Welcome to the program. The African Union has expressed outrage and demanded an apology from donald trump after he allegedly made derogatory and vulgar references to african countries at a meeting at the oval office. President trump has denied making the remarks, including the use of an expletive. A democratic senator who sat next to the president insists the president used the phrase repeatedly. President trump this is a great, important day, Martin Luther king. The forces of American History seemed to collide at the white house today, donald trump signing a proclamation in honor of the civil rights leader, dr. Martin luther king. At the moment he stands accused of using a slur directed at african nations but he stuck to his script. President trump today we celebrate dr. King for standing up for the selfevident truth americans hold so dear that no matter what the color of our skin or the place of our birth, we are all created equal by god. Mr. President , will you give an apology for the statement yesterday . Reporter after the ceremony came a very unceremonious commotion. Mr. President , are you a racist . Reporter a sitting president asked by a reporter if hes racist. President trump no mr. President , are you a racist . It was behind closed doors in the oval office that mr. Trump allegedly claimed that immigrants came from hole nations. He claimed he did not use that word but has been contradicted by a democrat who was present. I cannot believe in the history of the white house any president has spoken the words i personally heard our president speak yesterday. To no surprise, the president started tweeting this morning denying that he used tows those words. It is not true. He said these hate filled things repeatedly. From the United States in geneva came the stiffest of rebux. Rebux rebukes. These are shocking and hateful comments from the tha use but racist. You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as holes. Across africa, there has been a furious response. Botswana called the comments reprehensible it. May be just words, maybe in another part of the world but in this continent, that word is an insult. Build the wall was the cry of voters who loved trumps hardline stance on immigration. He was said to be doing a victory lap at white house for believing this row will rev up his base. He rose to political prominence by claiming falsely that barack obama wasnt an american. This latest racial controversy will doubtedly please at least some of his supporters at home but undercuts u. S. Leadership abroad and shows again, how America First can mean america alone. Bbc news, washington. Anchor President Trump has warned that hell reimpose sanctions on iran in less than four months. He wants the u. S. And european allies to impose new restrictions on the iranians and iran has said the deal isnt negotiable. Is it goodbye to the Iran Nuclear Deal . As President Trump departed for another weekend at his florida estate, he left the fate of the 2 and a halfyearold agreement hanging in the air. In a statement he announced this was the last time he would hold off on reimposing major sanctions on iran but one former american diplomat says this is just a negotiating tactic. He wants to do something to improve the environment of the agreement but he doesnt necessarily want to pull out of it because he will not get support in the international community. So what he said is, i will do it this time. The next time this comes up, which is four months from now, i want an agreement with britain, france, and germany. On thursday, irans foreign minister hold walks it those three governments and the European Union who also signed the agreement. Together they praised the deal, saying it was making the world safer. Mr. Trumps latest move is intended to break up this cozy club. In effect hes saying hell tear up the agreement unless there are changes. Heements he wants restrictions on irans Ballistic Missile programs, tightening up on the inspection arrangements, and he wants the agreement to be permanent rather than expiring in 2026. Irans response has been defiant, calling the trump move a desperate attempt to undermine the agreement. Mr. Trump has flown off into the sunset, leaving the ball firmly in the european court. They have 120 days to decide whether to agree to his demands or risk the end of a deal that took three years to negotiate. Bbc news. Anchor lets take a look at some of the other stories making the news tonight. Theres been a breakthrough in the talks aimed at forming a new Coalition Government in germany between the chancellor Angela Merkel christian democrats and rivals. Theyre expected to discuss a detailed plan for government. Hundreds of supporters of recently pardoned former president alberto have staged a rally to counter demonstrations. Fujimori was serving 25 years for Human Rights Violations but was pardoned on christmas eve. A number of catholic churches have been vandalized in chile ahead of a visit by pope francis. Police said homemade bombs were used to damage churches in santiago. The attackers left a message for the pope saying the money could be better spent on the poor. And women watching a football match in the stands for the first time at a stadium in jeddah. The measure comes after the conservative kingdom announced it was lifting a ban prohibiting women from driving. Facebook has announced what it says is a major change to its news feed, prioritizing posts from family and friends over those from advertisers and media organizations. The change follows criticism that too much fake news and misinformation has been ending up on the social network. Facebooks founder, mark zuckerberg, announced it could mean people spending less time on it, which has hurt their share price. Mark zuckerbergs social network has become one of the biggest distributors of news in history. Today the company went back to its social roots. He said one of our focus areas for 2018 is making sure the time we all spend on facebook is well spent. You are the property facebooks founder admits users are fed a heavy diet of news and adverts, together with personal frofts friends posts from friends and family. Its quite pumped up with adverts for shopping and baby things, stuff i search on google. I think it would be better if it was based around friends and family. Just feeling like im being sold to the whom time and people are making assumptions about my opinions. Zuckerberg says im changing the goal for product teams to helping you have more meaningful social interactions. To order from 1800flowers. This is the biggest change to facebook for many years, following controversy over the promotion of fake news with fears the platform has been used to subvert