:00:00. > :00:13.A Pacific Island paradise becomes a ballistic missile target
:00:14. > :00:25.for North Korea as the war of words with the US escalates.
:00:26. > :00:34.TRANSLATION: The Korean peoples Army strategic force is carefully
:00:35. > :00:35.examining the operational plan for making and enveloping fire for the
:00:36. > :00:36.area around Guam. The American Defence Secretary warns
:00:37. > :00:38.Pyongyang that it is grossly outmatched in an arms race
:00:39. > :00:40.with the US. French police shoot and arrest a man
:00:41. > :00:43.suspected of deliberately driving a car at a group
:00:44. > :00:45.of soldiers in Paris. A network of 17 men and a woman
:00:46. > :00:49.in the English city of Newcastle are found guilty of grooming,
:00:50. > :00:50.drugging and raping Once the largest restaurant chains
:00:51. > :00:59.in the United States, Hello and welcome
:01:00. > :01:17.to World News Today. The war of words between
:01:18. > :01:19.the United States and North The American Secretary of Defence
:01:20. > :01:25.has now weighed in, warning that Pyongyang is grossly
:01:26. > :01:29.overmatched and will lose any His comments come after the North
:01:30. > :01:35.announced that it is considering a missile strike on the US territory
:01:36. > :01:39.of Guam, in the western Pacific. Here's our North America
:01:40. > :01:47.correspondent, Nick Bryant. A far-off American air post
:01:48. > :01:49.in the tropical waters of the western Pacific now finds
:01:50. > :01:52.itself at the centre This is Guam, the site this summer
:01:53. > :01:57.of US military exercises, American territory, that North Korea
:01:58. > :01:59.says now could be The warning was delivered
:02:00. > :02:05.on North Korean state TV. The chilling headline,
:02:06. > :02:11.Guam could be targeted by its medium It came hours after President Trump
:02:12. > :02:18.had threatened Pyongyang with some of the most incendiary rhetoric used
:02:19. > :02:24.by an American president in decades. North Korea best not make any more
:02:25. > :02:29.threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury
:02:30. > :02:37.like the world has never seen. And more tough talk
:02:38. > :02:40.on Twitter this morning. My first order was to renovate our
:02:41. > :02:44.nuclear arms strength and it is now stronger and more powerful
:02:45. > :02:47.than ever before. Hopefully we will never have to use
:02:48. > :02:50.it, but they will never be a time that we are not the most powerful
:02:51. > :02:56.nation in the world. The US Secretary of State,
:02:57. > :02:58.Rex Tillerson, used He said the island faced no imminent
:02:59. > :03:03.threat and Americans should The president is sending a message
:03:04. > :03:10.to North Korea in language they will understand
:03:11. > :03:12.because they do not understand It is over 2000 miles
:03:13. > :03:20.away from Pyongyang, but is a strategic hub for the US
:03:21. > :03:25.military in the Pacific. Home to 6000 troops on two military
:03:26. > :03:28.bases with a population of 160,000. This American paradise
:03:29. > :03:35.is being disturbed. The first thing that comes to mind
:03:36. > :03:44.immediately first word is my family. I am not nervous, I am confident
:03:45. > :03:48.in our military capability. With the rhetoric at such a perilous
:03:49. > :03:52.pitch, there is a danger most sides become captive to their own tough
:03:53. > :03:55.words, that they'd talk themselves I'm joined from Washington
:03:56. > :04:05.by Eric Gomez. He's a policy analyst for defence
:04:06. > :04:19.and foreign policy studies Welcome to the programme. What do
:04:20. > :04:26.you make of, first, the kind of rhetoric being deployed by the chief
:04:27. > :04:30.of the Pentagon? I think it's pretty standard rhetoric coming from the
:04:31. > :04:36.Pentagon, and I think that is correct in some ways, the United
:04:37. > :04:40.States does have an ability to limit damage from North Korea, but I think
:04:41. > :04:44.the worry that I have and that many share is that, in North Korea right
