'Get ready Russia' - Donald Trump tells Putin and Assad to expect missile attack as he says relations now worse than during Cold War

'Get ready Russia' - Donald Trump tells Putin and Assad to expect missile attack as he says relations now worse than during Cold War

Donald Trump has told Russia and Syria to "prepare" for a missile attack on the Assad regime, saying the bombs will be "good, new and smart."

Trump tweeted an extraordinary response to Russia's claim that it would shoot down any missile launched against Syria after the chemical weapons attack on Douma.

The president of the USA UU He added: "You should not be partners with a gas killer animal that kills its people and enjoys it!"

Trump described the relationship between the United States and Russia as "worse now than ever, and that includes the Cold War," but insisted that "there is no reason for this."

Earlier, Alexander Zasypkin, the Russian envoy to Beirut, said: "If there is a US attack, then ... it will shoot down the missiles and aim at the positions from which they were launched.

"In recent days, we have seen an escalation towards a significant crisis."

Mr. Zasypkin’s comments, created in an associate interview with a Hizbollah-affiliated television station, are the sternest Russian warning however against Yankee strikes. They're going on the far side previous threats that Russian troops would use their missile defense systems to defend the Assad regime.

Mr. Trump's tweets increase the pressure on nun could, the Prime Minister, to convey her unequivocal backing to air strikes against targets in the Syrian Arab Republic, having same on Tues that she and Mr. Trump wouldn't "allow the utilization of chemical weapons to continue".

On weekday Moscow conjointly recommended the United States of America plans to strike can be a pretext to destroy proof of the alleged chemical weapons attack, that Russia has same was a staged "provocation" to justify Western intervention.

"Is the full plan to quickly take away the traces of the provocation... (So) the international inspectors can don't have anything to seem fairr in terms of evidence?" asked foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova in a very Facebook post.

Syria delineates Mr. Trump's threats as a "reckless escalation". "We aren't stunned by such a reckless increase from just a regime like the U.S. That has fostered and continues to foster terrorist act in the Syrian Arab Republic," a political candidate supplies at the foreign ministry same.

Earlier in the day Eurocontrol, the pan-European traffic management agency, warned civilian airliners to use caution higher than the Japanese Mediterranean attributed to the likelihood of strikes within the next seventy-two hours.

The agency warned that each missile launched from craft or from navy may well be launched before the tip of the week.

"Due to the double launch of air strikes into the Syrian Arab Republic with air-to-surface and/or cruise missiles among ensuing seventy-two hours, and therefore the risk of intermittent disruption of radio navigation instrumentality, due thought must be taken once coming up with flight operations within the Japanese Mediterranean,” the agency same in a very statement.

The United States of America has 2 Navy destroyers capable of firing a barrage of cruise missiles within the Japanese Mediterranean already. Associate Yankee military service strike cluster, LED by the attack aircraft carrier USS Harry S Chief Executive, is moving towards the world.

The World Health Organization same that five hundred folks were treated in last weekend’s suspected chemical weapons attack in Douma and demanded access to the positioning.

The global health agency same it calculable five hundred was delivered to a hospital with "signs and symptoms in step with exposure to ototoxic chemicals”.

"WHO demands immediate unhampered access to the world to produce care to those affected, to assess the health impacts, and to deliver a comprehensive public health response," same Peter Salama, the deputy director-general for emergency state and response.

The Syrian regime has up to now prevented international organization agencies from visiting the positioning of the alleged attack, though Russian military inspectors are allowed access.

Meanwhile, none could have given her strongest signal, however that GB would support President Donald Trump in action against the Syrian regime because the 2 leaders resolved “not to permit the utilization of chemical weapons to continue”.

The Prime Minister spoke to each Mr. Trump and therefore the French President Emmanuel diacritic by phone throughout that all 3 in an agreement that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had shown “total disregard” for international laws against the utilization of such weapons.

A Trump official upped the diplomatic tension by describing the chemical attack on Douma, Syria, as “genocide” and spoken communication a military response was “appropriate”.

