Newsday. Glad you could join us. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, dc, where the administration has given new details about its plans on how to deal with north korea. The Us State Department said the president aims to put pressure on pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and lipstick programmes. In an unusual move, all us senators we re in an unusual move, all us senators were given a classified briefing on the strategy. Ballistic missile programmes. One us senator called the briefing sobering. This isnt for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. A Live Fire Exercise conducted by 2000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. Its a show of force, and a show of unity. A Military Exercise with an unmistakable message to the souths unpredictable northern neighbour we want peace, but we are ready for all eventualities. In washington this morning, the head of us Pacific Command put it like this. As P
Newsday. Glad you could join us. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, dc, where the administration has given new details about its plans on how to deal with north korea. The Us State Department said the president aims to put pressure on pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and lipstick programmes. In an unusual move, all us senators we re in an unusual move, all us senators were given a classified briefing on the strategy. Ballistic missile programmes. One us senator called the briefing sobering. This isnt for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. A Live Fire Exercise conducted by 2000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. Its a show of force, and a show of unity. A Military Exercise with an unmistakable message to the souths unpredictable northern neighbour we want peace, but we are ready for all eventualities. In washington this morning, the head of us Pacific Command put it like this. As P
Singapore, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Welcome. It is midnight in london, 7am in singapore, and 2am in moscow, where the us Secretary Of State has been trying to improve faltering relations between two of the worlds biggest powers, but in the end, there was no hiding the differences. After nearly two hours of talks with his russian counterpart and even Vladimir Putin himself, sakho tim Rex Tillerson said there was a disparity between the two countries. We will get the view from Washington A Little later on newsday, but first of all, from a place in moscow, here is our reporter. The last time he was in russia, Rex Tillerson was an oil man, doing multi Million Dollar deals with the kremlin, Drinking Champagne with Vladimir Putin. He even got an award from him. But in moscow, today, it was a political deal Secretary Of State tillerson was seeking over syria, not easy with Us Russian Relations at their worst since the end of the cold war. He met his russian counterpart, sergei lav
Singapore, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Welcome. It is midnight in london, 7am in singapore, and 2am in moscow, where the us Secretary Of State has been trying to improve faltering relations between two of the worlds biggest powers, but in the end, there was no hiding the differences. After nearly two hours of talks with his russian counterpart and even Vladimir Putin himself, sakho tim Rex Tillerson said there was a disparity between the two countries. We will get the view from Washington A Little later on newsday, but first of all, from a place in moscow, here is our reporter. The last time he was in russia, Rex Tillerson was an oil man, doing multi Million Dollar deals with the kremlin, Drinking Champagne with Vladimir Putin. He even got an award from him. But in moscow, today, it was a political deal Secretary Of State tillerson was seeking over syria, not easy with Us Russian Relations at their worst since the end of the cold war. He met his russian counterpart, sergei lav