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This is BBC World News Today Reporting from Washington, | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
President Trump's rhetoric in action - Russia condemns US air strikes | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
in Syria and promises to strengthen the country's air defence systems. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
A barrage of tomahawk missiles hits Syria's second largest airbase - | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
from where the chemical weapons attack's believed | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Tonight, I call on all civilized nations join us in seeking | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
The dramatic reversal of his previous policy | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
on Syria eclipses the visit of China's President Xi - | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
At least three people are killed and many injured as a lorry ploughs | :00:51. | :01:15. | |
into showers in the Swedish capital Stockholm. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
I could see bodies lying in the street and I could see the police | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
covering a body with a orange blanket. | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
The first American military strike against President Assad's regime - | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
With much of the west lining up behind Washington - | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
and President Trump's apparent restoration of the US | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
being the world's policeman - Russia has condemned the attack | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
as an "act of aggression against a sovereign nation". | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
President Trump authorised the missile strike on the Shayrat | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
air base, from where it's believed this week's deadly | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
chemical weapons attack in northern Syria was launched. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Nine civilians, including four children, and seven soldiers | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Our north America editor Jon Sopel reports on the strike and what it | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
says about a dramatic change in the Trump administration's | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
It was after dark on the east coast of America and before the sun had | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
risen in the Middle East when the commander in | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
From two US war ships, a volley of cruise missiles | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
were fired at a military air base, that has been used, say | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
the Americans, to launch the chemical weapons attack on Idlib. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
It is in the vital security interest of the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
United States to prevent and to deter the spread and use of deadly | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
There can be no dispute that Syria used banned | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
weapons convention and ignored the urging | :03:04. | :03:04. | |
The grotesque after-effects of the attack, the United States believe | :03:05. | :03:22. | |
a nerve agent was used, horrified the world and | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
A line had been crossed and unlike his | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Assad choked the lives of men, women and children. | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
It was a slow and brutal death for so many. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
No child of God should ever suffer such horror. | :03:49. | :04:03. | |
What is astonishing is the speed with which this administration has | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
changed its policy to Syria and decided to act. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
At the start of week, President Trump saw Bashar | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
al-Assad as a useful ally against Islamic State. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
But the chemical weapons attack changed everything and | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
within two days, targets had been identified and struck. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Here is what we know about the attack. | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
59 Tomahawk missiles were issued from the eastern Med. | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
It is deep in government-held territory. | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
Targets included, aircraft, fuel depots and radar. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
Because Russian forces are also at the base, Russia | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
was informed of the attack in advance. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
The aftermath shows damage at the base, but hardly devastation. | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
The Pentagon said it didn't target the runways, | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
the aim was to destroy the infrastructure that allows the base | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
to function and the attack has brought the president support. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
The president was authorised to conduct | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
the strike, he is not asking for a declaration of war, | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
he was dealing with circumstances and as | :05:22. | :05:35. | |
the commander in chief not only did he have the right, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Despite the enthusiasm we can see, to quote Churchill, it is | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
the end of the beginning not the beginning of the end. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Donald Trump who didn't want to get embroiled in | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
foreign conflict has just ordered US forces | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
address last night he didn't sound like an isolationist. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Good night and God bless America and the entire world. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
The president, not yet 100 days in, has travelled a | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Our Correspondent, Barbara Plett Usher is in Florida | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
where President Trump is meeting the Chinese President Xi Jinping. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
Dramatic reversal of strategy. Also potentially, Barbara, in message | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
that won't be lost on his guest for the past few days. Now, I suppose | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
not in the sense that President Trump are strong that he is ready | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
and willing to use military force when he feels he needs to and there | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
is a discussion about a potential conflict with the Chinese offered | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
effective North Korea. President Trump has sounded at times quite | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
bellicose about North Korea suggesting even obliquely that they | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
might be willing to oblige a creative strike. I would be careful | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
