to their appeal for help. has the isle of skye become a victim of its own beauty? the island is struggling to cope, as tourism reaches record numbers. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the united states and north korea are being urged to show restraint, after a growing war of words between the two nations. last night president trump said threats from pyongyang would be met with fire, fury and power. the communist state says it s considering a missile strike on the us territory of guam the us secretary of state rex tillerson has just arrived on the island. guam is a small island in the pacific ocean, where us strategic bombers are based. in the past hour, president trump has reaffirmed america s military power, boasting about the country s nuclear arsenal. the president tweeted again, saying: hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world. we ll have the latest from korea in a momen
business report. handing on control of the world s biggest economy. as barack obama prepares to say goodbye we look at what he s done for america financial health. the cost of china s raw materials is going up faster than it has for more than five years wait for it it s important because it could mean the rest of us the rest of the world paying more for the stuff they sell us? welcome to world business report. i m aaron heslehurst. stay where you are i have about nine! nine minutes, it is all i am asking for an eye promised to deliver an exciting snapshot of business. there are just a couple of weeks of barack obama s presidency remaining and later today he gives his big farewell speech. as well as being commander in chief he s also overseen the world s biggest economy for the last eight years. but what kind of legacy has he left? well more than 11 million more jobs have been added with the unemployment rate falling from 7.8% to 4.7% but what the typical american fam
deputy first minister, martin mcguinness has announced he s to retire from frontline politics, and won t seek re election to the stormont assembly in march. he says he s planning to stand down in may, on the tenth anniversary of devolved government and power sharing. he s been speaking to our northern ireland political editor mark devenport. in the aftermath of the assembly election last year i agreed to stay on. i was very honoured to be asked to stay on by the party as deputy first minister, but i said i would do it for a further year, which would bring me to 8th of may. this year would have been the tenth anniversary, and say ian paisley said it was an historic moment. i thought it was an appropriate time for me to stand aside as debbie first minister, and make for a new sinn fein deputy first minister. but of course, the best laid plans of mice and men came into play deputy first mr. i have had two situations to deal with, one is the crisis at stormont, and my own heal
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