This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. It is 7am in singapore, Midnight In London at 7am in beijing, where Chinas Foreign Ministry has raised new worries about north koreas weekly programme. The chinese Foreign Ministry has called for calm and an end to actions that could further raise tension on the Korean Peninsular. At at the same time a spokesman said beijing had serious concerns about pyongyangs nuclear ambitions. Translation chinas position on north Koreas Nuclear issue is clear and consistent. We have repeatedly stressed that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is highly complicated and sensitive. All parties concerned should exercise restraint and make joint efforts to ease tension in the region, rather than provoking each other and making things worse. We hope the countries which are really committed to Regional Peace will not stoke the tension there. We miss guard against anyone who tries to achieve their own political ends by taking advantage of the reg
In just a few days from now, pope francis will fly to egypt to offer his personal support to egypts Coptic Christians. Hell find a community filled with apprehension, targeted byjihadist extremists, and subject to persistent discrimination and sectarian violence. Elsewhere in the middle east, in syria and iraq, the plight of christians is even worse. My guest today is the general bishop of the Coptic Church in the uk, bishop angaelos. Do christians have any future at all in the middle east . Bishop angaelos, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Do you think there is something substantively different about the nature of the threat faced by Coptic Christians in egypt today . Because they have faced threats for many, many years. Yes. We have faced threats for centuries, and particularly over the past decades, but to have Suicide Bombers in churches is is a shift, and it looks like the mirroring of attacks in other parts of the world. And think that is why it has shocked the Egyptian Community
This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. It is 7am in singapore, Midnight In London at 7am in beijing, where Chinas Foreign Ministry has raised new worries about north koreas weekly programme. The chinese Foreign Ministry has called for calm and an end to actions that could further raise tension on the Korean Peninsular. At at the same time a spokesman said beijing had serious concerns about pyongyangs nuclear ambitions. Translation chinas position on north Koreas Nuclear issue is clear and consistent. We have repeatedly stressed that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is highly complicated and sensitive. All parties concerned should exercise restraint and make joint efforts to ease tension in the region, rather than provoking each other and making things worse. We hope the countries which are really committed to Regional Peace will not stoke the tension there. We miss guard against anyone who tries to achieve their own political ends by taking advantage of the reg
In just a few days from now, pope francis will fly to egypt to offer his personal support to egypts Coptic Christians. Hell find a community filled with apprehension, targeted byjihadist extremists, and subject to persistent discrimination and sectarian violence. Elsewhere in the middle east, in syria and iraq, the plight of christians is even worse. My guest today is the general bishop of the Coptic Church in the uk, bishop angaelos. Do christians have any future at all in the middle east . Bishop angaelos, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Do you think there is something substantively different about the nature of the threat faced by Coptic Christians in egypt today . Because they have faced threats for many, many years. Yes. We have faced threats for centuries, and particularly over the past decades, but to have Suicide Bombers in churches is is a shift, and it looks like the mirroring of attacks in other parts of the world. And think that is why it has shocked the Egyptian Community
Newspapers later. Now for the latest Financial News with Sally Bundock and World Business report. We will. Red lines the head of the European Parliament meets theresa may with a list of non negotiables. But will the uksjune election mean a softer approach to brexit . Plus Rural Revolution why anti europe candidates are finding Fertile Ground in the french countryside. Welcome to World Business report. Im Sally Bundock. Also coming up,japan sees its biggestjump in exports in two years. We will have the numbers soon. It has been moving the markets in asia. But first we start here in london where in a few hours time the head of the European Parliament is due in Downing Street to meet the british Prime Minister theresa may. Antonio tajanis visit comes as the country prepares for an election which will be dominated by britains exit from the European Union. The European Parliament has a vote on the final brexit deal, and has set out a series of red lines it wont compromise on, something taja