:00:00. > :00:11.An apparent chemical attack on east Mosul has left 12 people,
:00:12. > :00:17.And as many more remain trapped in the conflict in Mosul,
:00:18. > :00:20.a captured commander of so-called Islamic State tells us using human
:00:21. > :00:27.US police search the home of a man arrested in connection with recent
:00:28. > :00:31.threats made to eight Jewish organisations.
:00:32. > :00:33.Another blow for the French presidential candidate,
:00:34. > :00:37.Francois Fillon, as his spokesman resigns, adding to a slew of
:00:38. > :00:45.This is the scene, being streamed live
:00:46. > :00:47.from an Animal Adventure Park in New York State,
:00:48. > :00:50.as millions of followers wait and wait for April the giraffe
:00:51. > :01:14.Thousands of civilians are fleeing from the besieged city of Mosul
:01:15. > :01:17.as Iraqi and coalition forces try to defeat so called
:01:18. > :01:19.Islamic State, which has occupied the city for almost three years.
:01:20. > :01:22.Hundreds of thousands of people are still trapped in Mosul and,
:01:23. > :01:25.in a BBC interview, a senior IS commander, who was recently
:01:26. > :01:27.captured by Iraqi forces, has justified the group's practice
:01:28. > :01:39.111-year-old boy suffered severe burns and blistering. The Red Cross
:01:40. > :01:40.has condemned this use of chemical weapons, but haven't identified what
:01:41. > :01:46.kind they were. Hundreds of thousands of people
:01:47. > :01:49.are still trapped in Mosul and, in a BBC interview, a senior
:01:50. > :01:52.IS commander, who was recently captured by Iraqi forces,
:01:53. > :01:54.has justified the group's practice Next to the rubble of Mosul's
:01:55. > :01:59.bombed-out university, a new campus It was only opened two days ago,
:02:00. > :02:10.but aid agencies say it For these people, freedom of sorts
:02:11. > :02:18.after almost three years under There are thought to be
:02:19. > :02:24.750,000 civilians trapped Under siege without food or water
:02:25. > :02:30.and in fear of their lives, It is one of the worst
:02:31. > :02:36.crises in the last decade. So, yes, if you can see around
:02:37. > :02:39.and you talk to people, Fighting is still heavy
:02:40. > :02:47.but government troops say they are easing Islamic State's
:02:48. > :02:50.grip on Mosul, its last With IS threatening to kill those
:02:51. > :02:58.who leave the city and relentless shelling from the government side,
:02:59. > :03:02.escape is not easy. This family was inside the western
:03:03. > :03:08.part of the city this morning. As they escaped, there was fighting
:03:09. > :03:11.going on inside their house. Two members of the security forces
:03:12. > :03:13.that freed them were killed. According to these civilians,
:03:14. > :03:16.many more are being kept by so-called Islamic State
:03:17. > :03:19.as human shields. This man tries to defend
:03:20. > :03:21.the practice of using A senior Islamic State
:03:22. > :03:30.commander, he has admitted to sending suicide bombers,
:03:31. > :03:32.including boys, At a detention centre
:03:33. > :03:38.where he is being held in northern Iraq, he spoke to the BBC
:03:39. > :03:43.in a rare interview. TRANSLATION: Anyone who is in danger
:03:44. > :03:49.hides himself behind the others. It is like if you're
:03:50. > :03:51.drowning, you might drag In order to survive,
:03:52. > :03:57.people do everything they can, even if it means using
:03:58. > :04:03.humans as shields. That warped logic is
:04:04. > :04:04.rejected by this man, having escaped Mosul with his family
:04:05. > :04:07.of six and surviving for now Under IS, having a simple Sim card
:04:08. > :04:20.for a phone, or a woman refusing to cover her face,
:04:21. > :04:24.can mean certain death. TRANSLATION: My kids have not been
:04:25. > :04:27.to school for three years and we lived in constant fear
:04:28. > :04:29.of upsetting the Islamists. IS might be facing imminent defeat
:04:30. > :04:42.in Mosul, but the scars run unimaginably deep for those
:04:43. > :04:47.who suffered at their hands. In the US, a 31-year-old man has
:04:48. > :04:49.been arrested and charged with making at least eight bomb
:04:50. > :04:52.threats against Jewish centers. Police have been searching the home
:04:53. > :04:59.of Juan Thompson in Missouri. Federal officials have been
:05:00. > :05:01.investigating bomb threats made against nearly 100 organisations
:05:02. > :05:06.in three dozen states. Prosecutors said he was also charged
:05:07. > :05:15.with stalking his ex-girlfriend. Our reporter Nada Tawfik
:05:16. > :05:17.in New York updated us For more let us go to
:05:18. > :05:25.Nada Tawfik in New York. In theory, this was revenge for an
:05:26. > :05:33.ex-girlfriend and it caused so much anguish and damage. Absolutely, once
