a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's mike embley. our top stories: donald trump issues tougher guidelines on illegal immigration, telling officials to enforce existing laws more strictly. it's been revealed that a british fighter with the so—called islamic state was a former detainee at guantanamo bay. we have a special report on human trafficking, speaking to some of the victims forced into prostitution. translation: we were terrified. they would beat us up and not let us out. to be controlled by someone, to be used as i was is totally degrading. and wicket weather. and wicked weather. more than 200 people have been rescued from floodwaters in northern california. us officials have been told

to enforce existing laws more strictly and target undocumented people arrested for shoplifting or traffic violations, as well as those convicted of more serious crimes. the department of homeland security plans to hire an extra 10,000 officers. the president needed to give guidance, especially after what they went through in the last administration. there were so many caveats that they had to figure out where each individualfit and had to adjudicate the case. the president wanted to take the shackles of individuals and say, you have a mission, there are laws that need to be followed. you should do the mission and follow the law. david bier is an immigration policy analyst at the kato institute in washington. david, i guess it's fair to say

you'd be coming from the right of the spectrum on this. what do you think about this announcement? well, i think it's certainly correct that these will take the shackles off, you're going to see a significant increase in enforcement under the trump administration from where we saw enforcement ending up under the 0bama administration. now, the early 0bama administration. now, the early 0bama administration. now, the early 0bama administration did in force the laws very strictly, so it's more ofa the laws very strictly, so it's more of a return to that level of enforcement so far. the memos that we re enforcement so far. the memos that were released this week to call for the hiring of new agents, really a tripling of the number of enforcement agents, so that could lead to a significant level of enforcement as well. do you think the country is ready for this in the sense deportations will now become a much more visible issue, people are going to see it happening and they haven't been quite aware of it before. everyone is going to know

somebody who has been picked up. before. everyone is going to know somebody who has been picked upli think that's right. you have to understand most of the unauthorised immigrants are really clustered in certain states, you're talking about texas, you're talking about california, illinois, new york. many states do not have many are unauthorised immigrants and a lot of the calls, whether it's at donald trump's rallies or other conservative circles that you see, are conservative circles that you see, a re really conservative circles that you see, are really coming from areas that haven't experienced the surge of unauthorised immigration. and so you are going to see a lot of people being rounded up in areas that they weren't rounded up before, and that might change public opinion. and a lot more detention centres presumably? that's one of the things that these new memos are calling for, a significant increase in the detention capacity for homeland security to hold people essentially in jail security to hold people essentially injail pipe situations security to hold people essentially in jail pipe situations until they are removed from the united states

if that's ultimately what happens with their case. but you're right, i think we will see people experiencing really be harsher aspects of this enforcement system that the united states has created. it seems clear those hundreds of thousands of children brought into the us illegally will be allowed to remain, the so—called dreamers. does it concern you at all the new rules seem to make no distinction between people being picked up charged with a crime and people being convicted? like well, according to the appropriations acts that congress has passed since 2008, all of them have required the administration to prioritise the removal of criminal aliens, people who are here illegally, by the severity of the crime they have committed. so these orders really move away from that

requirement in the law. i do think it is concerning we are not focusing on people who have been convicted of crimes. if there are no such people in the united states, that's a very good thing, but i think we should continue to focus on the people that are convicted and remove them from the united states first. david bier from the kato institute, thank you very much. thank you. and we'll have more on those recent threats againstjewish community centres in the us and president trump's response to them a little later in the programme. it's been revealed that a british fighter with so—called islamic state who died in a suicide bomb attack on iraqi forces in mosul was a former detainee at guantanamo bay. the 50—year—old was released from detention in 200a. some newspaper reports say he was given compensation of up to £1 million when he returned to the uk. 0ur security correspondent, frank gardner, has more. the face of a suicide bomber,

