Now a fully fledged Nuclear Power after its latest Missile Launch will go to our correspondent in seoul also coming out. Giving would be migrants hope at home if they see a future for themselves there perhaps they will make the dangerous journey to europe that is at the heart of the summit between leaders of the e. U. And the African Union. And here in berlin the action moves today to the president ial palace as negotiations take place to form a new Coalition Government president steinmeier is hosting talks between the chancellor and the leader of the social democrats. Im brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the United States has warned north koreas leaders that they will be utterly destroyed should tensions over the countrys Weapons Program break out into war north korean state media claiming this photo shows pyongyangs latest missile test launch two days ago observers say it was north koreas most advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to date and at this rocket can hit any city in the u. S. And. Live in washington d. C. The trumpet ministration has also threatened new sanctions and pressed china to cut off its oil supply to north korea. Americas ambassador at the u. N. He halley delivered this stern reprimand to the north korean regime the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it we have never sought war with north korea and still today we do not seek it if war does come it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday and if war comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed the nations for the very latest lets bring in Jason Strother joins us from the south korean capital seoul jason strong words from the u. S. Ambassador at the u. N. There are they likely to have any effect on john yang. Well you know weve seen ever since donald trump became president earlier this year that there has been a were a war of world words going on between pyongyang and the United States any insults lobbed at the kim jong un regime by President Trump have been met by similar fiery rhetoric coming from north korea so im sure that in within the upcoming days if not hours we will hear some or some kind of response from pyongyang about whats been said at the u. N. Security council i get our president has been calling on china to do all it can to isolate north korea or kind of leverage does beijing have right now. Well china certainly does have some leverage over north korea as nikki haley said today in new york much of north koreas crude imports come from china however there is perhaps a false belief that china has some sort of magic pill that will resolve the whole problem with north korea. Has shown many times that it will not do as beijing once it to do of course beijing has numerous times condemned north koreas provocations whether it be Missile Launches or Nuclear Tests but that has not deterred the kim jong un regime and at the end of the day china does not want a collapsing north korea it wouldnt want to see a south korea backed by American Forces on its border so theres a limit to how much china is willing to do ok well the u. S. Is warning that if china does not cut off its oil supplies to north korea that it might take matters into its own hands now what might washington be talking about what are its options right now. Well i think this is a game that the Trump Administration has been playing all along it always raises the stakes without being too explicit about what it might actually be talking about whether its trump saying that you know the u. S. Will handle north koreas recent i. C. B. M. Test. I think that the u. S. At least once to portray the notion that it could take preemptive military action in hopes of getting more movement here in the region and jason thanks so much for that from seoul. Other news down President Trump has fired back at the british Prime Minister theresa may after her office criticized the president for retreating anti islam videos from a british far right group on twitter trump said may should not focus on him but quote on the destructive radical islamic terrorism thats taking place within the United Kingdom is also facing criticism from muslim groups in the u. S. Theyre accusing him of Sowing Division and putting lives at risk. Check out some of the other stories making the news at this hour one of americas most famous morning t. V. News personalities as been fired for alleged Sexual Misconduct matt lauer host of the popular today show on n. B. C. Meanwhile the prominent us public radio host Garrison Keillor has also been let go for alleged in proprium behavior killers hosted a popular radio show since the one nine hundred ninety s. When hundreds of bosnian croatians held a vigil for the convicted worker. After he killed himself with poison at a United Nations court in the hague he was instrumental in attempts to set up a state within what is now bosniaherzegovina and for moving muslims from the region a judge upheld his twenty year jail sentence for crimes he committed during the war and former yugoslavia. Police in pakistan say gunmen have opened fire on worshippers outside a mosque in the capital islamabad they say three or four attackers on motorbikes shot at members of the Shia Community after evening prayers at least one person was killed a number of others were injured. Well addressing the root causes of the crises that create refugees and containing migration is at the center of a summit now underway in ivory Coast Capital abidjan more than eighty african and european leaders are attending that summit to talk about the issues that include things like high youth unemployment. Which younger days these two can spell the beginning of a new life initially john had wanted to try his luck in europe but halfway into his journey into his ear he gave up and