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A police officer who swapped himself for a hostage being held by a suspected Islamist gunman in France has died of his injuries. His cousin pays tribute to him.



Also in the programme: protesters gather in the United States to call for stricter gun laws; the first non-stop flight between Europe and Australia takes to the air; and can autonomous automobiles be programmed to make moral decisions about who lives and dies?



(Picture: Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame, 44, died after helping to bring the siege to an end. Credit: EPA)

A French policeman who swapped places with a hostage during an Islamist attack is fighting for his life in hospital. The gunman is dead.



Also in the programme: We profile President Trump's new national security advisor, John Bolton. And we hear about the challenging composer, whose work has been chosen to mark Iceland's century of independence.



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A man has taken a hostage in the town of Trèbes, southern France. Three people are believed to be dead.



Also in the programme: John Bolton is to become the new US national security advisor and the changing face of the spy business.



Picture: French gendarmes block access to Trèbes, where a man took hostages at a supermarket on March 23, 2018 in Trèbes, southwest France. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

The US plans to impose tariffs on about $50bn in Chinese goods and limit the country's investment in the US in retaliation for years of alleged intellectual property theft.



Also in the programme: Syrian rebels and their families have begun leaving Syria's Eastern Ghouta, and meet the 106-year-old driver who has no plans to hand over her licence.



Picture: U.S. President Donald Trump is flanked by members of the business community as he holds up a signed presidential memorandum. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images.

Russia has hit out at Boris Johnson for likening Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, calling it "utterly disgusting" and "unacceptable". The Foreign Secretary suggested the Russian President will "glory" in this summer's World Cup in a similar way to the German dictator during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.



Also in the programme: One year after a terror attack here in London, we hear from the politician who tried to save the life of a policeman outside the British Houses of Parliament and; Syrian rebel fighters begin leaving a besieged area near Damascus.



Picture: Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson leaves his home on March 22, 2018 in London. Credit: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, admits the giant social network's made mistakes over the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal and promises changes. How far is the European Union about to change the game?



Also in the programme: What deal did the Nigerian authorities strike with Boko Haram to secure the release of abducted schoolgirls? And police in Texas identify the Austin bomber.



(Photo: Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

An academic who created an app which harvested data from 50 million users says he has been made "a scapegoat" for Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.



Also in the programme: People in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Dapchi are celebrating the return of most of the school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last month; and we hear from a Palestinian doctor who saw three of his daughters killed when an Israeli tank attacked his home in Gaza - but who refuses to hate in their name.



Picture: Logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook. Credit: Getty Images/AFP.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a nationalistic closing speech to parliament, painting China as the rising global power. Mr Xi said "achieving total unity" was the "collective hope of all Chinese people" and any attempts to divide it were "doomed to fail".



Also in the programme: A women who accused President Trump of sexual misconduct is running for office, and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia arrives in Washington.



Picture: Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People. Credit: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images.

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.

International observers have made a string of criticisms of the Russian elections that have given President Putin another six years in power. We discuss what his victory means for Russia and the rest of the world.



Also in the programme: Britain and the EU have announced a "decisive step" towards an orderly Brexit deal; and a "game changer" in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.



Picture: Vladimir Putin votes at a polling station during Russia's presidential election. Credit: YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images

With over three-quarters of the vote, Putin wins a clear fourth term as Russia's president. We hear from a supporter and from a chemical weapons consultant ahead of the visit to the UK by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.



Image: Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a rally at Manezhnaya Square near the Kremlin in Moscow Credit: EPA

Turkish troops and their Syrian allies have taken the city of Afrin in northern Syria after a two-month battle. More than 150,000 people have reportedly fled Afrin in recent days, most moving south towards territory controlled by the Syrian government.



Also in the programme: Russia insists it never produced nerve agent used in former double agent's poisoning; and why a popular TV host is going on trial in Egypt.



(Image: Turkish-based troops in Afrin city. Credit: REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi)

UK diplomats are preparing to leave after they were expelled in the row following the attack on the former Russian double agent. We'll hear from someone who was expelled from Moscow back in 1985.

Also in the programme: US officials launch an investigation into a firm accused of mishandling Facebook users' data in support of the Trump election campaign.



