corruption. we get the latest from seoul. jae yong lee. gladlyjoin us. “ seoul. jae yong lee. gladlyjoin us. glad you could join us. in washington, they have been addressing north korea s latest missile test. and there was a blood message for north korea. blunt. she had this to say about kim jong on: we are not dealing with a rational person. if this was any other country, we would be talking about that, and it would not be an issue. this is not a rational person. they have not had rational acts, and are not thinking clearly. so what can tell you is the sense of the united states is that we are re evaluating how we are going to handle north korea, going forward, and we are making those decisions now, and will act accordingly. malaysia is having its own problems with north korea. the two countries have banned each other citizens from leaving their countries. this followed the killing of kim jong nam. but the private assistance lines of dramatic medication are, for
defying conventional wisdom and the powers that be. my guest today has known that loneliness. irish journalist david walsh was convinced that cycling s untouchable champion lance armstrong was a drugs cheat long before the sport revealed the scale of his deceit. armstrong is now history of course but doping continues to devalue elite sport. maybe it s a problem that no amount of truth telling journalism can fix. david walsh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i wonder if you could cast your mind back to starting as a young journalist in ireland, working on sports. you memorably described yourself then as a fan with a typewriter. do you still regard yourself as a fan? in certain respects, yes, but in a general sense, no. i think a journalist has to leave that behind. i think the predominant reason why people want to be sports writers is because they love sport. in my case, i knew from a very early stage i wanted to be a sports writer and it s because i liked writing essays when i
live from our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it s newsday. it s 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm at the united nations in new york where, addressing north korea s recent missile tests, the us ambassador nikki haley delivered a blunt message to north korea. flanked by representatives from both japan and south korea, ambassador haley warned that all options are on the table when it came to america s response. she also had this to say about the country s leader kim jong un. we are not dealing with a rational person, if this was any other country we would be talking about that and this wouldn t be an issue, this is not a rational person who has not had rational axe and who is not thinking clearly. what i can tell you as the stance of the us is we are real value in how we can handle north korea going forward and we are making those decisions now and we will act accordingly. malaysia is having it s own problems with north korea. the two nations ha
the trial of samsung s boss continues today, adding another chapter to the scandal that has gripped south korea. and we ll take a sneak peek at how airlines are attracting business travellers to splash their cash in the skies. good morning, asia. hello, world. i m rico hizon for asia business report, glad you could join us, the era parent of samsung is going to court today in what is considered to be south career‘s trial of the century. he s accused of bribing the country s president and ) century. he s accused of bribing the country s president and) in century. he s accused of bribing the country s president and ) in return for business favours. earlier i asked jake saunders whether the scandal is impacting the bottom line. close friend. if you look at the stock market, no, everything is fabulous there, it is an upward trend, looking at the revenue of samsung electronics, over the last three years it is quite flat, doing about $175 billion. why is there a disconnect betw
described south the government in south sudan denies it is carrying out ethnic cleansing. the grief of a martha. the death ofa the grief of a martha. the death of a son. she travelled through the night when she heard what happened. i sat‘s body found dumped in the river, his a nkles body found dumped in the river, his ankles tied, a metal wire tied around his neck. my son was fishing and saw the body. i don t know who did it. nor why they did it. does this happen a lot? it happens. government forces are in charge. the civil war recently spread to this pa rt civil war recently spread to this part of the country where different ethnic groups peacefully lived side by side. we are a short drive from the centre of the town, and this is a limit of where am e forces will go on foot, because the rebels controlled areas to stop the road army. houses have been burned. soldiers point wildfires or accident. it is our mandate to make sure civilians are safe. it might be the rule but