To end the slaughter and bloodshed in syria. As Syrian Television shows the aftermath, moscow strongly condemns the action, vowing to strengthen assads air defences. The romanian tourist injured in the westminster attacks two weeks ago has died Andrea Christea fell into the thames during the incident. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Im jane hill. A lorry has driven into a crowd of pedestrians in the Swedish Capital, stockholm. Police say at least three people have been killed and many others injured. The vehicle is reported to have rammed into a busy Department Store on drottninggatan, one of the citys major shopping streets. The swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has said that the country has been attacked and everything indicates that it was police have released this image of a man they want to question in relation to the attack. Suddenly this afternoon, panic on the streets of Central Stockholm. People running for their lives. Around the corner, a lorry has smashed across a pedestr
Ukraine's SBU security service has seized assets owned by Russian General Valery Kapashin, with an estimated value exceeding one billion hryvnias ($27 million), according to a press release on August 21.
trump administration is saying, secretary of state rex tillerson, the justification for this as he presented it in mar-a-lago where he is right now with president trump was essentially that the assad regime has continued to use chemical weapons, they have normalized that use, and because of no international response previously, the secretary of state said the trump administration was respond to a spot in the way that it did. it also took russia to task. we have heard a stronger language towards russia from rex tillerson, the secretary of state, and the trump administration over the last couple of days saying because of the deal that was struck in the last administration that russia said it would destroy the chemical weapons and oversee the destruction of chemical weapons in syria. tillerson says clearly russia has failed in its responsibility and russia has been complicit or simply incompetent on delivering its end of that agreement. it is a question of where they stand on bashar al-as
destruction of chemical weapons has not occurred per the agreed-upon schedule. the assad regime continues to commit despicable atrocities against innocent civilians. jordan, lebanon and turkey are burdened under the strain of refugees. syrian people, for lebanon, turkey, for jordan, coping with how to keep their societies running and keep extremists at bay while they host millions now refugees, our support is critical to that. we re the largest donor in the world and that helps us because it is critical to us that lebanon and jordan remain stable. reporter: now this is at root a budget hearing. the overall state and usaid budget request for fiscal year 2016 is 46.2 billion. that amounts to penny for taxpayer dollar spent on federal government. jon: james rosen, thank you. reporter: thank you. jenna: new questions about
that s the lens through which they re seeing this. so we better look at the insurance companies as hard as we ve looked at the white house. what about syria? there was a time when that dominated the news and the president looked like he was going war and then he went the diplomatic route. and we ve kind of moved on. did the media suffer from add? yeah, of course we do. and but you have to deal with what s porcht now and what happened in syria. put it on hold. there are negotiations going on trying to in actual apparently i emphasize apparently destruction of chemical weapons and we went from we re going to have a tax to we re going to go to congress to now it s in the hands of vladimir putin. you ve been spending more time lately at the washington post, i am told, and you ve been there as long as i ve known you