well, truthfully, this issue has been known throughout the marine corps and the department of defenceime. there had been dedicated journalists covering the military for the past five or eight years who have written stories about this. it is not the first time that the department of defence has heard about this. this specific instance in regards to marines united was uncovered through a non—profit journalist with the warhorse and a freelance journalist this weekend. and the most recent discovery that this is potentially dod wide across all military services through business insider last night. and the reason you are driving forward with your group is that because you yourself had pictures that you found were being circulated you, although not naked. correct. i was part of something similar that happened to me while i was on deployment in 2008. a marine obtained photos of me from my social media account, downloaded them and was using them in what they like to call tent parties or barracks parties, talking in sexually explicit language, encouraging what marines would do to me in a demean

as promised, i directed the department of defence to develop a plan to demolish and destroy isis, a networkn and children of all faiths and beliefs. we will work with our allies, including those in the muslim world, to extinguish this violent the muslim world, to extinguish this viole nt enemy from the muslim world, to extinguish this violent enemy from our planet. taking you to another piece connected with that. a tribute to ryan allen is killed in the rain in yemen last month that a raid. he was one of the first officers to die in combat since the presidency began. he died as he lived, a hero battling against terrorism and securing our nation. applause that was the victim's widow. what was the feeling about this? he made a very big feature of ryan allen's widow. some called it an abortive raid in yemen. civilians died as well. there was a long ovation which she of course deserved. the president said that the general was blamed for the failure of vat rate. it is all rather odd? there is no question that he had on his mind the criticisms of the raid, whether it actually yielded much intelli

something that was authorised by the bush administration, from the very top, you know, from the department of defence authorised. not once, but four different times. and vice president dick cheney said water—boarding is fine, it does not constitute torture. so i want to make that clear. however, there is alternative point of view that says water—boarding does constitute torture — we know, for example, barack obama said it did constitute torture. so, by extension, therefore, your critics would say, that you are a perpetrator of torture, or, to put it another way, you are a torturer, yourself. what is your response to that? well, fortunately, what matters is what the justice department says. the office of legal counsel is the highest law enforcement agency in terms of making these decisions. torture has a legal definition. right? and so the colloquial way that we use the word torture, i can see why people might think that. and that's the way that barack obama used it. i, personally, think late term abortions are torture. but it doesn't matter whatjim mitchell thinks is or isn't torture. it matters what

waterboarding was something that was authorised by the bush administration from the very top, from the department of defencehat this was unauthorised. and vice president dick cheney said it was fine and did not constitute torture. so want to make that clear. but there is alternative point of view that says waterboarding does constitute torture. we know, for example, ba rack constitute torture. we know, for example, barack 0bama said it did constitute torture. so by extension, your critics would say, that you are a perpetrator of torture, or to put it another way, you are a torture at yourself. what is your that? what matters is what the legal counsel says. they are the highest authority terms of making these decisions. torture has a legal definition. the total weight that we use the word torture, agassi what people think that. and that is the way barack 0bama used to. i personally think that late term abortions are torture. but it does not matter what jim mitchell thinks ought to make is or is not —— thinks is or is not torture. there was a several year—long investigation into whether anyone involved in the

this issue has been known throughout the marine corps and the department of defence for quite sometime journalists covering it for the past five — eight years so this is not the first time they have heard about this but this specific insta nce heard about this but this specific instance in regards to marines united was uncovered through the non—profit journalist thomas brennan with the warhorse and another report this past weekend. the most recent discovery that this is potentially across all military services through business insider last night. the reason you are driving forward with the group is because you yourself found pictures circulated of you, though not in the nude. found pictures circulated of you, though not in the nudelj found pictures circulated of you, though not in the nude. i was part of something similar when i was on deployment in iraq. a marine obtained photographs of me off my social media account, downloaded them and was using them in what they called parties, talking in sexually explicit language, encouraging what marines would do to me in a demeaning and sexual

