新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/12/04（在线收听）

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Zhaoying

Coming up：

--UN political chief in rare visit to Pyongyang.

--South Korea and U.S. kick off military drills amid North Korean warnings.

--Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed by Houthi rebels.

For more on this , we are joining in the studio by Zhao Tong,fellow in Carnegie's nuclear policy program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua center for global policy；Wang Jin, PhD Candidate of Haifa University, Israel; research fellow, Syria Research Centre, Northwest University;research fellow, China-Globolization Center (CCG)；Rick Dunham,Co-director, Global Business Journalism Program, Tsinghua University； Zhang Yi, current affairs commentator,earlier spoke with my colleague Xu Yawen.

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