the freeze for freeze as a precondition to talks i think president trump is demonstrating real ignorance about negotiating and how that works the reason you have to sit down is to avoid these kind of problems not set preconditions international community needs to do more to put pressure on the parties to sit down to demand that the parties sit down unconditionally i mean you have to remember the united states has. south korea and japan in just a few countries have never even recognized the right of north korea to exist has has not recognized them as a nation has no diplomatic relations so consequently who you talk to how you relate to them is always a little unclear no one's holding the united states feet to the fire to unconditionally sit down until there's a resolution to this issue so that we can work toward a nonproliferation in demilitarization of the korean peninsula. the

former f.b.i. director james comey heavily edited statements on hillary clinton's misuse of a private e-mail for official business the revelation comes from a release of f.b.i. documents and even show a draft statement clearing clinton of any wrongdoing two months prior to the official results of the case the statement says the former f.b.i. director repeatedly edited documents to reduce the impact of her potential mishandling of secret information he also made at its in order to dang grade the intelligence community's role in the issue and the likelihood to that hostile act is penetrated the e-mail server and is kind of not in our reports that does seem to be a common thing to running three probes in washington. it turns out the detective work is not only for the f.b.i. at this point many different us institutions are engaged in investigations and it can get pretty confusing from person of us who could write

a criminal investigation into president trump for possible obstruction of justice i really hope with a clear investigation into twenty ten year rhenium deal that involved russia and i'm a fan of the investigation. first there was the probe into hillary clinton and her time as secretary of state when she used a private server for her e-mails and compromise national security we can call that probe number one. after that lawmakers who are unhappy with the results launched a probe of their own to investigate the f.b.i. as initial probe will call that probe number two this found that one of the f.b.i. investigators peter strock exchanged pro clinton and anti trump text messages with his colleague electronic records show that peter struck changed former f.b.i. director james comey earlier draft language describing clinton's actions in handling classified materials from quote grossly negligent to extremely careless so

one of the f.b.i. agents who was doing the investigation may not have been completely impartial. now i hate to bring it up again but we all know about the ongoing investigation into allegations of russia trumped collusion we call that number three so agent strock is the link that connects all three he was investigating hillary clinton and he himself was investigated in probe number two and he was investigating and working on probe number three before he was fired over those and text messages republicans obviously were not pleased. once the just happened to our country what happens when people who are supposed to cure really calm. to venture side of even greater conflicts of interest in those who replied that's not a good question at this point it's pretty safe to say that the first three investigations were mass but congress has come up with a solution appoint

a second special counsel to look into this to look into peter's drug bruce or everything else we've learned the last several weeks you guessed it more investigations. are seeing new york and us political commentator john griffin police another investigation would only main a witch hunt against russia the bar has been set so low on this investigation especially after all intelligence agencies have said that they are absolutely was no impact on vote tally and there's even disagreement as to whether or not russia did intervene in the u.s. election especially after the d.n.c. now came forward and said that there leaks were not related to a russian hack so i think that that any additional vesta geisha would not only be supportive lewis it would actually be a violation of double jeopardy laws and protections of the constitution and it would amount to nothing more than a witch i think this neo mccarthyism needs to stop. still to come this

child's injury is wreaking u.s. troops currently stationed in japan and also we talked to the world ice hockey chief about the prospects for russian athletes at the winter olympics. because. only forty years they play a short tournament. a much as you have your lifetime beautiful part of the olympics they've won so many. wife whatever some have six times. it's a rather stupid story. just black sit on i discovered about the struggle of. that was a moment where isis targets the body looked like it was about to be destroyed and as someone who put themselves on a kiss here are some people struggling for on the kist ideology if i didn't

somebody with the skill with the ability to go and help those people in the existential struggle in a moment of need then my whole life ought not be a hypocrite. hello again that the u.s. military presence in the japanese island of okinawa is again fueling anger among locals there in the latest in a string of incidents a ten year old boy who was injured by a window that fell off an american helicopter.