Picture: The British embassy in Moscow Credit: Oleg Klimov/Getty Images

The British foreign secretary says President Putin himself must have ordered the use of a nerve agent on British streets. We hear from our correspondent in Moscow and the Secretary General of NATO.



Also in the programme: We hear from a resident in Eastern Ghouta as the Syrian government launches new strikes. And Uganda born Jennifer Makumbi wins a big American literary prize.





(Photo: United Kingdom flag flying outside the embassy in Moscow. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

The first five-hour ceasefire in the Syrian rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus has ended in failure. There've been airstrikes and mortar rounds, and no deliveries of aid.



Also in the programme: A landmark court ruling in Germany aims to cut pollution, and Lewis Gilbert, one of Britain's most distinguished film directors, has died.



Picture: Smoke rises from the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the Syrian capital following fresh air strikes and rocket fire Credit: STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images

In rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, which has faced intense bombardment by pro-government forces for more than a week, President Putin has called for the shelling to stop for five hours every day, so civilians can leave the enclave.



Also in the programme: China's Xi Jinping and women in the Saudi army



Image: Syrians walk past destroyed buildings in Arbin in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on February 25, 2018. Credit: ABDULMONAM EASSA/AFP/Getty Images

President Jacob Zuma continues to defy appeals to step down over corruption allegations, as the governing party holds emergency meeting on his future.



Also in the programme: Alleged computer hacker with Asperger's syndrome wins appeal against extradition to US; and chlorine-filled bomb reportedly dropped in Syria's Idlib province.



Picture: Members of an ANC faction supporting ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa call for South African President Jacob Zuma to resign. Credit: EPA/KIM LUDBROOK

A secret Republican memorandum has been published that accuses the FBI of abusing its own powers to spy on President Trump's election campaign. Mr Trump, who approved the declassification of the memo, said it told a disgraceful story.



Also in the programme: more migrants perish in the Mediterranean Sea and thousands of previously unknown Maya ruins have been discovered.



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Russian athletes could compete at the Winter Olympics in South Korea after lifetime bans handed to them by the IOC were overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.



Also in the programme: UN special rapporteur to Myanmar says reports of mass graves in Rakhine state "bear the hallmarks of genocide"; and efforts to reform mental health care in Croatia.



(Picture: Russian athlete Alexander Tretiakov won gold at the Sochi Winter Olympics but was later banned by the IOC. Credit: Getty Images)

A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, has been shot dead outside his party offices in the Serb-run north of Mitrovica in Kosovo.



Also in the programme: Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed a two-year plan for the return of Rohingya Muslim refugees; and an Australian father's instinct which helped to find his trapped son.



Picture: Oliver Ivanovic casting his ballot during local elections in 2013. Credit: Getty Images

Opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been barred from standing against Vladimir Putin.



Also on the programme: the Pope's Christmas message focuses on finding peace in the Holy Land, and this year's Newshour Christmas Quiz pits the best minds in international news against each other.



(Photo: Alexei Navalny Credit: AFP)

Bankers, businessmen and world leaders meet to discuss the financing of the climate change deal commitments made two years ago. French President, Emmanuel Macron has hinted that the US could return to the Paris Agreement.



Also on the programme: the US soldier who defected to North Korea dies; and the secret behind the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger.



(Photo: Around 50 senior ministers and prime ministers are attending the climate summit in Paris Credit:AFP/Getty Images)

US President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.



Also in the programme: Zimbabwe's new information minister and the latest on the football World Cup draw.



(Photo: Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Another intercontinental ballistic missile test from North Korea: What options are there now to stop the country from becoming a full nuclear power?

Also on the programme: President Trump has used his Twitter account to share several anti-Muslim videos posted by a far-right British group; and a new study says people who remain single into old age are 40 per cent more likely to develop dementia.



Photo: Pyongyang residents watch news on the successful launch of a ballistic missile. Credit: Getty Images)

Zimbabwe's new president has used his inaugural speech to lay out his plans to rebuild the economy. He promised to create jobs, cut down on corruption, and welcome foreign investment. We hear from the jubilant crowds inside Harare's main stadium and the opposition stronghold criticising the new president for a brutal crackdown in the 1990s. And we discuss the international community's role in turning Zimbabwe's economy around.