:05:34. > :05:37.he broke up with his girlfriend is when he started this campaign of
:05:38. > :05:41.harassment. He sent e-mails and made phone calls to several Jewish
:05:42. > :05:46.community centres, childcare centres and schools in her name and in his
:05:47. > :05:51.name, showing that she was trying to frame him. Some of the e-mails were
:05:52. > :05:55.horrific in nature. He said that she wanted to kill as many Jewish people
:05:56. > :06:01.as soon as and he said that she wanted to create another new town,
:06:02. > :06:08.of course referring to the case in December 2012 when 26th of June were
:06:09. > :06:12.shot. Police have now arrested Mr Thompson and charged him with
:06:13. > :06:15.cyberstalking in relation to these incidents. Narine a lot more is
:06:16. > :06:21.coming about about this man and one he was. A former online left leaning
:06:22. > :06:25.publication said she was a journalist with them and was fired
:06:26. > :06:31.because he fabricated stories and saucers. If you look at his Twitter
:06:32. > :06:34.feed, on that feed there were several times when he referred to
:06:35. > :06:39.his ex-girlfriend is trying to frame him. Again, part of this story he
:06:40. > :06:44.created that investigators have now said he'd used as a campaign of
:06:45. > :06:48.harassment against his ex-girlfriend. Investigators are
:06:49. > :06:53.also trying to work out these 100 threats to various Jewish community
:06:54. > :06:58.centres. There is a chance that is an allegation that he could be
:06:59. > :07:02.behind those as well, is that correct? We know for example that
:07:03. > :07:08.police in misery are now questioning him in regard to the cemetery there.
:07:09. > :07:14.The historic cemetery where 200 Jewish tombstones were vandalised
:07:15. > :07:17.and turned over. We don't know why he is a suspect in that yet, but we
:07:18. > :07:23.know he is being questioned. We are seeing if there are any other ties
:07:24. > :07:28.or clues that would link him to the other incidents. Officials had been
:07:29. > :07:31.very swift in their condemnation of this. The US Attorney General says
:07:32. > :07:38.whatever the condemnation, the said it was un-American. They have said
:07:39. > :07:41.it strikes at US democracy. Jewish groups have been meeting with the
:07:42. > :07:49.FBI in Washington about this. Ahead of the charges. The FBI gave
:07:50. > :07:52.assurances that all of these threats would be fully investigated and it
:07:53. > :07:57.would look to make more arrests. In this polarised political
:07:58. > :08:00.environment, he saw threats that have increased recently, that the
:08:01. > :08:06.Jewish community is very concerned about. Gas, understandably so. Thank
:08:07. > :08:08.you very much for clarifying all of those details. Our correspondence
:08:09. > :08:11.reporting from New York. Staying in the US and Donald Trump
:08:12. > :08:14.is calling it a witch hunt. But the pressure on America's top
:08:15. > :08:16.law officer continues to build. Jeff Sessions say's he'll step down
:08:17. > :08:19.from an FBI investigation into alleged Russian interference
:08:20. > :08:21.in the US elections. Democrats say the Attorney General
:08:22. > :08:23.lied under oath in failing to declare he met Russia's
:08:24. > :08:26.ambassador twice during At the centre of the latest
:08:27. > :08:34.allegations of contact between the Trump administration
:08:35. > :08:37.and Russia, the Attorney At his confirmation hearing,
:08:38. > :08:41.he'd failed to tell the Senate about two meetings
:08:42. > :08:43.with the Russian ambassador. Senior Democrats accuse him
:08:44. > :08:45.of lying under oath. President Trump says
:08:46. > :08:47.he still has his full confidence. Jeff Sessions has resisted pressure
:08:48. > :08:50.to resign, but he has now removed himself from any investigations
:08:51. > :08:54.looking into the election campaign, including allegations
:08:55. > :09:00.of Russian interference. The reason I believed
:09:01. > :09:02.I should recuse myself is because I was involved
:09:03. > :09:04.in the campaign. To a degree, I think it would have
:09:05. > :09:08.been perceived but I wouldn't have been objective in participating
:09:09. > :09:12.in an investigation that might I did not confirm or deny
:09:13. > :09:17.any investigation. I just felt like I
:09:18. > :09:22.should clear the air. But he's denied he did anything
:09:23. > :09:28.wrong, and describes what's been said about his meeting
:09:29. > :09:30.with the ambassador as unfair President Trump has come
:09:31. > :09:36.to his defence, tweeting: The real story is all the illegal
:09:37. > :09:41.leaks of classified and other information.
