US destroyer INTERCEPTED by two Chinese warships in serious provocation - DAILY NEWS

US destroyer INTERCEPTED by two Chinese warships
in serious provocation THE US Navy has been accused of a serous
military provocation after sailing close to Chinese-claimed territory without authorisation. The USS Mustin, an Arleigh Burke-class guided
missile destroyer, has infuriated China by sailing within 12 nautical miles of an artificial
island in the South China Sea. Two Chinese frigates took immediate action
and warned off and dispelled the USS. Mustin, according to Chinas defence ministry.

Bristling with Tomahawk missiles, the destroyer
sailed past Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands while carrying out a freedom of navigation
mission. The Peoples Liberation Army Navy is today
holding war drills in the region in an apparent show of force aimed at intimidating the US. China has been building military islands and
staking claims to territory in the South China Sea  a highly contested expanse of water. In a statement, Chinas defence ministry
accused the US of a serious political and military provocation against China.

The Chinese military is firmly opposed
to it, the Chinese Ministry of Defence added. "China holds indisputable sovereignty over
the islands and their surrounding waters in the South China Sea," Ren Guoqiang, defence
ministry spokesman, said on Friday. By repeatedly sending military ships into
these areas without authorisation, the US. Has seriously harmed Chinese sovereignty and
security, violated basic rules of international relations, and harmed regional peace and stability.

The US Navy operation has damaged the atmosphere
of military-to-military relations between Washington and Beijing, he added. US Navy patrols of the South China Sea aimed
at contesting Chinas territorial expansionism are commonplace despite the of disapproval
of the PLP. Nicole Schwegman, a spokeswoman for the US
Pacific Fleet, has confirmed that the USS. Mustin sailed close to Mischief Reef.

All operations are designed in accordance
with international law and demonstrate that the United States will fly, sail and operate
wherever international law allows, she told CNN. A bitter territorial feud between China and
several southeast Asian countries has given rise to simmering military tensions in the
region in recent years. In January, China vowed to take necessary
measures to protect its sovereignty after a US Navy destroyer sailed near disputed territory
claimed by Beijing..

US airstrike 'IMMINENT' after fighter jets spotted flying over Syria - DAILY NEWS

US airstrike 'IMMINENT' after fighter jets
spotted flying over Syria US fighter jets have allegedly been spotted
flying over Syria, prompting reports an airstrike could be imminent. Reports of an deadly show of force from US
President Donald Trump come after Syrian commentator Danny Makki tweeted that aircraft were spotted
over the country. He said: Heavy flight of US and coalition
aircraft over Syria  Iraq border at present. Almost everyone I know in Damascus is up
and waiting for news on possible US strikes, you can cut the tension with a knife.

Pan-European air traffic control agency Eurocontrol
has since warned airlines to exercise caution in the eastern Mediterranean due to the possible
launch of air strikes into Syria in next 72 hours. It said: "Due consideration needs to be taken
when planning flight operations in the Eastern Mediterranean/Nicosia FIR area. The reported show of force by the US comes
just days after a devastating chemical attack killed and injured dozens of Syrians in the
city of Douma. Washington has accused Syrian tyrant Bashar
al-Assad of ordering the brutal slaughter on his own people.

But, both the dictator and his backers Russia
have denied playing any role in the massacre. Their denial did not stop US President Donald
Trump from vowing to take forceful action in response to the chemical attack. Russian supremo Vladimir Putin, however, warned
of serious consequences if the US launched airstrikes in Syria. The countrys foreign ministry said: It
is necessary to warn again that military intervention under invented and fabricated pretexts in
Syria, where at the request of the lawful government there are Russian military personnel,
is absolutely unacceptable and can lead to the most serious consequences..

United States CANNOT stop hypersonic missiles capable of killing millions - DAILY NEWS

United States CANNOT stop hypersonic missiles
capable of killing millions THE United States cannot block hypersonic
missiles that could devastate the country, a top Air Force General as admitted. The missiles can deploy warheads that travel
at 20 times the speed of sound and can dodge air defences as they loop through the skies. US Strategic Command, Air Force General John
Hyten testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday (March 20). When asked about the effectiveness of US defences,
he revealed the country would be powerless against the state-of-the-art weapons.

