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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. this isn t for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. a live fire exercise conducted by 2,000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. it s a show of force, a show of unity. a military exercise with an unmistakable message to the south s unpredictable northern neighbour we want peace, but we re ready for all eventualities. in washington this morning, the head of us pacific command put it like this. as president trump and secretary mattis have made clear, all options are on the table. we want to bring kim jong un to his senses, not to his knees. and he said the us had no option but to take the nort ....
and fancy working in an enormous train station? i don t know if you ve noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. this week, click is taking a trip to paris where, this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the french national cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk. queues of people, paper voting surely there has to be a better way. well, we asked bbc newsbeatâs political editor jonathan blake to have a look. ancient institutions and modern technology the two do not always go together. as elections are held worldwide t ....
tell us volatility is back, but we re not seeing it. this morning the vix is trading at 10. it marked the second time this year that the vix traded below 10. overnight in asia, take a look and you ll see the nikkei was up by 0.7%. hang seng was up by a third of a percent. the shanghai was down by a third of a percentage point. in europe, some of the early trading, things are relatively calm. ftse up by a half percentage point. modest gains for the cac and dax. among the top stories, big news out of hollywood. the writers guild of america reaching a tentative agreement with the alliance of motion picture and television producers avoiding a writer s strike. they reached an agreement just after midnight. the writers guild had threatened to strike today if an agreement was not in place. infosys making a big bet on america. the company announcing it will create 10,000 jobs here in the united states of the next two years. those jobs will focus on the cloud, artificial intel ....
now the lowest since november. our road map begins with the atand the gop on the verge the president and the gop on the verge of a much needed win. plus apple making the $1 billion bet on manufacturing, launching a new fund to invest in u.s. jobs. we elle a we ll tell you what tim cook told jim. it s a big morning on the hill as the house is slated to vote on the health reform bill. it would give the president the biggest legislative victory to date. some gop congressmen have shifted from no to yes after an amendment was added to help cover pre-existing conditions. they re calling it the upton amendment, jim. the question is, what s the future for the bill, if it does pass the house and the senate and if that happens, does the reflation trade is the path cleared once again? i think it is. i think this would be rather remarkable if they get it through. just to get it to the senate so they can start talking about economics. because yesterday, the fed issued a ....
washington with a lot more. we are less than 24 hours into this stunning news of president trump firing james comey, the fbi director, who is leading an investigation of the trump campaign and trump associates over ties with russia, which, of course, interfered with our election. we saw just a few minutes ago that the two leaders in the senate, republican mitch mcconnell and democrat, shuchuc schumer took their roles. what we have now is our democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an fbi director, whom they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized. that removal being done by a man, rod rosenstein, who they repeatedly and continually praised. chuck schumer, the minority leader, had a different view, as you would expect. i will be requesting that the majority leader call a closed, and in necessary, all senators briefing with the attorney general and deputy attorney general separately at which they can be asked questions. but beneath those two ....