We dont know how many people have left britain to fight with so called Islamic State over the last few years. There is talk of 850 of whom half may have already come back, that would leave hundreds still out there. But if we dont really know how many, we cant know all their names. And with isis now pushed out of its own self declared capital city, raqqa, we dont know where the remaining ones are, or what they are currently planning to do. The only thing we do know is that we need some approach to dealing with them if they return. One idea would be to ease them back into mainstream society. But one government minister, rory stewart, said yesterday that in most cases, theyll need to be killed. Hes clarified that he meant that they would fight to the death, not that we should illegally assassinate them. But mr stewart has prompted quite a debate. Our diplomatic editor mark urban has been looking at it. In the rubble of the self proclaimed caliphate live the corpses of many british jihadis
There, where those signs are, a couple of hundred yards, its not an easy place forjournalists to go. Particularly when the subject of our investigation is the son of the president and someone very close to him. Hello. Accidents happen in government. People slip on banana skins. There are momentary lapses, or arguments that spill into the public domain. Events can catch cabinets by surprise. Thats normal. At a rate of one every few months. But then theres this government. Since the election knocked the confidence out of the Prime Ministerfive months ago, to many it has just lurched from one self inflicted wound to another. Public arguments over brexit are half of it, the harassment cases have piled on the pressure. But the coincidence of extra missteps has given this government a whiff of decay. And youre not meant to have that until youve been in power for a decade or more. Two particular things are exercising many mps right now. The foreign secretary giving the unhelpful impression th
There are tortured and murdered. Much detail of the plight of the people. The second audience, this is crucial, is china, the next stop on his tour. He goes to beijing soon. He repeated what he said yesterday, about our trade with north korea and other countries should stop entirely. He made the point in the speech that he doesnt think there should be any form of support from north korea and it is mostly china that chooses to support north korea at the moment. Latest round of un sanctions, there was pressure to stop oil imports, china didnt want that and theyve been restricted by some 70 . So digs at china. There was also a direct message to kim jong un, the leader of north korea. He made it clear and said, i address this message to kim jong un. He made it clear and said, i address this message to kimjong un. He he made it clear and said, i address this message to kim jong un. He said the country created by your grandfather is a hell and the Weapons Programme you are creating is puttin
Of south korea and reassured them of the strength of the two countries 60 year old alliance. He contrasted south koreas progress and Strong Economy with the hunger filled prison state that he said existed in the north. He again called on pyongyang to give up its nuclear and missile programme, which he said is putting north korea in mortal danger. Lets listen to part of that speech. History is filled with discarded regimes that have foolishly tested americas resolve. Anyone who doubts the strength of determination of the United States should look to our past and you will doubt it no more. We will not permit america or our allies to be blackmailed or attacked. We will not allow American Cities to be threatened with destruction. We will not be intimidated and we will not let the worst atrocities in history be repeated here on this ground we fought and died so hard to secure. Applause that is why i come here to the heart of a free and flourishing korea, with a message for the peaceloving n
Economies. Mr trump will have an opportunity to meet individual leaders from the region, and to outline his vision of the United States future role in asia. The leaders of the United States and china are expected to outline competing visions of global trade when they address the Asia Pacific Economic co operation summit in vietnam in the coming hours. Our reporter karisham vaswani is there and i put it to her that President Trumps vision will be quite different from that of his predecessor at the last summit. You are correct to when president obama came to the Asia Pacific Region and various summits as well the big message from the Previous Administration was that there is a pivot to asia. He was engaged in the region. He had spent some time growing up in indonesia and asian leaders felt there was a rapport and chemistry within. Donald trump is a direct contrast to that. The Trans Pacific direct contrast to that. The tra ns Pacific Partnership direct contrast to that. The Trans Pacific