He said: "We have a very difficult  well,
our defence is our deterrent capability. We don't have any defence that could deny
the employment of such a weapon against us, so our response would be our deterrent force,
which would be the triad and the nuclear capabilities that we have to respond to such a threat. His comments come as China and Russia lead
the way in the development of hypersonic rockets. Last year, it was revealed Chinas Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) is making ballistic missiles dubbed hypersonic glide vehicles,
or HGVs, capable of striking anywhere in the US in less than an hour.

A HGV is an unmanned aircraft fired by a launcher
at staggering speeds enabling it to skip through the Earths atmosphere. And the prospect of the missiles making impact
is so terrifying they have been described as the ultimate doomsday weapon that
would render defence systems useless. Zhou Chenming, a Beijing-based military observer,
previously warned of the dangers posed by the sophisticated technology. He said: Compared to conventional ballistic
missiles, HGVs are more complex and difficult to intercept, Zhou said.

The US, Japan and India should be worried
about Chinas developments in HGV technology because it can reach targets quicker and more
accurately, with military bases in Japan and even nuclear reactors in India being targeted..

Tyra Banks - Her Mother's Wisdom in Perfect is BoringThe Daily Show

My guest tonight is
a supermodel, an entrepreneur, and the creator
and executive producer and host of America's Next Top Model. She's also written a new book
with her mother called  Perfect Is Boring:
10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama  Taught Me about Beauty,
Booty, and Being a Boss. Please welcome Tyra Banks! -
-(Cheering, applause) My goodness.
Hi, everybody. -(Cheering, whistling)
-Hello! Oh, my gosh, so good
to be here in person.

-Welcome to the show.
-Thank you. -This is so much fun.
I like seeing you in person. -Do you?
-That sounded weird. Um...

I like seeing you
in person, too. No, I'm just saying, like,
you said "being here in person," and then it's, like, I'm gonna
act like I'm not awkward at all. But it's so nice to see your...
Your dimples in person. -Oh, thank-thank you, Tyra.
-Yeah.

I see them on TV. And you guys all do it
on the TV, don't you? Don't you touch the TV and go... (Laughter) Now I could do it in person. (Laughter) (cheering, applause) All right, I'm going back
to Africa, people.

Good-bye. Thank you very much.
We're done. We're done. -Uh, welcome to the show.
-Thank you.

It's so fun to have you here.
And congratulations on the book. You are doing so many things.
You're making TV, uh, you're working on,
like, projects and film and everywhere else. You also had time to write
the book, Perfect Is Boring. -Yes.

-Why did you want
to write this book? I wrote this book, 'cause,
Trevor, my mom and I. Have quite
a unique relationship. It is raw, real, unfiltered. My mama tells me anything,
everything.

And people come up to us,
and they're like, "I want a relationship like
you have with your mom." And it could be a dad and a son, a mom and a son,
mama and a daddy, a daddy and... You know,
all of the... All of those. Then, and, you know,
my mom and I were like, "Let's write a book about that." And really, it starts
with making your child blush.

-Making them blush. Having...
-In what way? -The uncomfortable conversation.
-Oh, wow. Did your mama have
the uncomfortable conversation? Oh, yeah, no, my mom,
I blushed my entire... -Right.

-My whole life
was just blushing. And it's not just
the birds and the bees, my mom actually
put me on a train, from Los Angeles to San Diego,
California, and said, "You did
the birds-and-the-bees talk, "we did that already, but now
I'm gonna give you the... "How it feels,
how a man will touch you, "and how you will feel
and what it'll feel like, and the eight words
he will whisper in your ear." The eight words he will whisper,
which were...? The eight words
to watch out for. -You got to get the book, honey.
-(Laughter) And I wonder if you
have whispered them.

