:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today with me Geeta Guru-murthy.
:00:08. > :00:11.Malaysia says the half-brother of the North Korean leader
:00:12. > :00:18.Toxicology reports show he died from VX poisoning -
:00:19. > :00:23.a substance which the UN classifies as a weapon of mass destruction.
:00:24. > :00:31.Donald Trump's latest promise to his supporters:
:00:32. > :00:36.and better America - and no delay in building the wall:.
:00:37. > :00:42.With building the wall. We're building the wall. In fact, it's
:00:43. > :00:44.going to start soon. Way ahead of schedule.
:00:45. > :00:47.The fatal shooting of an Indian man in the US is investigated
:00:48. > :00:56.The American new intervened is hailed as a hero.
:00:57. > :01:15.And preparations begin for Sunday's Oscars ceremony. Will Hollywood the
:01:16. > :01:17.Goering La-la? -- the. Five. Welcome.
:01:18. > :01:20.Police in Malaysia say a highly toxic nerve agent called VX has been
:01:21. > :01:23.found on the face of Kim Jong Nam - the murdered half brother
:01:24. > :01:28.Mr Kim died last week after two women accosted him
:01:29. > :01:30.briefly in a check-in hall at a Kuala Lumpur airport.
:01:31. > :01:33.The nerve agent, VX, is classified as a weapon of mass
:01:34. > :01:37.Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports
:01:38. > :01:51.Last week at Kuala Lumpur airport, and some choose to attack Kim Jong
:01:52. > :01:57.Nam in full view of these six CCTV cameras. It was a very deliberate
:01:58. > :02:06.and public act of violence. To date, we learned what killed him. As is
:02:07. > :02:13.even more shocking. It is VX nerve agents. A chemical weapon. Kim Jong
:02:14. > :02:16.Nam was walking across this busy departures hall was the granny was
:02:17. > :02:19.attacked at this exact spot and now we know what killed him. Small
:02:20. > :02:22.Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill:. One of the most
:02:23. > :02:30.deadly nerve agent ever invented. 100th of a gram would have been
:02:31. > :02:35.enough to kill him. -- VX. Someone used it to kill and hair in the
:02:36. > :02:37.middle of this International Airport. It is colourless and
:02:38. > :02:43.odourless with the view of engine oil. Said Adley, it is classified by
:02:44. > :02:57.the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction. -- so deadly.
:02:58. > :03:09.Symptoms include:. It was produced in the 80s. North Korea's dictator
:03:10. > :03:12.Kim Jong Un already had nuclear weapons. Some think he has sent a
:03:13. > :03:16.message by killing his brother with the deadly nerve agent. What we do
:03:17. > :03:21.know is they have a weapon of mass destruction. VX, which has the
:03:22. > :03:24.potential to kill many thousands of people, they show that they want to
:03:25. > :03:28.be part of the weapons of mass destruction club and that they
:03:29. > :03:33.should be taken the really. If we do nothing, we are going to be in a
:03:34. > :03:37.very difficult position. This is probably far more dangerous than the
:03:38. > :03:42.nuclear weapons programme that has been spoken about in the past 12
:03:43. > :03:45.months. The more we learn, the more bizarre the story becomes. This is
:03:46. > :03:50.one of the alleged assassins' Facebook page. Nothing about her
:03:51. > :03:57.suggests he could be a killer. About the only thing we knew is that Kim
:03:58. > :04:04.Jong Nam must have died in excruciating pain. His body
:04:05. > :04:10.convulsed, his long lasting for air. -- lungs. -- gasping.
:04:11. > :04:13.Richard Guthrie is a chemical weapon consultant and he can join
:04:14. > :04:23.Thank you for joining us. What do we know about VX and who might possess
:04:24. > :04:28.it? It is one of the most potent nerve agents. It is highly toxic and
:04:29. > :04:33.has a perfect right interviewing signalling between nerve cells says
:04:34. > :04:36.edition doses, the nerves cannot Ali Al basic functions, such as
:04:37. > :04:40.controlling heartbeat and breathing. That can inevitably leads to death.
:04:41. > :04:45.In other countries have manufactured it over the years, mainly in very
:04:46. > :04:49.small quantities. It is hard to scale production to an industrial
:04:50. > :04:54.process because the chemistry is quite complicated and some of the
:04:55. > :04:57.Chronicles used to manufacture it are highly reactive. -- chemicals.
