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trump s plan for a wall and mexico to play fritz. the last bits might be happening any time soon but the preparations are happening soon and it needs to begin because it will stretch over 3000 kilometres along the border along the us and mexico, estimated costs but anyone is certain of that is not straight. this is a complicated project and will cost is unknown. landowners in texas have been told to sell their land to the government and 200 firms have submitted bids to build the wall. this is a report from el paso. on the us mexico border a bizarre beauty contest is about to begin. some 200 companies have submitted bids to build donald trump s wall. soon a handful will be invited to make prototypes. the bids include some eye catching designs. there is a wall in the medieval style. another which doubles as a nuclear waste store. this one, made of solar panels, and even a design for a barrier adorned with glittering gems. some though, are less outlandish. this will be 30 ....
british scientists develop a blood test, which can detect the return of lung cancer, before it shows on conventional scans. and, the concert hall in bristol, soon to be renamed, because of associations with the slave trade. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: tottenham needed a win tonight at crystal palace to reduce chelsea s lead at the top of the premier league to four points find out how they got on at selhurst park. good evening. all members of the us senate, have been at the white house this evening, to be briefed on the deepening crisis, involving north korea. the americans have started installing an anti missile defence system, in neighbouring south korea, in response to the weapons programmes being developed by the north. china has accused the americans of destabilising the entire region. but the us state department said tonight it was still open to negotiations to try to resolve the crisis, as our north america editorjon sopel reports. this isn t for rea ....
members of the us senate have been at the white house today to be briefed on the deepening crisis involving north korea. the americans have started installing an anti missile defence system in neighbouring south korea in response to the weapons programmes being developed by pyongyang. china has accused the us of destabilising the region. but the state department said it was still open to negotiations to resolve the crisis. our north america editor jon sopel reports. this isn t for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. a live fire exercise conducted by 2000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. it s a show of force, and a show of unity. a military exercise with an unmistakable message to the south s unpredictable northern neighbour we want peace, but we are ready for all eventualities. in washington this morning, the head of us pacific command put it like this. as president trump and secretary mattis h ....
newsday. glad you could join us. it is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, dc, where the administration has given new details about its plans on how to deal with north korea. the us state department said the president aims to put pressure on pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and lipstick programmes. in an unusual move, all us senators we re in an unusual move, all us senators were given a classified briefing on the strategy. ballistic missile programmes. one us senator called the briefing sobering. this isn t for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. a live fire exercise conducted by 2000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. it s a show of force, and a show of unity. a military exercise with an unmistakable message to the south s unpredictable northern neighbour we want peace, but we are ready for all eventualities. in washington this morning, the head of us pacific comman ....
i m stephen sackur. today i m in rural northern germany. stable, prosperous, 21st century germany. but i m here to talk about the past and its relationship to the present. my guest is the writer, journalist and son, niklas frank. now, his father was appointed by hitler to be the governor general of nazi occupied poland. he was intimately involved in the murder of millions of people. so, how has this german son dealt with the terrible crimes of his father? niklas, i m wondering why you have chosen to make your life in the very far north of germany. is it because you wanted to get as far away as possible from yourfamily background in bavaria? no, i still love bavaria. and every year we have about many weeks in bavaria, in the same village where i grew up. but it was my profession as a journalist at stern magazine, which i worked for 23 years, was based in hamburg. so, i had to lure my wife, she was attached to munich, because she is a big gardener, to her house with a big ....