:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera.
:00:08. > :00:12.The headlines: another day of intense police activity
:00:13. > :00:16.in Brussels, with two suspects shot before being arrested,
:00:17. > :00:19.as police step up their efforts to stop new terror attacks.
:00:20. > :00:22.One was shot by officers at a tram stop.
:00:23. > :00:24.The French president says the network behind recent attacks
:00:25. > :00:26.is being "wiped out" but others remain.
:00:27. > :00:36.TRANSLATION: We know that there are other networks because even though
:00:37. > :00:38.those involved in committing attacks in Paris and Brussels are being
:00:39. > :00:41.destroyed, there is always a threat. Meanwhile America says it's killed
:00:42. > :00:52.Islamic State's second in command The US military killed several key
:00:53. > :00:56.Isil terrorists this week including, we believe, Hajji Iman, a senior
:00:57. > :00:59.Isil leader. further into Palmyra,
:01:00. > :01:01.capturing the citadel overlooking Also coming up, it's a moveable
:01:02. > :01:08.feast, but could churches around the world finally agree to fix
:01:09. > :01:25.the date of Easter? Three days after the carnage
:01:26. > :01:30.at Brussels airport and on the Metro system, gunshots and
:01:31. > :01:33.explosions rang out again, Two suspects were shot and wounded
:01:34. > :01:38.during the operations. Prosecutors say they were among
:01:39. > :01:43.three people detained. The suburb of Schaerbeek
:01:44. > :01:46.was the scene of one of the raids on Friday,
:01:47. > :01:48.where security forces wounded a man Security forces also made arrests
:01:49. > :01:55.in France and Germany. French president Francois Hollande
:01:56. > :01:59.has said the militant network behind the attacks in Brussels
:02:00. > :02:14.and in Paris last November TRANSLATION: We have seen results
:02:15. > :02:21.when it comes to finding the terrorists. In both Brussels and
:02:22. > :02:24.Paris, there have been arrests. We know that there are other networks
:02:25. > :02:29.because even though those involved in committing attacks in Paris and
:02:30. > :02:34.Brussels have been destroyed, there is always a threat.
:02:35. > :02:35.Meanwhile, the so-called Islamic State group
:02:36. > :02:39.on the attacks in Brussels, presenting them as retribution
:02:40. > :02:40.for coalition attacks on IS territory.
:02:41. > :02:42.The video also contained threats of more.
:02:43. > :02:52.It's a police operation, the woman's voice says.
:02:53. > :02:55.Outside, they advance behind a bullet-proof shield.
:02:56. > :03:01.Lying in the tram stop a man has been shot in the legs,
:03:02. > :03:05.police still training their weapons on him.
:03:06. > :03:08.The view from across the street shows a bomb disposal robot
:03:09. > :03:10.approaching, he is holding a bag and they want to check
:03:11. > :03:20.This is the same Schaerbeek district where the Brussels and Paris
:03:21. > :03:25.This operation, though, it seems was triggered
:03:26. > :03:29.by information gleaned from a raid in Paris yesterday where one man
:03:30. > :03:31.was arrested, apparently preparing a new attack in France not linked
:03:32. > :03:40.They take the kid and they shoot the man, I think, in the leg.
:03:41. > :03:43.He was not dying, he was moving and the police asked him to put
:03:44. > :04:07.Meanwhile, prosecutors today confirmed that one of the suspects
:04:08. > :04:13.who is thought made one of the suicide vests in the Paris
:04:14. > :04:15.attacks was one of the Brussels airport bombers.
:04:16. > :04:18.In total, some 300 people were killed and injured in these
:04:19. > :04:19.attacks, their fates are starting to become clearer.
:04:20. > :04:23.Some 40 nationalities touched, in total.
:04:24. > :04:25.The pain and suffering is felt not just here
:04:26. > :04:28.From America to China, families are now mourning
:04:29. > :04:36.David Dixon, an IT consultant from Hartlepool, texted his family
:04:37. > :04:40.after the airport attack to say he was safe.
