security council which is in the international system the final court on peace and security with u.n. security council resolution twenty two thirty one and she said as it's there in shrine in that resolution it's an international reality that cannot be changed by any one country it's worth reminding you merriam that when that resolution was passed which has the whole of the iran deal as an annex as part of that resolution the resolution was dry. by a permanent member of the un security council that was the us. that's right and the she made of when she spoke about the fact that iran deal has effectively enshrined in un law through this resolution she said that has many powers but he doesn't have this wanted reference to whether he can terminate the deal but interestingly this idea that the trump administration is tight trying to create enough uncertainty that there can be some sort of followup deal or additional deal that incorporates iran's other activities its ballistic missile program except she she said that there's absolutely no room to maneuver on that and no political will to to

u.n. security council resolution that was passed unanimously that resolution was drafted by one of the permanent members of the u.n. security council yes which one the united states ed and european union federica military any the european union foreign policy chief has been putting a lot of pressure on the americans not to decertify this theory because they want it to continue right they're happy with how it's gone so yeah the e.u. the u.k. of the germans the french the chinese the russians everyone else wants to keep this deal and the reality is in the white house and in the trumpet ministration the secretary of defense the secretary of state the national security advisor they all think the deals in in the u.s. interest what i think they've crafted is a way to keep. resident trump happy because he doesn't like this deal and they're hoping that by decertifying and then persuading congress not to put the sanctions in place that they can please president trump but keep a deal all right we'll see what happens later today thank you so much for that james frey's our diplomatic editor. now to south af

u.n. security council resolutions relating to ballistic missile testing. that's a fact.ld look at what president obama and secretary kerry said we should do, we should look at snapback sanctions with regard to activities, malign activities with regard to iran. so i believe that broadening the aperture of what they're doing, and, remember, you know, we always think that, you know, because secretary kerry spent so much time with the iranians that they're some kind of normal country. they have a history of cheating on these kinds of deals. but, jake, they're still the number one sponsor of state terrorism in the world and their activities in that regard have only increased -- >> right. >> since the deals. >> i don't disagree with that, but that wasn't part of the agreement, as you know. the agreement was about nuclear proliferation within iran, it wasn't about activities related to terrorism. maybe it should have been, but i guess the question is, the deal that they have right now, i feel like i'm hearing two different messages from you. one is what we heard from the house

u.n. security council with a resolution unanimously adopted, a deal that america helped to shape enormouslyuld be rejected by the same country. if we pass the message that every change of administration in washington or elsewhere deals are thrown away and renegotiated, no one would negotiate with any administration ever and any deal would be exposed to be renegotiated every term. this is not a way of making deals, not in foreign policy, not in private businesses, and i think president trump understands this perfectly well. >> woodruff: high representative federica mogherini, thank you very much for talking with us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: a nation divided. opposing views on the trump administration's latest moves. but first, the drug crisis in america today is killing more people each year than aids, gun deaths or car crashes did at their peaks. tonight we look at the role of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid increasingly driving that high mortality rate, and pushing law enforcement, health professionals and lawmakers to search for new solutio

u.n. security council, and we can do something about it. in terms of where we can inspect, the deal covers a number of iranian nuclear sites at any of which the international atomic energy agency can do inspections. the deal also includes provisions that allow us to present evidence of iranian wrongdoing if our intelligence community figures out that iran is working on something inappropriate at another site. we can present that evidence to the iaea, they can demand access into it. if iran denies access, they have 24 days in which to deny or grant access, and if they deny it, that's where we start to kick everything back to the u.n. security council, that's where we enter that whole snapback of sanctions discussion. so the deal has built-in provisions for if we have concerns about sites that are outside the deal. however, the trump administration has not in any way presented any concerns that would rise to that level which is why iran has not been asked to open up other sites. we simply don't have evidence, we don't believe right now -- the

u.n. security council, and we can do something about it. in terms of where we can inspect, the deal covers a number of iranian nuclear sites at any of which the international atomic energy agency can do inspections. the deal also includes provisions that allow us to present evidence of iranian wrongdoing if our intelligence community figures out that iran is working on something inappropriate at another site. we can present that evidence to the iaea, they can demand access into it. if iran denies access, they have 24 days in which to deny or grant access, and if they deny it, that's where we start to kick everything back to the u.n. security council, that's where we enter that whole snapback of sanctions discussion. so the deal has built-in provisions for if we have concerns about sites that are outside the deal. however, the trump administration has not in any way presented any concerns that would rise to that level which is why iran has not been asked to open up other sites. we simply don't have evidence, we don't believe right now -- the

