2 0 against wigan athletic. In one against wigan athletic. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Us Vice President mike pence, whos on a visit to south korea, has warned that his countrys era of strategic patience with north korea is over. It comes as south korea and the United States agreed to speed up a Defence System designed to intercept north korean missiles, something china views as a threat to its own military. Stephen evans reports. The american Vice President went to the front line, the Demilitarised Zone between north and south korea, what he called the frontier of freedom. For him, the visit was personal because his father fought in the korean war. From the other side today, north korean guards looked back and took pictures. Vice president pences mission today, to affirm support for the alliance between the us and south korea. We will defeat any attack and we will meet any use of conventional or Nuclear Weapons with an overwhelming and effective response. Over the past 18
Yes, very emotional scenes, very joyous scenes. We saw lots of smiles and former as the four french hostages landed back on home soil and were reunited at long last with their families. Imagine, huge smiles all around, and they have spent just a few minutes talking, touching up, on three years in which they have not seen their loved ones, and that many times they did not have news of them. Doubted perhaps whether they were still alive given all the conflict. Very worrying months and years, but now they are reunited. French president Francois Hollande and the foreign minister also on the tarmac to greet them, emotional scenes as and airplane doors opened the hostages came out with big smiles and family members ran towards them and embraced them. The families came to greet them. We know in at least one instance, it has been a long trip for the family, particularly that of the area thierry dols family. Yes, they had an overnight flight, not long before theory doll see thierry dol arrived.
Everyone. Aboutface from President Trump ditching the idea that he floated earlier on saturday on what he called a possible quarantine of parts of new york, new jersey, and connecticut. He raised the possibility saturday morning after talking with floridas republican governor. The governor said they discussed people from the hotzones around new york coming to florida, and possibly infecting floridians. Mr. Trump tweeted his idea of a quarantine and then spoke about it, twice, on saturday. Once, when leaving the white house. And, again, in virginia. Some people would like to see new york quarantined because its a hotspot. New york, new jersey, maybe one or two other places. Certain parts of connecticut quarantined. Im thinking about that right now. I am now considering will make a decision very quickly, very shortly, a quarantine because its such a hot area of new york, new jersey, and connecticut. Now, at that point, the president had, papparently not even spoken to the democratic gove
With fines for those who dont self isolate. And coming up, well be putting your questions on coronavirus vaccines to two specialists dr Andrew Preston from the university of bath and dr Kate Broderick from a Pharmaceutical Company developing their own vaccination. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Borisjohnsons top aide, Dominic Cummings, is facing calls to resign saturday after it emerged that hed travelled more than 250 miles with his sick wife to be near relatives during the uk lockdown. Downing street says that mr cummings drove from london to County Durham to ensure that his young son would be properly cared for if he too became unwell, and that his actions were in line with coronavirus guidelines. Mr cummings told reporters that he had behaved reasonably and legally. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. Youre supposed to be more than two metres apart. Domin