:04:41. > :04:42.The father of a seven-year-old son died soon after,
:04:43. > :04:49.Mason Wells survived the Boston marathon bombing three years ago
:04:50. > :04:53.and survived again in Brussels, but has severe burns.
:04:54. > :04:56.I remember seeing fire in front of my face and also fire down
:04:57. > :05:05.I feel lucky to have escaped with what I did.
:05:06. > :05:09.Brussels' airport is still closed, but the US secretary of state came
:05:10. > :05:18.He said criticising Belgium for security
:05:19. > :05:21.the facts are known is inappropriate, adding
:05:22. > :05:23.the so-called Islamic State is lashing out in Europe
:05:24. > :05:29.We will not rest until we have eliminated your nihilistic beliefs
:05:30. > :05:34.and cowardice from the face of this earth.
:05:35. > :05:36.But what many here fear is that the terror network
:05:37. > :05:41.still lingers and despite the efforts to eliminate them,
:05:42. > :05:47.there could be more bloodshed to come.
:05:48. > :05:49.Earlier our correspondent in Brussels, Murad Shishani gave us
:05:50. > :05:57.the latest on the raids and the shooting of two suspects.
:05:58. > :06:05.it was a really dramatic day today. We've been to say about --
:06:06. > :06:09.Schaerbeek after we heard an explosion and there was a really
:06:10. > :06:13.tense situation. The police had a cordon surrounding the area, not
:06:14. > :06:18.allowing people to go, even local residents, and there were loads of
:06:19. > :06:25.journalists. However, over the last 24-hour is there have been three
:06:26. > :06:31.raids in the capital and they have arrested yesterday, six, and today,
:06:32. > :06:37.two, eight confirmed arrested. These are the situation, these raids can
:06:38. > :06:43.be giving us an indication that the smoke has started coming down and it
:06:44. > :06:46.is time to go deeper, how these networks have been establishing
:06:47. > :06:54.themselves in Europe between France, Belgium, and there may be in Germany
:06:55. > :07:01.some arrests linked to what happened in Brussels. Indeed, fast moving
:07:02. > :07:09.events. We are hearing more about Nadeem El Shaarawy, linked to the
:07:10. > :07:16.November attacks. It seems that the web is being shown. Indeed, El
:07:17. > :07:22.Shaarawy has been confirmed, the second suicide bomber at the
:07:23. > :07:27.airport, linked to the Bataclan attacks in France four Sedona. But
:07:28. > :07:33.really for those who are following the networks between Belgium, France
:07:34. > :07:39.and Europe, this isn't surprising -- four months ago. Belgium has always
:07:40. > :07:44.been a backyard for most of the jihadists in Europe, especially
:07:45. > :07:50.France. This is coming to the surface after the France tax in a
:07:51. > :07:55.very obvious way but back in 2003, if I can go back, at this time these
:07:56. > :08:01.networks were establishing logistics for people going to fight in Iraq
:08:02. > :08:06.but after Syria, with about 500 jihadists going from Belgium, it
:08:07. > :08:11.became a hotbed for many Jihadist networks am not just for logistics
:08:12. > :08:16.job, but also providing fighters and operatives and this is what we've
:08:17. > :08:19.seen over the last three days. And four months ago in Paris. Most of
:08:20. > :08:23.them are coming from Brussels, Brussels neighbourhoods. Difficult
:08:24. > :08:30.to come to terms with the idea that Belgium is in mourning, we can bring
:08:31. > :08:32.pictures where people are paying their respects and paying tributes
:08:33. > :08:39.to the victims of this most recent attack. Indeed, this is the
:08:40. > :08:46.situation, they are still mourning and this is the last day of three
:08:47. > :08:51.days of mourning. At the same time, you can look and see that people are
:08:52. > :08:56.more defiant, as we saw in the Paris attacks. This time they are going to
:08:57. > :09:00.work, from the early hours they went back to the streets and they were