:04:45. > :04:49.now, you have a situation where everybody is scrambling to get their
:04:50. > :04:54.hands on the trigger as fast as they possibly can, so the situation is
:04:55. > :04:57.ripe for escalation, which makes Trump's statements, even if they
:04:58. > :05:02.were not meant to be taking incredibly seriously, as very
:05:03. > :05:06.dangerous. I suppose it's also worth considering the mindset of the North
:05:07. > :05:09.Korean people, who are taught from birth that America is their enemy
:05:10. > :05:15.and is waiting to invade and destroy them. In that sense, you could say
:05:16. > :05:20.the rhetoric plays into the hands of the North Korean leadership. Yes, I
:05:21. > :05:28.think the idea of threatening North Korea with fire and theory will
:05:29. > :05:33.further increase the value that the North Korean leadership places on
:05:34. > :05:38.nuclear weapons and, in terms of targeting Guam, that is an excellent
:05:39. > :05:40.target in North Korean terms, the bombs that are based there that
:05:41. > :05:46.could deliver nuclear weapons to North Korea. They are concerned
:05:47. > :05:49.about there being one in particular which makes repeated flybys of the
:05:50. > :05:56.Korean peninsula whenever there is an escalation or a missile test.
:05:57. > :06:02.Those can't carry nuclear weapons, but the Koreans think they can. From
:06:03. > :06:05.a Korean point of view, do you think there is a justified concern about
:06:06. > :06:12.Guam, and perhaps also a concern about the anti-missile defence is
:06:13. > :06:15.now situated in South Korea? Yes, I think the United States put those
:06:16. > :06:22.defences place in order to reduce or limit the damage that a North Korean
:06:23. > :06:28.strike could inflict. I also think that, from the US perspective, the
:06:29. > :06:32.perverse incentive that is offered in missile defence systems is that,
:06:33. > :06:36.if you can use them to successfully absorbed a relatively small North
:06:37. > :06:40.Korean attack, if you try to take out North Korean military forces on
:06:41. > :06:44.the ground before they can be launched, fewer would survive to get
:06:45. > :06:50.to test the missile defence system, increasing the chances of the
:06:51. > :06:54.defence system intercepting all the targets. I know you are an expert on
:06:55. > :07:00.military strategy in this region. Do you think there is any good literary
:07:01. > :07:06.strategy? Looked at all. At this point, the Trump in demonstration,
:07:07. > :07:09.instead of just ratcheting up pressure, should be considering ways
:07:10. > :07:12.to approach the North Koreans with some sort of negotiated path to
:07:13. > :07:19.getting what the United States wants. I don't know what exactly the
:07:20. > :07:22.United States can offer all what the starting point for such negotiations
:07:23. > :07:29.would be, but the current problem with US spectrum -- humour strategy
:07:30. > :07:34.if it is so focused on costs, no diplomatic language, that it is
:07:35. > :07:38.backing North Korea into record and, the further you do that, the hope is
:07:39. > :07:41.that they will eventually break and give in to our demands, but what is
:07:42. > :07:47.far more likely is that they will cling even tighter to their nuclear
:07:48. > :07:55.arsenal and be incentivised to make escalate Tory sentence -- escalating
:07:56. > :07:59.sentence. A final thought, is there any way of getting North Korea to
:08:00. > :08:01.the negotiating table with the precondition that they have to give
:08:02. > :08:08.up their nuclear aspirations, perhaps with massive economic aid?
:08:09. > :08:14.No, I don't believe they would agree to that. Nuclear weapons are the
:08:15. > :08:16.policy. Without them, the North Koreans feared that the United
:08:17. > :08:22.States would be able to roll over them and depose Kim Jong-un
:08:23. > :08:25.effectively, and the US history, especially the North Koreans are
:08:26. > :08:30.fond of citing Getafe, who did give up a nuclear weapons programme to
:08:31. > :08:37.the United States and was then deposed with US support in 2011.