i would refer you back to the department of defence. ss this more is andrew exum, who was one of president 0bama's top advisors on middle east affairs. during the campaign, president trump kept saying, i have a plan, iwill campaign, president trump kept saying, i have a plan, i will keep it secret, we will defeat islamic state fast, is this part of the plan? yes and no, this does not diverge significantly from a plan that was in place, working with local partners, but this perhaps addresses one of the fundamental problems that the united states and its coalition partners have in syria, syria and iraq, in iraq, the iraqi army, heavy equipment, in syria, the kurdish do not have every equipment. you have two options, you can give them it, train them on it, train them on the types of things they need to breach defences around raqqa. that will anger the turks, nato ally, or, deploy us forces to breach out. —— the kurdish do not have heavy equipment. for trump took office, they were looking at those options, ways to help the kurdish and arabic

applause as promised, i directed the department of defence to develop a plan to demolish and destroy savages who have slaughtered muslims and christians and men and women and children of all faiths and all beliefs. we will work with our allies, including ourfriends we will work with our allies, including our friends and allies we will work with our allies, including ourfriends and allies in the muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet. applause applause i have also imposed new sanctions on entities and individuals who support iran's ballistic missile programme and reaffirmed our unbreakable alliance with the state of israel. applause finally, i have kept my promise to appoint a justice to the united states supreme court from my list of 20 judges who will defend our constitution. applause iam i am greatly honoured to have maureen scalia with us in the gallery tonight. applause thank you, maureen. her late, great husband antonin scully will forever be a symbol of americanjustice. to scully will forever be a symbol of american justice. to fill his seat, we have chosen

ukraine has brought a case against russia, accusing moscow of illegally annexed in crimea and sponsoring terrorism, and the us defence department to look into allegations that a number of marines shared naked photos of female colleagues on facebook. significant setbacks for the islamic state group today. we can concentrate on mosul, the last stronghold and as they discussed government forces are trying to reca ptu re government forces are trying to recapture the city. they have taken an important bridge. the freedom bridge, and kurdish forces also backing up the crimes that it has fallen to the government. the reason it matters, we have got the situation in the city when the east is controlled by the government forces, the west still buy islamic state. this bridgejoins the territory. the second development, raqqa. the centre of operations. reports that syrian militia has cut of the last main road out of the city. the plan has long been to encircle raqqa, and if islamic state militants want to get it, they are going to have to cross the river. the situation is complicated because you have got different entries competing. actuall

defence spending into some context for us. as christian mentioned that nine per cent equates to a rise of about sli—billion dollars. compare that with the total state departmente than the state department. the director of the white house budget office made it clear today this is exactly what president trump wants. make no mistake about it, this is a hard—power budget, not a soft—power budget. that is what the president wanted and that is what we gave him. today's planned budget cuts for the environmental protection agency puts into focus once again the trump administration's controversial approach to climate change. what he wants to do is red meat stuff — anything like veterans, the war, military, i'm running through them, homeland security. this what is conservative base wants the president to spend on and are not interesting in diplomacy. but you withdraw diplomacy and you end up withdraw diplomacy and you end up with problems around the world which means mu = to spend more on your means you have to spend more on your military. i have had a tweet, dave saying, why are you always knocking trump, he is doing what he said he would do. name me a president that

ten of its department stores in china have closed and suddenly due to something that seems completely unrelated on the surface, the building of an american missile defencede so because lotte had agreed to provide so that south korean land, which includes part of a golf course, to allow the americans to build a controversial missile defence system which can shoot down ballistic missiles. the us says it is an important line of defence against the north korean missile development programme, beijing has lobbied heavily against it saying that the powerful radars of the system are capable of monitoring chinese territory and it should not be allowed to go ahead. the chinese, it seems, are hitting back. there have been protests against lotte, a chinese e—commerce site has temporarily closed the lotte shopping site, a chinese snack maker says it will pull its products from lotte stores. it is the biggest duty free company in the world which makes about 70% of its sales to chinese customers, it said its website was taken offline by a cyber attack. it is up and running again. chinese cosmetics retailer said it had scrubbed the name of lotte from its retailer, sayi