about comparisons. It had a particular objective about deserving | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
observing chemical weapons. North Korea would be a vastly different | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
situation. The risks are in love -- are a lot higher. The risks of war | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
are quite high. It would be quite destructive. The message is that Mr | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Trump is prepared to be militarily when he feels it's necessary and | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
possible. Drawing comparisons between different conflict zones is | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
not the correct way to see it. The United States has said it | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
could take further military action against the Syrian government | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
after firing missiles at a Syrian airbase, from which Washington | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
believes a chemical weapons Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan's | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
on Capitol Hill, where Senators have The senators have just about | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
everything when they receive more detail on the strike last night. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Possible next steps. I've only spoken to one senator that was | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
completely opposed to what happened. He is a Republican from Kentucky's | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
Angie says that the president should always get authorisation from | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
Congress before lodging in military strike. I have been taking the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
temperature on both sides of the aisle. I asked for reaction to last | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
night 's right. What we know happened here was for the second | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
time and probably multiple other times. Is that basically killed | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
thousands of people, little children, Jordan to death on glass. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Defence who responded in this way and simply went after the field from | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
from which these chemicals were lodged was the right thing to do. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
She made the point that a number of lawmakers have been making the same | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
point that they must be consulted if the west escalate the conflict. I've | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
also spoken to any Republican senator who was very critical last | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
week when it seemed that members of the Trump administration were | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
suggesting that it was a political reality that President Assad would | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
stay in office and he said to me that he is worried about the wider | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
Middle East strategy from the White House. My concern is that the banner | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
demonstration and the first months of the club administration, there | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
hasn't been a clear strategy from either Eddie Obama or from | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
administration. We need to address some of the specific issues, whether | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
it is Aleppo, the chemical attacks or whether it is the migration flows | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
that have affected your work, Turkey and Jordan and other allies. -- | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
affected Europe. It has been hailed as a critical first step and asking | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
what the administration will do next. The big question is what is | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
the next strategy? Russia, which supports | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
President Assad, has reacted angrily - | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
accusing the United States There would be negative | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
consequences, it said, the US strike, according | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
to Prime Minister Medvedev, "on the verge of engaging | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
in military encounters with Russia". Moscow also accused President Trump | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
of damaging the fight against terrorism and so-called | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Islamic State group in Syria. Our Moscow Correspondent, | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
Steve Rosenberg, has this report Until recently, the Russian | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
media have been singing Today, state TV accused him | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
of an unprovoked show of force with the missile strike he ordered | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
on a civilian air base. Moscow said it was a gross, | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
groundless violation It's definitely an aggressive act | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
against international law, against a sovereign country, | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
and without any true evidence of the Assad regime | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
using chemical weapons. It is Russian military | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
power that's been keeping Russia's air force and navy | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
is helping Syria's leader turn the tide of the country's civil war | :11:26. | :11:39. | |
and boosting Moscow's Today, the Kremlin accused | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
Washington of inventing a pretext Those American Tomahawks may have | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
been targeting the Syrian military, but judging by what the Kremlin has | :11:46. | :11:58. | |
been saying, it's US-Russia relations that will take | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
a real battering out as a result The Russians had been hoping | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
that with Donald Trump in the White House relations | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
with America would improve. So far, there's been | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
no sign of that. Today, Moscow suspended a deal | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
designed to prevent incidents between US and Russian | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
warplanes over Syria. Which means that we have two big | :12:15. | :12:26. | |
military powers in the area operating without any contact | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
and any coordination, The Russians are hoping that this US | :12:30. | :12:30. | |
strike was a one-off, but tonight, they are strengthening air defence | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
systems across Syria, just in case. Until this week's chemical | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
attack in northern Syria, President Trump had appeared set | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
against any intervention against Our Middle East Editor, | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Jeremy Bowen, reports now on the implications of the US strike | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
