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 group. The us military insists afghan leaders gave full approval. 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 to the afghan people, especially the people of nangarhar, to the people of the entire region, and indeed, the people around the world. Local people confirm this remote, Harsh Terrain was used by the Islamic State. Translation the bomb was dropped last night on is position and caves. It was really powerful and has been used to destroy all their tunnels and caves. Translation there were daesh bases over there. Last nights bomb was really huge. When it dropped, everywhere was shaking. Afghan leaders say the attack was justified and there are no civilian casualties. But former afghan President Hamid karzai took to social media to condemn it. Back in the United States, President Trump applauded the action and tried to score political points at his predecessors expense. If you look at whats happened over the last eight weeks and compare that, really, to whats happened over the last eight years, you will see theres a tremendous difference. Tremendous difference. We have incredible leaders in the military and we have incredible military. We are very proud of them and this was another very, very successful mission. Newsreader us drops the mother of all bombs. Today, the news still dominates us headlines, as the world digests this latest insight into this new president. Jill mcgivering, bbc news. With me is afzal ashraf, a former raf officer who advised the us command in iraq on counter terrorism. And the americans say this was the right weapon and the right target. Get a right weapon and the right target. Geta might right weapon and the right target. Get a might well have been the right target and the right weapon but the target and the right weapon but the target does not in itself bring a conflict. To bring a conflict you need big ideas as well as big bombs. And do you think President Trump has them . Im not sure. If he has he hasnt articulated them. He has a lwa ys hasnt articulated them. He has always said we are going to fight to win which is in itself a good thing, the military has a reputation and so far western military is in the last three decades dont have a reputation for winning. They have a reputation for winning. They have a reputation for winning. They have a reputation for engaging and if we can reputation for engaging and if We Ca N Reverse Reputation for engaging and if we can reverse that that would be great but how he will reverse it, without an enlightened strategy, a different strategy, is unclear at the moment. Intelligence agencies will have known of the existence of these caves for some time. The question as to be why now . Timing is significant, just a couple of days after the Secretary Of State and his opposite number in moscow, as well as President Putin had a meeting, so there is a significant test sending out a message in to the russians say they are serious about attacking isis, one of the pledges that mr trump made during his election campaign. It sent out a message in advance of the anniversary tomorrow in north korea that should you try and celebrate it with another nuclear associated demonstration then they could be consequences. And it sends out a message to isis as well. Is your suspicion that this is donald trump saying look weve got these weapons, lets use them . Or is he saying to his generals if youve got the weapons, you have my full backing if you want to use them. Where do you think that decision has come from . I think it is probably the latter. Mr trump has always warned to the armed forces, the armed forces have felt previously constrained in previous conflicts by administration is as to what they could do but what is missing isnt so could do but what is missing isnt so much weapons, the us has got the most formidable armed forces in the history of mankind. What is missing is effective strategy. Military strategy. Add political strategy. That has or has been a weakness in modern conflict and there is no indication or political strategy has come blind with elliptical. When we broke the news of the weapon yesterday, what was known of the weapon . Did you know of it existing . It has been around since 2003, designed to primarily penetrate underground bunkers and it does what Nuclear Weapons lovably could do better but of course Nuclear Weapons, at the huge environmental and military prize so this is the next best option. It sends out a message to north korea and others who have stored many of their capabilities underground that those capabilities underground that those capabilities can be attacked and damaged in an unusual manner. M sends a pretty direct message to isis if they where in these caves. What about russia . Isis if they where in these caves. What about russia . Russia will probably view this in a sort of schizophrenic way. They will be glad that isis has been attacked, the thing that they have been championing in syria. I think they will be a little concerned about americas increased involvement in afghanistan because during the drawdown there had been a great deal more involvement both with russia and of irani in afghanistan and that is busy causing a few complications are what i think russia wants from the trump regime is clarity about policy, and