few months north korea has been extremely quiet, focusing on domestic issues. internally they are dealing with a deepening economic crisis and widespread food shortages which the regime openly admits. the site was on the table when it came to negotiations between kimjong un and donald trump. they said they it in return for sanctions released but since the new president, since president biden has taken office, he has said he is willing to willing to talk to north korea but north korea has not exactly been a policy priority. this action here that we are seeing might be away that pyongyang is signalling it might want to move the top of washington s to do list. the headlines on bbc news: rockets have been fired towards kabul airport where the us evacuation operation is drawing to a close. they were intercepted by an american anti missile system. the uk government seeks international support to ensure the taliban allow people to leave afghanistan as british troops
let s go to seoul in neighbouring south korea. laura bicker picks up the story. injanuary in january this year, injanuary this year, kim jong un promised he would update his nuclear arsenal. militarised warheads and even make a super large hydrogen bomb, but there has been no activity. however, now, that activity. however, now, that activity has started. something has changed. i think it s worth noting that within the last few months, north korea has been extremely quiet, focusing on domestic issues. they re dealing with a deepening crisis and widespread food shortages, which the regime openly admits. since president biden has taken office, he has said he s willing to talk to north korea, but north korea hasn t exactly been a policy priority. this action here
city, connecticut and d.c. the lead stories are crime. it seems i think this is the second or third public event this president has had on this issue. it is what s happening, it is what s on people s mind, it is a policy priority. but it feels like this is sort of quintessential biden to be hanging onto something that cross pressures him in his own party a little bit. yeah. i like the way michael put that, because i think that s exactly how it is. there is a lot of cross current, you know, going on here. i guess at the center of it is this truth. this ain t 1994. so in the 1990s, the claire mccaskills and other prosecutors around the country with law enforcement, you know, had citizens who wanted something done and they were all on the sage page. so we saw that crime bill go through. and now we also know the consequences of that crime bill