bialik guest. managed by for. this is d. w. news blog from berlin terminations the u.s. president has fired secretary of state rex tillerson. my commission as secretary of state which terminated midnight thirty first president's nominee to cia director mike peo as his new secretary of state saying the two men are quote on

the same wavelength. also coming out of the case of the poisoned spy in a quiet english city will russia respond to britain's midnight deadline. people or police are investigating the unexplained death of yet another russian. i'm good to have you with us even in the chaos of the trumpet ministration today's exit has shocked and stunned much of the world u.s. president donald trump fired his secretary of state rex tillerson the president broke the surprise news on twitter announcing cia director mike pump aoe will be his new choice to be america's top diplomat a short while ago tillerson made a statement in which he warned of the challenges that his successor will face

especially from russia. and much work remains to respond to the troubling behavior and actions of on the part of the russian government russia must assess carefully as to how its actions are in the best interest of the russian people and of the world more broadly continuing on their current trajectory is likely to lead to greater isolation on their part of the situation which is not it anyone's interest well taylor's ins warning came following a tour of africa during which he found out that he had been fired but the washington insiders tillerson is departure really is not a surprise they have known about friction between trump and his secretary of state since the first day. rex tillerson initially seemed an unusual pick for secretary of state. the former head of exxon mobil was an oil man from texas with no foreign policy experience but as a washington outsider he also fits in with the unconventional nature of the new

administration at the start of trump appeared to have great confidence in him. rex will be a fierce advocate for america's interests around the world and has the insights and talents this is to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders and disaster i that barely six months into the job reports started to circulate that to listen to relationship with the president had soured. a. very luckily. i think. oh. really right. but the two men were known to be at all it's over a number of issues including the iran nuclear deal trump said this was one reason for his dismissal but we disagreed on what you look at the iran deal i think it's

terrible i guess he says it was ok i wanted to use a break it or do something he felt a little bit differently. tran was also accused of publicly undermining tellus and on several occasions went to listen talks about the possibility of direct dialogue with north korea last december trump said he was quote wasting his time to listen also appeared to be caught off guard by the recent offer of talks to kill young on his trip to africa last week or perhaps the lowest point was when to listen failed to deny outright reports that he had called trump a moron even so he said he was not expecting to be fired and had wanted to stay in the job i want to pull in our correspondent in washington carson phenomena good evening to you karsten we know that rumors had been rife why asked year earned that rex tillerson was probably on his way out so why the firing now. good question why thomas. president trump ones to restructure his foreign

policy and national security team had of a potential summit with north korean dictator kim jong un so you could say that it makes sense if you want to make such a change and of rex tillerson should no longer be ponts of that steam then to make that change as soon as possible of course there's a counter argument there especially if you have such an important meeting coming up it might not be a very good idea to change horses in midstream and it's also not always a good idea only to have people around you who agree with you and rex tillerson on several occasions on several topics like north korea like iran disagreed with the president and that might be a very important corrective in the process leading to such a summit but what really surprised me and what makes this timing particularly on it was that trump announced the change just hours after rex tillerson came back from

an important trip to africa where he tried to mend fences after. many african leaders felt insulted by remarks of president trump concerning african immigrants to the united states and then to fire rex tillerson just hours after he comes back looks pretty bad i mean many african leaders might think to themselves why did i spend time with a man who clearly had no leverage at that time anymore in the trumpet ministration yeah that is a very good point i mean this is an international story there's a lot of reaction coming from around the world one about from in washington. well from the republican side most people who have commented on this have concentrated on welcoming the decision to pick a mike pompei or as the new secretary of state there was very few. mentioning of rex tillerson i mean just to have one example nikki haley the u.s.