:09:01. > :09:03.full. Yesterday there was the military and security forces
:09:04. > :09:08.presence and there have been raids but I've noticed that the Belgian
:09:09. > :09:16.people are going out and trying to get normality to their lives. There
:09:17. > :09:22.is a sense of shock, obviously. Today this afternoon we had the
:09:23. > :09:25.first prayers for the Muslims today and we went to a mosque and we had
:09:26. > :09:27.conversations with people and they are carrying the same feelings in
:09:28. > :09:31.one way or another. American forces have killed a man
:09:32. > :09:33.described as the so-called Islamic State group's
:09:34. > :09:37.second-in-command. Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli,
:09:38. > :09:41.also known as Haji Imam, is said to have been the target
:09:42. > :09:44.of an operation carried The US Defence Secretary,
:09:45. > :09:49.Ash Carter, confirmed the reports. We are systematically
:09:50. > :09:55.eliminating Isil's Cabinet. Indeed, the US military
:09:56. > :09:57.killed several key Isil Including we believe,
:09:58. > :10:12.Hajji Imam, a senior leader, serving as a Finance Minister,
:10:13. > :10:15.a senior leader, and responsible He was a well-known terrorist
:10:16. > :10:19.within Isil's ranks, dating back to its earliest
:10:20. > :10:24.iteration as al-Qaeda in Iraq, when he worked under
:10:25. > :10:26.Zarkawi with liaisons The removal of this Isil leader
:10:27. > :10:34.will hamper the organisation's abilities to conduct operations
:10:35. > :10:38.both inside and outside This is the second senior Isil
:10:39. > :10:50.leader we have successfully targeted this month, after confirming
:10:51. > :10:53.the death of Isil's so-called I asked the BBC's Jane O'Brien -
:10:54. > :10:59.in Washington - how much impact this action against leaders
:11:00. > :11:05.of the so-called Islamic State might The wider issue is whether or not,
:11:06. > :11:11.how much influence and how much control these Islamic State leaders
:11:12. > :11:17.actually have an terrorist plots overseas, outside Iraq and Syria.
:11:18. > :11:21.The Defence Secretary said that really, the way that things are
:11:22. > :11:28.going, the range is very broad. It can be that they direct fighters who
:11:29. > :11:32.had come into Syria, it can be that they are training people to carry
:11:33. > :11:36.out attacks, but they don't actually see fighting in Syria, or Iraq. It
:11:37. > :11:40.could be simply that they inspire lone wolf attackers who have had no
:11:41. > :11:46.direct connection with Islamic State, but maybe self radicalised
:11:47. > :11:51.and motivated. They are the ones that authorities are extremely
:11:52. > :11:58.concerned about. So the real impact of Hajji Iman's death is difficult
:11:59. > :12:02.to calculate at the moment but it is certainly significant in that they
:12:03. > :12:07.have killed someone who is very experienced, has been around for a
:12:08. > :12:12.long time, a former member of Al-Qaeda, and was, as the Defence
:12:13. > :12:15.Secretary said, really in charge of the finances of Islamic State, that
:12:16. > :12:19.will certainly hamper operational abilities to a certain extent.
:12:20. > :12:23.Reports from Iraq say a suicide bomber has blown himself up
:12:24. > :12:33.in a crowd at a football match, killing at least 26 people.
:12:34. > :12:36.The attack was in the town of Iskandariya, south of Baghdad.
:12:37. > :12:38.One report said the blast was at the end of the game,
:12:39. > :12:41.just as the winners were being handed a trophy.
:12:42. > :12:43.The Islamic State group says it carried out the bombing.
:12:44. > :12:45.Syrian state television says that government forces have captured
:12:46. > :12:52.the fortified citadel of Palmyra from Islamic State.
:12:53. > :12:55.The city has been a focus not only because of its strategic importance
:12:56. > :12:57.but also because of its cultural importance.
