ring factory starting march twenty fourth on t.w. . this is newsnight from new york fired u.s. president donald trump cites the secretary of state's rex tillerson had just completed a tour of africa told it was apparently cut short so says suggests he has not been told why he's. president meanwhile has been heaping praise on the man he wants to replace rex tillerson cia director mike pumpin a. tremendous energy from the left you're always going to say wave like.

relate to the very good. secretary of state. i'm phil gal welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump past societies secretary of state rex tillerson the president broke the surprise news on twitter thanking his to tell us and for his service cia director mike pump has been nominated as the new secretary of state and you know hospital is the president's choice to take over at the cia mr trump has been speaking about the changes. i've worked with mike bomb now for quite some time. prevent this energy from and this is the lack there always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good and that's

what i did as secretary of state i wish rex tillerson well gina by the way well i know very well who i've worked very closely will be the first woman director of the cia is that outstanding president also i have got to tell very well so i've gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year and i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the capital and other things that i want but i think mike pump aoe will be a truly great secretary of state i have total confidence in him and as far as rex tillerson is concerned i very much appreciate his commitment that his service and i wish him well and good banter. with. rex and i've been talking about this for a long time we we got

a long actually quite well but we disagreed on things when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess but it was ok i wanted to see the brake it or do something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same with my my company a we have a very similar thought process i think it's going to go very well rex is a very good man i like rex a lot i really appreciate his commitment to this service and i'll be speaking directly over a long period of time. you know i really didn't just. yes it very much honestly i made that decision by myself recognize it as you know it are is this country i made the north korea decision with consultation from many people but i made that decision by myself. i

actually got along well with rex but really it was a different mindset it was a different thank you. i. say it again. i respect his intellect i respect the process that we've all gone through together we have a very good relationship for whatever reason chemistry whatever it is why do people get along i've always right been getting from day one i got along well with bike i frankly i get along well with rex do and you know i wrecked a lot of good things i think he's going to do i think he's going to be very happy i think rex will be much happier now but i really appreciate his service but with mike we had a very good chemistry right from the beginning. well don't touch a crowd and

a senior director of the asia pacific security program the center for american security i asked him if he saw rex tillerson his dismissal coming well i don't want to look too clairvoyant but a couple of weeks ago announced of our staff meeting that this change was coming very soon i happen to be lucky probably more than knowing for sure but all the signs were pointing to the direction that this was now a decision that had been overdue the white house had already decided to take it some time ago and now this was the moment the president chose to take it what with the signs. the signs were that in the second year twenty eighteen the trumpet ministration there needed to be a consolidated coherent national security team in which state department was no longer outside the tent but was inside and with issues like north korea looming very large it was very important to strengthen the team rex tillerson just never

found his stride either at for you bottom working with the state department and in diplomacy nor did he find himself in sync with the president as indeed the president has just said so you know you and your you viewed rex tillerson as being very much outside the tents and. unfortunately yes i mean there is a man who went to the pentacle of his career but spent you know decades in the oil industry and it turned out that that was not transferable knowledge to rapid public service in state craft and in the plum a c. may be given more time it would have worked out differently but we didn't really have time in this hectic international relations age that we live in. specialist as a pacific region how does mr tell us and removal and mike presumed assumption of the role a change u.s. foreign policy that. well i think my pump indeed has

been in the same wavelength on north korea policy for instance from day one when he was appointed at the cia my pump a zero having been in congress having been a distinguished harvard law graduate it could get to the bottom of things when into the agency and said what do we know about north korea what don't we know and he did a root and branch assessment of some of the gaps on north korea so this was day one you can see how this was now going to inform fully the interagency strategy that the trumpet ministration put together last year that strategy is known loosely as maximum pressure and engagement and so they're just on the same wavelength on a very critical issue at a time when there may be the first ever summit meeting between a sitting american president and a member of the kim family mr pompei or husband much more hawkish towards north korea rex tillerson well he's been in the national security field both cia obviously going back to his distinguished record in the army and at

