:00:00. > :00:12.America defends its decision to drop a huge bomb on Islamic State
:00:13. > :00:14.militants in Afghanistan, and says the operation
:00:15. > :00:26.The enemy had created tunnels and extensive minefields and this weapon
:00:27. > :00:29.was used to reduce those obstacles. Another battle against IS -
:00:30. > :00:31.Iraqi forces meet fierce resistance as they close
:00:32. > :00:35.in on the Old City of Mosul. Is North Korea's leader preparing
:00:36. > :00:40.for another nuclear missile test? China warns tensions
:00:41. > :00:43.are so high conflict And Canada is a step closer
:00:44. > :00:49.to legalising cannabis It was the right
:00:50. > :01:14.weapon for the target. America's most senior military
:01:15. > :01:17.commander in Afghanistan has defended the decision to drop a huge
:01:18. > :01:20.bomb on Islamic State militants in a remote area
:01:21. > :01:27.in the east of the country. This is the first time the US
:01:28. > :01:30.has deployed in combat the Massive Ordinance
:01:31. > :01:36.Air Blast bomb, referred to as 'the
:01:37. > :01:38.Mother of All Bombs'. The Afghan government
:01:39. > :01:39.says 36 militants were killed and no civilians,
:01:40. > :01:41.although the Islamic State A remote valley in a room or
:01:42. > :01:51.country. 11 tonnes of high explosive
:01:52. > :01:55.dropped on an Isis tunnel complex in the mountains
:01:56. > :01:57.of eastern Afghanistan. The weapon used is called a BOAB
:01:58. > :02:05.or a massive ordnance air burst, also known as
:02:06. > :02:07.the mother of all bombs. This was its first
:02:08. > :02:10.time used in combat. This was the right weapon
:02:11. > :02:17.against the right target. We will continue to work shoulder
:02:18. > :02:20.to shoulder with our Afghan comrades to eliminate this threat
:02:21. > :02:23.to the Afghan people, especially the people
:02:24. > :02:26.in Kandahar and the people in the entire region and the people
:02:27. > :02:29.around the world. Local villagers confirmed that Isis
:02:30. > :02:33.fighters had set up bases in the mountains behind them
:02:34. > :02:36.and said the bomb had hit its target, but the strike
:02:37. > :02:40.was condemned by so-called Islamic State
:02:41. > :02:49.and the Afghan former president. How could the United States
:02:50. > :02:51.use Afghanistan as its For testing weapons of mass
:02:52. > :03:00.destruction on our soil? President Trump's targets now
:03:01. > :03:04.include three major problem areas for the US, Afghanistan,
:03:05. > :03:07.Syria and North Korea. The massive weapon that the Pentagon
:03:08. > :03:12.has used in Afghanistan has intended to send a message
:03:13. > :03:15.to its enemies, you're not safe In Syria, the Trump Administration
:03:16. > :03:23.will be hoping that that last week's cruise missile strike will deter
:03:24. > :03:25.President Assad from any further Mr Trump is hoping sending this
:03:26. > :03:35.powerful naval armada off shore will deter
:03:36. > :03:38.further nuclear tests. The question is can you manage
:03:39. > :03:40.three global crisis It is very possible that if these
:03:41. > :03:45.three scenarios come together, Syria, Afghanistan and
:03:46. > :03:47.North Korea, that it would overwhelm the policy-making capabilities
:03:48. > :03:54.of Mr Trump's Administration. planning capabilities
:03:55. > :03:58.of the Pentagon and it resource capabilities
:03:59. > :04:00.of the US military. President Trump and his entourage
:04:01. > :04:03.now feel they are on a roll, tackling head on the foreign
:04:04. > :04:06.policy challenges the previous administration was
:04:07. > :04:14.unable to resolve. There is now the risk that racking
:04:15. > :04:17.up the rhetoric could lead America into new conflict or in the absence
:04:18. > :04:20.of any swift resolutions, Mr Trump will turn his back on foreign
:04:21. > :04:23.adventures and focus instead on Joining me from our Washington
:04:24. > :04:31.studio is Doctor Kamran Bokhari from George Washington University's
:04:32. > :04:40.Program on Extremism. Thank you for joining us. Let's
:04:41. > :04:46.start with the ball itself. The general described this as the right
:04:47. > :04:53.weapon for the target. What do you make of this? I think that is pretty
:04:54. > :04:58.accurate. He would not be using a $15 million a piece weapon
:04:59. > :05:03.frivolously. Or just to send a message or Telegraph something to
:05:04. > :05:06.the North Koreans or the Russians. I think there was significant
:05:07. > :05:11.intelligence about the identity of the people who were in this complex.