u.n. security council resolution. so what i have seen and i saw also up at the high level week at the u.n. in new york last week that all countries have been -- are seized with this matter looking actively at what more they can do to choke off illicit trade and other kinds of diplomatic and presence and labor presence in their country. so i think we will keep up that pressure and we need to keep it up. we need to keep a unified international coalition on this, but having countries and our partners raising it with other countries as well as has proven to be very effective. >> thank you and miss handle occur, when the president announced executive order 13810, he referenced a chinese central bank directive sent to other chinese banks that sounded like the central bank instructed the others to cut off new business with north korea and wind down existing loans. there's even less known about what will happen to china's current north korean business or future ability to deposit or transfer dprk funds. can you shed any light

u.n. security council however russia voted against it along with bolivia china and kazakstan ics stained and did not take a position because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council they were able to veto this resolution now the russian ambassador went on to the united states of basically creating a widespread media campaign in the lead up to the vote this is what he had to say. a few days before publication of the report to the gym a resolution is her is rushed to extend it by a year before that a powerful campaign in the media is launched. ambassador healy gave an interview in which she clearly cues dresher of trying to undermine and to peter the work of the jim she sends a letter to letter to the members of the security council speaking about the urgency of extending the mechanism now at this point russia has said many times before that it has some very serious concerns about the o.p.c. w.-a how they're conducting this investigation for example of this is about the chemical attack that took place in qana shaken but no o.p.c. w. investigators have ever been to the site of

u.n. security council resolution 2231 of 2015 which mirrors the jcpoa which reads, iran is called upon not to undertake activity as it relates to the development of ballistic missiles. if strikes me if the u.n. security council agreed on 1929, which said shall not, that we have evidence in the international community will agree to stronger sanctions which will prohibit the delivery systems of nuclear weapons of being developed by the iranians and it's been done. and the jcpoa with verbiage created more latitude. everyone who knows about this issue, knows that the irgc controls the bulk of the black economy in iran, probably over 90%. and funnels the vast quantity of the real economy in iran through its own coffers. so i heard someone say that the isa was never fully enforced. and i've created a paradigm because i'm not that smart, but this makes sense to me, that i would wager that if we said to our allies in particular, and i'll call out some european nations if anybody wants to asks for specificity. they can choose between doing business with iran and the icgc or us and we put some teeth

u.n. security council recently. well there has been a significant shift in china's policy in recent months in the past that was accused by the us among others of not fully implementing the sanctions that had been passed in the u.n. security council however in recent months it's clearly has been playing its part in ensuring that these sanctions are implemented along with those that were recently unilaterally introduced by the united states for example the whole banks within china have been instructed not to carry out business with north korea we've heard about north korean businesses being shut down in china in coming months so clearly there has been a shift in the chinese position where it is willing to bring pressure to bear on the north korean regime now this is significant because it is something that it was accused of not doing in the past and in so doing what is happening is that there is a closer approach between the u.s. and china not only matters pertaining to north korea but also wider issues of trade and i

u.n. security council. it is a u.n. document. is it possible for a president to unilaterally dessert file this important international deal? this is a document -- this is not a document between iran and the united states but the treaty that he doesn't like. with respect to on ethics and also important, incorrect tatements unjustified, false accusations, based accusations against iran against the iranian that , the great nation claimed to the southern part of the persian gulf, truth part in a unique .residential race nation that has democracy and civilization and culture and is committed to all international accords and agreements that i respect them. s it right to this nation or he country that keeps invading with the region? a country that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in different parts of the world from vietnam to latin america to other countries. a country that has used bombs, ombs to kill these people. someone should claim he wants to stand against nuclear weapons. this is someone that tries to stand gets a nucl

