Jerusalem as israels capital. Hello im Barbara Starr youre watching out for live from london were going to have the latest on that story from the u. S. To jerusalem and around the world because there has been global of turkeys president and the king of jordan warning that the move will fuel extremism in other news russias president Vladimir Putin says hell seek another term as president in next years election and tens of thousands of homes are under threat as wildfires rage in Southern California. In an hours time the u. S. President is due to announces highly controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital and move the American Embassy there from tel aviv in the last few minutes donald trump a said the embassy moved to jerusalem is quote long overdue you will palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank in gaza are calling for three days of rage World Leaders a voice their concerns with many warning trumpet against the move the status of jerusalem is central to the m
National state of direct tors, local governments to stand up a structure where collectively dhs can sit at the table with representatives of state local governments. This is through bureaucratic naming well leave this discussion here and go live to the white house for todays briefing, here is the spokesperson sarah sanders. This bill achieves our top priority a much needed increase and funding for National Defense. This is increasing budget caps and provides certainty for the next two years. Defense spending will match the request by the pentagon and reflects what the president signed into law with the National Defense authorization act. Thanks to President Trump we can have the Strongest Military weve ever had. It increases the debt ceiling and moves us away from crisis to crisis budgeting. And e building americas crumbing infrastructure and tackling the Opioid Epidemic and taking care of our veterans. We have secretary mattis here with us today. Will come up to make a brief statement
Public service by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. And now the Senate Foreign Relations Committee assessing u. S. Strategy in afghanistan among the witnesses deputy secretary of state John Sullivan discussing the role of neighboring pakistan and randall slieber outlining the military role in training. This is about two hours. Well come to order and we thank those in attendance rolling out the new strategy. Reiterated our commitment to helping establish a foundation for political resolution. With a recent report of shrinking government control of territory continued of Afghan Forces and deadly attacks in kabul about and isis and it is clear that foundation is a long way off. We are encouraged by the troops strength authorized in the new strategy at 12,300 military personnel with an additional 1,000 on request in 2014. Our nato and nonnato allies reinforced their troop commitments and support to Afghan Forces through 2020.
Along the coast and around the bay compared to yesterday. For example, yesterday in San Francisco was 102, today 84. Youll notice theres still lots of triple dental in the inland area, santa rosa hitted 100, concord 106. The reason for cooling, clouds moving in. Temperatures are finally dropping into the 60s and that is quite a change compared to yesterday. Well finally be able to get some good sleep tonight for those who dont have airconditioning. More coming up. Labor day weekend has been no holiday in the area coping with this heat wave. Reporter we recognize theres a lot of heat going on right now. Its been a tough weekend for firefighters. Emts have responded to some calls for heat related injuries by fire danger remain as big threat. Should we get something that is grass fire related its a big concern for us. In fact, during high heat days the county wram. Sup the response. Reporter some firefighters have been sent to fight fires in south carolina. Members of the rescue team are
Without advance notice, and was a provocative action that raised regional tensions. South koreas military said the missile was launched towards the east, from sunan near the north korean capital pyongyang. It flew 3700 kilometres over the island of hokkaido and crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 2000 kilometres east of cape erimo. The Un Security Council is to meet in emergency session later on friday to discuss the crisis. This is the First Response from south north korea since the latest round of sanctions. The south Korean Military has estimated that it travelled 3700 kilometres across japan and into the Pacific Ocean. Here in seoul the national Security Council is meeting as we speak and there has again been global condemnation of north korea. Certainly in this part of the world. For example, the japanese Prime Minister has said that his country will never tolerate these types of provocations. The us secretary of state has said that this will further increase north koreas isolati