departments have been happy to digestive enormous cuts. welfare state, policing, defence, the list is long. will we expect any handouts to help with those areas? what we've seen so far in terms of that it looks like he's likely to rollout is national insurance for the self—employed and classic taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. what we've been hearing about is social care as well and of course the big issue is business rates. it may be a contribution to some, taking funds away from these businesses but then setting up a fund to then give that money back in the transition area says. there definitely seems to be a sense of where is all of this money going? that's why we need more clarity on what the £60 billion is for and how it will give people the security they need during the brexit negotiations. not long to wait until we find out what's in that speech. thank you for coming in and for your analysis. just to say of course we will be right across that budget announcement on the bbc, with all of our experts and resources on television, radio and online. so you can keep right across it as it happens. moving on now. the usjustice department has levied its largest ever criminal fine i

defence system has been in the works for a long time. it's being moved in now, according to the state department, because of this increased activities andmr toner was saying, it's defensive. it's not meant to be a threat to china. china worried about the powerful radars, it sees that as a threat. this was brought up a lot in the briefing today because secretary tillerson is going to asia next week, visiting china,japan, going to asia next week, visiting china, japan, south korea. north korea will be a big topic. that will be the message to china — this is not a threat to you. the message will be, how can we come up with new ways of looking at how to deal with this growing north korean threat. mr toner said they were looking at tougher sanctions. they were looking at implementing existing sanctions. that was a message to china. china is key in that. other options are being examined as well, though he didn't say what they are. the fact that mr tillerson is going to asia next week shows the priority of the trump administration on dealing with this issue. i'm trying to understand how the state department fits into the trump administration m

defence system in south korea isn't a threat to beijing. china strongly opposes the deployment of the system and says it will take measures to defend its security, but the us state departmentployment was designed to prevent an attack from north korea. we've been very clear in our conversations with china that this is not meant to be a threat and is not a threat to them or any other power in the region. it is a defensive system and is in place all will be in place because of north korea's provocative behaviour. also making news, the british government has suffered a second defeat in parliament over its legislation to trigger the process of britain leaving there eu. —— the eu. the house of lords voted to get a legal commitment that parliament will have a meaningful vote on the deal britain negotiates when it leaves the eu. but, as our political editor explains, the amendment can't block the bill to invoke what is known as article 50 of the lisbon treaty. that is the mechanism for leaving the eu. in football that has been humiliation for arsenal in the champions league my thrashed 5—1 at home by bayern munich. that means they lost the tie on aggregate, piling pressure on alre

third of women, it is hard to understand why, after what is already very rigorous vetting by nine us government agencies, including the fbi, the national counterterrorism centre, the defence department have escaped persecution, including fleeing from terrorists are somehow still a security risk. i do think the judges will look at the rationale. the religious rationale is an interesting question. the new order certainly removes the explicit prioritisation of minority religions which was referring to christian religions in certain countries. it removes that explicitly, but it is not clear that the judges will not look behind this as they were beginning to do with the first order, because of all the statements made by the president and his close advisers during the campaign and since then. it is hard to predict where this will come out with regards what is called the establishment clause, that government cannot favour one religion over another. it is good to see you. thank you. air pollution is one of the greatest dangers to public health around the world, that's according to the head of the world health organisation. and diesel fumes are one of the worst pollutants. the problem is par

because the defence department pushed for that change because we are helping iraq to defeat isis and we did not want to antagonise that country with a ban on their citizens so that is the cause ofo whether this happened. it's a risky strategy for him because there is no evidence that obama did this. if he has proven that trumps all is on a right—wing website and put it on twitter on his own account —— donald trump saw this on a right—wing website, it undermines his credibility because most capitol hill republicans that i spoke to say there is no basis for what donald trump said so it is almost a distraction. thank you, daniel. it little bit of trouble hearing you with the dodgy line but it's good to talk to you. councillors are meeting to decide whether to issue a new licence for a zoo where almost 500 animals have died in the last four years. south lakes zoo, in cumbria, was fined almost £300,000 following the death of a keeper who was mauled by a tiger in 2013. government inspectors have criticised the zoo for overcrowding, and a lack of proper welfare for animals. will travers, president of the born free foundation spoke to us earlier. this particular zoo has a very sorry hi