Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington dc, where President Trump has been setting out his latest National Security plan. At its heart, a commitment to put american interests first in dealing with the world. He singled out china and russia as foreign powers seeking to erode us prosperity. And he said the United States has no choice but to deal with the challenge from north korea. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. For two years for two yea rs now for two years now donald trump has talked incessantly about america first. Today in unveiling his National Security strategy he sought to give a slogan flesh and bones. And what he was keen to do was stress what a break with the recent past his election represented. He was the change maker. With this strategy i am announcing today we are declaring that america is in the game and america is going to win. The document says that russia and china want to shape the world antistatic or two us values and interests. Thats
In the evening in washington, dc, where President Trump has been setting out his latest National Security plan. At its heart a commitment to put american interests first in dealing with the world. He singled out china and russia as foreign powers seeking to erode us prosperity, and he said the United States has no choice but to deal with the challenge from north korea. Here is our north america editorjon sopel. For two years now, donald trump has talked incessantly about america first. Today, in unveiling his National Security strategy, he sought to give a slogan flesh and bones. And what he was keen to do was stress what a break with the recent past his election represented. He was the change maker. With this strategy i am announcing today, we are declaring that america is in the game, and america is going to win. But to seize the opportunities of the future, we must first understand the future, we must first understand the failures of the past. 0ur leaders engaged in nation building
A palestinian is released from an israeli jail. Boys are being kidnapped by fake initiation schools. Be while its another crucial day that could decide greeces economic fate the greek government has less than 24 hours now to convince the creditors that it can be trusted to enact promised reforms and secure a promised bailout. Economic reforms and further austerity measures in last ditch attempt to stay within the eurozone. Athens has asked for 54 billion euros to cover its debt but some analysts believe it needs much more. Ministers will meet in a few hours. The new loan would be in addition to the 240 billion euros greece has already received from its creditors since 2010. Simon mcgregor wood reports now from athens on a difficult day of talks. After nine hours the finance ministers decided they had had enough. They would have another go on sunday morning. There was no particular cause for optimism. We have had a discussion of the greek proposals. The issue of credibility and trust wa
Last couple of hours we have received confirmation that two people have been killed in Hurricane Irma, that was given by the French Overseas minister saying we are talking about two deadened in two seriously injured for now, obviously the situation can change very quickly. The category five hurricane has destroyed buildings and caused major flooding as trucks and caused major flooding as trucks and caused major flooding as trucks and caused major flooding is attracts another group of islands in the caribbean, packing winds of up to 300 kph. The eye of the storm is sitting close to puerto rico at the moment, with the Dominican Republic and haiti next in line. It is passed over the Leeward Islands, which includes Antigua And Barbuda and st maarten. It is not known how much destruction has been there already. This is from the island of st maarten, the French Interior minister said the island has sustained whites read widespread flooding and many buildings have been destroyed. Another scen
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