:05:12. > :05:18.That they were high level operatives of Isis and there is the logistics.
:05:19. > :05:23.What kind of weapon will be used in a decisive strike and lead to the
:05:24. > :05:28.outcome that is desired? How significant was the target area? We
:05:29. > :05:31.are talking about 300 metre long network of caves and tunnels. How
:05:32. > :05:39.significant was that link this location? -- heading this location?
:05:40. > :05:47.We do not have much intelligence on it but if the decision was taken to
:05:48. > :05:54.use this weapon, it means that there was a significant complex that could
:05:55. > :06:01.not be taken out by any other weapon, at least not in a decisive
:06:02. > :06:04.weight. Of course the people inside were not low level operatives, they
:06:05. > :06:12.had to be senior officials who were actually involved in the planning of
:06:13. > :06:16.attacks on other countries. Let's focus on those operatives, Isis has
:06:17. > :06:23.been operating in Afghanistan since 2015. We know so much about them in
:06:24. > :06:29.Iraq and Syria. We have to keep in mind that Isis did not walk or
:06:30. > :06:35.travel from its core car to Afghanistan. The Isis in
:06:36. > :06:38.Afghanistan, like any other country, Bangladesh or somewhere in Africa,
:06:39. > :06:44.consists of local actors who have joined Isis on their own. They were
:06:45. > :06:51.there and they had their own presence. They just switched sides.
:06:52. > :06:56.They were likely former Taliban or I chi leader. Or both. They had the
:06:57. > :07:04.wherewithal to support the Isis cause. -- Al-Qaeda leader. Isis may
:07:05. > :07:08.have given them some assistance. Therefore, this is a formidable
:07:09. > :07:14.presence. They have demonstrated their ability to target capital. If
:07:15. > :07:19.you have the intelligence, you do not sit on it, you act on it. A lot
:07:20. > :07:25.is being said about Donald Trump cosmic strategy or a lack of it. --
:07:26. > :07:30.Donald Trump's strategy or a lack of it. Is there is strategy or are
:07:31. > :07:35.these one of strikes? We talk about strategy. We have to keep in mind
:07:36. > :07:39.that a change in Government, in terms of the new political party
:07:40. > :07:44.taking office or new head of state, does not mean there will be a new
:07:45. > :07:48.strategy. Yes, there will be new ideas that will be brought to the
:07:49. > :07:52.table through the new staff of the president trying to deal with the
:07:53. > :07:55.same problems that their predecessors were struggling with.
:07:56. > :08:00.That's something to bear in mind when we talk about strategy. At this
:08:01. > :08:08.point, there is no good strategy. There are a set of options that most
:08:09. > :08:13.of them are on it a sliding scale of bad to worse. This is a very
:08:14. > :08:17.difficult situation and it does not matter whether Trump is in office or
:08:18. > :08:22.if Hillary Clinton had been collected, she would have faced the
:08:23. > :08:29.same problem. You take it one day at the time and hence the one off
:08:30. > :08:36.strikes and you deal with it not in a... But in a fashion that makes
:08:37. > :08:41.sense for the reality on the ground as it falls. A sliding scale of bad
:08:42. > :08:43.to worse. We are going to leave it there but thank you very much for
:08:44. > :08:46.your expertise. Let's turn to Iraq now
:08:47. > :08:48.where government forces are also Iraqi authorities have told
:08:49. > :08:52.the residents of Mosul to remain indoors as security forces begin
:08:53. > :08:54.encircling the Old City, before Our Defence Correspondent Jonathan
:08:55. > :09:09.Beale reports from the front line. The old city of Mosul
:09:10. > :09:12.and its most famous landmark, the leaning minaret
:09:13. > :09:17.of the Al Nuri Mosque. This is where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
:09:18. > :09:24.where first appeared as leader of the so-called
:09:25. > :09:28.Islamic State. They still control it,
:09:29. > :09:30.most of what you can see. We know the enemy is weak
:09:31. > :09:42.and on its last legs. A visit to the front line, though,
:09:43. > :09:50.tells a different story. For the past few weeks,
:09:51. > :09:52.the Iraqi advance Well, these the federal police
:09:53. > :10:00.are surrounded on two sides by IS and they are firing
:10:01. > :10:09.on their positions. The IS snipers just
:10:10. > :10:11.10 metres from this You can see the rounds,
:10:12. > :10:16.the IS rounds coming in here pretty Tens of thousands of civilians
:10:17. > :10:24.are still trapped, caught Much of Mosul has already
:10:25. > :10:28.been turned to rubble. Even in these deserted
