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as we enter 2017. the events of the last year have changed our world. popular votes in the united states and united kingdom have shaken the west. both have been an angry backlash against decades old policies. the rising tide of antiestablishment feeling is found its voice in social media. as the new means of communicating propelled us into an age where fact no longer matters? post truth is the word of the year. what does it mean? what is new is the speed at which some of these false and get distributed, and the willingness of people to embrace them. and what does the future look like? is britain s vote to leave the eu the beginning of a wider european unravelling? in the pale winter dawn of western pennsylvania the deer hunting season has begun. chuck eriksson has been shooting deer for a0 years. they start hunting here as early as eight years old. over the years it has changed. we have gone from being meat seekers to trophy hunters. it was a bad day if we saw 100 deer. ....
of tonight s bafta awards ceremony and in half an hour, here on bbc news, with the start of brexit talks just weeks away, politics europe looks at who the uk will be negotiating with. a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the united states and japan have condemned north korea for test firing a ballistic missile the first such test since donald trump took office as us president. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said the launch was intolerable and president trump said the us stood behind japan 100%. the missile flew for about three hundred miles and landed in the sea ofjapan. our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has more. it s now thought the missile fired from north korea earlier this morning was one of these a musudan intermediate range ballistic missile. it flew about 500 kilometres before splashing down in the sea ofjapan. north korea s dictator, kimjong un, had been promising to test fire a much longer range missiles capable of hitting the u ....
a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the united states and japan have condemned north korea for test firing a ballistic missile the first such test since donald trump took office as us president. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said the launch was intolerable and president trump said the us stood behind japan 100%. the missile flew for about 300 miles and landed in the sea ofjapan. 0ur tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has more. it s now thought the missile fired from north korea early this morning was one of these a musudan intermediate range ballistic missile. it flew about 500 kilometres before splashing down in the sea ofjapan. north korea s dictator, kimjong un, had been promising to test fire a much longer range missiles capable of hitting the united states. a much longer range missile capable of hitting the united states. that has not happened. instead, mr kim is almost certainly using the launch to crash this weekend party in florida. ....
that the country s economy is facing a number of threats and has announced a lower growth target of 6.5%. a memorial is to be built close to the beaches of the d day landings in northern france, to honour the thousands of british soldiers and sailors who died during the operation in 1944. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week i m hitting the powder on the ski slopes of fukushima. laughter. we re on the lookout for shooting stars in the dark skies of alberta. you guys are crazy! and brandy s trying out ice canoeing in quebec city. woohoo! hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from japan, where it s just after six o clock here in tokyo, and we re about to hit the road. we re heading off before sunrise. let s do it. to make the four hour journey to fukushima. most people associate fukushima with the impact of the major earthquake and tsunami that hit japan on march 11th six years ago. the tsunami wave disabled the generators at the fukushima ....
and threat of coalition air strikes. god will have revenge on isis. entered those who helped isis entered those who helped isis entered the city. the deadline forforming a new devolved government in northern ireland hasjust expired with no agreement. this is scene in stormont, where the secretary of state for northern ireland will be speaking shortly. the new £1 coin is released tomorrow, but are everyday machines ready for it? good afternoon and welcome to bbc news more on theresa may s meeting with nicola sturgeon in a minute or $0. first, let s go over to stormont house in northern ireland, where we re expecting the northern ireland secretaryjames brokenshire to make a statement on the political deadlock in the province. the deadline to form a new devolved government has just passed without an agreement. we expect the northern ireland secretary to emerge in about ten minutes to tell us about his plans. there is no sign of any deal being done by the deadline lipm. th ....