democracy. Todays change is clearly an attempt to restore trust in the global brand. Mark zuckerberg accept that is not all news is of equal damage but his changes could damage reputable news providers that have come to rely on his platform for eyeballs and income. The elephant in the room is fake news and how theyre trying to clean up the time lines and the fear for publishers for us is the baby is thrown out with the bath water and we lose important real journalism along with the fake news. Google is often described as part of a duopoly swallowing the advertising and News Industries together with facebook. Today, googles senior british executive seemed to see this as an opportunity. Theres an upside moving to the Digital World. You can reach five billion people on any device. You know yourself as a journalist theres a huge ability to tell the important stories in new ways and people are turning to the Digital World more than ever before to understand the news. For facebooks young missionitary founder, a shortterm hit in revenues is worth it to allay accusations that its becoming the antisocial network. Anchor stay with us. Still to come, a New Discovery that will delight laurel and hardy fans, a film that was found in the netherlands. Day one of Operation Desert Storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. Tobacco is americas oldest industry and one of its biggest but the industry is nervous of this report as it may tend to want to make people stop smoking cigarettes. Huge parts of kobe were demolished as buildings crashed into one another. This woman stood outside the ruins of her business. Tens of thousands of black children in south africa have taken advantage of flaws laws passed by the new government, enrolled at new formally white schools. Tonight sees the 9,000th performance of the longrunning play. When they heard of her death today, the management considered whether to cancel the performance but Agatha Christie would have been the last person to want such a thing. Anchor this is bbc news. The latest headlines. The African Union has expressed outrage and demanded apology from donald trump after he allegedly made derogatory references to african countries. President trump has said he wont pull out of the deal aimed at curbing Irans Nuclear program for now but it has to change. Lets get more on our top story and comments by donald trump. Our north america correspondent joins us. Peter, thanks very much for joining us. Quite a reaction to his glents glents comments from across the world. Peter universal outrage, shock, dismay and outrage from the African Union, which is the most recent group to explain how it feels about what the president is alleged to have said. This group that represents african nations demanding an apology and retraction from the president. In fact, the group went as far as to say he should issue an apology to africans and all people of african descent around the world. Anchor also today, the president s undergone his First Official health chuck checkup. Whats reaction been to that . Peter little reaction so far because we dont really know a huge amount about what happened at the health check apart from the doctor coming out and saying that it went exceptionally well and that the president is in excellent health. The doctors saying he will reveal more details, take questions from reporters on tuesday. This is the normal course of events when president s have their annual checkup. Theres nothing different that didnt happen with president obama and previous president s and the information will be made public, at least as much information as President Trump wants to be released. He has the final say over which details and generally we get details about blood pressure, maybe cholesterol numbers, that kind of thing. Anchor from north america, thank you very much. Families searching for missing relatives after the Manchester Arena bombing were subjeced to intrusive media attention, according to a report, part of a review in response to the bombing of may of last year in which 22 were killed. Our correspondent has been speaking to one of the families affected. Within moments of the Manchester Arena explosion, the attack was worldwide news. Phone footage was shared immediately. Camera crews and journalists provided roundtheclock coverage for days afterwards and there were countless posts on social media, as well. There was huge interest in the stories of those most closely affected. They included the family of martin hett, one of those killed in the blast. Martin had a large online following and had previously been on tv. His relatives quickly found themselves in the spotlight. Press reporters arrived at their house before the family knew that martin had died. To have people coming around knocking on the door and ringing the bell and basically saying, sorry for your loss, but would you like to comment. And he wasnt even officially dead yet. How can anybody be so cruel and say sorry for your loss, you know. So we didnt find out officially until that evening he was deads. The way the Emergency Services responded to the arena attack is already being reviewed by an independent panel. Now it will also examine the role which the media played during the afmath. Aftermath. Much of the media handled families in a respectful way but weve heard examples where that wasnt the case and we think that needs to be explored and understood. The long struggle of those whose loved ones died at hillsborough has recently inspired a charter for families bereaved through public tragedy. There are elements of the instance could have been better. The arena review asks organizations to sign up to it and put the needs of the families ahead of their own reputations. I want anybody who works in our Emergency Services to know they will be supported coming forward to tell it exactly as it was. We need the families to have the truth as quickly as possible. In march, the full review into the attack will be published, eight months after these 22 people died, their families lives still dominated by the tragedy. Bbc news, manchester. Anchor tunisias leaders say they will help the countrys poorest families cope with the rising cost of living following days of protest against the governments austerity program. Tim for days now, in cities across the country, the protests have continued. This is the capital, some demonstrators waving yellow cards. Theyre angry about an economy thats in dire straits and a government they feel isnt doing anything to help. Translator this protest is against the budget which is leading to poverty and hunger for the people. Our protest is completely peaceful. Were not calling for the overthrow of the government. Were falling for