west point in the security business on capitol hill so he naturally focuses on hard national security i think he also though it down i mean he is a successful politician i just visited wichita a few months ago his home base and he's well loved there because this had been hoping for a reset and they're finally going to get on with my pump. as we talk about north korea and we've we've we've had this talk about a mean thing that may or may not happen in may with a new had at the state department with a more hawkish attitude towards north korea do you expect that meeting still to take place especially given the number of gaps that that in the state department at the moment. well i don't see the gaps is really a fundamental problem with stuff in a summit meeting but it's still a fair question and i think we don't know is the short answer and i don't know for

sure i like to explain what's happened on north korea diplomacy as having gone in stages sort of week by week but if we go back just to november twenty ninth just a few months ago the last i.c.b.m. intercontinental ballistic missile test of north korea looked like the olympics even were in question if you were in south korea and you were present moon j.n. of south korea you wondered whether the americans were going to essentially bring down the olympics by having tensions rise so high and yet we the united states turned toward in gage when in diplomacy first supporting south korea and making sure the olympics went well then when kim jong un on new year's day pivoted he showed agility kim jong un did of north korea by announcing in his new year's message that he wanted to detente essentially with south korea a country that he had been keeping at arm's length then he famously said let's have a summit meeting with with president moon only the third north south summit meeting

that's been organized for the last week of april right now in panmunjom the truce village right on the demilitarized zone between the two koreas right after that that's when now president trump having received the information from spying masters and national scooted visor chunk of south korea our ally. found out that north korea was going to meet the basic conditions the minimal conditions for having talks at a summit level and present from said he would be inclined to have that summit that's where we are right now what we need to do is we the united states is trying to figure out directly meeting with the north koreans to hear the same words back from the north koreans that were spoken to the south korean delegation that went to pyongyang recently to negotiate the third north south summit. i would talk to patrick cronin senior director of the asia pacific security program at the center for a new american security if you just joining us here's a reminder breaking that news u.s. president donald trump the secretary of state rex tillerson the move the president

first announced on twitter or somehow just returned from a trip to africa sources say he's not been informed about the reasons for his dismissal speaking shortly after the announcement mr trump said that he and rex tillerson had disagreed on a number of issues he's nominated to cia director mike compare him to replace it with to tell us something i'm not one who is more hawkish view of iran and north korea. let's get the view from two such change the w. correspondent christopher spring again in his studio at the parliament building that welcome christopher tell us about the reactions that you've been seeing. well i've been hearing them as well i was over in parliament earlier today and i think the the basic emotion that i was feeling there from german policymakers is one of being unsettled by this move we have the deputy foreign minister michael roche

saying that this doesn't improve things we have the populist left party criticizing the selection of mike pompei as the new presumably the new secretary of state talking about him as a man who wants to keep going tandem obey open a man in favor or at least sympathizing with the use of torture in the fight against terror we also had the leader of the liberal free democrats christian lynn . calling this a fresh sign of volatility he was also critical all from germany's chancellor angela merkel though saying that she really needs to go and talk to donald trump calling donald trump a deal maker in some amount really needs to talk to face to face if you want to achieve anything did rex tillerson have enough time to develop any sort of relationship with germany well i think he was seen in here in germany as a moderating influence in the trumpet ministration as a first port of call if you want for much of german politics he built

a relatively decent working relationship with the outgoing german foreign minister is it my gabriele and term of course that relationship now doesn't count for anything having said that of course germany will have a new government within the next couple of days a new foreign minister a hike a mass also a social democrats will have to see what kind of relationship he manages to build up with his new counterpart in washington but christmas brigades in berlin thank you you're welcome. when the president discussed rex tillerson as dismissal he used iran as an example of disagreements between the two men. but we just simply don't think when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess it was ok i want to use the break it was something he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking. let's talk about that and

all with. a guy who's had a v.w. potion department he joins us from a welcome they run nuclear deal was to trump a hate sits on that incoming secretary of state a fails to say how does this change in personnel like to be received in tehran. iran the over the past. iran diva's one of the main source of disagreement between mr tudor some and the president of the united sates and. of course it's not a good news for tat on as mr pongo is very famous for his hard views on terror and he previously said that even after the argument iran deal. washington should make it harder to for iran to move there in affairs and certainly iran see that as another step from. mr