it seems that one moment they are pro russian and wanting to work with the russians to get rid of the extremists and the next moment they are going back to the old administrations desire for Regime Change so i think there is a lack of clarity, a lack of stability that is going to cause the russians to worry and be concerned about more than anything else. We started this interview with you talking about the need to win the war. Lets end by saying attacks like this, from the air, history has taught us they dont win anything without the backing of some form of ground troop. Is that going to be the case here . If that will be the case, definitely we have had thousands of americans, Tens Of Thousands of americans, Tens Of Thousands of american and other Coalition Troops drawn down, the conflict has not gone away. What it needs is accommodation of Ground Troops but also a very concerted political solution. You mentioned what mr cars i what mr karzai said, he is on board, you need a Comeback Strategy agreed with afghanistan in neighbours and iran and russia, increasingly getting involved as they are. We need International Strategy and i dont see one coming to the fore right now in advance certainly of the sort of attack. Thank you very much coming in. A Young British woman has been stabbed to death on a train injerusalem. The woman in her early 20s was taken to hospital but died soon after. Police say two other people were also injured during the attack. A 57 year old Palestinian Man has been arrested. Our correspondent tom bateman has the latest from jerusalem. Police and Security Agency shin bet say this is a man of 57 who lived in a palestinian neighbours of eastjerusalem. Neighbourhood of east jerusalem. They said he had been recently released from a Psychiatric Hospital and suggested he had previous criminal convictions, so that may shed some light at the early stage of this investigation into what went on. In terms of the attack we know that this woman was attacked on the citys light rail, the tram network, just outside the Old City Of Jerusalem when this woman was repeatedly stabbed this morning. She was taken to hospital, there was an attempt to resuscitate her that was not successful and she died. Two others were not seriously hurt, a 30 year old woman was pregnant and older man, all in a panic and an older man, all in a panic everyone hurrying to get away when the tram stopped. More details now emerging but it comes at a time when has been heightened security at this time of injerusalem, at this time of year in jerusalem, with authorities aware of the fact of course that many more thousands of people are here, its thejewish passover week, which means that many more people in the old city and christian pilgrims heading for easter festivities as well. The evacuation has begun of as many as 30,000 civilians from four besieged towns in syria. Buses are taking people from rebel held areas west of damascus and from two government controlled towns. Benjames reports from beirut in neighbouring lebanon. Ready to move after a series of delays. Ambulances and buses are taking civilians and fighters from besieged towns in syria. Foua and kefraya are held by the government. Madaya is an opposition town. Another, zabadani, is also part of the deal. It thought people there will begin to be moved as late as saturday. All four towns have been under siege for more than two years but many people didnt want to leave their homes. They call us migrants from our land. Translation we dont know what to say at this time. You feel like youre leaving your land, we are leaving our lives, our hopes, ourfuture, our memory, our past. Un has described the humanitarian situation as catastrophic in these places. Activists shared footage last year that appeared to show people eating grass and leaves from trees to survive. People from the government towns were taken to this opposition held area near aleppo ahead of their onward journey. Critics say starvation is being used as a tactic to force deals like this and redraw the sectarian map of syria in the governments fever. President al assad insists he sees the movement as temporary. Its expected 30,000 people will be moved in this latest deal, the largest of its kind so far. And later in the hour, well be speaking live to Save The Childrens regional manager in the middle east. Stay with us for that. Unions representing half a million teachers say schools in england are facing the worst funding cuts, in real terms, for 20 years. Gathering for their annual conferences, theyre also highlighting a growing shortage of teachers for subjects such as maths and science. The government says £40 billion is being spent on schools this year. In cash terms the highest figure ever. Our education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves reports. St Martins School in essex is a good school. But even here, it has become increasingly difficult to recruit staff, particularly in specialist subjects. At one stage, they had a Science Teacher vacancy for more than a year. But there are also shortages in maths and modern languages. I look at the pool of people that are teaching in those areas and the number of people that are due to retire over the next ten years, and also the number of people that are coming in that arent actually a specialist in the subject