Voting for independence. Also on the programme. The canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says photographs that have surfaced of him wearing brown face at a party, are racist and he has apologised, just weeks ahead of a general election. And the areas of natural splendour which are severely under threat weve a special report from colorado, the latest Battle Ground in trumps war to protect the oil and gas industries. Hello and welcome. Im Michelle Fleury in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Saudi arabia says all options remain on the table, after last weekends attacks on two of its oilfacilities. Despite all the denials from tehran, the information so far seems to show iran was deeply implicated in these attacks. And what happens next holds huge implications for the region. Britain and france have dismissed any idea that the houthis any idea that the houthis were responsibe, but they are not yet ready to confirm the attack was launched from iranian soil. The us secretary of
So i mean listening there to Martin Griffiths the u. N. Special envoy to yemen appealing for more calm especially in this situation with aid and also reporting as he sees it some progress having been made in implementing the stop home agreement lets bring in our diplomatic editor james bass hes live for us at the United Nations james what do you make of that. Well martin gryphus addressing the u. N. Security council at a regularly planned meeting on yemen the monthly meeting on yemen to update them on the situation in that country but clearly a meeting that has been overtaken by recent events the attack on Saudi Oil Installations and that was the subject of the very start of his address to the Security Council he described this as a terrifying moment that made regional conflict more likely he said that in conjunction with an attack on a prison at the beginning of the month that killed more than 100. 00 people and the tension in the south in aden and the separatist attendances there mad
Territory was not used to launch these attacks the statement went on to say that iraq sort self as having a vital role in trying to diffuse this crisis its fair to say though that this tension has escalated in recent months between the u. S. And iran a lot of attention is being paid towards certain very powerful armed groups in this country that are backed by iran that support iran here the socalled Popular Mobilization forces that were set up in 2014 to fight i saw were integrated into the Iraqi Security forces in 2016 and theres been as i say a lot of questions as to how they would respond to any kind of potential military escalation by the u. S. Against iran or iranian interests now there has been no official statement by the Popular Mobilisation forces in relation to this Current Crisis the Iraqi Government is very keen to stress that iraq is very much doing all it can to diffuse this crisis but of course this major u. S. Ally iraq its biggest regional ally is iran iran has a huge
With conservative members, the two leadership candidates set out their plans for Immigration Reform, post brexit. And in the next hour, the lionesses will play for a place in the semis as they take on norway in the womens world cup. Hello and welcome imjane obrien in miami, Christian Fraser is in london. We are half way through the first democratic president ial debates. The notable names on stage tonight, Bernie Sanders, kamala harris, the notable names on stage tonight, Pete Buttigieg and the former Vice President joe biden. Together they are four of the top five candidates in the polls, with biden still the clear frontrunner, which will make him a target this evening. Biden has led nearly every national and early state poll this year, hes currently 15 points ahead in the National Poll average. He is winning. But he has weaknesses, and they will be tested tonight. In the first debates, last night, there were some sparks, but no real fireworks. It started friendly enough with ten cand
latter part that president zelenskyy, excuse me, did not really flip over. he wants to be in n.a.t.o. right now and of course, that s not happening. lucas tomlinson at the white house with more, lucas. let s go back how the week started. president zelenskyy was angry and fired off a tweet he was angry there was not much more concrete steps to join n.a.t.o. we heard president biden language without a firm date and president biden later spoke in helsinki and hinted the war could be over soon. the answer is, putin has already lost the war and my hope and expectation that ukraine makes significant progress on their offensive and that it generates a negotiated settlement somewhere along the line. the best possible solution would be some sort of negotiated settlement, as you heard the president talk about, but everybody realizes, dana, that s not possible right now. some u.s. officials privately called this war a stalemate. the front lines have not changed significantly, ne