about to kiss and make up but, following an apparently softer tone from washington, the chinese government, which had urged both sides to show restraint, saw some positive seeds of hope. translation: we have noted the relevant comments and have noted the messages conveyed in these comments, hoping to resolve the korean nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue and consultation. we believe this message is positive and should be affirmed. president trump s approach to north korea s growing nuclear programme is carrot and stick. on one hand, calling for tougher international sanctions, on the other, accelerating the deployment in south korea of the american anti missile defence system known as thaad. a south korean defence ministry spokesman said the decision to deploy thaad had been taken as a direct result of the grave security situation in the region. following this week s high profile joint american military exercise with south korea, what isn t clear is if president trump h
we re not in election mode any more. now we have a president. until he s impeached. i think that s coming very soon. but i still love you. hello, i am katty kay in london, christian fraser is in london. i m in i m in washington. here is a picture you may have seen before. donald trump s former national security adviser, mike flynn sitting alongside vladimir putin at a gala dinner in moscow in december 2015. we have shown it to you many times before and it was widely circulated in the us media before gen flynn was appointed to his post. he was paid $45,000 dollars for that appearance by the kremlin s television station, russia today. a payment he s now accused of not disclosing when he joined the white house staff, and that would be illegal. today, the house oversight committee revealed that in 2014, general flynn was warened by the pentagon not to take money from foreign governments. the committee has been given documents from the department of defence which suggest gene
the police and intelligence services. let s get more on this with major general chip chapman, who is former head of counter terrorism at the ministry of defence. he is in our westminster studio. thank you forjoining us. what was your response to this incident, i don t know if you watched it unfolding, what were you thinking at the time? i was in whitehall at the time andi the time? i was in whitehall at the time and i think the first thing you can say in terms of the threat, it is three components, intent, capability and opportunity. whitehall is a credit place so he had the opportunity and the police officially separated the man with the intent from the capability which was the loaded weapons. in a very british fashion. they took the weapons away from him, he is no longer a threat, then they arrested him. lots of police forces in the world would have used excessive force so it was a very british police operation. also relevant to the fact that the head of mi5 said last year
borisjohnson used a newspaper column to describejeremy corbyn as one, but what is a mugwump? good evening and welcome to bbc news. police have arrested a man after another terror alert just yards away from last month s deadly attack in westminster. the man is being held under the terrorism act and a number of knives he was carrying were seized. it s now clear that the suspect who was captured on whitehall was under surveillance by scotland yard s anti terror squad. asjune kelly reports, there s been a high profile police presence in the area since khaled massood killed five people including pc keith palmer in march. under arrest in the shadow of government buildings in whitehall. the man was detained by armed officers near parliament square. this wasn t a random stop, search and arrest. it is understood the man was targeted by police as part of an ongoing operation by scotland yard s counterterrorism command. it was just before 2:30pm this afternoon that officers move
The Pretoria high court is on Tuesday expected to make a ruling on suspended National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s urgent application to interdict law enforcement authorities from arresting her.