joining me now is our asia correspondent karishma vaswani. what more details are coming in?e last few minutes, we have received an update from the us navy's public affairs department. they have been able to tell us that ten sailors are still missing. the five that are injured, for amongst them have been by helicopter to a hospital location in singapore, and another one did not need any further medical treatment. at this stage, thatis medical treatment. at this stage, that is the situation with the number of people who are still missing, and injuries. we know that the ussjon missing, and injuries. we know that the uss jon mccain missing, and injuries. we know that the ussjon mccain is expected to be heading to a naval base here in singapore. there is no further details, i should add, as to what time it might arrive here. what we also know is that the damage that it sustained, as of yet we have not been informed about the extent of the damage, but what we do know is that the us navy's public affairs department has said that it was the port side of the warship. the collision oc

karishma vaswani, bbc news, singapore. of the other stories making the news. the iraqi army says it is advancing on the town of tal afar, the latest stage of a major offensive against the islamic state group. it says it has taken a number of villages on the outskirts of the town. the military are being urged to rescue people from the minority yazidi community who the militants may be holding as slaves. an earthquake with magnitude of 4.3 has hit the italian island of ischia off the coast of naples. at least one person has been killed and more than 20 injured. residents and tourists on the island ran out onto the streets from homes and hotels. several buildings have collapsed. the university of texas has removed three statues commemorating the us civil war era, saying they had become symbols of modern white supremacy. the operation to take down the confederate monuments, including one of general robert e lee, began overnight to avoid confrontations. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we meet the wild donkeys of northe

karishma vaswani, bbc news, singapore.g some analysis on the next steps for the us navy a little later in the programme. let's take a look at some of the day's other news: president trump is to announce the us‘s latest approach to its war in afghanistan, after 16 years in the country. in a rare prime time address, he will talk to us troops and the american public about the number of forces deployed there and the policies his administration now plan to implement. the bbc‘s aleem maqbool in washington said trump has not previously directly addressed the war since becoming president. well, not in an address like this. he has tweeted about it occasionally, talking about the fact that he had inherited a mess in afghanistan, and saying he was going to make it a bit less messy. so let's see what he is going to announce today. what we are likely to hear is a couple of things. an increase in troop numbers, which is certainly something of a departure from the way he saw things in the 0bama years, and even during the election campaig

karishma vaswani, bbc news, singapore.bc news, still to come: we meet the wild donkeys of northern cyprus, animals that have had to fend for themselves in a divided island. washington, the world's most political city, is today assessing the political health of the world's most powerful man. indeed, i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. in south africa, 97 people have been killed today, in one of the worst days of violence between rival black groups. over the last ten days, 500 have died. chanting: czechoslovakia must be free! russia is observing a national day of mourning for the 118 submariners who died on board the kursk. we're all with them now, within our hearts. the pope has celebrated mass before a congregation of more than 2.5 million people, in his hometown of krakow. "stay with us, stay with us," chanted this ocean of humanity. "well, well," joked the pope, "so you want me to desert rome?" this is bbc world news. our top story this hour: president trump has b

from bangkok, the bbc‘s karishma vaswani.his was yingluck shinawatra six years ago, a political novice bringing her brother's party to victory in thailand's general elections. she's no longer in power and is now standing trial on a charge of negligence for a controversial rice subsidy scheme. if found guilty, she could face ten years in prison and a lifetime ban from politics. seen here at the start of her trial, yingluck appeared confident about her chances. but her critics say she's guilty of implementing a controversial rice subsidy policy that benefited only her party, pheu thai, and that cost the government billions of dollars. the scheme was part of yingluck‘s winning manifesto, a generous promise to buy rice farmers‘ entire crop for much more than the market price. but it was also expensive and wasteful. some of those losses, it's alleged, were also due to corruption. the military used corruption as one of the justifications of the coup against yingluck‘s government. but many thais believed the coup was about knocking

karishma vaswani, bbc news, singapore.on the next steps for the us navy a little later in the programme. our other top story: tens of thousands of troops, aircraft and naval vessels from the us and south korea are embarking on a major military exercise. the joint military exercises, which have taken place regularly since 1976, are occurring at a time of rising tension on the korean peninsula. north korea has condemned the operation as a highly provocative rehearsal for war. jatinder dhillon reports. south korean and us forces began computer simulated military exercises on monday, which will run for two weeks in the south. nearly 18,000 us troops and 50,000 south korean troops are taking part in this operation. thejoint korean troops are taking part in this operation. the joint wargames happen every year, and are described as defensive in nature. at this time around they are taking place after an unprecedented period of tension with the north. after pyongyang tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles last month. the so

