live in moscow for more reaction from russia but first here's our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reporting on washington's latest measures. last july the g twenty summit when u.s. president donald trump met with vladimir putin he said it was an honor to meet the russian president days or ninety eight and in august when the u.s. congress passed legislation to sanction russia iran and north korea trunk grudgingly signed it into law but failed to sanction moscow for alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election until now on thursday the us treasury sanctioned twenty four russian entities and individuals including two russian intelligence agents for interfering in the twenty sixteen presidential vote the announcement coming just as the white house issued a joint statement with the united kingdom germany and france blaming russia for the nerve agent attack in the u.k. leaving a former russian spy and his daughter comatose to a very sad situation it certainly looks like the russians were behind it something that should never ever happen and would take an adverse seriously the u.

property theft going on and that was a huge problem let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly hellcats so committee has been pretty. strong in his statement there about why he's bringing in these tariffs but interesting that he was saying essentially all the trading partners like the e.u. and nafta and everyone else in the u.s. is getting a bad deal from everybody. right this is something that donald trump has said repeatedly something he said on the campaign trail and he attributed there a large part why he was elected and won the white house given the fact that in his view the american manufacturing sector in terms of jobs factories workers has really been decimated because of this what he sees as an equal trading relationship not just with china where this action is taking place this latest action but in terms of other trade agreements with other nations you mentioned the european union also canada and mexico when it comes to north american free trade agreement leaving that hanging once again that it needs to be negotiated or this could be scrapped this is something the president ha

individuals from traveling to the united states only adding to the tension between the two countries kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington as you mentioned the u.s. has joined britain france and germany in blaming russia for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in the u.k. the country's released a joint statement saying there's no plausible alternative explanation for the attack on wednesday but in expelled twenty three russian diplomats and suspended high level contacts with moscow are u.k. correspondent fun to be phillips reports. the prime minister visits seoul spring a small english cathedral city not accustomed to this level of international attention we do hold russia culpable for this brazen brazen acts and despicable acts that's taking place on the streets of what is such a remarkable city and while she met the people of seoul spree ministers continue to press home their argument that russian guilt is indisputable something by the way in the kind of smug sarcastic response that we've heard from the russians that to me between indicates their fundamental guilt they want to simmer te

more sanctions will follow against government individuals well our white house correspondent kimberly hellcatsis in washington live for us kimberly first of all this is against individuals not pacifically against the russian state and what so how does this what with the timing why is it happening now. well it's really interesting to the timing because this happened almost simultaneously as the white house released a joint statement with germany france the united kingdom of course also the united states abhorring in the words of the statement that nerve agent attack that was used is the former russian spy as well as his daughter that of course has left him comatose so it seems like this may have been the straw that broke the camel's back to use the phrase it seems that while this was being hinted upon by the treasury secretary see we also heard the president when he met in a joint press conference with sweden's prime minister couple of weeks ago also hinting about this but now this is the strongest action yet but really this is the first time that we've seen the trumpet ministration taking any

gotten away with this for so long let's get more on this time from a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat so this has been trailed in advance of how much support does he have for this terror strategy. well here in the u.s. congress there is sort of a mixture of you because of the president's approach which seems to be all over the map in terms of executing this because you talked at the start of the show about those steel and aluminum tariffs which many you have been fearful is going to ignite a global trade war this is just adding to that but given the fact that we heard from the u.s. trade representative who is speaking not just moments ago with donald trump is eve now he's terrified also on capitol hill of the senate finance committee hearing that there are going to be a lot of as they call them carve outs meaning a lot of exemptions for countries in terms of these tariffs when it comes to steel and aluminum so essentially what this comes down to is these tariffs are targeting just really one country and that is china whether it's aluminum and steel whether it's the potentially one hun

leaders rob mcbride al-jazeera south korea well our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat now with the reaction from washington. this is the face to face meeting that nobody in washington sock coming the fact that donald trump will sit down face to face we believe in may the time and date to be determined with north korea's leader kim jong un this is something that donald trump has signaled in the white house the signal is the united states is hope that will bring about a brighter future for the north korean people but while this meeting is scheduled to take place this is by no means a relaxing pressure that was put in place by the united states when donald trump took office in fact just the opposite donald trump and his staff say that they will continue to exert maximum economic pressure as well as diplomatic isolation in conjunction with the international community and there are expectations for north korea in all of this from the united states that there will remain a commitment to nuclearize that there should be a refraining of testing of nuclear weapons and missiles and also t

it is this approach that cost vaster his job after futile efforts to constrain the president kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. john bolton has served under several republican administrations getting a reputation as a hawk he has regularly appeared on television advocating hardline policies bolton's argue for military action against a number of u.s. adversaries including north korea and wants the white house to take a strong stance against russia and in two thousand and fifteen york times opinion column the call for air strikes against nuclear facilities in iran is also written forwards for books by a noted anti muslim american authors and while working in the second bush administration he was accused of manipulating intelligence reports he said saddam was saying he developed weapons of mass destruction in iraq a claim that was clearly proven later to be true for spine is a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general who joins us live from washington d.c. bruce thank you very much so let's pick up on that point john bolton was one of the loudest voices advocating for a war that was lat

is this approach that cost me master his job after futile efforts to constrain the president kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington maher john bolton now has served under several republican administrations getting a reputation as a military hard liner as readily appeared on television advocating tough policy positions alton's argue for military action against a number of u.s. adversaries including north korea and wants the white house to take a strong stance against russia and in two thousand and fifteen new york times opinion column he called for air strikes against nuclear facilities in iran he's also written for is for books about a noted anti muslim american authors and while working in the second bush administration he was accused of manipulating intelligence reports he said saddam hussein to develop weapons of mass destruction in iraq a claim that was later proven untrue as a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and he says foreign diplomacy will be at the bottom of john bolton's agenda. mr bolton was supporting airstrikes against iran well before two thousand and fifteen you k