-I'm sure you have.
-I know what the words are, but I don't want
to spoil it for anyone. 'Cause I read...
'Cause I've read the book. You did the homework.
Have you said the words? I've read... I think
every single guy in the world -has said these words.
-(Laughs) (laughter) Your mother teaches you
so many things, but I wanted to know,
like, you say here,  Tyra and Her Mama:
10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama  Taught Me about Beauty,
Booty, and Being a Boss.

-Yes. -How did you write
that your mama was crazy -and not get an ass-whupping?
-(Laughter) Like, does she like that?
Does she know she's crazy? She knows that she's, like, certifiably insane
in a fierce way. -Right.
-Yes. My mother is the mom that, like, my cousins come over
and my nieces and nephews, and she plays
the body accordion.

-The what?
-The body accordion. -Which is the...? -Like,
you know, she has her bra on, and she has her little skirt on,
and she'll go,  Raah, aah.  -Oh, geez.
-Like, with her rolls. And they're like,
"Nana, Auntie, Auntie Carolyn, play the body accordion!" And she's like, "You ready?"  Aah, aah, aah, aah...

Yeah, so, that's my mom.
She's fun, but she's raw, -she's real, and... Yeah.
-And she helped you... I guess, like,
that story's interesting, and it ties
into the idea in the book, which I didn't know,
and that is, she helped you get over your body as a...
Which I never thought of. I never thought that Tyra Banks had to get over her body
in any way, shape or form.

Oh, yeah.
I have been on both sides. I have been on being
very, very skinny-- 98 pounds and five nine,
if you can imagine that. -Wow. -And there was nothing
that I could do to gain weight.

I was very sad, very depressed. I would stuff my face.
Nothing happened. But my mother helped me
through that dark time. -Right.

-And then, cut to years
later, I'm a supermodel, and they're saying my booty
is too big for the runway. Yes, they did.
My Italian... There was a time
when booties were too big? Oh, uh, yes. And they still are too big
for the runway.

-They're not too big
for the Instagram-way. -I see. They are too big for the runway. And so that happens,
and you-you feel -like your world has ended.
-Yeah.

And it's a really beautiful
story in the book where you talk about your mom. Like, you go, "This is it.
My life is over." And your mom steps in
and-and she says "We're gonna
put that booty to work." Yes. She said, "You know what
we're gonna do right now?" Through my tears, she says,
"We're going to eat pizza." And over pizza in Milano, Italy,
on, like, a butcher paper of white paper, she--
pizza in one hand-- she put a pin
in the other and said, "You write down every client in this modeling industry
that likes ass." She said, "Because my baby's ass
is getting bigger, and I'll be damned if she
starves for this industry." So through tears, I'm like, (crying): "Victoria's Secret." And she's like,
"Write it down." I'm like, "Sports Illustrated." "Write it down." And then
she's like, "Who has an ass?" I'm like, (crying):
"Cindy Crawford." And she's like,
"Write it down." And she said, "Those are the
models who you're gonna emulate, "and those are your
future clients. Now you take that and you go
give it to your agency." -And then here I am today.
-That is amazing.

As a Victoria's Secret contract
with them. -That is absolutely amazing.
-Sports Illustrated, First black woman
on the cover of that. So it worked. What I appreciate in the book is you say,
you say perfect is boring, but you're not afraid
to talk about the different ways -that women can appreciate
and accept themselves.

-Yeah. You know, we live in a world
where it seems like you swing from one extreme
to the other. Some people go, "Accept yourself
the way you are. Don't change anything."
And then other people are like, "Oh, no,
if you change something, -then you don't love yourself,
etc." -Yes.

But you're in the book going
like, "Hey, just love yourself. -"And do what you need to do.
-Yeah. I say fix it -or flaunt it.
-Right. I mean, there are hair weaves,
there are wigs, there are people with natural
hair, people with natural hair that are actually making
bigger Afros with fake hair.

