:00:00. > :00:09.The US military has dropped what is ominously called
:00:10. > :00:14."the mother of all bombs" on eastern Afghanistan.
:00:15. > :00:16.The target was a series of Islamic State caves where
:00:17. > :00:22.The bomb is so destructive is has never been used before -
:00:23. > :00:25.a short time ago the White House press secretary explained why
:00:26. > :00:29.We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that Isis fighters used
:00:30. > :00:32.to move around freely, making it easier for them to target
:00:33. > :00:39.US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area.
:00:40. > :00:40.Syria's president is defiant in his first interview
:00:41. > :00:43.since being charged with carrying out a chemical attack,
:00:44. > :00:52.And Syrian refugees welcome the American air strikes,
:00:53. > :00:54.but supporting Donald Trump doesn't come easily.
:00:55. > :00:56.We are thankful that someone finally did something,
:00:57. > :00:59.even if it was the same man who tried banning us
:01:00. > :01:05.A week of big military parades in North Korea -
:01:06. > :01:08.celebrations in North Korea as a brand new high-rise district
:01:09. > :01:10.opens in Pyongyang that officials say shows the country's
:01:11. > :01:17.It might seem like an extraordinary celebration to mark the opening
:01:18. > :01:23.of a street, but it's about so much more than that.
:01:24. > :01:25.And we will introduce you to the hard-line
:01:26. > :01:26.Republican lawmakers, who are threatening
:01:27. > :01:31.But are their voters loyal to the Freedom Caucus -
:01:32. > :01:49.The largest non-nuclear bomb ever used has been dropped by the US air
:01:50. > :01:55.force on a remote area of Afghanistan that was being used
:01:56. > :02:00.The weapon is know in short-hand as the "mother of all bombs",
:02:01. > :02:03.and it is so destructive it has never been
:02:04. > :02:07.The area they targeted was the Achin district of Nangarhar province
:02:08. > :02:10.It is one of the most remote regions of the world,
:02:11. > :02:13.and, of late, we know Isis fighters have moved in,
:02:14. > :02:17.At the weekend a US soldier on special operations
:02:18. > :02:22.White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has been giving his daily
:02:23. > :02:27.briefing and this to say about the bombing.
:02:28. > :02:29.At 7pm local time in Afghanistan, last night, the United States
:02:30. > :02:36.military used a GBU-43 weapon in Afghanistan.
:02:37. > :02:41.The GBU-43 is a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon.
:02:42. > :02:45.We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that Isis fighters used
:02:46. > :02:48.to move around freely, making it easier for them to target
:02:49. > :02:52.US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area.
:02:53. > :02:56.The United States takes the fight against Isis very seriously,
:02:57. > :02:59.and in order to defeat the group, we must deny them operational
:03:00. > :03:04.The United States took all precautions necessary to prevent
:03:05. > :03:10.civilian casualties and collateral damage as a result of the operation.
:03:11. > :03:11.And joining me now is Zalmay Khalilzad,
:03:12. > :03:20.former US Ambassador to the UN, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan.
:03:21. > :03:27.President to a campaign promise to he was going to attack Islamic State
:03:28. > :03:32.and we did not necessarily think that would be in Afghanistan but
:03:33. > :03:36.that seems to be what has happened, correct?
:03:37. > :03:42.It seems so. Isis has been moving into Afghanistan. Government of
:03:43. > :03:47.Afghanistan has come in the field, and they have been raising the issue
:03:48. > :03:51.of Isis presents. We have conducted operations against them. Isis was
:03:52. > :04:01.added to Al-Qaeda on the target list some time ago in Afghanistan. This
:04:02. > :04:06.area is near the famous area where bin Ladin ran away at the end of
:04:07. > :04:16.operations in Afghanistan. And I know that it is concern both here
:04:17. > :04:19.and in Afghanistan as, as the pressure on Isis increases in Iraq
:04:20. > :04:26.and Syria, one area they may think of moving to is Afghanistan. That is
:04:27. > :04:29.because recently the Afghan Government has... Because of the
:04:30. > :04:34.change in the balance of power, they have given up some areas in that
:04:35. > :04:41.region to opposition. For all of those reasons, I think this action
:04:42. > :04:45.was taken with the current threat and the movement of Isis from the
:04:46. > :04:49.Middle East... Partly because of the ridiculous
:04:50. > :04:54.name of the bomb, mother of all bombs... There is a lot of focus on
:04:55. > :05:00.weapons being used. President Bush tried to go after bin Ladin in these
:05:01. > :05:03.caves and failed to get in there. And from what you are hearing in
:05:04. > :05:07.this morning, this weapon in this area against these cakes, what do
:05:08. > :05:13.you think? Definitely against caves... We will
:05:14. > :05:19.have to see... We don't know enough. It takes some time before you can
:05:20. > :05:25.come to a judgment. But this weapon is capable of doing a lot of damage,
:05:26. > :05:32.especially the underground at targets. In the case of Bin Laden,
:05:33. > :05:39.there were not enough forces surrounding, so he ran away to
:05:40. > :05:42.Pakistan. But I think this shows the seriousness, and the issue of Isis
:05:43. > :05:47.moving from the middle east to Afghanistan.
