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states and of course all around the world. i'm rosemary church. this is "cnn newsroom." >> well, u.s. president donald trump has wrapped up his four day state visit to japan where he and prime minister shinzo abe reaffirmed the close alliance between their two countries. before leaving japan just a short time ago mr. trump toured the japanese destroyer j.s. carter, making history as the first u.s. president to set foot on a japanese warship. he also visited u.s. service members members and thanked them for their service and marked the u.s. memorial holiday which honors fallen troops. >> on this memorial day in the united states americans are concluding a sacred day of remembrance, reflection and

prayer. citizens all across the country came together to decorate the graves of our fallen heroes and to honor their self-less acts of courage. the citizens of our country are incredible. they love our country, and they love you. they love you. you have no idea how much they love you. >> senior international correspondent ivan watson joins us now from tokyo with more on all of this. good to see you, ivan. so what's been the overall assessment of how president trump's four day state visit to japan went and how problematic could the north korean issue end up being with mr. trump, making it clear he has no problem with kim jong-un's recent short range missile tests, a view not shared by japan's prime minister? >> reporter: well, this was as the japanese prime minister put it, a demonstration to people at home and abroad of the strength of the u.s.-japanese alliance. and it was very high on

symbolism and on ceremony. but somewhat short on real substance. there were not -- there was not a trade deal announced, which the white house had wanted in the months running up to this trip. that can has been kicked down the road until august, at least after japan holds upper house elections in july. there weren't discussions about some of the shared security threats. north korea, of course, came up. and you had this peculiar situation where in one of the restricted bilateral meetings that president trump conducted, of the four officials in the room and that was president trump, his national security advisor, the japanese prime minister and the japanese national security advisor, of those four officials president trump was the only one who did not believe that united nations security council resolutions had

been violated by north korea's may 9th firing of two short range ballistic missiles. president trump demonstrating in a joint press conference that he is doubling down on his one-on-one diplomacy with the north korean dictator, kim jong-un, and willing to overlook things like a ballistic missile launch, which the japanese and the white house national security advisor say was a violation. so what that then brought to was putting the japanese prime minister in a position where on the one hand he proved he was his own man, he called this a violation, but in the same breath applauded president trump for taking a new approach to the north korean threat, for cracking the shell of distrust as he put it, and embarking on a dim lumatic approach, one that the japanese prime minister would like to pursue as well. he says he would also like to

conduct if possible a face-to-face meeting with the north korean leader with no preconditions. so very interesting to see how the japanese prime minister handled this and also how president trump basked in all the pomp and circumstance and the honor of being the first foreign leader to meet the newly enthroned japanese emperor. rosemary? >> yeah, he certainly -- he was made the center of attention. what did japan get out of all of this, though? >> reporter: well, japan needs the u.s. the u.s. is its closest and most important ally. it still has a pacifist constitution and relies on the u.s. as a pillar of its own national defense policy. the japanese prime minister shinzo abe has kind of proven that while trump may have been pursuing some shorter term goals

over the last two years with one-on-one diplomacy, with the north korean dictator, with the chinese leader xi jingping, those diplomatic initiatives have hit the rocks with a trade war with china, without a deal with north korea. meanwhile the u.s.' closest ally in asia has proven steadfast. so shinzo abe has proved that. when it comes to the trade disputes that the u.s. has with japan, real criticism that president trump has been voicing ever since he was a private citizen and businessman and tabloid star in the 1980s, shinzo abe has perhaps dulled some of that criticism, managed to avoid a new round of threatened automobile tariffs slapped against japan and managed to perhaps postpone trade negotiations that could force some concessions on the japanese economy at least for a

few months and at a time when the japanese government is warning that its own economic growth is worsening. rosema rosemary? >> all right, many thank tuesday our ivan watson bringing us that live report from tokyo where it's just after 3:00 in the afternoon. let's bring in scott via skype for his perspective. he is a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham. good to have you with us. >> good morning, rosemary. >> so president trump is heading up after his four day visit to japan, one that showcased a very strong relationship with shinzo abe, but they're not on the same page when the comes to north korea's short range missile tests. mr. trump made it clear he's not concerned about these tests and doesn't think they violated u.n. resolutions. that view is not shared by mr. abe or by the president's own national security advisor, john bolton, by the way. so how problematic is this pe s