truong to break the law and dismiss it and this is a deal of course that the iranian government is keen to keep alive how are they likely to react yet. it's difficult to say that they wouldn't welcome this change but at the same time it would be more difficult for it not only for iran but also for e.u. for germany for britain and france to keep it alive and believe in today's session in barely see fares impact of these changes in their. administration so iran most probably would say that they insist on that and they wouldn't agree to any possible changes but. again one thing that may come up is the iran science

program and this is something that makes any further negotiations harder and more complicated. in bonn thank you let's take a look at social media now out lots of people asking the humorous side of mr trump's that latest sacking in a not to his reality show a days the daily show earlier tweeted an image showing a set up competition show called the celebrity app president departed west wing officials whited out time magazine visual artist rodriguez the tweeted this image caption says thanks for the memories rex tillerson it plays the rooms at telus and had previously called president trump a moron and. pocket malloy a twitter user pocket malloy posted this in memoriam video for the trump

administration particularly poignant with the hash tag rex it. in other news britain is told moscow that it has until the end of today to explain why a deadly nerve agent produced only in russia was used in apparent assassination attempt against a former spy or prime minister theresa my strength extensive retaliate measures moscow insists it will only cooperate with the british investigation if it receives samples of the nerve agent in question meanwhile british authorities are continuing their investigation into the poison the russian expiry and his daughter a substance used has been identified as the military grade nerve agent know each other. so what is it i'm glad you asked i don't know but. of course one williams can tell us more welcome derreck tell us about nabil sha'ath then this is a nerve agent especially got to start with what's a nerve agent well a nerve agent is is an agent that quickly can destroy

a particular metabolic processes within the body it can damage them to such an extent that it can kill you actually very quickly and know each other is a very very deadly one it's actually five to time eight times more deadly than ones like sarin or xxvii which was the nerve agent that was used to kill kim jong un's half brother last year in malaysia that story and so. these are you've described how it how it works it's clearly this is a this is a very dangerous substance i remember in the litvinenko case where he was killed by radioactive poisoning what the investigators did was they traced the route of this substance through london because it leaves a trail can they do that with how would you do how would one transport it well it's fundamentally it's a very different thing than a radioactive substance that nobody talk is is what they call a binary chemical weapon by any binary chemical agent that means that it only it's actually made up of two different components that enemy of themselves are not toxic

so that makes it fairly easy to smuggle for example across international. orders it's only when they're combined in the proper ratios that they turn into this incredibly killer chemical agent that can. wipe you out within the course of a couple of minutes and how was it administered in this case that's not really clear i mean the police have been looking very closely i think at the car. the scruples car that could have possibly been put into the ventilation system there but the timeline of that particular you know they went afterwards they went to a restaurant they went to a pub if they had actually inhaled this substance then all of the experts are saying they probably would have been killed fairly quickly if so it's likely been over the skin but the investigation is ongoing and. i know that in the u.k. police no forces have been telling people in the area to just wash their clothes how big a public health danger is likely to. present well apparently this particular chemical

agent is degraded fairly quickly by water so they've been spraying down the streets they've been wiping down all the surfaces that this father and daughter might have touched there they're telling the employees at the pub and at the restaurant to wash their clothes because that could apparently help take care of it also there's moisture in the atmosphere so contact with moisture apparently does degrade the substance but there's still obviously a very clear danger in this area which is why the government has not is going to continue the cleanup activities ok so that this was identified presumably that you have a someone someone turns up when you look at the very two tests for various substances but having said that we decided it's a nerve agent how do they decide it's unfair for the russians will never talk they have different ways of isolating these nerves the problem is that they can kill in such minute quantities that the difficult part of figuring out exactly which nerve

