engaging in military exercises. which north korean some publicly stated, repeatedly that they find provocative and they see as kind of a rehearsal for an invasion of north korea. just hours before, we saw this latest missile strike, we had a statement from north korea. condemning united states redeployment of an aircraft carrier. that specifically the u.s. has ronald reagan near the korean peninsula. and the north korean s call this, their statements are typically have the sort of awkward phrasing. they called it a considerably huge negative splash and regional security. and they said that they were defending themselves with missile tests, which they have been doing since the beginning of the year. and, again increasing frequency. they told us a righteous reaction to these intimidating military drills. so you know, this really has seen this year a big increase in the pace and in the tone of these missile tests. and again, in the tit-for-tat sort of answers by the united state
can happen. jackie ibanez will have response. good morning. jackie: all eyes on this story, house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to arrive in taiwan today. pelosi made no mention of the stop in taiwan, but opened our meetings commitment to inddo-pacific. the biden administration danced around the pelosi itinerary. listen. given as you pointed out no change in policy and president for pelosi to go on. so what is the drama? have you watched last couple ofeck wooes? i haven t seen any drama, i think you are manufacturing it with your question. carley: he wasn t happy about that question. chinese media personality warning the speaker in a tweet saying let her go to taiwan, wish herself not be defined as center who starts a spiral of escalation. senator tom cotton not condemning president biden for not defending pelosi. i thought it was essential nancy pelosi go and show united states will not be pushed around by the chinese. carley: she is traveling delegation t
And will it be contes chelsea or wengers arsenal who win this weekends fa cup final . In sportsday, well be live at manchesters great city games, where some of britains top athletes have come to compete in athletics. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Britains top Counter Terrorism officer says they have captured a large part of the Terror Network involved in the Manchester Arena attack, where 22 people died. Mark rowley said immense progress had been made in the investigation, but there were still important lines to pursue and arrests to be made. It comes ahead of a Bank Holiday Weekend where more than 1000 Public Events are taking place. The Terror Threat remains at a critical level, which means another attack may take place imminently. Daniel sandford reports. And already vast investigation, still expanding. Each day Counter Terrorism detectives raid more properties in manchester, cutting through the shutters at this moss side barbershop. The shop was run bya moss side
Operations. Really interesting detail is that salman abedi, the manchester attacker, and also khalid masood, who committed the westminster attacks several weeks ago, were both former subjects of these enquiries. They will not live suspects at the time of their attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fa ct attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fact to learn, that they had been under suspicion that they had been deemed safe enough to move on enquiries from. You wonder how the Security Services are meant to cope with that number of potential suspects. Extraordinary. 20,000 who featured in that previous risk category, which is pretty scary. I heard an interesting debate on radio 2 today about, if we did not renew trident, we would release 400, sorry, £40 billion. Somebody was suggesting, we could put that straight into Security Services, because it takes 30 officers to monitor one suspect. Its incredibly labour intensive. They are just overwhelmed with work at the moment. There isjust too muc
according to washington base think tank, the terror network has accumulated billions of dollars and dispersed jihadist fighters in nations across syria, isis is already taking back control in some of the areas just months after the president declared the group s defeat. jillian: violent antifa protest that left reporter hurt in portland sparking request for federal investigation into the city s mayor. senator ted cruz calling out democrat ted wheeler accusing him of ordering police to allow demonstrators to attack conservative journalists. noe claims police were nowhere to be found during attack, he was hospitalized but will be okay. gofundme page started by conservative vlogger raised more