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The most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used by the United States, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
targets so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
The US says it was the right weapon against the right target. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
36 militants are thought to have been killed. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
We have Afghan and US forces on the site and see no evidence | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
of civilian casualties, nor have there been any | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Schools in England facing their worst funding cuts in 20 years - | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
a warning from teaching union conferences. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
The mission to re-take Mosul from so-called IS. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Security improved at the online accommodation booking site Airbnb, | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
after a BBC investigation finds scammers burgling homes. | :00:48. | :01:13. | |
The Afghan government says 36 so-called Islamic State militants | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
were killed when the United States dropped one of its biggest | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
non-nuclear bombs in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
The commander of US forces in Afghanistan, | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
General John Nicholson, said the attack had been coordinated | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
with the government in Kabul, and that no civilians were harmed. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Our South Asia editor Jill McGivering reports. | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
This is American hard power in action. The moment the US dropped, | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
for the first time, the biggest non-nuclear weapon it has. It was a | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
MOAB, nicknamed the mother of all bombs and it targeted underground | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
bases in eastern Afghanistan, a stronghold of the so-called is Alex | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Tate group. The US military insists Afghan leaders gave full approval. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
This was the right weapon against the right target. -- so-called | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Islamic State group. We will continue to work shoulder to | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
shoulder with our comrades to eliminate the threat to the people | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
of Nanga Haar, the entire region and indeed the world. Local people | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
confirm this remote and harsh terrain was used by the Islamic | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
State. TRANSLATION: The bomb was dropped last night on IS position. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
And caves. It was really powerful and has been used to destroy all the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
tunnels and caves. TRANSLATION: There were Daesh places over there. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Last night's bomb was really huge. When it dropped, everywhere was | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
shaking. Afghan leaders say the attack was justified and there are | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
no civilian casualties. But former Afghan President Hamid Karzai took | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
to social media to condemn it. Back in the United States, President | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Trump applauded the action and tried to score political points at his | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
predecessor's expense. If you look at what's happened over the last | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
eight weeks and compare that to what's happened over the last eight | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
years, you will see there's a tremendous. Tremendous difference. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
We have incredible leaders in the middle Terry and we have incredible | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
military. We are very proud of them and this was another very successful | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
mission. -- in the military. Today the news still dominates US | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
headlines as the world digests this latest insight into this new | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
president. Jill McGivering, BBC News. | :03:37. | :03:37. | |
With me is our Security correspondent Frank Garner. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Frank, is this more style over substance? | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
I think there is in a tactical military sense, this was a deep | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
system of tunnels and caves where Islamic state were reportedly | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
building improvised traps, installing weapons and training | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
fighters and it would cost a lot of people's lives to go in and destroy | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
it on the ground. In that sense, yes, they can justify it. But there | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
is a certain amount of style in this as well as substance, which will be | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
controversial. General McMaster, the security advisor to President Trump, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
said sometimes military action isn't just about suppressing the enemy, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
it's about communicating with them. What we are doing here, in Syria, in | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
North Korea and in Afghanistan is sending a message that trompe means | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
business. Whether he can follow through on that is debatable. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Because all of these problem areas, that President Obama chose to deal | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
with incrementally and with the minimum amount of foresee could get | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
away with, President Trump is saying, I will go in guns blazing, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
but following it up will be very difficult. All three areas, North | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Korea, Syria and Afghanistan require a lot of focus and commitment. These | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
long wars, all of them. Unions representing half a million | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
teachers say schools in England are facing the worst funding cuts, | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
in real terms, for 20 years. Gathering for their annual | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
conferences, they're also highlighting a growing shortage | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
of teachers for subjects such The government says ?40 | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
billion is being spent on schools this year - | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
in cash terms, the Our Education Correspondent | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
Gillian Hargreaves reports. St Martin's School in | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Essex is a good school. But even here, it has become | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
increasingly difficult to recruit staff, particularly | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
in specialist subjects. At one stage, they had a science | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
teacher vacancy for more But there are also shortages | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
in maths and modern languages. I look at the pool of people that | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
are teaching in those areas and the number of people that | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
are due to retire over the next ten years, and also the number of people | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
that are coming in that aren't actually a specialist in the subject | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
area that they're teaching, and I think that this is really | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
the thin end of the wedge. Teachers are gathering | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
for their conferences at a time There have been widespread protests | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
from parents and schools who say, without more money, class sizes | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
will go up and teaching posts The Government points out ?40 | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
billion is being spent on schools this year, the highest | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
cash figure ever. But teachers say that hasn't taken | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
into account rising costs, like pay, pensions, | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
and the running costs of schools. The funding pressure is also | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
beginning to hit parents, something of a concern | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
to the unions. Half of parents are saying they're | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
making at least one financial contribution to the school's funds, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
in order to "enhance resources", whatever that means, | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
at school level. And many parents are finding that | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
even the cost of school uniform is something which they | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
can no longer afford. There is also much disquiet | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
about Government plans to introduce Teachers argue money set aside | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
for them would be better spent However, the Government says this | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
new wave of grammars would benefit | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
less-well-off families. Labour has accused the government | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
