goes millions of years, back in time underground in oman. good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says she has ‘absolute faith,‘ in the uk s trident nuclear deterrent system, despite claims an unarmed missile veered off course during a test last summer. on the andrew marr programme today, the prime minister declined to say whether she knew of the incident, before a crucial vote on the future of trident, in parliament lastjuly. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. this is what the launch of a trident missile looks like. lastjune, the royal navy carried out what it calls a routine unarmed test launch from hms vengeance. but it now appears something went wrong. hms vengeance was about 200 miles off the florida coast. it was due to fire the missile around 5000 miles across the atlantic but a malfunction occurred during its flight. yet just weeks later, theresa may was asking mps to vote on spending £40 billion to renew the weapons system. mr speake
over what officials see as unfair attacks on president trump. the new administration has taken issue with the number of people who attended the inauguration on friday. president trump claims at least a million people turned out, but aerial photographs appear to tell a different story. with more here s our north america editorjon sopel. the weightiest issues on the planet were discussed at donald trump s inaugural address, but what the president is in a white rage about are suggestions that the crowds for him were not as big as they were for barack obama eight years ago, even though the evidence is incontrovertible, as these two photos, each taken 45 minutes before the inauguration started, make plain. but last night, journalists were summoned to the most extraordinary white house briefing to be told they were lying. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. this kind of dishonesty in the media, the challenging, the bringing of our nation toget
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good evening, and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is under pressure tonight to explain why mps were not told a trident missile test went wrong last summer. it happened just weeks before a crucial commons vote on the future of britain s nuclear deterrent, when theresa may urged parliament to back renewal of the weapons system. today, she repeatedly declined to say whether she knew of the malfunction, when an unarmed missile failed to reach its target. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. this is what the launch of a trident missile looks like. lastjune, the royal navy carried out what it calls a routine un armed test launch from hms vengeance but we now know that something went wrong. hms vengeance was about 200 miles off the florida coast. it was to fire the missile around 5,000 miles across the atlantic. but a malfunction occurred during its flight and it didn t reach its target. the speaker: i call the prime minister. yet, just weeks later, theresa ma
it s 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the white house has vowed to fight the news media tooth and nail over what officials see as unfair attacks on donald trump. the new president has taken issue with estimates of the size of the crowd at his inauguration on friday. his press secretary says it was the biggest in history for such an event, but, as our north america editor jon sopel reports, the evidence doesn t support the claim. the weightiest issues on the planet were discussed at donald trump s inaugural address, but what the president is in a white rage about are suggestions that the crowds for him were not as big as they were for barack obama eight years ago, even though the evidence is incontrovertible, as these two photos, each taken 45 minutes before the inauguration started, make plain. but last night, journalists were summoned to the most extraordinary white house briefing to be told they were lying. this was the largest audience to