:10:29. > :10:38.streets, recently secured,
:10:39. > :10:44.there is just the debris of war. Here discarded IS uniforms
:10:45. > :10:46.and nearby one of But the enemy is not
:10:47. > :10:51.just hiding in the city. We joined an Iraqi intelligence
:10:52. > :10:53.unit hunting down IS infiltrators and collaborators
:10:54. > :10:57.who have already escaped. Now seeking shelter
:10:58. > :11:00.and avoiding capture in camps, living alongside
:11:01. > :11:11.the innocents of this war
:11:12. > :11:13.who fled the fighting. In the camp or in his
:11:14. > :11:28.house, in Mosul. The extremists may be
:11:29. > :11:33.losing their grip on Mosul, but even if they are defeated,
:11:34. > :11:41.IS will not have gone away. North Korea has vowed to mount
:11:42. > :11:44.a "merciless" response to any US provocation following comments
:11:45. > :11:49.from President Donald Trump that the isolated regime's nuclear
:11:50. > :11:51.weapons programme "will be dealt Meanwhile, Pyongyang
:11:52. > :11:55.is thought to be preparing parade tomorrow at which its latest
:11:56. > :12:00.missile technology Our reporter John Sudworth
:12:01. > :12:04.is with a group of foreign journalists invited
:12:05. > :12:10.to witness the event. In North Korea, the spectre of war
:12:11. > :12:19.looms large over daily life. These girls are singing
:12:20. > :12:24.about being soldiers. While, not far away,
:12:25. > :12:27.real ones crowd into a shrine to the country's founding president,
:12:28. > :12:33.General Kim Il-sung. These are scenes akin
:12:34. > :12:47.to a religious pilgrimage. But of course in honour
:12:48. > :12:50.of a still ruling family their disposal all of the myths that
:12:51. > :12:54.would rival any of the world's great And as the country prepares
:12:55. > :13:03.to display its devotion at the anniversary of Kim Il-Sung's
:13:04. > :13:12.birth this weekend there is an awareness of the rising
:13:13. > :13:21.tension with America. If we do not have
:13:22. > :13:24.the nuclear weapons, the nuclear weapons of another
:13:25. > :13:27.country will come on our soil. It doesn't matter whether Americans,
:13:28. > :13:30.they make the situation on It doesn't matter, we feel safe
:13:31. > :13:33.because we have the great This week, the current ruler
:13:34. > :13:57.Kim Jong-un held this meeting where his late
:13:58. > :13:59.grandfather was honoured. He is also thought to be
:14:00. > :14:01.planning a massive military parade as a powerful tribute
:14:02. > :14:03.and a message of defiance. This is a country where
:14:04. > :14:06.art and armaments are blended in singular purpose,
:14:07. > :14:08.to demonstrate to the watching world that its nuclear ambitions
:14:09. > :14:14.will not be stopped. Let's bring you up-to-date with some
:14:15. > :14:16.of the other news. A vigil is being held in Lagos
:14:17. > :14:19.to mark the three years since the mass abduction of more
:14:20. > :14:26.than 270 schoolgirls Rallies have also been held to urge
:14:27. > :14:31.the government to increase Most of the girls who were abducted
:14:32. > :14:36.from the town of Chibok A Japanese woman who murdered three
:14:37. > :14:42.lovers faces execution after the Supreme Court
:14:43. > :14:44.rejected her final appeal. Kanae Kijima poisoned all three men
:14:45. > :14:46.with carbon monoxide after giving It could take years for the hanging
:14:47. > :14:58.of Kijima, who has married twice since being caught,
:14:59. > :15:00.to be carried out. New Zealand is cleaning up
:15:01. > :15:02.after avoiding the worst of a powerful storm that swept
:15:03. > :15:05.across the country. Cyclone Cook caused landslides,
:15:06. > :15:06.uprooted trees,forced road closures and left thousands
:15:07. > :15:08.of homes without power. But the storm moved quickly down
:15:09. > :15:11.the country, easing fears of prolonged rain
:15:12. > :15:32.flooding low-lying areas. Several thousand people have
:15:33. > :15:34.been evacuated from four Ben James has been following this
:15:35. > :15:40.story and reports from Beirut. Ready to move after
:15:41. > :15:42.a series of delays. Ambulances and buses are taking
:15:43. > :15:45.civilians and fighters from the Foua and Kefraya are
:15:46. > :15:49.held by the government. Another, Zabadani,
:15:50. > :15:56.is also part of the deal. It is thought people
:15:57. > :15:58.there will begin to be moved All four towns have been
:15:59. > :16:02.under siege for more than But many people did not
:16:03. > :16:05.want to leave their homes. We do know know what
:16:06. > :16:11.to say at this time. You feel like you're
:16:12. > :16:13.leaving your land. We are leaving our lives,