and at the time of that incident fifty children were in the school playground one was slightly hurt by the wind which landed nearby and weighed nearly ten kilos the u.s. marine corps says it has launched an investigation the reverend a chemistry teacher who lives on the island told us why locals are so disgruntled with their american neighbors on the t.v. or the mass media they did not begin you when the going on in the mainland you know this kind of into this or accidents happening all the time that's kinda god and my friends here are the very act of god only that sit in that was wrong on the rooftops the signs still there and bring the outside world. we experience to

a time when you need very very people in tokyo or before you know all sorts of people in the mainland to change their mind. well the presence of the u.s. military in a canal has been in the spotlight for more than twenty years residents there have long demanded a total relocation and over the years a number of u.s. service personnel have been accused of killings and rapes on the island. thank. you thank you thank. you out was the out of the hour was out.

you know how many crying. people. they were people. in the name of what are the main reason that we want our u.s. naval base on the island. of you know i very small island where it got a day and we look at the housing the whole way around the mayberry basically nothing of it by little gratian accidentally gave up with that like we on the ground. by france is to completely ban phones from primary and middle schools from the next academic year they are already beginning classrooms but now youngsters will be barred from using their devices during breaks or between lessons and it is proving to be pretty divisive as we heard here an art style looking at a mobile phone they rely on social media to you seeing the best or worst of people

on social media that's what i think why is only just come out phones and talks about friends during the break time play just do what we were yesterday. and then take the phones when they go home and just you know just leave for what six hours you're legislating for i think a problem that really doesn't exist i mean i'm twenty five i remember when i was in secondary school and you weren't on your phone the entire time you know when you were on your breaks your other playing football or hanging out with your mates you're trying to deal the problem with being stereotyped by the media about young people constantly being on the phone constantly being hooked on it and it just it's a myth it doesn't really exist actually are rather going to computer in my session to go through that we've got enough computer at the university to not have to rely on phones schools most secondary schools and universities are slightly richer most secondary schools can afford. to have laptops or computers in every classroom so having the ability of having students access information online via their phones is

quite useful to be honest my class were all quite happy to leave i phones i leave my phone in the office during university time so you know why can't they do the same and they were kind of in agreement with may interaction between students and teachers the so important they need to leave their friends at home leave them tell them leave the classroom even to break time they need to sort of concentrate on what they're doing with their time their phone is just a tool technology is not just going to suddenly go away. legislating is like being a luddite you know when when the invention of machinery started coming into factories and people were against that the reality is that this kind of stuff is happening and people are moving forward and for me schools have to embrace than build it into their education system a lot more than they're doing at the moment telling kids not to do something they will end up doing the complete opposite so it's better to just embrace it and use it as a tool to expand learning the use of in school is already a controversial topic elsewhere york city introduced

a similar rule back in two thousand and five but it was scrapped ten years later on the grounds that it was preventing parents from contacting their children a recent study by the london school of economics did find that banning most. can improve academic results but under current rules in britain the decision is left to individual school it's. twenty eighteen winter olympics we're seeing kick off in south korea however i made the dating scandal the russian flag and anthem banned from the games and it's prompted debate on whether russian hockey players will be allowed to wear their famous red shirts what we spoke to the international ice hockey federation president a member of the i.o.c. brenny fassel. fifty days before the start of the. facing the challenges we have is that. giving a country the right to use the flag of the anthem it's a very very tough position but they i would say i'm very pleased about the attitude

from from the other for the racial process you bring in the olympics hockey federation they were there all supporting me and showing support really to the russian i said that's for me a very good sign that in ice hockey we have this family spirit and that was one of the positive points but as i said the uniform. the flags and everything it's step by step you know weaving your operational guidelines and we will follow and we spoke because this is this is a holy job. what about the winter olympics without the n.h.l. players and also without the red machine because they will not be able to wear the red jersey as far as the weather is you don't need the jersey to be the red machine just be the red machine so. what would you tell the people that are saying that without the n.f.l.

players the ice hockey team during the winter olympics is getting somewhat similar to the football team sort of football tournament during the on which to been there i don't you know they're not under twenty three so they were actually there would be the best players outside of the n.h.l. so it would be a pretty good hockey tournament. you're trying to put in the questions then i finally a robot security guard designed to stop homeless people from settling on private property in san francisco has been booted off the job locals were getting more than a little nervous when the device began profiling the surrounding streets to take.