area that theyre teaching, and i think that this is really the thin end of the wedge. Teachers are gathering for their conferences at a time of unprecedented anger over cuts. There have been widespread protests from parents and schools who say, without more money, class sizes will go up and Teaching Posts will be cut. The government points out £40 billion is being spent on schools this year, the highest cash figure ever. But teachers say that hasnt taken into account rising costs, like pay, pensions, and the running costs of schools. The Funding Pressure is also beginning to hit parents, something of a concern to the unions. Half of parents are saying theyre making at least one financial contribution to the schools funds, in order to enhance resources, whatever that means, at school level. And many parents are finding that even the cost of School Uniform is something which they can no longer afford. There is also much disquiet about Government Plans to introduce a new wave of grammar schools. Teachers argue money set aside for them would be better spent on existing schools. However, the government says this new wave of grammars would benefit less well off families. Gillian hargreaves, bbc news. This is Bbc News At 5 the headlines 36 militants from so called Islamic State are thought to have been killed after a us Military Strike with a weapon known as the mother of all bombs in afghanistan. A british woman on holiday has been stabbed to death on a tram injerusalem. Schools in england are facing their worst funding cuts in 20 years, a warning from Teaching Unions. In sport, olympic champion Katie Archibald leaves it late to win gold for Great Britain in the womens omnium in the world track championships in hong kong. Jenson button will be back racing formula i car next month. Alonzo races in the indy 500 instead of monaco. And castleford stay top of super league. Ill have more sport later. China has warned that conflict could break out at any moment as tension over north korea increases. Foreign minister wang yi said if war occurred there could be no winner. Adding to chinese unease, President Donald Trump said on thursday that the problem of north korea would be taken care of. Speculation has been growing that north korea may be ready to carry out its sixth nuclear test as soon as this weekend. The bbcsjohn sudworth is in the north korean Capital Pyongyang hes among a group ofjournalists who have been invited into the secretive country to witness the anniversary celebrations. Hes been speaking to passengers on the pyongyang metro system. A trip to the pyongyang Subway Station is a classic stop on any foreign media trip to this city, with the giant soviet style halls and the murals of the ruling family. But as this country prepares to celebrate its Biggest National holiday and as those celebrations are taking place amid one of the periodic peaks in the crisis and tension that often defines north koreas relationship with the outside world, it is, if nothing else, a chance to ask some of the local people what they think. Translation we should have the Nuclear Weapons. If we do not have the Nuclear Weapons the Nuclear Weapon of another country will fall on our soil. You think it keeps the country safe . Translation yes. Yes, thats right, exactly. Translation it doesnt matter whether the americans they make the situation on the Korean Peninsula tense. It doesnt matter, we feel safe because we have the great leader. Of course, all these answers are given under the watchful eye of our government minders. For them, there is a purpose to all of this. The foreign media are invited to north korea to allow it to give its version of ordinary life here, to humanise this country. But theres another purpose too, that is to give this message of unyielding defiant and resilience in the face of international pressure. Labour has accused the government of Rewarding Failure in response to new figures which suggest the government will have to pay millions of pounds more than planned to atos and capita, two private companies which assess people claiming disability benefits. Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier is here. What happened . What happened . These Independence Payments were introduced four years ago in England Wales and scotland and effectively the government pays out more for these contracts than it plans to effectively because the company are doing more work than had been estimated. In order to get these benefits people with disabilities who are working age, you have to have an assessment, those are done by capita and atos. Criticism has said they are unfair and am sensitive to, and when the government to counter these projects, they think it would cost around £500 million but analysis by news agencies, the press agency, press Association Says it will be more like £700 million by the time the contracts come to the end at the end of the year. The government says its because more people are being assessed and therefore the companies are doing more work. Essentially someone has got their sums badly wrong. There is a lot of criticism . Interestingly, Stephen Crabb who used to be the Secretary Of State for work and pensions actually said this morning that over the last ten yea rs this morning that over the last ten years the departmentjust hasnt been very good at