potentially, and why do you think he's playing down kim jong-un's missile tests? >> why i don't think it's problematic in terms of donald trump and what happens in japan, because he doesn't really care about the japanese on this issue. there are two priorities for trump here. the first is he loves a photo opportunity, and he loves to play the idea he's the deal maker, so the there's a lot of ego here. and secondly, it's for the 2020 re-election campaign. trump wants to present this image to americans that he can get tough with some folks, say china, but on the other hand that get tough approach it brings results, say as with north korea. but here's the problem. for him to get the deal with north korea, he has to get tough in a way that also says kim jong-un is my friend, to the point where he said this past weekend not only, you know, kim jong-un is my friend, these were just small missile tests. and he actually said you know what, kim told me -- he told me

that sleepy joe biden has a low iq. now, when you get to that point of linking a serious national security issue with your 2020 campaign by trying to trash a democrat who might be running, that's a high risk gamble, and that's one trump is willing to take against his own agency. >> let's look closer at that because president trump did veer into domestic politics there, agreeing with kim jong-un that the democratic presidential candidate joe biden was of low intellect. republican congressman adam kinsinger replied to the president with this tweet. it's memorial day weekend and you're taking a shot at biden while praising a dictator. this is just plain wrong. so what are the optics of a u.s. president aligning himself with a dictator and attacking a political rival back home with a lone republican saying this is wrong? >> well, you know, if it's a

couple of republicans in the house and we've seen it on other issues such as justin amash calling for trump's impeachment, that doesn't bother the man in the white house as long as he's got protection from the big guys like senator mitch mcconnell and those in the upper chamber. he's been willing to embrace vladimir putin of russia despite the doubts that it raises both over 2016 and our policy today. you know, the trump approach here isn't concerned with adam kinzinger. he thinks the american people will back him with it. and to be honest with you, if he's still in office next year that's going to be the real test because i don't think the republicans in the senate are going to defy him. >> of course. and going back to this trip to japan, we saw all the pomp and pageantry of the past four days.

shinzo abe showering president trump with attention, giving him everything he wanted on that trip, as you mentioned. but what did prime minister abe get out of this? what did japan get out of this? just standing by the united states president's side, is that going to be enough? >> no, the japanese like other countries know you play to trump not by challenging him but you play to his ego and you make him feel like the biggest guy in the room. and there's a couple of issues here. one is the japanese don't really trust trump on north korea. but they're willing for him to fire off his tweets as long as they can talk to american officials behind him and say, look, keep him in check. and then the more immediate issue especially because shinzo abe is facing an election campaign is the japanese really want to make sure the u.s., especially donald trump starts to reduce tariffs upon them, even as he's jacking up tariffs

on the chinese. so it's that economic motive in which the japanese may give a little bit but they really want the tariffs on their own products to decrease. so do that you flatter donald trump. >> and speaker nancy pelosi -- presumably when he gets back he'll pick up on all of that and onward we'll go onto that next issue. >> yeah, i mean the wider context is simply that the white house and donald trump are trying to block any substantive move in terms of hearings on a follow-up regarding the trump-russia links and on hearings regarding trump's business and tax affairs. these are hearings in congress but they're also hearings in the courts. and that all out attempt to stalemate and block this means they're even willing to put government business to the side. for example, trump walked away from the infrastructure plan last week, and it does mean he

will make nancy pelosi his personal target. because his gamble is if you keep talking about nancy pelosi, you won't talk about that wider issue well, his taxes and finances, and what exactly did happen in 2016. >> there are a whole lot of issues to discuss. scott lucas, thank you so much. always good to chat with you and get your perspective on all these matters of politics. appreciate it. >> thank you, rosemary. well, a 12-year-old schoolgirl and a 39-year-old man have been killed in a knife attack in japan. 17 others were wounded when the attacker assaulted a crowd near a park in the city of kawasaki south of tokyo. police say the attacker died from self-inflicted injuries as he was being detained. we do not know at this point what the motive may have been.

well, the results in the european parliamentary election suggests voters in 28 countries are ready for change, but they're not ready to abandon the european union altogether. populist and nationalist parties gained ground but not as much as had been predicted and most of the voters still backed pre-eu parties like the green parties. a look at what's ahead for a fragmented parliament. >> reporter: will the eu heed the winds of change or stick to the status quo? that is the outstanding question out of sunday night's european parliamentary election which saw the erosion of the so-called grand coalition, the alliance of the center right and center left parties responsible for making most of the decisions for parliament for decades now. well, they're in a majority no more seating grounds to parties such as the albe grouping and

