records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan r t washington d.c. . after a series of foreign trips my pompei i will spend the next several weeks in washington looking to pick up where rex tillerson left off however because nick a new care studies director faces u.s. foreign policy my take on a more hostile approach on the pompei. donald trump in announcing that tillerson was going to be leaving office said that he disagreed with tillerson about iran policy so that was a key factor is not going to disagree with pompei o and that's why the europeans are so frightened it's why one hundred foreign policy experts including fifty retired military officials said to trump wrote a letter saying we should not break this deal with iran it's in the united states interest it's a good deal and iran has been following it clearly pompei o is among the real hawks when it comes to iran policy he's going to reinforce donald trump's worst tendencies along with john bolton the same thing with north korea so north korea right now looks very very posi

correspondent samir khan reports. well according to trump the summit could take place or it might not even take place but the president has never really been one hundred percent sure we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it won't work out that doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time but it may not work out for june twelfth i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows how it all works maybe you everything can be scuttled everything can be scuttled but speaking of mixed messages on one hand a special coin is being produced just ahead of the summit a depicting the two leaders meeting an all smiles then there's trouble guaranteeing him safety and promising that north korea will be a rich country he will be safe he will be happy his country will be rich but then on the other hand tribes threatening the libya scenario the model if you lo

you arabian peninsula and isis in yemen the extent of our support is refueling and sharing intel samir khan reports on the pentagon's mixed messages concerning its role in the yemen conflicts this latest development contradicts the pentagon statements that indicated that u.s. military assistance to the saudis in yemen was limited to intelligence logistics and aircraft feeling but so far what we do know is that a team of a few green berets apparently arrived on the south of the u. many border sometime last year and according to the pentagon they've only been there to protect the border however reports suggest that they've been helping them destroy people with sickness on launch sites and it's worth mentioning that even though this war has been going on for a few years saudi arabia hasn't been successful in quelling the who is the resistance so it's fair to say that maybe u.s. involvement will help the saudis do just that but thanks to the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there's been some domestic backlash here in the u.s. and a

effort to convince trump against killing the deal we'll just have to wait and see what happens samir khan reporting there will meanwhile compass slammed former secretary of state john kerry for shadowy diplomacy the ex diplomats reportedly mess around foreign minister the u.n. recently and discussed ways of preserving the deal under the obama administration the iran nuclear agreement was reached back in twenty fifteen between to iran and five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany the negotiations are taken more than nine years under the agreement iran's obliged to limit its nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions bill amid trumps threats to scrap the deal arounds. president has hinted his country may actually continue to comply with its terms in any case one of the main players trying to kill off the agreement says the israeli pm benjamin netanyahu he's been blaming taran for aggressive intentions and he's convinced iran's planning to plan weapons in syria in the attempt to target israel we discussed the issue with the political analysts should be a ha

out large scale military drills described by pyongyang state media as a rehearsal for invasion samir khan reports from washington. months of intense diplomacy and hopes of a historic breakthrough with north korea could all be reduced to nothing by war games. dozens of american bombers and fighter jets flying near the north korean border to pyongyang this is more than just a provocation it's a rehearsal for an invasion so now after scrapping a summit with seoul the north is hinting that it could also band in a highly anticipated meeting with trump that's scheduled for june twelfth in singapore but the timing couldn't be worse the united states and south korea routinely carry out the simulated invasions and destruction of north korea military exercises another set of these exercises began last friday i believe this goes against the spirit certainly and i would say even the letter of the penguin john declaration between moon joining in in conjunction where both sides agreed not to do anything that would be provocative towards the other both north and south korea these military exercises agai

records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan r t washington d.c. . after a series of foreign trips mike pompei will spend the next several weeks in washington looking to pick up where rex tillerson left off however peace a cosmic a nuclear studies director thinks the vision of america first could prove a stumbling block for pompei on his diplomatic mission berth korea right now looks very very positive my pump a zero went to pyongyang over the easter weekend and it didn't plan initially to have a meeting with kim jong un but he did have a meeting with kim jong il and the meeting went well that's a very good step it's a step in the right direction but we know that between now and the time when this deal is concluded there's a hundred ways that it could blow up every day we know pompei as history and that would not make us optimistic that it's going to be a moderating force pump ayos hawkish statements over many years. his openly brandishing his ideas about american exceptionalism. reinforced donald trump's america first policy th

