Personnel. Were taking steps to make sure we can defend our people and respond decisively if we need to. This is not what we want, not what were looking for. We dont want an escalation. We dont want to see a second or third front develop. We dont want to see our personnel come under fire, but if that happens, were ready for it. Thats Secretary Of State Antony Blinken on the expected provocation from iran connected to the israel hamas war. It comes as Israel Defense forces are expanding significantly. Air strikes in gaza. Well get the live report from israel straight ahead. Plus an update on the hostages still being held by hamas after the Terrorist Group did release two americans on friday. And also coming up, well go through the nine republicans now running to be House Speaker following jim jordans failed bid to lead the lower chamber. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, october 23rd. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And well beg
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in new york, where diplomatic efforts to try to ease the tension on the Korean Peninsula are stepping up a gear this friday. The us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson will attend a Un Security Council meeting. The United States and its allies are expected to turn up the pressure on china to use its leverage to rain in kim jong un. Speaking to the bbc, republican Senatorjohn Barrasso explained the renewed diplomacy drive. Well, of course the goal is a peaceful resolution of the process, thats what we want. We want north korea without Nuclear Weapons and this whole thing peacefully resolved. Thats the deliberations and discussions with china so they can get much more involved because you know after all, that 85 of the trading that north korea does is with china and i think china right now realises theyre interests are aligned with the United States with regard to a Nuclear Armed north korea because the question is really can t
And they ask us to help, as i say, i think it will be very difficult to say no. We dont need unilateral action, we need to work through the un but, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria. The government loses a court bid to delay publication of its Air Pollution Strategy until after the general election. New figures show a big rise in Violent Crime in england and wales with knife crime at its highest level for six years. And how readers are turning off their e books and switching back to paper, as publishers enjoy a record year. Good evening, theres been a major Security Operation in whitehall as armed Police Arrested a man suspected of Planning Acts of terrorism. A rucksack and several knives have been recovered from the scene, but no one has been injured. Its understood officers from Scotland Yards Counter Terrorism command moved in on the suspect as part of an Intelligence Led Operation. The Prime Minister was not in Downing Street at
Were not in election mode any more. Now we have a president. Until hes impeached. I think thats coming very soon. But i still love you. Hello, i am katty kay in london, Christian Fraser is in london. Im in im in washington. Here is a picture you may have seen before. Donald trumps former National Security adviser, mike flynn sitting alongside Vladimir Putin at a gala dinner in moscow in december 2015. We have shown it to you many times before and it was widely circulated in the us media before gen flynn was appointed to his post. He was paid 45,000 dollars for that appearance by the kremlins television station, russia today. A payment hes now accused of not disclosing when he joined the white house staff, and that would be illegal. Today, the House Oversight committee revealed that in 2014, general flynn was warened by the pentagon not to take money from foreign governments. The committee has been given documents from the Department Of Defence which suggest general flynn had hidden the
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in new york, where diplomatic efforts to try to ease the tension on the Korean Peninsula are stepping up a gear this friday. The us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson will attend a Un Security Council meeting. The United States and its allies are expected to turn up the pressure on china to use its leverage to rain in kim jong un. Speaking to the bbc, republican Senatorjohn Barrasso explained the renewed diplomacy drive. Well, of course the goal is a peaceful resolution of the process, thats what we want. We want north korea without Nuclear Weapons and this whole thing peacefully resolved. Thats the deliberations and discussions with china so they can get much more involved because you know after all, that 85 of the trading that north korea does is with china and i think china right now realises theyre interests are aligned with the United States with regard to a Nuclear Armed north korea because the question is really can t