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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
-- Geeta Guru-Murthy. It was badly hit. Malaysia and police confirm | :00:11. | :00:45. | |
there was an air of chemical attack on the Korean leader's brother. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Donald Trump hits out at the press and confirms he intends to build the | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
wall on the border with Mexico. We are building the wall. And Claudio | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Ranieri's sadness at being sacked just nine months after winning | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Leicester City their only Premier League title. | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
Police in the say a highly toxic nerve agent called VX has been found | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
on the face of Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half brother | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
Mr Kim died last week after two women accosted him | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
briefly in a check-in hall at Kuala Lumpur airport. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
The nerve agent, VX, is classified as a weapon of mass | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Last week at Kuala Lumpur airport someone chose to attack Kim Jong Nam | :01:41. | :01:55. | |
Last week at Kuala Lumpur airport someone chose to attack Kim Jong-nam | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
in full view of at least half a dozen CCTV cameras. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
It was a very deliberate and very public act of violence. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
It is the VX nerve agent, which is a chemical weapon. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Kim Jong-nam was walking across this busy departures hall last week | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
Now we know what was used to kill him, VX, one of the most | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Just a tiny drop, one hundredth of a gram, | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
VX is also banned under international convention, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
and yet someone decided to use it here in the midst of this | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
VX is colourless and odourless with, the feel of engine oil. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
It is so deadly it is classified by the United Nations as a weapon | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Symptoms include coughing, shortness of breath, | :02:39. | :02:51. | |
South Korea says the North started producing chemical weapons | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
in the 1980s and has up to 5000 tonnes of stocks. | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
North Korea's young dictator Kim Jong-un already | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
Some think he is now sending a chilling new message, | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
by killing his older brother with the world's | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
What they have demonstrated is that they do have a weapon | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
of mass destruction, VX, which has the potential to kill | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
They have shown that they want to be part of the weapons | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
of mass destruction club and that they should | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
And if we do nothing, then we're going to be | :03:20. | :03:38. | |
The more we learn, the more bizarre this story becomes. | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
This is one of the alleged assassins taking part | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
Nothing about her suggests she could be a killer. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
About the only thing we know for sure is that Kim Jong-nam must | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
His body convulsed, his lungs gasping for air. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, in Kuala Lumpur. | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
Joshua Pollack is the editor of The Nonproliferation Review | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
and a leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation. | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
Thank you for your time. Can you tell us a bit more about this nerve | :04:08. | :04:22. | |
agent? VX is an especially potent nerve agent, and has traditionally | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
been used as a battlefield weapon, not as a tool of assassination. The | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
only exception I am aware of where some attempts in the 1990s by a | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
group in Japan the boys in some of their enemies with VX among other | :04:42. | :04:54. | |
chemical and biological agents -- group Japan to poison some of their | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
enemies. It had mixed success. The success of this was not in doubt he | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
suddenly. What do we know about how it was made, whether North Korea has | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
it and has used it? It is a synthetic chemical. It has long been | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
strongly suspected that the North Koreans have it. It is one of the | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
preferred military nerve agents. You can read for example South Korean | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
Defence Ministry papers on the subject which suggest that VX and | :05:31. | :05:43. | |
also selling are the mainstay of the North Korean chemical arsenal. This | :05:44. | :05:55. | |
report, if it is accurate in the end, tends to confirm they do have | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
VX, but it does not tell us a much. Can you explain a bit more about the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
biological effects on the victims hit with this, and also what about | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
using this drug, it seems a pretty exotic approach? Well, yes, the | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
effects. It is inhaled, absorbed through the eyes or even through the | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
skin, and if that happens it will cause a lot of the body systems to | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
shut down. I think approximate cause of death is that you stop breathing | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
because your central nervous system stops telling you to breathe and | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
your muscles that control your breathing also fail. I would say | :06:40. | :06:52. | |
that the power of this agent, and it is an especially deadly agent, using | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
it in an exposed public space, especially in a foreign country, is | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