Also in the programme: Dozens killed in an attack on a mosque in Egypt; and the changing role of women in Saudi society.



(Image: Emmerson Mnangagwa during his inauguration ceremony in Harare. Credit: EPA/STR)

As Saudi and Kuwaiti nationals are ordered to leave Lebanon, we examine the country's place among current conflicts in the Middle East; also, a former US ambassador to Beijing on President Trump's trip to China; and the island traded for Manhattan



(Photo:aerial view of Beirut, Lebanon in 2013. Credit: Getty)

Iraqi forces take over key buildings in Kirkuk three weeks after an independence referendum.



Also on the programme: the fate of the American soldier who wandered away from his unit, was captured by the Taleban, and later swapped for foreign fighters by President Obama, pleads guilty to desertion; and the investigative journalist on the island of Malta, killed when her car blew up earlier today.



(Photo: Iraqi children step on a Kurdish flag as forces advance towards the centre of Kirkuk. Credit: Getty)

The US President says he is no longer prepared to sign a document saying Iran is complying with the nuclear deal it struck with the world's big powers. Donald Trump says Iran is not abiding with the spirit of the agreement.



Also in the programme: Kenyan opposition candidate Raila Odinga explains why he is boycotting a re-run of the country's presidential elections; and why Russian schoolchildren do not learn about their revolutionary history.



(Photo: President Trump announces he is decertifying the Iran nuclear deal. Credit: Reuters)

The rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have reached a deal over governing the Gaza strip after a decade-long rift.



Also in the programme, the former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warns the US against imposing new conditions on the Iran nuclear deal. And new legislation in the Australian state of New South Wales aims to preserve and revive indigenous languages.



(Photo: The Palestinian flag. Credit: AFP)

We have an exclusive interview with president Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan about future of Nato troops and peace talks with the Taliban. Also on the programme: the British author Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and a report from northern Iraq where there has been further progress in the fight against the so called ISIS group.



(Photo: Ashraf Ghani. Credit: Getty Images)

DACA, a scheme introduced by President Obama to assist undocumented people who came to the US as children to become fully fledged US citizens, is to be scrapped by the Trump administration. We hear from a recipient of the scheme. Also on the programme, following the victory of President Assad's forces in the siege of Deir al-Zour how long can the forces of the so-called Islamic State now last in Syria? And we ask: what is actually driving Kim Jong-un of North Korea?



(Picture: Immigration activists rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program during a protest in Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Kim Jong-un is "begging for war," the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has told the UN Security Council. The United States is pushing for further sanctions in response to North Korea's most powerful nuclear test. So what role should China play in the search for a diplomatic solution?



Also in the programme: Colombia's second largest rebel group agrees its first ever bilateral ceasefire with the government; and the camera that can see through the human body.



(Photo: United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (R) speaks with Britain's Ambassador to the United Nations, Matthew Rycroft. Credit: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images)

Muslim leaders have lifted a boycott of Islam's third holiest site in East Jerusalem after the last remnants of Israel's recently installed security apparatus were taken away.



Also in the programme: the leader of Japan's main opposition party announces her resignation after only a year in the job, and is it really necessary to complete a course of antibiotics?



Photo: Palestinian Muslim protesters pray outside the al-Aqsa mosque. Credit: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images.

In a deepening rift, Turkey has told Germany that their relations cannot be based on blackmail and threats. The Turkish foreign ministry accused the German foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, of having a one-sided and distorted approach to their relations. Mr Gabriel earlier announced measures against Turkey in an escalating row over recent arrests of German nationals by the Turkish authorities.



And later in the programme: OJ Simpson - the disgraced former American footballer and actor - gets parole. And an assessment of US President Donald Trump's first six months in office.



(Photo: Visitors at a Turkish stand at the International Tourism Trade Fair in Berlin. Credit: STEFFI LOOS/AFP/Getty Images)

A report into a world-famous Catholic choir school in Southern Germany has found that more than 500 pupils were subject to physical or sexual abuse over a period of nearly 50 years. We hear from Alexander Probst who was a pupil at the choir school and was one of the first people to speak publicly about the abuse there.