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across the central united states, and today -- >> holy cow. >> reporter: another huge twister touching down near charles city, iowa. now millions in the region are left grap llg wipling with the potential for more. >> we've got waters rising out of the east so we're not out of the woods yet. >> reporter: along the arkansas river the army corp of engineers forced to allow more water out just to keep up with the levels. >> that equates to 1,000 school buses per second going through the dam. >> reporter: over 1,000 people over tulsa have been evacuated as the flood waters continue to rise. >> we're still monitoring the water so it still could get worse. we don't know exactly where the waters are going to peak. >> reporter: the tulsa county sheriff's department has been patrolling the area.

it comes a powerful ef-3 tornado cut a path over 2 miles long in oklahoma. >> it hit these 15, 16 spots here at the mobile home park. >> reporter: this mobile home park and nearby hotel took a direct hit. >> you can see that devastation in person, it's just unbelievable how violent. and you just can't imagine anybody being able to survive. people on the top floor of that hotel, it was just kind of wiped out. and when we saw the trailers, they're just completely demolished. one had their floor there, but a lot of them looked like they were blown up. >> reporter: the governor touring the damage there today. taking a phone call from the president who's overseas in japan. >> i'm actually out here touring the damage right now and pretty devastating. we've got two fatalities. >> reporter: at least 12 have died from the severe storms in the midwest over the past month. one centered in missouri spawning more than 170 reported

tornados just last week alone. >> there's no proper reaction to this, and you feel everything. you feel sad, you feel angry. i mean there's no description of -- you know, i've never been through this. we all hear the horror stories of the past, and it's horrible to live through it. >> reporter: cnn, el reno, oklahoma. >> let's get more now on all of this. we go to our meteorologist pedram, and it is a concern, isn't it? people asking when this severe weather will come to an end. >> it's been going on for nearly a month as far as the incredible spout here of tremendous activity with tornados and also severe weather. you see some of the initial images coming in and in the past few hours upwards of nearly 50 reports of tornados in portions of of the midwest. of course you go back over the past ten or 12 days and the

numbers go up to 300 reported tornados. and the last one has to be the one coming out of dayton, ohio. of course the population approaches 800,000 people. any time you look at a tornado coming down in an area heavily populated you know it's not going to end well for a lot of folks. you see from some of the images of this tornado. debris was lofted over 10,000 feet up into the atmosphere. and you take a look across montgomery county which is where dayton is located and 97% of the county reporting no power this weekend. you look at the broad perspective, 17 states. that's the number of states that have been impacted by tornados in the past ten days. that's the last time we did not have a tornado cross the u.s. so an incredible run again of severe weather and tornados and a tornado watch in place across

the southern tier of ohio stretching onto areas of the southern state of west virginia. couple of tornado warnings even at this hour. so even impressive to see the energy left within some of these storms. and then the question is how long is some of this going to last? severe weather still into the forecast going in towards tuesday afternoon, stretching from wichita, even into portions of of the north eastern u.s. main threats once again wind and hail, but can't rule out a few tornados. and unfortunately when they touch down in a populated area that's when bad newsreely comes out of these communities, and that's what we've been seeing. >> you're exactly right. thank you for keeping a close eye on all of that. well, this year's climbing season on mt. everest has been especially tragic. at least 11 people have died with the latest being an american attorney who was an experienced climber. there's now concern that the

wor world's highest peak is overcrowded with to mean adventures ill-prepared for the rigors of reaching the summit. >> reporter: we're here in lookline. this is something of a gateway. most people will start their trek from here and in 10 to 14 days reach base camp. this group of climbers, they just came down from the summit. they were among the last group to go up there, and they were just describing how difficult the conditions were, the temperatures, the wind. they had all heard about this backlog that was happening during the crush to try to get to the summit, so they decided to wait until the very end, the very last possible window to be able to avoid those crowds because the vast majority of the degs that occurred this year happened to people as they were descending from the summit. they had actually made it all the way to the top but then on their way down, most of them succumbing to altitude sickness.

what happens when you are at that altitude and what is known as the death zone where we've seen those photographs of the long enormous trail of people is that you don't have enough oxygen for your body to function. every breath you take only gives you a third of the level of oxygen that you would be getting at sea level. that is one of the biggest challenges when trying to summit everest. not just being physically and mentally prepared but also knowing what your body's limits are. there is is a lot of debate right now as to what needs to be done to prevent these levels of deaths from happening. once again there are people that are saying that the nepalese government needs to do more, others saying tour companies need to do more, that inexperienced climbers should not be allowed to go up and take on this great of a challenge. but everest for those people as passionate as the climbers we

