Is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where President Trump has spoken about the appointment of a Special Counsel to take over the russia investigation into any potential ties with his campaign. He said the entire affair was a witch hunt which hurt the country, as he put it, and he denied ever asking the fbi director to end the investigation into his National Security advisor Michael Flynn. From washington, aleem macqbool reports. The president s just not happy with the scrutiny he continues to come under over his links with russia. The entire thing has been a witch hunt. And there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can only speak for myself and the russians, zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. Did you at any time urge former fbi Directorjames Comey to close or back down the investigation into Michael F
It has been a week of heated words between the us and north korea. Today was no exception. President trump warned kim jong un that he would truly regret it if he took action against the us or its allies. It comes after tweeting earlier that americas Military Solutions were Locked And Loaded if pyongyang were to act. But other International Leaders are calling for calm and a Dialling Down of the rhetoric. Germanys chancellor, angela merkel, said there was no Military Solution, while the Russian Foreign minister, sergei lavrov, put forward a plan between the two countries to ease tensions. Nick bryant reports. After fire and fury comes Locked And Loaded. Not the title of some hollywood summer blockbuster, but the words of americas commander in chief, describing his countrys state of military readiness. These are the latest pictures of b 1 bombers stationed in guam. The motto of this squadron fight tonight. President trump reminded people of that on his twitter feed this morning. He is de
It has been a week of heated words between the us and north korea. Today was no exception. President trump warned kim jong un that he would truly regret it if he took action against the us or its allies. It comes after tweeting earlier that americas Military Solutions were Locked And Loaded if pyongyang were to act. But other International Leaders are calling for calm and a Dialling Down of the rhetoric. Germanys chancellor, angela merkel, said there was no Military Solution, while the Russian Foreign minister, sergei lavrov, put forward a plan between the two countries to ease tensions. Nick bryant reports. After fire and fury comes Locked And Loaded. Not the title of some hollywood summer blockbuster, but the words of americas commander in chief, describing his countrys state of military readiness. These are the latest pictures of b 1 bombers stationed in guam. The motto of this squadron fight tonight. President trump reminded people of that on his twitter feed this morning. He is de
It has been a week of heated words between the us and north korea. Today was no exception. President trump warned kim jong un that he would truly regret it if he took action against the us or its allies. It comes after tweeting earlier that americas Military Solutions were Locked And Loaded if pyongyang were to act. But other International Leaders are calling for calm and a Dialling Down of the rhetoric. Germanys chancellor, angela merkel, said there was no Military Solution, while the Russian Foreign minister, sergei lavrov, put forward a plan between the two countries to ease tensions. Nick bryant reports. After fire and fury comes Locked And Loaded. Not the title of some hollywood summer blockbuster, but the words of americas commander in chief, describing his countrys state of military readiness. These are the latest pictures of b 1 bombers stationed in guam. The motto of this squadron fight tonight. President trump reminded people of that on his twitter feed this morning. He is de
It has been a week of heated words between the us and north korea. Today was no exception. President trump warned kim jong un that he would truly regret it if he took action against the us or its allies. It comes after tweeting earlier that americas Military Solutions were Locked And Loaded if pyongyang were to act. But other International Leaders are calling for calm and a Dialling Down of the rhetoric. Germanys chancellor, angela merkel, said there was no Military Solution, while the Russian Foreign minister, sergei lavrov, put forward a plan between the two countries to ease tensions. Nick bryant reports. After fire and fury comes Locked And Loaded. Not the title of some hollywood summer blockbuster, but the words of americas commander in chief, describing his countrys state of military readiness. These are the latest pictures of b 1 bombers stationed in guam. The motto of this squadron fight tonight. President trump reminded people of that on his twitter feed this morning. He is de