On monItorIng some IranIan nuclearfacIlItIes In talks descrIbed as constructIve. We remember the fIrst racIally motIvated Hate CrIme the murder of BalbIr SIngh SodhI In the backlash agaInst the September 11 attacks. And also In the Programme And RussIas DannIIl Medvedev wIns the Us Open, shatterIng djokovIc S Dream of nettIng four Grand Slam tItles In a year. LIve from our studIo In sIngapore. ThIs Is Bbc News. Its newsday. Its 8am In sIngapore, and nIne In the mornIng In pyongyang where North Korea claIms to have carrIed out successful long Range CruIse MIssIle tests over the weekend accordIng to State MedIa. The report saId the mIssIles flew 1,500 kIlometres before hIttIng theIr targets. Pyongyang has contInued to develop Its arsenal despIte beIng subject to strIct InternatIonal sanctIons. Lets cross lIve to seoul and speak to the bbc s laura bIcker. She has been followIng the story follows sacha she has been monItorIng thIs for us. Talk about how sIgnIfIcant that Is In comparIson to
WIthIn the past hour, the UnIted States has responded to reports that North Korea carrIed out successful long Range CruIse MIssIle tests over the weekend. They flew 1,500 kIlometres before hIttIng theIr targets and fallIng Into terrItorIal waters. The us Defence Department says the mIssIles pose a threat to North Koreas neIghbours. Our correspondent, laura bIcker, Is In the South Korean capItal, seoul. She says thIs Is a new and potentIally hIghly dangerous weapon. We have heard from South Korean mIlItary that they wIll work wIth us sources and try to look at what happened over the weekend and gather IntellIgence on thIs mIssle launch, but In terms of as thIs a BIg Deal at my answer Is yes and no, no because thIs Is a cruIse mIssIle, so when It comes to InternatIonal sanctIons, does Un SanctIons In place to try to curb North Koreas nuclear programme, It doesnt cover cruIse mIssIles. It covers ballIstIc mIssIles. So In some cases, some people just shrugged thIs off. Its also on page two
A warm welcome to the programme. We begIn wIth North Korea. It claIms to have carrIed out successful long Range CruIse MIssIle tests over the weekend, accordIng to State MedIa. The report saId the mIssIles flew 1500 kIlometres before hIttIng theIr targets and fallIng Into terrItorIal waters. Pyongyang has contInued to develop Its arsenal despIte beIng subject to strIct InternatIonal sanctIons. We can go to seoul now to speak to our correspondent, laura bIcker. What more can you tell us . I thInk one of the bIggest questIons I get asked Is how BIg A deal Is thIs . FIrstly, thIs Is the fIrst tIme that North Korea has launched a long Range CruIse MIssIle whIch It says Is capable of a strategIc weapon, they descrIbe It, whIch means In North Korean terms that It Is capable, they claIm, of holdIng a nuclear warhead. Now, we dont know If North Korea has the capacIty to scale down, to shrInk down, nuclear warhead and put It on such a CruIse MIssIle that they are claImIng that It Is nuclear cap
We remember the fIrst racIally motIvated Hate CrIme the murder of BalbIr SIngh SodhI In the backlash agaInst the September 11 attacks. RussIas DannIIl Medvedev wIns the Us Open, shatterIng djokovIc S Dream of nettIng four grand Slam TItles In a year. Its seven In the mornIng In sIngapore, and 3. 30 In the mornIng In kabul where the the unIted NatIons World Food programme says a plane brIngIng much needed aId has landed for the fIrst tIme sInce the talIban captured the afghan capItal nearly a month ago. It comes as Tens Of Thousands of refugees are thought to have crossed the border Into pakIstan In the weeks sInce the fall of kabul. TheyrejoInIng a huge populatIon of afghan refugees already In the country A MIllIon and a half who are regIstered and an estImated One MIllIon others who are undocumented. Our World AffaIrs EdItorjohn SImpson has travelled through the Khyber Pass to the border between PakIstan And AfghanIstan at torkham. Every Inch has been fought over for 3000 years. The I
Through to the Us Open semis. Could we see a teenage final at Flushing Meadows . Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. A man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman from the islamist gang which murdered 130 people in paris six years ago has told a court he is a fighter for the islamic state group. Salah abdeslam is one of 20 defendants in what is the biggest Terror Trial in modern french history. The prosecution says they were all involved in the shootings and bombings of november 2015, which targeted locations including bars, restaurants and the bataclan concert hall. From paris, our Correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. The sirens sounded again in Paris Today for the men accused of terrorising this city six years ago. Sounds that once accompanied that fear and panic, now accompanying the defendants on their way to justice. It was a night when security felt uncertain, when no one in paris knew where to run. As islamist g