Mr diacritic same the 3 countries would decide “within days” the way to respond and mentioned the likelihood of striking Syria’s “chemical capacities”. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said: “All choices are on the table.”

It came as Russia used its veto power in the international organization Security Council on Tues evening against a United States of America resolution to make a new skilled body to work out responsibility for Syrian Arab Republic chemical weapons attacks, a move expected to extend the chance people military intervention.

London Tories threaten breakaway from main party ahead of projected local elections wipeout

London Tories threaten breakaway from the main party ahead of projected local elections wipeout

   According to reports, conservatives in London held secret talks about a potential breakaway from the national party, amid fears of an electoral elimination in next month's local elections.

Senior Tories has organized a series of meetings over the past year to develop plans for a separate party that would boast its own brand, policies and separate masks of Theresa May.

The revelation is deeply embarrassing for Mrs. May, who is preparing for the worst performance of the party in the capital in its 184-year history, when the ballots are issued next month.

As per investigation led by Lord Hayward and Tony Travers, a regarded scholastic, the Conservatives are relied upon to lose very nearly 100 seats in the capital, tumbling from 612 to 519, while every one of the nine chambers under its ­control is believed to be in danger.

In the interim, The Spectator asserts that those associated with the discussions have been impaled on by the accomplishment of Ruth Davidson, the pioneer of the Scottish Conservatives, whose particular brand and strategies host been credited for the get-together's striking turnaround in Scotland.

It comes after a progression of U-turns and disagreeable declaration guarantees were rebuked for Mrs May's lamentable execution in a year ago's road race.

In London, one Tory MP who has been battling lately guaranteed that Nickie Aiken, the Westminster chamber pioneer, is hoping to lose come May 3, as is Ravi Govindia, the pioneer of Wandsworth committee.

Others, including councillors from Kensington and Chelsea, are said to have encountered a "major stun" on the doorstep in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blast, while the Conservative battle home office is said to be "freezing" about the district tumbling to Labor.

Looked with discretionary blankness, those pushing for a split have purportedly required a local pioneer to be delegated, who might be entrusted with separating the gathering from the "exceptionally commonplace" picture gave by Mrs May.

US and 23 other countries join mass expulsion of Russian spies to 'dismantle' Putin espionage network

US and 23 other countries join mass expulsion of Russian spies to 'dismantle' Putin espionage network

Theresa May has told Vladimir Putin the Salisbury poisonings have “spectacularly backfired” over 24 countries joined with Britain to “dismantle” Russia’s worldwide spy network.

The Prime Minister vowed never to allow President Putin’s espionage machine to be rebuilt after the US and other Western allies announced the expulsion of more than 130 Russian intelligence officers.

President Donald Trump ordered 60 suspected Russian spies to leave the US - including 12 from the United Nations in New York - while 16 EU countries and five other non-EU members also gave Russians notice to leave in the largest collective expulsion of Russian spies in history. At least two other EU members will follow suit today.

Mrs May said the unprecedented show of solidarity - which outstripped even Downing Street’s expectations after days of intense diplomacy - sent the “strongest signal” to the Kremlin that Russia “cannot continue to flout international law and threaten our security”.

The White House said Mr Putin could no longer be in any doubt that “actions have consequences”.

The international response to the Salisbury attacks, which follows Mrs May’s decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats from London earlier this week, was described by experts as a “heavy blow” to the Russian intelligence - gathering.

Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, said “additional measures” including more expulsions by more countries, could not be excluded in the “coming days and weeks”.

Mrs May said: “President Putin's regime is carrying out acts of aggression against our shared values and interests within our continent and beyond.

“If the Kremlin's goal is to divide and intimidate the Western alliance, then their efforts have spectacularly backfired.”

The expulsions were welcomed by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who said on Twitter: "Today's extraordinary international response by our allies, stands in history as the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever & will help defend our shared security. Russia cannot break international rules with impunity."

