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u.s. president don trump has announced the release of three american prisoners in north korea he sent the secretary of state on a surprise visit to pyongyang in the past hour trump tweeted i am pleased to inform you that secretary of state mike pompei is in the air and on his way back from north korea where the three wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting they seem to be in good health also good meeting with kim jong on a date and place say it amends releases been seen as a goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between trump and north korea's kim jong un in the next few weeks kathy novak has more from seoul. the release of the americans is another sign of the thawing relationship between pyongyang and washington and improves the climate for the proposed summit between donald trump and kim jong un the us president has pushed the case for months saying there's been constant pressure here likewise fighting very diligently to get the three american citizens back reports that the

three had been moved from a labor camp to a hotel in the capital was followed closely in south korea there they received better food and medical treatment this is what we know about the three men kim jong il is a south korean born u.s. citizen who worked as a religious minister in his early sixty's he was detained in twenty fifteen on spying charges a year later he was sentenced to ten years hard labor at a government arranged news conference he apparently confessed to stealing military secrets while working with south korea a claim rejected by seoul two of the men have been detained since donald trump became president kim hock song was detained on suspicion of hostile acts in may twenty seventeen believed to be an ethnic korean born in china he emigrated to the u.s. in the one nine hundred ninety s. he worked at pyongyang university of science and technology. who goes by tony kim was arrested in april twenty seventeen he also worked at the university and was accused of hostile acts trumper had been suggesting that unless the north koreans

take real denuclearization steps that he wouldn't go to the summit well the north koreans have given him something else very easy for them to give and now the summit will absolutely go ahead donald trump used to call the north korean leader little rocket man and warned of a hostile reaction to further threats of attack from their western we're best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire of fury. like the world has never seen but in march there was a dramatic turnaround when president trump announced summit plans after a visit by a south korean delegation to the white house the man who is now u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh followed up with visits to north korea to lay the groundwork for talks with president trump as three americans celebrate their release the family of student ottawa india will be thinking of what could have been arrested in north korea and held for seventeen months he returned to the u.s. in a vegetative state and died days later one because parents have lodged

a wrongful death suit against the north korean government kathy novak al jazeera sole iran's supreme leader is accusing donald trump of repeatedly lying when he announced the u.s. was pulling out of the nuclear deal on income in a said the us president's statement contained at least ten lies trying to say the agreement signed with world powers three years ago is defective to its core and is vying to reimpose the highest level of sanctions on iran in teheran politicians in parliament burned the american flag they expected to vote on a restart sponsored to trump's decision iran's president condemned the u.s. for not respecting its commitments arson rouhani says iran will remain in the pack but warns it could resume uranium enrichment if its national interests on to guaranteed other signatories to the nuclear deal including france germany and the u.k. say there are great trumps decision but will remain parties to the agreement saudi

arabia the united arab emirates and israel all support trump prime minister benjamin netanyahu praised the u.s. president for taking a bold decision of what he called a disastrous deal can really help get reports from the white house. after much anticipation u.s. president donald trump made good on a signature campaign promise solidifying his america first agenda i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made. the u.s. negotiated the agreement with iran in twenty fifteen along with the united kingdom france germany china and russia to limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief with the announcement the united states now bria imposes tough economic sanctions on iran's oil and banking sectors that had been lifted arguing

iran did not live up to its end of the agreement. we have definitive proof that this arabian promise was a lie even though u.s. intelligence the united nations and european allies maintain iran has been compliant under the agreement trump cited a recent israeli report that iran had not been truthful about its activities before entering into the deal trouble also argues the agreement should have dealt with iran's military pursuits in the region and its ballistic missile program. capitol hill the top senate democrat disagrees and to me the right thing to do would have been to try and come up with our allies with an agreement on those issues and let the nuclear part of this continue as is because it's not being violated in any way trumps predecessor barack obama the man who oversaw the deal called trump's

decision a serious mistake in a statement obama said without the agreement the united states could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear armed iran or another war in the middle east. deede former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders believes the united states is already on that path the road to the war in iraq did not simply begin in two thousand and three it was laid down brick by brick over a number of years ironically as the president tore up the nuclear deal with iran secretary of state mike pompei it was on his way to north korea laying the groundwork for a nuclear deal with p.r. nyang president indicated the united states is willing to negotiate a new deal with iran but he says his decision also signals the united states will no longer make calls empty threats can really help at al-jazeera at the white house

