Will run in tonights final of the world Athletics 200m after running his heat alone, against the clock. And coming up in the sport on bbc news one major away from a career grand slam, Butjordan Spieth insists hes not feeling the pressure ahead of the uspga championship in north carolina. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. North korea has accused donald trump of being bereft of reason saying only absolute force can work on him as it gave more details about its threat to an American Military base in the Western Pacific. The regime, which is reported to have developed the ability to attach Nuclear Warheads to its missiles, says its considering firing four rockets towards the american territory of guam. South korea has appealed for calm. Our correspondent Yogita Limaye reports. One more fierce message on north koreas state tv. This time, its details of how it plans to attack guam. This us island in the Pacific Ocean is in pyongyangs crosshairs. North korea says it plans to
Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Snow across country. It has caused disruption as winds bring cold weather from the arctic. The Environment Agency says the first high tide along the east coast of england this morning was not as bad as feared but thousands of homes still face a danger of flooding. Currently there are 11 severe warnings which mean there is a danger to life. This is the picture in skegness were snow has been lighter but Flood Warnings have been issued and soldiers have been deployed to assist where needed. Where some might have been cursing the conditions this morning, others of course have been making the most of it here near birmingham. Meanwhile, in canterbury in kent while it was knowing this morning i is now seems to be more of an issue. This is the scene coming up for you from the roof of the bbc here in london where it has recently started to snow. We we re it has recently started to snow. We were taught to our number of correspondence in the next while
Raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a News Conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. Of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. Thank you for joining me today, im carol kos toll low. this hour with berman and michaela starts now. Hello, everyone. Im john berman. And. And im michaela pereira. History is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u. S. Its releasing alan gross from prison after five years. A series of genuinely breathtaking developments. Cuba is also releasing a u. S. Intelligence asset, a spy, whos been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. In Return Washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. That is big in and of itself. It all seems part now of something much, much bigger. President obama will announce major changes in u. S. Policy toward cuba. Officials calling them the most sweeping changes since t
Backdrop he is going to step in front of the American People tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. Its a very big decision for me. I took over a mess. And were going to make it a lot less messy. Reporter President Trump set to outline his strategy for americas path forward in afghanistan. A major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harms way. After meeting with Top Administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. He has made a decision, as he said. He wants to be the one to announce it to the American People. It is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. Reporter the president has been presented with a wide range of options. Everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers,
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May be more people to come, is the president has to get back on track. K. He has to honor the promises that he made during the campaign. He has to get a legislative agenda passed by 2018, the start of the new year, otherwise were going to be consumed next year with the midterm elections. It will be every man and woman for themselves and theyre going to be running for the hills. The president needs a staff t around him, thats congenial, and believe me, its possible, it happens. I worked with two president s and the staffs had disagreements but they were in the room and once that disagreement was over, and a consensus was had, policy was made and thats what we have to do. You also have to make sure the president understands that you make policy in washington but you sell it on main street. Tucker for sure. I think he already sold it on main street, though. Thats what that campaign was about. He ran out a bunch of Different Things that everybody in d. C. Pa hated but the public kind of li