They say theyre determined that the shooting will be a turning point in the us National Debate on guns. The white house says President Trump will hold a listening session on wednesday with a group of High School Students and teachers. Simon clemison reports. The rally before the rally protesters are already taking to the streets. In fort lauderdale, close to the biggest Us School Shooting for some years, many spoke. But three words rang out. Chanting shame on you to every politician who is taking donations from the nra, shame on you. Next month they plan to march on washington calling for tighter gun control, they hope there will be protests in other cities on the same day. Students organising the demonstration say they want the latest attack to be a turning point. What i am looking for is reasonable change within the United States congress and bills that are passed before i get back to school because this is not the time for inaction and debate, this is the time for discussion and for all people that are americans to come together as americans through love and compassion. This event happened on valentines day, so many people lost loved ones. Our community and our nation have taken too many bullets to the heart and now it is time to stand up. Last year, donald trump said he would never infringe on the rights to keep arms. He has since blamed democrats for not acting on Gun Legislation when they controlled congress during the obama administration. Democrats had criticised him in the wake of the tragedy. President trump, who has met people affected by the shooting and has also rebuked the fbi, after the organisation admitted it failed to act on a tipoff about the suspect, nikolas cruz. Cnn has invited the president to a town hall event with the survivors on wednesday. There are School Shootings in america and there is outrage that follows, the question is whether that will now turn into something else. Simon clemison, bbc news. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a scathing attack on iran, calling it the greatest threat to our world. In a speech in munich he accused the iranians of seeking to dominate the middle east through terror, and warned that israel would act if tehran tested its resolve. Irans foreign minister dismissed the speech as not worthy of a response. Lyse doucet reports. In a volatile middle east, hostility between the Islamic Republic and israel has been a dangerous faultline. Israel views iran as its greatest enemy, denouncing its landmark nuclear deal with world powers. Now its stand off runs along syria, where iran holds growing sway. Prime minister netanyahu came to munich to use this Preeminent Security conference as his stage. No doubt mr narif will brazenly deny irans nefarious involvement in syria. Iran also denies that it committed an act of aggression against israel last week that it sent a drone into our airspace to threaten our people. Well, here is a piece of that iranian drone, or what is left of it after we shot it down. These were the first images of the drone iran is accused of sending into israeli airspace last week. Israeli jets retaliated. Targeting iranian assets in syria for the first time. But syrian fire brought down an israeli warplane, the first time in decades its combat aircraft was shot down by enemy fire. Today when irans foreign minister took to the stage in munich, he didnt mention the israeli leader by name. You were the audience for a cartoonist circus. And then he fired back with barbs of his own. Israel uses aggression as a policy against its neighbours and once somebody the syrians have the guts to down one of its planes, it is as if a disaster has happened. This disaster does mark a dangerous new turn in syrias destructive conflict and tensions have been multiplying in recent weeks. Russia, the United States and turkey all have their own forces on the ground, all fighting on different frontlines. Even before this dramatic war of words, this security conference was overshadowed by fears there could be an all out war in the middle east, drawing in powerful players like israel and iran. No one wants to see a confrontation, but the risks are clearly great and growing. Lyse doucet, bbc news, munich. Streets around one of the most sacred sites for tibetan buddhism have been reopened to pilgrims after a blaze broke out on saturday evening. Chinese state media said the fire injokhang temple, was soon put out. However, tibetans living abroad said that photos and posts about the blaze were quickly being censored. Laura westbrook reports. Smoke fills the sky at one of the most holy places in tibet. This footage posted online shows the roof of the jokhang monastery in flames. Chinese state media said no one was hurt and the temple in lhasa has now been reopened. But it is not known how much damage this thousand year old monastery has suffered. The sprawling complex covers more than six acres, official reports did not specify which part of the temple was damaged by the fire. That is because beijing maintains tight control of tibet. As the news of the fire spread on chinese social media, there were reports photos were quickly being taken down by authorities. You would think that this would be an issue where they would rush to show people, to reassure them that the temple has not been badly damaged. But there is almost no news coming out at all in the last 2a hours. It is probably not the fault of the chinese, probably the flames spread from another building nearby. That is what we are guessing. But the fact that they were not able to put it out quickly is damaging for the chinese. It is unfortunate, it will set back relations again especially since nobody knows what has been damaged and what has survived. Tibetan buddhists consider this to be their most sacred site, travelling