Some 48 diplomats at the Russian embassy in the US have been asked to leave and 12 Russians who work at the United Nations. The Russian consulate in Seattle will also be closed.

Senior US administration officials said the Russians were expelled were intelligence officers who are being "cloaked" by their diplomatic status.

The US officials accused Russia of a “reckless attempt” to murder British citizens on UK soil and said the attack would not go unpunished.

Jeremy Corbyn remained isolated in refusing to directly attribute blame for the poisonings of Sergei and Yulia Skripal to the Kremlin, saying only that Moscow was “directly or indirectly” to blame.

He was also accused by one of his own MPs of lying when he said in a Commons debate yesterday that he had been a “robust critic” of the Russian government for 20 years.

The Labor MP John Woodcock pointed out that after Russia’s annexation of part of Ukraine, Mr Corbyn wrote that the invasion was “not unprovoked”.

Mrs May said police investigating the Salisbury attack had now established that 130 people could potentially have been exposed to the Novichok nerve agent, which had been “stockpiled” by Russia in recent years following work on “delivering nerve agents, probably for assassination”.

The mass expulsion was greeted with fury in Moscow, which said Britain’s allies had “blindly” followed Mrs May’s lead, resulting in “escalating the confrontation”.

Mr Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, hinted the Kremlin would respond with tit-for-tat expulsions, saying Russia would proceed from the "principle of reciprocity".

Germany, France and Poland will each expel four Russians, with others departed from Lithuania, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Latvia, Romania, Croatia, Hungary and Estonia.

Canada, Norway, Macedonia, Ukraine, Sweden, Finland and Albania will also expel suspected spies, with Belgium and Ireland confirm they will announce expulsions today.

Britain had also been hoping NATO would consider expelling Russian officials, but the plans hit a roadblock when Belgium, which only has a handful of diplomats in Moscow, vetoed the move in case Russia counted Brussels-based NATO staff in any tit-for-tat move against Belgium, which would wipe out its entire Embassy.

Professor Anthony Glees, the director of security and intelligence studies at Buckingham University, said: "It is a heavy blow to the Russia intelligence-gathering. They are more on their own than they have ever been."

Mrs May scored a diplomatic victory at a Brussels summit of EU leaders on Thursday. Heads of state and government criticized the Salisbury attack and agreed it was highly probable Russia was responsible.

The EU recalled its ambassador to Moscow for consultations which were described by Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday as “unprecedented”.

“The European Council condemned in the strongest possible terms the recent attack in Salisbury,” Mr Tusk said at a press conference in Varna, Bulgaria.  He is in Bulgaria for EU talks with Turkey.

The action comes after more than a fortnight of mixed messages over America’s willingness to take a tough line on Russia for the Salisbury poisoning.

The White House declined to point the finger at Russia explicitly the day Theresa May linked the Kremlin with the attack during an address in the House of Commons.

Mr Trump also failed to mention that attack during a phone call with Mr Putin last week and at times has not matched the critical rhetoric of cabinet colleagues and officials.

Senior US administration officials pushed back on the suggestion they had been sending “mixed messages” on Monday, saying that they stood with Britain over the attack.

A No 10 spokesman said: "We welcome today's actions by our allies, which clearly demonstrate that we all stand shoulder to shoulder in sending the strongest signal to Russia that it cannot continue to flout international law."

Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, visiting Estonia, also welcomed the expulsions. "I think that is the very best response that we can have because their intention, their aim, is to divide and what we are seeing is the world uniting behind the British stance," he said.

"That in itself is a great victory and that sends an exceptionally powerful message to the Kremlin and President Putin."

Conservatives must warn young about 'gloom' of life under socialism, Chris Grayling to say

Conservatives must warn young about 'gloom' of life under socialism, Chris Grayling to say

Moderates must accomplish more to caution youthful voters about the "anguish and disappointment" of life under a communist government, a Cabinet priest will start one week from now.

Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, will demand that it is "sufficiently bad" for adversaries of left-wing arrangements to just say that "communism is awful".