:09:42. > :09:44.It is a total witch-hunt. This is Russia's ambassador
:09:45. > :09:46.to the US, Sergey Kislyak. It's a post he is held
:09:47. > :09:49.for almost a decade. There has been a furious response
:09:50. > :09:52.from Russia to allegations in some US news reports that he is a spy.
:09:53. > :09:56.The Foreign Ministry describing it as a media provocation
:09:57. > :10:01.and a stunning charge. And when Russia's Foreign Minister
:10:02. > :10:06.was asked today about the continuing controversy over his ambassador
:10:07. > :10:10.meeting Jeff Sessions, his reply echoed words
:10:11. > :10:13.President Trump had used earlier. TRANSLATION: I can only
:10:14. > :10:16.quote the phrase that has Saying that all this closely
:10:17. > :10:20.resembles a witch-hunt. Or times of McCarthyism,
:10:21. > :10:22.which we thought had long passed Mr Trump's son-in-law and senior
:10:23. > :10:35.adviser, Jared Kushner, was with Michael Flynn,
:10:36. > :10:38.who has since been sacked as national security adviser,
:10:39. > :10:41.when he met Ambassador Kislyak after the election.
:10:42. > :10:44.Daniel Boettcher, BBC News. For more on Russia's reaction
:10:45. > :10:47.to this story here's the latest from our correspondent
:10:48. > :11:04.Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. I think there is a recognition here
:11:05. > :11:11.that not only is Jeff Sessions under pressure, but also Donald Trump is.
:11:12. > :11:15.That we've have optimism that the state media was pumping out,
:11:16. > :11:21.building up Donald Trump of the night in shining armour is going to
:11:22. > :11:24.rescue Russian relations. That may have been misplaced. I want to show
:11:25. > :11:29.you some Russian newspapers from today, do you get a flavour of what
:11:30. > :11:35.the media is thinking here. This is from a popular tabloid which is
:11:36. > :11:39.pro-Kremlin. One of its headline is Trump should get his teeth stuck in
:11:40. > :11:44.and not give up his own guys. This is advice from the papers with
:11:45. > :11:48.regards to Jeff Sessions. The paper says that he should actively fight
:11:49. > :11:52.for Jeff Sessions because he is loyal to him. The paper says if
:11:53. > :11:56.Donald Trump is weak, he will give him up, but if he is a fighter, he
:11:57. > :12:03.should get his teeth stuck in and not give him up, otherwise, they, in
:12:04. > :12:06.other words, Trump's opponents will find more links with Russia and
:12:07. > :12:12.tried to paint the US administration as a team of cheats. The headline
:12:13. > :12:15.here is Donald Trump is repeating the mistakes of Richard Nixon. What
:12:16. > :12:20.does it mean by that? It says that Donald Trump has committed a
:12:21. > :12:25.colossal mistake in getting rid of Michael Flynn, his national security
:12:26. > :12:30.adviser, because that created an opening for his opponents to exploit
:12:31. > :12:34.and make their opening bigger. They will increase tax on the president.