the head of the global nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency has issued a strong statement. in response to trump's decision yukiya amano says iran is subject to the world's most robust new clever if occasion regime under the joint comprehensive plan of action the special name for the iran nuclear deal he went on to say that as of today the i can confirm that the nuclear related commitments are being implemented by iran same as ravi is in teheran i'm just wondering what you can tell us about the response particularly from the supreme leader. absolutely immediately after. the deal for the day after united states pulled out of the deal we've seen. parliamentarians in iran have said that your symbolically on fire to illustrate how upset they are over what they say was an unfair decision by the united states to call out we've heard from the islamic revolutionary guard corps

commander saying that negotiating with the united states in the first place gives them a legitimacy they did not deserve but if you really want to get a sense of the anger here in iran then it is so the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei speech this morning in which he said trump's decision that it was silly little was impudent and he spoke about the tone of president donald trump's threats in which he said that iran poses a national security threat not only to the region but to the world as a lowly hominid his response was a very strong one here's some of what he had to say. go ahead for you don't have for this the u.s. president made worthless amine remarks there are probably ten lies amongst his comments he knows washington be drawn from the nuclear deal and threatened iran and its ruling system and said he would do this and that on behalf of the iranian nation i say mr trump you cannot do a damn thing and how does this compare to the rhetoric that is being played out

inside of the country and for the audience outside. well the rhetoric really comes in two different ways overall the government response is that they are disappointed and angry at the decision to pull out of the deal but there are two schools of thought on this the moderates who are currently in government president rouhani for mr divisors the people who champion the deal they still think that it's important to put dialogue over conflict and are keen to push forward with the remaining signatories in the deal to try to glean some kind of benefit from it still for iran but it is difficult to see how that can happen in the current climate in his speech this morning even said that he knows that iran is asking for its european partners as well as russia and china for the impossible to stick by its side and ignore. what is essentially an enormous global financial

threat posed by u.s. sanctions and the worry is that in coming days moderates will be proven wrong and hardliners will be able to say i told you so hardliners and military hospital in iran who said you go shooting in the first place was a fool's errand thank you for that zain let's find out what britain's foreign secretary had to say said it's now up to the u.s. to come up with a proposal on how to address iran's nuclear threat now that the trouble ministration has the j.c.t. a way the responsibility falls on them to describe how the washington will build a new go sheet solution to our shared concerns of a settlement must necessarily include iran china and russia as well as countries in the region britain stands ready to support that task but in the meantime we will strive to preserve the gains made by the j c p a way observer is a professor in modern and contemporary history of the middle east cattle university

joins us here in doha are you not attacking the air and saying that now be surprised that this is what happened but here we are now. what's going to happen now i think what happened last night was expected president trump was despondent to his base and he was promised he's promised to do this in his election campaign he brought the team who prepared all of the elements to come up with a statement last night i think devil's in the details what's next i think trump now has opened the door to leave the united states absolutely isolated of this issue at all and now the whole deal is between iran and four plus one basically four blocks one you speak about three european nations those three nations they were involved in the nuclear iran since two thousand and two france u.k. germany and i would be from two thousand and five those three countries three nations they submitted a proposal to iran in paris and the promise a lot to iran iran dejected that proposal because the united states was not there

the last one port in fact you don't want to deny things to be on board because bye bye bye bye seeing washington participating and signing the so basically there would be more security and there would be more. understanding that iran america would not move to the gene change in any capacity you know that's interesting so where does it leave the play in iran i mean can they salvaged the deal and do you think the u.s. will be pushing for some sort of regime change i mean what i think's there and now the deal will be struggling for two reasons one one of the kind of you know it's the city the secret economy issues sanctions now the sanctions you know we know the united states really represent twenty five percent of the international economy and one of the companies involved in business in europe so if the united states impose sanctions on those companies will deal with iran so many european companies will be

affected so how the europeans will be responding to that this is number one number two how the europeans will be able to respond to the concern. of iranian about how to deal with the future of the deal because basically the whole deal is being presented based on five plus one and now how much those countries can responding to the current iranian concern and and be loyal to the deal and actually contributing to the security you concern which iran always submitted to those three nations those three issues two issues will be really determine the future of the deal especially france and sorry china and russia are not really in the heart of this. i would say elements and the j. paralytic will impact that this is going to have in the new alignments you know the the new best friends saudi arabia and israel and the us versus iran and if this is