:08:38. > :08:41.Also Saddam Hussein, who had a nuclear weapons programme, might
:08:42. > :08:46.have had one, but was eventually destroyed and later was deposed by
:08:47. > :08:50.the United States. So there is good reason, I don't think the North
:08:51. > :08:53.Koreans are irrational and fulfilled I think they have a very rational
:08:54. > :08:55.calculus between the pursuit of nuclear weapons, and I think frankly
:08:56. > :08:58.it works. Take a look at our website for more
:08:59. > :09:01.on this fast-developing story. We've more context and analysis
:09:02. > :09:03.including this piece from a former senior US diplomat
:09:04. > :09:05.on the likely next moves Police in France have shot
:09:06. > :09:15.and wounded a man suspected of deliberately driving a car
:09:16. > :09:18.into a group of soldiers Six soldiers were injured
:09:19. > :09:23.in the incident in the Parisian The man was arrested
:09:24. > :09:31.on a French motorway, 260 kilometres north
:09:32. > :09:32.of the French capital. Paramedics swarm around
:09:33. > :09:37.injured soldiers. Just moments after a car ploughed
:09:38. > :09:42.into a military patrol. Six soldiers were injured,
:09:43. > :09:46.three seriously, after the car, waiting for the men, accelerated
:09:47. > :09:53.sharply and knocked them down. Residents looked on as the emergency
:09:54. > :09:58.services went to work. TRANSLATION: I heard a loud noise
:09:59. > :10:01.and I looked out my window, I saw the ambulance and the fire
:10:02. > :10:11.engine arriving and I didn't go out. It was a truly odious attack,
:10:12. > :10:18.said the neighbourhood mayor. To target soldiers who were here
:10:19. > :10:20.to protect the French people. After a morning of intense
:10:21. > :10:22.investigation, the operation This is a quiet suburb,
:10:23. > :10:30.some distance from the bright lights This morning's attack a reminder,
:10:31. > :10:37.if one were needed, that France TRANSLATION: It's a problem
:10:38. > :10:43.for us French people Even foreigners do not
:10:44. > :10:48.feel safe in France. It ended with a hail of gunfire,
:10:49. > :10:50.the suspect's car brought The country's long struggle
:10:51. > :10:57.with terror continues. Let's take a look at some
:10:58. > :11:09.of the other stories It's been confirmed that FBI agents
:11:10. > :11:13.raided the home of President Trump's former campaign manager
:11:14. > :11:15.Paul Manafort two weeks ago, seizing It's reported that the FBI agents
:11:16. > :11:20.were working with special counsel Robert Mueller who is
:11:21. > :11:21.investigating claims of Russian interference in the 2016
:11:22. > :11:26.presidential election. More than 200 villagers held
:11:27. > :11:29.by the Taliban in northern They were taken after an attack
:11:30. > :11:33.earlier this week where as many Good news for Botswana
:11:34. > :11:44.sprinter Isaac Makwala. On Tuesday he was withdrawn
:11:45. > :11:47.from the World Athletic Championships here in London,
:11:48. > :11:49.apparently because Well in the last hour he's qualified
:11:50. > :12:08.to compete in the 200 On the previous two night of action,
:12:09. > :12:09.he was barred from competing. So that's good news at the world
:12:10. > :12:13.athletics championships. Seventeen men and one woman have
:12:14. > :12:15.been convicted of sexual exploitation and drugs offences
:12:16. > :12:17.in the northern English Most of the men were from Pakistani,
:12:18. > :12:21.Indian or Bangladeshi backgrounds. Controversially, police paid $13
:12:22. > :12:35.to a convicted child rapist for information that helped
:12:36. > :12:38.to expose this network of abuse. Our correspondent Fiona Trott has
:12:39. > :12:40.been following this case. Guilty of causing girls and women
:12:41. > :12:42.serious harm, court as part of Operation Sanctuary,
:12:43. > :12:44.one of the biggest sexual exploitation investigations
:12:45. > :12:47.in the north of England. Almost 100 perpetrators have
:12:48. > :12:51.already been convicted. One 17-year-old was raped at a party
:12:52. > :12:55.session organised by local men. I woke up in the morning,
:12:56. > :13:01.the wardrobe was pushed Her police interview
:13:02. > :13:06.was played to the court. To protect her identity we have