:12:35. > :12:39.The paper notes that Richard Nixon tried the same tactic in 1973 by
:12:40. > :12:43.getting rid of his vice president to save himself, but the paper says
:12:44. > :12:49.that did not work. This paper it talks about surrogate if they act,
:12:50. > :12:54.the Russian ambassador in Washington. It says he is in the
:12:55. > :12:58.spotlight which is grating altars are problems with the ambassador and
:12:59. > :13:01.the embassy. The paper says the Americans will be running away from
:13:02. > :13:06.Russian diplomats in fear, because any contacts will be seen as
:13:07. > :13:09.espionage. That was the reaction from Moscow.
:13:10. > :13:27.Germany accuses the journalists are being a German agent and hurrying
:13:28. > :13:31.terror. The US man who was shot while trying
:13:32. > :13:35.to intervene in a deadly gun attack on two Indian men at a Kansas bar
:13:36. > :13:38.has been invited to visit India. Ian Grillot has been praised
:13:39. > :13:40.as a hero by Indians. Mr Grillot was shot in the hand
:13:41. > :13:44.and chest when he tried to stop Malaysia has issued an arrest
:13:45. > :13:53.warrant for a second North Korean man in connection with the murder
:13:54. > :13:55.of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother
:13:56. > :13:57.of North Korea's leader. The man, who works for North Korea's
:13:58. > :14:00.national airline, is thought to have got to Malaysia two weeks before
:14:01. > :14:08.the killing at Kuala Lumpur airport. Two journalists in Zimbabwe
:14:09. > :14:10.have been arrested over a newspaper report describing
:14:11. > :14:11.President Robert Mugabe as being in bad shape when flew
:14:12. > :14:15.to Singapore for a medical check-up The editor of the newspaper
:14:16. > :14:18.and the journalist were charged with undermining and insulting
:14:19. > :14:34.the office of the President. Another campaign blow
:14:35. > :14:35.for Francois Fillon, the main centre-right candidate
:14:36. > :14:37.in the French presidential race. His spokesman has resigned
:14:38. > :14:39.in the latest fallout over allegations he paid member
:14:40. > :14:41.of his family for The former Prime Minister will speak
:14:42. > :14:45.at a major rally on Sunday, where's he's called for supporters
:14:46. > :14:48.to attend in large numbers The BBC's Hugh Schofield said it
:14:49. > :14:52.will no doubt be a critical point for the future of his campaign
:14:53. > :14:58.after todays resignation. The spokesman was
:14:59. > :15:02.a public face for the campaign, so obviously that
:15:03. > :15:04.in itself is very embarrassing, but it's not just him,
:15:05. > :15:06.it's many, many others, sinking ship is how they would see
:15:07. > :15:13.it in the last couple of days. What's happened is that
:15:14. > :15:16.we've just seen at this momentum building up,
:15:17. > :15:20.kind of haemorrhaging now of support, to the point where we
:15:21. > :15:24.really feel that the situation is fluid.
:15:25. > :15:29.He is really clinging on by his fingernails
:15:30. > :15:33.He has a big meeting on Sunday in Paris.
:15:34. > :15:37.He has called for his supporters to come there from all
:15:38. > :15:40.over the country to meet him at the Trocadero opposite the
:15:41. > :15:42.Eiffel Tower, where he is going to give a big
:15:43. > :15:46.speech and he hopes prove that
:15:47. > :15:48.he has the bedrock of support of right-wing voters across
:15:49. > :15:53.If it turns out there is a very big turn-out there, broad-based
:15:54. > :15:56.support, then he can survive, but you know, no one knows
:15:57. > :16:02.All one can say is that the pressure is building and
:16:03. > :16:05.building and building against him, and this other option in the party
:16:06. > :16:13.of Alain Juppe candidacy is taking greater shape as we speak.
:16:14. > :16:15.Early results in Northern Ireland's election suggest the main
:16:16. > :16:17.pro-Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, will win more seats
:16:18. > :16:21.Support for the main party that advocates staying part of Britain,
:16:22. > :16:23.the Democratic Unionists, has fallen, but it's expected
:16:24. > :16:45.Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is at a count in Belfast.