:16:14. > :16:15.our hopes our future, our memories, The UN has described
:16:16. > :16:18.the humanitarian situation as Activists shared footage last year
:16:19. > :16:22.that appears to show people eating grass and leaves
:16:23. > :16:28.from trees to survive. People from the Government towns
:16:29. > :16:38.were taken to this opposition held area near Aleppo,
:16:39. > :16:40.ahead of their onward journey. Critics say starvation is being used
:16:41. > :16:43.as a tactic to force deals like this and redraw
:16:44. > :16:46.the sectarian map of Syria in the President Assad insists he sees
:16:47. > :16:55.the movement as temporary. It is expected 30,000 people will be
:16:56. > :16:58.moved in this latest deal, the largest
:16:59. > :17:02.of its kind so far. Police in Israel say a Palestinian
:17:03. > :17:04.man has fatally stabbed a British The attack took place
:17:05. > :17:10.near the Old City where Christians The violence occurred at a time
:17:11. > :17:18.of heightened security because of the Jewish Passover
:17:19. > :17:21.holiday and the Christian Easter. Our correspondent Tom
:17:22. > :17:23.Bateman has the details. The police and the security agency
:17:24. > :17:28.Shin Bet here have said that it was a 57-year-old man who lived
:17:29. > :17:30.in a Palestinian neighbourhood east They say he has been recently
:17:31. > :17:40.released from a psychiatric hospital and suggested he had
:17:41. > :17:42.previous criminal convictions. That may shed some light
:17:43. > :17:45.at the early stage of this investigation
:17:46. > :17:51.as to what went on. In terms of this attack
:17:52. > :17:54.itself, we know that this woman was attacked
:17:55. > :17:55.on It was running on part
:17:56. > :18:01.of the line just outside Jerusalem's old city when this woman
:18:02. > :18:03.was repeatedly stabbed this morning. There was an attempt
:18:04. > :18:06.to resuscitate her and Two other people were much
:18:07. > :18:10.less seriously hurt. A 30-year-old woman who is pregnant
:18:11. > :18:17.and a 50-year-old man. It seems either in
:18:18. > :18:19.a panic to get away when the tram stopped,
:18:20. > :18:21.perhaps rather suddenly. Some more details are now
:18:22. > :18:27.emerging about this. heightened security at this time
:18:28. > :18:33.of year in Jerusalem, with authorities aware of
:18:34. > :18:40.the fact that many more It is the Jewish Passover week
:18:41. > :18:45.which means many people in the old city itself and Christian pilgrims
:18:46. > :18:58.heading for Easter festivities, too. And has been hurled. Blasphemy is
:18:59. > :19:05.punishable by death in Pakistan but the incident has shocked many. A
:19:06. > :19:12.quiet dignified funeral begins for a young student whose life was so
:19:13. > :19:17.brutally brought to an end. His father buries his son. The latest
:19:18. > :19:25.victim to be accused of larceny and then curled in Pakistan. -- killed.
:19:26. > :19:35.In this country, there is no freedom of expression. We have killed my son
:19:36. > :19:41.and then left the blame on him. I am his father. He used to sit at home
:19:42. > :19:46.and speak lovingly about the message of Prophet Muhammad. He had been
:19:47. > :19:51.studying at the University. Yesterday, a mob of hundreds of
:19:52. > :19:56.young men rampaged through the campus, accusing him of spreading
:19:57. > :20:02.blasphemy on line. This is his room where he tried to hide from the mob.
:20:03. > :20:05.You can still see on the walls philosophical quotes he had written
:20:06. > :20:13.up. From his Windows years he would have seen the mob as they came down
:20:14. > :20:18.the path. -- window here. Eventually, they found him. They
:20:19. > :20:24.kicked him and beat him and shot him. They dragged him downstairs and
:20:25. > :20:30.continued to beat him. All films on video is too horrific to show. Long
:20:31. > :20:35.after he was dead, they continued to attack his body. They wanted to set
:20:36. > :20:41.his dead body ablaze but the police took action and his dead body was
:20:42. > :20:47.protected. The university has been closed indefinitely and a number of
:20:48. > :20:51.arrests have been made. Close to 70 people have been murdered in
:20:52. > :20:55.Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy in the past years. This
:20:56. > :21:02.has shocked many but there has not been the outrage from Government
:21:03. > :21:07.officials one might expect. I want justice for my country and I want it
:21:08. > :21:13.so that nothing like this happens to any other child. They did not just
:21:14. > :21:18.attack my son but by doing it in the university, the challenge the state.
