Colombia's Farc begins first congress after peace deal

   Members of the Farc in Colombia have begun discussing the group's future in its first congress since the conclusion of a historic disarmament process.

   Some 1,200 delegates from the recently demobilised group have attended the first day of the congress in Bogota.

   By the end of the congress on Friday the delegates will have chosen a new name for the Farc.
   The rebel group will become a political party and it will take part in next year's general elections.
   The delegates will also select the names of the main candidates who will run for office at the 2018 poll.
   Under the terms of the agreement, the new party will have a number of guaranteed seats in Congress after the first election they contest.
   The Farc, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, was formed in 1964 as a Marxist group to defend the rights of landless peasants