Elsewhere in the news this morning five british people, including an 11 year old girl, are confirmed to have been killed when a sea plane crashed in australia yesterday. Firefighters have been battling a blaze in a Multi Storey Car Park in liverpool which has destroyed up to 1,400 vehicles. North koreas leader says his countrys Nuclear Weapons are a reality, not a threat and the entire us mainland is a target. In sport, the winning run is over. And it takes an injury time penalty save to preserve manchester citys unbeaten record this season as theyre given a scare at the palace. Happy new year from bbc breakfast from parliament square, the final preparations are under way for the annual new years day parade with thousands of performers from around the world like these guys on texas half a Million People expected, 8000 performers, including these guys. And stav has the weather. Happy new year. Quite a lot of showers around, wet and windy in places but some sunshine into the afternoon bu
Our website on all of these occasions. In house, wee would ask that courtesy checks that our mobile devices up in silence and turned off as we prepared to begin. For those watching online, youre welcome to spend send questions and comments at any time emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our discussion this afternoon is peter brookes, the senior fellow for National Security affairs and Foreign Policy. Asis also in his fifth term a member of the congressional u. S. China Economic Security review commission. Heritage heing to served as the assistant secretary of defense for asian and Pacific Affairs and the george w. Bush administration. He was also serving on the staff in the house with the Central Intelligence agency, the state department and activeduty naval officers. Please join me in welcoming peter. [applause] good afternoon, welcome to heritage and our program on iran. Since 2015, a Nuclear Agreement iran, iraq and yemen. Irans expanding influence in these wartorn countries
A little bit of our live addition of reliable sources this morning. A lot to talk about even in reaction to what Kellyanne Conway was saying. Let me start with the former covering obama presidency. And then devika patrick, the ceo and founder of taxonomy. Well talk about facebooks role in the future of news. They were covering the clinton campaign, and now doing abc six years ago, Kellyanne Conway just said the press is negative of the man we cover every day. Are you presumptively negative . Im cynical and thats my j job. Not skeptical cynical . I think we have to be a little bit of both given this administrations relationship with the truth. And how tough it is for us to get at that right now. Do we start our day, and i think i can speak with all of us to sit in the Briefing Room everyday, and a negative manner . Absolutely not. Thats not the tone from my perspective of our coverage. My sense is that this perception that there is an adversarial relationship much more comes from the wh
A little bit of our live addition of reliable sources this morning. A lot to talk about even in reaction to what Kellyanne Conway was saying. Let me start with the former covering obama presidency. And then devika patrick, the ceo and founder of taxonomy. Well talk about facebooks role in the future of news. They were covering the clinton campaign, and now doing abc six years ago, Kellyanne Conway just said the press is negative of the man we cover every day. Are you presumptively negative . Im cynical and thats my j job. Not skeptical cynical . I think we have to be a little bit of both given this administrations relationship with the truth. And how tough it is for us to get at that right now. Do we start our day, and i think i can speak with all of us to sit in the Briefing Room everyday, and a negative manner . Absolutely not. Thats not the tone from my perspective of our coverage. My sense is that this perception that there is an adversarial relationship much more comes from the wh
New york state citizenship the lawmakers behind the proposal of undocumented workers. Trump towers over chicago. The city fights back. We talk to the Pulitzer Prizewinning critic taking on the donald. Tonight the situation in iraq is getting worse. The countrys Biggest Oil Refinery is under attack. Hundreds of thousands fled sectarian violence. In washington, president obama met with congressional leaders and made it clear he did not need their approval to act. What could and should he do. Randall pinkston reports. The white house will release a statement saying congressional leaders will release a statement on efforts to help iran. Confronting the threat from i. S. I. L. Will require iraqi l d leaders to come together. Reporter for more than an hour president obama held a meeting with congression to update them. It was to with fighters from i. S. I. L. And other groups taking more territory, iraqi officials made a formal request for air strikes. The u. S. Military is on standby for or