Where fear of hunger is worse than the bombing, a special report on the yemeni civilians caught up in war and the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. And hong kongs pro democracy protestors take their message to the terraces ahead of the territorys world cup qualifier against iran. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington where donald trump has sacked one of his senior figures, the hawkish National Security adviserjohn bolton. As usual he delivered the news on twitter saying the pair disagreed over many areas of policy and so mr bolton had to go. Tonight theyre at odds again as mr bolton is offering a different version on events insisting he offered the president his resignation. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel. John bolton is the hawks hawk acerbic, dry, clever and confrontational. And this morning, still to be found in the white house grounds. But not anymore. Hes been turfed out by president ial tweet. I informed john bolton last night th
House here. Now, bolton was very vocal about the president s policies specifically related to north korea. Hes concerned about that strategy there. He also according to sources had a phone call with the president about afghanistan, that became heated in that phone call last night. Regardless, bolton is out. The way it played out is kind of like a soap opera here. Now the president tweeting out this, saying i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. I disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration, and therefore, i asked him to resign. Now, minutes later, bolton tweeted a response saying that i offered to resign and the president says lets talk about it tomorrow. But no mention of being fired. Now, bolton was even scheduled to be at a briefing today. Instead, he offered a very frosty and direct resignation letter, just two sentences. Thanking the president. Now, in that briefing today, secretary of sta
Is Art International on sunday the 15th of october low for moscow with me kevin owen its the weekly roundup of the big stories approach over the last 7 days and 1st one happening right now this weekend continuing into it the u. S. Secretary of state might pompei as accused iran now of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the Worlds Energy supply saying that to rand is behind those attacks on Saudi Arabian Oil Production the last day or so saran denies any involvement in the attack calling the u. S. Accusations a lie heres the exact wording from the u. S. We call on all motions to publicly and unequivocally condemn irans attacks the United States will work with our partners and allies to ensure that Energy Markets remain well supplied and iran is held accountable for its aggression. Such accusations as well as blind in inappropriate comments in the diplomatic context are in comprehensible and meaningless in International Relations even hostility has borders but the us seems to rea
Put it talk about good morning starts international on sunday the 15th of october live from moscow with me kevin no its the weekly our news review of the week of the last 7 days 1st story happening right now u. S. Secretary state my pompei was accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the Worlds Energy supply saying that iran is behind attacks on saudi arabias oil production. We call on all motions to publicly and unequivocally condemn irans attacks the United States will work with our partners and allies to ensure that Energy Markets remain well supplied and iran is held accountable for its aggression so as it stands at the moment this oil output in saudi arabia has been hard as a result of fires at 2 major state run Oil Facilities eyewitnesses shared a video on social media of a huge blaze were gunshots could apparently be heard in the background surround denies any involvement in the attack calling those u. S. Accusations a lie earlier yemens who 3 rebels have claim
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