Separate meetings with the five stormont parties in an attempt to bring back the power sharing executive. A red arrow salute as the the queen officially opens the new queensferry crossing. The queen was accompanied by Prince Philip 53 years to the day after she opened the neighbouring forth road bridge. Should girls and boys clothes be a thing of the past . John lewis decide to take gender labelling off their childrens clothes. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. South korea says it has seen indications that the north is preparing more Missile Launches, possibly an intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The south has carried out live fire exercises, and says it is strengthening its Missile Defence system. The escalation follows north koreas testing of a Hydrogen Nuclear bomb at the weekend, which it says can fit onto a long range missile. The us has warned that any threat to itself or its allies will be met with a massive military response. A Un Security Council meeting is under way in new york. Our correspondent robin brant reports from seoul. After the norths Nuclear Explosion underground, this from the south. A series of Missile Launchers above ground. From land and from the air, south koreas armed forces carried out a dummy raid early on monday. It was designed to replicate an attack on north Koreas Nuclear testing site. This was how North Koreans heard about the perfect success that was their nations sixth Nuclear Missile test on sunday. It was more powerful than any before, and came with claims that kim jong un now has the ability to order a Nuclear Strike on mainland america. Fresh from briefing the president of the United States, americas defence secretary gave this very stark warning. Any threat to the United States or territories, including guam, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. In the aftermath of this latest nuclear test, one of the most troubling things to emerge is evidence of a split between south korea and the United States. Its main security guarantor. But it came from, you guessed it, a tweet. President trump has attacked notjust the north, but also his counterpart in the south an ally. He criticised what he called south koreas appeasement. Calling out your ally is not business as usual, but as things undoubtedly heat up here in seoul, some think it is their president who has the right approach to cooling things down. Translation its our countrys business. I hope President Trump will refrain from making comments like that. This man said, about the appeasement, i think we need two tracks, sanctions and dialogue at the same time. The views of this man are very important, chinas president north koreas only ally. He had a summit of World Leaders upset by the nuclear test. He and russias president putin have promised to deal appropriately with their rogue neighbour. As the us reminds the world that Nuclear Weapons are an option here, the focus once again at an emergency un meeting will be on sanctions, economic pressure. The talk now, though, in south korea, is of beefing up the military options. With new evidence the north may launch another missile test soon, the signs are this is becoming more about missiles than meetings. Robin brant, bbc news, seoul, south korea. Well, the Un Security Council is meetingn now to discuss further sanctions against north korea. And President Donald Trump has asked to be briefed on all available military options, according to his defence chief. Switzerland with its long history of neutral diplomacy has offered to help mediate. This is the scene in new york. This emergency meeting now taking place. Richard galpin looks at what options are on the table. With north korea now believed to have developed a Hydrogen Bomb, kim jong un could soon achieve his goal of possessing a credible Nuclear Arsenal capable of hitting the United States. Its left donald trump floundering. His threats of fire and fury failing to deter the north korean regime from the course on which it is set. But hes still signalling that a military response is possible. Mr president , will you attack north korea . At the same time hes been lashing out at key allies. Including south korea, accusing it of being too soft on its approach to the crisis. That could make todays meeting of the Un Security Council even more difficult. The aim of the discussions is to get agreement on imposing more sanctions. But already, russia is warning against this, saying it could break the north korean economy. Amid the fractured diplomacy, one thing all sides agree on is that china could play the key role in preventing this crisis from leading to war. As north koreas closest ally and trading partner, it has enormous leverage. I think by far the best option would be for President Trump to sit down with the chinese president and work out how they will control this unruly regime and country. While china has cut some of its trade with north korea, the United States and other world powers have been pressing beijing to go much further. But today the Chinese ForeignMinistry Spokesman announced its response to north Koreas Nuclear test was to launch what it called stern negotiations with north korean diplomats. No surprise, then, that countries in the region like japan and south korea continue to prepare for the worst. Installing increasing numbers of Defence Systems to protect themselves from a north Korean Missile strike. Attempts to defuse this crisis peacefully do continue. But the need for a breakthrough is becoming ever more urgent. Richard galpin, bbc news. The Un Security Council meeting is under the presidency of ethiopian for the month of september and has just got underway. Ethiopian. For the month of september and has just got underway. Ethiopianm accordance with rule 39, i invite the secretary general for the Political Affairs and mrjeffrey feldman to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. This meeting. It is so decided. This meeting has come at the request of the us ukjapan france and south korea. The United States has said any threat to the us and its allies would trigger a massive military response. Japan has already called for the tightening of sanctions on north korea. We can hear a bit more from new york. In a statement from its official news agency, the democratic peoples republic of korea announced it had successfully conducted a six Nuclear Explosive test. They characterise the event as perfect success in the test of a Hydrogen Bomb, into concern intercontinental Ballistic Missile. It marked a very significant occasion in obtaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force. The executive secretary of the prep tour commission the conference if Nuclear Test BanTreaty Organisation in vienna said ina Treaty Organisation in vienna said in a statement that the monitoring stations had picked up an unusual seismic event. The data indicated that the event measured approximately 6. 0 in magnitude and governmental sources from un Member States measured the yield as high as 6. 