:13:07. > :13:10.asked actors to read what she said. He had had sex with us
:13:11. > :13:12.while I was asleep. How did you feel when he told
:13:13. > :13:20.you he had done that to you? It is in houses like these
:13:21. > :13:32.where the sessions took place. Victims were given drink and drugs
:13:33. > :13:37.and were unable to defend themselves But in 2013 two
:13:38. > :13:44.of them came forward. One had been trafficked
:13:45. > :13:46.from a children's home, It started a long and
:13:47. > :13:55.complex investigation. Controversially, officers
:13:56. > :13:56.recruited a convicted child It is not an easy decision,
:13:57. > :14:06.it is a decision we have had What I can categorically
:14:07. > :14:10.state sitting here today, there are dangerous men behind bars
:14:11. > :14:14.now and vulnerable people protected that would not have been the case
:14:15. > :14:19.had we not used that informant. What beggars belief is the decision
:14:20. > :14:22.to cross this child protection line Most of the perpetrators
:14:23. > :14:29.were from Pakistani, This city councillor says leaders
:14:30. > :14:36.from all faiths should re-educate local men to stop similar
:14:37. > :14:40.exploitation in the future. People should not be telling
:14:41. > :14:42.the Asian community had It is like saying to the white
:14:43. > :14:49.community we should be talking However, there is an opportunity
:14:50. > :14:58.to talk about issues on a regular basis about the rights of women
:14:59. > :15:01.and it is important to use religion, like Islam, to educate
:15:02. > :15:06.some of these people. The chief executive
:15:07. > :15:07.of Newcastle City Council says a serious case review
:15:08. > :15:10.is being carried out but it is not the only authority
:15:11. > :15:13.with problems of this kind. We do not believe that what we have
:15:14. > :15:17.uncovered in Newcastle is unique. There has been evidence
:15:18. > :15:21.of similar offending in many We believe that any area that says
:15:22. > :15:28.it does not have a problem It has been a long and traumatic
:15:29. > :15:41.journey for the victims, but their evidence has helped
:15:42. > :15:43.jail the perpetrators. The rest are due to be
:15:44. > :15:58.sentenced next month. Millions of eggs have been taken
:15:59. > :16:01.from the shelves in Belgium. The Belgian government has accused
:16:02. > :16:04.Dutch officials of failing to pass on information about a scare
:16:05. > :16:06.involving eggs contaminated The Belgian agriculture minister
:16:07. > :16:09.also told members of his country's parliament that the authorities
:16:10. > :16:11.in the Netherlands became aware of the problem much
:16:12. > :16:23.earlier than thought. Belgian MPs interrupted their summer
:16:24. > :16:26.holidays today to quiz the head of the Food Standards Agency and the
:16:27. > :16:31.agriculture and public health minister in Belgium, and the Belgian
:16:32. > :16:37.government is fighting against this allegation that they knew for quite
:16:38. > :16:39.some time there could be a problem with these contaminated eggs but
:16:40. > :16:43.they failed to pass the information on to their European neighbours.
:16:44. > :16:48.They are fighting back against that allegation by saying, hang on, we
:16:49. > :16:52.asked the Dutch authorities for information in June and it took them
:16:53. > :16:55.a month to provide it. I Belgian minister also suggested the Dutch
:16:56. > :17:01.may have first become aware of a potential problem as early as last
:17:02. > :17:05.November, much earlier than people thought. The priority is still
:17:06. > :17:10.protecting public health. The health minister saying there is very little
:17:11. > :17:13.risk to the public's health because you would have to consume vast
:17:14. > :17:18.quantities of contaminated eggs to feel any ill effects. Nonetheless, a
:17:19. > :17:21.third of Dutch poultry farms are still closed as a precaution and
:17:22. > :17:27.last week the German government removed 3 million eggs from the
:17:28. > :17:31.shelves. But it does seem that the real effects here will not be felt
:17:32. > :17:32.in people's health but diplomatically and economically.