Rather the individuals who survived the left-wing approaches of the 1970s should set out the truth of a communist government "to the individuals who have never experienced it in real life".

In a discourse on Wednesday, Mr Grayling is additionally anticipated that would state there is an "extraordinary incongruity" in more youthful ages being the most suspicious about a "free endeavor, industrialist society" in spite of being "umbilically connected" to gadgets fabricated by innovation Goliath's, and behave their lives "formed by Google and Amazon".

His mediation, in a delivery to the Institute for Economic Affairs, the free market think tank, comes in the midst of worry among senior Conservatives about the additions anticipated that would be made by Jeremy Corbyn's Labor party in May's nearby decisions, following the noteworthy misfortunes endured by the Tories finally year's general race.

This week Lord Hayward, the veteran Tory surveyor, said Labor could get its most astounding vote share in London since 1974.

Prior to this month, Chris Skidmore, the Conservatives' new bad habit administrator for arrangement, cautioned in this daily paper individuals voted in favor of Labor in a year ago's decision since "they needed expectation" and that the Tories expected to set out "our own particular positive vision" to counter Mr Corbyn's message.

Mr Grayling is relied upon to state: "For those of us whose political youthfulness was in the times of the 1980s, when the differences amongst communism and free enterprise, amongst nationalization and privatization, were at their most intense, the possibility that these fights are back being relatively strange. Yet, they are."

He will include: "There is that awesome incongruity. The ages that have seen, and assembled their lives around corporate disrupters, are the worst about a free venture, industrialist society. This is the age who is umbilically connected to items by Apple and Samsung, whose lives are formed by Google and Amazon."

"Without private enterprise and free venture you essentially don't get a flourishing economy in a popularity based country, and without those, you don't have the nature of an open administration that we as a whole need to find in our nation."

Mr Grayling has served in the administration since 2010 and in 2016 wound up one of six individuals from David Cameron's bureau to break positions with the then leader to battle for a Leave vote in the EU submission.

He is required to state: "It's sufficiently bad to state that communism is awful. We have to clarify why once more to the individuals who have never experienced it in real life. It's an undertaking that is urgent for the fate of our nation, and amusingly for the future and thriving of the individuals who are enticed by the belief system of the left. The uncontrolled spending that we have put over the most recent eight years battling to gain under power. The left who today advocate making the more national obligation, so the cutting edge can spend more on obligation enthusiasm than on the administrations they require.

"England today has a fruitful economy, low joblessness, and an unmistakable way to a dynamic, autonomous state post-Brexit. We can't give a return to a period of unhappiness and disappointment a chance to get crushed from the jaws of a superior future."

North Korea urges hardliners not to 'spoil atmosphere' as it breaks silence on planned Trump-Kim meeting

North Korea urges hardliners not to 'spoil atmosphere' as it breaks silence on planned Trump-Kim meeting

North Korea has required a "patient" way to deal with the current quick paced advancements in its relations with Seoul and Washington, at last ending its hush since US President Donald Trump amazed the world by tolerating a challenge to meet Kim Jong-un.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) forewarned on Wednesday morning that conciliatory ties were just barely starting, cautioning hardliners in the two nations not to "ruin the environment."

“We do like to remember that it is time for all to approach everything with prudence and with self-control and patience,” KCNA said in a commentary that was reported by South Korea’s Yonhap.

The statement, in a Newswire used by the regime to convey its messages, marks the first time Pyongyang publicly reacted to Mr Trump’s stunning decision on March 9 to go ahead with a summit with Mr Kim, pledging to do so “by May”.

Mr Trump’s response followed an invitation from Mr Kim that was personally delivered by South Korean envoys who had met with the reclusive leader in Pyongyang.

The KCNA commentary did not directly reference his announcement, but briefly mentioned “a sign of change” in its ties with the US, alongside a dramatic atmosphere for reconciliation that had been created between the two Koreas.

North Korea's unbalanced two-week hush since the US president's sensational motion had offered to ascend to feedback about Pyongyang's truthfulness and inspirations.

