purchased. all right. tonight s guest speaker is chunging min lee author of the her met king. in this comprehensive study of north korea, he puts kim jong un in her spect i by tracing the rise of the ming dynasty and how the current leader s motivations, goals and choices have been shaped. drawing on more than three decades of experience in asia affairs, lee a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment and the international institute of strategic studies shows how kim s aggressive standoffs with world powers has put him at crossroads. the country s increasing vulnerability to famine and crisis in the region. now, please join me in giving dr. lee a warm welcome. ms. [applause] thank you very much. it s a real pleasure to be here, and i know that without my friends, i think, i would have had a very different audience. it s a real pleasure to be here at politics and prose. and i think the people who are most responsible for making me write this book, two of them are sittin
i would suspend that in creative ambiguity, wait until we get a deal, and then solve the problems of the northern irish border. new rules mean electric cars must now make a noise at lower speeds. england prepare to face india in a crucial world cup group stage game at edgbaston in the next half hour. and, at 10:30am, talking movies takes a special look at how film studios are trying to incorporate environmental concerns into the latest hollywood blockbusters. that s coming up on bbc news. president trump has become the first serving us president to step foot inside north korea after a historic meeting with kim jong un in the demilitarised zone on the korean border this morning. this is the moment the two men met at the border. after handshakes and a brief chat, president trump was welcomed across the border by the north korean leader. the event has been presented by the white house as an impromtu meeting, and some critics have dismissed it as pure political theatre. but t
and what are your goals for well being in the new year? new york times best selling author james clear has tips on how to take your best habits in 2019 and how to stick to them. we twin thbegin this mornings new year with a look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! the world rings in a new year. i m at the white house working. you re out there partying tonight. but i don t became you. have a really, really happy new year s. the government shutdown drags on. house democrats unveiling legislat n the government. still without money for the wall. i m in the white house. i m ready to go. they can come over right now. during his new year s speech, king jong-un says he hopes to continue nuclear talks with president trump. he also warned washington not to test north korea s patience with sanctions and pressure. elizabeth warren has her eye set on 2020. do you really think she believes she can win? i don t know. ask her psychiatrist
letter where he laid out fundamental differences that he has with the president. what happens next? we don t know. for one thing, the resignation was not going to take affect until the end of february so he ll be on the job for collectively two more months through creation of the new budget, through another meeting of nato defense chiefs. but we re getting indications this morning that he may be going right now. brennan: that he was fire fired, essentially, told to we have a statement from the pentagon saying the secretary of defense serves at the pleasure of the president. and i interpret that as meaning that the secretary has been asked to go at once, i don t have confirmation of that. but that s how i interpret that statement. brennan: what does that mean in the immediate sense, who steps up? the deputy secretary of defense is man named patrick shanahan, most people never hear the name of the deputy secretary of defense. he s got a lifetime of experience with b
secretary of state. and defense secretary james mattis are in india for talks that washington had cancelled twice its share the focus will be strategic and security issues including washington s demand that india stops buying oil from iran the u.s. also wants to dissuade india from buying a russian weapon. for the meeting in india. visit to pakistan the u.s. secretary of state says he s hoping for a reset and relations with his. newly elected prime minister in just days after the u.s. said it was cutting military aid to pakistan for failing to tackle groups. so here it al jazeera. says it s moving its embassy in israel to tell the. us how pregnant women in bangladesh are getting medical care some of them for the first time. hello the slow wandering showers have been over austria for least two days have gone a bit further east now we re told about hungary just crossed the border really mind you the last four days you can see the slow moving nature of the showers we ve collecte