:04:58. > :05:01.Have to be used under controlled conditions. It is made in small
:05:02. > :05:07.quantities in a number of laboratories at long, across the
:05:08. > :05:10.world, primarily to test equipment. The Beano which countries, other
:05:11. > :05:19.than North Korea, might possess this and do we have any evidence they
:05:20. > :05:23.might possess it? -- Do we know. Many countries have now signed up to
:05:24. > :05:28.the 1990s the chemical weapons Convention, which is aimed at the
:05:29. > :05:31.chemical weapons free world. There are only about five countries who
:05:32. > :05:38.have not signed up and your career is one of them. There are other
:05:39. > :05:40.countries who have had VX, such as the United States, former Soviet
:05:41. > :05:44.Union and Syria had a small quantity. There is of all been
:05:45. > :05:50.destroyed. How worrying is that we have seen this being used in such an
:05:51. > :05:57.open, busy area? How was it not picked up in Malaysia? Well, it's
:05:58. > :06:00.easy for VX not to be picked up because it is contained, then it
:06:01. > :06:04.would not give off any kind of odour. It is easy to protect a small
:06:05. > :06:08.quantity and they would only need a small quantity in this case. There
:06:09. > :06:12.has been a very long history of assassination by poison over the
:06:13. > :06:19.decades. Famously in 1989, the apartheid authorities tried to kill
:06:20. > :06:24.a reverend who became adviser to the President when it was the ANC
:06:25. > :06:28.administration. They laced his underwear with nerve agent and he
:06:29. > :06:31.was lucky to survive. Some assassination by poison is done
:06:32. > :06:38.discreetly in order to make it look like it's natural causes. Other side
:06:39. > :06:43.dot-mac times, it is done in an overt manner to be an expression of
:06:44. > :06:50.power. This would seem to be a case where the authorities, one presumes,
:06:51. > :06:53.in North Korea, want to strand agelong, powerful message that they
:06:54. > :07:01.have these materials and can use them. -- send a strong message. We
:07:02. > :07:04.want to talk about the effect on the victim, or how it acts. Looking at
:07:05. > :07:09.the footage, it was such a brief level of contact if that is what
:07:10. > :07:12.happened. It is potentially a very brief level of contact bodies VX
:07:13. > :07:17.will play on your skin and may need a drop of a less than the size that
:07:18. > :07:23.you can see with the visible ally to kill. Because it affects the nervous
:07:24. > :07:26.system and permeates through the body affecting the nervous system.
:07:27. > :07:33.Then the large exposure would be quick, but it can, over a period of
:07:34. > :07:39.Alice, with very tiny exposure, implies that the substance detected
:07:40. > :07:42.was VX, that it was not the smallest of those is to allow him to walk
:07:43. > :07:47.around for some minutes, but that doesn't go out VX. It is very
:07:48. > :07:51.consistent with known reactions of VX recommending the past. Thank you
:07:52. > :07:55.very much indeed. Good to talk to you. Thank you.
:07:56. > :07:57.For Donald Trump, it was like going back
:07:58. > :08:02.The President has been speaking to the Conservative wing
:08:03. > :08:05.of the Republican Party, at an event in Maryland -
:08:06. > :08:07.the place he says he made his first real political speech,
:08:08. > :08:10.at the start of his campaign for the White House.
:08:11. > :08:12.He told the gathering that he'd inherited a mess, but said
:08:13. > :08:18.he was keeping his promises, and insisted that construction
:08:19. > :08:21.of the wall along the Mexican border would start soon.
:08:22. > :08:24.Here's a little of what he had to say.
:08:25. > :08:35.For too long, we have traded away our jobs to different countries. So
:08:36. > :08:43.terrible. We have defended other nations' borders, while leaving Al
:08:44. > :08:48.is wide open, anyone can come in. -- ours we are going to build a wall.
:08:49. > :08:52.Don't worry about it. We are building the wall. In fact, it will
:08:53. > :09:02.start soon, way ahead of schedule. CHEERING
:09:03. > :09:05.Way, way, way ahead of schedule. I'm not against the press, I don't mind
:09:06. > :09:21.bad stories if I deserve them. I don't get too many of them. I can
:09:22. > :09:29.only against the fake news, media press. Fake, fake. We have to leave
:09:30. > :09:31.that word. I'm against people who make up sources.
:09:32. > :09:33.They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they
:09:34. > :09:53.We are also putting in a massive budget request for our military.