There's eyebrow plucking
and eyebrow microblading, and fake lips
and fake boobs, and-- mine are real by the way-- Um, but, like,
all that kind of stuff. And I talk about getting my nose
done when I was very young. I broke my nose
when I was three years old. It started growing crooked,
it was itching.

(With British accent):
Um, this makeup artist-- she talked like you, kind of,
but a little different, like this-- and she said, "Tyra,
your nose is growing crooked. It's growing sideways,
and I feel shards of, like--" (normal voice): That's not
really South African, really. No, that's British.
But it's like... But, yeah, but she was British.
She was British.

Yeah, it's colonial enough.
I-I'm with you. -She was, she was British.
-Yeah. And she told me that my nose
was kind of growing sideways, -and it used to itch all the
time. -Right, right, right.

And I went to this one doctor
and this doctor tried to make me have this nose that was like,
super, like, Caucasoid, and not like my
African American features. A year later I went
to a different one, and he said,
"Yeah, your nose is broken. "I can stop the itching
and make it "as African American
as possible, and probably what it should have been
had you never broke it." You know, but I want
to tell girls that. Like, this nose, maybe it was
the one that I would have had, maybe not, I don't know,
but the-the thing is, to fix it or flaunt it,
it's all fine.

Let's stop like saying,
"Ugh, ugh, ugh. You too natural, ugh.
You too done, ugh." Child, I'm done.
This took two and a half hours. And it's so natural, isn't it? (Laughter, applause) The um... (Cheering and applause) One of the joys of
America's Next Top Model is, you've broken, in many ways,
the mold -of what people believe
a model should be.

-Yes. We've seen people evolve,
we've seen the evolution of the idea of a model. Um, when you are looking
at models, when you're looking at the
modeling industry as a whole, what is your end goal?
What do you dream of seeing change
in the modeling industry? I want diversity to be boring. I want it to just--
you had Ashley Graham here.

-I saw her on your show.
-Right, right, right. I don't want it to be like,
"Oh, curvy, plus-size model, Ashley Graham." I want it to be, "Ashley Graham.
She just so happens "to be thicker than a Snicker. This one over here is skinny,
and she is just mini-me." And it just all is beautiful
and all is boring. I want diversity to be boring.

-Diversity to be boring.
-Yes. That's exciting.
Perfect is Boring. The book is definitely not. You and your mom are amazing.

-Thank you so much for being on
the show. -Thank you so much. -Thank you.
-(Cheering and applause)  Perfect is Boring
is available now. The season finale of
America's Next Top Model airs April 10 at 8:00 p.M.
On VH1.

Tyra Banks, everybody..

Trump ORDERS Syria AIRSTRIKES in MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT as World War 3 fears grow - DAILY NEWS

Trump ORDERS Syria AIRSTRIKES in MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
as World War 3 fears grow IN A MAJOR announcement, Donald Trump declared
military action is taking place in Syria as airstrikes blast targets in a co-ordinated
attack with the UK and France on the Assad regime. The US President said air strikes against
Syria are "underway". In a statement from the White House, the Republican
said the strikes were in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma
last Saturday. He said: "A combined operation of the armed
forces of France and UK is now underway.

I thank them both. "These are not the actions of a man, they
are the crimes of a monster instead. "We are prepared to sustain this response. "To Iran and to Russia I ask, what kind of
a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children? "Hopefully someday we'll get along with Russian
and maybe even Iran, but maybe not.

Several explosions have been heard in Damascus
and smoke has been seen rising over the east side of the city according to eyewitnesses. Statements were also released by Theresa May
and Emmanuel Macron. Mrs May said there was "no practicable alternative
to the use of force" to deter the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. Adding that "every possible diplomatic channel"
had been sought before the decision to launch targeted strikes had been taken, she said:
"This persistent pattern of behaviour must be stopped - not just to protect innocent
people in Syria from the horrific deaths and casualties caused by chemical weapons but
also because we cannot allow the erosion of the international norm that prevents the use
of these weapons.

