Support against terrorism. So i strongly support that. But as you each pointed out, the recruitment of terrorists is because theres a void, and there are individuals who feel that they have no other choice and theyre prime for recruitment. So my concern is, are we giving countries a free pass who are our partners in our counterterrorism campaigns on human rights and poor governance . I say that, and i give you many examples. In ethiopia, they just had a parliamentary election. Not a single opposition leader, the person was elected. Weve seen the Security Forces there who have killed hundreds of protesters. In chad we have a dozen military officers who have been arrested because they wouldnt vote for the president. In somalia we have a report in yesterdays Washington Post that theyre using children for spies. Weve had extrajudicial killings by the military in nigeria and kenya. And yet, i dont see a response by the america, u. S. , in regards to these activities. Am i wrong . Are we giv
Among the victims are 16 school children. Their classmates speak of their shock and disbelief. We didnt really know why we should leave school and then we heard it from the news and it was just shocking. Hello and welcome. The French Interior minister said the voice recorder recovered from the alps is damaged and theyre hoping it can still help try to discover the cause of the trag. Lets join my colleague, tim willcox. Reporter joining me live on the outskirts, this is now the command center for the recovery operation for yesterdays crash. Since dawn today represents have been taking off from here and flying about 5 to six miles just behind me if we turn the camera out here. Beyond that pearly shape edd mount mountain and slopes there was the site where this airbus a320 came down. The crash spread over 4 kilometers. We understand the terrain is so difficult those being dropped down by helicopter have to be wenched down no place for the helicopter to land. Its expected it will take two
Shock and their disbelief. We were confused because we didnt really know why we should leave school and then we heard it from the news and it was shocking. Hello and welcome. The French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve says the voice box recorder that crashed in the alps is damaged but could still provide information to experts still trying to discover the cause of the project. Lets go live to my colleague, tim willcox, in the seynelesalps. He will join us from the crash site. We join him now. Hello. Youre watching bbc news. Im tim willcox live in seynelessseyne seynelesalps. Lets take you live today where a minute silence is being held for the 45 spanish nationals who lost their lives. This is the scene in madrid also a moments silence in barcelona, the airport from which this airbus a320 departed yesterday on this doomed flight from dis dorfusseldorf. 16 teenagers from the Joseph Koenig school returning from an exchange visit to a school just outside barcelona. The recovery operat
Investigators one step closer to figure out what caused the plane to crash. One of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit as the plane descended and flew into the mountain. A senior military official says the pilot can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder first tapping and then knocking and trying to smash down the door. That plane crashed with him still trying to get into the cockpit. Turning to Erin Mclaughlin live at the staging area in the french alps. There is a lot of information that needs to be put together. A lot of pieces of the puzzle. This information, first reported by the New York Times. Since reported by the french media really is shocking. Reporter shocking and it really does serve to deepen this mystery, christine. What we dont know we dont know why the pilot got up and left the cockpit. We also dont know why the other pilot did not let him back inside inside. Now so far, authorities here are not commenting on the very chilling reports. The most they said about the
The door was trying to smash down the door. We will have much more breaking news on that story, but first, Bowe Bergdahl describing the captivity and the conditions in which he was held. He is now charged with desertion. Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr is joining us now. It is an interesting read, and tell us more about what sergeant Bowe Bergdahl said. Well don, this came this evening along with a letter from the civilian defense attorney, a lengthy document where the attorney tries to make the case that bergdahl is already not guilty of the charges of which he is the army has presented him with and this is followed up from several pages from Bowe Bergdahl himself h, detailing brutality, and torture. And let me go through a few pieces of this. He says quote, i was kept on constant isolation for the five years with little understanding of time. I was told they was going to be be executed. He was chained to a bead, spreadeagle and blindfolded he said. He had at one point 8 to 12 open wo