a british man used by so—called islamic state to blow himself up in iraq. hello? yeah, is that the stock market? and this is where he chose to end his life, mosul, in northern iraq. here, the bbc has been covering the intense fighting by iraqi forces to dislodge is from their second city. 0utgunned and outmanned, the jihadists have had to resort to booby—traps and suicide bombers to try and slow down the iraqi advance. al—harith‘s journey began straight after the 9/11 attacks. in october 2001, he travelled to quetta in pakistan. he was arrested the same year and eventually ta ken to the us base in kandahar. in 2002, he was transferred to guantanamo bay. two years later, he was repatriated

to britain and released, reportedly winning compensation from the government. then, in april 2014, he entered syria from turkey to join is as a fighter. i'm actually mystified as to how this person travelled out to syria, i can only assume under a false name or a false passport, actually. but people who served time in guantanamo would have been watched carefully by the british and american intelligence agencies, in my view. al—harith was one of hundreds of men taken from afghanistan to be se {didgbgieelésgz when you have the dozens, if not hundreds of suspects, there is very little the security services can do to monitor all of them all the time. speaking to panorama after al—harith‘s release from guantanamo, his family spoke of the transformation they saw in him. he may have changed a little

bit when he converted into a muslim and becamejamal. he may have changed as in he didn't do all the bad things like going to clubs, going out and meeting girls, smoking, drinking. he turned into a placid person. in the end, though, it seems he chose to die for a group that's committed unspeakable acts on innocent people. frank gardner, bbc news. people trafficking is a growing problem across europe, with more than 3,000 victims trafficked into the uk alone every year. and that number is rising. they come from all over the world, but by far the biggest share are from albania. in 2015, this relatively small country accounted for over 600 potential victims, about a fifth of the total. of those, the vast majority were female, and most of them were forced into prostitution. the bbc‘s reeta chakrabarti has been speaking to some of the victims. blessed with natural beauty, but the centre of a dark trade.

albania has over two decades built up a brutal industry, with human beings the commodity. translation: i hate them and i want them to get the punishment they deserve. saya, now still a teenager, was just 1a when she was sold into a trafficking ring by a man she thought was her boyfriend. she was forced to sleep with several men a day and tells of a bewildering and terrifying world of abuse in which she could trust no one. translation: there were other girls there as well, but i did not talk to them because you could not tell who was connected to whom. we were terrified. they would beat us up and not let us go out. to be controlled by someone, to be used as i was, is totally degrading. she lives here in a refuge for trafficked women in the south of the country.

but these are schoolgirls here, and some already have children of their own. saya helped put some of hers behind bars. several convicted traffickers are held here in this high security prison. last year 18 people were sentenced, some and forcing them to werkr , ~ ~ . what made him, a married man with his own children, commit such a crime? translation: it was a time where everyone was doing that kind of thing. you used a child in order to earn some money, isn't what you did entirely wrong? ef presecutiens and there: , ,, .

young women in small—town albania can be easy prey for groomers who seduce them with

promises of a better life. that better life is invariably outside albania but anna never dreamt of her fate. translation: he said he was looking for a girl like me and he wanted to start a family. she is now in a safe house in the uk, duped into leaving home and then sold into prostitution, she weeps throughout our interview but insists she wants to tell her story. translation: i was somewhere underground with no sense of the world around me. they would not let me see. i entered the building blindfolded. and you were raped every day? translation: yes. every day. many men? translation: yes, many. anna is now supported in this safe house run by the salvation army. she has a baby which gives her a reason to carry on. her story should trigger alarm in authorities here and across europe. a broken life caused by a brutal crime.

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the water and we are doing reconnaissance right now to determine how many victims we have. at least five people had to be rescued from a flooded homeless encampment. these horses were left to fend for themselves. the flooding comes in a week that saw california's biggest storm in many yea rs, california's biggest storm in many years, putting intends strain on the state's dans. in - clara county years, putting intends strain on the state's dans. in the if?" we'll tell you about a bullish bid for freedom, but did it succeed? prince charles has chosen his bride.