:12:58. > :12:59.Palmyra is home to Syria's ancient ruins, damaged
:13:00. > :13:11.This is the ancient Baalshamin temple,
:13:12. > :13:13.there was a big international outcry
:13:14. > :13:16.shared this picture of how it had demolished parts
:13:17. > :13:20.This is a satellite image of the Bel temple that dates back
:13:21. > :13:23.And this picture shows the destruction caused by Islamic
:13:24. > :13:26.Syrian forces have been engaged in days of fighting
:13:27. > :13:29.with the militants, who've held the city for nearly a year.
:13:30. > :13:30.During that time IS has deliberately destroyed some
:13:31. > :13:33.of the monuments, which date back thousands of years.
:13:34. > :13:35.The UN's cultural arm, UNESCO, welcomed the prospect
:13:36. > :13:37.of the ruins being recaptured, saying the site embodied history
:13:38. > :13:45.and culture that had made the region a cradle of civilisation.
:13:46. > :13:55.They captured the area around the Citadel, the Syrian Observatory for
:13:56. > :13:59.Human Rights say they have entered the City from the north-west, while
:14:00. > :14:03.yesterday they captured the south-east of it. So they are pretty
:14:04. > :14:07.much encircling the City area and they are advancing inside. These are
:14:08. > :14:14.governments forces are bordered by Russian air strikes and by militias
:14:15. > :14:17.from different countries who are there to support President Bashar
:14:18. > :14:22.al-Assad, mainly from Shi'ite sect. The Stones roll into Cuba to "start
:14:23. > :14:33.them up" with a free concert expected to attract
:14:34. > :14:38.half a million people. The row over the government's
:14:39. > :14:41.plan to change the way it runs schools
:14:42. > :14:42.in England continues. At a teachers' conference today,
:14:43. > :14:46.the leader of the opposition, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn,
:14:47. > :14:47.described the conversion schools into 'academies'
:14:48. > :14:59.as 'asset stripping'. I want schools to be accountable to
:15:00. > :15:06.their parents and communities, not as a process of asset stripping our
:15:07. > :15:11.educational facilities, to be handed over to somebody else. So the first
:15:12. > :15:15.thing... APPLAUSE
:15:16. > :15:20.That is always done ahead of privatisation in many services is to
:15:21. > :15:24.attack the skilled staff. So it's about breaking national pay
:15:25. > :15:31.bargaining, expanding the use of unqualified teachers, driving down
:15:32. > :15:34.prey, driving down the terms and conditions and driving down
:15:35. > :15:35.standards. There is not a shred of evidence that academies
:15:36. > :15:40.automatically improve standards. The latest headlines,
:15:41. > :15:47.it's been another day of intense police activity in Brussels,
:15:48. > :15:50.with two suspects shot as they were arrested, one at a tram
:15:51. > :15:54.stop in the Schaerbeek district. Meanwhile America says it's killed
:15:55. > :15:56.Islamic State's second in command Commemorations will take place
:15:57. > :16:05.across Ireland this weekend, marking the 100th anniversary
:16:06. > :16:09.of the 1916 Easter Rising, the rebellion against British rule
:16:10. > :16:12.that was a key moment in the history Ceremonies will be held at historic
:16:13. > :16:18.sites across Dublin, with more than half a million people
:16:19. > :16:23.expected to attend events on Sunday. Our Ireland Correspondent,
:16:24. > :16:35.Chris Buckler, reports. In 1916... 100 years ago, the back
:16:36. > :16:38.streets of Dublin became a battlefield in a fight for
:16:39. > :16:42.independence. Villa smashing into this building beside us. In the
:16:43. > :16:45.City, buildings were turned into makeshift garrisons and the City's
:16:46. > :16:51.post office, a military headquarters. The Irish Republic is
:16:52. > :16:56.entitled to and hereby claims the allegiance of every Irishman and
:16:57. > :17:01.woman. It was here on Easter Monday that Patrick Pearse read the
:17:02. > :17:05.proclamation, declaring the Republic and the end of British rule. It was
