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State run media in egypt are saying 13 people were killed, dozens more wounded. it is sunday today, there would have been a service there with more people than other days during the week obviously and this is not the first time that the coptic christian community has been targeted. last december there was also an attack, a tnt bomb attack against a chapel adjoining a cathedral in cairo killing 25 people. militants obviously trying to send a message that the government of el sisi cannot protect its minority community, coptic crist unions representing about 10% of the pop ligs. b population. ben...

Egyptian coptic church attack. dozens wounded. we're waiting for official word from the interior ministry and we'll of course bring you that when we get it. but a high death toll here so far. more details when we get them. hannah, with the rest of the news back to you in london. >> thanks very much. now, the u.s. president is telling congress why he ordered last week's missile strike on that syrian air base. mr. trump sent a letter to house speaker paul ryan and senator orrin hatch saying i directed this action in order to degrade the syrian military's ability to conduct further chemical weapo...

Similar attack in cairo on a church there, a chapel adjoining a cathedral. today is sunday, it is in fact palm sunday which means that the church would have been absolutely packed on this day with worshippers. we are seeing some about chaotic kreens of cour scenes in the aftermath of that attack. we'll bring them to you as soon as we get them. hannah is in thin london with o news. we'll turn to sweden of course after the deadly attack in the country's capital on kile than a dozen wounded when this truck plowed through a busy street in stockholm. police say the suspect is known to intelligenc...

Assad from using chemical weapons in the future, i think this particular message has been received. i doubt it very much if assad will ever use chemical weapons given the determination of the trump administration to carry out military attention. but the attack itself does not change the complex dynamics on the ground. >> what is the end game though? i have to jump in. this is everyone's question. we don't have the answer is what you're saying. is the end game to stop assad from using chemical weapons? so the u.s. took care of that accordinged according what you're saying. is the end game to su...

Retaliation for that chemical attack. new video by the way shows that that very air field, the one that was hit by tomahawk missiles, is operational again. paula newton is standing by in moscow for russian reaction. but ben wedeman talk to us about shayrat, apparently it's furngsing again and warplanes are taking off from there. >> reporter: yes, and we've seen video of that and i think even president trump referenced it in one of his tweets saying that it's very easy to repair a runway and therefore that is why they didn't hit it. and of course this is the air base from which the strikes it's...