:09:54. > :10:00.CHEERING And we will be substantially
:10:01. > :10:06.upgrading all of our military, all of our military. Authentic,
:10:07. > :10:12.defensive, everything. They get and better, and stronger than ever
:10:13. > :10:14.before. And hopefully we will never have to use it but nobody will
:10:15. > :10:18.message is, folks. Jane O'Brien is in
:10:19. > :10:26.Washington for us. We have seen two very senior members
:10:27. > :10:33.of the new administration in Mexico City this week. He is still going
:10:34. > :10:38.forward with the plan, any detail on it? Now. That is the bottom line. No
:10:39. > :10:41.detail whatsoever. When he says he is ahead of schedule, we don't know
:10:42. > :10:45.what the schedule was so no clue what that means. He also still have
:10:46. > :10:53.to find the money because no one has come up with Google paid. Mexico
:10:54. > :10:56.said it will not but presumably the will have to leave some amount of
:10:57. > :11:02.billions of dollars to build the wall. There are issues over the land
:11:03. > :11:05.that this wall will cross, much of it is owned privately. We will have
:11:06. > :11:12.to buy it on private land owners, all the drill. That will cost money.
:11:13. > :11:17.All sorts of details that will need to be thrashed out in that speech.
:11:18. > :11:21.Fake news and fake sources, we heard. This be a recurring theme.
:11:22. > :11:27.Some of his own sources been called into question a number of times on
:11:28. > :11:31.the campaign trail. What a remake of this latest assault? To be perfectly
:11:32. > :11:36.honest, you have to take it with a pinch of salt. What he was doing
:11:37. > :11:38.there was playing to his audience. This was his warm up act. He
:11:39. > :11:45.mentioned that at the beginning of his speech and the audience loved
:11:46. > :11:48.it. His actual message there was that his supporters should listen to
:11:49. > :11:52.him. They should not be distracted by all the bad press that he is
:11:53. > :11:59.getting like the story about what he is doing all the stories about his
:12:00. > :12:00.dysfunctional White House, or the story about what he says. They
:12:01. > :12:05.should listen to him, they should listen and look to what he is doing
:12:06. > :12:09.and I think that is the message he is trying to get across there.
:12:10. > :12:13.Again, saying he is going to improve funding for the military. Again, I
:12:14. > :12:17.don't know if any numbers came out there. He is a very powerful man in
:12:18. > :12:22.a powerful position with a huge military already. Indeed. What he
:12:23. > :12:26.did not mention is, as he said, the military has always been big.
:12:27. > :12:31.America is a superpower. What has been lacking in the last eight years
:12:32. > :12:35.is the political will to use it. I think that is far more to the point
:12:36. > :12:39.and again, it comes down to money. He mentioned in that speech
:12:40. > :12:43.sequestration, a horrible word but it's what Congress decided to do
:12:44. > :12:48.when they couldn't agree a budget eight years ago, blanket cut across
:12:49. > :12:52.the board, including the military. There is a deficit budget talks have
:12:53. > :12:55.not left on dress, they will be watching the dolls anti-sense, and
:12:56. > :13:01.they will want to know how Donald Trump wants to pay for his enlarged
:13:02. > :13:03.military. -- and the cents. Thank you.
:13:04. > :13:05.Iraqi forces are launching attacks on a neighbourhood
:13:06. > :13:08.in the west of Mosul - one day after troops
:13:09. > :13:15.It fell to IS in June 2014 and the Iraqi military
:13:16. > :13:17.operation to re-take it began in October last year.
:13:18. > :13:19.Government forces retook the eastern side -
:13:20. > :13:23.across the River Tigris - last month.
:13:24. > :13:26.The river, which splits the city in two, is now the front line.
:13:27. > :13:29.Iraqi forces advanced into the western side
:13:30. > :13:35.via the south on Sunday, moving in on the airport.
:13:36. > :13:38.And also cutting off exit routes to the Syria border to stop IS
:13:39. > :13:42.Well, earlier we received this update via twitter
:13:43. > :13:45.correspondent Quentin Sommerville, who's on the front line in western
:13:46. > :14:27.Here is a look at part of his story to day.
