Russia and china as competing great powers hes promising hundreds of billions of dollars to modernize the military u. S. Power abroad our White House Correspondent Kimberly Hall get reports from washington populism has been a hallmark of his presidency and donald trump again struck that note as he announced a strategy for u. S. National security is an approach he says began when voters rejected the Security Policies of his predecessors on january twentieth two thousand and seventeen i stood on the steps of the capitol. To herald the day the people became the rulers of their nation again in a rambling and often disjointed address trump skimmed through the substance of his plan including highlighting a desire to pursue an almost cold war like mindset identifying china and russia as key u. S. Adversaries despite working with russia recently to avert an attack in St Petersburg area sieved a call from president putin of russia thanking our country for the intelligence that r. C. A. Was able
Marijuana. In states for pot is legal, attorney general Jeff Sessions has directed federal prosecutors to use their discretion in deciding how aggressively to enforce federal law. The death toll from a passenger train crash in south africa is now at 18. A South African officials said the train slammed into a truck driver mistakenly thought he could cross the tracks in time. Ministerrys transport said an additional 260 people were injured. In freedent occurred state province. The United States and south korea will not hold their angle joint military drills during the Winter Olympics next month. According to a statement from the office of the south korean president , in President Trump agreed during a phone call today at the gates the games in pyeongchang should be kept peaceful. South korea plans to cornett talks withs. For north korea that are scheduled for next week. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Mark Cru
Firefighters im here with the sport including i cant save athletics on my own. Usain bolt is saddened by the dopiining allegations surroundi his sport as he prepares for the world dopi championships in be worrying developments in korea. South korea fired shells into north korea, a calculated response to a rocket attacks by pyongyang. Lets go to Harry Fawcett, live in south Koreas Capital soil. What is going on here. Nationality defense says there was an object detected by a tracer system, appearing to be a nooe job rocks et aimed from the north to the south. North korea threatened to destroy seen propaganda lou speakers transmitting antinorth korean rhetoric into north korea since monday before last. In response, dozens of 155 military shells were sent to the source of the supposed rocket attack, and no damage was done to the loud speaker system on the Southern Side of the demarcation line. All of this was set running, really, by the land mine explosion that took place on august 4th on
Iranian nuclear deal with the u. S. Jewish community. [singing] and hope for children in nigeria offer the balance to boko haram. Hello, ill have your latest sport. Aries merritt wins championship just days before receiving a new kidney. The highlighting of the continents growing refugee crisis. These are things that weve learned the last 24 hours. 71 refugees were found on an austrian motor way. 100 are missing after a ship sank off the coast of libya. Here in belgrade the refugees right down to the small ones, the youngdowns fighting among themselves for food and for water. And as the refugees continue flooding over the border from serbia, Hungarian Police say they have now arrested 21 suspected human traffickers in budapest. Well, we begin this news hour with a report from Barnaby Phillips in austria. The remains of the bodies are being driven away for autopsy, but we already know that the 71 people who were crammed into the back of a track must have suffered an agonizing death. Pro
And london, this is bbc world news. It s newsday. Good morning. Its midnight in london and seven in the morning in singapore. North korea has fired what appears to be a ballistic missile, according to the south, as tensions have been flaring over the norths nuclear ambitions. The unidentified missile was fired from near the north korean coastal city of wonsan. It reportedly landed in the sea ofjapan. Japan has strongly condemned the launch, saying these tests cause a threat to ships and planes, although no damage has been reported. President trump has been briefed on the situation. South koreas new president , moonjae in, has ordered a meeting of the National Security council. We can go live to seoul and speak to the bbcs steve evans. What has been the reaction so far to the latest provocation . Condemnation by clearly. The National Security council in south korea is going to meet. Really, its like groundhog day. This is the third missile since the new president took over here in south