:00:23. > :00:25.Good afternoon and welcome to BBC News.
:00:26. > :00:28.The United States and Japan have condemned North Korea
:00:29. > :00:30.for test-firing a ballistic missile - the first such test
:00:31. > :00:32.since Donald Trump took office as US president.
:00:33. > :00:34.Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the launch was "intolerable"
:00:35. > :00:37.and President Trump said the US stood behind Japan,
:00:38. > :00:43.The missile flew for about three hundred miles and landed
:00:44. > :00:54.Our Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes has more.
:00:55. > :01:02.It is now thought the missile fired from North Korea early this morning
:01:03. > :01:06.was one of these, a ballistic missile. It flew about 500
:01:07. > :01:11.kilometre, before splashing down in the Sea of Japan.
:01:12. > :01:16.North Korea's dictator had been promising to test fire a much longer
:01:17. > :01:20.range missile, capable of hitting the United States. That has not
:01:21. > :01:24.happened. Instead, Mr Kim is almost certainly
:01:25. > :01:30.using the launch to crash this weekend party in Florida.
:01:31. > :01:36.Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been spending it golfing with
:01:37. > :01:41.President Trump. Shinzo Abe was not amused by the
:01:42. > :01:45.intrusion. North Korea's most recent missile
:01:46. > :01:49.launch is intolerable. North Korea must fully comply with the relevant
:01:50. > :01:53.United Nations Security Council Resolutions.
:01:54. > :01:57.Then in his response, President Trump appeared to forget to condemn
:01:58. > :02:02.the North Korean launch. Thank you very much Mr Prime Minister. I just
:02:03. > :02:11.want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States
:02:12. > :02:17.stands behind Japan. Its great ally 100%. Thank you.
:02:18. > :02:23.In South Korea, the military made the normal noises.
:02:24. > :02:27.TRANSLATION: Our military is poised to respond immediately to any
:02:28. > :02:31.provocations from North Korea, that threaten the security of the
:02:32. > :02:38.republic of Korea. Missing from all of this, so far, is
:02:39. > :02:41.China. The country that many think holds the key to stopping North
:02:42. > :02:46.Korea. China's leaders say they do not want a North Korea armed with
:02:47. > :02:51.nuclear missiles but nor do they want the Kim regime to collapse.
:02:52. > :02:56.With each new test, North Korea comes a step closer to that goal, of
:02:57. > :03:02.becoming a nuclear missile armed state. The prospect makes South
:03:03. > :03:06.Korea and Japan extremely nervous. But nobody seems to have any idea
:03:07. > :03:10.how to get North Korea's nuclear genie back in the bottle.
:03:11. > :03:14.Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, says the party's leadership
:03:15. > :03:18.Speaking to the BBC this morning, Mr Watson played down reports that
:03:19. > :03:21.Labour is using focus groups to test out the popularity of alternative
:03:22. > :03:24.He said that this was "not the time" for another
:03:25. > :03:33.We have had a tough 18 months, we had a damaging second
:03:34. > :03:36.So we have got an uphill struggle ahead, the polls
:03:37. > :03:39.aren't great for us, but I'm determined, now that we've
:03:40. > :03:40.got the leadership settled for this Parliament,
:03:41. > :03:43.that we can focus on developing a very positive, clear message
:03:44. > :03:52.to the British people in a general election.
:03:53. > :03:54.The Royal College of Surgeons, and the organisation that
:03:55. > :03:56.represents NHS Trusts, is warning that highly qualified
:03:57. > :03:58.surgeons in England are being left "kicking their heels"
:03:59. > :04:00.while they wait for hospital beds to become available
:04:01. > :04:04.They argue a lack of funding for health and social care means
:04:05. > :04:06.patients are not being discharged when they should be.
:04:07. > :04:09.NHS England says only 1 percent of operations were cancelled
:04:10. > :04:22.The Commons Speaker has been accused of compromising his impartiality
:04:23. > :04:24.by telling a group of students he voted to remain
:04:25. > :04:30.John Bercow was filmed telling students at Reading University
:04:31. > :04:33.it was "better to be part of a big power bloc" than
:04:34. > :04:39.One Tory MP has called for him to resign,
:04:40. > :04:41.but this morning politicians from both the Conservative
:04:42. > :04:51.and Labour parties have come to his defence.