it is this approach that cost raster his job after futile efforts to constrain the president kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington china is responding to the u.s. president's order imposing sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports trump says the move is needed to stop unfair competition from china's state led economy china has now announced that if trump moves forward with that plan they will implement three billion dollars worth of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products including pork and steel demonstrators in the u.s. city of sacramento have delayed the start of an n.b.a. basketball game or protesting the police shooting of an unarmed twenty two year old black man earlier as they block traffic after marching onto a freeway in rush hour police shot stefan clark at least twenty times on sunday in his grandmother's backyard police say they fear idiotic gun when they confronted him that he only had a cell phone a shark alert has been issued in western australia after more than one hundred fifty whales stranded themselves on a beach friday at least half the pot of mostly short p

it is this approach that cost raster his job after futile efforts to constrain the president kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. well as we've been saying john bolton has served under several republican administrations gaining a reputation as a hawk he's argued for military action against a number of u.s. adversaries including north korea and wants the white house to take a strong stance against russia in a twenty fifteen new york times opinion column he called for air strikes against nuclear facilities in iran and while working in the second bush administration he said saddam hussein to develop weapons of mass destruction in iraq a claim that was later proven to be untrue the u.s. president has signed an order imposing sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports and says the move is needed to stop unfair competition from china state led economy. the european union is recalling its ambassador to moscow in the wake of the poisoning of a former double agent in the u.k. the british government blames russia for the attack on the script how he and his daughter were exposed to a m

until moscow changes its behavior but russia says it will retaliate a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. last july the g twenty summit when u.s. president donald trump met with vladimir putin he said it was an honor to meet the russian president days or ninety eight and in august when the u.s. congress passed legislation to sanction russia iran and north korea trunk grudgingly signed it into law but failed to sanction moscow for alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election until now on thursday the us treasury sanctioned twenty four russian entities and individuals including two russian intelligence agents for interfering in the twenty sixteen presidential vote the announcement coming just as the white house issued a joint statement with the united kingdom germany and france blaming russia for the nerve agent attack in the u.k. leaving a former russian spy and his daughter comatose it's a very sad situation it certainly looks like the russians were behind it something that should never ever happen and would take an adverse seriously the u.s. says thursday's sanctions are

mcmaster who's done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend kimberly hellcat has more now on masters time with the trumpet ministration. general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security adviser he arrived at a tumultuous time just a month into his presidency trump had fired national security advisor michael flynn for lying to the vice president over his conversations with the russians it is both diplomacy and sanctions working together but it wasn't long before make master was enveloped in his own controversy within months of his hiring many trump supporters wanted mcmaster out after reports surfaced who were new to the security clearance of president barack obama's national security advisor susan rice they also blamed him for leaked white house conversations with world leaders even starting a hash tag fire mcmaster. although trump stood by his national security adviser publicly privately he reportedly clashed with the army general who didn't like trump's and disciplined style of governing but it was a comment at a security summit in germany in february that many be

embassy in jerusalem kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. senior political analyst says trump is sending mixed signals it's either deception or delusion i can't see a third explanation to what president has said because number one everyone in the region everyone in the world with the exception of what the model thinks that this is such a horrible idea it's it's illegal according to hold and it would definitely escalate and in danger. the security within the region and would certainly not lead to peace the other thing that is kind of. mr moore rising is that why when trump recognizes jerusalem as the. road the american diplomat said this does not change anything still the final start of jerusalem is up to the point is the negotiating yet he once again just told us that he took it off the table so it's no longer an issue of discussion so which is it is it an issue of discussion or is it no longer to discussion and last point i mean if it's just a simple as to stick it out why don't we take the nuclear issue out of the iranian american. relatio

this approach that cost when asked for his job after futile efforts to constrain the president kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. well john bolton served under several republican administrations gaining a reputation as a hawk he has regularly appeared on t.v. advocating hardline rightwing positions bolton's argued for military action against a number of u.s. adversaries including north korea and he wants the white house to take a strong stance against russia in a twenty fifteen new york times opinion column he called for air strikes against nuclear facilities in iran he's also written four words for books by noted anti muslim american orses and while working in the second bush administration he was accused of manipulating intelligence reports he said saddam hussein had develop weapons of mass destruction in iraq a claim that was later proven to be untrue heidi joe castro is live for us in washington heidi when does he get his feet under the desk and start doing his new job. that will be april ninth peter and bad point. paul bolton has already said in interviews after this announcement was

who's in beijing but first let's get the latest from white house correspondent kelly hellcat in washington d.c. so kimberly what's the president about to announce. well we believe that this is going to target a number of chinese imports that come into the u.s. market valued somewhere in the range of about sixty billion dollars specifically what we expect is the president will target the high tech sector but also there could be sectors like apparel and other consumer goods that could be affected now the white house says this is really to target what they say is china's state lead market distorting efforts to force pressure and steal u.s. technology as an intellectual property so these actions would be an effort to combat that we expect that the president will do this through presidential memorandum sometime around sixteen thirty g.m.t. and the argument being made that this is really a long standing problem that has potentially cost american consumers in the range of somewhere is six hundred billion dollars decimated the manufacturing industry this will be an effort to combat those actions that the top admin