into place, the question remains, how to persuade north korea to give up its weapons programmes? after years of efforts by the us and un, the trump administration has now shed more light on how it hopes to do it. all 100 us senators were briefed on it on wednesday. it is almost the same policy as the past few years. more diplomatic pressure, tougher sanctions, more calls on china to help. jon sopel reports. the us is piling on the pressure. this is a military pressure just north of the border. a message that the us is ready. this is how the head of the us pacific command put it to the house in washington. all options are on the table. we want to bring kim jong un to his senses, not to his knees. later all 100 senators we re to his knees. later all 100 senators were taken to a briefing at the white house with the commander in chief. a highly unusual move to show politicians from both sides of the aisle just how serious the situation has become. north korea is the most dangerou
less than a fifth of its drugs helped patients. cycling s three day tour de yorkshire is underway, the peloton heading from bridlington to scarborough. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a breast surgeon has been convicted of intentionally wounding patients by performing completely unnecessary operations. ian paterson, who s 59, was found guilty of 20 charges in total, relating to nine women and one man. police say his victims felt that the surgeon enjoyed playing god . and one former patient outside court said she felt mutilated. dominic hughes reports. surgeon ian paterson. well liked and trusted by patients facing the frightening prospect of breast cancer but for some of them it was an entirely false diagnosis. one such patient is frances perks, who underwent a series of operations and a mastectomy, all of them unnecessary. how can somebody do that? and say things that he did, knowing that you didn t need these operations. how can anybody in their right mind, how
willing to meet the north korean leader, kim jong un, despite weeks of tough talk against the pyongyang regime. in an interview with bloomberg, mr trump said he would be honoured to meet mr kim in the right circumstances. in a separate interview with fox news, the president himself reverted to a stronger line. he called north korea s stance on its missile programme inflammatory and very threatening to the united states. he said he would take action if he had to. barbara plett usher has more. during the election campaign, donald trump said he might be willing to sit down for a burger with kim jong un. but the drop that notion of burger diplomacy after the north korean leader declared he was working on a missile powerful enough to hit the united states. you do you have to do, and you don t talk about it. so when people say, i was asked a question yesterday, exactly when would you go in? at what time would you go in? i mean, it is ridiculous. i don t want to talk about it. i can
good evening from tyne cot cemetery in belgium, the final resting place for almost 12,000 allied soldiers who died in world war i. most of them were killed in the battle of passchendaele, which began here 100 years ago tomorrow. it was one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict. in all, half a million allied and german soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing, in just three months of fighting. this evening, the duke and duchess of cambridge joined the prime minister, theresa may, here, as two days of commemorations to mark the start of the battle got underway, as robert hall reports. this is a city that has dedicated itself to remembrance. the fireman of ypres have sounded the last post in summer and winter as the decades rolled by. around them, carved into the great darch of them, carved into the great darch of the menin gate, over 5a,000 names, men from every corner of the uk, who travelled across the globe to join the fight, men who disappeared in the fight, men who
prove, to find the truth. but we will continue to insist. thank you. secretary rex tillerson, i want to ask about your conversations with putin about syria. you predicted assad would leave power through political transition, how would you compel him to participate in a political transition that leads to his own departure. our war crimes charges a table and how long will the us wait for russia to come around and four sergei lavrov if i make your government and united states governments seem to be miles on the syria issue, on ukraine and other issues. did you feel you have cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today? since you had those discussions with rex tillerson. we discussed at length the future role for assad, whether it be ina the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. clearly our view is that the brain of the assad family is coming to an end. they have again brought this on themselves with their conduct in the war at t