In any case, KCNA pummeled moderate voices in South Korea, the US and Japan for "twisting reality" by asserting extreme universal assents had constrained North Korea to the arranging table.

"It is extremely an outflow of little mindedness for the rabble to ruin the climate and say either, even before the gatherings concerned are allowed to think about the inward contemplations of the opposite side," it said.

Preparations for the proposed summit appear to be underway behind-the-scenes, although there is still no agenda or date.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in also intends to meet one-on-one with Mr Kim at the end of April.

On Wednesday he said the Korean peninsula was currently on an “unexplored path” and floated the possibility of an additional three-way summit between the two Koreas and the US at a later date.

"Holding a North Korea-US summit following a South-North Korea summit itself is a verifiable occasion. Furthermore, contingent upon their results, they may prompt a three-route, summit of South, North and US," he said amid a readiness meeting for the April talks.

"We should totally resolve the issues of denuclearising the Korean Peninsula and building up peace through these up and coming talks and others that will tail," he included, in remarks transferred to journalists by the presidential office.

The new British diplomat to Seoul, Simon Smith, additionally declared on Wednesday that the UK was eager to give master information in atomic power age and non-expansion to aid the procedure of denuclearising North Korea.

“I think at this stage, we recognize that major next steps (for denuclearisation) are already on the calendar,” he told a press conference, welcoming the proposed summits as “a real, genuine opportunity.”

Meanwhile, Seoul is attempting to maintain the diplomatic thaw by sending K-pop singers in Pyongyang for the first time since 2005.

More than 150 artists, including K-pop stars and popular girl band Red Velvet, will visit the North to perform in concerts for four days from March 31.

The delegation intends to replicate a similar visit by North Korean cheerleaders and performing artists during the February Winter Olympics in the South.

Vocalist and record maker Yoon Sang, who drove South Korea's arranging group to orchestrate the outing said the principal assignment of the exhibitions would be to "ingrain an indistinguishable amazement in North Korean crowds since we do in our South Korean ones."

Donald Trump sacks Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, replacing him with CIA director Mike Pompeo"

                      Donald Trump sacks Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, replacing him with CIA ..

 Donald Trump has sacked Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state and will supplant him with the CIA

Chief Mike Pompeo.

The US president requested that Mr Tillerson moves to one side following quite a while of the theory that the combine had dropped out.

The move amounts to a major shake-up in Mr Trump’s national security team and comes despite denials in the past from the president that he wanted Mr Tillerson gone.

It triggered a war of words within the US government as the State Department accused the president of not talking to Mr Tillerson before the sacking.

Mr Trump cited the pair’s differences on the Iran nuclear deal, which the president wants to scrap when asked about the reason for the change.

The declaration comes hours after Mr Tillerson went significantly more remote than the White House in connecting the UK spy harming to Russia.

CNN revealed that Mr Tillerson got some answers concerning his sacking from Mr Trump's tweet on Tuesday. He had quite recently come back from a discretionary excursion to Africa.

Steve Goldstein, the undersecretary of state, released a statement saying Mr Trump had not called Mr Tillerson about the sacking. Mr Goldstein was fired just hours after releasing the comment.

John Kelly, Mr Trump's chief of staff, informed Mr Tillerson he would be replaced on Friday, according to reports sourced to White House officials.

Tensions between Mr Trump and Mr Tillerson came to a head when the latter refused to deny reports he called the president a “moron” last year.

The combine has additionally freely competed over the way to deal with North Korea, with Mr Trump impugning Mr Tillerson in tweets for trusting chats with the administration could end their atomic program.

Mr Tillerson, a previous oil official, will be supplanted by Mr Pompeo, who as the leader of the CIA is associated with the president's day by day knowledge preparation – giving his arrangement is affirmed by Congress.

There were US media reports that Mr Trump approached Mr Pompeo for exhortation about themes past knowledge before Christmas when it was said the president was thinking about doing the switch.