karishma vaswani, bbc news, singapore.upert wingfield—hayes is in singapore, where the warship has docked. how embarrassing is this for the americans? it is a huge embarrassment for the us. as you can tell from the response both from the defence secretary and from the navy. the fact they are taking this operational pause across the globe is very significant of how seriously they are taking notjust is very significant of how seriously they are taking not just this incident off the coast of singapore but there have actually been three incidents in the last two months. one here, one of the coast of south korea and one of the coast of japan injune korea and one of the coast of japan in june where seven korea and one of the coast of japan injune where seven sailors were killed in a very similar incident to what happened here yesterday morning. those investigations were looking to a number of different issues. they essentially want to find out if there is a systemic problem either in the training or operations of vessels in the

karishma vaswani, bbc news, singapore. time now to take a look at the weather forecast.ble digits by first thing tomorrow morning. the cloud and rain will move north, the mist and mark will move north, the mist and mark will lift away, and as we go through the morning, hopefully seeing some sunshine coming through. cloud and rain returns to northern ireland, and eventually into the isle of man. the temperature was a bit more subdued, hourly wrinklies and from scotland, looking at around 14 to 20 degrees. perhaps a degree or so higher if you get a bit more sunshine. the human trimble not last, and as it moves east, it will introduce fresh showery conditions. particularly to the far north—west. hello. this is bbc news with me, nicholas 0wen. the headlines at timecheck. spanish police say they've shot dead younes abouyaaqoub, the man accused of ramming a vehicle into crowds in barcelona, killing thirteen people. america's witnessed the first total solar eclipse to sweep from the us pacific coast to the atlantic in almost a century. an american destroyer‘s collided with an o

here's our asia business editor, karishma vaswani on how that is shaping up.rough over the next couple of days while she is in toko, meeting with the japanese prime minister, shinzo abe, and other delegates from both sides, she will be trying to bang on about british business, but i think she will find it very difficult to get the sort of agreements that she would like to see. that is not to say that the japanese don't want a deal with the uk- japanese don't want a deal with the uk — they do — but the kinds of assurances they are looking for from london and theresa may, she isjust not able to get them as yet. and what they want to know is, what exactly will be the uk position in a post—brexit world with regard to the eu? remember, japan has invested some £40 billion into the british economy. there are more than 1000 japanese companies there, and the majority of them have been using the uk as majority of them have been using the ukasa majority of them have been using the uk as a base to get into the eu. they want to make sure that that bases secure. the german

.> 0ur south east asia correspondent karishma vaswani joins me from singapore.ws how seriously the us navy is taking this incident. this just shows how seriously the us navy is taking this incidentlj think navy is taking this incident.” think the fact that this incident, the one that happened yesterday, followed so quickly after the one backin followed so quickly after the one back injune, it really has given the us navy a great deal to think about in terms ofjust how serious some of these situations can be. to remind our audiences, the search and rescue teams are still out there in the waters to the east of the straits of malacca, looking for these ten missing american sailors. the singaporeans are involved, the malaysians as well. the malaysian government and authorities have gone so far as to say to fishermen, look out for any sailors while you're out the water. this is a situation that has become quite complicated and difficult for the us navy to try and address and there is also the issue of what actually happened. we don't have those details but certainly,

our asia correspondent karishma vaswani is in singapore.he chances of finding these missing sailors sadly recedes? absolutely, i am standing in front of the harbour here in singapore and those blinking lights behind me either ships, singapore and those blinking lights behind me eitherships, part singapore and those blinking lights behind me either ships, part of the busiest shipping lanes the world here. beyond those waters, those ships is the uss warship thejohn s mccain that was towed into this naval base in singapore earlier today and as you rightly point out, you can see, it is my time here in singapore, the search and rescue operation from what we understand from the us navy public affairs department hasn't been called off just yet but it is very difficult to see just how much longer this can continue today, for today at least. what we do know is the ten sailors are still missing, five of them injured, four taken to hospital here in singapore and there will be further details coming out from the us navy public affairs department tomorr

we can speak to karishma vaswani, who joins us from bangkok. come back to that story in a moment. forecasters in the united states are expecting a major hurricane to hit the coast of louisiana and texas on friday night. hurricane harvey has sustained winds of up to 140km/h. they're expected to get even stronger. it's exactly 12 years since hurricane katrina hit the same area, causing huge loss of life and widespread damage. bill hayton reports. as the storm approaches, final preparations. workers on the texas coastline are filling sandbags to face hurricane harvey. the storm is bringing dangerous tidal surges and potentially life—threatening rainfall. even if we don't see flooding friday night, or saturday, the threat is still there on saturday night, sunday, possibly even into monday. we need people to be aware of. locals are stocking up on food and water, and supermarket shelves are emptying. bread, water, eggs. just the essentials. we have kids so we make sure we have stuff in the cupboards and the fridge. one of the places watching the weat