:05:48. > :05:55.Ambassador, this is Christian in London. To put more flesh on what
:05:56. > :05:59.this bombings, 11 tonnes of TNT, 21,000, pounds. It destroys
:06:00. > :06:03.everything within a mile radius. This is from the defence archive of
:06:04. > :06:08.the bomb being dropped in 2003, as it lands you see the destructive
:06:09. > :06:12.nature. I imagine that what... It has not been used before because if
:06:13. > :06:16.it has an explosive radius of a mile wide, you're going to have
:06:17. > :06:20.collateral damage. Call me a bit about why it would be suited to
:06:21. > :06:26.Nangarhar. Would you not have a civilian population that?
:06:27. > :06:36.This is a revolt area. It is on the border of the Nangarhar area. -- it
:06:37. > :06:45.is a remote area. An area close to Tora Bora... I now believe it is not
:06:46. > :06:48.a highly populated region of Afghanistan, but we will have to
:06:49. > :06:55.wait and see what the Pentagon and the Afghan sources report, in terms
:06:56. > :07:06.of today's configuration of what kind of population were in the area.
:07:07. > :07:09.My judgment is it was not a highly populated area but... I think if it
:07:10. > :07:10.was just populated this bomb would not have been used.
:07:11. > :07:11.Thank you. President Assad of Syria is accusing
:07:12. > :07:13.Donald Trump of being He is questioning whether
:07:14. > :07:17.the children killed in last week's chemical attack are
:07:18. > :07:19.actually dead at all, and he says the US has
:07:20. > :07:21.fabricated the whole story. Mr Assad made that string
:07:22. > :07:23.of extraordinary allegations in an interview with
:07:24. > :07:25.a French news agency. Sources at the Pentagon now say US
:07:26. > :07:28.intelligence has uncovered communications between military
:07:29. > :07:31.and chemical weapons experts in Syria, as they were discussing
:07:32. > :07:33.their preparations for the attack which contradicts Mr Assad's
:07:34. > :07:50.version of events. There was no order to make any
:07:51. > :07:51.attack. We don't have any chemical weapons.
:07:52. > :07:53.We gave up our arsenal three years ago.
:07:54. > :07:55.Even if we had them, we wouldn't use them,
:07:56. > :07:58.and we have never used our chemical arsenal in our history.
:07:59. > :08:01.As I said, the only sources Al-Qaeda.
:08:02. > :08:12.But our impression is that the West, mainly the United States,
:08:13. > :08:16.They fabricated the whole story, you know, to have
:08:17. > :08:19.It wasn't an attack because of what happened,
:08:20. > :08:22.it's one event, its stage one, the play that we saw
:08:23. > :08:26.on the social networking and on TV, the propaganda.
:08:27. > :08:30.And stage two is the military attack.
:08:31. > :08:33.That's what we believe is happening, because it's only a few days,
:08:34. > :08:40.48 hours between the play and the attacks,
:08:41. > :08:54.The only thing were allegations, propaganda, and then the strike.
:08:55. > :08:56.So who, according to you, is responsible about this
:08:57. > :09:05.The allegation itself, Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front,
:09:06. > :09:09.They announced that it is under their control.
:09:10. > :09:16.Definitely, 100%, for us, it's a fabrication.
:09:17. > :09:21.We don't have an arsenal and we are not going to use it.
:09:22. > :09:24.Important to note that THAT interview conducted by AFP was
:09:25. > :09:27.shot by the Syrian presidency and only a portion of the questions
:09:28. > :09:40.Listening to that interview, it is interesting to see he looks like
:09:41. > :09:44.somebody who does not feel he is under siege, but we know that the
:09:45. > :09:48.Americans have reversed their position on President Assad. The
:09:49. > :09:52.Russians are under pressure after that long meeting with Rex Tillerson
:09:53. > :09:56.over President Assad. But the man himself, you see him looking calm
:09:57. > :10:01.and as if he is totally in control of the situation in the country.
:10:02. > :10:04.Because Russia are still on his back, and as long as Russia are
:10:05. > :10:08.still there, it is difficult for the allies of the West. What would you
:10:09. > :10:15.make generally of what we have seen in the last week? We talk about this
:10:16. > :10:19.bomb and his positions on Syria and the bombing of Mosul, but this
:10:20. > :10:21.president said he was not interventionist?
:10:22. > :10:25.But a president who is clearly prepared to move fast. We talked in
:10:26. > :10:27.the last few days about how the Obama administration has been
:10:28. > :10:32.criticised for not being able to act, and they had paralysis
:10:33. > :10:36.analysis. Clearly Donald Trump is not that. If they want to act he
:10:37. > :10:40.will act fast. Whether he can carry his die-hard supporters with him...
:10:41. > :10:46.At some point he will have to live it. But this White House always said
:10:47. > :10:50.that it would work with the American economy and the situation at home,
:10:51. > :10:53.but it looks like he is a foreign policy president, not what the
:10:54. > :10:55.campaign suggest that he would be. Interesting.
:10:56. > :10:57.There were many fierce opponents of Donald Trump who found
:10:58. > :10:59.themselves in the odd position of applauding his actions,
:11:00. > :11:02.when he ordered US air strikes on a Syrian base.
