And from despair to delight three days after being barred from the heats of the World Athletics Championships, Isaac Makwala runs for gold tonight. Its five 0clock our top story north korea says its working on plans to fire four Ballistic Missiles towards the american Territory Of Guam. In an escalating war of words, the north koreans say donald trump is Bereft Of Reason while mr trump has already warned the regime in pyongyang that it risks the fire and fury of an American Military response. Meanwhile south korea has appealed for calm. 0ur Correspondent Yogita Limeye Reports from the south korean capital, seoul. One more fierce message on north koreas state tv. This time, its details of how it plans to attack guam. This us island in the Pacific Ocean is in pyongyangs crosshairs. North korea says it plans to fire four missiles in the waters around it. Its home to Tens Of Thousands of people. 0bviously for me, because im a father, its really concerning. I wish it didnt have to come to t
At more than 100 miles an hour, for the first time in nearly 50 years. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. Leicester city prepare for their First Champions League quarterfinal, they face Atletico Madrid in the spanish capital. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The russian president , vladimir putin, has said trust between moscow and washington has deteriorated since donald trump took office. Mr putins comments come as his Foreign Minister, sergei lavrov, holds talks with his us counterpart, Rex Tillerson in the russian capital. Opening the meeting, mr lavrov said he wanted to clear up What Moscow Regards as americas ambiguous and contradictory position on syria. Rex tillerson is hoping to persuade russia to stop supporting syrias president assad after last weeks chemical attack which killed more than 80 people, including children. Barbara plett usher reports from moscow. She is travelling with mr tillotson. This is not the kind of meeting that once seemed on the ca
there was no american military response. president biden, secretary of state blinken were both in the obama administration at the time. they will be very wary of drawing any red lines that they don t plan to enforce. the white house has said that if the russians do use chemical weapons there would be a proportionate response. they haven t given any details on what that means. willie. again, nbc has not confirmed that report, but it would cross a line, as you say, raf. raf sanchez in lviv for us this morning. thanks so much. jonathan lemire is here with me at the table, he s the host of way too early and the white house political chief at politico. let s talk about what russia is up to in the east. if there s a new offensive and they resort to the tactics we have seen in bucha and mariupol, does it change the calculus at all with president biden and the white house? can they afford to stand by and watch this happen?
heard about is the formation of a large international coalition to contain and reverse iranian activities in the region. that is coming after those attacks against saudi arabia and in many other spots in the region as well. sandra: you just heard an interview with the energy secretary rick perry a few moments ago in our studio. i know something caught you that you heard there when i asked him what we re about to hear from the president. well, it s the same point that you raised with him immediately. that was a unique moment where a member of cabinet would make that statement which is in addition to the international coalition that the u.s. will be building, there could be i quote kinetic responses. what was interesting about it, it may not be an american military response. who in the region? secretary perry was very clear. arabs are victimized by the iranians, israel is.
sure the iranian s don t get comfortable in that gray zone of being able to attack american interests with violence underneath the threshold of activity that would automatically trigger an american military response. if we allow that to happen without imposing real price on the iranian s this will be to precisely the kind of war we are seeking to avoid. eric: what if they say it is a drone, they can shoot drones? that could cause a new policy to escort these tankers like we did into the taker wars? that is an option if you have enough ships in the area you can do that. otherwise you do what you are should be doing anyway which is getting gina haskell, apolitical senior officials and top military brass over to europe, the arabian gulf, to japan and