coming up calling for good chemistry donald trump removes america's top diplomat rex tillerson saying they didn't see eye to eye so cia director mike pompei o now set to take over rex tillerson seat at the state department and gina haskell is known for her role in the torture program will take over the agency frames or not ahead coming up to moscow says it had nothing to do with the poisoning of a former double agent sort of case crippled in the u.k. last week. merican the doomsday by purchasing survival equipment and underground bunkers as some continue to fear a north korean nuclear. by

good morning this is art international life with me kevin though in a first of all the change to some of the top jobs of the u.s. to tell you about donald trump has fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson leads the first to fall in washington after president trump promised a shake up last week saying he was seeking perfection in his administration trump explained his decision by saying the two didn't really see eye to eye on a number of issues. talking about. gun. rights but. when you look at. iran you know i think that there are. those that want to break. their will trump used twitter to announce a few new appointments this morning so secretary of tillerson secretary of state rex tillerson will be replaced by

a cia director mike pompei now tillerson has admitted that he doesn't have a twitter account and he has all of trump's tweets printed out for him so that's apparently how he found out he got fired and that's according to steve goldstein undersecretary for public diplomacy and tillerson has just returned from his africa tour so not exactly the best welcome home but a spokesman for tillerson said that there hasn't been any direct conversations with trump regarding the decision however rumors surrounding tillerson is departure have been floating around for months now thanks to a very very slowly thanks they were the really. really of the right. going commenting on the new appointment trump said that he until or some had a number of disagreements ranging from of iran deal to negotiations with north korea and the tiller said reportedly even called trump a moron a report that the former secretary of state hasn't even denied but the back and

forth ended with trump challenging tillerson to an i.q. test and according to reports the president wasn't too pleased with tillerson body language either he was said to have slouched in a rolled his eyes during meetings with trump so now a former cia director will be the nation's top diplomat trump spoke to journalists about it and he was all praise for pompei o a man he said to have had a great understanding with since the beginning we are very like him but whatever. whatever it was. both right. and just to remind you this all happens amid talks with north korea so i'm not sure how pointing a former cia director to the highest diplomatic position in the country will affect diplomacy with the d.p. r. k. but in the past trump has also criticized tillerson for being too establishment but what's more establishment than the cia and that's the question left on our minds

but last week trump promised a more cabinet shake up saying he's seeking perfection so maybe this last move is trouble getting closer to his perfect view of the world. in d.c. the rex tillerson is set to remain in office we hear until the end of this month and then we'll effectively step away from politics more detail and turn off our correspondent as more of the new face of american diplomacy plus to his successor a junior hospital who works nesting in washington might be the new diplomat in chief of the iron fist to lead america's state department he's had the president under his spell for a while already the to see eye to eye on normal stove rethink the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic career trump and share common spite towards iran and north korea both of them like to call torture enhanced interrogation and they are fans of the n.s.a.'s warrantless bulk data collection where they stand on whistleblowers is

one of the few things trump and don't quite agree on well they have to differ on something. it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service but abetted by state actors like russia. i can't think of a thing that is put america in a better position as a result of this deal we're a year out from the agreement and every single action the iranians have taken has been bolder and starker than the one they took. for the agreement. a very real danger. by hardly ever escape a day at the white house without the president asking me about north korea and how it is that the united states is responding to that threat it's very much at the top of his mind they are ever closer to having the capacity to hold america risk with a nuclear weapon this is the man elevated to america's top diplomat and descending

with him is his former deputy gina hospital will be the first woman to lead the cia with her boss's impending departure she worked undercover and in secret for years she clearly likes being out of the spotlight and it could be for a good reason she was one of the tortue chieftains at the cia in two thousand and two aspell ran the operations of an agency black site in thailand where two terrorist suspects were tortured one of them was nearly killed during these so-called interrogation agents slammed his head against the wall water boarded him deprived of sleep and kept him in a coffin like box and it was hospital reportedly who later gave the order to destroy the tapes which recorded the torment along with other evidence given trump's pledge to keep the guantanamo bay operational and he's advocating of waterboarding everything falls into place it seems now the state department and the

