reported dead. and one american diplomat feels threatened by donald trump new details emerge in the impeachment inquiry. 40 years to the days since a rainy and pretenses took us embassy staff hostage both countries have taken steps likely to worsen their already strained relationship the u.s. treasury secretary announced new sanctions against iran s armed forces general staff its most senior military body and 9 people connected to the supreme leader ali herman a earlier on monday around sick another step away from the 2050 new clear deal so iran says it s now operating twice as many advanced centrifuges asmer a lights on the agreements and lowering it. enrich uranium faster this will make it quicker for iran to build a nuclear weapon or both an audience moments appeared signed to fall on the 40th anniversary of that seizure with the us embassy in tehran $52.00 american citizens were detained for more than 400 days dosage of our reports from to her on the head of iran s atomic
files for hurricane survivors in the bahamas even as emergency supplies are rushed in. and continues to go on to here is the latest bout we ll hear from him in sport with john. told us that ahead but 1st a day of protests that started peacefully in central hong kong has ended in more chaos demonstrators set barricades on fire block major roads and vandalized the metro station earlier thousands marched peacefully to the u.s. consulate calling on congress to pass a human rights legislation allowing sanctions to be placed on hong kong leaders. and with this update now from hong kong. this is one of hong kong s main shopping districts usually a very busy place on a sunday night and if you can see it s been. brought to a standstill with white police over here blocking the road they chased the protesters 2 here from the financial district and tried to disperse them using tear gas among the shoppers and the crowds on a sunday night not long ago we saw people running with small child
and 2nd of all because the language of the chief used in her resignation letter and in those subsequent interviews that she s given i mean she said that the expulsion of the 21 conservative m.p. s who were thrown out of the party by boris johnson for voting against him she described that as an assault on decency and democracy very strong words and she also flatly contradicted the government s stated position as far as negotiations with the european union force johnson has said that he is strongly pursuing a deal with the european union or rudd says that s simply not the case from her insiders you know she said that she saw no negotiations only conversations and she said that she no longer believes that leaving with a deal with a deal is the government s main objective 90 percent of the government s time she said was being put into preparing for no deal she said that that seemed to be the main strategy of the government and for those 2 reasons her resignation is deep in signif
latest missile firing is being viewed with deep concern here in south korea it s the 2nd double launching of short range ballistic missiles in less than a week and the 3rd missile launch to take place since may in direct contravention of the landmark military agreement signed between north and south korea last september during the period of improving relations that was meant to have put an end to testings like this one south korea s defense minister has said that if the north continues with threats and provocations like this then it would have to be considered an enemy so there has been some very strong words used by south korea contrasting with all of the period of reconciliation that we ve had over the past year and a half or so north korea said when it launched missiles last week that that should be considered to be a solemn warning to south korea being very careful not to direct any of its anger all wrath at the americans and that u.s. president donald trump in particular
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