feared that if the tariffs had come into force they could have triggered a full scale trade war samir khan reports now from washington. one would think that europe would be happy with trump's decision to extend the exception for another month but europe wasn't too pleased saying that the tariffs should be done away with completely now in addition to that the e.u. warned that it would not negotiate under threat these uncertainties however have negatively affected european businesses as the state exemption has only been granted for one extra month there's a sense of the cam having been kicked down the road firms cannot continue making investment decisions based on short term uncertain deadlines washington has been trying to force countries to accept quotas on steel an element of imports and they have until june first to accept washington's ultimatum things are so tense that chancellor merkel and president across even across the atlantic to talk to trump about this but it doesn't seem like it matters how touchy feely you get with trump his mind appears to be set you know it sounds so nice to

hoped america's presence would show in a new period of peace and stability have paid a heavy price samir khan explains back in august twenty sixth an afghan man named his son after donald trump but that was before trump's top television for the white house now after being inspired by trump's business achievements outlined his books the afghan man hope that giving his son the same name would bring about the same sort of luck but we're very happy to name our child off to the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump as well i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i want to see him is smart and mindful and story. but that's backfired miserably the family was driven out of their hometown because his community took issue with the child's non muslim name now he's proport lee fled afghanistan after seeing the reaction to my son's name and also the taliban directed assassination of the man who wanted president trouble medal i don't feel safe this comes after the taliban assassinated one of the afghan men who minted a gold medal honoring the us president back in ja

all these years to even those who still have trust in washington seems that it can't be protected samir khan. washington d.c. . on tuesday israel turned back a group of palestinian ships trying to breach the gaza blockade and sail to cyprus the main vessel was carrying patients wounded in recent border protests as well as students hoping to obtain an education abroad a seventeen people were on board the vessel trying to reach lima sold in southern cyprus it was into intercepted nine and nautical miles off the coast of gaza thus despite international accords under which israel is obliged to allow vessels to travel up to twenty nautical miles from gaza a local correspondent hindu dari was on one of the boats. so now we're in the middle of the sea as you see there are tens of ten's of those states into the sea to turn out we know that there we are going to sail three out of this one is where and not a good one as it is the last point we can we can't beat that palestinians are continuing to create much of return events and they're continuing the protests but here today in another way this is mor

records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan are to washington d.c. . after a series of foreign trips mike pompei will spend the next several weeks in washington looking to pick up where rex tillerson left off however peter cosmic a nucleus studies directed affairs u.s. foreign policy might take on a more hostile approach on the pump. donald trump in announcing that tillerson was going to be leaving office said that he disagreed with tillerson about around policy so that was a key factor is not going to disagree with pompei o and that's why the europeans are so frightened it's why one hundred foreign policy experts including fifty retired military officials said to trump wrote a letter saying we should not break this deal with iran it's in the united states interest it's a good deal and iran has been following it clearly pompei o is among the real hawks when it comes to iran policy he's going to reinforce donald trump's worst tendencies along with john bolton the same thing with north korea so north korea right now looks very ve

these years to even those who still have trust in washington it seems that it can't be protected samir khan martini washington d.c. . the biggest sports event of the year the football world cup is just over two weeks away now peter schmeichel big trip across russia visiting the host cities this coming towards it and on wednesday the legendary goalkeeper reported from surrounds gets. special significance for schmeichel as that's where his country denmark and the sun casper will start their tournament journey. it's. welcome to summarize corrina like so many of the other stadiums this is purposely built for the world cup. games being played here and the first of those has a personal interest to me because that will feature my son playing in this pitch but then begins to. presume team b. that will be done with that. for the last time i was in a dressing room with a play about two hundred years ago it suddenly didn't look like this it's up to the fans and i think in this seat the goalkeeper for whatever team is playing it will be sacked and since denmark my son play in the first game and uses th