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this is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. and beyond with me coming up what does the future hold for now it's been months since at last made headlines in mexico is allegedly exploring other options one expert will tell us what he thinks will happen plus we'll hear from our correspondent alex mann hell of it in toronto and how businesses in canada are preparing for different outcomes now let's get to today's top business and

financial headlines. on friday leaders from across the european union agreed to move forward to the next round of brecht's at talks the first issue to be discussed early next year will be a two year transition period after the u.k. formally exits by march officials are hoping to begin security and trade talks at a press conference european commission president john quality younker expressed his optimism about future negotiations. the first. issue is the growth of the weave. we have been most. polluted to text putting to go to. greet. students. to greet this will be done in the close the next weeks and the aim is to have you through a few floods photobook two thousand and eighteen and i'm convinced that the exactly

that we'll be the. he was joined by european council president donald tusk who later congratulated british prime minister theresa may on twitter for making it to the second phase following the announcement may called the progress and important step on the road to delivering a smooth and orderly breck said i'm pleased that it's been agreed we should make rapid progress on the implementation period which will give certainty to businesses and individuals there's still more to do but we're well on the road to delivering a bricks that will make britain prosperous strong and secure according to the most recent e.u. guidelines the u.k. will remain under the jurisdiction of the european court of justice during the transition period and more significantly the so-called divorce bill will be determined as soon as possible. along with other notable trade deals president trump has put the future of the north american free trade agreement into question leaders met in washington this week to continue the discussion on it

but as time passes canada and mexico are putting their energy toward other alternatives to talk more about this we're joined now by men well. associate fellow at the institute for policy studies many well it seems like nafta has sort of fallen off the media map because we know so much has been going on in washington recently to say the least so can you just give us a refresher first i mean where are we at in the point of negotiations well it's difficult to know where we are because it was stations are being done in secret behind doors behind the public behind the pris i'm behind the legislators as well we know though that they're very delayed there's only a couple of chapters that are like the low fruit kind of tough being back to the really where there are the most controversial chapters are completely the late they wanted the newer shares to finish their negotiation by the end of the year they haven't been able to do so so the negotiations will be carried out on to the mix.

here what they wanted was to avoid sports in the you was so soon mexico and as time passes the negotiations start getting closer to those elections so it sounds like there is a lot of uncertainty a lot of uncertainty well recently there was a house subcommittee hearing on nafta and leaders from all different sectors and government got together to talk about what they think we should do about nafta and so i want to take a listen to what the vice president of the council of the americas had to say. now after has directly supported mexico's democratic transformation while also establishing a framework of trust supporting close u.s. cooperation across a range of security issues including counter-narcotics counterterrorism and migration so i thought that was pretty interesting i mean when we think about nafta we just think about trade and the economy we never talk about how it could impact mexico's democracy and their security so how is it had that much of an impact well not supposed much more than trade enough to support investment and i want to say

here that enough place basically about the content about nafta today is between the rights of workers and the rights of investors so this is quickly this question these in the end. what nafta does from nation it's about exploiting cheap labor in mexico that's what it's all about about enhanced investor rights so these are the two things that the mexican government is rip descent to this cause and it's interesting how you don't agree with many police of the presidency both one disruption that i have got to think that's been if you go is to open up to these questions about nafta and it's important. to understand it the other day also. in congress that nafta should be an agreement that works for all workers for workers not only in the united states holds for workers in mexico and works in canada and this is i think the center of it and this is totally meant the government of my

country is reticent to open up this discussion the government thinks it is the sober and rights of mexico to deter mean salaries and labor labor standards and we mean the unions farmers are going to say sions and others think that the discussion should be opened up. around labor day rights we're eight while we know that you know speaking of trump he loves to be unpredictable so he's saying that he wants to plant. now far we you know we really don't know as we're just saying moments ago we don't know what's going to happen so do you think that the u.s. could really pull out of nafta i mean we're already very behind schedule here and we don't know what would happen if we did pull out we don't know what's in the mind of mr trump you know that's very true but if he was capable of withdrawing the united states from such an important box like the. courts on climate change and he also with all the united states from the transpacific partnership i think he would

be capable to withdraw in the united states from he said it's very clearly that he wants to a bilateral agreements one with canada and one with mexico that's what's in his mind and i think only the corporate pressure because the benefits from left are the ones that can. proceed and trump his you don't know what to do. in the belief that he's mind about what he says about the future of nafta he sees these two separate agreements what we come out on with mexico right well speaking of mexico mexico's economy minister said that mexico was thinking about launching a trade deal with the european union and he said that there are a lot of things that they need to iron out so it's not close to being done but it looks like it could really be a possibility if mexico did create a trade deal with the e.u. do you think that would make up for a loss in trade relations with the united states i don't think so the first thing is that mexico ready for to remain with the european union in and force in the year

