mcquarrie, the deputy walked toof war, he work with john mcquarrie almost everyay. john mcquarrie was the war department official responsible for vetoing a proposal to bomb auschwitz the death camp. he would see mcquarrie every day. he never tried to persuade him to change that. correct, this is at a point in time in which allied bombers were bombing the industrial sections -- >> within five minutes of auschwitz. theould have -- this was in -- in late 1944, when there was jews 750 hungarian being deported to auschwitz. railroads toed the auschwitz, it would have slowed bythe process of murder many, many months. but mcquarrie successfully felix frank and porter, as far as we know, never did a thing to try to persuade friend henryod simpson. >> ok. we are throwing it open to the audience. we have a member of the audience who has been sitting patiently by the assigned microphone. sir, if you could identify yourself and let us know what your question is. thomas.rishaad did any of the justices and counter anti-semitism after they became stream -- supreme court justice

thousands of comments are using john oliver, they're using donald trump, using barack obama, using homer simpsonhael jackson, and the rest. you look where the website go fcc yourself, directs you to comment on net neutrality rule, it is registered with a canadian company called tuco. this company partnered with a liberal non-profit group, fight for thfuture in the past for these comment campaigns which last year, you had a copyright regulation regarding the internet. there were 85,000 identical comments, all registered using the same website from this canadian company. neil: use be obscene language. you can't necessarily blame john oliver for that but you do have to wonder what is so bad reassessing this standard, this net neutrality standard calls on all major internet service providers to police how they operate with the googles and some of these others out there, so they don't favor one over the other. but, what's missed here, is that the government is deciding this. so the government can barely account for what it is doing, let alone what these companies should be doing, right? >> that is th

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