going to make iran a safe country safe you know they smell isn't country we know that you know that it was expected that. so that it be and israelis will be supporting the decision it was it was just a matter of minutes after the announce his decision. to be a whole has already prepared the scene when he announced what so called the review of the new information and two weeks ago it was obvious that there would be on board on this i think saudi arabia wanted to send a clear message to the united states which i think to deal with the gulf a crisis in the last few weeks or months we saw that trump is changing position when it comes to the situation in the gulf he becomes he becomes more closed to the thoughts of his evaluation of the crisis i think the united so the arabian immoderate is they want to send a clear message to try that look we are on board on the major issue like iran we need you to think of your position as well when it comes to going to crisis it is it is a regional issue it's not about iran and the united states was complicated it was

english very thank you my pleasure as you go ahead on the news. a hostage situation at a prison in indonesia at least six people have been killed. and you call to train midwives in nigeria where every day more than one hundred women die during childbirth. use and rockets of their place in the n.b.a. is western conference finals i will tell you their set of face in sport. volleys of gunfire rang out across kabul as security forces tried to contain several similar attacks. at least two officers were killed after a suicide bombers targeted two police stations has claimed responsibility for the attacks. but first the attackers opened fire on

a policeman and shot him in the mouth right after that they killed another person and then one of the attackers entered the building and destinated has explosives in the past hour there have been more explosions that speak to our correspondent there jennifer glass she's in kabul tell us about these explosions. well they continue here just by police station number ten in the sharia district and for the last five hours and forty five minutes this attack has gone on just in the last few minutes the taliban issued a statement claiming responsibility for this attack you said i still have claimed responsibility that made before the second attack on police station number thirteen in the west of the city but the taliban claiming responsibility for this attack saying it's part of it's our. spring offensive that it announced late last month the attack is ongoing we heard an explosion just in the last two or three minutes or so the taleban thing a number of attackers with heavy and light weapons heading to the police station

it's claiming that a number of officers and commanders have been killed but this is an ongoing attack the police and special forces fighting taleban fighters many of them with suicide vests we understand by p ten going on nearly six hours later. here in kabul and across the country it says jennifer that the security forces are incapable of stopping these attacks clearly we witnessing it now despite the dramatic increases seen over the last couple of months and the warnings of more to come. that's right the interior minister went on television actually to defend his police forces and his security forces now he says in his defense the interior ministry doesn't have enough of the intelligence equipment to try and prevent these attacks and he says that the attackers are getting help from outside from from

organizers outside of afghanistan he says the intelligence services do have some of the equipment needed to try and slow these attacks but the interior ministry has a lot to take care of they're trying to trying to protect voting centers to try to protect embassies they're trying to protect ministries and we just learned. that the afghan city forces are actually done by more than thirty five thousand over last year that army as well as police and security forces so it's an uphill battle for them and the interior minister saying these tax have become much more complex that the attackers have changed their tactics and they are targeting. where there are big crowds or civilians it's attacked today of course though on a heavily fortified police station. jennifer thank you. a riot at a high security prison for eisel suspects in an asia has killed at least six people al-jazeera has been told several guards are being held hostage at different jail

south of the capital jakarta security forces are trying to restore calm steadfastness more from near the prison in depok. it's a serious blow to the highly trained anti terror police brigade after several of their members have been killed during a hostage situation at one of the best protected prisons in the country it all happened after a group of inmates managed to break out of their cell block and get hold of weapons and ammunition one of the demands of the inmates is to be released as soon as possible and also to meet with among. the self-proclaimed leader of eiseley in indonesia who is currently on trial for an attack in jakarta in two thousand and sixteen prosecutors say he planned this attack from behind bars the situation at the highly protected prison raises a lot of questions about the notoriously overcrowded attention sanderson indonesia were often mobile phones and laptops can still be found a similar right took place in the last year and after the riot police found eisel

