HIGH-END HOTEL GOES UP IN FLAMES

insulted the US vice-president and threatened nuclear war.

“We said, ‘Well, we’re not going to have a summit under those circumstances’,” Mr Giuliani said. “Well, Kim Jong-un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in.”

The summit is now back on for next Tuesday in Singapore.

Mr Giuliani suggested similar tactics should be used with the Palestinian Authority, which has cut off ties with the US to protest Mr Trump’s decision to recognise contested Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“They have to be seeking peace. You gotta change the dynamic and put the pressure on them,” Mr Giuliani said. ONE of London’s most glamorous hotels has gone up in flames in a blaze which sent plumes of black smoke billowing over the city.

The luxury Mandarin Oriental Hotel, which reopened just one week ago after a $320 million renovation, caught fire around 4pm, (1am AEST) bringing chaos to upscale Knightsbridge and Belgravia as police, fire and ambulance vehicles raced to the scene.

The singer Robbie Williams was among hundreds of guests and staff evacuated down the fire escape to neighbouring Hyde Park, as the fire broke out on the fifth floor of the historic 12-storey hotel.

He was seen giving a thumbs-up as other guests filmed him and posted video to social media. No one was injured in the blaze.