a group of animal rights protestors tried to disrupt the trooping the colours ceremony but was dragged away by police. prince andrew will miss tomorrow s service of thanksgiving at saint paul s cathedral after testing positive for covid. and beacons have been lit across the commonwealth, and are about to be around the uk to mark the end of the first day ofjubilee celebrations. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. hundreds of thousands of people have lined the streets of central london and taken part in street parties around the uk at the start of four days of events to mark the queen s platinum jubilee. the return of the trooping the colour military parade after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic began the celebrations before a fly past over buckingham palace involving seventy aircraft. the queen was joined by the working royals on the palace balcony. let s go live to the mall and my colleague katty kay here s our
have a cooperative relationship are at one part of our government and state department. we did the state department of this building. the secretary has not spoken about u.s. military capabilities. you ll hear me very often from this room he asked me about u.s. military assets or plans. i refer you to dod. because the suggestion that was made is that basically, secretary shouldn t be an involved portion b listen to to as it regards to policy. so someone that you agree with? everyone clearly heard what his forcible comments have been and continue to be on the issue of d prk and other countries as well. i would think so, yes. he is the fourth in line to the presidency. he carries a big stick. i don t work with sebastian. i have known him from a previous life in a previous career.
but i have not spoken to him about the comments that he made. let me just leave it at that. while we are on d prk. mystic to it. the regions if we can today. the recent u.s. navigation operation, chinese sovereignty, this is an issue in response to the team before. but issues like freedom of navigation become economic issues, do they make for more difficult campaign on north korea with china? freedom of navigation operations happen all around the world. they tend to get the most attention when they happen in the south china sea. they happen off the coast of canada. they happen in the watters offshore of our major allies,
conference where he met for three days with a lot of foreign officials. as i was coming out here, i heard about sebastian s comments. i did not hear them myself, so i don t want to comment on exactly what he had to say. but i can say that i speak for secretary to loosen on this building. our sector has been very clear as hazmat as that article cadigan military means are both strong and capable and in the face of the threats that we face against the d prk or other nations. does a secretary believe that diplomacy should be combined with military options to produce a successful result? i take it then he would reject the suggestion that he didn t have any business talking about it. secretary mattis oversees the u.s. military. he and secretary rex tillerson