u.n. security council he can impose them. all he has to do is direct the the nextr to stop periodic waiver of them. he can also take diplomatic the central -- government and baghdad, getting them to stop working so closely militia.ian working with israel and our partners in lebanon that does not want to see hezbollah as a state within a state. working with israel and the emirates. holding at risk the arabian peninsula, commerce. same thing with the persian golf. taking a firmer hand. if we need to take additional steps in congress like we did this summer, passing new sanctions and included more iran.ons and are on -- in right now the president has most of what he needs and he is obviously taken a much firmer approach with iran than the last president did. >> is there anything you could share with us? >> i can, but i won't. exile will give you some time to think about it and maybe we will come back to it. -- >> i will give you some time to think about it and maybe we will come back to it. shiite crescent, this land crescent th

u.n. security council in a says that it's received a number of allegations of the use of chemical weapons within the war in syria over the last few months it focuses though on two specific attacks the one that hunch a coup in it finds that the syrian government must be held responsible for that attack it admits that it did not send its fact finding team to the actual scene of the attack however two satellite imagery interviews with witnesses cell phone footage and importantly it found that the precursor used in the explosive that disperse the siren was identical to the precursor that had been stored by the syrian army when it was tested before the civil civil war began so it found that the syrian government must be held accountable it looked into the syrian claim that aircraft had dropped bombs on a warehouse where rebels had stored a chemical weapon but found that that particular theory could not be upheld and found incontrovertibly it says that the syrian government was responsible for that sarin gas attack the other incident it looked at was in omaha in september last year where jim fo

u.n. security council sanctions working. on a face off. it's essential to implement fully one hundred plus in the sanctions that have put in place and here honestly i'll be frank we have made significant progress lisa only the sanctions committee is doing its work well at the same time on monday the trumpet ministration contradicted its own secretory of state you see the u.s. was looking to talk to north korea there's a difference between a talking point diplomatic pressure we still strongly support putting diplomatic pressure on north korea which we're continuing to do but now is not the time simply to have conversations with north korea the u.s. appears to be seen doing the message doing business with north korea comes with its own costs shall it bellus al-jazeera. rock fans are mourning the death of tom petty the leader of the u.s. band tom petty in the heartbreak has died in hospital after suffering a heart attack die and looks back at his life. as a rock n roll icon tom petty's career spanned four decades and produced a string of hits

u.n. security council resolution this is a plan of action that sets things to be done commitments nuclear related commitments and only nuclear related commitments and that is been implemented so the presence of united states as many powers not this one so that's the international reaction let's get back to the u.s. can really help out the white house for us and so kimberly the trouble ministration wants congress to move swiftly now on fixing the actor the legislation that was passed in relation to the iran deal what happens next. well certainly this has been as many of put it here in the united states punted to use a football term to the u.s. congress in terms of next steps what this means is congress could do nothing that's unlikely what it could do is sort of address some of the common flaws by both democrats and republicans that are viewed in terms of the agreement that is put in place by u.s. law this one that requires this research if occasion that we should point out the president says he cannot do this time because he feels iran is violating the spirit of the deal but which his own

u.n. security council resolution this is a plan of action that sets things to be done commitments nuclear related equipment only nuclear related commitments and that is men and women so present the united states as many powers not this one. many powers not this bunch even did a little while there at the end but how much leverage does europe really have to force the us to stay in this deal not a lot because the americans are of course the strongest power they can force other countries other companies actually to forgo trade and cooperation with iran because they can sanctions companies doing that and they can sanctions and they do sing chance entities like banks in the in the iran to to finance business and so if the us at sanctions if they put on pressure on the on the deal it's done and the president has a bit of leverage here the europeans federica maurine that she referred to the legal aspect of it that not one country can simply say the agreement is vain because six parties have signed it seven with iran but. it's clear that the european union has an interest to keep it up because it'

u.n. security council resolutions. but there's no quick and easy solution. pressure is necessary. but so is dialogue. the u.s. will need to work with others, including china, south korea and japan and russia to resolve the issue. president trump will be visiting china in a few weeks time as part of his first visit to asia. singapore, like many other countries, watched your relations with china very closely. it's a most important bilateral relationship in the world. china is the u.s.' third largest export market for goods and services, for are agricultureal experts, the second highest, soybeans, cotton and farming machinery and as the incomes go up they'll by more and more good american beef. i express my hope that the u.s. will be able to maintain a stable and constructive relationship with china. engaging each other at the highest levels, building trust, establishing institutional mechanisms. good u.s.-china relations would benefit the region and the world. it will enable countries in asia pacific, including america and china themselves, to enjoy regional stability, peace and pro