"This is not about intervening in a civil
war. It is not about regime change. "It is about a limited and targeted strike
that does not further escalate tensions in the region and that does everything possible
to prevent civilian casualties. French President Emmanuel Macron said there
was no doubt the Syrian regime was responsible for the chemical attack in Douma.

He said: "We cannot tolerate the trivialisation
of the use of chemical weapons, which represent an immediate danger for the Syrian people
and for our collective security. "The red line set by France in May 2017 has
been crossed." A coordinated attack by the US, UK and France
has been expected for several days after an alleged chemical attack on civilians in Syria
last weekend. Medical sources say dozens of people were
killed last Saturday during the suspected chemical attack on Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta
region. The West has blamed the Assad regime for the
incident.

However, both Syria and Russia deny the chemical
attack took place and had warned the west against taking military action..

Trump Might Have a Secret Kid and Mark Zuckerberg's Second Day in CongressThe Daily Show

Speaking
of cover-ups-- this guy? This guy (bleep). WOMAN: According to this
just-released report  in The New Yorker,
media company AMI,  which owns
the National Enquirer,  paid a doorman, Dino Sajudin,
who worked at Trump Tower,  $30,000 to sign
a nondisclosure agreement  after he offered the company
a salacious story  about the then-candidate Trump
during the 2016 election. The story being that he knew that Donald Trump had fathered
a child with a former employee. Oh, snap! (Chanting):
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Trump might have a secret kid? I bet everyone who doesn't know their father
right now is panicking.

(Laughter) Yeah, they're phoning
their moms like, "Tell me it wasn't him, Mom!
Tell me it wasn't him! "Tell me it was a crackhead! Tell me
I have crackhead blood, Mama." Every week we seem to find out
that someone else got money to keep quiet
about one of Trump's affairs. Like, at this point,
it's almost like his dong has its own economy,
you know? Yeah, like, a GDP--
a gross domestic penis. That's what
it feels like right now. I mean, think about it.

Everyone's getting paid--
doormen, porn stars, lawyers. At this point, I'm worried that if Trump stops cheating
on Melania, the stock market'll crash. There's gonna be
another recession. And now, everyone...
Everyone in this story is talking about
whether these payoffs constitute illegal
campaign contributions.

That's why it's big news. But for me,
there's a bigger story here. You realize if you were born
in the 1980s,  you might be
Donald Trump's child. Yeah.

You could be in line to inherit
billions of dollars in debt. (Laughter) Yeah, in fact, I-I was a child
born in the 1980s. Oh, my gosh! It's me. (Laughter) Papa Donald? (Laughter) I always felt...

I always felt
like there was something, something connecting
the two of us. So similar, folks.
Everyone said it. (Speaking like Trump):
I can see it now. I'll show you
my birth certificate.

But let's move on. (Cheers and applause) Let's move on
from the big news of the week to how we all get the big news
of the week-- Facebook. In the wake of
the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Congress had questions about how Facebook gathers
and shares user data, and whether government
regulation might be needed to keep them in check. So, they called in Facebook CEO.

And less-charismatic Rain Man,
Mark Zuckerberg for two days of hearings involving 44 senators,
55 representatives and a dazzling array
of facial expressions. Look at all those different
facial expressions. Look at that. So hu-man.

And these long hearings
can be grueling, which is maybe why Zuckerberg brought an extra cushion
with him to sit there. Look at that.
That is so cute. Aw, man. You got to protect
your Silicon Valley, -you know what I mean?
-(Laughter) And now, and now,
some of the congresspeople seem to have done
their homework, but even when they did,
they still didn't seem to know how to ask the right questions.

What was Facemash?
And is it still up and running? You put up pictures of two women and decide which one
was the better... More attractive of the two,
is that right? I'm communicating with
my friends on Facebook and... Indicate that, uh... I love
a certain kind of chocolate.

