actress and un special envoy angelina jolie meets rohingya refugees, calling for an end to the violence that has driven them from their homes. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: ten years after one of australia's worst natural disasters, we meet the people still struggling to come to terms with the black saturday fires. mr neeson, are you sorry for what you said? and actor liam neeson denies he is racist, after saying he once wanted to kill any black man in revenge for a friend's rape. good morning. it is 9:00am in singapore, 1:00am in the morning in london and 8:00pm in washington, where in less than an hour's time president trump will deliver the annual state of the union address. the speech was delayed by a week because of the longest government shutdown in us history. we know the president will address immigration and border security, and likely call for infrastructure spending. well, despite a somewhat rocky start to the year, donald trump's counsellor kellyanne conway was in an upbeat mood. the president will be talking about the booming economy, and the fact that

the indian government is standing strong on another key issue identifying under petrea ten rohingya muslims this against the things of the united nations which are stressed repeatedly that conditions in me and my aunt safe to return to india is increasingly taking the line that the rohingya are not cliff injuries but illegal immigrants hundreds of trying to flee to bung others to avoid detention or deportation but do not want to either. if you g.'s on the run again desperate not to be sent home over recent weeks hundreds of families have left india for bangladesh fleeing the threat of deportation back to me and. we escaped by secretly crossing the border. we had to pay traffickers a lot of money. it was very tough for us. it took eight to nine days to get into bangladesh. well most ranger refugees sought shelter in bangladesh tens of thousands ended up in india can do you regard them as illegal aliens and a security threat and of called for mass deportations some forced to flee india say they'd been living in the country for years. doing great the police in india never bothered us then the

critics complain that the rohingya still living in the region have not yet benefited from any of the development projects on the contrary the state committee chaired by the head of government is having rohingya residential areas destroyed in order to build housing for other ethnic groups. and that's it from me and the business as a team here and then much more business news stories of course on our website. slash business to check it out and do follow us on facebook and twitter if you don't already do so now stay tuned for the news on it up next just after this quick check on global. the food coming in. the middle. of you by using can spam out a place called to thought of from the bottom not to call to be easy to come up people come from the target less subtle. and you have come together as a collective still first and master the estate almost protests getting on top and being an artist i was like i should speak about all these things are. not going to minutes top double to. the first. day at school. or first calling most of them in the door as grand the moment arrives. join your rec

critics complain that the rohingya still living in the region have not yet benefited from any of the development projects on the contrary the state committee chaired by the head of government is having rohingya residential areas destroyed in order to build housing for other ethnic groups. and that's it from me and the business as a team here in berlin much more business news background stories of course on our website. business to check it out and do follow us on facebook and twitter if you don't already do so now stay tuned for the news on up next just after this quick check on global. stallman's hopes. you by using kids them out upon a small disc is not a from the bottom try not to believe him ok if you come from the looks of harald let's something at all to move on. and we have come together as a collective first bag matter though to stamboul most credit testers getting our shots and being on our days i was like i should speak about all these things. not thirty minutes w. . o. . going to one official estimates more than one point two million venezuelans or even columbia neatly and

actress and un refugee envoy angelina jolie has visited camps in bangladesh for muslim rohingyas displaced from myanmar. she says myanmar‘s government must stop the violence that has driven them from their homes. and this story is trending on bbc.com. the irish actor liam neeson has denied he is racist, after telling an interviewer he once set out to kill an innocent black man in revenge for a friend's rape. stay with bbc world news. and the top story in the uk: theresa may says she wants the eu to agree to changes to the so—called irish backstop in her brexit withdrawal deal, but suggested she might not seek to remove it altogether. she met business leaders in belfast on tuesday, and is now set to travel to brussels. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. trump's state of the union. what will this year's address to congress mean for the us china trade dispute? feng shui in the year of the pig. will they be fireworks, or will the chinese new year usher in a calmer period? good morning, asia, hello, world. glad you could join us for this lunar new year edition of asia

critics complain that the rohingya still living in the region have not yet benefited from any of the development projects on the contrary a state committee chaired by the head of government is having rohingya residential areas destroyed in order to build housing for other ethnic groups. premium car makers b.m.w. and daimler announced they will invest more than a billion euros in their combined mobility services things like car sharing ride hailing to get less parking the alliance shows how the motor industry is moving towards new technologies and business models that don't involve owning a car. sharing rather than owning it is a concept many people are adopting in cities all over the world and it's heating carmakers bottom lines. declining profits three times last year the auto industry's heavy weights need to adjust there is a growing segment which some people see twenty percent of total mobility or whatever in some years to come which we cannot just ignore for decades dimer and b.m.w. bitter rivals now they're joining forces at least in some areas and they're doing more than just c