cia will have plenty in common you know in hansing not just interrogation techniques but a diplomatic routine to. spoke to the former specialist john kerry believes that trump's unwillingness to listen to alternative views could be behind compos appointment no i don't think donald trump ever wanted anybody around him he was going to offer contrary advice he wants to be locked up he wants people to say yes mr president what a great idea mr president let's do it your way mr president and so slowly that's what we're seeing happening the president is that a number of times that he wants to just do away with the with it really and campaign that supports that the president also has very strong support among the gulf monarchies against iran and certainly among the israelis and so i think that he thinks that this is the right thing to do so what's around the corner well that nomination of mike pompeo could bode ill for that crucial around nuclear deal as

pompei was known for his harsh criticism of iran and the agreement reached in twenty fifteen earlier today trouble reiterated his opposition to to the nuclear deal with iran. but everywhere we go in the middle east it is a red or an iran behind every problem is iran well we're dealing with it in a very serious fashion one of the worst deals i've ever seen was the iran deal one hundred fifty billion dollars we gave them for what. let's go thought so from the policy director robert nyman from the organization just foreign policy hey robert thanks very much being with us so what do you think about this replacement to listen with pompei oh we could probably see it coming could we be said to be a yes man for trump and he's very much against the iran deal so what's next do you think. well everything so far you've said is true in terms of the consolidation of

the anti iran hawks but there is another part of the equation which is that the united states government has three branches the executive what we're talking about and congress in the judiciary under article one of the constitution the war powers resolution it's congress not the president that decides on the use of force and too many times in the past of course congress has to see to that but already to the administration but just now we're starting to see members of congress step up within days we could see of a vote on the floor of the senate to end unauthorized u.s. participation in the catastrophic saudi war in yemen and in there to be in the three sponsors were on the senate floor today people are clearly talking about the implications. elsewhere there are other they want to assert their authority in other places people are talking about the implications of this for syria or ukraine

let's go back to iran forget such a big deal and trump has been so critical of it is is there a chance that it could be back. well it's really difficult because the dealers can it's. not just a deal between the united states in iraq it's a deal that includes russia and china it was ratified by the u.n. security council the key part of the sanctions that were escalated in the run up to the deal were the european sanctions actually. united states can't meet europe or china or russia. stakes and so acutely america strongly the deal unilaterally can do some things unilaterally as it's already been doing trying to discourage. banks and businesses going back would lead to a whole lot more friction than by the sound of it was certainly could but then

again other people have a saying you're lenience the russians and china ever say the united states congress has a say in pompey who has to go through a confirmation hearing in the senate where it where there are forty nine democrats and two republicans rand that's what i was going to get yeah if we jump the gun ears on a chance any chance at all to explain to our viewers how it works is going to be passed is going to be scrutinized are going to able to have a say about the job is there a danger they might fall of that hurdle is a done thing that it will get the job. i don't think it's a done thing it's a it's a difficult hill to the start of a presidential appointment of a cabinet secretary particularly when the senate is controlled by the same koreas the president but they're going to a majority fifty one there is some skepticism you know a lot of democrats most democrats support the iran nuclear deal many in the

senate are skeptical of the you know neo con in iran who are action trump kick the iran deal to the president to congress and gave congress the opportunity to re-impose sanctions that would violate the deal congress didn't do that so it's not a done deal and particularly when tokyo goes through his confirmation hearings that's an opportunity for senators to press in and say you know what are you doing about that what you know what are your real goals here for this competition in iran in particular as i said yemen is actually the flashpoint right now where you had the senator tired yawn of indiana republican senator democratic senator jeanne right now pushing a bill a senate joint resolution fifty five there would give its blessing to what they call occurring on going to iran operations in yemen you see there it's actually the

