of state antony blinken says he has no further updates on the condition of us solider private travis king, but added that there are concerns. private king remains in custody in north korea. national security council spokespersonjohn kirby defended the deployment of a us nuclear submarine to south korea, telling cnn that the us has to:. make sure that we have in the region sufficient military capability to protect our south korea allies, and quite frankly, the 38 thousand us troops and families that are on the korean peninsula. meanwhile, russia has continued to pound ukrainian grain silos for a fourth straight day, causing wheat prices to skyrocket. russia s defense ministry also says its black sea fleet has practised firing rockets at surface targets in a live fire exercise. earlier my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke with the pentagon s deputy press secretary sabrina singh about all of this, starting with north korea. sabrina, it s great to have you back on the show. i wan
after a busy day two, with spain looking strong against costa rica, winning 3 0. elsewhere, switzerland knocked off newcomers the philippines. and canada limped to a draw with nigeria. live now to katie silver, who s in sydney for us. great who s in sydney for us. to see you, i want to start great to see you, i want to start with one of them matches we just mentioned which is spain meet in costa rica at 3-0, spain meet in costa rica at 3 0, looking strong. what message does that send to the rest of the field? the message does that send to the rest of the field? rest of the field? the message is watch this rest of the field? the message is watch this space, rest of the field? the message is watch this space, they - rest of the field? the message is watch this space, they have | is watch this space, they have picked themselves as the team to watch here against costa rica you mentioned the score was 3 0, at times he could have been higher. spain missed a penalty and they ha
johnson. so that s coming up. it is rishi sunak speaking at the launch of tech week, technically, but we will be on watch forjohnson mentions. that s all coming up. let s hearfrom you, mentions. that s all coming up. let s hear from you, 85058 on the text, 08085 909693 on the phones. this is the nation s phone ins. and we have got the news for you with bethan. a committee of mps who ve been investigating whether borisjohnson misled parliament about lockdown parties at downing street are to finish their inquiry today and decide when it ll be published. mrjohnson resigned as an mp on friday describing the committee as a kangaroo court after he saw an advanced copy. scotland s first minister humza yousaf is facing pressure to suspend his predecessor nicola sturgeon from the snp after she was arrested. ms sturgeon was questioned as part of a police investigation into the party s finances. she was later released without charge and insists she s innocent of any wrongdo
in canada. air pollution in the us. a new el nino weather event. we ll investigate what s going on with our climate. in ukraine president zelensky has been to see the damage done after the attack on the dam. and in france the latest first lets go to the us uk prime minister is in washington. meeting us presidentjoe biden. those pictures are of something different. we will stick to the us, because in the last few minutes, that press conference has wrapped up a little early orion will stop this was their meeting in front of the cameras, and they had private meetings as well after that talking about economic ties, support for ukraine and artificial intelligence as we mentioned. that is what we will be talking about. first, let s hear from the us will be talking about. first, let s hearfrom the us president. so, mr prime minister, thank you for making the journey to washington. earlier this week, we marked the 79th anniversary of d day, and a timely reminder of a proud hist