In the alps has become a must see attraction for tens of thousands of tourists from asia. North korea has fired two short range Ballistic Missiles early on wednesday morning. This from reports on the yonhap news agency, citing thejoint chiefs of staff of the south Korean Military. Its reported the missiles were fired from the city of wonsan, the second Missile Launch in a week. Neighbouring south korea and japan, of course, monitoring all this very closely, in case there are more to come. Lets speak now to robert kelly. Professor, great pleasure to talk to you again. Thank you for having me. 24 you again. Thank you for having me. 2a of these launches, i think. Is there particular significance in these, do you think . there particular significance in these, do you think . I think this is likely to present the Trump Administration to come forward with some kind of deal, some kind of offer. I think there has been a lot offer. I think there has been a lot of talk between the north koreans
Pathways such as family reunification process is reuniting parents with children for example but also humanitarian missions private sponsorship schemes where private citizens can sponsor refugees educational scholarships theres many ways we can do this to get people out of harms way and in terms of the lack of political well there where where are we getting hung up on this why these things not happening. Well we now have one person dying on the Mediterranean Sea for every 6 people that reaches european shows so you know that there is now a stark question facing states on both sides of the mediterranean about whether to come together and develop a common harmonized approach to shares responsibility among states for addressing the situation or whether we continue to turn a blind eye to refugees losing their lives or see charlie actually that from the u. N. Thanks for joining us on out there. Still ahead on this. And now that major layoffs in the global car industry best time yes and that
The firstjoint air patrol by russia and china sees south korean warplanes fire warning shots and prompts an international row. The countdown begins its one year until the Tokyo Olympics. But organisers are already worried about the summer heat. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Hello and welcome to newsday. Its 8 00am in singapore and 1l00 in the morning here in london, where borisjohnson is preparing for the biggest act of his political career. On wednesday, after being invited by the queen to form a government, hell pick up the keys to number 10 fulfilling an ambition hes held for decades. Borisjohnson promised a new spirit of can do and said he would get brexit done by october the 31st. Heres our political editor. Laura kuenssberg. Applause. And therefore i give notice that borisjohnson is elected as the leader of the conservative and unionist parties. A brief moment of where do i go now, as the rest of the room got to its feet. A thu
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