front line of korea. that are attacking iran in yemen robert robert before you go just got thirty seconds of so i just want to ask you about one other quick quick thing the hospital she's moved up she was deputy director know she's going to be direct to the cia again if she makes the over the hurdles to get through good or bad news in twenty seconds. no news in particular because for her role in torture which is again a long standing struggle going back to the previous administration again i expect her to have a tough confirmation hearing where she has asked those questions about what her role was in torture by the u.s. government and what her policies would be going forward as director of the cia robert i'm affects your thoughts from the organization just foreign policy appreciate it. in britain moscow said it had nothing to do with the poisoning of former russian intelligence agency sergey scrip

and his daughter in the english city of solsbury but i see you're not in the russia is in the sense that we're waiting for the united kingdom to respond sure request that we filed in accordance with the very same convention in your pledge you listed about this necessity to provide us with the substance in question and the necessity to make the whole investigation open to us with the us because we're talking about a russian citizens. authorities in the u.k. are still investigating the poisoning of surrogates cripple and his daughter yulia earlier this month they believe the pair were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent first produced in the soviet union traces of that substance have been detected the restaurant where the two eight before they were then taken ill and found unconscious on a nearby park bench. part of our team in the u.k. has got the latest now on the escalating dispute tonight between london and moscow . well we have a situation of a real diplomatic standoff right now where both the u.k.

and russia are demanding more information about the nerve agent used in the attack and solsbury from each other russia's rejecting britain's ultimatum effectively while at the same time boris johnson who's gay lover of british counterpart here the foreign secretary he's reiterating the ultimatum take a listen you want the russians to give you the courage to what's been going on and if they can come up with a convincing explanation in full disclosure needs to be given to the organization for the proof of chemical weapons or chemical weapons watchdog in the hague we give them into big night tonight to do that if they can't then clearly the government will come food measures a response that is a community group but last well you heard the word robust there that's been a word that's been deployed by the british government in relation to measures towards russia throughout this kind of diplomatic crisis and it has turned into

a diplomatic standoff yesterday to resume a pointed the finger squarely at the kremlin when she was talking about the nerve agent used in the attack in solsbury she spoke about it being a weapons grade and from the knob family which was secretly produced in the soviet union in the one nine hundred eighty s. but in the ninety's it was information about it was leaked so technically it's a recipe that's out there and could have been used by anyone but the reason may in parliament said that it could have only have been produced in russia so this is an attack that was either sanctioned by moscow or moscow has lost control of are prohibited and dangerous chemical weapon now practically all the politicians in the house of. in the u.k. agreed and supported to reason may's intended course of action in relation to

russia take a lesson the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the to go and do the script we are not getting the right result and we possess a considerable range of offensive cyber capabilities which we will not hesitate to deploy against that state if it is necessary we've all agreed that russia is a q the present danger we have got to be fully organized to meet that danger now the home secretary amber rudd has chaired another emergency cobra committee meeting today she was getting updates on that investigation into the spy poisoning which some people might be forgiven for mistakenly thinking had stopped but that investigation is still ongoing there's still lots to uncover there and rather the home secretary has also announced that following media allegations that the deaths of other russian dissidents of businessmen may have been suspicious she's

instructed the police and m i five to assist with looking into the alleged russian state involvement in the deaths of up to fourteen more people on u.k. soil. the u.k.'s top counter-terror officer says no details are being revealed about the investigation while it's ongoing. i understand there is interest in this case however with such a sensitive and complex and you'll understand that i cannot say anything that may impact on the whole work of the progress being made we are of course getting many questions regarding how and where the nerve agent was actually administered i can't comment on that at this hour but despite no evidence of moscow's alleged involvement having been provided some news outlets have been nonetheless speculating about how the u.k. could respond now one british paper suggested they'll be an increased nato presence on russia's border and the further sanctions could be imposed on the country others suggest senior russian diplomats could be expelled and that u.k.

