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BBCNEWS 100 Days April 13, 2017

Say shows the countrys economic strength. It might seem like an extraordinary celebration to mark the opening of a street, but its about so much more than that. And we will introduce you to the hard line republican lawmakers, who are threatening the president s agenda. But are their voters loyal to the Freedom Caucus or are they loyal to donald trump . Hello, i am katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. The largest Non Nuclear Bomb ever used has been dropped by the us air force on a remote area of afghanistan that was being used by so called Islamic State. The weapon is know in short hand as the mother of all bombs, and it is so destructive it has never been used by the us military before. The area they targeted was the Achin District of Nangarhar Province in the east of afghanistan. It is one of the most remote regions of the world, and, of late, we know isis fighters have moved in, across the pakistan border. At the weekend a us soldier on Special Operations was killed in the same area. White House Press Secretary sean spicer has been giving his Daily Briefing and this to say about the bombing. At 7pm local time in afghanistan, last night, the United States military used a gbu 43 weapon in afghanistan. The gbu 43 is a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon. We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target us military advisers and Afghan Forces in the area. The United States takes the fight against isis very seriously, and in order to defeat the group, we must deny them operational space, which we did. The United States took all precautions necessary to prevent civilian casualties and Collateral Damage as a result of the operation. And joining me now is zalmay khalilzad, former Us Ambassador to the un, as well as iraq and afghanistan. President to a Campaign Promise to he was going to attack Islamic State and we did not necessarily think that would be in afghanistan but that would be in afghanistan but that seems to be what has happened, correct . It seems so. Isis has been moving into afghanistan. Government of afghanistan has come in the field, and they have been raising the issue of isis presents. We have conducted operations against them. Isis was added to alqaeda on the target list some time ago in afghanistan. This area is near the famous area where bin ladin ran away at the end of operations in afghanistan. And i know that it is concern both here and in afghanistan as, as the pressure on isis increases in iraq and syria, one area they may think of moving to is afghanistan. That is because recently the Afghan Government has. Because of the change in the balance of power, they have given up some areas in that region to opposition. For all of those reasons, ithink region to opposition. For all of those reasons, i think this action was taken with the current threat and the movement of isis from The Middle East. Partly because of the ridiculous name of the bomb, mother of all bombs. There is a lot of focus on weapons being used. President bush tried to go after bin ladin in these caves and failed to get in there. And from what you are hearing in this morning, this weapon in this area against these cakes, what do you think . Definitely against caves. We will have to see. We dont know enough. It takes some time before you can come to a judgment. But this weapon is capable of doing a lot of damage, especially the underground at targets. In the case of bin laden, there were not enough forces surrounding, so he ran away to pakistan. But i think this shows the seriousness, and the issue of isis moving from The Middle East to afghanistan. Ambassador, this is christian in london. To put more flesh on what this bombings, ii london. To put more flesh on what this bombings, 11 tonnes of tnt, 21,000, pounds. It destroys everything within a mile radius. This is from the defence archive of the bomb being dropped in 2003, as it lands you see the destructive nature. I imagine that what. It has not been used before because if it has an Explosive Radius of a mile wide, youre going to have Collateral Damage. Call me a bit about why it would be suited to nangarhar. Would you not have a civilian population that . This is a revolt area. It is on the border of the nangarhar area. This is a revolt area. It is on the border of the nangarhararea. It isa border of the nangarhararea. It is a remote area. An area close to tora bora. I now believe it is not a highly populated region of afghanistan, but we will have to wait and see what the pentagon and the afghan sources report, in terms of todays configuration of what kind of population were in the area. Myjudgment kind of population were in the area. My judgment is it kind of population were in the area. Myjudgment is it was not a highly populated area but. I think if it wasjust populated this bomb would not have been used. Thank you. President assad of syria is accusing donald trump of being Hand In Glove with terrorists. He is questioning whether the children killed in last weeks Chemical Attack are actually dead at all, and he says the us has fabricated the whole story. Mr assad made that string of extraordinary allegations in an interview with a french news agency. Sources at the pentagon now say Us Intelligence has uncovered communications between military and chemical Weapons Experts in syria, as they were discussing their preparations for the attack in Idlib Province last week, which contradicts mr assads version of events. There was no order to make any attack. We dont have any chemical weapons. We gave up our arsenal three years ago. Even if we had them, we wouldnt use them, and we have never used our Chemical Arsenal in our history. So, what happened