especially provocative and is likely to have consequences for North | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Korea's relationship with Malaysia, among other countries, along with | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
China which apparently had extended some form of protection to the late | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
Kim Jong-un -- Kim Jong-nam. So there will be consequences. There | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
are really two hypotheses right now about the decision to use this nerve | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
agent. Firstly, that it was meant as a demonstration of North Korea's | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
capabilities and its willingness to use them against its enemies. A | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
warning that it could enhance its deterrence of South Korea or the | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
United States. Another hypothesis is that the agent is so exotic, so | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
unusual, as a tool of assassination, that it would not be detected in | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
time by the Malaysian authorities who would hand over the body to the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
North Korean authorities and nobody would ever be the wiser. That may | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
have been what the Russians intended with polonium in London seven years | :08:11. | :08:24. | |
ago. Sorry to interrupt, Joshua Pollack, we are out of time, but we | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
do appreciate your time and expertise. | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
Iraqi forces are launching attacks on a neighbourhood in the west of | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Mosul a day after troops recaptured the city's airport. | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
Mosul is Barack's second-largest city. | :08:35. | :08:35. | |
It fell to IS in June 20 14th and the Iraqi | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
military operation to retake it began in October last year. | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
Government forces retook the eastern side across the River Tigris last | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
The river, which splits the city in two, is now the front line. | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
Iraqi forces advanced into the western side | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
via the south on Sunday, moving in on the airport, | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
and also cutting off exit routes to the Syria | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
border to stop IS militants from escaping. | :09:01. | :09:01. | |
Well, our Middle East correspondent Quentin | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Sommerville is with the Iraqi army in Western Mosul, | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
and - as he's been doing throughout the week - | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
he's sent a flurry of tweets from the front line. | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
Here's a look at part of his story today. | :09:15. | :10:11. | |
And Quentin's Twitter address is of course on-screen there. | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
Donald Trump, speaking to the conservative wing | :10:20. | :10:20. | |
of the Republican Party at an event in Maryland, has renewed his | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
He said "fake news outlets" where the enemy of the people. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
He also said he was going ahead with building the wall | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
For too long we have traded away our jobs to other countries. So | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
terrible. We have defended other nations' borders while leaving ours | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
wide open so anybody can comment. We are going to build the wall, don't | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
worry about it. -- anybody can come in. In fact, it is going to start | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
soon, way ahead of schedule. We ahead schedule. -- way ahead. Way, | :11:00. | :11:13. | |
way, way ahead of schedule. I am not against the press. I don't mind bad | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
stories if I deserve them. And, I tell you, I love good stories, but I | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
don't get too many of them. But I am only against the fake news media or | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
press. Fake, you're that worried. I am against the people that make up | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
stories and make up sources -- you hear that word. They should not be | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
allowed to use sources are mostly use somebody's name. | :11:44. | :12:00. | |
We are also putting in a massive budget request | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
And we will be substantially upgrading all of our military, | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
And hopefully we'll never have to use it. | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
Well, another line coming out of Washington at the moment, the White | :12:20. | :12:36. | |
House correspondents' Association has protested about some journalist | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
are apparently being excluded from a press briefing. China wass from | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
several organisations were told they could not attend an off-camera | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
meeting -- some journalists from several organisations were told. | :12:51. | :12:51. | |
Laura Bicker is in Washington for us. | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
What do we know about this? From what happened today, we understand | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
the white House press officer Sean Spicer said they have expanded the | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
call to include other networks, including the likes of the right | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
wing conservative publication and the Washington Times. When they | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
included the list from today's briefing, these were allowed in, but | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
we understand certain others were not, including the BBC, CNN, the New | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
York Times, political and others. I have a statement from our editor in | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Washington and he said he understands the white -- White House | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
restrict certain press, however he says on this occasion selected media | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
were not allowed to attend including the BBC. The BBC has a | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
representative at every daily White House briefing, so we are not clear | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
