bbc "world news." is bbc "world news america." reporting from washington, i am .aura trevelyan north korea launches a missile that could reach alaska. making gains in raqqa. u.s.- syrian forces through the wall in the old city taking the .ight to the islamic state this gathering of heads of state is second to none. how statues of america's presidents reached a virginia field. laura: welcome to our viewers on public television and around the globe. north korea claims to have tested its first intercontinental ballistic analysts sayh could put a alaska in range for the first time. the u.s. has asked for a closed-door meeting at the un security council in response. it comes as leaders will gather at the g 20 meeting this week. momentr: this is the north korea says it became a major power. the launch of a missile that it claims can reach across continents and deliver a nuclear weapon as far away as the united states. on news was announced state television with barely constrained joy. showing the handwritten order given by the country's

world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm john o'brien. police in germany have used water cannons to disperse protesters as deep twenty leaders descend. on the city of hamburg. earlier in the day president trump addressed a friendlier crowd telling people in poland that global threat solve real and must be defeated. the fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to survive. underwear on a mission to mercury how a team of scientists plan to send not one but two probes to the songs closest planet. welcome to our views on public television and around the globe. in poland today it was all about politics and speech making in germany protests such as being president trump's latest trip to europe which culminates tomorrow in the g. twenty gathering of world leaders. in will so mr trump spoke to adultery friendly crowd to challenge europe to take a stand against islamist terrorism and extremism. then it was on to hamburg weather has been a dramatic crackdown on street protests from that all north america editor jon sopel sta

world news. this is bbc world news america reporting fm washington i'm john o'brien. tackling serious cyber hacking and mold donald trump and vladimir putin cover a lot of ground in more than two hours of tool. we look forward to a lot of very positive. things happening for russia and the united states. and for everybody concerned. the g. twenty leaders focus on trade and climate change while protests continue on the streets of hamburg. and sharp teeth and a fearsome reputation that we look at shocks and meet a photographer who's gone much closer than most. welcome to our views on public television and around the globe. the build up to the meeting walls along one and when they were finally in the room together donald trump and vladimir putin made the most of it. according to the u. s. secretary of state they discussed russian meddling in the u. s. selection and reached a preliminary agreement on syria. the face to face with a high point of a g. twenty summit marked by protests on north america editor john so poll has more. it's hard to overstate the significance of th

world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm john o'brien. a warning to north korea out the white house president trump welcomes his south korean counterpart and makes clear that will be a determined responds. to the nuclear threat. the air of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed. many years and it's failed. and frankly. that patience is over. adultery fire in a new york hospital injuring multiple people the shooter is believed to be a former employee who died of a self inflicted gunshot wound. and its international asteroid day what better way to mark the occasion than to bring some space rocks into wild very own studio. welcome to world news america tying fist teach it patients is over. that was the message donald trump had for north korea today as he stood side by side with the new south korean president. mr trump cold for determined response to the nuclear threat posed by kim jong moon. but he also took aim at seoul over trade and sharing the cost defense the bbc state department correspondent barbara tasha stops al

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world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm nora trevally and. the white house communications director anthony scaramucci is our self to less than two weeks on the job. john kenny is sworn in as the new chief of staff. the crisis in venezuela defense the opposition vows to keep fighting on the streets. following a controversial vote which could give even more house to the president. nnova he saw. and a century after the battle of passion dal began ceremonies a how to remember the sacrifices made during one of the great wars bloodiest campaigns . welcome to world news america what it was another day of changes at the white house. this morning john kelly was sworn in as the new chief of staff. replacing ryan's previous who announced his departure on friday. i came the bomb shell. anthony scaramucci tapped as white house communications director less than two weeks ago is leaving as well. saying he wants to give mister kelly a clean slate. the bbc's north america had to touch on cyprus been following all the action for us. so i'm really very free does