returned home to ivory coast the International Organization for migration gave him a small amount of start up money for his chicken farm. Shocking fish should be more of these initiatives to stop young people leaving africa thats his message to the heads of government reason just a few kilometers away. Like to see them spending more money on young people there are so many unemployed young people many of them are highly qualified and have plans and ideas something has to change. The topic of migration is high on the agenda at the african and European Union summit german chancellor Angela Merkel said the issue is tied to the fight against people trafficking. In recent weeks there have been shocking reports from libya detailing how african migrants have been sold as slaves. At the theme i know that in a highly emotional element to the issue so i think there is a common interest in stopping illegal migration and instead offering legal ways for people from africa to be educated and study in europe. Humanitarian critics say there are far too few legal possibilities for migrants but most n. G. O. S are excluded from discussions at the summit and alternative summit for n. G. O. S was cancelled by the ivory Coast SecurityServices Without reason khadijah khanate was one of the organizers she thinks the official summit is undemocratic. It him when they will then they did Something Like this is good for the governments but not for the people here i really dont think that that concerns will be heard at the summit. Even these Young Artists are not allowed to cross the cordons they say the summit will do nothing to help them. Young people will continue to try their luck elsewhere as long as those in power and africa continue to ignore them. So can this summit make a real difference for Young Africans lets go straight to do debbie is back off and he joins us now from abidjan max whats it looking like are there some concrete proposals for making life better at home. European Member States are pledging about forty four billion euro within the next year to help the situations in different african countries although many leaders insisted that they had to check very thorough lee what exactly they would invest and what they would try to help those african countries with it so thats one part and the second part of it especially the germans has i get america mentioned which is on the african side Good Governance for example michael said that the young generation thats getting stronger and stronger in the african countries would help would hold their governments accountable for Good Governance and for fighting corruption of course those are two names that weve heard over and over again in the last decades but participants here and of egil insisted that this time its different its a real new start between the European Union and the African Union a max things are different on a lot of levels the world was shocked at the scenes of african refugees on sales slaves in libya and apparently theres a push on right now to address that. Bryan youre right about that there was an emergency meeting called by the french president that money remark all on the topic last night and apparently the plan of some of the european Member States now is to evacuate at least some of the migrants that are stuck in those terrible camps in libya the official Libyan Government is on board and wants a grant access to those camps and then some of the migrants would be flown back to their countries of origin others depending on their status might be flown to European Union countries or other countries in the world you can see the details and still not really need to be worked out but in the new way mccall said that this plan would be put into action within the next days or weeks so there is some urgency to do something about the situation on the european end on the african side ok briefly if you could max out what about the calls for a legal path for african migration as i getting any support there is a lot of support especially the germans are talking about legal migration for the sake of education in the European Union but the chancellor when we asked or said that this would might be open also for qualified workers or other workers again also need to work out the details here but legal migration seems to be in the cards ok macsoftware force and abidjan at that summit thanks very much max. Pope francis has wrapped up his visit to myanmar without publicly addressing the countrys range of muslim refugee crisis the Catholic Leader concluded his trip with the youth mass calling on his audience to make themselves heard but the bottom self has come under criticism from human Rights Groups who are refraining about speaking out over the euro hinge a humanitarian crisis has to neighboring bangladesh next where some six hundred thousand range of muslims of fled to escape the violence and me in mar. Well here in berlin the pressure is on a form a new Coalition Government after weeks of failed negotiations until the election at the end of september there was a socalled grand coalition between chancellor merkels conservatives and the center left social democrats now it looks as if germany is in for more of the same sign myrow former social democrat himself a minister in the last coalition is now president and hell be banging Heads Together at the president ial palace today in berlin the to get along well and respect each other and dilemma foreign ministers. If it were just up to the c. D. U. Chief and the former leader of the social democrats negotiations for the grand coalition would be rather straightforward but many s. P. D. Members are still reeling from the poor Election Results they now want the conservatives to pay a high price for a new edition of a grand coalition one of the core demands is that the