for the six-year Syrian war. The war crime that killed so many | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
in a village pushed the Americans The long-term impact | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
on the war itself depends More chemical attacks would provoke | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
a tougher American response. But the US might accept a return | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
to conventional killing. The Syrian regime denies it has ever | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
used chemical weapons. I think President Trump himself | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
knows that Syria did not use any chemical weapons, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
it does not have any chemical weapons, as it has given | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
all its stock pile too the international organisation | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
responsible for that. The Americans say they have clear | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
that the proof that the Syrian forces carried out war crimes, | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
they're certain of that, that is why they carried | :13:45. | :13:56. | |
out this raid. 14 years after the invasion of Iraq, | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
we see Iraq has been destroyed. Syria is the second secular state | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
after Iraq that is being targeted by the west, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
simply because it is secular and it has an army and it is against | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
the Israeli occupation of Palestine. In one of the Damascus suburbs, | :14:11. | :14:27. | |
people stopped believing the regime years ago and want more military | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
action from the Americans. TRANSLATION: We hope that any | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
foreign intervention will be an intervention to bring an end | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
to the suffering of the Syrian TRANSLATION: The solution | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
is for the Assad regime The end of massacres, | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
the end of targeting of civilians. A reason why the war is so hard | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
to stop is that so many With different interests | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
and objectives. President Assad's main allies | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
are Russia and Iran. These days the rebels still fighting | :14:59. | :15:12. | |
the regime are mainly Some approved by the west and some | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
are jihadists. There is also the war | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
against so-called Islamic State. Think of it all as | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
layers of conflict. And sometimes they intersect | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
and now Donald Trump has The events at Khan Sheikhoun | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
and the US response will force the Syrian regime to take | :15:35. | :15:50. | |
American threats more seriously, Force equals influence in Syria | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
and more foreign intervention I'm joined now by former | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
State Department official Vali Nasr, who is now dean | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
of the Johns Hopkins School What does this tell us about | :16:03. | :16:15. | |
President Trump's international doctrine? Driven on a motion? It's | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
driven on domestic consideration. He had no option to act on the red line | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
that President Obama didn't because otherwise he would be accused of | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
being no different than President Obama. He has found that his America | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
first strategy does not work and he is acting as the policeman of the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
world and gone back to the of the United states upholding | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
international law. This was a one-off strike. What happens if | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
another chemical attack or another atrocity? He has said -- set the | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
precedent. He is also already crossed the line in which he now | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
owns this conflict more than he did before. His allies in the Middle | :17:08. | :17:21. | |
East, it be expected that the US will set order in Syria. The problem | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
with President Trump is that he's never said what is interested in | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
Syria. The consequences of this in terms of blowback potentially, the | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
relations with Russia, they are now dead, I do? They are not where they | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
were. The two may find a way to get back to the middle but the Russians | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
are clearly not happy with any American action in serve that would | :17:53. | :18:02. | |
chose injury week or forced the Russians to reassert their imperial | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
grandeur. This is viewed as a challenge and they would have to | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
react. He might have a cycle that reflect itself in Ukraine and | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
elsewhere as well. -- you might have a cycle. This is a man who many | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
pupils are at an amateur. Now he looks like a world leader. He is | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
eclipsing some domestic problems. We always knew he was decisive. He was | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
decidedly non-in favour of intervention. | :18:39. | :18:51. | |
This has forced in this direction. Asset created a situation in which | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Trump could not say no to the general is already traditional | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
foreign policy people. We should not offer a bridge into this. Trump was | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
not driven by the facts or conflict by what it would mean domestic | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
league defeated the same as what President Obama did. Russia, Iran | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
are completely against him and the coalition behind. Russia and Iran | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
are supporters of assets. Even if they think that President Assad | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
roentgen four and jeopardise their position, they still cannot publicly | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
criticise the other or condone any American punishment of Assad. | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
Privately, I suspect they are pretty furious with Assad. | :19:45. | :19:45. | |
You can get much more on the US attack on Syria | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
on the BBC News website, but now it's back to | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
London where Kasia has the rest of the day's news. | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
One other story dominating the news today - | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