:11:03. > :11:04.And none were more conflicted than the Syrians living in the US,
:11:05. > :11:06.as our North American Correspondent, Aleem Maqbool,
:11:07. > :11:22.She happened to be on stage the day after a bomb hit her aunt's home
:11:23. > :11:27.We lost ten members of our family yesterday.
:11:28. > :11:32.We lost ten people yesterday, all in just one bombing.
:11:33. > :11:36.Her aunt, her cousins, her cousins' children and an unborn
:11:37. > :11:43.It happened on the very same day as the chemical attack that got far
:11:44. > :11:46.more publicity and spurred Donald Trump to order air strikes
:11:47. > :11:54.No child of God should ever suffer such horror.
:11:55. > :11:57.Does it take someone to be gassed to be considered
:11:58. > :12:02.My family died in an attack that was separate from the chemical
:12:03. > :12:05.attacks, but what was happening in that region has been happening
:12:06. > :12:14.If the chemical attack will make them move, then broadcast it
:12:15. > :12:17.on all of the televisions, because we are thankful that someone
:12:18. > :12:21.finally did something, even if it was the same man
:12:22. > :12:25.who tried banning us a couple of months ago.
:12:26. > :12:28.Amal admits feeling conflicted about the fact she is grateful
:12:29. > :12:31.to Donald Trump for doing something she hoped would have
:12:32. > :12:39.Well, Amal was born here in Denver, but what about recent
:12:40. > :12:41.arrivals to these shores - Syrian refugees?
:12:42. > :12:44.With the rise of Donald Trump, of course, they have been
:12:45. > :12:48.at the centre of something of a political storm.
:12:49. > :12:52.Yassin fled the war and came here as a refugee.
:12:53. > :12:55.He couldn't speak English and only had a few hundred dollars,
:12:56. > :13:00.but opened a successful restaurant, introducing Syrian food to locals,
:13:01. > :13:07.He is also pleased Donald Trump has expressed sympathy
:13:08. > :13:09.for Syrian children, but worries about the
:13:10. > :13:13.You can't step into the war and what's happening in Syria
:13:14. > :13:17.and at the same time not be allowing people to have a safe place.
:13:18. > :13:20.If I don't have the chance to be here...
:13:21. > :13:23.If I got sent back to Syria, I would not guarantee
:13:24. > :13:30.There is no doubt Yassin's view of Donald Trump has changed,
:13:31. > :13:33.but he hopes the president will not only continue to put
:13:34. > :13:36.pressure on Bashar al-Assad, but will also reverses ban on taking
:13:37. > :13:56.Syrian refugees figuring out what to make of the Trump administration, no
:13:57. > :14:00.easy task, particularly for them as well as everybody.
:14:01. > :14:04.And when you have a ban in place on refugees coming in. The two policies
:14:05. > :14:09.are not joined up, so you can understand why there is frustration,
:14:10. > :14:15.while at the same time some interest in what is going on in Syria.
:14:16. > :14:16.We have been talking about reversing positions...
:14:17. > :14:19.A major test of the Trump Presidency has always been more global -
:14:20. > :14:23.In the past 24 hours it almost seems as if Donald Trump has
:14:24. > :14:26.Yesterday, Trump effectively abandoned some of the most
:14:27. > :14:27.nationalist, populist promises he campaigned on.
:14:28. > :14:31.Here's the problem with Nato - it's obsolete.
:14:32. > :14:35.I said it was obsolete - it's no longer obsolete.
:14:36. > :14:42.We can't continue to allow China to rape our country,
:14:43. > :14:52.What they have done to us by playing currency is very sad.
:14:53. > :14:55.But since his meeting with President Xi last week,
:14:56. > :14:59.he's now saying, "They're not currency manipulators".
:15:00. > :15:03.Here are some other Donald Trump U-turns...
:15:04. > :15:06.When it comes to the US economy he is now considering re-appointing
:15:07. > :15:10.Last year he said she should be "ashamed" of what she was
:15:11. > :15:13.He is now embracing the Export Import bank,
:15:14. > :15:15.a govt agency he said should no longer exist.
:15:16. > :15:19.And in the Middle East, no more foreign interventions,
:15:20. > :15:22.no more regime changes, was the pledge -
:15:23. > :15:27.ditched last week after the chemical weapons attack in Syria.
:15:28. > :15:36.That went up in smoke quite literally, and again today with the
:15:37. > :15:43.bomb in Afghanistan. What do we make all of this? How
:15:44. > :15:46.will supporters respond? We are joined by Ronald Christie,
:15:47. > :15:49.Republican strategist. Is this a problem for Donald Trump, in terms
:15:50. > :15:55.of those supporters who thought they were voting for somebody quite
:15:56. > :16:00.radical, a particularly focused on the issue of China and tariffs and
:16:01. > :16:04.currency? If abandons those positions and looks like a more
:16:05. > :16:08.normal, mainstream establishment, dare I say it, President, what will
:16:09. > :16:12.his supporters think? I think it will still support him
:16:13. > :16:15.and Donald Trump is the brand of Donald Trump. They wanted him to go
:16:16. > :16:19.in there and it will look at him and say, he went in and said he would
:16:20. > :16:23.drain the swamp in Washington... They will say, Donald Trump is
:16:24. > :16:27.pragmatic. Look at what he has done with the Chinese to get them to
:16:28. > :16:30.pressure the North Koreans. Look at what he's doing with manufacturers
:16:31. > :16:34.and business leaders and the White House, to make it more responsive.