:17:06. > :17:10.less than a week from the start of the rebellion to the point of
:17:11. > :17:15.surrender. In that time, the lives of civilians, British soldiers and
:17:16. > :17:20.Irish volunteers were lost. And much of the heart of Dublin was
:17:21. > :17:26.destroyed. Eight Field military strategy designed by men with more
:17:27. > :17:32.knowledge of culture and conflict. There were scholars, writers,
:17:33. > :17:36.teachers and they had a vision for Ireland. What had happened under
:17:37. > :17:42.British rule, the Irishness was taken out of people. Relatives of
:17:43. > :17:45.those who fought in the rioting will be remembering this weekend. It is
:17:46. > :17:48.thought that Maureen O'Reilly was just 15 years old when she carried
:17:49. > :17:55.messages between its leaders through the dangerous streets of the Dublin
:17:56. > :18:00.chaos. Her account of what happened is held in Ireland's military
:18:01. > :18:05.archives. I brought back a dispatch to hold the building at all costs. I
:18:06. > :18:09.have a daughter myself who is 17 and I can't believe somebody was out for
:18:10. > :18:14.the whole week at that age, Dodging Bullets, no fear. Initially in
:18:15. > :18:18.Ireland there was anger at the rebels for bringing violence to the
:18:19. > :18:21.streets of Dublin. But the execution of the rising's leaders changed
:18:22. > :18:29.opinions and marked a moment where support for the Republic truly rose.
:18:30. > :18:33.Search her, it's by! Given the deaths on all sides, there is
:18:34. > :18:38.sensitivity in marking the centenary -- eight spy. It is seen as
:18:39. > :18:40.important because in the story of the rioting are the origins of
:18:41. > :18:51.modern Ireland. Let's take you to the Colosseum in
:18:52. > :19:03.Rome, where the Pope is presiding over the annual wave of the Cross
:19:04. > :19:11.procession. TRANSLATION: Driven by the sentiment that unites all of our
:19:12. > :19:13.people, fear of losing our security, the possessions and life, but Jesus
:19:14. > :19:28.shows us another way. Lord Jesus, how similar we are to
:19:29. > :19:34.those people, how much fear there is in our life. We are afraid of those
:19:35. > :19:38.different from bus, foreigners, migrants. We are afraid of the
:19:39. > :19:45.future, of the unexpected, of misery. How much fear there is in
:19:46. > :19:51.our workplaces and cities -- different from us. This is to mark
:19:52. > :19:54.Good Friday just ahead of Easter and it is an annual event that takes
:19:55. > :20:01.place at the Coliseum, which is dramatically lit up, with the Pope
:20:02. > :20:07.residing over the annual way of the cross procession, which takes place
:20:08. > :20:13.every year. Early on he helped the Good Friday liturgy at Saint Peters
:20:14. > :20:20.basilica and on Monday Thursday he washed and kissed the feet of
:20:21. > :20:24.refugees, something that was remarked upon -- mourned a Thursday.
:20:25. > :20:33.We are seeing the Colosseum in Rome, lit up spectacularly as the Pope
:20:34. > :20:41.decides over the Way of the Cross possession. They were live images
:20:42. > :20:44.from Rome with the Pope at the Colosseum. Now we are going to
:20:45. > :20:48.something completely different. The Rolling Stones are preparing
:20:49. > :20:50.for a free concert in Cuba which is expected to attract
:20:51. > :20:54.half a million people. The show's being seen as another
:20:55. > :20:57.sign of real change on the island. It comes three days after US
:20:58. > :21:00.President Barack Obama's historic A career spanning over 50
:21:01. > :21:08.years, tours in every But the Rolling Stones had never
:21:09. > :21:13.stepped foot in Cuba. Rock 'n' roll legends don't
:21:14. > :21:23.get bigger than these, but under Fidel Castro their songs
:21:24. > :21:26.were kept from the Cuban youth It wasn't so long ago
:21:27. > :21:31.that your music was banned What does it say about
:21:32. > :21:37.how Cuba has changed? Well, obviously something's
:21:38. > :21:38.happened in the last... That is what happens