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with the so—called islamic state, who died in a suicide bomb attack on iraqi forces in mosul, was a former detainee at guantanamo bay. as we heard earlier, president trump has condemned recent threats againstjewish community centres in the us as "horrible" and "painful", adding that more must be done to root out hate and prejudice. his comments follow growing criticism that he'd failed to denounce hate crimes against jewish people and institutions. greg dawson reports. this cemetery in st louis was founded more than 120 years ago, and it's never seen vandalism like this. any signs of vandals returning.

i lived in israel for a long time, and when something like this happens, typically you go and drive by and look to see that everything is ok. this is just one act of whatjewish groups in the us say is part last week alone, 27 hoax bomb threats were made. and on monday, there were 11 threats in a single day. so... amid the fear, frustration at the fact that president trump has not been more outspoken. last week, there was anger over his handling of the question asked by a reporter at a white house press conference. the people running as a republican... quiet, quiet, quiet! but during tuesday's visit to the national museum of african american history and culture, the president issued a forthright condemnation that many had been waiting for. the anti—semitic threats targeting ourjewish community

and community centres are horrible are are painful and are a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate, prejudice, and evil. white house officials complain that a president with a jewish daughter and grandchildren should not have to prove his commitment to religious tolerance. but for some, this latest statement, while welcome, is still overdue. i spoke just now to the regional director of the anti—defamation league in missouri, karen aroesty. the adl fights anti—semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights. activist have dismissed his

comments. i asked whether she agreed. i think those are strong words. no, i don't think we have gone that far with this president. i think we were heartened, however, for the statement that he made at the museum of african—american history. we also looking for substance to back that up. we have the tools and resources to deal with the white house. we have the tools and resources to work with the white house. and to address anti—semitism, that i do not think will stop, ever, you need layers. you need intentional education, working with law enforcement, issues of personal accountability. and i am not sure we have heard that yet from the white house. so we hope we will, soon. what do you put this rise down to? coincidence, of course, isn't cause—and—effect. i mean, the ku klux klan officially endorse this president, but that does not mean that he endorse them. i think the rise is also part of a series of layers. it is a certain high level of nasty rhetoric. it is a level of online behaviour that is remarkable even for cyber0 hate. remarkable even for cyber—hate.

we've had increasing events in schools, and is notjust in religious institutions with the bomb threats, which are terribly destabilising, to the extent that when they come in, regardless of whether they are hoax now, entire systems have to be shut, down so that bomb sniffing dogs and go in, and security can sweep, and young kids and old — seniors need to be moved to places of safety, potentially. and that has to happen every single time. so if you look at all these layers, particularly in the way thejewish community looks of this issue, the need to look at anti—semitism is pretty high. the comments on anti—semitism that the president read today seem to conflict rather oddly with his unscripted response that he get a reporter on live television, when he told the reporter to "shut up and sit down." he said the question was insulting and went on to talk about his election victory. later, we have the white house commemorating international holocaust remembrance day without mentioning the jewish people.

that was puzzling to us indeed. and i think for time we used the word "mind—boggling". but with his statement today, his words are important. and we have to give him credit for that. but as advocates, we keep the pressure on. and it is all about education and advocacy, so we will continue to do that. and as i said, we look forward to working with the president when the structure is there to do so good stuff. briefly, karen, we heard on this st louis cemetery attack that muslim activists have started a crowd—funding effort to raise money for repairs. one of the things that is remarkable about the st louis community from a interfaith cooperation is very strong. 0ur muslim and christian brothers have been fantastic. that crowd funding opportunity was excellent and successful. a number of donations have come in and people want to pigem and help a number of donations have come

in and people want to volunteer help with both hands. that is very impressive. if that is one of the heartening things about this, one of the things being that it can build community, that is a good thing. a few minutes ago the malaysian police have given more information about the killing of the leader of north korea's half about the killing of the leader of north i i irea's half about the killing of the leader of north i i irea's you about the killing of the leader of north i i irea's you have about the killing of the leader of north i lirea's you have se% ,! about the killing of the leader of north i i irea's you have sees, the knew? i think,ynu_haveseen_the right? you have seen the video, right? you have seen the captions, you have seen the lady moving her like this the washroom.