:16:46. > :16:51.The Belfast reputation has long been linked to divisive politics. The
:16:52. > :16:55.latest announcement from Stormont has been linked to that. People
:16:56. > :16:59.return to the ballot box to make their choice. After the collapse of
:17:00. > :17:04.Northern Ireland's power-sharing Government and that is anything but
:17:05. > :17:08.a laughing matter. For those who find themselves voting against just
:17:09. > :17:11.ten months after the last election. Think there is too much bickering
:17:12. > :17:14.and fighting and instead of what they were elected for, instead of
:17:15. > :17:19.looking after the people and trying to do something for the people,
:17:20. > :17:23.there is too much in-house fighting. I think they are trying to blame
:17:24. > :17:30.each other for what is happening in the country. It is a stalemate.
:17:31. > :17:34.Nothing is happening. The results of these votes look unlikely to make
:17:35. > :17:36.much difference to that stand-off at Stormont.
:17:37. > :17:39.CHEERING If walking out of Government was a
:17:40. > :17:44.gamble for Sinn Fein, it has paid off. They have increased their share
:17:45. > :17:50.of the vote, narrowing the gap between them and their old partnered
:17:51. > :17:55.the DUP. A personal success for the only reader and potential Deputy
:17:56. > :17:58.First Minister Michelle O'Neill. The Deputy First Minister need to do a
:17:59. > :18:02.lot more than anyone else who is elected. They need to step out of
:18:03. > :18:06.their comfort zone, make sure they are true to the principles of
:18:07. > :18:11.power-sharing and work on the basis of equality. Those words will be
:18:12. > :18:15.seen as a direct message to Arlene Foster on the leader who was forced
:18:16. > :18:19.out of the office when Sinn Fein brought down power-sharing. The
:18:20. > :18:22.ordinary man and woman of Northern Ireland once an assembly up and
:18:23. > :18:26.running and working for them. They want all the parties playing the
:18:27. > :18:31.role. We are up for that, we have proved we are calling on the other
:18:32. > :18:36.parties to follow through with that. Stop messing about the devolution
:18:37. > :18:41.and work for the entire community. The DUP and Sinn Fein have three
:18:42. > :18:45.weeks to do a deal. Otherwise, people face the prospect of a
:18:46. > :18:48.Westminster Government taking over the running of Northern Ireland and
:18:49. > :18:53.beast for a period. To avoid that, Irish nationalists and British
:18:54. > :18:55.Unionists must come together again and what might matter is how much
:18:56. > :19:02.they value power. BBC News, Belfast. Farmers use them to optimise crop
:19:03. > :19:04.yields, delivery companies hope they'll soon play a large part
:19:05. > :19:06.in their operations. In Ukraine, campaigners
:19:07. > :19:08.are using them to fight corruption. But drones are a controversial
:19:09. > :19:10.tactic, as Tom Burridge We want to show people
:19:11. > :19:33.that corruption kills. So, they film properties belonging
:19:34. > :19:37.to officials which they believe are disproportionate in size
:19:38. > :19:39.and value to the salary officials And in this case they say the judge
:19:40. > :19:51.who lives here hasn't declared This house that costs
:19:52. > :19:56.about half a million dollars, we don't believe that she made it
:19:57. > :20:00.in lawful way, that is why we film We have come to meet the judge that
:20:01. > :20:05.campaigners are investigating. Ever since pro-European protesters
:20:06. > :20:08.forced a president who was friends with Russia from power,
:20:09. > :20:14.there has been a massive push And there is a consensus here that
:20:15. > :20:21.many of the decisions taken in the past by judges
:20:22. > :20:23.were often swayed by money Judge Malvina Danilova says she has
:20:24. > :20:34.never been involved in corruption and she claims all of her
:20:35. > :20:37.wealth is legitimate. And she argues she didn't need
:20:38. > :20:40.to declare the house filmed by campaigners because it
:20:41. > :20:43.belongs to her boyfriend. TRANSLATION: Being
:20:44. > :20:45.rich isn't a crime. I declared everything I had
:20:46. > :20:50.according to the law and I think the activists were intruding