:21:39. > :21:40.when you ban things! I think it feels like history
:21:41. > :21:49.because, as you say, they haven't had big shows before,
:21:50. > :21:54.and it would have been surprising ten years ago for this to have
:21:55. > :21:57.happened, and anyone that has been It comes at the end
:21:58. > :22:08.of an extraordinary week in Cuba. It began with the first visit
:22:09. > :22:11.by a US president in 90 years and ends with the first concert
:22:12. > :22:13.by Britain's rock royalty. This free concert has taken weeks
:22:14. > :22:16.of planning and preparation, but now, in the final
:22:17. > :22:19.hours before showtime, everything is in place
:22:20. > :22:21.for the biggest concert Havana Their fans gathering in the Cuban
:22:22. > :22:29.heat are getting excited. And I want to thank them
:22:30. > :22:39.for giving us so much, The Stones, the Stones
:22:40. > :22:43.we've come for, brother. We heard it Tuesday afternoon,
:22:44. > :22:46.we booked it Wednesday morning. If ever there was a sign that Cuba
:22:47. > :22:49.is changing, it is this, the world's biggest rock group
:22:50. > :22:52.playing a concert for free in one of the last Communist
:22:53. > :22:57.stronghold on earth. What is it you'll be looking
:22:58. > :23:00.for in Cuba that you can't Cigars and an exciting audience,
:23:01. > :23:09.thank you, that's great! Will Grant, BBC News,
:23:10. > :23:15.Havana. It always falls on different dates,
:23:16. > :23:19.but could that be about to change? Here's Our religious affairs
:23:20. > :23:21.correspondent Caroline Wyatt. For Christians, this is the most
:23:22. > :23:24.important religious festival The Archbishop of Canterbury,
:23:25. > :23:34.Justin Welby, was with the faithful in Kent today, marking
:23:35. > :23:36.when Christians believe, Jesus Christ died on the cross
:23:37. > :23:39.and then rose again. And yet, those in East and West
:23:40. > :23:42.celebrate Easter at different times, so why can't Christians get
:23:43. > :23:44.together to fix the date? We started talking about it over
:23:45. > :23:46.a thousand years ago, But given the number of people
:23:47. > :23:53.and churches around the world that seem to support the idea of having
:23:54. > :23:58.the same date for Easter, I think there's a better
:23:59. > :24:02.chance for a long time, it could be certainly
:24:03. > :24:06.within the five or ten years. It's a debate that may not be quite
:24:07. > :24:09.as old as the moon and stars themselves, but it's certainly one
:24:10. > :24:12.that dates back to the earliest The date of Easter is set
:24:13. > :24:18.by the Spring equinox, which means for centuries,
:24:19. > :24:20.astronomers, such as those at Greenwich, have been vital
:24:21. > :24:22.in predicting when Easter It depends on two
:24:23. > :24:30.astronomical things. The spring equinox
:24:31. > :24:32.and also the full moon. It was the British monk,
:24:33. > :24:34.the Venerable Bede, back in 700 who came up with a nice,
:24:35. > :24:37.easy way of remembering it. It's the first Sunday
:24:38. > :24:39.after the first full moon, It was only in the year 664
:24:40. > :24:58.here in Whitby, when Easter should be marked
:24:59. > :25:11.in this part of the world. Now though, there are hopes the date
:25:12. > :25:14.for Easter could be fixed for the second or third
:25:15. > :25:15.Sunday in April. Or perhaps resolve one
:25:16. > :25:18.of the longest running disputes in Christianity, as well as making
:25:19. > :25:21.it rather easier to plan your The the difficulty is
:25:22. > :25:24.going to be that everyone We all have our own ways
:25:25. > :25:27.of calculating Easter. We've all calculated it
:25:28. > :25:40.this way for centuries. This is one tradition that may go on
:25:41. > :25:46.long after we have completed the other Easter traditions.
:25:47. > :25:55.Let's go back to the Colosseum where the Pope is presiding over the
:25:56. > :26:01.annual Way of the Cross procession. On Saturday he will lead an Easter
:26:02. > :26:02.vigil. For the time being, thanks for watching BBC world News