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BBC news with Kathy Clarkston.

A UN human rights report has implicated dozens of military commanders in South Sudan in war crimes and crimes against humanity. The team says it has evidence of children being forced to watch the rape and murder of their mothers, and affairs of villages being destroyed and civilians being tortured and mutilated.

It's emerged that an armed guard at the school in Florida where seventeen people were shot dead last week failed to confront the gunman. Footage showed the guard rushing to the building when the six minutes of shooting began, but then remained outside as students and others were being killed.

Australia's deputy Prime Minister is stepping down after a series of damaging allegations about his private life. Banaby Joyce has also been accused of sexual harassment by an unidentified individual. The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called Banaby's actions a shocking error of judgment.

France says the UN Security Council is in danger of becoming redundant if it fails to help thousands of civilians trapped by fighting in Syria. The French ambassador to the UN Francois Delattre said the UN's inability to help people in the enclave of eastern Gouta would result in a devastating loss of credibility.

The UN children's organization UNICEF has said thousands of Rohingya children face years of living in limbo. The agency says Myanmar must grant children born their citizenship. It also criticized Bangladesh over the poor living conditions of those who fled Myanmar.

And the fifteen-year-old Russian Alina Zagitova has taken gold in the women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics, the second youngest woman in history to win the title. She is the first Russian athlete to take gold at the Games in South Korea.