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business confidence up stock markets up. how long can the trump bump last? we take stock of the president s first 100 days at the helm of the world s top economy. hello. president trump has once again warned that a major conflict could break out with north korea over its nuclear and missile programmes. he said he would prefer a diplomatic outcome to the dispute but that, he added, would be very difficult to achieve. as mr trump prepares to mark his first 100 days in office this weekend, he says that north korea is his biggest global concern. 0ur washington correspondent laura bicker reports. president tom says north korea is his biggest global warrior. the us is can turn his biggest global warrior. the us is can turn concern his biggest global warrior. the us is can turn concern that the pace of zhong yang s nuclear programme, a dispute that donald trump hopes will have a military diplomatic solution but military options have not been ruled out. there is a ....
the start of a day which will see a european council taking place in the building behind me. it is a counsel of some contrast, i suppose you could say, because the message coming out from eu leaders ahead of this event is that there is a growing confidence and optimism once again within the european union, amongst the people of europe, that the eu can be of value to them. that message, though, coming in contrast to, of course, the discussions about brexit. the whole notion of one large country within the eu finding its way out of this club. so that, if you like, is the contradiction. as to the agenda, certainly issues of security and defence, not to mention migration, very high up on the list of priorities, here. only on tuesday night, it is worth remembering, that in the central station in brussels, just down the road, a suspected suicide bomb was taken out and shot by police. it just raises the levels of attention and focus once again on security and defence within th ....
the royal navy s flagship carrier enters its home port of portsmouth for the first time. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: celtic play the first leg of their champion league qualifier tonight at celtic park, they take on kazakhstan champions astana. good evening and welcome to the bbc‘s news at six. after brexit, people and goods should be able to move seamlessly across the border between the irish republic and northern ireland, much as they do today. in their latest proposal for life outside the eu, ministers says there will be no return to check points and border posts. but critics say the plan raises as many questions as answers not least, what s to stop eu migrants coming into the uk from ireland through an unsupervised crossing? our ireland correspondent, chris buckler, is in narrow water, on the irish border. chris. george, people who live at this border rarely recognise it. but could all that to change once the other side of this water is still inside t ....
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government says that it wants people and goods to be able to move seamlessly across the border between the irish republic and northern ireland after brexit much as they do today. in their latest proposal for life outside the eu, ministers say there will be no return to check points and border posts. but critics argue the plan raises as many questions as answers not least, what s to stop eu migrants coming into the uk from ireland through an unsupervised crossing? our ireland correspondent chris buckler gave us this update from narrow water on the irish border. people who live at this border rarely recognise it. but could all that to change once the other side of this water is still inside the eu and this part is outside of the european union? today, alongside the phrases we have heard so often like there needs to be a seamless border, we heard another from the british government, that there needs to be an unprecedented solut ....
felt her continued presence there would be a distraction from the issues that would have to be faced. so she has tendered her resignation andi so she has tendered her resignation and i have accepted that resignation. unemployment falls to the lowest level since 1975 but average earnings are still lagging behind inflation//. also, officials in sierra leone say more than a hundred children have died in mudslides in the capital, freetown. homes are buried under a mountain of rock and mud. 600 people are still missing. and hms queen elizabeth the royal navy s biggest ever warship sails into her new berth in portsmouth. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government says that it wants people and goods to be able to move seamlessly across the border between the irish republic and northern ireland after brexit much as they do today. in their latest proposal for life outside the eu, ministers say there will be no return to check points and border posts. but critic ....