Ballistic Missile Program at the United Nations Security Council the Public Session was called after pyongyang tested what is believed to be its most advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in november but the meeting at the u. N. Which was attended by u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson failed to come up with any new steps to curb north koreas actions mike hanna reports from the United Nations. The red scarf a reflection of the chilly weather outside and little warmth displayed in the chamber towards north korea is representative listened to condemnation from speaker after speaker with what appeared to be studied. The situation on the Korean Peninsula is the most thems and dangerous peace and security issue in the world today. Publicly at least the council has been united in imposing an extensive series of sanctions but the u. S. Secretary of state questions the commitment of russia and china continuing to allow north korean laborers to toil in slave like conditions inside russ
Will be picking a successor for controversial president jacob zuma on sunday the contest for the African National Congress Leadership has been marked by deep divisions on a page report from johannesburg. The conference started with two warnings dont to saying divisive songs and to keep the cheers on the ground everybody at speeds that will be flying around this conference all we can say that you will not hear in this conference. A. N. C. Members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the countrys courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader it is actually. We can begin to believe that the courts. Some believe he has eroded the agencies all foreign. Under president zuma the party has los
The economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u. S. Military in a speech on National Security in washington d. C. The president also neglected to describe Climate Change as a threat to the u. S. Breaking with former president barack obama said the u. S. Was facing new competition on the International Stage from china and russia but would cooperate where possible we also face rival powers russia and china that seek to challenge american influence values and world. We will attempt to build a Great Partnership with those and other countries but in a manner that always protects our National Interest but while we seek such opportunities of cooperation we will stand up for ourselves and we will stand up for our country like we have never stood up before the Palestinian Government has slammed as unacceptable the u. S. Decision to veto a u. N. Draft resolution that would have required President Donald Trump to rescind his recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capit
A Ballistic Missile targeting the capital riyadh these videos show what looks like the missile in the sky and spoke from an explosion after it was intercepted yemens fighters say they fired it and the target was a meeting of saudi leaders at the royal palace in the capital another missile from yemen was fired at riyadhs airport last month but it was also destroyed before it hit its target chinas criticize the u. S. President for calling it a strategic rival as he outlined his new National Security strategy on monday beijing is calling on donald trump to accept its growing influence adrian brown has more reaction from beijing. Well chinese officials have been basically pouring over president trumps National Security strategy speech in washington the Chinese Ambassador was first to give reaction he essentially said there appeared to be a contradiction in what the u. S. Side was saying on the one hand they regard china as a friend someone to do business with on the other hand they regard
He said over the top stories from aljazeera saudi arabia says its intercepted a Ballistic Missile targeting its capital riyadh yemens who the rebels say they fired the weapon and were aiming for the official residence of king solomon is the third such attack since november his intense tie up. This is the moment a who he fired Ballistic Missile was apparently shot down by saudi forces yemen base hoofy say they were targeting the royal palace which is west of the capital a large group of saudi leaders were meeting there at the time including king some money and crown Prince Mohammed bin some money and i think there were these wanted to make a statement that theyre still up and running and that theyre still fighting this fight the fact that you know in recent days and weeks they have been allegation that there were these a weakened by the. They would not be able to shoot further into territory but they proved otherwise. The missile attack happened just hours before saudi arabia was jus to