agent was used is to isolate enough of it to determine what it is now also the thing is that nerves. agents like soren or x v those defensive those nerve agents are very well known we know that nobody chuck has a similar effect on people that basically blocks the electrical signals to your lungs telling you to breathe and so you as fixed slowly and quickly it's a terrible way to die major brain damage along the way so they know actually they know the diagnose they can sort of diagnose they knew what the symptoms are but figuring out know each other it's kind of a secretive substance that was only ever produced by the russians so it's been a it's been a difficult path that's why it's taken so long actually i think for this accusation to come out of william's responses like you so much. at the. stock markets have a lot to digest these days certainly the latest staff upheaval in the white house rex tillerson is out my pump in

a secretary of state wall street is seems unfazed but investors in frankfurt are not amused and for the latest let's cross over to standing by for us at the stock exchange cannot curve behind you is that the famous to listen slump. yes it is monica but my stock market here has taken it very negatively that rex tillerson is to leave the state department he stood for an approach that recognizes that placing rex tillerson with my comp a.o. is right replacing a moderate with a hawk but i can assure you monica people here have had enough of the hawkish tone of the way for example how donald trump has lashed out against the european union people here are wondering what this all means for them and what it all means for us in germany being up until now one of the closest allies of the united states and there were more surprises coming from the u.s.

so don't go anywhere i'd like to talk about that with the us well because there's another headache for german business which comes from the united states after imposing tariffs on steel and alan indian u.s. president on a trump has stopped the proposed mega acquisition of u.s. chip maker qualcomm by singapore based broadcom again citing national security concerns a qualcomm had been trying to fend off the takeover bid for months now u.s. president to donald trump has stepped in and drew a definite line under the unsolicited approach welcome is the words largest producer of mobile phone chips licensing its technology which apple for example depends on for its i phones is a real cash cow that brought in five billion dollars and twenty seventeen this makes qualcomm an attractive targets for its competitor broadcom based in singapore to one hundred twenty one billion dollars deal would have been the technology industries most costly takeover of or it would have also created

a new semiconductor heavyweight. samson intell have to largest market share individually welcome as the fifth largest producer of semiconductors and broadcom occupies the sixth place combined two companies would have had the third largest market share in the semiconductor industry broadcom singapore connections in china as potential future influence over the u.s. chip maker immediately arrest national security concerns when the bid was announced last year. broadcom it hoped its decision to move its headquarters to the u.s. would dispel those concerns so that deal didn't work out back to call not in a nutshell if you want to protectionism at its best. well it sure is a protectionist measure that the american president has introduced here but contrary to the steel tariffs he seems to have a point trump wants to make sure that the important future communications

technology five jean the fifth generation technology of mobile communications won't be dominated by the chinese also the pentagon and also the u.s. treasury you have raised concerns about national security here. the leadership the technology leadership of american companies might have been menaced here because broadcom already has very close relations with a large chinese player in this field who are away now it's a bit of understanding there for this move from. the frankfurt stock exchange thank you. today the european parliament is debating bracks it every member country has made its own calculation by now what will it cost us well a lot says germany's main industry association b d i it's presented its post breaks it wish list urging politicians in berlin to make their voices heard in brussels

and avoid a holiday breaks it which would cost german businesses billions of euros. brix it will change aspects of germany's export trade it will not only be more complicated but also cost up to nine billion euros more per year according to experts estimates the extra costs will be due to terrorists registration procedures and waiting times of borders and german industry representatives hyper deal can still be reached between the e.u. and great britain. just talked a few were calling on both sides to reach an agreement and on british leaders to support the transition things. that would give companies until twenty twenty before they have to adjust their business models with. business and of the. like the car industry will be hardest hit according to a study the industry will have to shoulder at least three billion euros in extra costs cars are among germany's most important export products. last year germany's

exports to britain totaled around eighty four point four billion euros that made britain germany's fifth largest export market and german imports from britain came to around thirty seven point one billion euros brics it will be especially hard on smaller german companies up until now many have had very little experience with trade outside the e.u. thought just how complicated the post brics it trade rules will become is not yet clear if that's still being negotiated. thank you monica. up to date small at the top a bit of a good day. to

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