Following the worst violence in the city for decades. A Photo Exhibition by the wife of one of chinas most famous dissidents, gives a rare insight into her life. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 3am in the gulf of oman, where two oil tankers were hit by explosions on thursday. The us secretary of state mike pompeo has accused iran of carrying out the attacks. A Us Navy Destroyer is now heading to the scene. Tehran has denied having anything to do with the incidents. Heres our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet. This morning in the gulf, a First Oil Tanker set ablaze, ignited by an explosion. Crew members on this norwegian vessel were rescued by a passing cargo ship. These scenes filmed by irans navy. An hour later, another tanker, japanese owned, also hit by an explosion. Its still not clear what caused these latest attacks in one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes
Headquarters. The outrage continues. To protest. The u. N. Security council is expected to take. Saudi arabia releases a video. Of the destruction of its military. Directing raids and. Well examine the motives behind. The economies in the world not everybody is happy about it the story. And im. Were following their trip along with the hash tag brick refugees connected us but their own hash tag aging its been. Turning over the news grid live on air streaming online through you true but facebook life and at aljazeera dot com eleven days after the u. S. Officially recognized through slim as israels Capital Global condemnation is getting louder now the United Nations Security Council is considering a draw for resolutions seeking to nullify the u. S. Decision and vote on the resolution could happen this week israels ambassador to the United Nations has strongly condemned the draft saying that no vote or discussion can change the clear reality me while protests have been held in cities acros
This is al jazeera. Hello again im peter w. Watching the news live from sixty minutes of news and comment today. Saudi arabia says it shot down a Ballistic Missile over its capital riyadh fired from yemen by who see rebels. Iran stands accused of supplying that who sees with weapons and tuesdays launch came only hours before the u. N. Security council met to discuss Irans Nuclear program. They signed a private table. In the u. S. House republicans celebrate a sweeping tax reform bill and barely an hour later the senate tells them try again. Also this violent protest failed to prevent the passing of a controversial pension law in argentina. Lets begin in saudi arabia where the Authorities Say theyve intercepted a Ballistic Missile targeting the capital riyadh its the such attack since november yemens whos the fighters have claimed responsibility saying they were targeting the royal palace which is the official residence of king solomon they say the attack was launched a mark of thousand
Watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes saudi arabia says it shot down a Ballistic Missile over its capital that fired from yemen by the rebels. Iran stands accused of supplying the who sees with weapons and tuesdays launch came only hours before the u. N. Security council met to discuss Irans Nuclear program. They signed up on a table. In the u. S. House republicans celebrate a sweeping tax reform bill and barely an hour later the senate tells them try again. And we mark a year in captivity for our colleague al jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein. The saudi Authorities Say theyve intercepted a Ballistic Missile targeting the capital riyadh its the third such attack since november who see fighters in yemen say they launched the missile targeting the royal palace King Solomons official residence they say the attack was to mark one thousand days since the start of the war in yemen it follows another launch on november the fourth w
A friendly lunch and a rare invitation south koreas leader is asked to visit. The forget the handshake its all about the hug in the palestinian territories indias Prime Minister wraps up a historic visit. Im far is small and our top sports story north and south korea played together on an olympics for the first time a unified womens Hockey Team Begin their pyong chang campaign. Out of their very warm welcome to the news hour we begin with one of the biggest confrontations between israel and the ron in years and thats ended with the dining of an israeli f. Sixteen fighter jet well the jet crashed after coming under fire during a mission inside syria but it landed in israeli territory it all began when israel says it supports a draw in flying in its ear space into set to hit israel says the drone originated from syria and it launched a major air raid in syrian territory in response with its warplanes targeting at least a dozen syrian and iranian basis well syria responded with a barrel o