:16:35. > :16:39.In short term, people might think, Donald Trump is hurting his brand,
:16:40. > :16:41.but long-term I think it is a pragmatic approach of strong, steady
:16:42. > :16:47.Government that people are looking for. Kristian, great to see you as
:16:48. > :16:51.well. I would add to that... It is
:16:52. > :16:55.stunning that he keeps saying, I was wrong, I did not realise that health
:16:56. > :16:59.care was so congregated. At the weekend he said, I sat with
:17:00. > :17:04.President Xi Jinping for ten minutes and he would have known it was not
:17:05. > :17:07.easy to get a deal with North Korea? Natal is obsolete, then it is not
:17:08. > :17:14.obsolete... Edicts correcting himself. Why is he not doing better
:17:15. > :17:17.than he is? Having been in the White House with
:17:18. > :17:22.George W Bush for his first 100 days, you coming and... Are the
:17:23. > :17:25.promises and what you want to do, then you realise it is harder to
:17:26. > :17:29.manipulate the Government then you realise. It is harder to make change
:17:30. > :17:33.than you thought. Some promises you make, pragmatism tells you can't.
:17:34. > :17:35.Take for example the president saying he would have a
:17:36. > :17:40.constitutional amendment in the first 100 days, with
:17:41. > :17:44.congressional... He has recognised that working with people in Congress
:17:45. > :17:49.to get regulatory reforms through, the package through, it is harder
:17:50. > :17:52.than he realised. His recognition that Government can be part of a
:17:53. > :17:58.solution rather than the problem, I think, will have his ratings rise
:17:59. > :18:02.rather than the level we have right now.
:18:03. > :18:05.It is a stunning turnaround, shifting positions, carrying his
:18:06. > :18:07.supporters with him, you have to think that only Donald Trump can do
:18:08. > :18:09.it, perhaps. Thank you, to you. Voters in Turkey are set
:18:10. > :18:12.to cast their ballots in a referendum on a new draft
:18:13. > :18:14.constitution this weekend. A "yes" vote would significantly
:18:15. > :18:17.increase the powers of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
:18:18. > :18:19.and turn the country from a parliamentary
:18:20. > :18:24.to a presidential republic. Let's cross to Istanbul
:18:25. > :18:33.and our correspondent Mark Lowen. Watching the referendum. How fair
:18:34. > :18:36.has the campaign been? I have all your stories online, and you can see
:18:37. > :18:41.it has been tough... I have spent the day out in this
:18:42. > :18:47.square in the heart of Istanbul, one of the biggest and most iconic
:18:48. > :18:51.squares in Turkey. You do not find a single no voter or opposition poster
:18:52. > :18:59.in that whole square. It is exclusively Erdogan yes posters.
:19:00. > :19:04.Some estimates have put the ratio of no to yes posters by one to 20
:19:05. > :19:10.something. No campaigners have been attacked and heavily under pressure.
:19:11. > :19:15.I think monitors are bullying in to say the campaign has been unfair. So
:19:16. > :19:17.far we will have to see whether that will extend to the vote on Sunday,
:19:18. > :19:22.hugely divisive. Polls are showing it could be a neck and neck race,
:19:23. > :19:27.despite the fact that the Erdogan site overwhelmingly dominates with
:19:28. > :19:31.posters and the airwaves. But Erdogan also dominates the
:19:32. > :19:35.opinion polls. He is doing well in polls, but they hear voters saying,
:19:36. > :19:39.listen, I like Erdogan but I am not sure I want to make this kind of
:19:40. > :19:42.constitutional change, and it would... Affects a body that might
:19:43. > :19:48.come afterwards? Is that a segment of the dog? -- a segment of the
:19:49. > :19:52.vote? I hear from people who have voted
:19:53. > :19:55.for Erdogan, and his party, all their lives, and somehow feel it is
:19:56. > :19:58.not right to put all of the powers in the hands of one man, as is
:19:59. > :20:04.constitutional change would envisage. The interesting thing is
:20:05. > :20:08.that there they are too afraid to speak on camera radio. I was at a
:20:09. > :20:14.bazaar here in Istanbul over the couple of days, and it was the most
:20:15. > :20:19.visited tourist attraction in the world, and 30 or 40 shopkeepers,
:20:20. > :20:22.about ten of them were opposed to the constitutional change and none
:20:23. > :20:26.of them would be on camera. That is the kind of fear created by
:20:27. > :20:30.President Erdogan. A tight race and one which will have huge
:20:31. > :20:33.implications far beyond Turkish borders.
:20:34. > :20:36.Good to see you and we look forward to your report of the week. You can
:20:37. > :20:40.look at his report on the website, a special report about Erdogan.
