Today two u. S. Army rangers were killed in eastern afghanistan during a raid on islamic militants linked to isis. Neither has been identified. David martin has more. Reporter the firetight took place just south of this isis cave complex where earlier this month the u. S. Dropped the largest nonnuclear bomb it has ever used in combat. This video, taken by local afghan police, represents the first confirmed pictures of the destruction caused by the 23,000pound Massive Ordnance Air blast bomb. U. S. Officials refused to release any estimate of the number of isis fighters killed, but say anyone above ground or hiding in the caves when the bomb hit is american officers who inspected the site reported no evidence of civilian casualties. Just a short distance south in the same valley close to afghanistans border with pakistan, several senior isis leaders were hiding out in a compound. When American Special Operations Forces along with afghan command ores conducted a Helicopter Assault on the
It through the impeachment. Amy today we spend the hour looking at the growing political crisis in brazil and air an exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would alslso place on your headad these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousse
Exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would also place on your head these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousseffs ouster, including her successor, president michel temer. He said troops into the streets of the capital brasilia this
It through the impeachment. Amy today we spend the hour looking at the growing political crisis in brazil and air an exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would alslso place on your headad these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousse
Welcome to bbc news. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad says claims that his forces were behind a chemical weapons attack on a rebel town are a 100 fabrication. Instead, he has claimed the United States worked hand in glove with Terror Groups to stage the attack as a pretext for american Missile Strikes, and he questioned whether the tv images of dead children were real. Tonight, International 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 struggling to help. Hosing victims down to try to wash it away. President trump said he was so shocked by what he saw that he went from being prepared to deal with the assad regime to calling the syrian president a butcher. Bashar al assad denies every accusation against him. There was no order to make any attack. We dont have any ch