Refusing to do overtime, and have been carrying out two hour stoppages every day which rose to three hours today. The dispute is about planned changes to working practices. Our correspondent sima kotecha reports. It looks bad and smells even worse. Piles and piles of rubbish strewn across birmingham streets. On this road, it has been a week since the rubbish was collected. We saw a rat over there yesterday. Absolutely disgraceful. Forfour weeks, its been here. Absolutely terrible. So we pay all that money in council taxes, and they wont come and get it. Give the binmen what they want. It is disgusting. We come out of our house and it smells of rotten food. It is horrible. Dirty nappies. Obviously, there is no other way to dispose of them. Try and get as much poo off them as possible, but theres always some left. When you open the bin, all you get is a whiff. Flies flying out of big green ones. The stench in this part of rubbish really is unbearable. Im not sure if you can see it, but t
Refusing to do overtime, and have been carrying out two hour stoppages every day which rose to three hours today. The dispute is about planned changes to working practices. Our correspondent sima kotecha reports. It looks bad and smells even worse. Piles and piles of rubbish strewn across birmingham streets. On this road, it has been a week since the rubbish was collected. We saw a rat over there yesterday. Absolutely disgraceful. Forfour weeks, its been here. Absolutely terrible. So we pay all that money in council taxes, and they wont come and get it. Give the binmen what they want. It is disgusting. We come out of our house and it smells of rotten food. It is horrible. Dirty nappies. Obviously, there is no other way to dispose of them. Try and get as much poo off them as possible, but theres always some left. When you open the bin, all you get is a whiff. Flies flying out of big green ones. The stench in this part of rubbish really is unbearable. Im not sure if you can see it, but t
second ago. the south south korea is now preparing for its own missile exercise or test. we don t have much more detail on that, but they had also said as you probably know, in the last 24 hours in response to north korea, that they would, quote, use the most powerful strategic assets that the u.s. possesses, that they would do that. put those two together for us. i think we have a pretty decent defensive system in saad missiles and the aegus navy destroyers and we have a capacity. as of yet the north koreans i don t think as of yet have a usable nuclear capability, certain certainly not an icbm. it is a strategic turning point we are now facing. are we going to live with a nuclear north korea that could strike us within 30 minutes of
every consideration of what to do about north korea and their behavior as a sort of rogue nation. on monday, north korea fired what is believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, which means the threatening range of not just their conventional capacity but maybe their nuclear capacity as well, may now reach beyond their nearby enemies, our allies, south korea and japan, their capacity to project force may reach as far as alaska. after the icbm test, the u.s. and south korean militaries today did a missile exercise of their own in response. today u.s. ambassador nikki haley argued for more sanctions against north korea at the u.n. what else is really possible here? what does the united states and the pentagon consider to be on the menu of available options, now that something the president said would never happen, an icbm test, has come to pass? joining us now is courtney kubey, nbc news national security producer, thanks for being here. thank you, it s my pleasure.
intercontinental ballistic missile, which means the threatening range of not just their conventional capacity but maybe their nuclear capacity as well, may now reach beyond their nearby enemies, our allies, south korea and japan, their capacity to project force may reach as far as alaska. after the icbm test, the u.s. and south korean militaries today did a missile exercise of their own in response. today u.s. ambassador nikki haley argued for more sanctions against north korea at the u.n. what else is really possible here? what does the united states and the pentagon consider to be on the menu of available options, now that something the president said would never happen, an icbm test, has come to pass? joining us now is courtney kubey, nbc news national security producer, thanks for being here. thank you, it s my pleasure. so president trump said not long ago that it would never happen that north korea would ever test an icbm, he said it would not happen.