:17:33. > :17:36.The latest on the Belgian egg scandal.
:17:37. > :17:38.In Kenya, results in the presidential election
:17:39. > :17:41.are still coming in - and so far indicate a steady
:17:42. > :17:42.lead for the incumbent, President Uhuru Kenyatta.
:17:43. > :17:45.The opposition leader Raila Odinga has claimed the computer system used
:17:46. > :17:48.But the electoral commission says the system has
:17:49. > :17:51.NOT been compromised - and ballots will be checked be hand.
:17:52. > :18:06.Just hours after Kenya held a peaceful voting process, the veteran
:18:07. > :18:12.opposition leader questioned the validity of the incoming results.
:18:13. > :18:16.Raila Odinga claimed the electoral database systems had been hacked and
:18:17. > :18:19.the results distorted in order to keep him from winning. A senior IT
:18:20. > :18:22.manager from the Electoral Commission was murdered a week ago.
:18:23. > :18:31.The opposition claim his login was used to access the main database.
:18:32. > :18:37.This attack on our democracy affecting the presidential elections
:18:38. > :18:45.in all 47 counties. But the Electoral Commission is posted as a
:18:46. > :18:51.result of the presidential election is a fraud. Initial results put Mr
:18:52. > :18:54.Odinya well behind the incumbent, president Uhuru Kenyatta, who has
:18:55. > :18:58.promised to respect the outcome. Allegations of vote fraud are not
:18:59. > :19:05.unusual here. Kenyans continue to watch and wait, anxious to avoid a
:19:06. > :19:09.repeat of the post-election violence of ten years ago. In isolated cases,
:19:10. > :19:15.police fired tear gas at protesters in an opposition stronghold in the
:19:16. > :19:19.west. Kenya's electoral authority has called for calm, adding that the
:19:20. > :19:24.early results. The verified, and it denies claims of foul play. --
:19:25. > :19:30.adding that the early result will still be verified. In the past half
:19:31. > :19:33.hour, the head of Kenya's Electoral Commission appeared before reporters
:19:34. > :19:39.to deny the voting system was compromised. I wish to take this
:19:40. > :19:48.opportunity to confirm that our election management system is
:19:49. > :19:54.secure. There were no external or internal errors to the system at any
:19:55. > :19:58.point before, during and after the voting.
:19:59. > :20:07.Anne Soy is at the national count centre there.
:20:08. > :20:13.Tell us more about the Electoral Commission reassuring the public.
:20:14. > :20:18.The chief executive made that statement in this hall, where the
:20:19. > :20:26.final announcement will be made, and they said that no informal complaint
:20:27. > :20:29.was filed, but they got the reports from the media, did their own
:20:30. > :20:33.investigation and discovered that the system has not been compromised.
:20:34. > :20:39.We have had international observers coming to look at what has been
:20:40. > :20:41.going on, the validation of results. The former Secretary of State of the
:20:42. > :20:46.United States, John Kerry, was here that we asked him about his
:20:47. > :20:52.observations, and he said he had a lot of confidence in the system and
:20:53. > :20:55.he has appealed to political parties to exercise patience and let the
:20:56. > :21:01.electoral process run its course. Then you are talking about counting
:21:02. > :21:04.the votes, there is a paper trail back to the polling stations, isn't
:21:05. > :21:10.there? That's right. It is a hybrid system. These are new electronic
:21:11. > :21:16.systems, which many people have put hopes on, and which the opposition
:21:17. > :21:21.party... Once the votes are counted in polling stations, those results
:21:22. > :21:27.are put electronically to the constituency officers and here at
:21:28. > :21:32.the national tallying centre, and people followed these results in
:21:33. > :21:41.real time through a portal. But there are also forms that are signed
:21:42. > :21:44.at polling stations. The count was established and they were signed by
:21:45. > :21:49.party agents, and those are the documents Electoral Commission is
:21:50. > :21:51.going through to make sure that this tallies with what they were sent
:21:52. > :21:59.through the electronic system before they can announce the result.
