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talks in washington, i spoke to our north america correspondent peter bowes. these are very wide ranging discussions. mr galante is on a several day visit to the united states meeting his us counterpart in about 2k hours time. in the last few hours, focusing on his meeting with antony blinken. this issue of trying to avoid further escalation has certainly been uppermost in their discussions. and really avoiding escalation on two fronts, escalation of the war in gaza between israel and hamas, but also concern about the skirmishes that we have seen on the northern border with lebanon with his brother over the last few days. and there is very real concern that those skirmishes could turn into something more serious and escalate into a wider middle east conflict. we understand that antony blinken has been putting some pressure on mr gallant to seek some sort of diplomatic resolution to that situation on the northern border to see the return home of lebanese families. so co ....
presidency is history. as members of zimbabwe s parliament began debating whether to impeach the president the speaker of parliament interrupted he had a letter of resignation to read. i. i, robert mugabe, underthe constitution of section one in zimbabwe, tender my resignation as the president of the republic of zimbabwe with immediate effect. mr mugabe s letter said his decision was taken to allow a smooth transition of power and that it was voluntary. voluntary‘s one word for it unavoidable is another. mr mugabe refused to resign after last week s military takeover. he refused to resign after mass protests at the weekend. he refused to resign when he was sacked by his own party on sunday. and he ignored a deadline to go on monday. he even called his normal cabinet meeting for tuesday. but there s nothing normal about this tuesday. the pressure told and his 37 years as president ended. and look at these pictures from harare as the news started to spread. this ....
commander radko mladic has been jailed for life. he was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bosnian war of the 1990s. this was mr mladic during the war, when he was nicknamed the butcher of bosnia. in the town of srebrenica in the east of bosnia and herzogovina he oversaw the massacre of more than 7,000 bosniak men and boys. it was the worst atrocity in europe since the second world war. he was also found guilty of deliberate attacks on civilians in the country s capital of sarajevo. this decision was handed down in the dutch city of the hague, where the un had set up a criminal tribunal to investigate crimes committed during the bosnian war. this was radko mladic‘s reaction as the judge read out the verdict. translation: mr mladic, if you continue like this. we have seen there s quite a few times during the trial. it s been common for him to interruptjudges in the un criminal tribunalfor the former yugoslavia. today he was eventually r ....
england must do better at learning from its mistakes. and the extra terrestrial bin lorry catching old bits of satellite and rockets that are filling up outer space. good evening and welcome to bbc news. reports from south korea say pyongyang has fired a ballistic missile. reports from the japanese government estimate for 50 minutes before landed in their exclusive economic zone. north korea has test fired several missiles this year, as tensions increase over its nuclear programme. the last such test was about two months ago. the white house says that president trump was briefed about the missile whilst it was still in the air. the former us secretary of defence, william cohen, has been reacting to the missile launch. it doesn t surprise me. it seems that kimjong it doesn t surprise me. it seems that kim jong un it doesn t surprise me. it seems that kimjong un is going to continue to do what he s been doing u nless continue to do what he s been doing unless he s stopped ....
my family could ever wish for. warnings from nhs leaders in england that they cannot meet waiting time targets next year because of funding. and hope for some of the eight million migraine sufferers in the uk after trials of new drugs. and coming up in the sport on bbc news, big sam is back. everton are set to announce the former england manager as their new boss to replace ronald koeman. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. there s been widespread condemnation in parliament of president trump, after he shared anti muslim videos on twitter that had been posted by a british far right group. the home secretary amber rudd told mps that donald trump was wrong to spread the messages posted online by an organisation that seeks to divide communities. the row has prompted more calls for president trump s state visit to the uk to be cancelled. iain watson reports. i d like to start by saying how delighted i am that as the leader of the free world you took the time ....