:20:51. > :20:54.into my personal life. Do you at least think
:20:55. > :20:58.that it is good that civil society is scrutinising the wealth
:20:59. > :21:01.of public officials like you? They have branded the entire
:21:02. > :21:05.judicial system with a black mark There are a lot of clever
:21:06. > :21:11.and experienced judges. Simply dismissing everyone
:21:12. > :21:16.just wouldn't be right. So in Ukraine the judges
:21:17. > :21:20.are being judged. So is this degree of scrutiny needed
:21:21. > :21:38.to clean this country up? A pregnant giraffe,
:21:39. > :21:40.who's due to give birth at a zoo in New York State,
:21:41. > :21:43.has become an internet sensation. Managers at the Animal Adventure
:21:44. > :21:47.Park at Harpursville have set up a livestream,
:21:48. > :21:52.which we can see now, so members of the public
:21:53. > :21:55.can watch the giraffe, One problem - April doesn't
:21:56. > :22:08.seem anywhere close Her plight has attracted
:22:09. > :22:11.nearly 20 million views Let's speak to Jordan Patch
:22:12. > :22:32.the owner of the Animal Adventure How is able doing? We are doing good
:22:33. > :22:37.and she is doing well. She is doing very well. She seems to be standing
:22:38. > :22:43.around a lot, what can we expect as she starts to give birth? Bushby
:22:44. > :22:47.lying down, I have no idea. Juhasz give birth whilst standing up. A
:22:48. > :22:51.good thing about the labour process is they hide all signs of labour
:22:52. > :22:56.because the knee while they would not want predators waiting for her
:22:57. > :23:00.to become vulnerable. She's going to Mass clues labour resigns from us
:23:01. > :23:09.pretty well. In the end, what we are looking for is the baby who is
:23:10. > :23:14.starting to appear. When we see those, it will be anywhere from 30
:23:15. > :23:19.up and told 60 minutes. It is a very quick process. We are watching all
:23:20. > :23:24.of the flies. With the idea to stream this come from? We came up
:23:25. > :23:32.with the idea because many of her supporters knew she was expecting
:23:33. > :23:37.and people had been checking in to see whether or not she had given
:23:38. > :23:40.birth. We thought we would put a webcam up and allow guests to check
:23:41. > :23:47.in on her on their own. We did that and now we're receiving a lot more
:23:48. > :23:50.interest than we ever expected. You have 20 million viewers. It is just
:23:51. > :24:00.so staggering that there is that much interest. Who doesn't like
:24:01. > :24:05.giraffes? Look like that is a fair point. She is 15 years old and this
:24:06. > :24:11.is her fourth baby. She is pretty experienced. Very much so. She is an
:24:12. > :24:15.experienced mother. We are not concerned that she is taking a
:24:16. > :24:18.little bit longer than we anticipated. She knows what she is
:24:19. > :24:28.doing. We're letting nature take its course. She has never had... She has
:24:29. > :24:32.never lost a baby or had a stillborn baby, so you're pretty confident
:24:33. > :24:38.this is something that everybody can enjoy watching? Yes, absolutely. We
:24:39. > :24:44.do not anticipate any intervention needed by us or any bets. We are
:24:45. > :24:50.prepared for any offence. I will advise that in the event is an
:24:51. > :24:54.issue, we may to cut the feed to give it a relatively safe learning
:24:55. > :24:57.environment for all ages. 94 specifying that. We wish all of you
:24:58. > :25:03.the best of luck. That is fantastic. The anonymous street-artist, Banksy,
:25:04. > :25:05.has released his latest But it's completely different
:25:06. > :25:08.to anything we've seen before. This time, Banksy has designed
:25:09. > :25:11.a hotel, built along the wall that separates the Palestinians
:25:12. > :25:12.and Israelis in Bethlehem. An apparent chemical attack on east
:25:13. > :25:48.Mosul has left 12 people, Shells were fired into the east of
:25:49. > :25:57.the city. This comes as thousands of civilians continue to escape the
:25:58. > :26:01.embattled city. A recent capture by Iraqi forces has justified the group
:26:02. > :26:03.pot practice of using so-called human shields. You're watching BBC
:26:04. > :26:15.News. Good evening. The weather will be
:26:16. > :26:16.flip-flopping between sunshine and