politicians could boycott the upcoming fee for world cup some say the assets of oligarchs should be frozen we spoke to a number of analysts to get their thoughts they told us it's wrong to blame russia at this point as there are too many still unanswered questions about what's going on here. there is a political agenda driving this process this incident not only the instant as itself but the timing of it just before the russian elections is really falling into the hands of those that want to drive further problems between for example britain and russia this material of this chemical agent could have been produced elsewhere and of course there may be may be freshly produced or there may have been stocks that are still outstanding and still being used course it's massively premature for the government to be saying to russia or any suspect you've got to forty eight hours to respond or else we're going to take action in other words take some punishment against you the russians developed this in the one nine hundred eighty s. the old soviet union it doesn't necessarily mean that as

a consequence there are people running around the globe in this nerve gas on our own people no i do think we need some caution here and be aware it is not just the russians that have this sort of stuff in the capability to have new concrete evidence yet and i think that's very important if we have called for concrete evidence then yes something should be out acted upon but until that point i think we should be more cautious i think corbin's right in saying we don't want to be ratcheting up this rhetoric meantime counter-terror police in the u.k. said they're investigating now the death of a man in london he is understood to be russian exile nicholai coffer friend of the late boris berezovsky was reportedly found dead at his home in the british capital late monday night london's metropolitan police say counter-terror police are looking into the case quote as a precaution because of associations he had claimed asylum in the u.k. in two thousand and four after serving a five year prison sentence here in russia for fraud british authorities have said

there is no evidence that his death is connected to events in salisbury. latest in syria the russian defense ministry center for reconciliation says almost one hundred fifty civilians often children have been able to leave syria's rebel held on clothes eastern ghouta it says they left by that humanitarian corridor that had been set up and was sent to temporary accommodation the evacuation comes as part of a deal struck by that center and rebel leaders in the insurgent held region as part of the agreement some of the fighters there will also be able to leave if they guarantee safe passage to those civilians he said go to which is close to damascus came under rebel control back in twenty twelve since then government forces have been trying to recapture that area fighting intensified there last month and in recent days the latest is that the syrian government's regained a large portion of the territories sensually driving the militants into three pockets is there but the situation for civilians trapped in the embattled areas remains dire people have been caught in the crossfire and are suffering shortages

of food and supplies meantime other developments america's envoy to the united nations security council has said that washington is prepared to act unilaterally and intervene in the conflict against the syrian government we are also warned any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and any human suffering most especially the outlaw syrian regime the united states remains prepared to act if we must in the past sixteen days there have been three separate allegations of chlorine gas attacks. this is no ceasefire this is the assad regime iran and russia are continuing to wage war against their political opponents for the cost of when you may recall that we understand that the goal of this just in from asian campaign is to manipulate public opinion and convince people the syrian government is using chemical weapons issue but we have reasonable concerns that there are preparations to stage fake chemical attacks in order to later accuse the

government and according to our data on the fifth of march the only street terrorists used chlorine in eastern injuring thirty people. here in this morning up to sixty people have been detained by russia's ministry of internal affairs in the moscow region that's the area around moscow this suspected of forging documents they're legally smuggling eisel supporters to syria and iraq those arrested are also suspected of helping illegal migrants to russia from central asia the website of the russian internal affairs ministry has published a video of the operation we see at their video shows detentions and searches as well as a large number of seized documents such as foreign passports seals border stamps bank cards migrations difficult as well as money and there are both men and women apparently among detainees one of them claims that he is legally working in a restaurant another one says she works as a career and transports documents and that she's been earning money for a year by selling migration certificates. up. north korea.

may currently be a floor under way in relations between north korea and the united states but the american public it seems are like it's a little more convincing server just last month showed that a whopping eighty two percent of the u.s. public see north korea as a critical threat to america pyongyang is also surged to the top of washington's greatest enemies list too and that's got many americans preparing for a worst case scenario if you can afford it one retail giants cashing in anywhere in the u.s. has been selling a survival kit that can keep a family of four sustain for a whole year and a pretty well cost those six thousand dollars. if you're planning on sitting out a nuclear pocalypse maybe on your own or there's a sad thought there's a cheap one thousand dollar option to keep one person well fat fed if it had loans that must be said people are the only stocking up on food there are other things to buy to protect other retailers are selling potassium iodine tablets which share help ward off effects of radiation demand for the medicines in fact been to

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