doing these estimates, its got its sums wrong, didnt realise how many people would be making these games. There are also people who are appealing the claims, so that brings in extra work too. Labour said the whole system is in disarray, the costs are spiralling Out Of Control and the government said it needs these assessments to make sure the right people get the money and to make sure it is good value for money for the taxpayers. Thank you. The Iraqi Government has told People Living in mosul to stay inside as Security Forces prepare for an assault aimed at dislodging so called Islamic State militants. Thousands of civilians are still trapped in the city, which has been held by is since 2014. Our defence Correspondentjonathan Beale is embedded with troops. The prize is in their sight. The old city of mosul and its most famous landmark, the leaning minaret of the al nuri mosque. This is where Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi first appeared as caliph of the so called Islamic State. They still control it and most of what you can see. But for how much longer . Translation the mosque is now very near and soon we will advance. We know the enemy is weak and on its last legs. A visit to the front line, though, tells a different story. For the past few weeks, the iraqi advance has slowed to a crawl. Resistance is still fierce. These federal police are surrounded on two sides by is and they are firing on their positions from here. Snipers, is snipers, just about 100 metres from this position. And you can see the rounds, the is rounds, coming in here, fairly regularly. Tens of thousands of civilians are still trapped, caught in the crossfire. Much of mosul has already been turned to rubble. Even in these deserted streets, recently secured, there is nowjust the debris of war. Here, discarded is military uniforms, and nearby, one of their many improvised bombs. But the enemy is not just hiding in the city. Wejoined an iraqi Intelligence Unit hunting down is infiltrators and collaborators who have already escaped. Now seeking shelter and avoiding capture in camps, living alongside the innocents of this war, who fled the fighting. How often do you do this . Do you do this often . Always, every day, every night. You are finding isis fighters in these camps . In the camp or some in his house, in mosul. Everywhere. The extremists may be losing their grip on mosul but even if they are defeated, is wont have gone away. Jonathan beale, bbc news, mosul. Some of the other stories making Bbc News At 5. A Lorry Carrying compressed gas has caught fire on the m4 in wiltshire. The blaze caused major tailbacks on the motorway. Traffic is now moving again in both directions, but drivers have been advised to avoid the stretch between junctions 17 and 18. A future Labour Government says it would bring in a law preventing banks from closing their high street branches. More than 1,000 local branches closed in the uk between 2016 and 2017. Labour says lending to Small Businesses decreases in areas where banks close. The government says its support for Small Businesses, including start up loans, has helped 40,000 firms. Interpol has joined the search for a british teacher suspected of killing a colleague in myanmar. Harris binotti, whos 26 and from dumfries, is wanted in connection with the death of gary ferguson, whose body was found in rangoon last november. The online Accommodation Booking Company Airbnb says it will improve its security, after a bbc investigation found that peoples homes have been burgled by scammers using stolen accounts. They hijacked profiles with verified badges and changed some personal details to pull off the thefts. The company says it will now warn members if their Profile Information is changed. Chris foxx reports. Like millions of people, christian had let out his home on airbnb while he was out of town, as a convenient way to make some extra money. He had done so for years without a problem. But on his birthday, his home was burgled. I got that horrible text message saying someone is in the account, saying someone is in the flat, and it is not me, because my account had been compromised. Christian thought he had let out his home to a verified profile, somebody who had showed airbnb a government identification, and had positive reviews from previous bookings. But the account had been stolen. The attacker had changed the name, photograph and Contact Details on the profile, but kept airbnbs verified badge. And christian is not alone. The bbc has spoken to two other people who were robbed this way, and three others who had their accounts stolen. And airbnbs Facebook Page has dozens of comments from people who had their accounts compromised. There are many ways attackers could have been hijacking airbnb accounts. They might be able to trick people into handing over their passwords. But there are ways airbnb could have defended against this. We put our Security Concerns to airbnb. The company said this. Those changes include two step verification when somebody logs in from a new device, and text message alerts if somebody changes your Profile Information. But, for christian, the changes come too late. He says the whole experience has left him with a bad feeling, and he may not use airbnb again. If youre a dog owner, youll know that one of the hardest things