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And london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 9pm in new york, where police say a man who drove into cyclists and pedestrians on tuesday killing eight people had been planning the attack for several weeks and was influenced by so called Islamic State. The suspect, an immigrant from uzbekistan, has appeared in court in a wheelchair, after being shot by police. President trump wants tougher vetting of immigrants to prevent attacks on us soil. Our ...

Reserve. This confirmed, the former investment banker will take over in february. Any ceremony in the rose garden, President Trump said Jerome Powell was the perfect man to lead the central bank and keep americas economy growing. We have had back to back quarters of 3 growth and we are doing better and better every single week. But if we are to sustain all of this tremendous economic progress, our economy requires sound Monetary Policy and prudent oversight of our banking system. That is why we ...

It follows the disputed independence referendum for the catalan region, which the Spanish Government declared illegal. Mr puidgemont, whos in belgium, has insisted hes not there to evade justice. Tom burridge reports. Another night, another protest. This time, calls for catalan politicians to be released. These prisoners are not. They didnt commit any crime. If they take them to jail, they should take us to jail too. We only want to vote and to be free. Catalonias former government, which they e...

The world is watching to see how mr trump handles this round of diplomacy. On his first stop, the president and first lady visited a us battleship sunk by japanese bombers, before laying a wreath at the uss arizona in pearl harbor. After travelling to tokyo on sunday, its on to south korea, followed by china, then vietnam. Mr trump will round things off with a visit to the philippines. Steven mcdonnell is in tokyo for us. He says the president s tour has had quite a sombre start in hawaii. Absol...

Whether it has been intercepted or not, but you know, at the end of the day, there is a fire, there is explosion in parts of the airport. The fact that these missile managed to get to riyadh is significant. Im sure what happens tonight will have a very interesting effect on what happens in the war in that era. Mohamad taha of bbc arabic. And in a further development in the region, iran has rejected accusations by the lebanese Prime Minister that its spreading violence across the middle east. Saa...

Several senior ministers as well as dozens of former ministers, have been detained in a campaign to stamp out corruption. Crown Prince Mohammed bin salman, whos in charge of the new Anti Corruption committee, appears to have sidelined powerful rivals. It seems the heads of the Saudi National guard and navy have been replaced. Staying in saudi arabia, state media there says the military has shot down a missile over the capital, riyadh. Officials believe the weapon was fired from yemen, where Hout...

A rule changes which would benefit an offshore company in which you had invested. Alec baldwin speaks to the bbc about his role as donald trump. Why is that impersonation just so convincing . You get the left eyebrow up and the most down as far as you can. Get in touch with us using the hashtag. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in richmond, virginia and Christian Fraser is in london. Elections are always held in early november here and one year after donald trump stunned the world, americans are ...

There are tortured and murdered. Much detail of the plight of the people. The second audience, this is crucial, is china, the next stop on his tour. He goes to beijing soon. He repeated what he said yesterday, about our trade with north korea and other countries should stop entirely. He made the point in the speech that he doesnt think there should be any form of support from north korea and it is mostly china that chooses to support north korea at the moment. Latest round of un sanctions, there...

Of south korea and reassured them of the strength of the two countries 60 year old alliance. He contrasted south koreas progress and Strong Economy with the hunger filled prison state that he said existed in the north. He again called on pyongyang to give up its nuclear and missile programme, which he said is putting north korea in mortal danger. Lets listen to part of that speech. History is filled with discarded regimes that have foolishly tested americas resolve. Anyone who doubts the strengt...

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