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following this hour. u.s. president donald trump is on his way home from japan after wrapping up his four-day state visit to japan. his final stop was aboard the uss wasp docked near tokyo to address american sailors and marines. he thanked them for their service and marked the u.s. holiday memorial day which honors fallen troops. a 12-year-old girl and 39-year-old man are dead after a mass stabbing attack in japan. officials say 17 others including 15 children were wounded. the assault happened near a park in kawasaki sight of soak yo. the suspected attacker also died from a self-inflicted wound. and a severe weather threat is not over yet. for millions in the midwest flood waters continue to rise and more rain is on the way. six deaths have been reported there, and more than 100 people

injured. now, earlier we brought you the story on the tragic climbing season on mt. everest where 11 people have died in recent weeks. we now have our senior international correspondent arawa damon joining us live with more on this story. so explain to us, i mean we know people do of course die on mt. everest in their attempt to reach the summit. but talk to us about why we're seeing so many more die and why there are so many people attempting this? i mean, these incredible shots we're seeing of people lined up to get to the top. >> reporter: well, rosemary, we just took a helicopter to everest base camp on the nepalese side. and just being at this altitude not having acclimatized you really feel the impact of that lower level of oxygen. you feel it in every breath that

you take, every single movement, that little bit of exertion really does take a toll on your body. you feel it in your fingers. the reason why i'm talking about this is because oxygen is so critical. the vast majority of the casualties that we saw this climbing season took place as people were descending after going up through what's known as the death zone where there every breath you take only gives you a third of the level of oxygen you would have at sea level. your body being deprived of oxygen like that creates what's called altitude sickness and your organs are literally dying if you're not getting enough oxygen. that's one of the main reasons why so many people end up dying while they're attempting to summit everest. to give you an idea what base camp itself looks like,

normally -- and right now the season is closing -- so normally this entire area here is just covered with tents. what we have now is a handful of climbers who have just come down off the mountain, and you have the cleanup crew. the scenery here is absolutely spa spectacular, you do begin to understand what motivates the people. the main draw is the challenge of trying to see if you can physically and mentally handle something like trying to summit mt. everest. if you look over in this direction you get an idea of just the spectacular mountain scape. over there you have the infamous everest ice fall, which climbers will go through to get to camp one, and then the other camps as they begin their expedition towards the summit of everest

itself. but it's not just the altitude sickness that ends up killing people. you, of course, have people who fall down, you have various other illnesses and things that can happen as well. but another of the main challenges has been what people are calling this overcrowding phenomenon that really some expert climbers will tell you prove to be very lethal this climbing season. because as we saw in those now iconic photographs that came out on social media, you had that backlog inside that death zone where the level of oxygen are so low. and climbers would make it to the top, they'd make it to the summit, they'd come back down, in some cases go to sleep and not wake up because of the effect of not having oxygen, the effect that has taken on their body. the other challenge also is that there are a growing number of inexperienced climbers, people

who can't necessarily figure out what their own limits are, how to read how their body is reacting to the situation. they just want to push through and make it to that ultimate goal. so there's a big conversation happening right now about what the burden of responsibility is on the nepalese government, what the naepalese should be doing, what burden of responsibility is on all these climbing companies. but of course there's a burden of responsibility on the individual. you have to be able to read and know what your own body is telling you. >> yeah, and that is the big poblem, isn't it? there don't seem to be any regulations in place to ensure those who get permits to climb are actually competent climbers. that is something perhaps they need to address. arawa, chatting to us from base camp at mt. everest. well, israel could be headed

to a new general election. parliament passed a preliminary motion monday to dissolve itself with coalition talks deadlocked. cnn's orin leiberman has more on the standoff from jerusalem. >> reporter: in israel coalition negotiations to form a new government often goes down to the wire as it tries to extract as much as possible from the negotiations process. but what's happening now is unprecedented. prime minister benjamin netanyahu who appeared to have a clear path to a right wing coalition that was almost identical to his last government has threatened new elections as negotiations are stuck. never before has israel done elections so soon. countries have also never gone into elections without the formation of a government. the deadlock is over what's known as the draft log, which aims to draft more ultraorthodox yous into israel's military.

wants the law passed exactly as is with no changes, but the ultra orthodox parties demand it be change. even at this stage netanyahu is likely to work out some sort of compromise to form a new government, as one analyst said, as the deadline performing a government draws closer -- >> our orin leiberman reporting there. >> well, the bill to dissolve parliament passed after what is called the first reading, but there are two more readings to go before new elections can be called. amid that political standoff israel said it struck a syrian anti-aircraft system on monday. the israeli military says that system fired at an israeli jet. syria says one of its soldiers were killed nat retaliatory attack and another injured. prime minister netanyahu said later in a video his country