to do is leave them alone all day when you head off for work. Now some are asking whether its time for people to be allowed to bring their Canine Companions into the office. Around one in ten businesses already have a dog friendly policy. Susannah streeters been finding out more. Brooke, reggie, max and peggy are Office Buddies at nestle in gatwick. The pets at work scheme proved so popular that by the end of the year around 100 dogs passed an assessment to gain their own staff pass. I think some people did wonder how many dogs would actually come into the office and whether we would have large numbers or packs of dogs roaming the office. The reality is on any given day we probably have between 20 25 dogs in an office of 1,000 people. And in fact it is very rare to even hear a dog bark in the office. But they are here if you want to find one to pet. Dogs dont just relieve stress, they also help build office camaraderie. It has made me make friends. People come and talk to me. I dont think they know my name, but they know my dog. And it opens doors. What about the time when she needs to go to the loo . She starts to get up and paces around and looks at me. We have had the odd accident. Dog daycare is £30 £40 per day. I have three of them. For me it is a big saving. Have there been fallouts with other dogs . Not that i have seen. They love chasing each other around the park. You hear the odd bark, that is it. So, just how easy it is it taking your pet into the workplace . Come on, this way ive borrowed mama to find out. This is the bbc. Come on. This is the business unit. I am going for an editorial meeting. The dowjones on last night from the slide. Off we go. Here we are. Claire, if you hear some noises it is because we have a dog in this mornings meeting. 0k. Different. I am going to the studio now, down to make up. I am going to give you a little bit, too. I might need to brush off a few hairs. Marna remained calmly inquisitive until she saw the cleaning trolley. Barking we have a little guest in today. Marnas following me around. She is scared. Next, the bbc world studio, we meet debra connolly, a dog behaviourist. You are gorgeous indeed. Every office is different. Some are quiet, some have the public in and out. You need to be sure your dog has the right temperament and recognise the signs your dog might be struggling. And make sure the other people in the office have checked out to be sure they are not afraid or allergic and take a bag of goodies for your dog to be entertained. Interview over, it is lunchtime, and marna can spend it with me. And after her performance in the editorial meeting, i think she deserves a treat, dont you, marna . Come on. Time for a look at the weather. Heres thomaz schafernaker. We are starting with a grey globe. Thats it. Pretty grey out there. Now we had to look at something more colourful. Look at these pictures, nice, arent they . Thank you very much to our weather watcher. But tired out there on the satellite, some of It Rain Bearing cloud and it is raining quite heavily over the peninsula of anglesey right now. A few spots of rain in other places as well but at least its not raging gales. Not an ideal easter weekend on the weather front but it could be worse, pretty chilly bossa nova areas, temperatures down at freezing in some rural areas and then tomorrow a day of sunshine and showers across the northern of england, the south little bit drier and brighter but overall not a bad day but it will feel fairly chilly. Heres the easter weekend Weather Forecast summary. Rather cool, sunny spells, and some rain from time to time. This is Bbc News At 5 the headlines. 36 militants from the group which calls itself Islamic State are thought to have been killed in afghanistan after a us Military Strike with a weapon known as the mother of all bombs. China has warned that conflict could break out at any moment because of tensions with north korea. A british woman in her 20s has been stabbed to death injerusalem. Israeli police have arrested a Palestinian Man. Two of englands biggest Teaching Unions are warning that schools are facing their worst funding cuts in 20 years. Lets get the latest from the Bbc Sport Centre and join lizzie. Good evening. Former f1 world champion, Jenson Button will be back racing next month in place of Mclarens Fernando Alonso at the monaco grand prix. Button is still contracted as a Reserve Driver for mclaren and has agreed to step in for alonso while the spaniard takes part in the indianapolis 500. Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel looks like the man to beat at this weekends bahrain grand prix. He was quickest in both practice sessions. Although his ferrari did suffer a breakdown in second practice, he was still three tenths quicker than Lewis Hamiltons mercedes. A busy day in the Football League today. In the championship, huddersfields 3 2 victory over preston meant no Promotion Party for Leaders Brighton today. Two wins from their last five games would almost certainly be enough to go up. The first test is at wolves in a match that got under way at 5 oclock. Brighton have come the closest to scoring, with tomer hemed denied by the bar. 0 0 after half an hour. So here are todays earlier results. Brentford thrashed derby 4 0 while bristol city beat qpr 2 1. Confirmation of huddersfields 