And they ask us to help, as i say, i think it will be very difficult to say no. We dont need unilateral action, we need to work through the un but, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria. The government loses a court bid to delay publication of its Air Pollution Strategy until after the general election. New figures show a big rise in Violent Crime in england and wales with knife crime at its highest level for six years. And how readers are turning off their e books and switching back to paper, as publishers enjoy a record year. Good evening, theres been a major Security Operation in whitehall as armed Police Arrested a man suspected of Planning Acts of terrorism. A rucksack and several knives have been recovered from the scene, but no one has been injured. Its understood officers from Scotland Yards Counter Terrorism command moved in on the suspect as part of an Intelligence Led Operation. The Prime Minister was not in Downing Street at
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They their windows. The hail makes it look like a strin spring snowstorm. Hello everybody. Severe weather pummelling portions of the country yesterday and today. In the carolinas and mexico and western parts of texas we could be looking at more large hail and strong winds and tornadoes in these areas. Thunderstorms are firing up this afternoon and evening hours. As we head into the afternoon the first half of the weekend we have a Holiday Weekend and across texas and mexico we could be seeing strong to severe thunderstorms. Heads up if you live in san angelo and lubbock, texas. You could be looking at Severe Weather on saturday and sunday. It could be a very slow moving Weather Pattern out here across the plains states. We are expecting areas of heavy rain. Locally more than 46 inches of
rain is possible in texas, oklahoma, also parts of missouri. Flash flooding could be an issue into the weekend and anna and ainsley take a look at the temperatures for today heating up across parts of
Thought the most important story was the reaction of the death of a Petty Street Criminal and it was most reported but not close to a story that is rocking your world and you probably didnt feel the tremor. The International Monetary fund revealed that chinas economy surpassed that of the United States and now china is now the Worlds Largest economy. They reported on this story and it could should have caused demonstrations in our streets. We are losing our country and no one seems to notice. Less than 15 years ago, the u. S. Economy was three types the size of china. And americans since 1945 have grown used to having the number one economy and must have taken it for granted. Get ready to the new ranking or get angry and well do something
about it. Our current president said running up the huge debt on children and dprand children was irresponsible and unpatriotic. If so, he is the least patriotic president in history. Our debt topped the 18 trillion mark. That is more than double than
North korean actions just reenforced for both leaders why this is the number one threat to both Prime Minister abe and to President Trump. I think the north korean actions were deliberately timed after what was a pretty good week in terms of u. S. Policy in asia, with regard to President Trumps call with xi jinping and secretary mattiss trip to the region, i think the Trump Administration said look, were here and were not going to be an easy issue to deal with. Right now the National Security advisor is said to have broke on the law and critics call for him to be fired, for him to step down. How much does that impact the advice that this group can give the president at this time . I think the precedent is going to get advise from a wide range of people, including the folks in the State Department,
particularly those commitments to china that would affect the finances that north korea has for building these missiles, there may be a statement that comes out of the u. N. Security council