flag. poles of clothes in what's being billed as malaysia's tightest ever election of the vote pits prime minister najib razak against his ninety two year old former mentor rob mcbride reports from kuala lumpur. malaysia's prime minister najib razak voting in an election that is seen as a test of his credibility. his coalition's lead has narrowed in the days before voting but he's confident he has still done enough to win. i believe the people will give a new mandate to bury son and now we cannot vote based on slander or sedition because the elections are not about that we know he has been plagued by the scandal over the government's one m. d. b. investment fund that had hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly misappropriated no jeep denies any wrongdoing but the controversy has brought the return of the former prime minister mahathir mohammed into the political fray accusing his form

a protege of corruption the. bribe money that he's received doesn't last that a bit of money make you pull in the country forever this is what will happen if najib stays on as prime minister. i cannot be stuck at ninety two he remains a potent political force in an election few willing to call because there's so many things that president said nobody would have dreamed it would you would imagine like decades ago just nobody still he's willing to get on with here could sway traditional pro-government voters in rural areas and helped galvanize opposition supporters in urban areas who are convinced it's time for change the we did run the government is like the like is their own you know money but i feel that if. a country's government more. honestly we have some bright minds in it at the should

be ok a better future for our children and our grandchildren that's when we deliver yes yes but critics say the ruling on no party in power for sixty one years benefits from an uneven allocation of seats the op. vission claims the odds of being stacked against it by the so-called jerram and drink of political boundaries this constituency in kuala lumpur was recently extended to include thousands of extra pro-government supporters turning a safe opposition seat into a marginal one the fear for the opposition is even if they win the popular vote the ruling coalition will retain the majority of seats to stay in power robert reich al-jazeera. joins us live from kuala lumpur i'm just wondering what you're hearing about the unofficial results that are starting to come in the.

well that's right. the race is very very close indeed. in the lead is the ruling alliance when i last checked it was ahead by about forty eight thirty eight. and the opposition alliance was not far behind they had about thirty three feet so it's still an extremely extremely tight race it's impossible to predict who is going to end up with a majority in parliament and this was really what the poll that was released a day before the election had suggested that this race is really down to the wire and too close to call at the moment and what are people saying about the issues foremost on their minds. well as you heard in rob's report i mean people are saying that the fed up with corruption the one m.t.b. issue that's the that's the state investment fund that's been linked to a corruption scandal where millions of dollars was misappropriated from that fund

and that money allegedly some of it allegedly ended up in. personal bank account now he denied that and he said it was a donation from a from the saudi royal family but people especially voted many people don't believe that and they're angry about the sort of corruption that's been going on in the government now with rural voters hard but the issue the main issue on their mind is slightly different there's a lot of feed the anger at the government over the rising cost of living many people blame the goods and services tax that with the post three years ago and. that's the opposition alliance now they've been campaigning on a platform of promising to remove this tights within one hundred days of coming into power but the opposition movement has also been galvanized by the return of mahathir mohamad and it really is unbelievable that a ninety two year old politician can blend so much weight to an opposition campaign

and part of the reason for that is because his party is championing molay rights so you've got molay votes as the majority and that the aft make majority in malaysia rallying behind him but of course this race at the moment it's still too close to call but thank you very much for that now we have north america for the weather and more fighting than usual for a montana spring roll this spring floods of coal say first a lot of the soil yeah but sometimes you get too close and they're a bit too sudden and we've had sudden warming. i'm not so we've got to remember i mean two weeks ago we had temperatures rising rapidly across the u.s. are called winter and so the spring floods are all the deeper than they were just one example up in the tara and research. this is about the six highest flood they've had all six times to the significantly since the time was founded which will be over one hundred years ago so there's an evacuation order in place get out of there because it's not getting any better now admittedly there's not

a lot more rain to come it's basically snow pack that's melting and the position over the whole of the u.s. isn't protected dramatic i mean you might watch that cold front that you think well that's typical of a tornado line but it's not as bad as it looks because the temperatures are on the side all the different as an example thirty two in dallas twenty six in denver you're talking about six degrees across quite a large area it's not a big enough difference in fact it's been getting quite hot on the southwest corner forty one was measured in phoenix so across the whole of north america most of kind of p.r.'s were well above freezing and although we have got that line which is currently dropping heo in kansas city it will be no more i think mostly than significant storms the next few hours thanks rob still ahead on al-jazeera. a show of force the display of military power in front of russia's president. is out now the agent warning to war homeowners in hawaii. and the sixteenth to win

