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