Vin diesel returns for the eighth installment in the Fast And Furious series. Film criticjames king gives us his verdict on this and the rest of the weeks Cinema Releases. Our main story at 5 the Afghan Government says 36 militants from the so called Islamic State group were killed when the United States dropped one of its biggest non Nuclear Bombs in the Eastern Province of nanggarhar on thursday. The commander of us forces in Afghanistan Generaljohn Nicholson said the attack had been coordinated with the government in kabul, and that no civilians were harmed. But theres also been criticism former afghan President Hamid karzai condemned the bombing as inhuman. Our south asia editor Jill Mcgivering reports. This is american hard power in action. The moment the us dropped, for the first time, the biggest Non Nuclear Weapon it has. It was a moab, nicknamed the mother of all bombs, and it was targeting underground bases in eastern afghanistan, a stronghold of the so called Islamic State g
The Catholic Church makes enormous mistakes by allowing thousands of children to be abused by priests. Meanwhile, the film about the churchs cover up spotlight wins best pictures at the oscars. Now, Macedonian Police have fired tear gas at hundreds of refugees and migrants at the border who try to go through a fence in greece. That was the scene several hours ago. The tear gas was set off. After a large crowd of people were scene smashing a section of the border fence. About 6. 5000 people are stuck on the greek side of the border. Some have been there up to eight days with with little food and shelter as as macedonia only accepted a tricklel of people every day mainly from syria and iraq. Well, the refugees are stuck in a huge bottleneck at the border waiting for macedonian authorities to let them continue their journey through the balkans and into western europe. We have the latest. The situation has calmed down. There are still 100 people, mainly young men sitting there just in fron
With thousands of childrens allowed to be raped and molested by priests. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Fifth time lucky Leonardo Dicaprio takes home the best actor oscar and Alejandro Inarritu for the best picture winner. Top story thousands of people may have been starved to death in besieged parts of syria according to the u. N. Human rights chief, the world body estimates there are almost half a Million People living under siege and in need of food and fightel supplies and so now with the first major truce in five years of conflict generally tolding it is hoping to be able to distribute lifesaving aid to 150,000 people trapped in the besieged areas and to get there monday and then on two other towns on wednesday and later in the week its aiming to get west of damascus area and despite the pause in fighting there have been air strikes in homs and idlib and to the secretarygeneral ban kimoon opposition parties are saying continued breaches would make talks unattainab
Ifill all that, and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial. Youre in charge. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corpora for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill turkeys capital city is alive with fear and anger tonight, after a car bomb killed at least 28 people and wounded 61. We have a report on the blast in central ankara, from Juliet Bremner of independent television news. Reporter moments after an explosion was heard across the turkish capital, flames leapt into the night sky. The bomb had hit a convoy of military buses which had been taking soldiers home from their barrac
Ifill all that, and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial. Youre in charge. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill turkeys capital city is alive with fear and anger tonight, after a car bomb killed at least 28 people and wounded 61. We have a report on the blast in central ankara, from Juliet Bremner of independent television news. Reporter moments after an explosion was heard across the turkish capital, flames leapt into the night sky. The bomb had hit a convoy of military buses which had been taking soldiers home from their ba