u.n. security council to do what they have signed up to do because under article six of the nonproliferation treaty from one thousand nine hundred seventy nearly half a century ago they are committed to achieving you can do some and they've gone some way towards that and there are a few nuclear weapons today than there were in the end of the cold war but there's still fifteen thousand warheads left in the world so there's a lot of work for those weapons states to do and encouraging governments to do what they will probably already promise to do seems to me pretty commonsensical thing to go for and in practical terms do you think this award for i can well boost to now or give new impetus to these efforts internationally to achieve a nuclear ban. yes i do think so i don't know that this will be the thing which finally generates success for that for them for their campaign but i think it must push the conversation forward and give it more profile you know after all when is it. the first item on news reports around the world has been discussing the proposition to create a nuclear free world so t

u.n. security council that it is being played by iran. . >> the security council has repeatedly passed issues but iran has repeatedly thumbed its nose at those efforts. worse, the regime continues to play this council. iran hides behind its assertion of technical compliance with the nuclear deal while it braze generally violates the other limits on its behavior, and we have allowed them to get away with it. this must stop. >> our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is joining us live from tehran. how has iran responded, fred? how are they likely to respond? >> reporter: well, we've been scouring the internet and certainly iranian websites. so far we haven't seen any direct responses to ambassador haley's responses. there is a speech by ayatollah khamenei. he talked about some things that ambassador haley talked about. you heard how she was talking about specifically lebanon, iran and iran, iraq and syria. one of the things he said, he said, quote, the u.s. is very angry because today the islamic republic has foiled their plot

u.n. security council reform to the merits of ad hoc coalitions of the willing. i will refer you to the internationalist available here on cfr.org but tonight we are not here to talk about what stewart has written the pastor held good his blog is or how he's a great guest host on our weekly podcast but rather to talk about the publication of stewart's new book "the sovereignty wars" reconciling america with the world. i wanted to join me in welcoming stewart patrick here tonight. [applause] congratulations on a terrific book. it's got some great blurbs. copies are available for sale at the end of the evening for people who want to read them. what i would like to do is to begin with something interesting which is that you begin this -- began this book two years ago maybe two and a half years ago and i would say since then the word sovereignty has become somewhat -- indeed i will note the president donald j. trump in his first address to the u.n. security council used the word sovereign or some variant thereof 21 times in his 42 minute speech. so why not you just s

u.n. security council to block action targeting its syrian ally the u.s. at the move was very disappointing. germany's lower house of parliament met for the first time on tuesday since elections in september the far right a.f.d. party made their first appearance in the bone this tag finance minister and that are in politician votes going to show it was voted in as the new bundestag president. a note from albert einstein describing the key to happiness is sold for around one point five million dollars it's an auction in jerusalem einstein gave the piece of handwritten advice to a japanese bellboy in one nine hundred twenty two after the genius scientist realized he had no money on hand for a tip. two houses of the people on different sides of the atlantic both on political sure is threatened by eroding respect for truth compromise and civility tonight the u.s. congress and the german buddhist talk leading democracies are they still leading democracy i burned off in berlin this is the day. of the left of the house achieve the required majority and is duly el

u.n. security council and indeed the sanctions that had been unilaterally imposed by the united states but in recent months there has been a significant policy shift china has been implementing these sanctions as shown by the fact that its instructed its banks to no longer do business with north korea it is restricting the import of oil into north korea so this is something very significant in terms of the u.s. stated policy of getting china to bring greater pressure to bear on north korea in an attempt to resolve this crisis but also what is happening is that it does not only pertain to north korea the relationship between the u.s. and china is growing stronger through this ongoing crisis in wider areas such as trade lots more still ahead on al-jazeera i'll tell you why the kurdish independence vote has raised tensions in iraq's oil rich city have. and how a language divide is feeling calls for independence and cameron's push the region. however since a very heavy rain coming into florida recently as the last thing we want to say after hurricane maria of course but look at that cloud it's