Also on the programme: Is Obamacare here to stay? or go? And the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex is no longer the fast runner it was thought to be.



(Photo: Picture of the logo of the Regensburger Domspatzen boy's choir at a building of the choir's secondary school in Regensburg, southern

Germany. Credit: ARMIN WEIGEL/AFP/Getty Images)

US President is in France for a 2-day visit but do he and Macron have anything in common?



Also in the programme: the ethics of the case of baby Charlie Gard and the gamblers who practise "edge-sorting"





(Picture: US President Donald Trump waves as he disembarks form Air Force One with First Lady Melania Trump. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Huge crowds have joined a 450 kilometre anti-government march from Ankara to Istanbul. It has been organised by the opposition CHP party and was prompted by the imprisonment of one of their MPs.



Also in the programme: A ceasefire in south-western Syria, and Russia's Bolshoi theatre cancels a ballet about Rudolf Nureyev.



(Photo: Turkish protest march, July 8, Credit: Getty Images)

US President Donald Trump has called a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated a "victory for our national security". The Justices said they would consider in October whether the president's policy should be upheld or struck down.



Also in the programme: leading members of the Jewish community are angry over the stalled plans for a mixed-gender prayer area at the Western Wall, and Salvador Dali is to be exhumed for a paternity test.



Picture: People protest President Trump's original travel ban. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Thousands of residents of north London tower blocks are evacuated over a fire risk after the Grenfell blaze last week.



Also on the programme: The British opposition Labour party leader speaks to large crowds at the Glastonbury music festival, but not everyone is happy; An audit uncovers $1 billion unaccounted for in Mozambique.



(Photo: Residents leave the Taplow tower block on the Chalcots Estate in Camden, north London, as the building is evacuated in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire to allow "urgent fire safety works" to take place. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

As leading US Democrats issue a formal demand for an independent commission to investigate links between Russia and the Trump administration, President Trump has said he's been treated worse than any politician in history, especially by the media.



Also on the programme: Chelsea Manning, who was behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in US history, has been released from prison; and mice ovaries made with a 3D printer.



(Photo: President Donald Trump departs the White House May 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Donald Trump's National Security Adviser says the president in no way compromised any sources or methods in a meeting with Russia's foreign minister last week. H R McMaster defended Mr Trump's conversation with Sergei Lavrov as "wholly appropriate". So what is a US president allowed to share?



Also on the programme: A Mexican activist searching for his missing daughter fears for his life; and scientific cooperation in the Middle East.



(Image: H R McMaster speaks during a briefing at the White House. Credit: AFP/Saul Loeb)

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been accused of plagiarising a speech made by defeated rival François Fillon, but was it plagiarism or homage? Also in the programme: could Britain make trouble for EU if Brexit negotiations don't go its way? And, scientists decode the genome of the tea plant.



(Photograph shows French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. Credit: Reuters)

Just what is Russia's view on the US presidential race and why does Putin favour Trump? Just how strong is so-called Islamic State? New research says there are four separate species of Giraffe.



Picture: a woman wears a shirt reading "Trump Putin "16" while waiting for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak at a campaign event at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, N.H. Credit: AP Photo/David Goldman)

A Russian military helicopter has been shot down over Syria, killing all five people on board; Turkey's security forces have captured a group of fugitive soldiers suspected of involvement in last month's failed coup attempt; the president of Taiwan has formally apologised to the indigenous population for centuries of abuse.



(Photo: Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter. Credit: Reuters)

A lorry ploughs through crowds in the south of France killing more than 80 people.



Pciture: A crime scene investigator works on the truck which crashed into the crowd during the Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, France, 15 July 2016. Picture: EPA/IAN LANGSDON

The European Council meets without Britain for the first time after Brexit vote; Scientists discover an escape tunnel used by Jewish prisoners during the Holocaust; The world's biggest uncut diamond goes on auction.



(Photo: A United Kingdom name card at the EU Summit in Brussels. Credit: Reuers/Phil Noble)