Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore. 1am in london and 8pm in the evening at the United Nations in new york where a urgent meeting of the Security Council has been requested, and which is expected to take place later on monday. Its been called by the United States, japan and south korea in response to north koreas latest missile test. The official news agency in pyongyang says the military successfully launched a new type of medium range Ballistic Missile on sunday. The launch was widely criticised in the region and beyond. In washington, the white house said the us will reinforce vital pacific alliances to deter what they called the increasing hostility from north korea. Our tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. The launch was almost certainly timed so that north koreas dictator, kim jong un, could crash a Weekend Party taking place on the other side of the world. President donald trump and japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the weekend gol
Good morning. Its seven in the morning in singapore, midnight in london and six in the evening in southern colombia, where rescue teams are continuing to search through tons of mud and debris for anyone who survived the devastating mudslide. Its happened in the City Of Mocoa. Over 200 people have been confirmed dead. Hundreds are still missing and five villages have been destroyed. Richard lister has the story. Mocoa is a place of mud and misery. When the rolling wall of water and debris rushed through here on friday night, it swept away houses, cars, trees and people. Whole families died here. The painstaking search for survivors is continuing. Rescue workers moving quietly through flattened neighbourhoods, hoping for sounds of life in the wreckage. Nothing here. With every hour that passes, hopes of finding more people alive diminish. Within hours of the deluge, Message Boards went up, listing the dead and missing. Many of those unaccounted for are children. We are searching for a ba
Emergency Services Staff were among the 2,000 strong multi faith congregation. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. Economics or six. We count down to the highly anticipated meeting between donald trump and xi jinpingpolitics. And find out why it is good for homeowners that there is a Housing Crackdown in india. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. This is Asia Business report. Thank you for joining us. Its a thursday. The top story. The much anticipated meeting between the leaders of the worlds two largest economies. They are of course us President Donald Trump and the host, his chinese counterpart, xijinping. They have the host, his chinese counterpart, xi jinping. They have lots to talk about the pitch trade and Security Issues will be high on the agenda. Will that meeting be a tense one given that President Trump has promised to take on a tougher line on china . We have more. We cannot continue to allow china to rate our country. They have taken our money
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side to seing civilian rule take hold. let s get some of the day s other news now. the us national security advisor, jake sullivan, has held talks in saudi arabia with the kingdom s de facto leader, crown prince mohammed bin salman. the white house said the two had discussed efforts to end yemen s eight year war. saudi arabia is widely believed to be seeking an exit from the conflict. murder charges have been brought against the owner of a tourist boat that capsized in the southern indian state of kerala, killing at least twenty two people. he s said to have fled the scene. rescuers worked through the night on sunday to search for survivors. police say overcrowding caused the double decker boat to capsize. a report by the united nations has urged the afghan taliban to stop carrying out public executions, floggings and stonings. it said in the past six months 274 men, 58 women, and two boys were flogged in public after they were accused of various offences including adultery, homosexual