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a recent escalation in violence in syria's last rebel held province has killed hundreds of people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee. the air strikes have destroyed schools, hospitals and most recently an open air market that left dozens wounded. international organizations believe some of these air strikes may have been aimed intentionally at civilian targets. which could amount to war crimes, just some of the many committed by all sides of the syrian conflict over the past eight years. well cnn's reporter and her team were granted access to clandestine operation by a group of investigators risking their lives to collect evidence of

alleged war crimes committed by the assad government. and we must warn you that some of the images in this report are disturbing. >> reporter: in a nondescript building in europe is the vault. chris engles held the crime unit for the non-profit organization funded by western governments. in these boxes is potential evidence of alleged war crimes that could one day be used against the regime of syrian president bashar assad. >> the documents start from the highest levels of command that include information of the president and the policy makers at the national level. we're able to get quite a lot of

clarity on how orders went up and down the chain of command, how the responsibility at the highest level for policy is then implemented in a way that we can see criminality actually take place on the ground. >> reporter: there is no one document here that's a smoking gun, but an international criminal justice it's about linking the crimes to those responsible. documents like this 2011 order authorizing pay raises for military personnel signed by president assad, the commander in chief of the armed forces may seem innocuous but he says even this is crucial evidence. >> we have several documents that are similar to this naming assad and others who demonstrate that they are control, and they have the power to direct the army and secure the services, and it is a fact that the army and those security services are continuing to commit crimes, and

these individuals aren't doing anything to stop it. >> reporter: he's built dozens of cases against the regime, most relating to the early days of the revolution, the violent repression of protests and the alleged torture and killing of thousands of demonstrators detained across the country. since 2012 in the shadows of a war that's unleashed some of the worst atrocities of our time, a network of more than 100 syrians were recruited, vetted and trained by sija. we get a rare opportunity to meet one of those document hunters. he was a lawyer and now he heads this team that has risked everything to save the evidence. >> all members of our team, men and women, have been subjected to arrests or beatings or humiliation or danger. we are operating in a war zone. in most cases we would enter areas as air strikes would be ongoing, but we have to go in to collect the evidence before it's

damaged. >> reporter: for adel and his fellow hunters a treasure of documents has been left behind. >> after the free syrian army captured locations from the government like military or intelligence sites our teams would be ready and they would enter these sites. their primary task to preserve these documents or what is left of them. because in many cases these documents would be destroyed. >> reporter: siga has not only relied on evidence collected by its own network of investigators. in a number of cases they've combined that with some of the most damaging visual evidence of this conflict. 28,000 horrific photographs of dead detainees smuggled out in 2018 by a military defector code name caesar. siga has been able to cross rrchs the identifying numbers seen in these pictures with ones in the smuggled documents allowing them to identify some of the prisoners and link them to specific facilities and the security apparatus who were

holding them. one of the photos of those numbers was a 13-year-old and a newly wed law student detained in.htm of 2012. his sister now a refugee in the u.k. has is a living testimony to the syrian regime's b brutality. >> translator: when the photos came out mohaumds wmeds was the one. they told us he died as a result of a heart attack. our 34-year-old boy died of a heart attack. >> reporter: documents issued by the regime claimed thousands held in its facilities all died of natural causes. three other brothers from the family were detained. only one of them emerged alive. his face testament to the horrors inside government jails. according to siga it's a story replicated thousands of times

over in syria where torture is rampant and systematic and forced confessions are the norm. the regime has repeatedly dismissed evidence as fake and insisted it was fighting terrorists not peaceful protesters. she persistently calls for justice bullets like many other syrians she fears she may not live to see the regime held for its crimes. >> the tide's changed, and what we're making sure of is that when the shift does come, when the discussion about justice does appear in 5 or 10 or 20 years, that there will be evidence there. >> reporter: evidence collected by siga has already been used in individual trials in the united states and europe. it has also led to the arrest in germany of at least one

mid-level member ahold and torture. >> i said good-bye to my wife and children and told them i am no longer yours. i am now >> reporter: justice, he says, is a duty from which there is no turning back. jomana karadsheh, cnn. >> we're back in just a moment. in a new chevrolet. oh, wow!! it's time to upgrade. you guys out did yourselves there. i'm gonna go and get a chevy. an exciting summer begins at your chevy dealer. and now, during the chevy memorial day sales event, get 0% financing for 72 months on these select chevy models. or current gm owners can get twenty seven fifty total cash allowance on this traverse. find new roads at your local chevy dealer.

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