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hello and welcome. ukraines application to join the european union looks set to take a step forward today. senior eu officials will give their recommendation on whether to grant the country whats known as "candidate status". but its a long and complicated process to actually become a member. in his nightly address, president zelensky said ukraine has never been closer to the european union than it is now. heres azadeh moshiri. ukraines president called it a truly historic day, describi...

Its newsday. Welcome to newsday. Its 9am in singapore, iam in london and 10am in seoul where the ousted south Korean Leader Park Geun Hye has vowed that the truth will out after leaving office Days Afterjudges upheld a Parliament Decision to impeach her. Massive crowds gathered to see ms park finally leave the president s official residence, the blue house. Her departure means she no longer has president ial immunity from prosecution and criminal charges may well follow. Earlier i spoke to our c...

Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds news room, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the globe. In this weeks programme inside North Waziristan. Owen Bennett Jones finds the Pakistan Army back in control of the tribal area on the afghan border, after a huge Military Operation to clear out alqaeda and the taliban. Around one Million People from North Waziristan fled when the conflict was at its height, and the question now is will they come back . Saved from...

Its newsday. Welcome to newsday. Its 9am in singapore, iam in london and 10am in seoul where the ousted south Korean Leader Park Geun Hye has vowed that the truth will out after leaving office Days Afterjudges upheld a Parliament Decision to impeach her. Massive crowds gathered to see ms park finally leave the president s official residence, the blue house. Her departure means she no longer has president ial immunity from prosecution and criminal charges may well follow. Earlier i spoke to our c...

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Anything. and we just start all over. >> reporter: how has today been? >> today? worse. because the fire is spreading to the direction of a city. >> reporter: so different points now. >> yeah. small but it is getting bigger. >> reporter: youre quite emotional. >> come on, look at it. look at it. >> reporter: this fire has been moving so quickly and they are trying to get some of the water trucks to move further down. this is devastating. and it is not just happening here. across southern europe,...

This is from the kremlins press service. president trump offered putin assistance in fighting forest fires in siberia. then what the white house said was president trump spoke with president vladimir putin today and expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting siberia. so one is a promise of assistance. one is expressing concern. so theres a discrepancy, but it cant be about wildfires, right? would a whistleblower be so concerned about this phone call? >> not as described, no. but, of co...

The funding for fighting forest fires, a continued threat in the west. but really this allows us to go to work on this years budget which is our opportunity to really change the course. balancing budgets, reversing what weve seen in the deficit spending. really going after reauthorized spending, rethinking the federal government from top to bottom. every program, every agency so we have an efficient, effective, accountable government. im also very excited to see us moving forward this week on th...