samir khan explains. so we've heard this story countless times but of this time the bipartisan republican led committee found that there was collusion no how is this different from every other story well republicans on the committee actually agreed with fellow democrats that not only did russia interfere in the election but the influence campaign was apparently directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump and that all supposedly qualifies as russian collusion however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion rushes active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by bits and recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion. throughout the investigation committee repu

samir khan bringing us right up to date. moving on to other news now a leading cancer surgeon in russia is raising awareness of the dangers of late diagnosis now he lost his campaign after he found himself too late that he has the disease and now has little chance of survival. metal the thickness of a chair now when there was no ovations comfort put from them that i was ill by chance had stomach ache took some pills to still decided to check the book the symptoms meant to scan clearly showed was true so a day later i already had no sex. with a judge and yeah the day i found out i told my wife to use for some presents for our kids she panicked started crying hines was shaking i tried to comfort her as i could told her treatment plans the hardest thing is to help my kids cope. and there's a lesson in there but. the main aim of the project is to give cancer patients as much information about the disease as possible currently the situations that we have a small so between the patient and doctor the patients must know everything

samir khan has more. this definitely comes as a blow considering the storage developments we've seen recently but in addition to canceling tomorrow's summit north korea is reported to have threatened to cancel its highly anticipated meeting with trump that's scheduled for june twelfth in singapore now this is all due to washington's military drills with soul which is always been a topic of discussion but it seems that the d.p. r. k. has finally decided to put its foot down. i. think the d.p. r. k. has made it clear that these joint drills there and it security describing it as a rehearsal for invasion and many view these fears as legitimate given the history of countries that have willingly surrendered their w m d's but this was in fact one of the points agreed upon back in january when the north agreed to stop its nuclear tests in the south agreed to stop its drills with the u.s. and it was considered a confirmed once again when kim and moon met last month pledging peace in korea so the question is will

samir khan can tell us more. the pakistani doctor who helped the cia track down and kill the world's most wanted terrorist osama bin ladin is still in prison two years after this promise from donald trump do you think you can get the darker out yes i do i think i would get him out in two minutes i would tell them let him out and i'm sure they'd let him out in may two thousand and twelve shaquille afraid he was sentenced to thirty three years behind bars. jobs. in. two thousand and eleven for being money to the militants of that. and he was assisting in medical term that he was making some arrangements for their meeting in is a hospital i met him in two thousand in june and he said that i am innocent and the charges they are totally illegal but last week his family were given a glimmer of hope there are reports that a possible deal to secure his release after he was apparently moved to a secure location because of threats to his life but according to the pakistani foreign ministry none of that's true i'm not aware

samir khan thanks for now though we talked to a former u.s. envoy to the united nations who's negotiated with north korea before he says it's highly damaging to make threats specially when it's so close to the summit between the two leaders. it ministration speaks with too many voices on north korea you've got national security adviser bolton bringing up the qaddafi issue with north korea they get very nervous because gadhafi gave up as weapons and then was killed that's not a good thing to talk about before the summit and i think secretary pompei o the secretary of state has handled the issue well he's dealt with north korea has met with him in june twice he established an intelligence channel with the north koreans i think the president needs to prepare substantively he needs to have a strategy but he needs to leave the details and the message to pompei oh too many in the administration including the president are speaking i believe the administration made a colossal mistake and getting out of the iran deal because iran was complying they we

records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan are to washington d.c. . after a series of trips abroad will now spend the coming weeks in washington picking up where is pretty to listen left off nuclear studies director we heard from told us that he fears u.s. foreign policy now there will quickly become more bellicose and. donald trump in announcing that tillerson was going to be leaving office said that he disagreed with tillerson about iran policy so that was a key factor is not going to disagree with pompei o and that's why the europeans are so frightened and it's why one hundred foreign policy experts including fifty retired military officials said to trump wrote a letter saying we should not break this deal with iran it's in the united states interest it's a good deal and iran has been following it clearly pompei o is among the real hawks when it comes to iran policy he's going to reinforce donald trump's worst tendencies along with john bolton the same thing with north korea so north korea right now looks very very positive

