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