to frustrate themselves at the sakyamuni buddha, the founder of their religion. Robert thurman is professor of indo tibet studies. Hejoins Robert Thurman is professor of indo tibet studies. He joins us Robert Thurman is professor of indo tibet studies. Hejoins us now Robert Thurman is professor of indo tibet studies. He joins us now from woodstock in new york state. They queue forjoining us. How significant is this particular temple . Its the most significant temple . Its the most significant temple in tibet. It has a statue of the border dating from the borders time. Buddha. It was brought from the princess when she married the emperor of tibet in the seventh century. It is considered auspicious that a fire would break out there at a time where it is high time for Chinese Government to begin a dialogue with his holiness delilah armourand dialogue with his holiness delilah armour and improve relations with tibet. Dalai lama. It will worry people are great deal. On the internet, i saw a photo of an extensive flame and some sort of chinese soldiers standing around watching it but without a water or without doing anything. It was puzzling but very short. It was obviously a surreptitiously filmed video from a phone. It is odd that chinese are not making a concerted effort to explain the fire, to say it has been controlled and put out and to show it, actually. Its very worrisome. That it is a key question i was going to ask. Despite that troubles the chinese might have with tibet, they would want to preserve this kind of building, wouldnt they . Certainly. It is of course a Tourist Centre for chinese tourists. It is an important site for them and of course, for tibetans, it is an important pilgrimage site. Usually, there are long lines of people going there are long lines of people going there at all times. The particular roof i saw in flames was one of the central roofs over one of the central areas and it was quite a strong fire, i was quite shocked seeing it, i must say. There is a possibility, depending how bad the fire is, that some could be restored. It will be revealed. All of these ancient buddhist temples have been destroyed by fire over the yea rs. Have been destroyed by fire over the years. This one is particularly amazing because it was done moo yea rs amazing because it was done moo years ago. It has stood the test of time. Chinese recently renovated it. Polished it up a little bit, about a decade ago. Hopefully the roof, although beautifully done and reflects traditional tibetan architecture and metalwork and so on, did not damage in some of the important statues. We have just lost professor thurman. Russian officials have confirmed that one of their athletes at the Winter Olympics in south korea is suspected of failing a doping test. Alexander krushelnitsky won a bronze medal in curling. He has now left the Olympic Village and surrendered his accreditation. Krushelnitsky is one of the individual athletes who was allowed to compete despite a ban on the official russian team because of an alleged state sponsored doping programme. In a moment well hear from our correspondent steve mcdonnel in seoul but first heres what the ioc had to say. On the one hand, it is extremely disappointing when prohibited su bsta nces disappointing when prohibited substances may have been used but on the other hand, it shows the effectiveness of the anti doping system at the games which protect the rights of all the clean athletes. If this case is confirmed, if this case is confirmed, it will be considered by the oa i Implementation Group chaired by at 0c Implementation Group chaired by at oc executive ward member which will report the ioc be at the end of the olympic games. Why might curling athlete using a banned substance, some might add ask. Apparently, melburnian is a drug that can calm you, slow your heart rate down and maybe help with nerves. Something that requires the concentration and a steady hand, a substance like this could actually help a curling athlete. You can see why somebody might want to use it but of course, he has only failed to bea but of course, he has only failed to be a sample test and we are waiting to see the b sample test when it comes in. I suppose this is positive for the local testing authorities. I think i suppose it is good when you catch someone. Yeah, thats right. The Winter Olympics was on trial, if you like, following sochi in this regard and the koreans leading the team there would be proud that they have caught this athlete and the International Olympic committee will also be saying this shows we are getting tough on drug use. Mind you, there has already been an earlier japanese athlete who was found to have used a substance which is thought to be a masking agent. What you would use to try and prevent people from seeing that you are using performance enhancing substances. So we have had at least two athletes at this stage with a cloud over them in terms of drug use but yeah, in terms of the testers, they would say that is tick tick in terms of their performance. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come why this six year old boys epilepsy cant be treated with an illegal drug despite his parents protests. Nine years and 15,000 deaths after going into afghanistan, the last soviet troops were finally coming home. The withdrawal completed in good order, but the army defeated in the task it had been sent to perform. Malcolm was murdered. That has a terrible effect on the morality of the people. Im terrified of the repercussions in the streets. One wonders who is next. As the airlift got under way, there was no letup in the eruption itself. Lava streams from a vent low in the crater flowed down to the sea on the east of the island away from the town for the time being, but it could start flowing again at any time. The russians heralded their new Generation Space station with a spectacular night launch. They called it mir, the russian for peace. This is bbc news. The latest headlines survivors of the florida School Shooting are organising a National March on washington to demand tighter restrictions on gun ownership. The best of british film making talent has been honoured at the baftas, with many of the stars using the spotlight to highlight the Sexual Harassment scandal which has gripped the industry in recent months. The big winner of the night was three billboards outside ebbing, missouri which won in five categories, while gary oldman was named best actorfor his portrayal of Winston Churchill in darkest hour. Heres our arts editor will gompertz. His report contains some flash photography. The baftas 2018. Part award ceremony, part platform for protest. The wear something black dress code represents a collective stand against harassment and inequality in the workplace. There is definitely a different feel to the baftas this year. People are still coming to celebrate filmmaking at its finest but it is a sombre and serious mood with the times up campaign and it does change the emphasis of the awards. It is notjust a case of who will win what, but who will say what. Who will capture the mood and spirit of these times as Oprah Winfrey did at the Golden Globes . The answer turned out to be the best actress winner, frances mcdormand, who gave a mischievous, witty, potent acceptance speech. I have a little trouble with compliance. Laughter. But i want you to know that i stand in full solidarity with my sisters tonight in black. I also want to say that i appreciate a well organised act of civil disobedience. Power to the people. She won for playing a furious and grieveing mother in three billboards outside ebbing, missouri. Start up a database, put every baby boy on it. As soon as he done something wrong, cross reference it and make 100 certain it was a correct match, and then kill him. The american set british film was a big winner with five awards, including best supporting actor for sam rockwell. Lam humbled. Best original screenplay for the films london born irish director, martin mcdonagh. And the top award, best film. What we are most proud of about this film, especially in this times up year is that it is a film about a woman who refuses to take any any more. Played by a woman who has always refused to take any. And then there was the leading actor award, complete with a dig at last years oscars. The winner is frances mcdormand. Nah, just kidding. The bafta goes to gary oldman. He won for this portrayal of Winston Churchill in the film darkest hour. You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth. So grateful for this incredible honour. Thank you. Allison janney won best supporting actress for playing the hard bitten mother in i, tonya. How old are you, honey . Shes a soft 4. Guillermo del toro won best director for his film the shape of water on what was a slightly disappointing night for this hotly tipped movie. Perhaps it will be a different story at the oscars in a fortnights time. Later this week the actors union equity is considering whether to issue detailed guidelines for sex scenes, among the proposals are the banning of nudity from auditions and having an intimacy director to protect actors on set. Emmy Award Winning entertainment journalist, kj matthewsjoins me now from los angeles. Just explain how these proposals are going to work. As you said, probably having an intimacy director on set, to make sure that they really eliminate the conditions that allow Sexual Harassment and misconduct. They dont want there to be any skin to skin touching, devices you can wear to keep people from touching skin while they are doing intimate scenes and they want to make sure that actresses are aware that they are going to be asked if our mood. And both the actors and actresses in this scene agree to that. What happened in the past is that there have been a lot of auditions where people take off their clothes clothes or certain actresses have shown up on set. The act the actors guild wants to eliminate that all together. The movie industry is 100 or so years old. Why is it only now that some of these guidelines and protections are being discussed . You can look to two movements. Me too and times up. Hollywood has changed since last year in october since the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the me too and times up initiative. Theatre, film, television, everyone is changing. How they audition, how they film, how they go about creating art for the public. A lot of things have been under the radar. A lot of people have accepted certain types of abuses. Now, the actors union is saying, Going Forward, we think it will be best practice Going Forward for directors and producers and actors and actresses if they can abide by these guidelines. Well see less number of Sexual Harassment allegation cases coming forward once the institute fees. Things such as sex scenes in mood seems to actresses on auditions, are these the kind of things that actors have spoken about three years in private. Having concerns about these issues . A lot of times, what youll find, is a lot of new actresses are actresses who maybe dont have so many credits to their name and are looking for that big breakthrough role, trying to grin and bear it and dont want to grin and bear it and dont want to make a problem. Maybe some think they are comfortable with uncomfortable with light mood it to your skin to skin touching but they are quite because they dont want to lose our role. Number one, they will have somebody on set who is an intimacy director to make sure everybody is comfortable. And, you can use props. Something like flesh