world news. if these bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm john o'brien. an american in paris donald trump visits his french counterpart for high level talks offering him such a shift towards climate chang. if it happens it'll be wonderful and. if it doesn't that'll be. okay to. china's most prominent dissident has died of liver cancer we look at the life and work of nobel peace prize winner liu xiaobo. and one hundred years since the u. s. entered world war one how americans fort battles in france and helped build the peaks often write. the. welcome to all of you is on public television in america and around the globe president trump says the friendship between france and the u. s. remains unbreakable he was speaking at the start of a two day visit to paris. for talks with president emmanuel not chrome. the pad discussed areas of common interest such as trade and the fight against islamic state but don't climate that all disagreements mr trump withdrew the u. s. from the paris climate accord last month. the bbc's lucy williamson has more. if diplomacy is

america's. sonny picked. mmhm. think about. brown house on long. is on the wall i think on this alright. rated. and now abc world news. the fifth bbc world news america on ricky needs like you know. white house press secretary sharon spike that calls it quits his resignation comes off when you communications directories names. rule hunger. break of cholera which reached. yemen is fully in the grips of. tarian price. pockets of time in a growing cadre it's friday. and civil servants like the doctors and nurses here haven't received a salaried over ten months. and if i don't beat the first place to expect to find the japanese martial off of can date. the western canada one club held a special place for decades. welcome to world news america. the white house press that could sure i'm spice that he's a parent today he announced he's resigning from the post after just six months on the job. it decision came right off that anthony scaramucci was named thing you communications director. mister spicer said he wanted to give patina fresh slate bobby's changes come after a sensitive time for the white house. has their own discreetly with the

world news. this is bbc world news america i'm reaching the fight then open. devastated by fighting which is now stretched think he's the conflict in ukraine is far from over and the skulls from the. we have a special report from the front lines. tens. it's this war has ground to a stalemate. that means only told suffering. particularly for the civilian population. the white house says an announcement will be coming shortly on iran's nuclear agreement with wealth palace though on donald trump cold a bad deal. and the rest get paid to be entertaining children for decades now eloise at the museum with the new exhibits celebrating a picture book style . welcome to world news and that. it was three years ago today that malaysia airlines mh seven. down in easton crane killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board. it was the worst single loss of life in the war between russian backed separatists and the ukrainian government. will those already led to more than ten thousand deaths and left more than a million people displaced. this guarantee a ceasefire in th

world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm john o'brien. plenty of pomp and circumstance abroad but president chun faces a rude awakening back home. how the latest russia revelations may spoil his european gets away? america's opioids epidemic the senate republicans push their latest health cat failed we look like scott short by addiction. i took one bite. thinking it was going to be similar type approach. but it was not so. this was something else. this was an open. and they were having the time of their lives until a new from dirty dancing landed this a mole. to let banks how tough is oc television in america and around the world. double jump in the money will not grown capped off the american president's visit to paris with a minute treat tribute to the historical ties between their respective nations. but whether there was much substance behind the style is another matter. this bastille day in france also marked the anniversary of the tragedy the killings of more than eighty people in the seaside city of niece. a correspondent lisa will

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world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington on your it for violin. sweeping changes coming to france. of any president wants to reshape the political landscape. tweets and travel around president trump's agenda right now he attacks his old enemy the media superfast running counter with vladimir putin this week. and now politics is in the ring. out one wrestler is taking his liberal beliefs right to the conservative heartland . welcome to avi is on public television and sat around the globe. a new leader of france is being compatible and print a podium. because he's already trying to oval hole a french government. speech to lawmakers at the glittering passive vasai. i manual makran announced he wants to reach you stand numbers by one third. and he plans to change france's voting system. its critics say he's creating a presidential motorcade. our correspondent hugh schofield reports now from vesci. the dignity of the presidential office is something about which emmanuel mackerel feels very deeply. he came to vesci place of regal poem or. to talk to his

world news. this. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm john o'brien. the president stands by his son the speculation swirls over a meeting with the russian loya. the controversy is also the focus but lawmakers as they quiz the man picked to head the fbi ali. brazil's former president is convicted of corruption and sentenced to nine years in prison needed to still vote will appeal the verdict. and forget about fake news in mexico journalists face threats and even death at the hands of drug cartels. we spend the day with one of them. welcome to our views on public television in americ. around the globe the fallout from the meeting between a russian law and the didn't some donald trump junia is intensifying. it was a focus of lawmakers at the confirmation hearing for the proposed new director of the fbi. he said the russian investigation was not a witch hunt. the trumpets defended his son but tonight the white house is once again struggling to contain an issue which is threatening to derail the president's political agenda. all chief correspondent gavin h