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just. today you're watching al-jazeera mind of the top stories this hour the president of china has announced the release of three u.s. prisoners who were being held in north korea he tweeted that they're on their way back to the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei if you had been in pyongyang. members of iran's parliament have burned the u.s.

flag angry about president don trump's decision to withdraw from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal trump calls the agreement defective to its coal iran's supreme leader accuses trump of lying and says he's made a mistake. buddies of gunfire have run across kabul as security forces try to contain several similar attacks of least five people were killed as suicide bombers targeted two police stations now this bring you more. on that breaking news on the three americans who've been freed from prison in north korea these are the pictures of the plane with those detainees landing in japan to refill. before heading to the us this live picture coming to us from japan now a victory i'm sure for donald trump our diplomatic editor james bays is live at the u.n. headquarters in new york and i'm just wondering james the what the significance is of this release. well first of course it's

a human story because these are three men and three families that have been waiting for a very long time in one case two and a half years to get their loved ones out of north korea at least one of these american detainees we understand was in a prison camp we don't know how they were treated at this stage but putting aside that human part of the story it's also very important politically and diplomatically as part of the choreography ahead of this crucial summit meeting that's going to take place between kim and trump when i was a couple of weeks ago on the korean peninsula both north and south korea diplomats were telling me they could see no way that the summit could take place until this release had taken place it would be impossible for a u.s. president to sit down with a north korean leader while that north korean leader was holding three americans they saw it as a prerequisite for the summit and i was told it was highly likely that we would see

secretary of state pompei return to pyongyang remember he was the administration's point man as the cia director over the easter weekend when he went there for a secret meeting now returning a second time to pick up these three u.s. prisoners who have now been released now as the secretary of state although my understanding from diplomats it's still the cia that's doing the running in terms of the work with the north koreans and he would have had meetings arranged i think through those intelligence channels while he was in pyongyang president trump tweeting all about this on twitter saying that he met again with kim jong un while he was in pyongyang we also understand that he met with kim yong troll who is the former national intelligence chief of north korea a man who's actually sanctioned by the united states for his role in the nuclear pro. and the man who seems to be making most of the arrangements even though he's

not still much job as national intelligence chief of north korea make you most of the arrangements for this summit and the summit we saw just a couple of weeks ago in the d.m.z. between south korea and north korea let's leave it there james bays just before those men take off from japan thanks for that another twenty fifteen agreement set limits on iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting most u.s. and international sanctions to iran lost more than one hundred sixty billion dollars in oil revenue from twenty twelve to twenty sixteen alone after the deal it resumed selling oil on international markets it also gained access to more than one hundred billion dollars and assets frozen overseas new u.s. sanctions may see companies reconsider investing in iran and european firms may have no choice but to scale back or risk running foul of u.s. rules. isn't international economics commentator she says companies will risk

losing access to the u.s. market if they choose to do business with iran. i think there will be an immediate economic impact when it comes to oil exports there will be some impact but you know the chinas of this world are likely to champion and just consume us you know as the supply situation a stroke but when it comes to investment and when it comes to you know countries engaging with iran a country the company isn't getting was and it's getting very tricky here it i mean market is relatively small it's eighteen million people and it's very it's a very difficult marketed sit it's desperate in desperate need of reform so if you're a western company and you risk losing access to drugs we hugely to see american market over doing business with iran well you're probably gonna opt for four for safety once a country is on that sanctions list on that restricted list any company doing business with it will lose its access to the united states market and if it still

has access it it might risk very big fines so they don't have an option if you're a big bank you're not going to risk access to the u.s. market even if you're a big oil company you're not going to risk that access and that's where point and that is in a very very tricky spot because there's just committed one billion dollars to develop the south parts field. and the mr sun going there are enormous has been has been very clear if you're out of the deal we're keeping the money. i don't know trump's pick to lead the central intelligence agency to take over from mike crapo will be in the hot seat in washington d.c. looking at live pictures coming from there now she has thought there will be appearing at her confirmation hearing before the senate intelligence committee all of this out there looking at live pictures that she spent thirty three years at the cia and has been criticized for her role in the use of harsh interrogation