:21:19. > :21:26.The state should ensure justice. -- ensure justice. He described himself
:21:27. > :21:33.as a humanist. Many are sharing his writings on line.
:21:34. > :21:41.Police in Italy have arrested a Mafia boss who absconded from prison
:21:42. > :21:49.last year. He had been serving a life sentence for murder and drug
:21:50. > :21:51.trafficking. Police followed his wife and spotted him preparing a
:21:52. > :22:01.barbecue outside a flat in Tuscany. The Canadian Government has
:22:02. > :22:06.introduced legislation that would legalise marijuana next year. It
:22:07. > :22:08.would become only the second country after you require it to legalise the
:22:09. > :22:26.drug as a consumer product. On Thursday at the Prime Minister
:22:27. > :22:30.fulfilled his campaign promise and introduced legislation to legalise
:22:31. > :22:36.marijuana in the name of safety. If your objective is to protect public
:22:37. > :22:43.health and safety and keep cannabis out of the hands of miners and stop
:22:44. > :22:48.the flow of profits to illegal crime, then the law that stands
:22:49. > :22:51.today has been an abject failure. The Government says its plan to
:22:52. > :22:57.regulate the sale of marijuana will keep kids away from it and stop
:22:58. > :23:02.money going to organised criminals. The proposed legislation which has
:23:03. > :23:06.introduced today seeks to legalise, strictly regulate and restrict
:23:07. > :23:12.access to cannabis and it will make Canada safer. It will impose serious
:23:13. > :23:18.criminal penalties that provide cannabis to young people, create an
:23:19. > :23:25.illegal market to cannabis and it will protect public health through
:23:26. > :23:31.strict requirements for safety and quality. It would set the minimum
:23:32. > :23:39.legal age for use at 13. Individual Robinsons will be able to raise the
:23:40. > :23:44.age. -- regions. They will be able to possess 30 grams of dried
:23:45. > :23:49.marijuana. There will be tougher penalties for selling to miners and
:23:50. > :23:54.harsher penalties for those using cannabis and driving. Crossing the
:23:55. > :23:59.US border after smoking pot, there are still some areas that need
:24:00. > :24:03.ironing out. Every Saltburn country has the ability to make the
:24:04. > :24:09.decisions for themselves. -- Saltburn country. It should be
:24:10. > :24:25.decided by Canada day. More and more companies are being
:24:26. > :24:33.encouraged to bring their pet to work. What are the pitfalls? My
:24:34. > :24:39.colleague has been finding out. Brooke, Reggie Max and Peggy our
:24:40. > :24:45.office buddies. The foreign's pets at work scheme has proved so popular
:24:46. > :24:49.that 100 dogs will have passed an assessment to gain their own staff
:24:50. > :24:53.passed by the end of the year. People did wonder how many dogs
:24:54. > :24:58.would be coming into the office and whether we would have large numbers
:24:59. > :25:04.roaming the office. On any given day, we have a total of 25 dogs in
:25:05. > :25:08.an office of 1000 people and it is very rare to hear a dog bark in the
:25:09. > :25:14.office but they are there if you want to go and find one to pet. We
:25:15. > :25:18.do not just relieve stress and help build office camaraderie. It has
:25:19. > :25:22.helped to meet make friends. They come and talk to me. They do not
:25:23. > :25:27.know my name but the note my dog. What about that time when she needs
:25:28. > :25:33.to go to the toilet? She starts to get up and places a little bit. We
:25:34. > :25:39.have had the odd accident in the past. Dog daycare is ?30 a day and I
:25:40. > :25:44.have three of them. For me it is a big saving. Have there ever been any
:25:45. > :25:49.other fall outs with any other dogs? Not that I have seen. They love
:25:50. > :25:57.chasing each other around the park and the odd bar. A good idea or a
:25:58. > :26:01.bad idea? I am going to regret asking. Tell
:26:02. > :26:17.A cloudy day across parts of the country. Some rain as well. A fresh
:26:18. > :26:18.feel to the