This is bbc news, im lewis vaughanjones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Nigerian Officials Say more than 300 schoolboys taken captive by gunmen last week, are safe and well, and on their way home. A court in france jails a morrocan man for life, afterfinding him guilty of a terror attack on a paris bound train in 2015. Us Cyber Security experts say a major hacking campaign, uncovered this week, posed a grave risk to the governments Nuclear Stockpile. Politicians are blaming russian intelligence. And, the british actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played boba fett in the original star wars trilogy, has died aged 75. Hello and welcome. Hundreds of schoolboys, kidnapped in Northern Nigeria last friday, have been released. The governor of Katsina State says 344 children are on their way back from the forest where they were being held. The bbcs nigeria correspondent, mayenijones, is in kano in katsina. She says the news obviously comes as a huge relief to the pa
Hello, everyone, thanks for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with breaking news out of beirut. Police are using Water Cannons and tear gas on huge crowds of protesters. People have been taking to the streets, angry over garbage piling up in the streets. Those demonstrators in the thousands. Look the athose growing piles of garbage and point to government dysfunction. Were joined by one of the protesters in beirut, karma hemadi. Tell me what its been like on the streets. What happened . Well, it started off pretty peaceful. Basically crowds of people have finally joined together, shaking off their apathy at whats going on in the country and join hands under one cause, which is, you know, were sick of the corruption and the government and we just want taking care of the garbage as well as so many other things. Whats going on is theres a call for protests by a movement called you stink. This is the second day of protests. Basically i believe at this point, at this moment in ti
Like math and science. The measure some cities are taking to lure teachers into their schools. Nightly news begins now. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Three childhood friends are being hailed as heroes tonight as authorities try to determine just what the gunman they tackled was planning when he boarded a parisbound train friday night, carrying an ak47 and a handgun. Officials say three Young Americans and a british man prevented a possible massacre. Belgiums Prime Minister is calling this a terrorist attack. While french officials have avoided that label, there are new signs for possible terror connections for the gunman. Kelly cobiella has more tonight from london. From london. Reporter the strain is still moving as they capture the chaotic seconds after a gunman is subdued. An ak47. The suspect restrained with a neck tie. Moments earlier, three childhood friends made a splitsecond decisi
Im jim axelrod, and this is the western edition of the broadcast. We begin tonight in france with a story that sound like something out of a hollywood thriller that stars three very real american heroes. One is an air force airman, another an Army National guardsman, and the third is a pal from california they were traveling with on a train from anthony amsterdam to paris. Thats when the three americans jumped into action. Charlie dagata picks up the story. Reporter video that appears to be shot inside the train shows the suspect face down and tied up. You can see a rifle he was carrying and one of the american men who brought him down after seeing a french passenger first confront the gunman, 22yearold National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and his two friends moved in. I saw a guy entering the train with an a. K. And a handgun, and i just looked over at spencer and said, lets go, go. And he jumped up, and i followed behind him by about three seconds. Reporter u. S. Air force airman firstc
Could shake things up for the democratic race for 2016. It is interesting to see as this all comes together. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im George Howell. Im christine romans. Good morning, george. A lot going this morning. First, three humble americans honored in france after preventing a possible massacre on a high speed train from amsterdam to paris. Alek skarlatos and Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler took down the man who has ties to islam. The trio is speaking out for the first time. I feel our training mostly kicked in after this assailant was subdued, frankly. When it came to medical care and things like that and providing security and making sure there wasnt another shooter. Mostly it was gut instinct. Just gut instinct and survival. The three americans and british citizsicitizen meeting presiden hollande. And painting a different picture for us is correspondent Nic Robertson live in paris. Nic, it is different to see these difficults up on the podium with the french