coloured bodysuits where you dont have to be as intimate or you can change the camera angle and do all sorts of editing to prevent you from being so intimate and uncomfortable doing that as an actress. Thank you very much forjoining us. Rescue teams in iran have called off their search for survivors of a missing plane because of snow. It is feared there are no survivors. The plane went down in the Zagros Mountains on a flight from the k rahman to the city of yasuj. And Islamic State says it was behind the killing of many people in a church in dagestan. They were shot dead shortly afterwards by the security forces. Here in the uk, the government has said it cannot issue a medical cannabis licence for a six year old epileptic child. Despite calls from his family and a group of mps. Alfie dingley, whos from warwickshire in central england, regularly suffers violent seizures. A cannabis based treatment he received in the netherlands improved his condition but its illegal in the uk. Charlotte gallagher has the story. 6 year old Alfie Dingley has a rare form of epilepsy and suffers up to 30 violent seizures every day. To go through that once would be traumatising, but were going through it sometimes every 7 10 days, and its just absolutely horrendous. Last september, the family moved to the netherlands so alfie could be prescribed medical cannabis oil. His parents say he went 2a days without having a seizure. Theyve now moved back to the uk, but cannabis oil is illegal in britain, so they want the home secretary amber rudd to give alfie a license to use it. It is thought this drug works with nerve receptors in the brain to help control the seizures. But the home office has ruled it out. They say. A group of mps want the home secretary to make an exception for alfie. If we can find a way for her around the regulations that exist, and we believe that we can, she can issue a license to make sure that alfie can get this medicine. Alfies family have vowed to continue their battle, saying youve got to fight, for your kids and we want to know that weve done everything we can. Dont forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter, im nkemifejika. Good morning. It looks like the weather pattern and weather type will change significantly over the week ahead. The past few weeks we have had fast moving weather, a strong jetstream propagating across the atlantic with fluctuations between sunshine and its noted that everything slows down over the next few days, the jet stream will weaken and change position and get more undulations. And it is under one of those that we induce this area of High Pressure to build in the middle of next week. Something weve not had much of in the past few weeks. Not much sunshine around on sunday. We have some to the lee of high ground across parts of wales and the south eastern. Anglia got sunshine as well as north east scotland though for many of us, cloud rolled in and lot of cloud at the moment so no frost. Two weather fronts on the scene as well, the first one bringing most of the current rain and drizzle. In between the two we have a pocket of mild air. Get sunshine in the west this time that will boost the temperature. A change of fortune on monday. Eastern scotland and Eastern England are drab and dreary with a lot of cloud, rain and drizzle. Dry and bright with a little sunshine especially in coastal areas and in northern ireland. Ahead of the second band of rain that arrives later in the day. Get some sunshine, 13 degrees in the east under the cloud and rain, only 7 9. Those two bands of rain joined forces to bring rain for england on tuesday, probably from humber southwards. Heavy for a while, easing off in the afternoon but a strong wind will push cloud through the midlands towards the west country. Further west and north in particular the air will be drier with more sunshine around and decent temperatures. Overnight clear skies, light winds and the temperatures will fall away. The rain peters out towards the south east. We will have some cloud at times across southern areas but elsewhere we will be back in the blue with frost in rural parts the first of a few frosty nights to come. A cold start on wednesday but brightening up with nice sunshine around for many. More in the way of cloud through the day at times, wales, the midlands and southern england with sunny skies further north. By this stage the wind are light everywhere and you get some sunshine it will not feel too bad, but this temperatures will be around 7 8 degrees or so. Some weather system threatened the coming from the north west and bring back the sort of weather that we have been seen but they will be held at bay by the blocking area of High Pressure so thursday and friday will still be drier. Temperatures reaching perhaps 13 degrees at the beginning of the week and that mild start will turn chilly, particularly at night but it is becoming dry. This is bbc news the headlines. Survivors of the florida School Shooting are organising a National March on washington to demand tighter restrictions on gun ownership. They say theyre determined that the shooting in which 17 people died will be a turning point in the us National Debate on guns. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a scathing attack on iran, calling it the greatest threat to our world. In a speech in munich he accused the iranians of seeking to dominate the middle east through terror, and warned that israel would act if tehran tested its resolve. Russian officials have confirmed that one of their athletes at the Winter Olympics in south korea is suspected of failing a doping test. Alexander krushelnitsky won a bronze medal in curling. He has now left the Olympic Village and surrendered his accreditation
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