:20:41. > :20:50.In-depth and enjoyable to read. There is speculation that North
:20:51. > :20:58.Korea may be looking to conduct its sixth nuclear test soon. Satellite
:20:59. > :20:59.images show an increased bit of activity at a test site in the north
:21:00. > :21:01.of the country. Our correspondent Jon Sudworth has
:21:02. > :21:08.sent this report from Pyongyang. His movements have been monitored
:21:09. > :21:14.and tightly controlled. They poured into central Pyongyang
:21:15. > :21:19.in their tens of thousands. Of citizens and soldiers alike,
:21:20. > :21:21.North Korea has always demanded And at the front of the crowd,
:21:22. > :21:40.there was Kim Jong-un. Celebrating not just a missile
:21:41. > :21:42.launch or a rocket test but the construction
:21:43. > :21:49.of Pyongyang's newest street. The inauguration of a few tower
:21:50. > :21:52.blocks and shops would, anywhere else, raise
:21:53. > :21:58.barely a murmur. In Pyongyang, it's met
:21:59. > :22:01.with rapturous applause. It might seem like an extraordinary
:22:02. > :22:05.celebration to mark the opening of the street, but it's
:22:06. > :22:09.about so much more than that. It's about economic survival,
:22:10. > :22:12.resilience, and sending a message to the outside world of total
:22:13. > :22:22.loyalty to the leader. The country's Prime Minister,
:22:23. > :22:26.Pak Pong-ju, told the crowd at the opening of the new street
:22:27. > :22:29.sends a more powerful signal to the world than any
:22:30. > :22:37.number of nuclear bombs. But, in reality for North
:22:38. > :22:42.Korea, bombs are vital. With reports that another nuclear
:22:43. > :22:44.test may be imminent, we are taken on a tour
:22:45. > :22:49.of the school. "The Dear Marshall Kim Jong Un
:22:50. > :22:52.clothes and feeds us", And from an early age,
:22:53. > :22:59.she is told that it's bombs and missiles that
:23:00. > :23:07.guarantee his regime's survival. For a poor and isolated
:23:08. > :23:10.country like North Korea, Might it have gone the way of Iraq
:23:11. > :23:17.or Libya, its leaders ask, if it So, foreign journalists are brought
:23:18. > :23:31.here to be shown a friendly face. There are many of them but also
:23:32. > :23:33.the willingness to endure. "Sanctions don't bother us
:23:34. > :23:40.at all", this man tells me. "United around our leader,
:23:41. > :23:47.nothing can harm us". North Korea is marching
:23:48. > :23:52.towards its nuclear future and no amount of threat or coercion
:23:53. > :24:15.from a US president pictures and we will be watching
:24:16. > :24:17.closely to see if the test goes ahead, and North Korea are
:24:18. > :24:18.continuing to trouble the US president.
:24:19. > :24:21.He doesn't seem to want to let this one go, does he, Katty?
:24:22. > :24:23.Christian, this morning, Mr Trump posted this...
:24:24. > :24:26."I have great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea.
:24:27. > :24:33.If they are unable to do so, the US, with its allies, will! USA."
:24:34. > :24:42.You wonder... If I was reading the very political tea leaves, I would
:24:43. > :24:45.think that after a couple of days of cosying up to China, reversing
:24:46. > :24:51.himself on so many positions, Mr Trump needed to put out a tweet that
:24:52. > :24:55.showed, you know, using words like "USA" shows he will be tough, but
:24:56. > :24:59.not answering the question on how the US will deal with North Korea,
:25:00. > :25:03.because frankly as we have said many times the options are no better
:25:04. > :25:07.today than during the Obama administration. No good policy and
:25:08. > :25:10.North Korea frankly for the last ten years. Not many options emerging.
:25:11. > :25:18.They have to work with China, that is their best option.
:25:19. > :25:21.Detox tough language, -- he talks tough language. He talks about
:25:22. > :25:26.battleships going towards them as an armada. Some of the language, you
:25:27. > :25:29.wonder who you hear speaking to. His face, when they pulled them about
:25:30. > :25:34.these sort of things, they are not too interested. -- his voter base.
:25:35. > :25:35.They are not interested in intervention strategy overseas.