samir khan has more. well even after the commerce controversy the final vote was fifty four yes and forty five nays and this comes a week after she faced some tough questions from the senate intel committee regarding her role in the cia's torture program but she never really gave a direct answer do you believe the program in terms that you interrogation program was consistent with american values we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standard are they consistent with american values senator i believe very strongly in american values i want to trust that you have the moral compass that you said you have i have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with u.s. law do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to answer the question. and i think i've answered the question i have not a vote shows a split within the democratic party six in total supported

these years to even those who still have trust in washington it seems that it can't be protected samir khan parked in washington d.c. . a british american investor is wanted in russia for tax fraud was briefly detained earlier in the day in spain before being released. as the story. in december of last year bill browder was sentenced by a moscow court to nine years in prison for fraud and tax evasion back in the ninety's browder was one of the biggest foreign investors in russia but everything eventually went south and his firm was investigated for tax fraud earlier today he tweeted that he had been arrested by spanish police in madrid showing a picture of the arrest warrant which listed fraud as the criminal charge shortly after however he posted that he had been released claiming interpol advised the spanish national police to not honor the red notice which is essentially an international arrest warrant and accused russia of abusing the international police organization but for their part interpol has said there never has been such a notice for broader and spanish police said the warrant

so that was somebody that let's go live to washington samir khan is there a d.c. correspondent sort of take us through what was for so many let's face it a big disappointment was. yes indeed the white house released the official letter trump sent to kim in which trump explained his decision saying that it would be inappropriate to meet at this time based on north korea's quote tremendous anger and open hostility and south korea was one of the first countries to react to the news and of aix pressed quote deep regret over terms decision but it should be noted that the timing of the move was pretty significant it came just hours after north korea demolished its only nuclear testing site fulfilling yet another condition and agreed to for the sake of improving relations the u.s. however some u.s. officials now doubt that it actually happened but our correspondent was at the site and he was among the few journalists who were allowed to witness it firsthand. well just that they're only getting a nuclear test site inches from being noble we saw three hours of full time of

seems that it can't be protected samir khan. washington d.c. . and more supposed evidence is being presented to show ties between trump and the kremlin the latest being the use of the witch hunt which has repeatedly been used to describe the probe into couche and on democratic congresswoman suggests this is a telltale crime and this kind of plans according to a top democrat in congress if you use the term which on to and you say it over and over and over again which which are and which you may be a dupe of the kremlin listen to maxine waters talk about trump he's a lying about which but you notice he says which over and over again he has learned some of the russian tactics about how you you know deal with getting people to believe you you say it over and over again so repeating something over and over and over again is a russian thing that may not be the wisest thing for the democrats to say they've had the same song on repeat for roughly two years russians hacked into a lot of things the criminal clan russia was meddling in our election russia u

seems that it can't be protected samir khan park city washington d.c. . now accusations are being flung after a russian journalist and kremlin critic was killed in the ukrainian capital car he was shot in the back while entering his apartment more details now from the. it was a forty one year old russian journalist who died from gunshot wounds in ukraine's capital kiev it was felt in his apartment by his wife who called the emergency services but he later died from these injuries was a war veteran correspondent he worked for a number of russian media outlets as well as being a contributor to the b.b.c. and the guardian he was well known though for his criticism of russia's actions in syria and ukraine and took part in many opposition movements as well off that he left russia in february last year he moved to settle in ukraine to work as a t.v. host now local police in kiev believes that his journalistic activities are probably one of the main reasons behind his killings pap's judging his criticism of the kremlin in the past now they also say though that h

