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somewhere, twitter, and hope someone, somewhere, ca res. and: it helped define the 1990s, now trainspotting returns for a new generation. good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says she has absolute faith, in the uk s trident nuclear deterrent system, despite claims an unarmed missile veered off course during a test last summer. on the andrew marr programme today, the prime minister declined to say whether she knew of the incident, before a crucial vote on the future of trident, in parliament lastjuly. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. this is what the launch of a trident missile looks like. lastjune, the royal navy carried out what it calls a routine unarmed test launch from hms vengeance. but it now appears something went wrong. hms vengeance was about 200 miles off the florida coast. it was going to fire the missile around 500 miles across the atlantic but a malfunction occurred during its flight. yet just weeks later, theresa may was ask ....
i m not going to get an answer. it matters because the trial appears to have gone wrong just weeks before her new government asked mps to approve billions of pounds to keep the weapons. we are launching this strategy here. having failed to answer yesterday, today on a cabinet visit, the prime minister had to admit she did know. i m regularly briefed on national security issues, i was briefed on this successful certification of hms vengeance and her crew. we don t comment on the operational details for national security reasons. this spectacular misfire in the late 80s of an american trident missile is rare. the vast majority of tests have been successful. urgent question. and it s not clear what went wrong with this weapons trial. but labour has found a lot wrong with the government s handling of the facts. at the heart of this issue is a worrying lack of transparency, and a prime minister who has chosen to cover up a serious incident rather than coming clean with the b ....
welcome to bbc news. labour has accused theresa may and her ministers of a cover up after she once again refused to confirm or deny reports that during the last test of britain s nuclear deterrent a missile had veered off course. the defence secretary sir michael fallon who faced urgent questions in the commons said he would not comment on operational details. as our political editor laura kuenssberg reports the test occurred lastjune just before mps voted to renew britain s independent nuclear defence capability. set condition one 50 for weapons system readiness test. aye aye, sir. pressing the nuclear button. action stations. a process that is practised and practised. the hope, it never happens for real. butjust before the prime minister took charge, a test like this, it seems, did not go according to plan. but theresa may yesterday refused to say if she had known. prime minister, did you know? there are tests that take place all the time, regularly, for our n ....
we do not comment on the operational details for national security reasons. a series of failures led to a prisoner s suicide. his family say the prison authorities had been warned. doctors in sheffield are pioneering the use of a small mri brain scanner, designed for use on premature babies. and nicola adams, the double olympic boxing champion, talks to us about turning professional. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news, bernie ecclestone‘s ao year reign formula one boss is over, as he is replaced by the sport s new owners. good evening. president trump has opened his first full week in office by signing an order formally withdrawing the us from a major free trade deal with pacific rim countries. the tra ns pacific partnership deal was negotiated by the obama administration but it was never ratified by congress. during the day, mr trump met business leaders and warned that he will penalise american companies that move jobs overseas. the white house confirmed trade w ....
sees anti abortion legislation and the dumping of a major trade deal. but what will the next 99 days bring? good evening and welcome to bbc news. president trump has opened his first full week in office by signing an order formally withdrawing the us from a major free trade deal with pacific rim countries. the tra ns pacific partnership was negotiated by the obama administration but it was never ratified by congress. the white house confirmed trade would feature prominently in the president s talks with theresa may later this week as our north america editorjon sopel reports. we ve been talking about this for a long time. the power of the pen, executive orders signed by the president as he starts his first week in thejob. president as he starts his first week in the job. another order sets in trade plans to renegotiate the nafta agreement with mexico and canada. afar nafta agreement with mexico and canada. a far more complex undertaking. and there is to be a freeze o ....