In. The as Indonesia s disaster agency believes the tsunami was triggered by an underwater landslide caused by an eruption of Mt Krakatoa Emperor Akihito of Japan has broadcast his last birthday message before he steps down next April he said he was relieved that his rain was coming to an end without Japan having at beaming again in Ghana engaged in a war 2nd order isn t that the lives of many were lost in the past World War We must not forget that the peace and prosperity of our country is built on this great sacrifice and also the old flag efforts of the people I have thought that it is important for this to be conveyed correctly to the people who were born after the war the head of a United Nations team of observers is due to arrive in the Red Sea port of data in Yemen later to start monitoring a cease fire that started there last Tuesday under the truce deal the Who fees are due to pull back from the port to allow the un to take over its administration Here s more now from our Ara
B.b.c. News the Us defense secretary Jim Matthews has become the latest in a string of senior Trump administration officials to resign his abrupt a decision came the day after Mr Trump announced he was withdrawing u.s. Troops from Syria than Johnson reports from Washington is resignation letter talked of America s strength in a unique and comprehensive system of global alliances and partnerships that should be maintained and allies that must be respected it s clear he doesn t feel Donald Trump s foreign policy approach America 1st adequately respects those international organizations agreements and relationships he s understood to have argued against the president s surprise announcement yesterday that u.s. Troops will be withdrawn from Syria he also questioned policy towards Russia and China and said he concluded the president should have a defense secretary whose views were better aligned with his own president has again said that any measure to fund the u.s. Government must include
But they have described this incident as deliberate the destruction has been huge in scale I was inside there were a few sniffing from every direction we spoke to one woman who was expected to fly out to New York this morning for her honeymoon with her husband and of course that is one of thousands of plans which currently lie in taxes Danish intelligence services say they have authenticated a video showing the murder of one of 2 Scandinavian women tourists in Morocco they said in a statement they believe Islamist militants carried out the killings the women s bodies were found on Monday near a village in the high Atlas Mountains where they had been camping Moroccan police say they have arrested 4 suspects in connection with the murder world news from the b.b.c. The head of the electoral commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has summoned the presidential candidate student take part in Sunday s election amid reports that the vote could be postponed an official news conference
Said Washington would use the reimposition of tough sanctions on Iran s oil and financial sectors to exert relentless pressure on the country unless it changed its current course the new u.s. Sanctions include those lifted under the 2050 nuclear agreement which Mr Trump calls the worst deal ever negotiated the Pakistani lawyer who helped free a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy has arrived in the Netherlands after fleeing for his safety sign for Maluco said the local u.n. Staff had advised him to leave Pakistan and Saturday following Aasia Bibi s acquittal by the Supreme Court last week thousands of religious hardliners blocked roads in many cities to protest against the verdict b.b.c. News there s tight security in New York as a jury is selected for the trial of Khalid Chapo Guzman the former Mexican drug lord because of the notoriety of the defendant the jurors identities will not be disclosed Guzman faces life in prison on charges of drug trafficking and conspiracy h
Because science is converging on a unified theory of where the moon came from and you may be surprised and in the 2nd half hour of exploration we re going to bring on our 2nd guest professor and Gregory stock of u.c.l.a. Author of a controversial book called redesigning humans that s right what happens in the future not the far future but in the coming decades but we have the ability to manipulate the genetic heritage of the human race what does it mean if we can have designer children if parents can begin to choose the genetic characteristics of their kids and then the question is who decides who decides how far to push this technique that is being perfected in the laboratories now to be sure we don t have it yet however in the coming decades we can forsee a time when parents over anxious parents perhaps will want to perhaps genetically altered their genetic heritage 1st of all to eliminate genetic diseases which have haunted us since the origin of time. But perhaps even beyond that