why we were barred from today's and we are seeking clarification from | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
the White House press team. That is going on at the moment. He just | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
mentioned there the White House correspondents' association is all | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
school -- also asking why this has happened. Apart from referring to | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
the press again publicly in Maryland, Donald Trump also spoke | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
about that wall, which is not going away. The new US delegation has been | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
in Mexico as well this week? Yes, that was interesting. He said they | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
were ahead of schedule when it comes to plans for that border wall and | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
work will start soon. The first we have heard there. There were other | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
interesting briefings within that speech, where he spoke about a plan | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
that is being developed to combat the so-called Islamic State. We | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
heard a bit about a plan during his campaign, one he said that would not | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
be made public, but we now understand our plan is being put | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
together. I think the biggest cheer for his speech today, and remember | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
this is almost preaching to the choir, the right wing conservatives | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
happy to have a right-wing president, and the biggest cheer | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
came during the America, first, when he said he would fight for American | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
jobs and American democracy. Laura, from Washington, DC, thank you very | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
much. Stay with us on BBC | :15:16. | :15:15. | |
World News - still to come: Something of interest to the Friday | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
night team in the newsroom, we will look at the new drive in Japan to | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
get people to leave work early on Fridays. | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
The Conservatives have beaten Labour to win the Cumbrian seat of Copeland | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
But Labour held Stoke-on-Trent Central seat, seeing off | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
But the reaction from Jeremy Corbyn, and first the Prime Minister. | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
This is an astounding victory for the Conservative Party but also for | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
the people of Copeland. You know, Labour have held the seat since the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
1930s. A party in government hasn't won a by-election from the ... From | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
a seat held by the opposition for 35 years. I tell you what happened | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
yesterday, people came out, worked and knocked on doors to deliver a | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
message, a message about the economy, about jobs, about this | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
country, but above all it was a message that hope triumphs over | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
there. -- message that hope | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
triumphs over fear. The brother of North Korean leader | :16:35. | :16:51. | |
Kim Jong-un was reportedly killed by a nerve agent in Malaysia. Donald | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Trump has claimed he will build the wall on the border with Mexico ahead | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
of schedule. Remember his rally last weekend in Florida, those comments | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
about Sweden? Those comments but a lot of | :17:08. | :17:08. | |
attention and he touched on that again today... I took a lot of heat | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
on Sweden. And then a day later I said, has anybody reported what is | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
going on? It turned out they didn't. Take a look at what happened in | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Sweden. I love Sweden, great country, great people. But they | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
understand I am right. The people over there understand I am right. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Take a look at what is happening in Sweden. The comments Mr Trump was | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
referring to concerned a Fox documentary about alleged violence | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
in Sweden. Our correspondent has been to Malmo, one of Sweden's most | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
diverse cities to see what the situation is really like. You look | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
at what was happening last night in Sweden, Sweden! Who would believe | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
this, Sweden! Since Donald Trump's comments there have been that has | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
been attention on Sweden's approach to immigration. It the more refugees | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
per capita than almost any nation in Europe. Many settled in Malmo, home | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
to one of Sweden's most notorious neighbourhoods. What is it really | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
like there? TRANSLATION: There are a lot more | :18:19. | :18:38. | |
problems in the US than in Sweden, so he should solve the problems in | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
the USA first then he can talk about the problems here in Sweden. | :18:43. | :19:00. | |
Bullies in Sweden did not publish data on the ethnicity of criminals | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
but they tell us that in Malmo, one of Sweden's most diverse cities, | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
crime has gone down actually in the last year. But at the same time fear | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
of crime here has gone up -- police in Sweden. It is this that is | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
driving support for the country's nationalist party who believes | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Donald Trump was right to link crime and immigration. There are a lot | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
more problems here than we see in more Swedish parts of Sweden. I | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
think the military should help the police get control of these areas. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
You one for me to going? Yes, exactly. The Swedish government says | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
