Consider this, those stories and more ahead. Coercive interrogation techniques did not produce vital intelligence. Not only is torture wrong, it doesnt work. The numerous interrogations resulted in 766 disseminated reports. Disgraced advisor Jonathan Gruber offering an apology. I made uninformed and glib promises. I made mean and insulting comments uncalled for. One in five women are assaulted in college. Its a staggering statistic. Shes moving forward with a serious of changes. 70 of Chinese People do not realise that ivory is coming from poached elephants. They think its teeth that had fallen out. A man walked into a synagogue stabbing a student in the head. The suspect yelled i want to kill the jew. We begin with an explosive Senate Intelligence report on the c. I. A. The report released today examines the c. I. A. s secret overseas detention of at least 119 individuals, and the use of coercive interrogation techniques. In some cases amounting to torture. The report cess the c. I. A
Not enough to ease the drought. And gamer gate women speaking out in the Virtual World, and being threatened for it we begin with a revealing report on the use of start tur, and the use of an agencys enhanced terror technique, how it may not have been effective. U. S. Embassies across the globe are on heightened alert after the Senate Intelligence committee released a report. Patty culhane has the report. The report has the names of many many detained in prisons like this one in lithuania. The c. I. A. Programme was more brutal than people were led to believe. Reporter detainees were deprived of sleep for up to oo week. They were forced to have enemmas, not for medical reasons. And they were water boarded which the c. I. A. Described as a series fz near drown ep, and there are reports of violent beatings. Contradicting assurances from top bosses. The Senate Report says the c. I. A. Lied to cop cigarettes, the white house and government. They lied about the programmes effective licence.
Allies, it is what we stand for. Also on the programme prosecutors in new york make their rape case against Film Producer Harvey Weinstein. They say he was a hollywood power broker who was no match for his female accusers. Chilli with a chance of a qantas. Unseasonably cold weather in florida means reptiles are falling out of trees frozen stiff. Hello, and welcome. Im katty kay in washington, and Christian Fraser is in london. The big names are all in davos this week, an annual gathering where they swap ideas, exchange cards, agree to talk further about future plans. So, imagine at a similar Business Forum you meet the crown prince of saudi arabia. Even for a tech giant like jeff bezos of amazon and the Washington Post, you might be flattered. But what he cant possibly have envisaged when he handed the crown prince his phone number, that it would later be used to hack his smartphone. That is the extraordinary allegation from the un, whose investigation into the death of the washington
Troubling signs out of turkey. Doctors there say the countrys outbreak could be much worse than official reports. A political crisis in brazil, president bolsasonaro rejects claims that hes broken the law after firing the head of the federal police. The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic is now double the second worst hit country, italy. More than 50,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins university. Around 16,000 of those deaths have happened in the state of new york. The World Health Organization has launched a Global Initiative to find ways of preventing and curing the new coronavirus. The United States has declined to participate. It comes as a surreal debate has been brewing in washington, with the president refusing to take questions at the Daily Briefing after earlier claiming he was being sarcastic when he suggested injecting disinfectants may be a way to fight the disease. 0ur north america editor jon sopel reports. Controversially, some of florid
Now on bbc news. Annita mcveigh with the latest information and Health Advice on coronavirus, including what the symptoms are, and how to self isolate. Hello, and welcome to this special programme. Im annita mcveigh. Since the start of this outbreak, scientists have been trying to answer the question, where did this virus come from . As the lockdown in the chinese city of wuhan has eased, forensic researchers and other investigators can restart their investigations into the origins of the virus. Scientists say finding clues as to how it started is crucial to stop a similar crisis happening in the future, as jim reid reports. For decades, there have been fears that a Global Pandemic could be caused by zoonotic transmission. Thats a disease thatjumps from animals to humans. The more we interact with these new wildlife species that we havent historically done so, the more rolls of the dice we are throwing. And the greater the opportunity there is for a pathogen to thenjump into a human. I