seems that it can't be protected samir khan. washington d.c. . the doctors who treated the russian spies screwball of his daughter following the poisoning of the british city of souls remarks have appeared in the b.b.c. documentary and situation has been looking into what new things we've learned about the case this is a b.b.c. newsnight program documentary has certainly highlighted some more curiosities about the whole script all saga adding just a little bit more mystery to this whole story if we didn't have enough already now this is a firsthand account of the medical staff doctors and nurses that were treating this compiles when they were admitted to hospital in solsbury following the poisoning and for starters some of the things described in this documentary were that initially it was assumed that the script all had experienced an opiate overdose and there were no extra precautions taken in that regard there was no indication of the fact that it was a nerve agent and therefore we take on normal protection when any patient comes in which has

records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan art. washington d.c. well after a series of trips abroad mike pompei will now spend the coming weeks in washington picking up where his predecessor rex tillerson left off a nuclear studies director we heard from tillis he fears u.s. foreign policy will quickly become more bellicose under. donald trump in announcing that tillerson was going to be leaving office said that he disagreed with tillerson about iran policy so that was a key factor is not going to disagree with pompei o and that's why the europeans are so frightened and it's why one hundred foreign policy experts including fifty retired military officials said to trump wrote a letter saying we should not break this deal with iran it's in the united states interest it's a good deal and iran has been following it clearly pompei o is among the real hawks when it comes to iran policy he's going to reinforce donald trump's worst tendencies along with john bolton the same thing with north korea so north korea right now looks very ve

comes from in washington samir khan joins me on the line the controversial choice of mary bring us up to date with the vote. well even after the commerce controversy the final vote was fifty four yes and forty five nays and this comes a week after she faced some tough questions from the senate intel committee regarding her role in the cia's torture program but she never really gave a direct answer. you believe the program in terms of interrogation program was consistent with american values we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standard are they consistent with american values senator i believe very strongly in american values i want to trust that you have the moral compass that you said you have i have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with u.s. law do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to answer the question. and i think i've answered the question i have not. a few democrats who harshly criticized her questionable

seems that it can't be protected samir khan hearten washington d.c. . seven years on from the start of the war in syria is it finally coming to an end and does the country's president have a nickname for donald trump artie's very good as they have sat down with bashar assad to find out the answers to those questions and then he more is a preview of his exclusive interview. if anything the syrian civil war is growing hotter on the ground by child assad is winning the rebels and islamists are in retreat unlike their backers forces from five nuclear powers are now directly gauge didn't military action in syria each determined to win with salvage what they can on the ground which makes the perfect ground for an escalation an escalation that no one wants but one that nobody would be able to control in the exclusive interview with r.t. syrian president bashar al assad has shared his thoughts on the coming future on the precarious dangerous and fragile months ahead and on the endgame of this devastating war with regards to the united states relation to would y

samir khan explains back in august twenty sixth an afghan man named his son after donald trump but that was before television for the white house now after being inspired by trump's business achievements outlined his books the afghan man hope that giving his son the same name would bring about the same sort of luck but in the us we're very happy to do the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump as well i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i want to see him is smart and mindful and story. but that's backfired miserably the family was driven out of their hometown because his community took issue with the child's non muslim name now he's reportedly fled afghanistan after seeing the reaction to my son's name and also the taliban directed assassination of the man who wanted president trouble medal i don't feel safe this comes after the taliban assassinated one of the afghan men who minted a gold medal honoring the us president back in january cold in the b. and his friend a far hot party raise money to produce a special gift for donald trump to thank

records of those surrounding the president you might have to wonder what their real intentions are samir khan are to washington d.c. after a series of foreign trips my pompei a will spend the next several weeks in washington looking to pick up where rex tillerson left off however pacemakers nick a nuclear studies direct affairs u.s. foreign policy might take on a more hostile approach on the pompei. donald trump in announcing that tillerson was going to be leaving office said that he disagreed with tillerson about iran policy so that was a key factor is not going to disagree with pompei o and that's why the europeans are so frightened it's why one hundred foreign policy experts including fifty retired military officials said to trump wrote a letter saying we should not break this deal with iran it's in the united states in.