North koreas foreign minister has launched a fresh verbal attack on President Trump. Speaking at the united nations, ri yong ho called President Trump a mentally deranged person full of megalomania. He said trumps threat to destroy his country had made a rocket assault on the United States all the more inevitable. Andrew plant has the story. Pyongyang, the capital of north korea, the place where tens of thousands of North Koreans gathered to show support for their leader, kim jong un, and their anger at americas leader, donald trump. Translation who the hell is trump to talk about the collapse of our government . We are resolved to settle our differences with the us by military force, if war breaks out. Translation afterl heard the announcement, my anger at the psycho trump was unbearable. His words at the un were quite ridiculous. America, in turn, has demonstrated its strength and its own offensive options the us air force flying bombers and fighters over waters east of north korea.
They say theyre protesting against racism in the us and he says theyre unpatriotic. Good morning. We bought more than £500 million worth ofjune last year, thats doubled in the last six yea rs, year, thats doubled in the last six years, so year, thats doubled in the last six years, so ive come to a distillery in london to find out why its booming jim. In sport, the rain stays away in bristol. Fifa have held talks with the home nations in time for matches in november to have poppies. And carol has the weather. Rain in central uk this morning, some of it heavy. In the west, although we have fog in Northern Ireland, that will lift and Western Areas today generally seeing sunshine. More details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Labour will set out to unite its members over brexit today as it looks to calm growing anger over the issues that will be voted on at the party conference. The shadow brexit secretary sir keir starmer will give a speech on the issue, but there will
Technology help us get more out of oui Technology Help us get more out of our workers and businesses . Productivity problems are a big issue for the chancellor in next weeks budget, so i am at this trade fair show of innovation this morning to see if i can find any solutions. In sport delight for denmark, but despair for the republic of ireland, beaten in their world cup qualifying playoff. And carol has the weather. A very good morning. Good morning. It isa a very good morning. Good morning. It is a fairly cloudy start across england, wales and Northern Ireland. We have also got some patchy mist and fog and some rain and drizzle. The brightest skies today are going to be across scotland. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story soldiers in zimbabwe have broadcast a message on state run television, after shooting and explosions were heard in the capital, harare. Military officers have denied the move amounted to a coup, and say president mugabe and his family
And the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning between 12 and one oclock. The first call to the Metropolitan Police was at 1 15am. The blaze, you can see now there are no flames this stage, just smoke, and you can see the damage done to the building. Lets give you a sense from the images last night from the early hours of the morning. You can get a real sense of the scale of the blaze that was engulfing the building. Lets tell you about who is tackling the fire at the moment. Around 200 firefighters, a0 fire engines, and of course London Ambulance has sent a number of vehicles and medical staff to the scene. 0ur Correspondent is at the scene this morning. Tell us what you can see. Well, you can see the block is still alight. You can see some flames there. You can see the Fire Brigade Hosing down the lower reaches of the building. But the fire service said that this was a blaze reaching from the second floor right up to the 27th floor. Its been a blaze for five hours now. We
Hearing from them later in the programme. We will Hearfrom Karl Mercer at a nearby mosque which opened its doors to help those in need tonight, who were evacuated from the tower block itself. Alice has a different Vantage Point of the one ive got now. Firstly, i think we should hear from those affected most. People who tonight are counting themselves lucky to escape alive. People who lost their homes and in many cases, people who have lost just about everything and in many cases, people who have lostjust about everything they own. Lostjust about everything they own. Today lostjust about everything they own. Today is the 14th ofjune. 2am, i was woken up by the siren noise. It was my son that woke me up. I think it was about 1 20am. And where were you . On the 17th floor. We grabbed them. We ran downstairs, it took us a solid four minutes to get out, just as i was entering the ground floor, The Fire Brigade was coming up. It was moving very fast. I cannot imagine, it was so fast. I looke