:25:36. > :25:36.Yeah. You're watching
:25:37. > :25:38.100 Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:39. > :25:41.News Channel and BBC World News: Donald Trump failed to repeal
:25:42. > :25:44.and replace Obamacare. We meet the Ohio Republicans
:25:45. > :25:47.he blames for that setback - And he's a man of detail when it
:25:48. > :25:53.comes to cake, but not countries. We'll explain why this presidential
:25:54. > :25:56.slip-up wasn't so sweet. That's still to come
:25:57. > :26:05.on 100 Days, from BBC News. The weather is looking
:26:06. > :26:07.fairly quiet out there We have had a little bit
:26:08. > :26:12.of sunshine but for many of us, it is pretty cloudy and a little
:26:13. > :26:14.on the cool side. Here is the satellite picture
:26:15. > :26:17.from the last few hours. Not much is going to
:26:18. > :26:20.change in the next few. What you have got right
:26:21. > :26:23.now is more or less what you will have through the rest
:26:24. > :26:25.of the evening and overnight. Maybe some spots of rain
:26:26. > :26:28.across northern areas of the UK. In the south, we are talking
:26:29. > :26:33.about clearer spells and 8 degrees in Plymouth,
:26:34. > :26:37.Liverpool, Newcastle. In the far north, for
:26:38. > :26:40.Lerwick, closer to four. Tomorrow, there will be more
:26:41. > :26:43.cloud around, for sure, and even some rain-bearing cloud
:26:44. > :26:46.but most of the rain In fact, if you live
:26:47. > :26:51.across the south, Cornwall, Devon, through the Isle
:26:52. > :26:54.of Wight towards the south-east and East Anglia, here,
:26:55. > :26:55.perhaps some sunshine Even if you are on the coast,
:26:56. > :26:59.looking out to sea across the Channel, there,
:27:00. > :27:01.the weather might end up But by the time we get
:27:02. > :27:05.to the Midlands, certainly Wales, the Northwest, Northern Ireland,
:27:06. > :27:07.southern Scotland, here at lunch time at least,
:27:08. > :27:09.and this is lunchtime, there will be more cloud
:27:10. > :27:12.and a bit of rain around, and the Western Isles of Scotland
:27:13. > :27:15.once again getting further showers. And then the rest of Good Friday,
:27:16. > :27:18.so this is in the afternoon, you can see weather fronts moving
:27:19. > :27:20.across the UK. They will be making their journey
:27:21. > :27:23.a bit further south so later in the day in the south, it will
:27:24. > :27:27.cloud over and it may turn damp. Saturday, cold air streamed
:27:28. > :27:29.from the North arrives and by the time it reaches our
:27:30. > :27:32.shores, rather than I think a fairly fresh day
:27:33. > :27:38.but at least a sunny day I would say Saturday is going to be
:27:39. > :27:43.the best day of the Easter weekend because there is going to be a lot
:27:44. > :27:47.of dry and sunny weather. Quite a crisp morning with some
:27:48. > :27:50.sunshine in the afternoon so not too Sunday, then, Easter Day,
:27:51. > :27:52.another weather front Perhaps a bit more cloud
:27:53. > :27:57.and maybe some spots of rain across northern parts of England
:27:58. > :28:00.and Northern Ireland but I think the best chance
:28:01. > :28:03.of sunshine is across the South Plymouth and Cardiff
:28:04. > :28:07.for example, contenders Into Monday, some of us will have
:28:08. > :28:13.cloud and others a bit of sunshine and maybe a few showers
:28:14. > :28:15.from time to time. All in all, the Easter weekend's not
:28:16. > :28:18.looking that bad but then again, Welcome back to 100 Days with me
:28:19. > :30:07.Katty Kay in Washington, The US military drops
:30:08. > :30:13.what is ominously called "the mother of all bombs" on eastern
:30:14. > :30:15.Afghanistan, targeting the hideouts of so-called
:30:16. > :30:21.Islamic State militants. And still to come, Donald Trump's
:30:22. > :30:24.a man of detail when it comes We'll explain why this presidential
:30:25. > :30:40.slip-up wasn't so sweet. Right now many US lawmakers are back
:30:41. > :30:43.in their home districts for the Easter break,
:30:44. > :30:45.some of them getting an earful from their constituents
:30:46. > :30:48.about Washington's failure to repeal Among those who President Trump
:30:49. > :30:55.blamed for the setback were conservative members
:30:56. > :30:58.of his own party who make Republican Jim Jordan represents
:30:59. > :31:03.Ohio's 4th district and the BBC's Laura Trevelyan has travelled
:31:04. > :31:06.to the city of Lima to see if voters there are siding
:31:07. > :31:09.with their President The sound of an economy
:31:10. > :31:15.that's growing. PalletS move goods around America,
:31:16. > :31:17.shifting everything And at the Lima Pallet Company
:31:18. > :31:24.in north-west Ohio plans to expand Owner Tracy Sanchez can't employ
:31:25. > :31:33.more people until the cost of health insurance comes down
:31:34. > :31:38.and she was frustrated to see the Republicans
:31:39. > :31:41.botch their first attempt. I was a little disappointed
:31:42. > :31:44.that we have had eight years to work on this and I would hope
:31:45. > :31:47.that the Republicans in eight Your representative here in Lima
:31:48. > :31:51.was very opposed to the Bill and the President now is blaming him
:31:52. > :31:54.and other members of the Freedom Caucus for
:31:55. > :31:57.the failure, is that fair? We know they are working on it
:31:58. > :32:03.on a daily, if not hourly, basis. We really feel confident,
:32:04. > :32:06.as most of us in this area do, You are not ever going to get