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world news. nbi is bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm over trevally and. fast that was war and famine and disease. the country of yemen faces the last caller outbreak in history with few resources to cut. many in yemen are dying needlessly because they can't get the most basic treatment. after more than two years of war. a health facilities in the country aren't functioning. and washington had a sentry is running rampant. at one of america's most famous monuments trump votes is one to little less drama and a little more action. but he was the right guy is the time to shake things up. move things forward. what is causing too much chaos and not bring enough water government? and the new full length film is the fast of kind in decades. his father some drama is performed completely engaging. welcome to world news america. to me is a fair civil war has been raging in yemen. the devastating consequence. the government banned by saudi led coalition controls the country south. well here's the rebel supported by iran control the capital and yemen's north. fighting

world news. nmsiis bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm nora trevally and. victory at last iraq's prime minister claims islamic state in mosel has been defeated. offer a brutal fight. the challenge now is to stop my* from regrouping. but once the spotlight is on the president but he's some. i don't know trump junior is fending off questions about his russian links. and we talked to the science guy himself bill nine who says we can't solve the world's problems by unleashing akane and not. we want to think critically we want to be able to address problems and rational fashion. we want to use our hats. rather than just our instincts. welcome to our views on public television and around the globe. president trump has congratulated the government of iraq on defeating so called islamic state in the city of mosul. it's three years since the leader of iasc shop the wild by appearing in mozilla declaring a caliphate. by then the iraqi army seemed to crumble. now after nine months of bitter fighting. iran's prime minister haidar al abadi has been to the city praising

world news. i think bbc world news america reporting from washington on your true violent. yeah i caution is defiant there was no coordination between russia and the trump campaign. but no my because i still came to know more about his encounters. i did not collude with russia. nor do i know if anyone else in the campaign who did so. the parents have time leo baby charlie god give up their legal fight to get him you treatment in the u. s.. and greenland's ice sheet could be mounting faster than originally thought. we traveled to one of the world's most remote regions to assess the impact. from the yeah would you couldn't really see is what looks like a fost exponents of endless white but that isn't the whole story. welcome to world news america there was no collusion in russia and the top campaign to influence the us presidential election. that was the message delivered today by jared kushner the president's son in law and trusted adviser who was cool before the senate intelligence committee. because i did admit meeting with russian officials four times last year. but said

world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington i'm your true value. president trump says no should transgender people serving in the military. citing cost and disruption. those impacted speak about the disappointment of not being able to sign up. it's heartbreaking that they won't let me. been offset. but. for now that's all the card. you can i will ban diesel and petrol caused by twenty four seats. look at the changing face of the major industry worldwide. and it just click the my shocking serial murders in u. s. history. it essentially like ten. nineteen shed on the killing of the osage indians. welcome to world news america. president trump surprise decision to ban transgender people from the us military has created confusion about that face as members of the armed services. all some republican lawmakers said the move was clearly discrimination. the president tweeted that the military copy burdened with big medical bills and disruption. today's press secretary echoed that sentiment saying implementation still needed to be what town with the departm

world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington on over trevally and. president trump undermined his attorney general jeff sessions. first onto itself and then again in case you missed it. i told you before very disappointed with the attorney general. but we will see what happen. time will tell. time will tell. the case of charlie god takes another emotional twice. his parents ask if they can bring him home to die. the hospital says his cat it's too complicated. and what's the secret to a happy life. they might not have the onset that researchers have kindly given us some helpful clues. welcome to well news americ. the fate of the embattled attorney general hangs in the balance tonight. unlike a regular what place disagreement this hong kong be resolved by a chunk. jeff sessions as being cold we can beleaguered by his boss. now the president says he's disappointed in his top legal officer. or because he recused himself from the russian investigation. speaking of moscow. house of representatives has just passed a bill which would impose new sanctions on