3 2 win over preston which means brightons will have to wait to seal promotion. There were away wins for fulham and blackburn rovers. Relegated Rotherham Drew with birmingham while Sheffield Wednesday beat cardiff1 0. Coventry city have been relegated from league one after they drew 1 1 with charlton. But better news for plymouth argyle, who are all but promoted from league two. They would have been guaranteed promotion with a win at portsmouth after six years in the bottom division and jakejervis gave them the early lead. But pompey, who occupy the third automatic promotion spot, made the most of a goalkeeping mistake. Gary roberts equalising in the second half. It finished 1 1, and lutons draw with Leyton Orient mean that the plymouth fans will have to put the celebrations on hold until monday at least. Manchester united will be without midfielder juan mata for the rest of the season through injury. The Spain International had an operation on a Groin Problem last month but had hoped to be back playing. Managerjoes mourinho has confirmed his absence adding to the long term Injury Concerns for defenders philjones and chris smalling. Katie archibald has won Great Britains first gold at the World Track Cycling Championships in hong kong, in the womens omnium. Its decided by the number of points you score over four different events. The olympic champion was second going into the final event the points race, but did enough to beat australias amy cure. Its archibalds second world title but her first individual gold. Castleford remain top of super league after a convincing 42 24 victory over wakefield. The tigers scored six first half trys, before greg eden added their seventh to complete a comfortable win. Theyre still two points clear at the top. St helens began life without recently dismissed head coach Keiron Cunningham badly, as prop forward kyle amor was red carded for a high tackle in the 13th minute. Liam marshall and his wing partner joe burgess both scored twice as wigan took advantage in the closing stages to run out 29 18 winners in the traditional good friday derby. Leeds rhinos were 54 24 winners at hull fc. West Indian Samuel Badree claimed the first hat trick of this years Indian Premier League on his debut but still finished on the losing side. The spinner, who plays for royal challengers bangalore, took four for nine in his four overs against the Mumbai Indians with rohit sharma his hat trick wicket. Mumbai managed to chase their target of 143 carting england seamer tymal mills for six to win the game. Thats all sport for now. You can keep up to date with all those stories on the bbc sport website. Thats bbc. Co. Uk sport and ill have more in sportsday 6. 20pm. Thank you. A huge operation is under way to move around 30,000 people from besieged towns in syria. In a deal between the government and rebel forces people from two rebel besieged shiite villages in Northwest Syria are being taken to government held areas near aleppo, while evacuees from rebel held madaya, near damascus, have been bussed to idlib province. Joining me now from Amman Injordan is alun mcdonald, a regional manager for Save The Children which works with local partners on the ground in syria. How bad Weather Conditions in the camps . The towns that were being evacuated had been under siege for two years and conditions have deteriorated to horrific levels. Aid, food and medicines had been blocked. We have seen children dying from malnutrition and illnesses which should be easily treatable if ed was allowed in. People have not been able to leave. There are checkpoints and snipers all around the town. Children have been shot dead by snipers walking to school or walking down the street, and people there have been experiencing pretty much daily bombing and shelling in which homes have been destroyed, civilians have been killed. We have also spoken to doctors in madaya, one of the towns, where children and people have been losing hope because of how desperate the situation is. They have been seeing cases of children and young people attempting suicide every few days, which i think is a really strong indication of just how bad think is a really strong indication ofjust how bad the situation there has become over the last couple of yea rs. Has become over the last couple of years. This latest move may give hope that however bad the situation is, there will be some fear in leaving the place they have called home for so long . People are very uncertain. Some people are happy to be leaving such terrible conditions but there is a lot of uncertainty about what will happen next. Many people feel that they have not had a choice. They have to leave and they dont really want to be uprooted from their homes and taken across the country to a place they do know. There is also a sense that a lot of people are being pushed into an area in idlib where the situation is getting much worse, and they are really being pushed from one crisis into another. Idlib is the place where there was the recent horrific alleged chemical attack. We have also seen very heavy bombing over the last few weeks, including villages and hospitals being bombed, and civilians being killed. They are leaving what is a brutal siege but they are going to somewhere that is getting more and more dangerous by the day. Save the children works