:14:28. > :14:55.Do follow him on Twitter to keep up to date with what is happening in
:14:56. > :14:58.Mosul, in a rock. Now a look at some of
:14:59. > :15:01.the days other news. France's far-right presidential
:15:02. > :15:02.candidate, Marine le Pen, has refused to be questioned
:15:03. > :15:04.by police in connection The National Front leader denies any
:15:05. > :15:08.wrongdoing and claims the allegations are designed
:15:09. > :15:13.to damage her election prospects. The European Parliament alleges that
:15:14. > :15:15.more than 300,000 euros of funding was misspent
:15:16. > :15:19.by her party. Britain's main opposition
:15:20. > :15:22.Labour Party has suffered a shock defeat to the governing
:15:23. > :15:24.Conservatives in a parliamentary It's the best by-election
:15:25. > :15:28.performance by a governing party in Britain in more
:15:29. > :15:30.than half a century. Labour had held the seat
:15:31. > :15:51.for more than 80 years. At least 18 people have been killed
:15:52. > :15:56.in a crash improve. Many casualties were on the bus which burst into
:15:57. > :15:58.flames and chainsaws were used to free people from the wreckage. --
:15:59. > :16:03.Peru. US police are investigating
:16:04. > :16:05.whether the fatal shooting of an Indian software engineer
:16:06. > :16:07.in the state of Kansas Srinivas Kuchbhotla was killed
:16:08. > :16:10.and another Indian engineer Alok Madasani was injured
:16:11. > :16:13.in the attack. Adam Purinton has been charged
:16:14. > :16:28.with murder after the shooting Some people on social media have
:16:29. > :16:38.blamed the charged atmosphere created by Donald Trump. It has been
:16:39. > :16:39.said it's too early to point out a motive.
:16:40. > :16:41.A third victim who was injured is 24-year-old Ian Grillot.
:16:42. > :16:44.He's being hailed as a hero after stepping in and trying
:16:45. > :16:51.He has been speaking from his hospital bed. I heard gunshots, I
:16:52. > :17:01.got out, expected his magazine to be empty, tried chasing down, but I
:17:02. > :17:05.guess I miss counted. I got behind him and turn around, he fired at me.
:17:06. > :17:18.-- need to around. We are looking at if the crime was
:17:19. > :17:33.committed with buyers and motivation. -- biased motivation. I
:17:34. > :17:39.just done what anyone should do for another human being. It's not about
:17:40. > :17:45.where you're from or ethnicity, we are all humans. One of the gentleman
:17:46. > :17:49.who survived came in here today and it was the greatest thing. I can't
:17:50. > :17:54.even describe it. Some one who was watching over me. I wanted to go
:17:55. > :17:59.fishing this weekend but I don't think that's going to be happening
:18:00. > :18:05.right now. That's my first thing I want to do is do a bit of fishing
:18:06. > :18:06.and get together with the gentleman that I have now become best friends
:18:07. > :18:15.with after last night. Of course, one man killed and
:18:16. > :18:16.another Indian person injured. We will keep up-to-date with that story
:18:17. > :18:17.for you. We've been reporting
:18:18. > :18:19.on President Trump's rally today - but remember his rally last weekend
:18:20. > :18:21.in Florida and his His remarks about what was happening
:18:22. > :18:42.there on the night before I do a lot of heat on Sweden. --
:18:43. > :18:47.took. A day later, I said, has anyone reported what has been going
:18:48. > :18:51.on? It turned out they didn't. Take a look at what happened in Sweden. I
:18:52. > :18:57.love Sweden. Great country, great people. I love Sweden, but they
:18:58. > :18:59.understand I'm right. The people over there understand I'm right.
:19:00. > :19:01.Take a look at what is happening in Sweden.
:19:02. > :19:03.The comments Mr Trump was referring to concerned a Fox News documentary
:19:04. > :19:07.about alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden.
:19:08. > :19:09.Our correspondent Maddy Savage has been to Malmo, one of Sweden's
:19:10. > :19:11.most diverse cities, to find out what the situation
:19:12. > :19:25.You look at what's happening at night in Sweden. Sweden, who would
:19:26. > :19:32.believe this? Sweden. Since Donald Trump's comments, there has been a
:19:33. > :19:37.way of media stories on Sweden's migration. They take in more than
:19:38. > :19:39.almost anywhere in Europe. Many settled in Malmo, everyone is
:19:40. > :19:43.Sweden's mouse Toryism neighbourhoods, Rosengard. So what
:19:44. > :20:26.it really like there? Police in Sweden and publish data on
:20:27. > :20:31.the ethnicity of criminals, but they have taught us that, in Malmo, one
:20:32. > :20:36.of Sweden's most diverse cities, crime has actually gone down in the
:20:37. > :20:40.last year. In the same time, fair crime here has gone up. It is this
:20:41. > :20:46.their asses driving support for the country's national party which
:20:47. > :20:50.believes Donald Trump was right to link crime with immigration.
:20:51. > :21:00.Rosengard has a lot more problems than we see an more Swedish part of
:21:01. > :21:06.Sweden. You want the army together into Rosengard?
:21:07. > :21:13.The governments there is talk of no go zones is highly exaggerated. We
:21:14. > :21:15.in the spent the night in Rosengard, we saw no outward signs of trouble.