:04:52. > :04:58.Our political correspondent is with us, how much of a threat is his
:04:59. > :05:02.position under? His critics say he is at threat and certainly, there is
:05:03. > :05:07.a motion that has been put, calling for there to be a vote of no
:05:08. > :05:10.confidence in him, so far that only has one signature but it is recess
:05:11. > :05:14.next week so that might pick up. Today there have been a lot of
:05:15. > :05:18.people coming to his defence, his supporters say he wasn't being party
:05:19. > :05:21.political, he was expressing a view on the referendum which is an issue
:05:22. > :05:25.that the Conservative didn't have a united front on any way and he was
:05:26. > :05:32.only making that point, long after the actual vote itself, and so we
:05:33. > :05:35.have heard from the Conservative Leader of the House of Commons,
:05:36. > :05:38.David Lidington who said in his experience the speaker is someone
:05:39. > :05:43.who never shies away from calling Members of Parliament who have
:05:44. > :05:47.difficult questions to ask. We heard from John Whittingdale who said it
:05:48. > :05:50.is not helpful to express no confidence in the speaker and Labour
:05:51. > :05:54.have been supportive, Tom Watson talking about how he has confidence
:05:55. > :05:59.in the speaker, so he is somebody who does have support in the House
:06:00. > :06:05.but he has a lot of critics and this will no doubt bubble on.
:06:06. > :06:07.Protests in a Paris suburb turned violent again overnight,
:06:08. > :06:10.at a demonstration in support of a twenty-two year old black man,
:06:11. > :06:12.who was allegedly raped by a policeman earlier this month.
:06:13. > :06:15.The man, who's known only as Theo, has appealed for calm
:06:16. > :06:18.Police fired tear gas during the clashes.
:06:19. > :06:20.A policeman has been charged with rape, and three
:06:21. > :06:27.others with assault, in connection with the attack.
:06:28. > :06:30.Tens of thousand of people in the Greek city of Thessaloniki
:06:31. > :06:33.have been moved out of their homes so that an unexploded World War Two
:06:34. > :06:36.The forty stone device was discovered under
:06:37. > :06:39.a petrol station last week - it's thought to be one
:06:40. > :06:41.of the biggest war time bombs ever found in Greece.
:06:42. > :06:51.A state of emergency has been declared in the area.
:06:52. > :06:56.Hollywood's finest will be out in force in London this evening
:06:57. > :06:58.for the annual British Academy Film Awards.
:06:59. > :07:01.The modern day musical La La Land leads the field
:07:02. > :07:16.has been taking a look at the contenders.
:07:17. > :07:21.Welcome to La La Land, the musical homage to Hollywood that
:07:22. > :07:23.leads the BAFTA nominations, including one for its
:07:24. > :07:27.and its two lead leads - Emma Stone, as a wannabe actress,
:07:28. > :07:29.and Ryan Gosling as an aspiring pianist.
:07:30. > :07:34.Andrew Garfield finds himself among the best actor
:07:35. > :07:37.contenders for his role as a heroic pacifist in Hacksaw Ridge.
:07:38. > :07:40.But he will have to see off the hotly-tipped Casey Affleck,
:07:41. > :07:42.who is nominated for his portrayal of a broken man in
:07:43. > :07:50.Meryl Streep is in the frame once again - this
:07:51. > :07:56.time for her performance as the delusional Florence Foster Jenkins
:07:57. > :07:58.- for which she has a Best Actress nomination.
:07:59. > :08:00.It is a hotly-contested category, with Natalie Portman
:08:01. > :08:02.the one to beat for playing the title role in Jackie,
:08:03. > :08:04.a biopic that tracks Jackie Kennedy's
:08:05. > :08:07.reaction to her husband's assassination.
:08:08. > :08:10.It's not easy for me to admit that I have been standing
:08:11. > :08:20.Fences, the August Wilson play about America in
:08:21. > :08:26.the 1950s, adapted and directed by Denzel Washington, sees his co-star
:08:27. > :08:27.Viola Davis get a Best Supporting Actress nod.
:08:28. > :08:31.will compete with her for that BAFTA, having been nominated
:08:32. > :08:34.for her role as a compassionate mother in Lion, with
:08:35. > :08:36.Dav Patel playing her adopted son, for which he gets
:08:37. > :08:47.As does Mahershala Ali for his sensitive performance as a drug
:08:48. > :08:56.But it is likely to be La La Land's year on a night that could have an
:08:57. > :08:58.added dimension with a possibility of politically-pointed
:08:59. > :09:02.What we do know is that Stephen Fry will
:09:03. > :09:05.host proceedings again, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:09:06. > :09:07.will be in attendance and Mel Brooks will be
:09:08. > :09:15.From movies in London to the music industry across the Atlantic.
:09:16. > :09:17.Los Angeles is gearing up for the Grammy Awards,
:09:18. > :09:25.and Adele and Beyonce will go head to head for the top honours.
:09:26. > :09:28.Adele is up for five awards - including best song for the single
:09:29. > :09:44.Beyonce's also nominated for best song and album and is leading
:09:45. > :09:50.She'll make her first public appearance since announcing
:09:51. > :09:57.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:09:58. > :10:13.The next news on BBC One is at 5.35.
:10:14. > :10:20.Good afternoon. Well, some know enoticeable weather changes, after a
:10:21. > :10:24.weekend which has been dominated by raw easterly winds, a bit of snow
:10:25. > :10:30.here and there across the hills of northern England a temperatures
:10:31. > :10:31.which have struggled to reach three or four degrees. The wind changes