Let's say I'm e-mailing about
Black Panther within WhatsApp, do I get a WhatsA... Do I get
a Black Panther banner ad? Okay. First of all,
you don't e-mail in WhatsApp. -(Laughter)
-That's like saying, "I'll DM you
from my fax machine." Second of all, who's e-mailing
about Black Panther? Like, what are you
writing about? "To whom it may concern:
Is this your king?! "Is this your king?! Kind regards, Killmonger." Now, to be fair, to be fair, some lawmakers did know
what questions to ask, and that's when Zuckerberg suddenly became the person who
didn't know how Facebook works.

There have been reports
that Facebook can track a user's Internet
browsing activity even after that user has logged
off of the Facebook platform. Can you confirm whether or not
this is true? Um, Senator... I-I want to make sure
I get this accurate, so it would probably be better
to have my team follow up... So you don't know? If they choose
to delete their account, how long do you keep their data? I don't know the answer to that
off the top of my head.

I do not have
that information... With me. Senator, I don't know. Congresswoman...
I don't remember if we had a financial penalty.

You're the CEO of the company... I'm not... I'm not sure
of the answer to that question. Is it just me, or does
Mark Zuckerberg sound like he was coached by Siri? So like, "I'm sorry,
I don't know the answer to that.

But here are five
Chinese restaurants nearby." That's not what
I was searching for! Like, I'm not saying
he should have the answer to every question, but I think
it's a little strange that the guy who bragged
for years about being a genius suddenly doesn't know
where the "like" button is. You know? It's like Zuckerberg's
trying to pull a reverse Keyser Sze. He started out smart,
and then now he's in trouble, and he's trying to limp
at the end. It's like, "Dude, we saw you.
We know you're smart." And while there are many things
Mark Zuckerberg didn't know, there was one thing
he was sure about: he was very, very sorry.

We didn't take
a broad enough view of our responsibility,
and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake,
and I'm sorry. It sounds like we made
a mistake there, and I apologize for that. In retrospect, it was a mistake.

We have made a lot of mistakes
in running the company. It was my mistake,
and I'm sorry. "I'm a human, and I'm sorry." You know,
I just realized something. This is the first time in a year
we've seen a man apologizing for something
and it wasn't sexual harassment.

Yeah. Progress.
This is progress, people. -(Cheering, applause)
-Look at you, Zuck. And now, if you started this
week thinking that Washington was going to punish Facebook
for how they treated our data, then I'm sorry-- because, by the looks of it,
even Congress doesn't believe that they can take on Facebook.

Now, here's what's gonna happen. There are gonna be a whole bunch
of bills introduced... To regulate Facebook. It's up to you
whether they pass or not.

You can go back home... Uh, spend $10 million
on lobbyists and fight us, or you can go back home... And help us solve this problem. -What?
-(Laughter) So all it takes to beat Congress
is $10 million? That's nothing.

Mark Zuckerberg spends that
on his laughing lessons. He's like, "Moo"? "No, it's 'ha-ha.'
Try again, Mark." "Woof"?
"No, it's 'ha-ha.'" What Senator Kenny...
Kennedy said there is both depressing
and refreshingly honest at the same time. Like, he knows
that lobbyists rule Washington, and Facebook can afford
a shit-ton of lobbyists. So all lawmakers
can really do is just chastise Facebook publicly
and then ask them nicely to go and think
about what they've done.

That's all they can do.
Basically, Congress has to deal with big corporations
the way rich white people punish their kids--
they just got to be like, "Young man, there's gonna be
consequences for this. "Now, you go
to one of your bedrooms "and figure out what
the consequences should be! "And give me your iPhone!
Here's the newer one. Go away." So after ten hours
of questioning, all Congress got was non-answers
and robo-sorries. And while those apologies
might have seemed worthless, the stock market disagreed.

Because once it became clear
that Congress wasn't planning to do anything
to regulate Facebook, the company's stock
went up so much that Zuckerberg's net worth
rose by $3 billion in just the first day
of testimony. Yeah. $3 Billion. That works out to about
$10 million a minute.

Just for testifying in Congress. So I guess what I'm saying is, Congress, if you need me
to testify for some shit... (Laughter, applause) ...I don't know what I did,
but I'm sorry..