u.n. security council and the eu and germany and iran. the president's remarks today making clear that he doesn't think the united states should be party to that agreement anymore, even if everybody else is staying in it. he said he's basically against the deal and followed by the state department coming out and saying, don't believe those silly tv headlines you might be seeing saying we're abandoning the iran nuclear deal. those silly tv headlines were written by people who were writing down what the president said. but the state department says don't pay any attention to that. it's been kind of a whiplash 24 hours, we'll get expert help on both of the stories over the course of the hour. we have a big leap forward own what we think is a spy story, it's an intriguing kind of murky story we've been following since this summer. there's a big leap forward tonight. we'll bring that to you this hour as well. we'll start tonight with a scoop. we're going to start tonight with a scoop from nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. it's a

u.n. security council resolution to abide by it.en speaking to prime minister may, president macron in london and paris. they want this deal. they insist they'll keep to the deal. the real question now is, is congress going to pick up this decision by president trump and decide actually to get out of the deal by reimposing sanctions? if congress does that, we're in a whole new territory and many believe an insecure territory that will not be in the u.s. national security interests. >> yeah. >> not sure congress could declare today friday at this point. how they will get this done remains a mystery. >> remember, it's several month. congress has a few months to decide. it's important situation that has been put in congress' lap right now. >> christian amanpour in london for us, great to see you. have a wonderful weekend. >> thank you. >>> to baseball, for the third straight year the cubs head to the nlcs, but it took a wild hard-stopping win over washington to get there. we'll have more in the bleacher report next. al and i still can'

u.n. security council so you know it's i think it's important to note that trump hasn't actually decertified the deal in terms of ron's technical compliance we're not formally withdrawing just yet and that's i think the implicit concession that the entire world is right when they say that iran is complying and that the deal is working. why did he stop short of. strong action of pulling the u.s. out of the deal together. well he didn't he stopped short of pulling the u.s. out of the deal altogether because virtually his entire national security team strongly advised against that because they know number one the iran is complying and we're to the deal is working to stave off an iranian nuclear weapon for the foreseeable future and number three that the consequences to united states of formally withdrawing or abrogating the agreement is are really dangerous i mean it's very risky it undermines u.s. credibility and trustworthiness in the world it puts the u.s. in iran back on the path to conflict it isolates us from our allies i mean trump is basically putting the united states in the position o

u.n. security council it is a u.n. document is it possible for a president to unilaterally decide to fight this important international deal apparently he's not in the know it is not a document between iran and the u.s. so he can't treat it the way he likes. it took nine years of tough negotiations before the deal was finally reached in twenty fifteen all of the standoff over iran's nuclear activities stretched back more than a decade and was widely regarded as one of the world's most urgent crises and it wasn't only the u.s. that painstakingly negotiate the terms it was the combined efforts of russia china britain france and germany to the u.s. secretary of state has been trying to rally european allies over chances asian but so far they've mostly reacted angrily. i fully expected our allies for it in europe maybe the region are going to be version or to present the united states as many posts not this one it is not a bilateral agreement it does not belong to any single country and it is not up to any single country t

u.n. security council it is a u.n. document is it possible for a president to unilaterally decide to fight this important international deal but apparently he's not in the know it is not a document between iran and the u.s. so he can't treat it out the way he likes. despite all the criticism though donald trump has reiterated that the deal could be scrapped and at any point. in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with congress and our allies then the agreement will be terminated. joined now by b. genius state sen richard black now speak to you again richard life is never dull in the united states when you have donald trump as president he's kind of going against what a lot of other important people think here it's important now what does congress do you think they will back president trump. it's a little unclear and the problem is that this is going to be driven in large part by the senate foreign relations committee which is which includes some some real super hawks as very warlike people senator tom

u.n. security council this is what he had to say. a few days before publication of the report the jim a resolution is her is rushed to extend it by a year before that a powerful campaign in the media is launched. ambassador healy gave an interview in which she clearly cues drescher of trying to undermine and torpedo the work of the jim she sends a letter to letter to the members of the security council speaking about the urgency of extending the mechanism now russia was able to defeat the resolution because it's a permanent member of the united nations security council the body that leads the u.n. now bolivia voted along with russia to defeat the resolution and china and kazakstan both abstained so russia's position is that they are waiting for the report to come out they want to see what is in the report and what work the o.p.c. w. is doing before voting to extend the mandate for the investigation with the update from new york city caleb maupin. well let's try to put some meat on the bones of what caliber was talking about there bec

