defending a recent series of missile launches that have sparked international condemnation. the country says last week s tests were in response to a military drill that the usa and south korea held together. pyeongyang is claiming to have a fired more than 80 missiles to counter the exercise which it called an intolerable provocation. it is also threatening more action if washington and seoul hold future drills. 19 people are dead after tanzanian commercial flight crashed. there are 24 survivors. bad weather may have played a role in the accident as the area wud was under heavy rainfall and strong winds at the time. i do want to thank you for joining us at this hour. i m rosemary church. for our international viewers
precision aerial bombing exercise from washington and seoul to demonstrate their readiness to react to pyongyang s threat with more than just words. tokyo also incensed by what s happened. translation: north korea pop smoke lodge translation: north korea pop smoke lodge of translation: north korea pop smoke lodge of the translation: north korea pop smoke lodge of the ballistic - smoke lodge of the ballistic missiles was a reckless act which cannot be allowed. japan will be on the highest alert and respond quickly. speaking to the bbc, the us counselor of the department of state derek shalet said it will take a complete international effort to achieve denuclearisation on the korean peninsula. we re gonna continue to press forward with sanctions against north korea, and forcing those already on the books, pursuing new ones perhaps, but also importantly working this with our allies and partners and other members of the security council including the chinese, to step up and make clea
that he wants to create and everything app out of tweet cold acts. i don t know what that means, perhaps only elon musk knows what that potentially be like. but what this means for twitter going forward is less moderation meaning more free speech but also more hate speech and, crucially for the chief executive of twitter, it does not get on well with elon musk and if the deal goes through he will have to look for a new job. will have to look for a new “ob. , , , ., ., , job. let s bring you the latest on this, job. let s bring you the latest on this. the job. let s bring you the latest on this, the north job. let s bring you the latest on this, the north korean - on this, the north korean launch of a ballistic missile overjapan on tuesday. it has elicited a robust response, as promised, from the us and south korea. both countries have fired missiles of their own off the japanese coast. seoul said four short range weapons were used in the exercise, in a demonstration designed to
musk knows. what this means for twitter is less moderation and that could mean more free speech but also more hate speech but also more hate speech and crucially, for the chief executive of twitter, he does not get on well with elon musk and if this goes through he will have to look for a new job. north korea s launch of a ballistic missile over japan on tuesday has elicited a robust response, as promised, from the us and south korea. both countries have fired missiles of their own off the japanese coast. seoul said four short range weapons were used to deter further provocations from pyongyang. washington and seoul also carried out a precision aerial bombing exercise to demonstrate their readiness to react to the threat from pyongyang with more than just words. north korea s missile was the fifth in the last few days. it travelled about 4,500 kilometres before falling into the pacific ocean. karl freedhoff, korea expert at the chicago council on global affairs said its believed to hav
coast and then in response, the u.s. and south korea did something very similar in the early hours of monday morning, local time. we heard from the south korean side, the joint chiefs of staff saying that even if north korea is able to fire these missiles from different locations, they said we have the ability and readiness to immediately strike with precision. so this is really a message to north korea from washington and seoul to show that they would be able to strike those areas where the missiles came from if they wanted to. now, what was unusual about north korea over the weekend is the fact that there were eight missiles. that they were from four separate locations, and they all came within about 14 minutes of each other, the firing. japan s defense minister said that was unprecedented. so clearly the u.s. and south korea feeling they had to have some kind of strong response to what they said, of course, we don t know whether this would make any difference to kim jong-un and his