techniques that are there. every time she joins us for more from washington d.c. tell us a little bit more about what's being said about this and a little bit more about the controversy surrounding her. right harsh interrogation techniques we mean torture that's what we mean specifically at least in the one case that we know off has been completely confirmed the waterboarding of a suspect at a black sites in thailand while she was overseeing bads black site there may be others we don't know so much of a history is is classified it's very difficult to get a full idea of her role in the torture program of the united states but then subsequently she also drafted a memo ordering the destruction of all the evidence of torture post nine eleven so her supporters say she was just following orders the old nuremberg defense which as you will as well remember wasn't successful for nazi war criminals but that is

one of her main defense is she was just following orders we do not have excerpts from her prepared remarks that she will be giving shortly i think she's really just getting in to the hearing right now on that subject of torture she will say i can offer you my personal commitment clearly and without reservation that under my leadership the cia will not restart such a detention and interrogation program and then she makes a whole paragraph about how much she believes in congressional oversight clearly she is someone who are that there are huge questions about both on torture and oversight it's very difficult to know how much more detail she can go into about her record because so much of her life is still classified not only that as far as acting cia director now the pump is a state she's in charge of that declassification process she herself is in charge of saying of releasing what she wants people to hear so there are accusations of a big cover up under way the cia has really selective information declassified selected information which will rather touchy feely and lovely

a lot of johnny cash and meeting with mother to raise a hoe. working up to the cia the cia roster until she became she got into such a powerful position that are still huge questions about what she knew about torture what a personal role was and torture which we may not even get homesick in these hearings despite that though she's still a favorite for getting nominated there's still a sense that enough democrats will vote for her even if republican rand paul goes through with his threat not to vote for them again then give us a sense of what happens after we hear from her and the takes place. well we have these public hearings and they will be private hearings with members of the senate intelligence committee policy because i guess a lot of this stuff this is classified but i think the question is what does this mean if she is confirmed it's interesting that the whole national security establishment or a great deal of it has rallied around her including barack obama's two cia directors the on panetta and john brennan and you can kind of see

a pattern that has room for john brennan barack obama's cia director was also found of torture was also found of extraordinary rendition that is kidnapping people and sending them to third countries where they could be tortured by other people while the u.s. looks on this is very much a sort of extension of president obama's policy of not looking back but moving forward and not holding anyone accountable for war crimes and tortures post of torture post nine eleven so many of these figures involved in such terrible crimes allegedly still in place and are being promoted and promoted not least by barack obama and now by president trump the interesting thing is the national security establishment thinks she will be on their side against a president who's publicly questioned the national security state the deep state so they think she'll be on their side she's one of theirs and will fight for all trump against any or any any in an infringement on that infringements on their on their power having said that she someone who follows orders don't trouble like to torture it's

a complicated process all right thanks for that she had mr bad the chairman is making some opening remarks it's have a difference in the members of the united states intelligence community and is tasked with collecting foreign intelligence through human sources and by appropriate other means the cia operates in the shadows its officers are often undercover and sometimes work in hostile and as a state to steer environments it's not simply a job for many but it's a lifestyle. one that you have lived honorably for more than thirty years the clandestine nature of the agency's work however is both its greatest capability and its most challenging liability as its activities are outside the public view we addressed that liability by calling upon the president to nominate individuals with unwavering integrity and the senate approves only those who we are assured will lead this organization lawfully ethically and morally gina haskell was born in

kentucky the oldest of five children where she returned after attending high school in england she originally told her father who served in the united states air force that she want to do it in west point only to be gently reminded that west point at the time did not it met women that didn't dilute her sense of service and after graduating from the university of kentucky gina went on to work as a contractor with the ten special forces group it was in fort devon that gina learned about the cia a place where she could serve along with other women doing clandestine work around the world since her departure in one thousand nine hundred five jane has developed an extensive overseas experience and served its chief of chief of station in many locations in washington she's held numerous senior leadership positions including

deputy director deputy director of national clinton clandestine services jane i've reviewed the material provided by you and have spoken to you personally many times i believe you're in intellectual rigor your honorable service and outstanding judgment make you a natural fit to lead the cia. i can assure you that this committee will continue to faithfully allow follow which charter and conduct vigorous and real time oversight over cia's operations and activities well asked difficult and probing questions of you and your staff and we will expect honest complete and timely responses the american people allow the cia to operate the shadows because they try they have a trust in oversight and i take that responsibility seriously now some may seek to turn this nomination into a trial about a long shuttered program i'd like to set the record straight and make clear to