recently . As i said, the only sources alqaeda. We cannot take it seriously. But our impression is that the west, mainly the United States, is Hand In Glove to the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story, you know, to have a pretext for the attack. It wasnt an attack because of what happened, its one event, its stage one, the play that we saw on the Social Networking and on tv, the propaganda. And stage two is the military attack. Thats what we believe is happening, because its only a few days, 48 hours between the play and the attacks, and no investigations. No concrete evidence about anything. The only thing were allegations, propaganda, and then the strike. So who, according to you, is responsible about this allegation of Chemical Attack . The allegation itself, alqaeda, al nusra front, so we dont have to investigate who. They announced that it is under their control. No one else. So you think its a fabrication . Definitely, 100 , for us, its a fabrication. We dont have an arsenal and we are not going to use it. Important to note that that interview conducted by afp was shot by the syrian presidency and only a portion of the questions asked were released. Listening to that interview, it is interesting to see he looks like somebody who does not feel he is under siege, but we know that the americans have reversed their position on president assad. The russians are under pressure after that long meeting with Rex Tillerson over president assad. But the man himself, you see him looking calm and as if he is totally in control of the situation in the country. Because russia are still on his back, and as long as russia are still there, it is difficult for the allies of the west. What would you make generally of what we have seen in the last week . We talk about this bomb and his positions on syria and the bombing of mosul, but this president said he was not interventionist . But a president who is clearly prepared to move fast. We talked in the last few days about how the 0bama administration has been criticised for not being able to act, and they had paralysis analysis. Clearly donald trump is not that. If they want to act he will act fast. Whether he can carry his die hard supporters with him. At some point he will have to live it. But this white house always said that it would work with the American Economy and the situation at home, but it looks like he is a Foreign Policy president , not what the campaign suggest that he would be. Interesting. There were many fierce opponents of donald trump who found themselves in the odd position of applauding his actions, when he ordered us air strikes on a syrian base. And none were more conflicted than the syrians living in the us, as our north american correspondent, aleem maqbool, reports from denver, colorado. Amal kassir is a poet. Salaam alaikum, everybody. She happened to be on stage the day after a bomb hit her aunts home on the outskirts of damascus. We lost ten members of our family yesterday. We lost ten people yesterday, all injust one bombing. Her aunt, her cousins, her cousins children and an unborn baby were killed in the bombing. It happened on the very same day as the Chemical Attack that got far more publicity and spurred donald trump to order air strikes on a syrian air base. No child of god should ever suffer such horror. Does it take someone to be gassed to be considered one of gods children . My family died in an attack that was separate from the Chemical Attacks, but what was happening in that region has been happening in syria for six years. If the Chemical Attack will make them move, then broadcast it on all of the televisions, because we are thankful that someone finally did something, even if it was the same man who tried banning us a couple of months ago. Amal admits feeling conflicted about the fact she is grateful to donald trump for doing something she hoped would have happened years ago. Well, amal was born here in denver, but what about recent arrivals to these shores Syrian Refugees . With the rise of donald trump, of course, they have been at the centre of something of a political storm. Thank you very much. Have a nice day. Yassin fled the war and came here as a refugee. He couldnt speak english and only had a few hundred dollars, but opened a successful restaurant, introducing syrian food to locals, often for the first time. He is also pleased donald trump has expressed sympathy for syrian children, but worries about the president s contradictions. You cant step into the war and whats happening in syria and at the same time not be allowing people to have a safe place. If i dont have the chance to be here. If i got sent back to syria, i would not guarantee my life right now. There is no doubt yassins view of donald trump has changed, but he hopes the president will not only continue to put pressure on bashar al assad, but will also reverses ban on taking in Syrian Refugees. Reverse his ban. Aleem maqbool, bbc news. Syrian refugees figuring out what to make of the trump administration, no easy task, particularly for them as well as everybody. And when you have a ban in place on refugees coming in. The two policies are notjoined up, so you can understand why there is frustration, while at the same time some interest in what is going on in syria. We have been talking about reversing positions. A major test of the Trump Presidency has always been more global can populism work in government . In the past 2a hours it almost seems as if donald trump has decided that it cant. Yesterday, trump effectively abandoned some of the most nationalist, populist promises he campaigned on. 0n nato. Heres the problem with nato its obsolete. I said it was obsolete its no longer obsolete. And on china. We cant continue to allow china to rape our country, and