:22:00. > :22:01.Now for Americans of a certain generation - simply the mention
:22:02. > :22:04.of a Howard Johnson's brings back memories of countless meals consumed
:22:05. > :22:08.Today just one remains and you'll have to go to Lake George
:22:09. > :22:12.So what happened to the once booming franchise?
:22:13. > :22:19.Our correspondent with a certain connection went to find out.
:22:20. > :22:21.It is 1950s America, and Howard Johnson's roadside
:22:22. > :22:26.As more Americans buy cars and take the highways,
:22:27. > :22:32.there is a growing need to feed weary travellers.
:22:33. > :22:34.And, by the early 1970s, Howard Johnson's becomes the largest
:22:35. > :22:38.food chain in America, with more than 1000 restaurants.
:22:39. > :22:45.But fast forward to 2017, and there is only one left.
:22:46. > :22:54.Before we explore the reasons why, I should declare I have a personal
:22:55. > :22:56.interest in the story as my name is also Howard Johnson.
:22:57. > :22:59.Growing up in the UK, visiting Americans would laugh
:23:00. > :23:05.This would be my first visit to a Howard Johnson's restaurant.
:23:06. > :23:12.I had arranged a meeting with 90-year-old Carl DeSantis,
:23:13. > :23:19.In 1953, Carl agreed a franchise deal with Howard Johnson's to build
:23:20. > :23:23.this restaurant in the tourist area of Lake George.
:23:24. > :23:30.It was so successful that we went from one restaurant
:23:31. > :23:40.You could almost put one anywhere and it would go in its heyday.
:23:41. > :23:46.And also the competition, the chains, were not there.
:23:47. > :23:48.Cutbacks after the company went public where one
:23:49. > :23:53.But Ben and Jerry's also muscled in on the ice cream business,
:23:54. > :23:56.while McDonald's became king of the road.
:23:57. > :24:02.We could have made it go, but we did not.
:24:03. > :24:06.But, you know, that is history and nothing is forever.
:24:07. > :24:09.How likely is it that the last Howard Johnson's will still be open
:24:10. > :24:15.I think what will really happen is Lake George, every year,
:24:16. > :24:23.It has gotten to be where it could be a 60-40 kind of deal.
:24:24. > :24:28.60% maybe not, 40% maybe still having it open.
:24:29. > :24:32.That is sad news for HoJo fans who grew up with the brand.
:24:33. > :24:36.When I was young, there were lots of Howard Johnson's.
:24:37. > :24:43.This is the last one standing, so we are going to try to plug it
:24:44. > :24:46.out and give it for as long as we can.
:24:47. > :24:59.No way! That is not true.
:25:00. > :25:08.Are you serious? That is so cool.
:25:09. > :25:12.The decline of a once great American hotel chain.
:25:13. > :25:15.Now before we go, have a look at this video from off
:25:16. > :25:23.of the water off the coast of St John's in Newfoundland.
:25:24. > :25:26.It's fair to say it caught the three people out fishing by surprise.
:25:27. > :25:30.We don't know if they had any luck on the fishing line but a perfect
:25:31. > :25:44.Just time to remind you of the top stories. The US Defence Secretary
:25:45. > :25:50.has warned that North Korea will lose any arms race it initiates,
:25:51. > :25:55.finding himself, as they put it, grossly outmatched by the United
:25:56. > :25:58.States. He urged them to abandon their nuclear weapons programme and
:25:59. > :26:00.cease making threats against US territories. Thank you for being
:26:01. > :26:12.Dry and bright weather for many but some very heavy rain