those in attendance and the american people that this hearing this hearings about this hearing is not about programs already addressed by executive order legislation in the court of law it's about the woman seated in front of us to interview i have reviewed your records closely i've read your detailed and thoughtful answer to the committee's pre-hearing questions and i've spoken with you many times over the years you are without a doubt the most qualified person the president could have chosen to lead the cia and the most prepared nominee and it's seventy year history. you have acted morally ethically and legally over a distinguished thirty plus year career you have operated under authority signed and granted by the president of the united states at the direction of the director of the central intelligence agency and according to the legal guidance provided by

the attorney general of the united states those who have issues with programs or operations conducted years ago should address those concerns and their questions to former presidents former directors and former attorney generals this hearing is about how you will lead the central intelligence agency into the future not how you faithfully execute missions in the past moreover you conducted yourself in such a way that your supervisors have uniformly praise your conduct over your lengthy career those supervisors commended you for frankness firmness and fairness your moral courage your integrity your operational judgment and professional presence they've commented on your leadership skills and success in creating a more inclusive and fair workplace and it marred your operating at aig at great personal risks to collect intelligence necessary to keep america safe janet

you have the unique experience one only gains from growing up in the cia you have the moral strength to speak truth to power you have learned from the past mistakes of your organization and made clear they will not be repeated in the days after two thousand one you did not just talk about what should be done you personally volunteered to help with ca's response to attacks you dared to step into the arena when our country needed you and you have done so again today for that i am eternally grateful. i look forward to supporting your nomination and into ensuring its consideration without delay i want to thank you for your willingness to serve your country for your years of service and i look forward to your testimony on now recognize the vice chairman for any comments he might make thank you mr chairman i'd like to join you and welcoming ms haskell jeanette's nice to see you again and

congratulations on your nomination the position of director of the central intelligence agency is one of the most important in our government the cia director serves as a key figure in our intelligence community he or she leads the premier human intelligence agency in the world the largest all source analysis workforce in the that we are listening to chairman richard burr that i think it's fair to say that he's a strong supporter of gina has felt he was admiring her capabilities and everything that she has done in the past and her nomination is going to be happening or basically get to be questioning her in the next couple of hours and we will find out if she gets the job or not that's they've at the. that explosions have been heard in the saudi capital after heathy rebels say they fired a volley of ballistic missiles saadi saudi media say defense systems intercepted

the incoming missiles hit a rebels in neighboring yemen say they targeted economic areas riyadh's been hit several times recently by missiles which the saudis say are manufactured in iran hypersonic weapons a new missile defense system and stealth technology have all been on display in moscow russia's armed forces are showing off the hardware at the annual military parade to celebrate victory over hitler in world war two present the new technology in his state of the nation address in march or chalons has more from moscow. while the may ninth celebrations happen every year of course they serve two functions relief for russia and its leadership first of all their way of boosting national pride and patriotism russia in its border years has suffered plenty of traumas but victory in the second world war is one thing that pretty much all russians going to agree was a great national victory but then of course there's the showpiece this is

a chance for russia's military to display to the world all its latest hardware and technology the military has made great strides in the last couple of years because of its operation in syria it's learned a great deal technologically and logistically and now you get the may the night military parade is a chance to show off new systems like p.s. one hundred and you hypersonic missiles that's the kind of thing that we've been seeing this year at this parade with syria of course beaches in the diplomacy surrounding the parade as well binyamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister has come here he was standing close to putin as all the tanks rolled through red square but let's not kid ourselves this is not about coming in hanging out with putin i want to putin's favorite events of the year this is about.

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time for sports what's happening south thank you very much i will start with basketball or defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors that will play the houston rockets and this year's western conference finals in the state reached the finals for the fourth consecutive year on tuesday beating the new orleans pelicans one hundred thirteen two hundred forty take a four one lead in their playoff series for the win was called the state's fifteenth in or off in the playoffs at home matching this convo bulls a record straight from one thousand nine hundred ninety nine to one steph curry had the team high twenty eight points for the home. the feel good feel confident it would do out there. you still get a little bit better with the ball when you start to get so excited stu i'm out