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it goes to the staff of reuters for uncovering the massacre of rohingya villagers in myanmar. i would like to thank our panelists and our panel discussion leader, margaret sullivan, bill, sarah gonzalez and madeleine baron for a enlightening discussion. podcasts are at the moment still sweeping the country. i took a walk through central park two days ago and in the space of 45 minutes i saw 30 people with earbuds and if they are not talking back there -- they are listening. and i think they were all listening to podcasts. you have complicated our lives because i do not know how you will judge them all. they are so long. we will have to be paid by the hour. thank you for tuning in and i appreciate round of applause for our panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> c-span's "washington journal ," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. this morning, the national constitution center's jeffrey rosen discusses president trump's emergency declaration and the legal challenges he faces. an irs taxpayer advocate will join us to talk ab

example is in myanmar where posts on facebook incited violence that contributed to the genocide of the rohingyaledged that it was deficient in taking down the posts inciting violence against people so among the vulnerabilities, the liabilities of facebook is that governments hold them legally liable for things that people post on their platform. we're already seeing that in germany and if more broadly put into effect that would be a big change for facebook. >> all right and that does make sense we'll see if it goes that direction. kevin, thank you tony, thank you, as well. >>> well, that plain index fund may not be so plain after all. we'll explain. stay with us was ahead of its time. still, we never stopped making it stronger. faster. smarter. because to be the best, is to never ever stop making it better. the new 2019 c-class family. lease the c 300 sport sedan for $429 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. i'm not really a, i thought wall street guy.ns. what's the hesitation? eh, it just feels too complicated, you know? well sure, at first, but jj ca

beginning around 2014 the military used the social network to spread propaganda about the minority rohingyabook allowed posts that helped support the military's mission of ethnic genocide. >> they basically decided they wanted to be the world system, which meant they wanted to go into literally every country. and they didn't stop for a minute to ask themselves what did it mean that they had no local language or cultural expertise. >> the company's also been criticized for propaganda and hateful content in countries like ukraine, the philippines and sri lanka. facebook says it now has more than 15,000 people working worldwide to monitor and evaluate any content flagged as hate speech. >> it is vital that facebook hire more smart local people in each of the markets. they're beginning to do that, but they're coming from behind a bit, so it's going to take some time. and they have to rush this because it's urgent. >> coming up -- calls to reform facebook's policies hit closer to home. >> do you think there could be other breaches like the one we saw in cambridge analytica, where tens of million

angelina jolie has visited camps in bangladesh for muslim rohingya refugees in her capacity as un envoyo prevent over 730,000 of them being driven from their homes in myanmar. that's from bbc burmese. a russian couple have been detained in malaysia for the alleged abuse of their four—month—old baby. the pair were filmed swinging the infant in kuala lumpur during a street performance to fund their travels. that's from bbc chinese. in spain, jose mourinho has accepted a one—yearjail sentence, which he won't have to serve, and a fine of almost 2 million euros. he reached the deal with prosecutors who accused him of tax fraud. let's start with the canadian cryptocurrency exchange quadreegacx. this is what you used to see on their site, but if you go to the site now, there's a message now, those liquidity issues started when the founder gerald cotten passed away unexpectedly in december and he took the passwords to much of the site's infrastructure with him. that means $190 million of customer holdings are locked inside and no—one can access them. astonishing story, raises all sorts of quest

un refugee agency special envoy angelina jolie has visited camps in bangladesh for muslim rohingya refugeesre to prevent a crisis that saw 730,000 people driven from their homes as she addressed a crowd of refugees in kutapalong camp, the world s largest refugee settlement, in bangladesh's cox's bazar district. the german museum displaying banksy‘s self—destructing painting has "deactivated" the artwork‘s shredding device. ‘love is in the bin' shredded in its frame immediately after selling for £860,000 at sotheby‘s auction house in london in october. banksy has since suggested that the entire canvas was supposed to shred, notjust two thirds of it, but the museum says it wants to prevent the rest of the artwork being destroyed. that was a social media sensation and so this egg. last month, we brought you the egg — the plain and simple egg which became most liked picture on instagram. forgotten about it already? well, it has 10 million followers. and now it talks — and it has a very positive message about mental health. before the egg, the most popular post on instagram was a photograph of k

civille situations, war, war in syria, civil war in sub-saharan africa, wars in afghanistan, the rohingyado not have much of a choice -- they are fleeing where they are coming from. but this is many of the millions, tens of millions of people who are around the world right now are looking for better education, better health care, better jobs. so we made an effort in this story to look very broadly at migrants moving around the world, and we looked at some of these studies. national studies here in the u.s., european studies, and what happened is basically when migrants first arrived in a socialthey do use more -- they often use -- not in every case -- but often use more social safety nets, resources than others do, but very quickly, and within an individual migrant's lifetime, they almost always get jobs and begin paying that back. migrants here in america, immigrants here in america pay taxes. they don't have access to any sort of free health care or things like that. so if you just look purely economically and just put aside the sort of, you know, cultural benefits of interacting with p

actress and un refugee envoy angelina jolie has visited camps in bangladesh for muslim rohingyas displacedrom myanmar. she has called for myanmar‘s government to stop the violence that has driven them from their homes. and this story is trending on bbc.com. the irish actor liam neeson has denied he's racist, after telling an interviewer he once set out to kill an innocent black man in revenge for a friend's rape. he's the senses and was appalled by his behaviour but was not motivated by racism. —— he says he quickly came to his senses. you up—to—date, stay with us. —— you are. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. right now, venezuela is in the grip of political and economic chaos. two men are claiming the presidency, protesters are out on the streets, and the international community is divided in its response. well, today i'm in miami to meet christian zerpa. until december, he was a justice on the venezuelan supreme court. now he's one of the highest—profile defectors from the maduro regime. so does this erstwhile insider believe the socialist revolution is