states spend more money on social welfare programs. In a bid to combat old age poverty the s. P. D. Wants to increase state pensions using tax funds and they want to limit temporary work contracts something the conservative alliance is opposed to theres also disagreement when it comes to refugee policy the s. P. D. Wants to allow close relatives of refugees in germany to join them but so far the c. D. U. C. S. U. Has blocked this plan the social democrats in turn reject the demand by the conservatives for an upper limit on the number of refugees allowed into germany the s. P. D. And the conservatives have few differences when it comes to foreign and e. U. Policy gabriele would like to remain foreign minister and even conservatives agree that they sometimes abrasive has been an effective foreign minister. The only difference is that the s. P. D. Sympathizes with the french president s ideas on reform such as a common European Finance policy the conservative alliance rejects many of my clones plans but say theyre still waiting to talk theres no guarantee that a new edition of the grand coalition will succeed but analysts say negotiations should not take as long as recent talks between the conservatives and two of the smaller parties after all years of working together have led to a certain family arity. Or garretts here now with a look at a looming conflict between the u. S. And some of his partners over one of the most important commodities in the World Economy exactly and thats still of course trade ministers of the from the g. Twenty countries are gathering in berlin today to avert an all out trade war china is under fire for throwing cheap steel into World Markets to deal with its overproduction at home the u. S. Has threatened to impose tariffs on foreign steel the e. U. Said it would retaliate german trade minister noted supers has warned that the chances for an agreement today are slim as a result of the crisis more and more steel makers are merging since germanys test in an answer was to merge with indian rival giant tata Steel Workers in germany. After working seven Straight Days a swag operator gets four days off. Began his career at thirty eight years ago but now hes afraid hell lose his job. Theyre going to close the. Were fighting to keep our jobs. Thousand jobs here and another two thousand and four talking over four thousand jobs. Then you have to wonder who those four thousand will be. Has signed a letter of intent to merge that steel business with tata steel competition from the u. S. And china has made the market highly competitive. That joining forces will make them more formidable and allow them to become more specialized for instance with flat Steel Production aside shuttering plants in germany the Works Council feels undermined by plans to base the new entity in the netherlands where they have no representation. There are a number of new developments never seen before. The measures involving job cuts and other changes but this joint venture is entirely different. Colleagues are really worried because theres no way to know. What our future is going to look like. Horsed zimmerman who is three years away from retiring feels the best years are behind him his brother thomas who sits on the Workers Council the still hopeful the brothers have a different vision of to some crops a future. Cup of coffee you like were being thrown under the bus im not hopeful well keep fighting. On that was given actually our union is strong. Has our backs. That makes us confident well have the opportunity to steer things in a positive direction for us. Is despite their differences the brothers are united in the hope that the blast furnaces and duisburg and other german factories will keep firing for a long time to come. Well ministers from the g twenty group of countries and the o. E. C. D. Are meeting in poland to balance today as weve heard in my college on the chin better is covering that event hes in the studio with me each one of trauma certainly terrorists the e. U. Is firing back it doesnt sound really nice does it can this summit today really help avert a proper trade war well they will be meeting for a very short time today just for a couple of hours and these are trade ministers from the g twenty group of nations and of course the o. E. C. D. And what we do know though is that the u. S. Hasnt sent its highest level trade representative so thats already kind of senses i think does it does i mean everybody china germany the e. U. Of course is and its highest trade representative they are you commissioner Celia Malmstrom so obviously its kind of strange that the u. S. Will not be having the highest level person speaking on behalf of them and we all kind of wondering whether thats obviously a message but well hear that later today at the press conference and will be able to tell you whats going on so does the fact that the one of the main players in this game is not at the table doesnt mean that probably there. Anything really well they are the table but of course hes in his chief of staff so that says something is obviously i mean the chief of staff can always make some decisions you know on the fly so that could mean that maybe the u. S. Wont be either making any big moves or major announcements at this point or that they are obviously keen on going with what President Trump has already said which is potentially having punitive tariffs on cheaper steel from china or the e. U. So lets think a bit further when you know some some kind of trade war is developing work we expect from the Steel Industry in the coming months and well in terms of what we can expect in europe especially we could expect more consolidation. Like we saw in that report has announced that they will be merging with tata steel which is from india so we will see maybe fewer