thats what they are doing. China is a currency manipulator. What they have done to us by playing currency is very sad. But since his meeting with president xi last week, hes now saying, theyre not currency manipulators. Here are some other donald trump u turns. When it comes to the us economy he is now considering re appointing the fed chairjanet yellen. Last year he said she should be ashamed of what she was doing to the country. He is now embracing the export import bank, a govt agency he said should no longer exist. And in The Middle East, no more foreign interventions, no more regime changes, was the pledge ditched last week after the chemical weapons attack in syria. That went up in smoke quite literally, and again today with the bomb in afghanistan. What do we make all of this . How will supporters respond . What do we make all of this . How will supporters respond . We are joined by ronald christie, republican strategist. Is this a problem for donald trump, in terms of those supporters who thought they we re of those supporters who thought they were voting for somebody quite radical, a particularly focused on theissue radical, a particularly focused on the issue of china and tariffs and currency . If abandons those positions and looks like a more normal, mainstream establishment, dare i say it, president , what will his supporters think . I think it will still support him and donald trump is the brand of donald trump. They wanted him to go in there and it will look at him and say, he went in and said he would drain the swamp in washington. They will say, donald trump is pragmatic. Look at what he has done with the chinese to get them to pressure the north koreans. Look at what hes doing with manufacturers and Business Leaders and the white house, to make it more responsive. In short term, people might think, donald trump is hurting his brand, but long term i think it is a pragmatic approach of strong, steady government that people are looking for. Kristian, great to see you as well. I would add to that. It is stunning that he keeps saying, i was wrong, i did not realise that health ca re wrong, i did not realise that health care was wrong, i did not realise that health ca re was so wrong, i did not realise that health care was so congregated. At the weekend he said, i sat with president xijinping for weekend he said, i sat with president xi jinping for ten minutes and he would have known it was not easy to get a deal with north korea . Natal is obsolete, then it is not obsolete. Edicts correcting himself. Why is he not doing better than he is . Having been in the white house with George W Bush for his first 100 days, you coming and. Are the promises and what you want to do, then you realise it is harder to manipulate the government then you realise. It is harder to make change than you thought. Some promises you make, pragmatism tells you cant. Take for example the president saying he would have a constitutional amendment in the first 100 days, with congressional. He has recognised that working with people in congress to get regulatory reforms through, the package through, it is harder than he realised. His recognition that government can be part of a solution rather than the problem, i think, will have his ratings rise rather than the level we have right iiow. It isa iiow. It is a stunning turnaround, shifting positions, carrying his supporters with him, you have to think that only donald trump can do it, perhaps. Thank you, to you. Voters in turkey are set to cast their ballots in a referendum on a new Draft Constitution this weekend. A yes vote would significantly increase the powers of the turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and turn the country from a parliamentary to a president ial republic. Lets cross to istanbul and our correspondent mark lowen. Watching the referendum. How fair has the campaign been . I have all your stories online, and you can see it has been tough. I have spent the day out in this square in the heart of istanbul, one of the biggest and most iconic squares in turkey. You do not find a single no voter or opposition poster in that whole square. It is exclusively erdogan yes posters. Some estimates have put the ratio of iio some estimates have put the ratio of no to yes posters by one to 20 something. No campaigners have been attacked and heavily under pressure. I think monitors are bullying in to say the campaign has been unfair. So far we will have to see whether that will extend to the vote on sunday, hugely divisive. Polls are showing it could be a neck and neck race, despite the fact that the erdogan site overwhelmingly dominates with posters and the airwaves. But erdogan also dominates the opinion polls. He is doing well in polls, but they hear voters saying, listen, i like erdogan but i am not sure i want to make this kind of constitutional change, and it would. Affects a body that might come afterwards . Is that a segment of the dog . A segment of the vote . I hear from people who have voted for erdogan, and his party, all their lives, and somehow feel it is not right to put all of the powers in the hands of one man, as is constitutional change would envisage. The interesting thing is that there they are too afraid to speak on camera radio. I was at a bazaar here in istanbul over the couple of days, and it was the most visited Tourist Attraction in the world, and 30 or 40 shopkeepers, about ten of them were opposed to the constitutional change and none of them would be on camera. That is the kind of fear created by president erdogan. A tight race and one which will have huge implications far beyond turkish borders. Good to see you and we look forward to your report of the week. You can look at his repo

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