And sun, sea but few signs of tourists. Sri lanka struggles to shrug off the impact of the Easter Sunday attacks. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7 in the evening in washington, where theres been a dramatic escalation in the war of words between President Trump and his Democratic Party opponents, on the question of impeachment. The president has given a series of irate News Conferences. In one, he accused the leading democrat adam shiff whos chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of being a low life whod committed treason. In another, he said democrat president ial hopefuljoe biden and his son were stone cold crooked. More now from my colleague in washington laura trevelyan. It should have been a routine visit from the president of finland but with President Trump in the centre ofan with President Trump in the centre of an unfolding impeachment drama, there was nothing routine about to
And sun, sea but few signs of tourists. Sri lanka struggles to shrug off the impact of the Easter Sunday attacks. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, 1 oclock in the morning in london, and 8 00 in the evening in washington, where theres been a dramatic escalation in the war of words between President Trump and his Democratic Party opponents, on the question of impeachment. The president has given a series of irate News Conferences. In one, he accused the leading democrat adam shiff, in one, he accused the leading democrat adam schiff, whos chairman of the house intelligence committee, of being a low life whod committed treason. In another, he said democrat president ial hopefuljoe biden and his son were stone cold crooked. More now from my colleague in washington laura trevelyan. It should have been a routine visit by the president of finland to the white house but, with President Trump at the centre of an unfolding i
Says a new italian law all targeting n. G. O. S migrant ships could be in danger of. Sport former england captain wayne really is leaving the United States but 33 year old has saw him as a player coach with 2nd tier english side dalby county. Hello the us says its still open to negotiations with china in the hopes of reaching a trade deal further talks in washington are planned for next month but hopes are fading they will be fruitful on monday the u. S. Government formally declared china a currency manipulator something beijing has denied well the move came hours after china devalued its currency the one which caused volatility in the Financial Markets and that was after the trumpet administration announced an increase. Tariffs on a further 300000000000. 00 in chinese imports last week when not fully comes into effect next month it will mean virtually every product china exports to the u. S. Will be subject to extra taxes lets cross over to White House Correspondent can really help jo
Uranium enrichment. What can expect from the administration . We heard from secretary of state. Omp pao pompeo i would expect more tough talk this week but President Trump is disinclined to intervene militarily a broad. There was a lot of talk recently about pompeo beating the war drum. We have heard less about john bolton lately. President trump has been warning iran but at the same time saying it doesnt look good. I imagine we will hear him telling it iran to knock it off. Something to cut this short. In your National Journal piece at the end of last week, lots going on. Foreign policy, defense dominate the senate. On iran you talked about senators rand paul introducing in thee in terms of Iran National Defense Authorization act, that the senate will begin to take up this week. It is the defense spending bill that Congress Considers and it is supposed to get a vote, procedural vote this week. On the full house floor, it passed out of committee a month or so ago. What senators includi
Representative susan wild, democrat from pennsylvania who represents the seventh district. She formerly served in allentown, pennsylvania. Where were you born . Born on an air force base in germany. My father was an air force officer and my parents were stationed there. Tell us about tell us about his service . Wild he lied about his age to join and retired at the age of 55 and went through the college g. I. Bill and went through Officer Training School and became an air force pilot. And he served in world war ii . Wild and korea. He was a bomber pilot. He was pretty much of a disciplinarian, everything you would expect from a military guy. Very funny, extroverted, my friends loved him and at home he was very demanding. What was childhood like . Representative wild we moved constantly. My mother always worked, had her own career which she had to constantly reinvent because of moving around so much. I have a younger sister who is almost eight years younger. It was difficult because of t