i'm babita sharma, with a bbc world news special programme on the attack in strasbourg. sirens lockdown in the french city of strasbourg, after a gunman opens fire near a busy christmas market. at least four people are reported dead, according to local officials, and several others injured. screaming 0ne eyewitness overlooking the scene filmed the immediate reaction to the attack. what happened was, i heard two distinct noises, but i took them to be firecrackers. but as i turned a corner, i saw one person on the ground

minister has confirmed that police have killed the man who attacked a christmas market in the city of strasbourg on tuesday. cherif chekatt was spotted by police in the neudorf district of the city on thursday evening. when he opened fire on the officers, they retaliated, killing him in the short exchange of fire. british prime minister theresa may has urged eu members to help salvage her brexit deal but they say they won't renegotiate. ms may has been seeking assurances over the controversial irish border backstop after surviving a no—confidence vote earlier this week. and this video is trending on bbc.com: the united nations secretary general, antonio guterres, has made a dramatic appeal to delegates from almost 200 countries to step up their efforts to fight global warming and its impact. he said failure to do so would be suicidal. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, in a special edition of hardtalk from oslo, sarah montague speaks to the winners of this year's nobel peace prize. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk from oslo, with me, sarah montague. my guests have c

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mr lee then took the case further to strasbourg, to the european court of human rights, and that court enforces and interprets the european convention on human rights, which is an international treaty signed by the uk and a6 other european states. this morning, in a writtenjudgment, thejudges in written judgment, the judges in strasbourg writtenjudgment, thejudges in strasbourg have said the case brought by mr lee was inadmissible and therefore they have dismissed it. they said that at no point in the proceedings in the uk courts did mr lee invoke his rights under the european convention and therefore, to quote directly, by relying solely on domestic law, mr lee defied the domestic courts of the opportunity to address any convention issues raised, instead asking the european court to usurp the role of the domestic courts. judges say mr lee failed to domestic remedies, so the application was inadmissible. so does this now and here? we - application was inadmissible. so - does this now and here? we haven't et heard does this now and here? we haven't yet heard a — does this now and here

i think that everybody calls, and the strasbourg court just recently recognised all the violations of russia in the occupied territories... and i think that in the report of the strasbourg european court of human rights, the term "occupation" was used 17 times, if i'm not mistaken. and that result has been the result of this, what you describe as a pro—russian government in georgia. so, i think that there are many... of course, we are a small country, and i understand that, that nobody has the time to really look from close to georgia, and certain active campaigning can sometimes be translated into harsh words and harshjudgments. i think that we are not what you're describing. i think that georgia is a country where there is one subject of consensus among all the parties and among the population, and that has not changed since independence. and that is the path towards europe and towards nato. and the path towards europe, by the way, is not new. georgia has been defending itself over the centuries from the many other invasions and many empires. and each time it was looking to the we

french police have launched a manhunt for the suspect in the deadly strasbourg christmas market attack. there are reports the gunman may have crossed the border into germany, where security forces are also on alert. do stay with bbc world news. coming up: hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. it took former cricketer imran khan two decades of hard political slog to win power in pakistan. it has taken his critics just months to decide he is out of his depth. they point to the country's crippled economy, propped up by emergency loans, despite imran‘s promise to end the "begging bowl" culture. well, my guest today is pakistan's finance minister, asad umar. is the pti government strong enough to put pakistan on a new course? asad umar, in islamabad, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are one of the key ministers in imran khan's government. why do you think the hope and excitement generated by imran‘s election victory has worn off so very quickly? actually, it hasn't. if you look at the pakistani media and listen to the political talk shows, and maybe hear some of the disc

at a christmas market in strasbourg. cherif chekatt was spotted on a street not far from where he lived and opened fire on armed officers when they intercepted him. he was killed when they returned fire. he'd been on the run since tuesday evening. britain's prime minister has urged european union leaders to make concessions that would help her get her brexit deal through parliament back in london, but they have said they won't renegotiate. theresa may survived a no—confidence vote this week but has been seeking assurances over the major stumbling block, the so—called backstop to prevent a hard border in ireland. a day after president trump's former personal lawyer was sentenced to prison, mr trump has claimed he never directed him to break the law, and had no ties to michael cohen's crimes. it's being reported that federal prosecutors are also looking into whether the trump inaugural committee mis—spent millions of dollars raised from donors. you are up—to—date with the headlines. now on bbc news, hardtalk‘s

.== . 7—— and fingernails was submitted to a french toxicology lab in strasbourg, in france. and they didn't find the actual tnxmsbuththerdwtdfiflfidflfig acceptable limit which obviously didn't show the cause that there was some kind of external interference. that sample wasn't very objective from last time because it was taken, i think, three orfour days after i was brought into hospital and they'd already begun haemodialysis, the cleaning of the blood. from the first day, so they are more objective than the first time and this time they sent them to three toxicology labs in three different countries, france, israel, and the united states. we still have no results. and of course i'm hoping that they will find something. i mean it would be nice to see with what they are trying to kill me every two years. but this was some kind of very sophisticated toxin. you know, one that shuts down all your organs within several hours and of course the way sophisticated, because i didn't notice, i didn't know. that is one of the many strange things about this, is that you have no awa

francois fillon, suffering and a pleasant surprise, as he is doused with flour while campaigning in strasbourg. he is undergoing allegations of giving a fakejob is undergoing allegations of giving a fake job to his wife. that is it for now. thank you for watching. now it is time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm sarah montague. the european union in greater trouble than ever before. it's notjust because of brexit, even founding members — countries like italy — are unhappy about the direction it's headed. the italian economy has always struggled within the straightjacket of the euro. and it's wanted its fellow members to help share the burden of the half a million migrants who have turned up on its shores over the past three years. my guest here at the italian embassy in london is italy's europe minister, sandro gozi. he is a passionate european. how does he think the eu should change if it to survive and win over the next generation of europeans? sandro gozi, welcome to hardtalk. you have said that the beginning of european disintegration has started with brexit. is the eu disintegrat

also in the programme: a fifth victim dies after the christmas market gun attack in the french city of strasbourg. and hunting for honey — we meet those risking their lives to access mountainside beehives in rural nepal. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday.

our top story: a massive manhunt in the french city of strasbourg, after a gun attack leaves at least three people dead and a dozen wounded. the gunman's known to the authorities, who've begun a terror investigation. france's government says its taking immediate steps to strengthen security across the country. britain's prime minister tours europe, trying to rescue her brexit deal. but at home, a leadership challenge looks increasingly likely. a special report on the migrants rescued from the english channel, as they desperately try to reach the british coast. out on bail.

and i began to research about different kind of crimes like this, and there was a crime also in strasbourg, and i discovered also the louise woodward case, this british nanny that went to the us, and so i had the idea to begin the book with the murder of the children. 0k, and what it's been praised for is, in a sense, depicting modern mothering, an examination of what it's doing to society. the idea that in a sense you're outsourcing something that is an intimate relationship, commodified in it. yeah, but in a certain way, you wouldn't ask this question for a man because it's very natural that a man is going to outsource this, either to his wife or a nanny. but for a woman, you always feel guilty to outsource this as though it was your duty to take care of your children and you don't see the same, the thing in the same way for men. so no, i wanted to ask the question, is it possible to have it all? because i belong to a generation of women to whom our mothers said you can have it all, you can have a job, you can have children, marry or not marry, you can do whatever you want, you are free