To help Homeless People living on the streets. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A father who refused to pay a fine after taking his daughter out of school for an unauthorised holiday has lost his case at the Supreme Court. Jon platt, whos from the isle of wight, had argued that all the law required of him was to ensure that his child attended school regularly. The high court had originally ruled that the holiday did not constitute regular absenteeism but this morning the Supreme Court has overturned thatjudgement. This is how lady hale announced the ruling. Unauthorised absences have a disruptive effect. Not only on the education of the individual child, but also on the work of other pupils and of their teachers. If one pupil can be taken out whenever it suits the parent, then so can others. Different pupils might be taken out at different times, multiplying the disruptive effect. Any educational system expects people to keep the rules. Not to do so is unfair to those obedie
A gaoled former executive over nut rage. No more bombs for a month much the columbian government is to suspend air strikes against the rebels and they say it could be extended. We have this report from the columbian capital bogota. Reporter for the First Time Since the peace talks get under way, the president orders a reduction in military operations against the f. A. R. C. Rebels. To help deescalate the conflict i have decided to order armed forces to cease fighting over f. A. R. C. Camps for a month. A surprise move for a president steadfast in saying the war would continue until an agreement was signed. The tangible results seemed to have caned his mind. F. A. R. C. Announced a unilateral ceasefire in december an end to attacks on infrastructure. Now comes this limited reduction in facilities which will be subject to review in a month. Another step was reducing the impact of the conflict while negotiations continue in cuba. The columbian military will keep some ground operations and
America to ask the nation one simple question who are we and what do we want . Okay. Two questions. Neither of which is simple. This is red, white and who. . Americans say theyre more worried about health care today than any other major issue. Remember this guy . Ten years ago, president obama had a solution. The Affordable Care act, also known as obamacare, was supposed to help make Health Insurance more affordable. But have you tried to buy it lately . For some its still a luxury item. Now its basically on life support. Well appeal every word of obamacare. And voters are taking action. While the partisan debate rages on in washington, i want to understand how the issue of health care is playing out in the lives of everyday americans. So im traveling to texas to meet people who cant afford their medical bills. To utah to find out what happens when voters rise up and demand more Health Insurance. And new york to hear about a plan that would turn the whole system on its head. Health Car
From atlanta and the Prime Minister of israel is in the nations capital, washington d. C. For what is the most controversial visits of a head of state to our nation in quite a while. Let me bring in elise labott and traveled to washington d. C. And joins me on the line. Elise, you spent 12 hours on the plane with Benjamin Netanyahu. What was he like . What was he doing . Joo he reporter joohe was working on that speech the entire time. We were finding whether there was symbolism in the movies we were watching. We watched the imitation game which as you know is the awardwinning story of the genius that will crack that nazi code and save Hitler Europe from hitler and indeed the Prime Minister does see himself as making this kind of lastditch effort as churchill, the former british Prime Minister did in 1939 warning about the nazis. You know i talked to israeli analysts and they say he sees himself faded in that way and we were talking in the back the journalist aides came back and talked
Isis. A powerful emotional image of the sixmonth pregnant wife kissing the casket there. The his funeral happening the same time new information is emerging about what happened to him and his unit that day. Were going to have more about that in just a minute. But first cnns rosa fluoresore hollywood florida. They buried the 25yearold son, loved one just a short time ago. Rosa, clearly a very somber day there. Reporter you know hearts are broken, hearts are reeling right now for u. S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, as you might imagine, a ve emotional and somber moment here for this family. Le he was surrounded by family members, by friends, weve learned hes also a mentor to many, so hearts are very, very heavy. We know of course he is survived by his wife and childhood sweetheart, myesha johnson, they have two Young Children and another one on the way, and pam, one of the very emission nal moment the wsz when soldiers gave each one of them an american flag. His widow, two children, an