the overthrow of this budget. Tim despite those claims, there were scuffles with police. The Prime Minister has condemned the demonstrators. Its not just tunis. This protestor was in a coastal city. Discontent is spreading. How did this come about . At the beginning of january, a new austerity budget came into effect raising taxes and leading to higher prices. Within days, people had taken to the streets. Hundreds were arrested. But now the president and Prime Minister say they will try to help lowincome families with new measures coming into effect in the next few days. Fresh protests have been called for sunday, the seventh anniversary of the fall of the countrys former dictator. Tunisia has long claimed to be the one true Success Story of the arab spring but not everyone is convinced. Bbc news. Anchor here in britain, a surgeon who branded his initials on to the livers of two transplant patients has been find and Given Community service by court. He pled guilty to two counts of assault in december. His crimes carried out at a hospital in birmingham were discovered when the patients returned to hospital for further surgery. Simon bramle, once a respected surgeon, now a convicted criminal. What would you like to say to the patients . Today he was fined 10,000 pounds after pleading guilty to assaulting two patients by marking his initials on their livers. His victims were undergoing liver transplants at the time. In court, the judge told him this was conduct born of professional arrogance of such magnitude that it strayed into criminal behavior. What you did was an abuse of power and betrayal of trust these patients invested in you. It was here at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in birmingham where bramel committed his offenses. He marked the livers in 2013 and it was a year later, after a disciplinary hearing, that he resigned from his post. Another of his patients who also underwent a liver transplant by him says he shouldnt be punished. Signing his work is his way of showing the hard work hes done and the fact that hes saved so many lives through all the operations hes carried out, mine included because without him i wouldnt be here just makes me think he needs to carry on doing what hes good at. Bramel branded s. B. On the organs with a heat projecting device usually used to stop bleeding. The Crown Prosecution Service compared its imprint to a minor burn. What happened was a crime and the law applies equally to everybody, including doctors. So its important to hold people to account when they commit a crime of assault. The markings were discovered after other surgeons noticed them during operations. He betrayed the trust of his patients and took advantage of them when at their most vulnerable. The general counsel will decide whether to take further action against the surgeon. Anchor its the queen as youve never seen or heard her before. To mark the 65th anniversary of her coronation in 1953, her majesty has been giving a unique insight into the day and what it meant to her. Shes been speaking to allister bruce. A key piece of advice for any monarch, dont look down. She famously doesnt do interviews. This is probably as close as shell get. A conversation with questions about the coronation, the crown jewels and imperial state crown worn by her and her father, king george. Fortunately my father and i have the same shaped head. Once you put it on, it remains. You have to keep your head raised still. Yes. It was huge then. Yes, very unwieldy and you cant look down to read the speech. You have to take the speech up because if you did, your neck would break, it would fall off. Its difficult to always remember that diamonds are stones, very heavy. Yes. There are some disadvantages to crowns but otherwise theyre quite important things. She rode to her coronation in the cold state coach that weighs four tons, not built for comfort. Horrible. Only sprung on leather. Not very comfortable. Were you in it for a long time . Halfway around london. Really . We must have gone four, five miles. You can only go walking pace. The horses couldnt possibly go any faster. Its so heavy. 65 years after the event, a monarch talking about her coronation, the crown, the real one. Anchor laurel and hardy were one of hollywoods most loved slapstick double acts. Oliver hardy was fat and pompous, stan laurel thin and childish, both wearing bowler hats. Today new discoveries. Fragments from the film detained have been found. Its believed to be the only existing copy in the world. Do you recognize this man . Look a little closer because thats exactly what this archivist did. He was stoptaking old nitrate films when he realized hed stumbled upon stan laurel playing a prisoner, eventually exacting a typically absurd escape. This early experiment with special effects ended up on the cutting room floor. These scenes and fragments we found were thought to be missing. There was a book written about the solo years of stan laurel, of which this movie is part. And they describe this film as being only survived in a version of 40 minutes and we found the second reel of the full version. Thats very exciting news. Their diligence has meant this little lost movie gem has been restored. When we discovered this, we first had to make sure that its digital and when we contacted malbar. He said it was an exciting moment for comedy movie history and was very glad we found the scene so the film can be more whole again. The digital copy of the entire film detained has been released, including these missing scenes. Anchor dont forget, more on all the stories we have been covering and much more is available on the bbc news website. Thats all for me for now. Thanks for watching. Byebye. Im catty kay in washington. Join me and my cohost for beyond 100 days on monday, focusing on the biggest issues impacting both sides of the atlantic, analyzing how theyre shaping our world. We look forward to seeing you then, here on pbs. National presentation of bbc world news is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible f hello and welcome to kqed newsroom. I im thuy vu. Her first year on the job after being brought in to reform a Police Department mired in scandal. Also a look at the immigration moves including several moves by the Trump Administration to tighten immigration policies. On thursday during a meeting in the oval office, President Trump reportedly referred to puerto rico and haiti as a, quote, shithole. Democratic senator dick durbin was there. Senatas senator graham made presentation, the president interrupted him several times with questions and in the course of his comments, said things which were hatefilled, vile,
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