a lorry has been driven into a crowd of pedestrians in Stockholm, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
killing at least three people and injuring many others. | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
The Swedish Prime Minister said everything suggested | :20:02. | :20:02. | |
The incident happened outside a department store on a busy | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
pedestrian shopping street at around two o'clock local time. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
The driver of the truck is still at large and police | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, has the latest. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
A moment of panic in a peaceful city. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
This was Stockholm this afternoon, as people fled in terror | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
from a truck which appeared to drive deliberately into crowds of shoppers | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
TRANSLATION: I saw exactly where the lorry went in, just there. | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
There wasn't much of a reaction, then the police arrived. | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
The police just said, you have to run. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
Initial reports said two people were killed, | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
then at least three, and several injured. | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
Stockholm has seen nothing like this for years. | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
The truck crashed into a department store and caught fire. | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
The brewery company that owned it said a man hijacked it | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
You could actually see bodies lying on the street and I could see | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
the police covering the body with an orange blanket. | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
There were lots of police around, lots of people standing around | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
There was a lady laying with a severed foot, | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
there was blood everywhere, there were bodies on | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
People standing by their loved ones, but also people running away. | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
The Swedish authorities say they had no warning of this attack. | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
The question now is, who did it and why? | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
The police have issued these pictures of a man | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
they want to question, while the Prime Minister says Sweden | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
TRANSLATION: The government is informed of the situation | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
We support all the authorities that are working on this, | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
and we are asking the public to be alert and listen to police advice. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
At least two people are dead and our thoughts are with their families. | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Whoever was behind today's attack, this has been a huge shock, | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
not just for Sweden, but for all of Scandinavia. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Security is now being tightened in neighbouring Norway and Finland. | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
Already, some are saying this has been a wake-up call. | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
Our correspondent, Maddy Savage, is live at the scene of the attack | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
He can speak to the former Prime Minister of Sweden. Sweden is in | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
shock. Do you have any indication as to who is behind this? No, nothing. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
The police are searching for that. There are right behind me. Along the | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
pedestrian street, where the man was driving before he crashed into the | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
department store. I think we will just have to wait for the police to | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
do their work and eventually find out who was responsible. We.... The | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
cover and Swedish minister has said that everything poised to visiting | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
an act of terrorism. Do you agree? Yes, certainly. We saw this pattern | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
in Berlin and London. A single man. Hijacking a lorry and driving into | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
pedestrians with a clear intention of killing as many as possible. That | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
is what we call terrorism. Is Sweden prepare for some thing like this? We | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
live in the world where we live but no one has been killed by terrorists | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
in this city since 1975. That was the German terrorist blowing up the | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
embassy. We had a man who attempted to do suicide attack in virtually | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
the same area in December, 2010. He ended up just blowing up himself. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Apart from that, the other chapters. Swedish people know the world in | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
which we live because of the media. Because of these particular types of | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
attacks, it is difficult to guard yourself. Our security correspondent | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
has been to Sweden and says there is not the same sense of security you | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
have in the centre of London, not as many crash barriers and not as much | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
CCTV. You think that'll after these events? London is unique with all of | :24:46. | :24:58. | |
the CCTV, because of the IRA. Whether that will change, I don't | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
know. There are privacy issues on board with that as well. Clearly, | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
they will have to be a review of whether anything further can be | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
done. Pedestrians are ever cars everywhere, the sorts of things are | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
very, very difficult to have 100% guarantee against. Slowly the public | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
transport is becoming operational again. The subway is cleared and | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
beginning to open. Life is beginning to return to normal. Yes, the | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
reaction in the street is immediately after attack and has | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
been amazingly calm. There has been an amount of time while. When you | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
close down the subway system and worldly system, this prevents | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
anybody from running away primarily. Apologies recording of blood were | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
out of time. -- apologies for cutting you off but we are running | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
out of time. That's all from the problem. | :26:04. | :26:05. |