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And Christian Fraser is in london. The clock is ticking and President Trump has just one day to make an important decision on the iran deal. The trouble is that even at this late stage, no one knows whether hes going to bring back us sanctions against tehran tomorrow or not. In a deliberate display of unity, britain, france, germany and the European Union today all urged him not to blow up the deal. Its known as thejcpoa. British foreign secretary Boris Johnson went so far as to challenge mr tru...

The next area expected to be affected by storm harvey. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Sirens sound as north korea fires a missile overjapan the Un Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting later in response. Its 5 oclock our top story. A major dam outside the us city of houston has begun to overflow as authorities struggle to cope with the disastrous flooding brought by Tropical Storm harvey. We will head straight to texas tonight. Lets cross to our correspondent Laura Trevelyan...

The Trump Administration has warned north korea that it risks a massive military response if it threatens the us or its allies. The Un Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on monday. It follows pyongyangs most powerful nuclear test to date. In response, south korea has just carried out its own Ballistic Missile exercise. In a moment, we report from tokyo and beijing, but first our correspondent, yogita limaye, whos in seoul. It was a perfect success, the newsreader declared, as she an...

Queensferry crossing. The queen was accompanied by Prince Philip 53 years to the day after she opened the neighbouring forth road bridge. Should girls and boys close clothes be a thing of the past . John lewis decide to take boys and girl labelling off their childrens clothes. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. South korea says it has seen indications that the north is preparing more missile launches, possibly an intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The south has carried out live fire exerci...

And a new week but old worries over tensions between north korea and the us Keeping Markets on edge. And with Holiday Season in full swing well speak to the founder of one hotel Online Booking firm whos trying to cut out the middle man. And as Airline Passenger arrests soar by 50 , today we want to know what are your flying bugbears . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. Know surprisingly my biggest bugbear when a flying is the lack of legroom no surp...

Security and seriously undermines International Nonproliferation efforts. I condemn it unequivocally worldwide concerns and condemnation today after this announcement from north korean state media. Claiming that a 5. 1 magnitude earthquake near the countys Nuclear Testing facility yesterday was caused by north koreas First Successful test of a hydrogen bomb. The weapon can be about 10thousand times more powerful than atomic bombs like those dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki in world war ii. Nats...

Four more. All within minutes of each other. Nhp says only minor injuries were reported. Heres another rollover crash that happened early this morning around 6 30. Sparks police say this suv slid while traveling on rock boulevard and rolled down into rock park. It took crews more than hour to move the vehicle. The driver was not hurt. Air travel, also affected. As of noon today there were five cancellations. And they werent isolated to one airline. Departures to vegas, San Francisco and san jose...

There were dozens of accidents all over town yesterday. Even late into the night. Stay safe on the roads today and a reminder too. Send us your pictures and videos of the weather in your neighborhood email them to icontribute or post them on our facebook, and you might see them on air taking a live look at mccarran flights are back on schedule things hiccuped yesterday because of all that rain. Not only delaying flights. But also canceling some. The average delay was about 4 hours for incoming f...

Elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson. Elias Recovery Efforts are underway after a trench collapse at a Housing Development this morning. it happened around 8 am near 5th avenue and andentureland drive in altoona. Rescue crews were called to help a construction worker after the trench collapsed on him. Elias again this is now a recovery effort. Local 5s Claire Powell is out at the site now claire . Claire ad libs elias claire, thanks. Of course we...

Massacre of tens of thousands of elements every year. We begin with breaking news from oregon. Several that occupied a National Wildlife refuge are in custody. The fbi say five were arrested. Authorities say there was a hoot out. Group leader ayman bundy was among those rested. Bundy and others seized the headquarters as part of a did dispute over public lands in the west. Allen schauffler, who has been following the story joins us by phone. What can you tell us about the people involved in the ...