discussion of no-go zones is wildly exaggerated. When we spend the night | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
there we did not see any outward signs of trouble. So was this | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
typical? Most of the nights are like this, OK, we have problems and we | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
cannot deny that and we have things to work on, absolutely. But, | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
overall, I would say it is quiet. And safe. Many locals say they are | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
fed up your feeling like political footballs in a global debate about | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
immigration, a debate plenty would like to call time on. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
Let's get some of the sport now. Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes has all the | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
latest. A rather shocking editor to a football fairy tale? Yes, thank | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
you very much. Claudio Ranieri has claimed his dream died after he was | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
sacked as manager of Leicester City. He has now become one of sport's | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
most famous victims after the success of last year. BBC sports | :20:45. | :20:58. | |
editor Dan Rowan reports. At least there is still some loyalty left in | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Leicester. Claudio Ranieri and the city both came to terms with his | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
dismissal, the miracle worker out of work -- Dan Roan. Emotions among the | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
neighbours, running high. It is a disgrace! Having masterminded the | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
least likely and most popular triumph ever seen in the Premier | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
League, the Italian has become the victim of its most controversial | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
sacking. Nine months ago he was the toast of Leicester... But the fizz | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
has long gone, today's press conference flat. The man who stood | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
beside him in the dugout was left to describe his mood. A bit shocked, as | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
we all were, but his tone was no different. Very level-headed in | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
terms of, that is football. Can you categorically say he had not lost | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
some parts of the dressing room, Claudio Ranieri? There was a lot of | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
frustration because of results but he had not lost the dressing room. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
But the ruthlessness of the dismissal has shocked even those | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
spent a lifetime in the game. Former Leicester star Gary Lineker did not | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
just present Claudio Ranieri with coach of the year, he paid a very | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
public prize for doubting the team's success and he is angry. Just to | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
toss that all the way of a premature decision, over a disloyal... And in | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
many ways a lack of gratitude, it is quite gobsmacking. I am not ashamed | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
to say that last night when the news broke I shed a tear, I shed a tear | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
for Claudio, for football and for my club. Since then the euphoria has | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
evaporated. The champions languishing one point above the | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
relegation zone. The club's Thai owners said the club was in trouble | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
and they decided to act. The fans are divided. For me, I would have | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
kept him. To find out he had been sacked after what he did last year, | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
disgusting. It was not long ago Claudio Ranieri helped bring the | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
city to a standstill. Many wanted him to stay forever but the journey | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
has ended faster than many imagine. Apologies there for the Sound | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
problems on that film. The former Great Britain coach Brian Noble says | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
he is certain rugby league can be a success in North America. He is now | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
coach of the Toronto Wolfpack, a Canadian team who have begun life in | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
the third tier of British rugby league and have plans of reaching | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
the super league. Thanks to the better Toronto winter they will play | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
half of their home games in England before playing the remainder in | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Canada. They will have to fund their opposition's travel and | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
accommodation. They play in the challenge cup tomorrow live on the | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
BBC sport website. Back to you. Thank you. Thousands of workers in | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Japan had the chance to go home early today in the country's first | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
ever Premium Friday, part of a drive to tackle Japan's notoriously long | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
working hours. All offices are being encouraged to close early on the | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
last Friday of every month. People dying from overwork in Japan is such | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
a long-standing problem that it even has its own words... | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
a long-standing problem that it even has its own word... | :24:27. | :25:06. | |
Extraordinary! I will not tell you what we are all saying in the | :25:07. | :25:42. | |
newsroom here. It is of course 24/7 here at the BBC, and we don't mind! | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
All very happy to be here. Carry on watching, because BBC News continues | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
in the coming hours, and I am on Twitter, @ Geeta Guru-Murthy. I will | :25:58. | :26:09. | |
see you soon. Hello there. Good evening. There will be a detailed | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
look at the weather in the UK for the weekend and beyond. Right now we | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
will look at some weather stories elsewhere around the world, | :26:19. | :26:19. |