North koreas foreign minister has launched a fresh verbal attack on President Trump. Speaking at the united nations, ri yong ho called President Trump a mentally deranged person full of megalomania. He said trumps threat to destroy his country had made a rocket assault on the United States all the more inevitable. Andrew plant has the story. Pyongyang, the capital of north korea, the place where tens of thousands of North Koreans gathered to show support for their leader, kim jong un, and their anger at americas leader, donald trump. Translation who the hell is trump to talk about the collapse of our government . We are resolved to settle our differences with the us by military force, if war breaks out. Translation afterl heard the announcement, my anger at the psycho trump was unbearable. His words at the un were quite ridiculous. America, in turn, has demonstrated its strength and its own offensive options the us air force flying bombers and fighters over waters east of north korea.
Vin diesel returns for the eighth installment in the Fast And Furious series. Film criticjames king gives us his verdict on this and the rest of the weeks Cinema Releases. Our main story at 5 the Afghan Government says 36 militants from the so called Islamic State group were killed when the United States dropped one of its biggest non Nuclear Bombs in the Eastern Province of nanggarhar on thursday. The commander of us forces in Afghanistan Generaljohn Nicholson said the attack had been coordinated with the government in kabul, and that no civilians were harmed. But theres also been criticism former afghan President Hamid karzai condemned the bombing as inhuman. Our south asia editor Jill Mcgivering reports. This is american hard power in action. The moment the us dropped, for the first time, the biggest Non Nuclear Weapon it has. It was a moab, nicknamed the mother of all bombs, and it was targeting underground bases in eastern afghanistan, a stronghold of the so called Islamic State g
In. Coalition air strikes have targeted i. S. I. L. Fighters surrounding a turkish town onned border with turkey. An i. S. I. L. Building and two tanks were destroyed near kobani. Kurdish fighters attacked the group on the ground. Kurds in syria are spread across the north. I. S. I. L. Fighters overran dozens of villages around the town of kobani, they tried to take town, but were pushed back by kurdish fighters. Here is Stefanie Dekker from the kurdish side of the border. Reporter the sound of fighter jets. There were multiple jets around the town. Its an ongoing battle. It is not over. As we drove east we come across a crowd of syrian crowds. Depended on handouts, human desperation by the war. Translation we have been humiliated, theres no water or electricity. Theres food, but not enough. We are eight families living in a basic small house. We cant go back, because there are fighting. Reporter 10km east of coppany, we kobani, we experienced the battle first hand. We are told the kur
This is al jazeera, these other top stories, iraqs. She a politician, that target asada is asking all iraqis to join protested who are camped inside parliament. Saturday, thousands of his supporters stormed the building in bagdad for the 2nd time in a week either, and his supporters are now demanding a complete change to the political system and the constitution. The testers vowed to stay put until their demands are met. With otherwise reports not from baghdad. The gains on his home to government offices, and also International Diplomatic missions. Now, there have been calls will call the president of the code of this region november rezani has called on the political arrival factors to come to court this time and to be engaged in, in negotiation to, in this crisis. But these protests will say that they will not leave until their demands are met. President Vladimir Putin has signed a new naval strategy, which designates u. S. And nato military infrastructure. Moving towards russias bor
Us. How Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun to trip to taiwan, despite warnings of several consequences from china, and just a few hours pelosi will meet. President sy, in gwin, and visit taiwan the parliament. Shes the most senior us official to visit the self governing island and 25 years. They, she says pelosi visit is a serious violation of the one china principal and his bound to launch targeted military actions around the islands and vehicles within patrolling the chinese port city of sherman across the street from taiwan. Let me be clear, the speakers visit is totally consistent with our long standing one china policy. Weve been very clear that nothing has changed about i want child policy, which is guided course by the taiwan relations act. 3 joint u. S. P r. C communications. 6 assurances, we said that we oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side. We said we do not support taiwan independence. And we said, as i said again yesterday, that we expect cross stree