of "rewarding failure", in response to new figures | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
which suggest the government will have to pay millions of pounds | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
more than planned to ATOS and Capita, two private companies | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
which assess people claiming Our political correspondent | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Chris Mason is with me now. This is an extraordinary | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
jump in the numbers. The Department for Work and Pensions | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
uses an awful lot of taxpayer money paying benefits and pensions. This | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
is about the personal independence payment, first introduced four years | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
ago, the idea it would help working age people with the additional costs | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
associated with disability. At the heart of the project was assessing | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
potential recipients to try to work out what day, if anything, should be | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
paid. The department made an estimation in 2013 that the overall | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
costs would be ?500 million. Now analysis by the press Association | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
news agency suggests by the end of the contract for Atos and Capita, by | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
the end of the year, that figure will be ?700 million stop well | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
they say the reason there is this additional cost. Far more people | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
came forward for assessment than initially anticipated. A small | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
amount of extra cost is people appealing against the assessment | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
results and having the whole thing done again. Labour say the system is | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
in disarray. The department say they need effective assessments and that | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
is vital for the potential recipients. For the occupier of the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
department's big chair, former Secretary of State Stephen Crabb, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
says the department hasn't been very good at getting its forecast right. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Political correspondent Chris Mason, thank you very much. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Buses have begun evacuating hundreds of villagers and fighters from four | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
rebel held villages in Syria - two of them close to | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
It follows a deal struck between President Assad's | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
But the opposition says it amounts to deliberate displacement | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
of the President's opponents further from the capital. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
A clean-up is underway in New Zealand after a powerful | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Cyclone Cook brought down power lines, and caused | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
A state of emergency was declared in some parts of the North Island | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
with hundreds evacuated from their homes and | :09:25. | :09:25. | |
Heavy rain is still affecting South Island. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
The world famous Las Vegas Strip had to be closed last night | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
after a fire broke out at one of the city's biggest casinos. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Huge flames were spotted near the roof of the Bellagio hotel | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
which is at the centre of Las Vegas Boulevard. | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
Emergency teams say they were able to bring it under control, | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
but the location made the operation difficult. | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
The Iraqi government has told people living in Mosul to stay | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
inside as security forces prepare for an assault aimed at dislodging | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Thousands of civilians are still trapped in the city, | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
which has been held by IS since 2014. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
Our Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale is embedded with troops. | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
The old city of Mosul and its most famous | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
landmark, the leaning minaret of the al-Nuri mosque. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
This is where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi first appeared | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
as caliph of the so-called Islamic State. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
They still control it and most of what you can see. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
TRANSLATION: The mosque is now very near and soon | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
We know the enemy is week and on its last legs. | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
A visit to the front line, though, tells a different story. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
For the past few weeks, the Iraqi advance | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
These federal police are surrounded on two sides by IS | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
and they are firing on their positions from here. | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Snipers, IS snipers, just about 100 metres from | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
And you can see the rounds, the IS rounds, coming in | :11:17. | :11:28. | |
Tens of thousands of civilians are still | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
Much of Mosul has already been turned to rubble. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Even in these deserted streets, recently secured, | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Here, discarded IS military uniforms, and nearby, one of their | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
But the enemy is not just hiding in the city. | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
We joined an Iraqi intelligence unit hunting down IS infiltrators and | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
collaborators who have already escaped. | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Now seeking shelter and avoiding capture in camps, living | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
alongside the innocents of this war, who fled the fighting. | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
You are finding Isis fighters in these camps? | :12:13. | :12:26. | |
In the camp or some in his house, in Mosul. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
The extremists may be losing their grip on Mosul but even | :12:31. | :12:41. | |
if they are defeated, IS won't have gone away. | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
Former world champion Jenson Button says he's delighted to be making | :12:44. | :12:55. | |
He's agreed to race for McLaren at next month's Monaco Grand Prix. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
He's been granted permission to compete in the Indy 500. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
The online accommodation booking company Airbnb says it | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
will improve its security, after a BBC investigation found that | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
people's homes have been burgled by scammers using stolen accounts. | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
They hijacked profiles with verified badges and changed some personal | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
The company says it will now warn members if their profile | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Like millions of people, Christian had let out his home | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
on Airbnb while he was out of town, as a convenient way | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
He had done so for years without a problem. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
But on his birthday, his home was burgled. | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
horrible text message saying someone is in the flat, | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
and it is not me, because my account had been compromised. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Christian thought he had let out his home to a verified profile, | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
somebody who had verified government identification, and had positive | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
The attacker changed the name, photograph and contact | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
details on the profile, but kept Airbnb's "verified" badge. | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
The BBC has spoken to two other people who were robbed this way, | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
and three others who had their accounts stolen, | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
and Airbnb's Facebook page has dozens of comments from people | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
There are many ways attackers could have been hijacking Airbnb accounts. | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
They might be able to trick people into handing over their passwords. | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
But there are ways Airbnb could have defended against this. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
We put our security concerns to Airbnb. | :14:28. | :14:44. | |
Those changes include two-step verification when somebody logs | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
in from a new device, and text message alerts if somebody | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
But, for Christian, the changes come too late. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
He says the whole experience has left him with a bad feeling, | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
That's all from the newsroom this lunchtime. | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
On BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :15:08. | :15:10. |