3. In any case, it is evident that the yield of the device was larger than any of the Previous Nuclear tests. Experts have estimated the yield at between 50 and 100 kilotonnes. At the low end of a thermonuclear weapon. There was a smaller seesmic event seismic event eight minutes after the main event. They have not yet completed their analysis of the second event, but experts have speculated that it could have been caused by the colla pse could have been caused by the collapse of the tunnel used in the nuclear test. In an earlier statement the same day, the dprk said there leader had inspected what they claimed to be a Hydrogen Bomb which was displayed in front of a intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The dprk article stated the Hydrogen Bomb was a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated at even higher attitudes for super powerful emp attack, it said. This was a rare reference by the dprk to the use of emp, electromagnetic pulse which triggered by Nuclear Weapons would aim for widespread damage and disruption to electricity grids and Sensitive Electronics including our satellites. This is the second emergency Security Council meeting on proliferation of the dprk invest ina way, on proliferation of the dprk invest in a way, and the tenth time we have met to discuss the dprk this year. 0n the 31st of august the Foreign Ministry of the dprk issued a statement to reject the Security Councils recent president ial statement and it said the Ballistic Missiles studio Missile Launch ballistic Missile Launch was a meaningful prelude to restraining guam. According to the dprk may be preparing new missile tests, and we are alarmed by this dangerous provocation. The secretary general condemns the tests announced by the dprk, and this act is yet another serious breach of the dprks International Obligations and undermines International Nonproliferation and disarmament efforts. This act is also profoundly destabilising for regional and international security. The dprk is the only country that continues to break the norm against nuclear test explosions. The secretary general repeats his call on dprk leadership to cease such acts and to comply fully with the International Obligations. Under relevant Security Council resolutions. The secretary general counts on the Security Council to remain united and take appropriate action. As was said in the Security Council meeting last week, as tensions rise, so does the risk of misunderstanding and miss cackle asian and escalation. Miscalculation and escalation. Such response must include wise and bolder primacy to be effective, bolder primacy to be effective, bold diplomacy to be effective for them we repeat the importance of responding to mallo terry and imperatives regardless of the political situation, the people of the dprk rely on the humanitarian community responding to humanitarian imperatives. Members of the council and other governments concerned, thank you. |j the council and other governments concerned, thank you. I thank you for this briefing. I now give the thought of those Council Members who wish to make statements. Give the floor to those. I give the floor to be representative of the United States. We want to thank you for allowing us to have this prompt meeting, as it is very injured studio ash as it is very urgent. For more than 20 years, the Security Council has taken actions against north Koreas Nuclear programme and for more than 20 years north korea has defied our collective voice. Its worth taking a few moments to recount some of the history. In 1993 the Council Approved resolution 825 calling on north korea to remain in the non proliferation treaty, that did not work. North korea withdrew from the treaty and continued its Nuclear Pursuit and in 2006 the Six Party Talks faltered and north korea conducted several ballistic Missile Launches and that led to resolution 1695 condemning them. The same year north korea conducted its First Nuclear test, that led to resolution 1708, establishing a un sanction regime aiming to stop all nuclear Ballistic Missile and other weapons of mass to structured programmes. After Six Party Talks fell apart again in 2009, north korea conducted additional Missile Launches in its Second Nuclear test, and that led to resolution 864 which expanded sanctions including arms embargoes and treaty obligations. In 2012 the late day deal failed, north korea conducted two new space launches, the Security Council responded with the Security Council responded with the adaption of resolution 2007. Following their Third Nuclear test the Council Adopted resolution 2094 to restrict financial, maritime, aviation and diplomatic activities, and by 2016 north korea had conducted its Fourth Nuclear test and another space launch. They followed that with more Missile Launches in response the Council Adopted multiple resolutions expanding sanctions even further, targeting whole sectors of north koreas economy. Finally, this year, the council got even more serious, first we adopted resolution 2036 designating high ranking north korean government officials and the military rocket force command for individual sanctions, and then just la st individual sanctions, and then just last month after the regimes first two icd launches we adopted another resolution, the strongest sanctions we have ever imposed on north korea. That resolution band north korean exports of coal, iron and seafood and imposed several other measures that will cut of the revenues needed to fund their Nuclear Programme, why didl to fund their Nuclear Programme, why did i take the time to go through this history . To make this point. The United NationsSecurity Council has spoken with unusual unity and consistency on north korea. That is a good thing. Along the way there have been problems with implementation and the council has at times been too slow and too weak but this is not a situation in which we have allowed divisions amongst us to stop any action. Still, here we are. Despite our efforts over the past are. Despite our efforts over the pa st 24 are. Despite our efforts over the past 24 years, the north korea Nuclear Programme is more advanced and more dangerous than ever. They now fired missiles overjapanese airspace, they now have icbm capabilities, they now claim to have tested a Hydrogen Bomb, and just this morning there were reports that the regime is preparing for yet another icbm launch. To the members of the Security Council i must say enoughis of the Security Council i must say enough is enough. We have taken an incremental approach and despite the best of intentions it has not worked. Members of this council will no doubt urge negotiations and a return to talks, but as i have outlined we have engaged in numerous direct and multilateral talks with the north korean regime and time after time they have not worked. The time for half measures in the Security Council is over, the time has come to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before its too late. We must now adopt the strongest possible measures. Kim jong uns action cannot be seen as defensive. He wants to be acknowledged as a Nuclear Power. But being a Nuclear Power is not about using those terrible weapons to threaten others. Nuclear power is understand their responsibilities, kimjong un understand their responsibilities, kim jong un shows no such understanding. His abusive use of missiles and his Nuclear Threats show that he is begging for war. War is never something the United States wants, we dont want it now. But our countrys patienc