with partners on the ground, you do not have your own staff there, but for every two villages where they say we can get you out, presumably there are others where youngsters are suffering and continue to suffer . There are. There are hundreds of thousands of people, about 600,000 people who are still under siege in areas across syria. In some of these places, such as a town near damascus, people have not had a therefore months and the situation has been getting worse and worse. There are about 4 Million People across syria in some of the ha rd est to reach people across syria in some of the hardest to reach areas which have not seen a single convoy of aid this year. So the situation in a lot of places is still extremely serious. They are forcing people to move all the way across the country, that is not a solution to ending the siege is. There needs to be a proper end to the siege and parties in the conflict need to allow aid to where people are, not just conflict need to allow aid to where people are, notjust other locations. Alun mcdonald from Save The Children, thank you forjoining us. In new zealand people are cleaning up after cyclone cook swept through the country, forcing families from their homes and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The worst hit areas were eastern coastal regions of the north island where roads were blocked by landslides and uprooted trees, and more than 10,000 homes were left without power. Chris chang of Television New zealands one news reports. Uprooted, dumped across vehicles, finally dragged off the roads. Falling trees across the Bay Of Plenty were the most visual scars this morning, left by cyclone cook. We have multiple reports of slips, trees down, Power Outages and roadsides down and also debris across the roads. Does short it was short, sharp but could have been a lot worse. One thing that is pleasing as it whipped through very fast. It was not prolonged. The amount of damage that was done in a short period, we could not imagine if it was over a long period, the damage would be more extensive. The authorities believe they have done the right thing to evacuate coastal towns. We are standing where we are today with no major injuries to people and no major inundation of homes. Large areas are isolated because of closed roads. There have been widespread Power Outages in many towns. Some areas may not have any water supply always to water facilities. This was one area affecting travel. Although some got lucky determined not to have the Holiday Plans turned upside down. We we re Holiday Plans turned upside down. We were told it was hit in the afternoon so we left auckland at 6 30am yesterday. It was a great run down. We only struck three or four ca rs. Down. We only struck three or four cars. There was a lot of rain here but no wind. Look at it this morning, it is absolutely beautiful than here. Those who did not head off yesterday tried today. Traffic south of auckland was crawling for many hours. Those on the roads face Holiday Destinations battered and a little better. Christians around the world are marking good friday with Church Services and processions. Injerusalem, worshippers are taking part in the traditional way of the cross procession along the via dolorosa in the old city. Later pope francis will lead a procession around the coliseum in rome. Celebrations are being scaled back in egypt where the Coptic Community is mourning victims of sundays deadly bomb attacks. This is Bbc News At 5 the headlines the us defends its decision to drop a huge bomb on Islamic State militants in afghanistan. 36 militants are thought to have been killed by the weapon. China says tensions are so high on the Korean Peninsula that a conflict could break out at any time. A british tourist in her early 20s is stabbed to death on a crowded tram injerusalem. Now on bbc news a look ahead to sportsday. Well have the days Football League results with the emotion and relegation consequences. Also look at f1 practice asJenson Button makes a one off comeback to race while Fernando Alonso drives in the indy 500. And we will hear from Katie Archbold who has won britains first gold at the World Track Cycling Championships. Now on bbc music is time for the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks Cinema Releases is james king. What do we have this week . First up, fast cars and tight t shirts. It is the return of vin diesel in the fast and the theory of eight. From the ridiculous to the sublime, count the handmaiden. And the sense of an ending. So fast and theory of eight. Have you seen the others . A couple. This is such a huge franchise, this one will be huge. The interesting thing about the franchise is where they go with it. They have to give audiences what they want which is generally speaking the big Action Scenes which the car chases. This time round, vin diesel who plays the lead character has gone rogue. He has gone to the dark side. He is linked up with a Superb Criminal Called Cypher played by charlize theron. He is playing the bad guy again. We have a clip of them. This is what vin diesel does for most of the movie which has looked puzzled. Here he is. Let me ask you something, dom, what is the best thing in life . Family. No, it is not. Not if you are being honest
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