Is about to carry out its sixth nuclear test. And 750 million miles away nasa says one of saturns moons may now be the single best place to look for life beyond earth. And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News an away goal at anderlecht, as Manchester United attempt to gain the upper hand in their Europa League Quarterfinal Tie in belgium. Good evening. Syrias President Assad says claims that his armed forces were behind a chemical weapons attack on a rebel town last week are a 100 fabrication. Instead, hes claimed america worked Hand In Glove with Terrorist Groups to stage the attack as a pretext for american Missile Strikes. And he questioned whether tv images of dead children were real. But tonight, chemical weapons investigators said allegations of a Chemical Attack last week were credible. Our middle east editor jeremy bowen has this report it contains distressing images. The attack on Khan Sheikhoun produced terrible images of children poisoned by nerve gas and Rescue Workers strugg
tonight. we re going to take you out to the scene with don lemon in a second but first let s get you up to speed. breaking news in aurora, colorado, in that movie theater shooting massacre that went down less than 24 hours ago. the largest mass shooting ever in the united states. it has shate shaken that commund stunned the country. and the world watches. at this very moment. as they ve been all day. officers with the bomb squad wearing tactical gear are surrounding what they re calling the booby trapped apartment of the accused gunman. trying not to blow up themselves and an entire neighborhood. right now we re learning a lot more about the young man who police say not only rigged that apartment with explosives but in cold blood murdered 12 people and injured 59 more. they were mothers. fathers. children. u.s. troops and students. enjoying the midnight showing of the latest batman movie the dark knight rises. when this man, james eagan holmes, dressed in riot gear, burst i
pornography. this in the hideaway of a self-described religious warrior who says the united states and the west are immoral and godless. let s assess the importance of these new revelations with michael shoier, and with our national homeland security adviser, fran townsend. michael, let me start, i guess it s no surprise that the leader of al qaeda would want the president of the united states dead. but it s startling and jolting a bit to hear what written communications, plural, in which bin laden discusses his desire to have the president of the united states assassinated? i don t think it s surprising. and i think it s probably even worse now. they ll be looking to exact an eye for an eye. i suspect the secret service is very much en garde, because obama put himself in the bull s-eye. is assassination in the playbook? bin laden was very much involved in the early 90s in yemen in arranging the assassination of socialists and marxist yemeni politician. so it s not out