world news. they say the bbc world news america on regaining flight. president trump tells republican senators to keep trying to repeal and replace obamacare. criticism displays meeting with vladimir putin witchy staring more control to see. playing venezuela for a better life. the economy near collapse and unrest on the rise many crossing into brazil which is now struggling to cope. families and sleeping on the floor of the gymnasium over three hundred. but with more and more arrivals every week families and. and we may just be six months into the trial presidency but the tweet so well into the triple digits. all think it's been pretty growing archive. welcome to the world needs america. health canada and russia that the two issues which have dominated donald trump for six months in office. today both were front and center. first it was revealed that also the face to face meeting between president trump and vladimir putin at the gene. second undisclosed discussion later that day. it happened just hours after their first encounter but it did it with ot

bbc news. what will resolve that dispute at the heart of middle east diplomacy you're watching bbc world news america still to come on tonight's program? driving* in a new direction. what do you want to make a is betting big on electric and hybrid because? in recent weeks moscow's being battered by gale force winds and stones at about rooted trees and filled the russian capital's read that we day brie. but the authorities say that managing to keep the city's river claim thanks to moscow's fleet of russian built rubbish collection bites. his all moscow correspondent steve rosenberg with more. i don't know about you but personally i find it quite challenging keeping my little home. beach and tidy with that vacuum cleaner and a dustpan and brush. somehow into to the russians came. or this clean. forty miles of moscow river the onset is with this thing this is what they call rubbish because. the moscow literal shortly been but. sales up and down the moscow river. fishing out the items that be that. the first place. okay this is pure thought with the set long rubbish scraper. and you can see he's helped t

world news. this is bbc world news america reporting from washington on your trip. emails released by the president's. reveal his eagerness to major russian law and offering deaf on hillary clinton. washington reacts to the revelation. the fight against islamic state intensifies in syria. upset victories to clad against i.* in the iraqi city of mosul. where on the front lines in raqqa? but these flights is that coming up against the highest snipers. in all of these streets around here problematical drones that got suicide problems this is going to be a very very. hard fight into the center. had the ipo epidemic in the u.* claiming the lives of parents leaving millions of elderly americans to cast that will from grand children. welcome to our viewers on public television and all sat around the world. if it's what you say i now face i was the president alvy some last year. when he had a russian government law and was offering the trump campaign incriminating information on hillary clinton. donald john junior treated the mouse between himself and a british guy between

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bbc news. watching bbc world news america still to come on tonight's program. salvador dali voting currently paying huge console with the technical case involving a famous. times potentially running out on possible read military talks between north and south korea. they deem to take place on friday but pyongyang yet to confirm its attendance karen allen personal. this been no official response from pyongyang and nothing's yet has been ruled out that's what we're hearing from seoul. following their appeal to the north to re engage in military talks. if those talks would go ahead they'd be the first in two years but they come. just two weeks after the intercontinental missile tests that was five by north korea that was met with very strong condemnation not least by south korea's biggest ally. the united states nevertheless what way saying here is a different style of leadership in south korea. but the president here is following a twin track approach president mood on the one hand. wishing to keeps international sanctions in place keep the pressure up or north ko

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you're watching bbc world news america still to come on tonight's program. remembering one of the great battles of the great war. hundred years on we go back to hear about the three months of brutal fight. it's called mail ralph for seventy five years a network of ralph ways ran below the streets of london. is by the royal mail to sort the city's post it ran twenty two hours a day but the underground system was shut down suddenly in two thousand and three. now the male rail trains are back on track also deliveries but as a tourist attraction. the bbc's tim off as being on board. routes it's five hundred year history the royal mail's mission has remained pretty much unchanged to narrow down the chute. into the van. to honus technology of the day to deliver letters and parcels as quickly and accurately as possible. this new postal museum shows how deliveries have evolved. but the idea of the twentieth century the mail system in london placed two big problems heavy fold caused by smoke. billowing from germany's. a heavy truck. the officer leg below groun. in ni