:32:07. > :32:12.all you want, but if you push, you will get some better product
:32:13. > :32:15.for the folks back home. Meet Jim Jordan, Tracy Sanchez's
:32:16. > :32:18.member of Congress. He's a conservative Republican,
:32:19. > :32:21.a member of the Freedom Caucus group who helped torpedo the White House's
:32:22. > :32:26.attempt at health care reform. The president directly
:32:27. > :32:29.singled out Jim Jordan with his furious tweet storms,
:32:30. > :32:34.but the congressman is unmoved. Tweets and statements and blame
:32:35. > :32:37.don't change facts and the facts remain there are concerns with this
:32:38. > :32:40.legislation, real concerns that we have, and we are
:32:41. > :32:45.trying to make it better. Lima is in a county where more
:32:46. > :32:48.than two thirds of the electorate voted for both Donald Trump
:32:49. > :32:51.and Congressman Jim Jordan The message from Republicans
:32:52. > :32:57.here is loud and clear, time for the party to work together
:32:58. > :33:03.and deliver on its promises. At Lima's QP Diner they have
:33:04. > :33:05.served burgers and shakes And the regulars are keen
:33:06. > :33:12.observers of politics. I really don't understand
:33:13. > :33:14.why they are fighting. If it is to help the American
:33:15. > :33:17.people, help them. Quit this crap about
:33:18. > :33:20.the Republicans and Democrats. Trump is not a politician,
:33:21. > :33:27.I want to tell you, but he is going Back at the pallet factory they are
:33:28. > :33:34.outgrowing their surroundings. Tracy wants to build a new warehouse
:33:35. > :33:37.and provide affordable health care for the new workers
:33:38. > :33:41.she is itching to hire. She is relying on President Trump
:33:42. > :33:43.who has a construction background after all to lay
:33:44. > :33:47.the political foundations. Sometimes he flies off
:33:48. > :33:49.the handle a little too quick, I think things are coming around
:33:50. > :33:54.and I think they will work together This state like others
:33:55. > :33:59.in the midwest boarded the Trump train because of promises of change,
:34:00. > :34:02.and new jobs inspired hope. Internal squabbling over health care
:34:03. > :34:06.reform is not what people here expect now that Republicans
:34:07. > :34:18.are in the driving seat. And back with us now is Republican
:34:19. > :34:29.strategist Ron Christie. We were talking earlier in the
:34:30. > :34:33.programme about whether Donald Trump's flip-flops with Nato and
:34:34. > :34:37.China will cost him with his supporters. In the end his approval
:34:38. > :34:42.ratings will be based on whether he produces jobs for American people.
:34:43. > :34:48.How much does he now have to make that pivot away from foreign policy
:34:49. > :34:55.to home policy and back onto the jobs trail? People will be looking
:34:56. > :34:59.and saying what legislation will he worked with Congress to get enacted
:35:00. > :35:06.in law? What difference will it make to my economic condition? He has
:35:07. > :35:11.done a lot of executive actions, but he has not done much with Congress.
:35:12. > :35:16.People will say they want people in Washington to get to work and get
:35:17. > :35:21.things done. So far Donald Trump has done a lot of things on his own, he
:35:22. > :35:29.will have to work with the Congress and the freedom caucus to put
:35:30. > :35:32.together progress. Will those very conservative members of the party be
:35:33. > :35:37.watching those President's approval ratings and decide to back him defy
:35:38. > :35:42.him on legislation? They are going to look at him and say, do I want to
:35:43. > :35:45.work really closely with this president as we head into every
:35:46. > :35:51.election, or do I want to put some distance between myself and him so
:35:52. > :35:57.that they still have enough popularity in their districts to get
:35:58. > :36:03.elected. We saw with Obamacare, the problem for Paul Ryan, the speaker,
:36:04. > :36:06.is he appeals to the moderates and freedom caucus starts to move away
:36:07. > :36:09.and if he appeals to the freedom caucus, the moderates move away.
:36:10. > :36:15.That will apply to a lot of people coming up in the next few months.
:36:16. > :36:20.That is really the tight rope the speaker of the House has to tread
:36:21. > :36:24.right now. He has to find a way to resuscitate health care. This is one
:36:25. > :36:28.thing Republicans have been talking about for several years. They have
:36:29. > :36:33.to find a way to make good on that promise to the American people. They
:36:34. > :36:38.have also talked about tax and regulatory reform. People are paying
:36:39. > :36:43.great attention, what does it mean to have one political party in
:36:44. > :36:47.charge of the entire government? If Republicans cannot find a way to
:36:48. > :36:50.work together or work with Democrats to get things done, they will throw
:36:51. > :36:55.up their hands and say, we gave you the keys to the car to drive us to a
:36:56. > :37:01.better position, you cannot do it, let's put the Democrats back in. We
:37:02. > :37:04.have been talking a lot about Steve Bannon who stands closer to the
:37:05. > :37:10.freedom caucus and the right wing of the party and he is inside the White
:37:11. > :37:13.House at the moment and is having a tough time. President Trump gave
:37:14. > :37:19.another interview today and said, he is a nice guy, but he is a guy who
:37:20. > :37:23.works for me. The White House has got a problem with Steve Bannon.