u.n. security council sanctions working. on a face off. it's essential to implement fully one hundred plus in the sanctions that they have put in place and here honestly i'll be frank we have made significant progress lisa only the sanctions committee is doing its work well at the same time on monday the trumpet ministration contradicted its own secretory of state you see the u.s. was looking to talk to north korea there's a difference between a talking point diplomatic pressure we still strongly support putting diplomatic pressure on north korea which we're continuing to do but now is not the time simply to have conversations with north korea the u.s. appears to be sanding the message doing business with north korea comes with its own costs shall it bellus al-jazeera. a few moments we will have the weather with death but still ahead on al-jazeera the state of limbo kurdish businesses along the turkana iraq border face an uncertain future after last week's defiance session reprimand us. i'm more about the money i'm in iraq gallery in doha

u.n. security council has banned member nations from allowing for north korean leg ships to dock the vessels were used to transport prohibited goods to the country comes as the seventy second anniversary of the founding of the ruling workers' party there are concerned surveys you may use the day for another weapons test meanwhile south korea the military is on show at an event to give people there a close up of what it can do. japanese broadcaster fuji t.v. has shown what it says is the final video of the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un before his death in malaysia and february the footage shows kim jong lying on a stretcher in an area next to in the foot kuala lumpur airport to woman a currently on trial in malaysia for his killing. court has requested for extra security from spain's national police on tuesday in the event its regional parliament declares independent as the headlines on al-jazeera what mess it up next on counting the cost us billionaire president donald trump wants to cut taxes but how will his plan to impact the ordinary americans spinelessness crack salami

u.n. security council and indeed these sanctions that had been unilaterally imposed by the united states but in recent months there has been a significant policy shift china has been implementing these sanctions as shown by the fact that its instructed its banks to no longer do business with north korea it is restricting the import of oil into north korea so this is something very significant in terms of the u.s. stated policy of getting china to bring greater pressure to bear on north korea in an attempt to resolve this crisis but also what is happening is that it does not only pertain to north korea the relationship between the u.s. and china is growing stronger through this ongoing crisis in wider areas such as trade. the mayor of puerto rico's capital son of one has accused the u.s. government of killing people through inefficiency can you include help isn't coming quickly enough to the u.s. territory hit by how to can the white house has appointed a general to oversee relief operations and aid is starting to arrive but the mayor says puerto rico isn't getting the same support as other c

u.n. security council because they're on dealing with sanctified by security council resolution twenty two thirty one and in the future countries would be reluctant to make agreements with the united states if they think that successive governments would abandon previously agreed deeds and this is also conferee to international law of bunk the sort of some sort of bound up where a state is responsible for living up to its international legal obligations and these do not change just because there is a change in government it's just to be perfectly clear if from doesn't dave decertify this deal then that doesn't mean that it is the end of the deal for advisee the but how is ron looking at all of this. you know it's generally difficult to get iranians americans and europeans and the same page and then you can in agreement was an instant that this actually happened and as you have been watching the reactions we have former wal-mart officials obama administration officials writing op ed pieces. going on television shows defending the nuclear actually meant any ron president rouhani and. foreign

security council in a week and if. the efforts of the mission as moscow has threatened to suspend their backing of the mission's mandate as a permanent member of the u.n. security council. lawmakers are once again at odds over the country's role in syria in a debate in the house of lords the questions were raised over funding of the syrian opposition and what exactly taxpayers' money is really being used for if the government gives two hundred million groups and only fourteen here didn't quite catch which it was was for political support what on earth was the rush for the forty million this specifically in terms of political support other examples for example thirty nine million has been spent on roads i will of course look right to the noble lord in terms of specific breakdown but it's very much about the system the coalition the syrian opposition to actually stand on its feet and why does her majesty's government not recognize that it is not going anywhere does my noble friend really think that british taxpayers want fourteen million pounds spent on supporting so-called opposition. to willamette his government changed their priorities from providing