:21:16. > :21:38.Is this typical? And many locals here say they are
:21:39. > :21:41.fed up of feeling like political footballs on a global debate about
:21:42. > :21:47.immigration. A debate plenty with like to call time on.
:21:48. > :21:51.On Sunday millions around the world will tune in to watch
:21:52. > :21:54.the Oscars where La La Land - a musical revolving
:21:55. > :21:56.around two LA dreamers - is expected to scoop
:21:57. > :22:00.But the Academy Awards won't just highlight escapism.
:22:01. > :22:02.The ceremony will also showcase more earthbound movies
:22:03. > :22:04.with diverse casting - and may become an arena
:22:05. > :22:21.Top of the Oscars he is La La Land, which seems to have won the hearts
:22:22. > :22:24.and minds of Academy members. This musical has earned 14 Oscar
:22:25. > :22:30.nominations, matching the wreckage set by the pictures All About Eve
:22:31. > :22:35.and Titanic. The stars believe it has revived the musical genre. It's
:22:36. > :22:39.a genre we all thought was gone, the old Hollywood musical. It still very
:22:40. > :22:46.special that it happened and I think that the audience has connected with
:22:47. > :22:51.that. On the block nominees are less creamy than La La Land. When it
:22:52. > :22:55.comes to storytelling, they display diversity. Lack of inclusion at the
:22:56. > :23:01.Academy Awards has been a big issue. Last year, the Oscars was besieged
:23:02. > :23:08.by white protest. This year, there are films like Moonlight and Fences
:23:09. > :23:13.nominated, which have largely black casts. There have been many black
:23:14. > :23:19.actors nominated this year, as well as one with Indian It's great that
:23:20. > :23:21.we have had more black people nominated across the board, actors,
:23:22. > :23:29.cinematographers, directors, screenplay. All easily it's not just
:23:30. > :23:32.about black nominees, it's about all different kinds of nominees. We
:23:33. > :23:41.still have a far way to go before we can say that Oscars Are White is
:23:42. > :23:45.obsolete. There has been protest after the protest since Donald Trump
:23:46. > :23:50.moved into the White House. The Oscars podium may be used to vent
:23:51. > :23:54.discontent. This could be the most politicised Oscars we have ever had
:23:55. > :23:59.because I think, for the first time, a mass number of actors feel that
:24:00. > :24:04.perhaps their role as citizens is more important and they will speak
:24:05. > :24:18.out. Protest extends beyond American shores. Iranian film director
:24:19. > :24:23.nominated for his picture, Knee Salesman, has decided not to come
:24:24. > :24:26.because of Donald Trump. And actively, with awards shows we have
:24:27. > :24:29.seen over the past two or three weeks, people have things they want
:24:30. > :24:34.to say. When they get on a platform, they will say it. What they say to
:24:35. > :24:39.people you don't think the Oscars is the appropriate arena for expressing
:24:40. > :24:44.protest? I think the Oscars are political and it is a platform to
:24:45. > :24:49.honour the art. That all becomes part and parcel with the art. The
:24:50. > :24:53.White House has suggested the president may already be engaged on
:24:54. > :24:57.Oscar night but that may not stop anyone on the podium who criticises
:24:58. > :25:01.him and his policies from receiving presidential condemnation or
:25:02. > :25:03.ridicule by way of Twitter. That happens to Meryl Streep at a legal
:25:04. > :25:19.ban blog award that could happen again on Sunday night. -- own Golden
:25:20. > :25:24.Globes night. Now, just last season, Claudio Ranieri was parading around
:25:25. > :25:28.the Premier League trophy with Leicester City. Now he has been
:25:29. > :25:33.sacked. The bosses said they could not risk the file's future hanging
:25:34. > :25:37.just above the relegation zone. However, Claudio Ranieri said what
:25:38. > :25:41.happened was an amazing adventure. Is there anything you would like to
:25:42. > :25:46.say to the fans? Yes, I am very sad for them. I wish them all the best.
:25:47. > :25:54.It has caused some shock waves here. Let me tell you. Gary Lineker,
:25:55. > :25:56.former Leicester player, has said he is very sad.
:25:57. > :25:59.And you can get in touch with me and the team on Twitter -
:26:00. > :26:12.Hello. Nothing too money horizon through this weekend, thankfully. On
:26:13. > :26:18.the other hand, no clear blue skies and sunshine all the time. From it.
:26:19. > :26:23.It'll be mild, plus the ruins but nothing too extreme. Some rain,
:26:24. > :26:26.then. Especially along the west. This set of weather fronts will
:26:27. > :26:28.bring a pretty wet and windy start