Three more conservative leadership candidates launch their campaigns to become the next Prime Minister. And the man who knew too much, was the half brother of kim jung un murdered in malaysia, because he was a cia informant . Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. The two top guns in american president ial politics will face off today in iowa. It is the state that kicks off the us president ial election season with the Iowa Caucuses. Its also a swing state. In 2012, barack obama won iowa with 52 of the vote. In 2016, trump won the state with 51 . So a purple state, worth the fight. And todays dueling speeches perhaps give us a preview of what the race may look like. Donald trump has no challenger. On the democrat side joe biden is one of 24. But for now he is the frontrunner. And ahead of his Campaign Speech later today, he has been speaking to Community Workers in the town of council bluffs. President trump is in iowa today and i. Because. And
A bbc investigation at brook house, near gatwick airport, found a toxic, brutal and failing environment. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. Global Leaders Debate whether economic sanctions will be enough to stop pyongyang in its tracks. And it kind takes a tumble after china cracks down on crypto currencies. It isa cracks down on crypto currencies. It is a tuesday, everyone bitcoin ta kes a is a tuesday, everyone bitcoin takes a tumble. Glad you could join us takes a tumble. Glad you could join us for this edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We start off with united nations, and the Security Council is considering tough new sanctions against north korea, as a way to isolate the regime which continues to test nuclear weapons. This comes hours after President Trump tweeted the us may stop trading with any country doing business with north korea. That includes india, russia, pakistan and especially china. Lets ta ke pakistan and especially china
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and one in the morning in catalonia in spain, where regional leaders say 90 of those who voted in a referendum were in favour of independence from spain. It was a day of voting that descended into chaos and violence. More than 800 people are reported to have been injured. The catalan president says the region has won the right to independence after its leaders defied Central Government and went ahead with the vote. Tom burridge reports from barcelona. This is how a vote turned ugly. Spanish National Police moving in to disrupt an independence referendum in catalonia which spains government considers illegal. People kicked and thrown. Women literally pulled by their hair out of polling stations. Across barcelona Violent Police raids to grab ballot boxes. Hundreds injured when they went to vote. One of the policemen took him by the head, took off his glasses and then he started to kick my dad here. The first one was here. He kicked here. They are
After a day of voting that descended into chaos and violence, regional leaders in catalonia say 90 of those who voted in a referendum were in favour of independence from spain. More than 800 people are reported to have been injured after violence at many polling stations. The Prime Minister, mariano rajoy, said the poll was illegal and that most people in catalonia did not want independence. From barcelona, tom burridge reports. This is how a vote turned ugly. Spanish National Police moving in to disrupt an independence referendum in catalonia, which spains government considers illegal. People kicked and thrown. Women literally pulled by their hair out of polling stations. Across barcelona, Violent Police raids to grab ballot boxes. Hundreds injured when they went to vote. One of the policemen take him from the head, take out the glasses and then he started to kick my dad here. The first one was here. He kicked here. They are mad, i dont know, they are crazy. I am 79, maria teresa told
90 of those who voted in a referendum were in favour of independence from spain. More than 800 people are reported to have been injured after violence at many polling stations. The Prime Minister, mariano rajoy, said the poll was illegal and that most people in catalonia did not want independence. From barcelona, tom burridge reports. This is how a vote turned ugly. Spanish National Police moving in to disrupt an independence referendum in catalonia, which spains government considers illegal. People kicked and thrown. Women literally pulled by their hair out of polling stations. Across barcelona, Violent Police raids to grab ballot boxes. Hundreds injured when they went to vote. One of the policemen take him from the head, take out the glasses and then he started to kick my dad here. The first one was here. He kicked here. They are mad, i dont know, they are crazy. I am 79, maria teresa told me, i just wanted to vote in peace. But it wasntjust in barcelona. This was the scene to the no