home to some of the most spectacular sailing ships. we will show you the riverside view. and the continuing appeal of the roller coaster 200 years after it took to the tracks for the first time. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. syria s president assad has given his first interview since last week s suspected chemical weapons attack. he s said reports of the attack by his forces are 100% fabricated. he s also claimed that syria s military has given up all chemical weapons. so there was no order to make any attack. we don t have any chemical weapons. we gave up our arsenal two years ago. even if we had them, we wouldn t use them, and we have never used our chemical arsenal in our history. so what happened? as i said, the only source is al-qaeda. we cannot take it seriously, but our impression is that the west, mainly the united states, is hand in glove with the terrorists. the fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack. it wasn t an attack b
and in other news, life on the moon. 0r, kind of in a moon of saturn. possibly. but should we even be looking for extra terrestrials? hello. gbu as/b massive 0rd nance air blast, or moab. it s a huge bomb. and it was dropped in afghanistan earlier today, aimed at the tunnels used by the afghan branch of so called islamic state. the americans have never used a conventional weapon this powerful in combat, and given everything that has been happening in us foreign policy, it is no wonder that everybody is trying to work out what it means. now, don t fall for some of the hyperbole it s huge, but it would take more than a thousand of these to make one hiroshima. but does it tell us something about the willingness of the us military to flex its muscle in the world? i m joined by our diplomatic editor mark urban. as a bomb, is this a big threshold through which the world has passed today? i m not sure. the raf‘s grand slam that was dropped in world war ii was just slightly below
singapore, midnight in london and 7:30am in pyongyang, where speculation has been growing that north korea may be ready to carry out its sixth nuclear test, as soon as this weekend. if so, it would coincide with the anniversary of the birth of the nation s founder, kim il sung, the country s most important national holiday, also known as the day of the son. but as the world watches that, pyongyang has been putting its best foot forward for journalists. has been putting its best foot forward forjournalists. our correspondentjohn sud worth, whose movements are being monitored by authorities there, sent us this report sudworth. they poured into central pyongyang in their tens of thousands. of citizens and soldiers alike, north korea has always demanded displays of mass devotion. and, at the front of the crowd, there was kim jong un. celebrating not a missile launch or a rocket test, but the construction of pyongyang s newest street. the inauguration of a few tower blocks and
the us says a huge bomb dropped on so called islamic state militants in afghanistan on so called islamic state was the right weapon against the right target . president trump authorised the use of the weapon, known as the mother of all bombs, the use of the weapon, for the attack in which 36 militants were killed. the commander of us forces in afghanistan, generaljohn nicholson, forces in afghanistan, said it has been carried out in coordination with the government in kabul. in coordination with the former afghan president hamid karzai has condemned the attack. here s our security correspondent frank gardner. a correspondent frank gardner. remote valley in a re dentists. a remote valley in a remote country. dentists. 11 tonnes of high explosive. on an ice is complex in afghanistan. the blast was felt 30 miles away. the weapon used is called a massive ordnance airburst, also known as the mother of all bombs. this was its first time used in combat. this was the right weapon ag
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the us says a huge bomb dropped on so called islamic state militants in afghanistan was the right weapon against the right target . president trump authorised the use of the weapon known as the mother of all bombs for the attack in which 36 militants were killed. the commander of us forces in afghanistan generaljohn nicholson said it had been carried out in coordination with the government in kabul. the former afghan president hamid karzai has condemned the attack. here s our security correspondent frank gardner. a remote valley in a remote country. 11 tonnes of high explosive. on an isis tunnel complex in afghanistan. the blast was felt 30 miles away. the weapon used is called a massive ordnance airburst, also known as the mother of all bombs. this was its first time used in combat. this was the right weapon against the right target. we will continue to work shoulder to shoulder with our afghan comrades. to eliminate this threat