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
surrounded by rebels, air supplied by the syrian government. oh, wow. this is a hand in glove relationship between the the government and this very nasty milliate group. getting to foua would have been a problem. and it s not that far. and they don t control the space between the two towns. they have this little pocket here and they have all of this town. but to get there, is a problem for them. especially now since the rebels are on alert. yeah. that s how we got out. one night, the fifth night, they decide to move us, they load us in the back of a car, back of a truck minivan. they leave, they are leaving out this direction and they are going to do sort of a roundabout way to get there i assume. leaving in the opposite direction of the town, and they got nailed. they ran into a rebel checkpoint, surprise checkpoint they weren t expecting.
us and the commander refused, he said there are six of them. come on, why don t i give you four and i ll keep two. and the commander wouldn t let him. wow. one time i heard them moving a tub of water metal tub, dragging it across the floor. blind folded, and you think are you about to be interrogated. i thought are they going to water board us, stand us in the metal tub, but electricity. your mind goes to bad places. you try to push bad thoughts out. when are you not interrogated or tortured, okay, i m comfortable in this place, as bad as it is, and they move you to a new location. we were here and they wanted to move us to foua. very hard core shia, mostly