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Also on the programme. President trump has admitted he repeatedly asked his ukrainian counterpart, who was seeking military aid from america, to investigate his political opponentjoe biden. So, what are democrats going to do about it . The uk launches its biggest peacetime repatriation in history, with hundreds of thousands stranded following the collapse of travel company thomas cook. Hello and welcome. Im Michelle Fleury in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Donald trump made an unexpected but fleeting visit to the un Climate Change summit in new york today. Its arguably the most important gathering on Climate Change since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 a deal that donald trump walked away from. The short time the president spent in the Conference Hall reflects his obvious indifference and also the scale of the challenge ahead. Had he been in the hall for the opening of the summit, he would have heard the un secretary general speak of the apocalyptic impact Climate
The we stopped in northern garza where is very strong because targeted apart for the market. At least 6 people were killed in that to attack in gaza city. Several others were injured. These very minute trace says it has the once. Once it cools the targeted operation, the outskirts of them is wrapped refugee camp. At least 5 palestinians have been killed in stripes at target to the school and a residential building. And unicef says one of its vehicles was hit by live munition while waiting to enter northern garza, the agencies says its based the incidence which is rarely or 4th is units of spokes person. Test. Ingram was in the convoy as i was in one of the 3 cars that was part of a convoy was unison and ro we were on a coordinated mission to try and deliver fuel to water wells and the noise and loss saving nutrition and medical supplies to come allowed one hospital. We left a rough uh, after some delays we got to the holding void before the check point. Uh, what do you guys uh, this is
Pyong chol is believed to be one of the top people in charge of the controversial programme. Kimjong sik is thought to be behind the work to switch from liquid to solid fuel. New United Nations sanctions were introduced last friday in response to north koreas latest Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test in november. Earlier, i spoke with dr balbina hwang, visiting professor at georgetown universitys centre for security studies. She explained what effect, if any, these sanctions are likely to have. Well, we have to remember that there are Un Security Council sanctions as well is unilateral sanctions and these latest sanctions levied by the United States government are targeting individuals. These are really symbolic more than anything else. They are a very important part of president trumps maximum pressure on north korea, but they will have little practical effect because it is only about us jurisdiction and it is unlikely either of these two men have any assets, certainly in their n