Says washington plans to build an International Coalition to push back against iran he has held a News Conference in which she accused iran of quote fanning the flames of conflict in the region she says to ron supplied whos the rebels in yemen with a missile that the group then fired into saudi arabia this is a blatant violation of what they are not supposed to be doing and what we are saying is everybody has to total around iran in fear of them getting out of the nuclear deal and they are allowing missiles like this to be fired over to innocent civilians and hurt and that is what has to stop and so we will continue to raise and build the International Community support to say this is not about the nuclear deal this is about all other actions and the president will work with congress on how do we go forward in dealing with iran at this one in this way but the nuclear deal is not something that were focused on now is focusing on the threat that iran is posing as we know it. There is ros
President s decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel there were chaotic scenes as Israel Security forces try to control large crowds and even friday prayers will be hours and most part of it occupied East Jerusalem several people were forced out of the area the outrage over Donald Trumps decision to move the u. S. Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem isnt died down since in oxford last week was widely condemned with islamic leaders instead of carrying jerusalem as a couple of palestine are forces outside damascus gate where some of the pushing and shoving has been happening Israeli Forces have been trying to prevent a repeat of the protests that took place after friday prayers here in the square outside damascus gate last week theyve barricaded it off there was a group of largely middle aged and some elderly women in the night chanting for some time theyre now being forcefully cleared from gaza city alan fischer has this update on the protests. Well the leader of hamas on
Ballistic Missile Program at the United Nations Security Council the Public Session was called after pyongyang tested what is believed to be its most advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in november but the meeting at the u. N. Which was attended by u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson failed to come up with any new steps to curb north koreas actions mike hanna reports from the United Nations. The red scarf a reflection of the chilly weather outside and little warmth displayed in the chamber towards north korea is representative listened to condemnation from speaker after speaker with what appeared to be studied. The situation on the Korean Peninsula is the most thems and dangerous peace and security issue in the world today. Publicly at least the council has been united in imposing an extensive series of sanctions but the u. S. Secretary of state questions the commitment of russia and china continuing to allow north korean laborers to toil in slave like conditions inside russ
Will be picking a successor for controversial president jacob zuma on sunday the contest for the African National Congress Leadership has been marked by deep divisions on a page report from johannesburg. The conference started with two warnings dont to saying divisive songs and to keep the cheers on the ground everybody at speeds that will be flying around this conference all we can say that you will not hear in this conference. A. N. C. Members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the countrys courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader it is actually. We can begin to believe that the courts. Some believe he has eroded the agencies all foreign. Under president zuma the party has los
The economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u. S. Military in a speech on National Security in washington d. C. The president also neglected to describe Climate Change as a threat to the u. S. Breaking with former president barack obama said the u. S. Was facing new competition on the International Stage from china and russia but would cooperate where possible we also face rival powers russia and china that seek to challenge american influence values and world. We will attempt to build a Great Partnership with those and other countries but in a manner that always protects our National Interest but while we seek such opportunities of cooperation we will stand up for ourselves and we will stand up for our country like we have never stood up before the Palestinian Government has slammed as unacceptable the u. S. Decision to veto a u. N. Draft resolution that would have required President Donald Trump to rescind his recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capit