u.n. security council, a solution for the benefit of all, without downfalls, that will give a new perspective to the area. at the same time we underline that the dangerous intervention of turkey in the aegean must end. it undermines the relationship between two nato allies. greece is a country that is always open, but i want to be very clear, it will always protect decisively its sovereignty rights against illicit claims and refutes. i would like to warmly thank president trump for the wonderful discussions we held, which i believe will give a substantial push to the existing dynamic cooperation, and i believe and i said we created a work group between the ministers of economy so we can monitor the ability to have a substantial cooperation in investment and economy and in all sectors. thank you very much, sir. president trump: ok, we will take a few questions. john, go ahead please. >> thank you, mr. president. good to see you in the rose garden again. we seem to do this on occasion. i have a question for the prime minister in a moment if i could. but, first, sir, you said a short time ago th

u.n. security council vote in a row, to wice impose stronger sanctions on orth korea and remember, the security council has countries ike france and russia, chien athe united states, you know who is on there. and all voted unanimously on this. the international community has u.s. armyat means the must stand ready. and so, if you're ready, that is your duty at this point in time. host: statements? guest: i think secretary mattis, very firmly, very resolutely, but also he is not preventative attack. e's sort of really echoing traditional u.s. policy, in ther forum, he said, if you attack us, we will be firm in response and uses strong language. it is in context of reactive. he is emphasizing that this u.s attack us, led, is diplomatically the state department is taking the lead for now, we're trying pressure of sanctions and targeting financial measures on we're rnational basis, trying to do that. he's telling the military, as is their duty, you always have to if called upon. but i take his comments more as policy, whereas others in the administration, including the president have signalling more

u.n. security council the international atomic energy agency germany france the u.k. china and russia all agreeing that iran is in full compliance ok with the. markets absolutely but who benefits from what trump said. is there any beneficiary is really going to ok first of all but to your question politico that the politicos of that next to can go it's well known that is not. tillerson and he has criticized him openly said that he is. and he haley's position here so to take those. a seat at the state of the state of perth likely to pay and. she's looking for you know any sort of more being used as a wedge and so it's a way of promoting here for this position doesn't mean she's going to get it it doesn't mean that she gets computers as mark said but this is this is a way to two. way of promoting here now as far as beneficiaries of term again it's some several countries in the middle east first and foremost as though it's saudi arabia and some other go from other kids. to see iran as their main adversary of their dejan and certainly have some parts of the american natio

u.n. security council and this is in fact blackmailing and twisting the arms of u.s. allies to. join it in violating the agreement and forcing the iranians to accept conditions that were not part of the deal in return for nothing so basically their ministration once its partners to join it and pushing to iranian stoics accept less for more and i think that's an impossibility with stuff it's not just the nuclear deal that was announced or his what he was going to do with regard certification of the nuclear deal that was announced by president trump there was another piece to his strategy which was fresh strong sanctions on the revolutionary guard what does that mean. well you know since obama started the engagement policy there were critics in tehran who would say that the united states is not just trying to resolve differences over the nuclear issue but it's trying to wear off the components of power of iran that include its nuclear declare and myside capability is where the its original clout and influence now after a couple of years even those who have pinned hope you know tal

u.n. security council they wrote a letter there basically saying that these joint military drills that were appealing that they stop we don't want to see this anymore because that's the reason we're building up all our arms because in a reaction to this and you really need to think about this if you're a country like north korea you're not some type of superpower in this world so kim jong un you're going to do everything to save your own but in a world that right now is in the situation it is and when you see somebody knocking at your door in that way you're going to react in a way that's very defensive so in many ways that's exactly what's happening now you have countries like russia and china coming to the table they're asking for something that's called a double freeze so stop with these drills for the u.s. and south korea slow that down and with north korea stop testing these missiles and trying to show off to say hey we can defend ourselves that's china and russia coming to the table sounds pretty reasonable the u.s. says we don't like that proposal so as it stands right now this could

u.n. security council of which u.s. is a member will not impose further sanctions on iran. and if he thinks that they're going to do that then he's living in another world but so unilateral sanctions are not going to work and already the iranians have said that they can live with that sanctions that have already been imposed and but the other concern that i have is that by imposing by. calling the i.r.g.c. basically a terrorist group we're going to see some repercussions from that as well that this the whole idea is to affect their economic iran's. economics given i.r.g.c. . influence in the iranian economy but again i don't think that initiative is going to work and i think it's going to once again going to isolate the united states from the other members of europe we mentioned repercussions i'll come back to that in just a moment first of all though is just want to mention one of the things that donald trump claimed he made many claims one of them was that he says that people believe that iran is dealing with north korea now first of all just what do you think there is an