:37:24. > :37:28.They have to keep them close because they do not want him outside the
:37:29. > :37:35.White House is firing back at them, do they? Absolutely not. You often
:37:36. > :37:40.have staff in different camps. There is a Jared Kushner camp, the Jim
:37:41. > :37:47.Bannon camp, and if Jim Bannon departed in the short term, the real
:37:48. > :37:51.risk is it will allow a lot of the people who voted for him to say, you
:37:52. > :37:56.took the guy out who we thought was minding the store to make sure that
:37:57. > :38:00.it would not get a bit wobbly and now you are having these more
:38:01. > :38:05.moderate people in there? Donald Trump is in a precarious spot. He is
:38:06. > :38:11.the president of the United States, that he needs to have key allies
:38:12. > :38:17.around who are seen as being outside of the business as usual political
:38:18. > :38:24.structure. Thank you for coming in. Fascinating, such an interesting
:38:25. > :38:30.time from the beginning when Donald Trump came in, having campaigned on
:38:31. > :38:33.these radical proposals on the economy, immigration, and now
:38:34. > :38:37.transitioning because some of those things will not work unless he can
:38:38. > :38:42.govern as a more centrist, establishment type of politician. He
:38:43. > :38:48.needs the structure of government, the very government he spent the
:38:49. > :38:52.whole of his campaign did crying. He said he would destroy the
:38:53. > :38:57.administrative state. If you want to govern effectively, you need some of
:38:58. > :39:01.that establishment. If Steve Bannon walks, he has been privy to all the
:39:02. > :39:06.conversations, he knows everything from inside and a lot of the
:39:07. > :39:10.policies, the flip-flopping, will not sit easily with Steve Bannon. If
:39:11. > :39:16.he walks, it will not be good news for the White House. Steve Bannon is
:39:17. > :39:19.very close to some of the major backers of the campaign and
:39:20. > :39:24.potentially he takes their money with him as well and I think that is
:39:25. > :39:27.why he is still in the White House. I cannot say anything in those
:39:28. > :39:31.interviews that Donald Trump has given that makes me think Steve
:39:32. > :39:35.Bannon will be around for very long. Who knows? Let's have a quick look
:39:36. > :39:38.Let's have a quick look at other news.
:39:39. > :39:40.Russia has rejected a European ruling that it contributed
:39:41. > :39:43.to the deaths of more than 300 hostages during a siege
:39:44. > :39:45.at a school seized by Chechen separatists in Beslan in 2004.
:39:46. > :39:48.The European Court of Human Rights said Moscow had been guilty
:39:49. > :39:52.Russian forces used tank cannon, grenade launchers and flame-throwers
:39:53. > :39:58.A German judge has authorised the arrest of a 26-year-old Iraqi
:39:59. > :40:01.man detained after an attack on a bus carrying players of
:40:02. > :40:05.Prosecutors said they believed he was a member of Islamic State,
:40:06. > :40:08.but prosecutors say they found no evidence that the man
:40:09. > :40:17.The Italian football club, AC Milan, has been sold to a Chinese-led
:40:18. > :40:20.consortium bringing to an end the era of ownership by the tycoon
:40:21. > :40:21.and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
:40:22. > :40:23.The purchase is worth more than three-quarters
:40:24. > :40:28.The club's fierce city rival, Inter Milan, was bought last year
:40:29. > :40:33.by a Chinese electronics retail group.
:40:34. > :40:37.You are sitting at dinner with President Xi of China,
:40:38. > :40:40.the ruler of the second biggest super power in the world,
:40:41. > :40:46.And at that same moment there is a call from the generals
:40:47. > :40:48.to inform you that the bombing of the Syrian airbase
:40:49. > :40:51.has been carried out according to your orders.
:40:52. > :40:54.Pretty awkward given that this is the first time
:40:55. > :40:58.And not that easy to explain since you are communicating
:40:59. > :41:02.So here is Donald Trump's explanation of how he broke
:41:03. > :41:05.the news to President Xi, that while they had been having
:41:06. > :41:17.I was sitting at the table, we had finished dinner and we were having
:41:18. > :41:21.deserted and we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake
:41:22. > :41:30.you have ever seen and the president was enjoying it. I was given the
:41:31. > :41:36.message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded, what do
:41:37. > :41:41.you do? We made a determination, so the missiles were on the way. We
:41:42. > :41:46.just launched 59 missiles heading to Iraq. Heading to Syria? Yes, heading
:41:47. > :41:55.to Syria. I am just so glad the instructions
:41:56. > :42:00.to the generals went right. It is definitely Syria and not Iraq. But
:42:01. > :42:05.the way he described the chocolate cake it is like he was measuring it
:42:06. > :42:10.and you get the image of a massive chocolate cake. I want to know what
:42:11. > :42:14.happened between courses. Did he nipped out between the starter and
:42:15. > :42:19.the main to find out what was going on? He came back and he played it
:42:20. > :42:23.straight. Apparently there was a ten minute gap when he told them, when
:42:24. > :42:29.he tried to get the communication going and the Chinese president was
:42:30. > :42:37.thinking, and I hearing this right? He has launched 59 Tomahawks at
:42:38. > :42:40.Syria? And even before coffee! There were people in the White House at
:42:41. > :42:45.the time who were saying they were very glad this news came through as
:42:46. > :42:48.President Trump was sitting next to the Chinese president with or
:42:49. > :42:53.without chocolate cake because that gave us the opportunity to show the
:42:54. > :42:57.Chinese that America is back and America is serious on carrying out
:42:58. > :42:58.its threat and we would like them to hear that message.
:42:59. > :43:04.If you'd like to get in touch with us, you can
:43:05. > :43:15.via Twitter using the hashtag - BBC-one-hundred-days.