players in the euro can market and of course the shrinking in terms of the number of players like i just said and of course. Companies also produce less still as a result of that and the e. U. Interestingly in brief if you can i mean its all based on steel isnt it yes it is this is the history of the e. U. The first Common Market at least the biggest Common Market in the world was founded to basically protect the steel and coal market and that was in one thousand fifty two and that was the european coal and Steel Community which today is the European Union so this is it goes to the core. Of the European Union japan that youre better thank you very much. In the us the Republican Party is split about Donald Trumps plans to cut taxes to the tune of one point five trillion dollars thats trillion with a t. Over one decade now Senate Republicans put forward new demands to cap the proposed tax rate even further from twenty two percent down to twenty percent critics say mainly the rich will benefit the bill was passed in the house both two weeks ago and the senate is set to vote on the measure thursday night President Trump promoted the legislation at an event in missouri on wednesday saying the changes will cut waste from the tax system we. Americans tax code is a total dysfunctional mess the Current System has cost our nation millions of american jobs trillions and trillions of dollars and billions of hours wasted on paperwork and compliance it is riddled with loopholes that let some special interests colluding myself and offer this is going to cost me a fortune this thing believe me belief this is not good for me so a u. S. Economy continues to expand the governments just posted a three point three percent rise for the last quarter thats the quickest growth in three years and thats despite the nation being hit by two big hurricanes Business Investment is up and a strengthening economy would warrant continued increases of Interest Rates but it might not go on for long as analysts have slashed Fourth Quarter growth estimates as due to a slowdown in Consumer Spending and sluggish wage growth. American airlines has inadvertently given too many of its pilots time off over the Christmas Period due to a Software Malfunction that glitch now only around fifteen thousand flights without a captain copilot or both according to the pilots union usually staff occasion requests are automatically denied if there arent enough pilots to fly the planes passengers dont need to worry just yet the allen plans to fix the error by calling on its reserve pilots and their offering ties meant overtime pay. Siemens is setting the stage for germanys largest i. P. O. In more than two decades europes largest industrial choose chose frankfurt over new york for the listing of health than is its medical business which sells machines to hospitals and doctors in the last Quarter Health and as was the largest of nine divisions by revenue and its also the most profitable one as part of the i. P. O. Siemens is expected to sell a Minority Stake of up to twenty five percent the listing of stock exchanges scheduled to take place in the first half of next year. And a new series and the first of its kind in germany is getting a lot of media interest in brian as its dark hair hard thats the name of the series were taking you now to vend in a tranquil little town in the black forest its where the new t. V. Series darkest set and its the first ever drama produced in german for the streaming Service Netflix now strangely enough the residents of that town have not noticed any filming going on thats because the ten episodes have been filmed here in berlin. A small town with some very dark secrets the mysterious disappearance of a young boy the second in just a few weeks spocks a desperate search for answers by phone connected families each with their own skeletons in the closet. The families dont know where the boy is but eerily we do. 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Diverse of sports now a look at a sporting multitalented one of footballs top coaches is said to trade the Training Pitch for the hot and dusty trails of the dakar rally former zenit St Petersburg and Tottenham Hotspur coach andre villas boss will drive a truck in the rally which begins in january. High to the chinese cup final in november and will use the off season to fulfill what he called a lifetime ambition bosses an avid motorbike an off road driver with racing in the blood his uncle competed in dakar back in one thousand nine hundred two. Lets get to a modern now of our top stories at this hour the United States. Issues a warning to north koreas leaders will destroy you if your acts of aggression continue that after kim jong un launched another missile and said is nation was now a fully fledged Nuclear Power. And here in berlin the action today is all of the president ial palace as negotiations take place to form a new Coalition Government german president francois to steinmeyer is hosting talks between the chancellor and the leader of the social democrats. This is day to be news live from the london forget you can always get more about these and other stories at our website interview dot com or follow us on twitter or facebook for all the latest news from a brian thomas in the entire team thanks so much for being with us. The strength in numbers and Connective Intelligence sloans of sticklebacks always manage to punish. A single one on its own come to that. So how do small towns to bend it such capabilities. Research his have found a decisive in an all. To morrow to day next. D. W. Enters the conflict zone a new president has taken the oath of office in zimbabwe but you see any different from the old one my guest here in london is mick bunworth the u. K. 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