It is 8 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london, and 8 00pm in washington, where us defence secretary james mattis has confirmed a broad investigation will take place, after a collision between a us destroyer and oil tanker near singapore. Ten american sailors are still missing, with a sea rch and rescue operation ongoing. The Ussjohn S Mccain is the Second Us Navy ship to be involved in a serious collision in as many months. 0ur asia correspondent Karishma Vaswani has been to see the ship, which has now docked in singapore. This is what happens when a massive Oil Tanker Collides with a us warship. A gaping hole in the side of the Ussjohn S Mccain, an american destroyer with more than 300 crew on board. It was on its way to singapore when, just before dawn, it collided with this merchant vessel, the liberian flagged alnic mc, an oil and chemical tanker much larger than the warship. It is still not clear how the collision happened, but ten american sailors are still missing, and five were i
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore and midnight in london. The us navy is facing increased pressure over whether its been stretched too thin after the commander of the seventh fleet was relieved of his post following a series of collisions. In the latest, the Ussjohn S Mccain struck an oil tanker in the waters off singapore. As many as ten sailors are feared dead and a wide ranging search continues for the missing, both in the sea and inside the ship itself. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports from singapore. These are the faces that have lost the us seventh fleet commander his job. They are the seven young sailors who died aboard the uss fitzgerald when it was struck off the coast ofjapan injune. Now there are almost certainly ten more faces to be added to these, the victims of the latest collision of the ussjohn mccain, off the coast of singapore. Vice admiraljoseph aucoin was due to retire next month, instead hes been very publicly sacked.
Im stephen sackur. Politicians and Civil Servants usually abandon their offices in the dog days of august, but not this year not in london, where brexit is now an overwhelming political priority. Theresa mays government has issued a raft of proposals on what trade, border and legal arrangements might look like, post brexit. There is striking focus on continuity rather than change. My guest is one of the conservative partys staunchest brexiteers, daniel hannan. If brexit isnt a clean break, then whats the point . Daniel hannan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are six months into a two year process which will end with the departure of the uk from the European Union. Are you satisfied with what has happened in those First Six Months . Yes, iam. I think its gone better than a lot of people expected. We were told during the Referendum Campaign that the very act of voting leave would trigger an immediate economic downturn. I dont think anyone now argues that that happened. We grew faster
Im stephen sackur. Politicians and Civil Servants usually abandon their offices in the dog days of august, but not this year not in london, where brexit is now an overwhelming political priority. Theresa mays government has issued a raft of proposals on what trade, border and legal arrangements might look like, post brexit. There is striking focus on continuity rather than change. My guest is one of the conservative partys staunchest brexiteers, daniel hannan. If brexit isnt a clean break, then whats the point . Daniel hannan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are six months into a two year process which will end with the departure of the uk from the European Union. Are you satisfied with what has happened in those First Six Months . Yes, iam. I think its gone better than a lot of people expected. We were told during the Referendum Campaign that the very act of voting leave would trigger an immediate economic downturn. I dont think anyone now argues that that happened. We grew faster
But first, gabriel gatehouse reports from phoenix, where americas increasingly polarised political debate spilled out onto the streets. Voiceover bikers for trump. They came to phoenix, to show support for their president , and, they said, to stop protesters from harassing those who wanted to attend the rally. Charlottesville is still fresh in the memory. Two radically opposing visions for america clashed, blood was spilt, people died. We dont want to see anybody get hurt. The bikers condemned White Supremacists and neo nazis, and so, eventually, did donald trump, but he was slow and equivocal. Many saw in him a president who emboldened racist. For all of us to protect people from threats of violence by protesters. But america is in the grip of a cultural war so polarising, you might wonder whether these two sides lived on the same planet. Obama for the last eight yearshas emboldened people to come out and be violent because there has been no consequences for any of it, telling people