two thousand in this seven thousand years of the mexico you free trade agreement has been detrimental to mexico mexico has a huge deficit with the group in the union this agreement with europe into your two thousand was supposed to help mexico over its huge dependence on the u.s. market well we didn't it's mostly european companies exporting to mexico on investing to mexico to use in mexico as a platform. well for exporting to the us now what they're doing now is more than once in the free trade agreement with europe so there's a process of there in the station a little bit like enough votes enough to break what is going more more rapidly it may be concluded early next year and what we are concerned about i want to say we are going to sit around the world care about the environment and social and the public rights is that disagreement with europe will give more power doing restores

most rights to investors to the determent to workers. well canada actually just our prime minister justin trudeau of canada said that canada would consider an individual deal with the united states if nafta falls apart do you think mexico would consider the same thing yeah i think mexico in the end just given in to what the united states would offer i don't think it's just much bargaining power. one other thing that i saw recently in a new york times article is that that this author examined how nafta sort of opened up the door of high sugar and high calorie processed foods into mexico from the u.s. and they point to mexico's high obesity rate which that's now around twenty percent and pretty nafta it was around seven percent but then of course the other side of the argument is that nafta you could make the argument that nafta has helped mexico's economy and that the life expectancy there is longer so i just thought that was a really interesting takes we never really consider health when we're talking about

nafta just like how we also don't really consider security or counterterrorism so what is your thought on that you know there was a previous study by the institute for recall child and truth polisi. one thousand to look into how mexico because it's the second most obese country in the world and canada there's also still the civil kind of the moral beast because of nafta you and as well but yeah well the thing is that nafta changed the patterns of consumption of my. succumbs we have much more fast food i'm not going to name did chains but we've got chains all over mexico and the golf course they give cheaper food chipper. choices and this and that of course the soft the suffering seen the story of swill all the sold us and mexico and start consuming all the sport it's a big way and this has produced the these guys made mexico the second most obese control the world and this is interesting because sometimes they spin enough to see

enough to rescue with mexicans better choices better consumption choices and in the end most of these choices are about choices like what to do would you mention this is two brothers full of sugars and refined flour and fortunately mexico has only a crisis so for obesity brought on that be that because diabetes. this is the sweet home of health problem so it's consumerism it is very clear that it's not just have been difficult for for mexico it's very interesting discussion manwell her as roche associate fellow at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for your time think you can go thank you very much with nafta talks up in the air many canadian businesses are considering moving their operations south of the border to the u.s. in fact some companies in canada are saying that they're already being affected negatively because of nafta talks and thinks setting up shop in the u.s. could cushion the blow artie's alex mahila bettors in toronto with more for us alex

how serious is this i mean are there that many canadian businesses that are actually thinking about making the move. well you know just think about what you just said it's the talks alone that are affecting businesses here in canada so if nafta was actually to go the way of the dodo they wouldn't be a very good thing a for canada at least for these businesses that's the way that they see it look like canada seventy five percent of our exports from canada go to the u.s. so obviously the u.s. is our biggest market by far and for many companies a lot of the business that they do so they are not very diversified crude the stuff that they sell or the merchandise or the services have to cross the border much more merchandise much more attainable things than services so when you look at these companies there's a large number that are saying they have to set up shop at south of the border so that they don't have to deal with the border when crossing the border if nafta goes away so right now the way that these supply chains are set up move things quite

smoothly so they think if they have an operation south of the border that that can somehow move around the fact of having to cross the border each and every day that the stats that we have are from export development canada it's a crown corporation meaning it's owned by the canadian government and they talk to over a thousand companies surveyed there's a quarter of these companies so actually twenty six percent out of a thousand surveyed back in october say they indicate they are movie or considering moving part of the upper of their operation inside the u.s. border in response to that elevated uncertainty regarding trade with the u.s. or u.s. trade policy again this is what you were just talking about the very unsure what is going to be trump's next move now twenty three of these bread percent of these companies are saying that nafta talks just the talks alone are hitting their canadian operations now we know that this is all supposed to modernize what's going on the new modern version of nafta that's what canada hoped for the.