Page 280 - Trending News Today

Is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where President Trump has spoken about the appointment of a Special Counsel to take over the russia investigation into any potential ties with his campaign. He said the entire affair was a witch hunt which hurt the country, as he put it, and he denied ever asking the fbi director to end the investigation into his National Security advisor Michael Flynn. From washington, aleem macqbo...

Re elected. Now all the latest Business News live from singapore. Apec Trade Ministers gear up for a busy weekend in vietnam, as it faces restructuring of major trade agreements. And who knew what you could do with used Coffee Grounds . Good morning, asia, hello, world. Glad you could join us for this edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Trade ministers are gathering in vietnam this weekend and the person they will be wanting face time with, americas new trade representative, who is i...

Here in singapore, and this city has been under siege in philippines. On monday the government said it had a decisive progress to retake the city, but at least 100 civilians have been killed in 2000 people may still be trapped in a militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We are seeing and much more optimistic note coming from the Philippines Bollettieri Spokesperson now, they seem to be making more progress in regaining the city, but in the first place we do not know how long it will ta...

Here in singapore, and this city has been under siege in philippines. On monday the government said it had a decisive progress to retake the city, but at least 100 civilians have been killed in 2000 people may still be trapped in a militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We are seeing and much more optimistic note coming from the Philippines Bollettieri Spokesperson now, they seem to be making more progress in regaining the city, but in the first place we do not know how long it will ta...

It is sam is tuesday the greatest newsday. It is 8am in singapore and iam in london. Marawi has been under siege for nearly a week by islamist militants. On monday, the government has said it made decisive progress to retake the city but at least 100 civilians have been killed and 2000 people may still be trapped in militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We do not know how long it will take. They have been hard to evict from the city. I do not think anyone can put a timeline on it. The...

Could join us, its midnight here in london and 7am in singapore and we start in berlin where it was all smiles earlier as Angela Merkel played host to le keqiang. He is the second east asian leader to receive the Red Carpet Treatment in berlin this week after indias Prime Minister on tuesday. The more positive mood, a change on last week when the g 7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the United States taking a different position to the rest on issues such as Climate Change and free tr...

Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing sou...

Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing sou...

Could join us, its midnight here in london and 7am in singapore and we start in berlin where it was all smiles earlier as Angela Merkel played host to le keqiang. He is the second east asian leader to receive the Red Carpet Treatment in berlin this week after indias Prime Minister on tuesday. The more positive mood, a change on last week when the g 7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the United States taking a different position to the rest on issues such as Climate Change and free tr...

Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing sou...