ambassador to the united nations in the tweet praised also the decision to have mike compare you as the next secretary of state but there was no mention not one word of rex tillerson on the opposition side the democrats in congress they said this is another. symbol or element of the chaos in the white house and they also hope that my comparable might indeed at least be a bit tougher on russia than rex tillerson had been our correspondent in washington on the story for us tonight carson fernand carson thank you very much we're here in europe many political leaders are taking a wait and see attitude to television's replacement mr mike. they are concerned about the iran nuclear agreement which several european countries helped to negotiate a pay it was known to be a hawk on the issue as is mr truong but nato and trade are also hot topics we spoke

to you're going heart and member of chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. party and a specialist in transatlantic relations. contrary to that what a president a nonsense a campaign trail he stays one hundred percent to nato obligations of us the number of us soldiers on european soil is higher than it was under obama and we appreciate that especially the polish government and polish people appreciate that extra tanks from us are now on the nato eastern border and therefore in foreign security issues we have a good quote sentiment concerning the us concerning other international project that our huge importance of free trade fight against climate change we we miss. corporation with us at the moment but. concentrate if we. didn't see. the willingness of the us to talk about what is in for more.

trades better trade relations between us and europe and we have that form out on the table and we ask and invite the u.s. government to come back to as a negotiation table. that was your heart speaking with us earlier in the day was a night police in britain are investigating a mysterious death of a russian exile in london counterterrorism police are looking into the incident they do not believe that it's linked to last week's nerve agent attack on a former russian spy the body was found in a suburb of southwest london the british media have identified the man as nikolai glues called he was a former associate of russian oligarch borza barrows off city who himself died in mysterious circumstances at his home near london five years ago. they joining us now from london is our correspondent of it so good evening to you

tess so so what do we know so far about the investigation into coffs death so he has been found yes of the night probably by its doctor but these requests have not been confirmed there was a report that he had traces of strangulation on his neck and that even the name has to now not been consent police so we have to wait in the met and requests of needless to say that he lived a very quiet life it was nice he came back two weeks ago from an operation on his leg with an kratos so he didn't seem to have the easiest periods of his life but right now. i'm tell us more about scalds background and why it's important. he was an associate in

friend of or a spare izhevsk who was not only in a russian oligarch an ex and might want the most pronounced poutine critics of the past eighteen years and. because he was in this. had lots of problems also till today with a russian authorities he first when barry's us he moved to london in two thousand. was put in jail for fraud for a few minutes in russia and after he was released moved to. great britain asked for political asylum got it and state and but two thousand and seventeen he had new cases coming up in russia against him he was again committed for fraud in absence and he was supposed to come to a court here in london and on monday and did not do so

so there might be a connection with these cases. but we do not know that at the moment all right a correspondent has just given on the story for us tonight in london to say thank you very much. we're in the case of the poisoned russian spy and his daughter britain has told moscow that it has until the end of today to explain why a deadly nerve agent produced only in russia was used in the apparent attempted murder prime minister to resume a threatening existence of retaliatory measures but moscow insists that it will only cooperate with the investigation if it receives samples of the nerve agent in question a substance known as no vigil. the kremlin has escalated a standoff with the u.k. over the poisoned ex by the foreign minister said britain isn't complying with

moscow's requests to see some plates of the nerve agent which he called a violation of the convention to ban chemical weapons. you could move russia is not guilty russia is ready to cooperate in accordance with the chemical weapons convention only if the united kingdom will deign to fulfill its legal obligations to the same convention that was the part of the caribbean. but keep british allies have cost out on claims that russia wasn't involved. but it sounds to me like they believe this is right and i would certainly say that rising is that. british police say they're not ready yet to name a specific suspect in the crime or even a person of interest. hundreds of offices continuing their investigation in the english town of saulsbury the british government has vowed to retaliate terry measure as if russia fails to allay suspicions that the kremlin was behind the

attack it's very important that people understand the gravity of what has happened and the outrage that the british government feels about the use of nerve agents use of chemical weapons or against innocent members of the public against innocent police officer on u.k. so. british prime minister to resign may is set to outline the government's further response on wednesday. in iran a prominent political analyst has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison after giving an interview to d.-w. . is a professor of political science at the university of tehran he spoke to the persian radio service earlier this year following anti-government protests in iran he says that he was convicted on the basis of that interview in which he expressed sympathy for the protestors iranian media say the academic was for spreading lies

and propaganda against the islamic republic he plans to appeal the conviction and a reminder of the top story we're following for you u.s. secretary of state. that he has been told he has not been told he is out of cia director. has been. made. with some instructions from.

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