for more on this, let's go to the bbc‘s karishma vaswani, who is outside the court in bangkok.suspected to arrive in tell i what she is suspected to arrive in tell. what 3:4; to this hour. tell us what has led to this and what we are expecting today. yeah. iam and what we are expecting today. yeah. i am standing outside the supreme court. there is already media around. it is highly anticipated. the buildup has taken 18 months or so. that is how long this has gone on for. protesters, supporters, i should say, of yingluck shinawatra, have not been allowed to enter this area. they are 300 metres away over on that. that is because the police warned people not to come to this area, there have been checkpoints around the city making sure that the voting base, the rural people, don't get to come into the city. their rights 2000 police standing by worried about signs of trouble is there are about. just to remind people of how the guts to this point, yingluck shinawatra is on trial for the dereliction of duty. they say she was negligent with regards to the controversial subsidy scheme w

and karishma vaswani is there. why is there an arrest warrant? this announcement has come in the last couple of minutes to explain to audiences what happened. there were audiences what happened. there were a flurry of koraput is coming out saying that yingluck chinnawat‘s trial, the reading of the verdict, has been postponed until the 27th of september. there has been an arrest warrant issued for her. the court said she failed to turn up for court. she said she was unwell, that she had vertigo, and so was unable to appear in court today. however, the court decided that is a reason they do not believe, in their words, and have issued an arrest warrant. it is not clear whether it has been issued because they believe she is at risk of fleeing. there is no mention of that today. but we understand the court has confiscated a $900,000 bail that yingluck chinnawat posted at the beginning of her trial. a lot of information coming through from the courts in the last few minutes. they suspended the last few minutes. they suspended the decision, the fate, o

earlier i spoke to our south east asia correspondent karishma vaswani, and i asked her what more do we the information that's come through from the us navy's seventh fleet public affairs department is patchy at the very least. this is what we know at this stage. what we have been told is ten sailors are missing. five are reported to be injured. that's the information coming in from the public affairs department. the incident happened in the early hours this morning. we understand thejohn mccain uss destroyer was making a routine stop to singapore. this is very common for warships, a american warships in particular, in this part of the world. they are allies. while en route, it is not clear yet, it happened near singapore, in the straits of malacca. these are extremely congested waters, notjust because of trade, but because this is a very narrow body of water as well. it is still unclear at this stage what caused the incident. the collision occurred with a merchant vessel, a liberian flag waving vessel. substantially larger than the warship, it was. it sustained damage on the port side.

from bangkok, our correspondent karishma vaswani reports.was yingluck shinawatra six yea rs this was yingluck shinawatra six years ago, a political novice bringing her brother's party to victory in thailand's general elections. she is no longer in power and is now standing trial on a charge of negligence for a controversial life subsidy scheme. if found guilty she could face ten yea rs if found guilty she could face ten years in prison and a lifetime ban from politics. seen here at the start of a trial, yingluck shinawatra appeared confident. but her critics say she is guilty of implementing a controversial life subsidy policy that benefited only her party, her thai, subsidy policy that benefited only her party, herthai, and subsidy policy that benefited only her party, her thai, and that cost the government billions of dollars. the scheme was part of yingluck shinawatra's winning manifesto, a generous promise to buy rice farmers' entire crop for much more in the market price. but it was also expensive and wasteful. some of those losses it i

let's find out more, karishma vaswani, our asia business correspondent is in singapore.nding so they have launched it, no branding so there is no real connection with facebook, why was facebook banned in the first place? as you know, the social media websites in general in china have been banned because of strict internet censorship rules and the tight control china places on their citizens and what they can access, but there's been no confirmation from about this story. but the new york times and other media reported that facebook said this launch was something they okayed. you know what this is, basically it is a photo sharing website. in china facebook is banned, like many otherforms website. in china facebook is banned, like many other forms of social media, including twitter. this app which is called colourful balloons feels a bit like facebook it doesn't carry the facebook name oi’ it doesn't carry the facebook name or the logo. it was released in china by a company, but all the facebook spokesman has said is that they are interested in china and they are intereste

our asia correspondent karishma vaswani is in singapore.in the search? that's right. from what the us navy has been able to tell us is earlier on in the morning today, us navy divers and us rink or diversjoined in morning today, us navy divers and us rink or divers joined in the search for the ten missing sailors. they are searching inside the warship. the ussjohn are searching inside the warship. the uss john s are searching inside the warship. the ussjohn s mccain made its way to assure here in singapore to the naval base where it has been docked for the last 2a hours. these divers are going into the ship. they are looking through the flooded areas. we were told that some of these flooded areas were sleeping compartments, machinery room, communications room. there is significant damage in this ship. they are hoping, presumably, to find any signs of these ten missing sailors either dead or alive within the ship. that doesn't mean that the search and rescue operation is an extensive one. it doesn't mean that has been completed. in fact it c