there six weeks is too. appreciative of just being out there playing. the houston rockets it's lost to the second conference finals in four years off to beating the utah jazz one hundred twelve two hundred two in game five of the series chris paul scored a playoff career high forty one points to reach the finals for the first time having failed to make it past the second round of the playoffs and nine previous attempts the performance said chris put out there if he didn't make it comes trial this year so something's wrong. you know means a lot but again and i don't want to downplay and i know you know get criticized but all year has been good and i'm i'm just indebted these guys just for the experience we've had all year the road trips the locker room and how they've done it you know if we keep keep going on and keep having success great that these guys you know can take anything from next shown it every step of the way and i was really proud of

them and what they did and. the new york yankees and the boston red sox will take their major league baseball rivalry overseas in one thousand and twenty nineteen with two regular season game said to be played in london but for now the teams are continuing to battle on home soil on tuesday they met the yankee stadium for the first of the three game show don john carlos stanton made two home runs why aren't judged hits a tie breaking single to help new york two three to win it now won sixteen of the last seventeen games. and there was to be no fairytale finish in the french cup for third division side. as they were beaten in the final two nil by prize. just two hundred seventeen fans watched the opening game in this year's cup campaign but a hundred fifty a bus loads of supporters made the trip from the small front talent to paris p.s.g.

hit the post four times inside the opening twenty five minutes before giovanni celso finally opened the scoring for the french league champions at the sink of ani they scored from the spot as p.s.u. became the first team to win four consecutive friend cup title. we are very happy that we've won this trophy and that we could share it with our fans with our families it's always great to achieve something like that there will be celebrations and i think we shouldn't take these things for granted when our careers are short one always have the chance to live moments like this so we have to make the most out of it. it's the clash of the titans and italian cup final holders eventis are getting ready to face rivals ac milan in rome on wednesday both sides were received by italian president said you. and i had a head of the title clash milan are bidding to win their six cup final but first

since two thousand and three for you they are looking to win the trophy for fourth time in one of their set to be crowned syria champions for the seventh time this season it could be their fourth domestically there and a cup double captain befalls says they're not taking their opponents for granted. if i am not wrong together with my team mates i played for finals against milan two one by them on penalties won one by us after extra time and one won by us from penalties that means that it's difficult at the match against milan and ninety minutes because they always play balanced games. look at the noise at the moment ross this was a large world cup because we have a young team because of you not using the supporters that push thirty five thousand of them to buy a season ticket because of the design of the players have to win something. in this football club leeds united to have begun their controversial tour of me among for

the second team her face was brought to criticism over whether they should be playing in a country that the un accuses of ethnic cleansing against the right hand muslim minority still leads will play the man i'm on national team on wednesday before facing the league's all sauce two days later tennis and said she is going to go to meet up has crushed out of the madrid the open he lost in three sets to form a wall number three me loss wrong in transition or now place fellow comedian denis sharper love in the last sixteen. well number four in that bottle won his first man to play this season to make it through to the third round garden time is impossible. the more in straight sets except for the paltrow is serbia's. and while now between the home favre got to be among those that had

a much tougher task get gratian world number fifty don advocates over the champion eventually prevailed it's one in the third set chill now face rushes daria that's at the end wrong. and that's it for me and about t.j. thanks very much for that santa and let me just take you to washington d.c. now we're looking at live pictures coming in from there and it is the central intelligence agency hearing questioning and talking about gina hospital she is donald trump's nominee to take over the cia from mike pompei all we've heard leading up to this is. praises coming her way and we expect to hear from her very soon. on package for us what were you hearing what were you seeing whether online horrendous things humans told us there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you

join us on the sat a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and ships to eat this is a dialogue. about some of this successes perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decision to join the colobus conversation amount is iraq from the hills of northern greece the places in turkey where refugees hideouts people trying to cross easy to see because in countries means crossing the intimidating and false river and more refugees are attempting this move even though they know the dangers. even. side the risk of drowning or dying of cold in these huge empty spaces any number of refugees have told us they've been threatens and forcibly turned around by greek police acting in coordination with from six european union border agency. this eighteen year old syrian was in the smugglers boats with his young the system. the police came up to

us and that they told us you can cross they made us turn around the police who previously given us access to the fence and border patrols gave us a statement denying any refugees around and claim that priority was human dignity. but human rights advocates say they know pushbacks happen all the time and accuse the greek government of breaking its national. each one. to be seen. to be headed. to the. document. on.