the washington declaration aimed at deterring an attack on seoul. the bbc s seoul correspondent jean mackenzie explained what this agreement involves. so this deal is the us stepping up its commitment to use nuclear weapons to defend south korea from north korea. you know, the us is responsible for south korea s defence and are always up implied it would use nuclear weapons if necessary but recently people here in seoul have questioned that commitment and they needed part of its submarines, armed with nuclear weapons to the peninsular. it will be stationed here continually but it will come periodically. they will form the joint nuclear planning group and this allows south korea to be more involved in understanding how and when the us would use its nuclear weapons. politicians here essentially have been kept in the dark with little understanding of what would actually trigger the us president to trigger the nuclear button on its behalf, but in return for these us commitmen
flight attendant attacked a passenger as he tried to open the door in flight. i m kate bolduan, and we are looking at the breaking news. officials say they have located four americans abducted last week. sadly, two of them are dead. the video of the kidnapping is so troubling and terrifying, that you can see what investigators believe are members of the drug cartel loading the group into the back of the truck. this happened in broad daylight as you can see after a shooting that left one bystander dead. a source close to cnn said that the kidnappings here are a case of mistaken identity and the families were traveling from south carolina to mexico for a medical procedure. we go to josh campbell who has the very latest coming in. what are the official saying now? i have been talking to the officials familiar with the investigation since the investigation began and though they were holding out hope to rescue the four american victims they said it is looking very grim, becaus
griff: despite new report prices surging in january. lucas tomlinson in january with the latest from the president s response. hey, lucas. lucas: the last hour, aishah interviewed and weighed jp morgan ceo jamie dimon having trouble heavy will with inflation. i wouldn t go that far. i think they got a late start. they should have started ticking interest rates earlier, maybe six months earlier than they did. lucas: here is new economic data, rose .6% in january beating analysts expectations. this annual inflation the annual inflation rate rose 5.4% first increase in inflation data since it peaked in june making analysts wonder if it s behind inflation just like jp diamond. president biden reacted to news, inflation is down from the summer while unemployment is remained at or near 50-year low and take-home has gone up. the white house announced friday it will be sending $2 billion in additional weapons and ammunition, not on the list fighter jets, asking the question on wh
Now on bbc news, its time for a special programme. Global questions the taiwan, china conflict. Hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from Liberty Square in taipei, the capital city of taiwan. The main island of taiwan lies about 160 kilometres across the waters from china. In the past few months, china has stepped up its military exercises, and fired missiles over taiwan, in growing tensions with the government here. The chinese president , xijinping, has reiterated the claim that taiwan belongs to china, and he says he does not rule out the use of force to take it over. Meanwhile, the United States, which supports taiwan, has hardened its position with President Biden saying he would send american troops to defend it. So, if china did invade taiwan, it would be a conflict with huge global dimensions, one that involves the two superpowers, the United States and china. That is global questions, taiwan, a flashpoint with china and the world . Applause welcome to the
savings. and, a chiller in chile. santiago sees the return of the zombie walk, after a 3 year gap due to coronavirus. prison in the capital, tehran. hundreds of political prisoners and dozens of dual nationals are held in the prison, as well as many protesters arrested during the past four weeks of unrest. officials say that eight people have been injured, and that the situation is now under control, but information is still trickling out of the country. the bbc s azadeh moshiri reports. flames engulfing iran s notorious evin prison. in the midst of widespread unrest, it is a scene that frightened iranians both inside and outside the country. officials say a riot broke out between inmates. what people saw on social media was fires raging across the compound and gunshots heard in the distance. scenes of riot police and firefighters rushing to the prison did little to calm people s fears. for the inmates families, it was pure panic. they rushed to evin, clogging the roads with