financial restrictions and established formal diplomatic relations our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more. these are major travel restrictions put in place by the trumpet ministration effectively blocking what was considered to be the most popular form of travel to cuba and that is travel that took place through a loophole in existing travel restrictions allowing for those to transit to cuba through organized tour groups as well as on cruise ships not only has this been blocked but the state department with its announcement has also ended travel by private citizens u.s. citizens who were perhaps going to cuba on a yacht or even a private aircraft now the reason for this punitive action we're told is that the united states continues to believe as it has said many times before that cuba is responsible for what it sees as destabilizing activity within the western hemisphere that is propping up governments that the united states does not support particularly in but as well as well as in the now this is a major departure from the actions of the obama white house that of course had eas

standing by for us in tehran but 1st let's go straight to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett in washington d.c. kimberly has there been any response from the white house yet to this dramatic new york times report that donald trump 1st authorized air strikes on iran then cancel them as the planes were actually in the air. no response from the white house or the pentagon it is still very early here in washington and i expect that sort of there is an attempt to at least craft some sort of public response under way but there are a lot of questions as americans are waking up here in the united states about why this occurred why these planes were reportedly in the air and then abruptly pulled back it's not clear why the u.s. president donald trump changed his mind but of course he would be the one that would make that order whether he simply changed his mind or if there was some sort of strategic reason for this pulling back now it's very clear and when donald trump spoke in the oval office less than 24 hours ago as he was seated by the canadian prime minister justin trudeau that h

waters well we'll hear more from tehran shortly but 1st let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett in washington so kimberly donald trump is spoken in 6 straight shooting words. as we have often heard from the president he doesn't mess around on social media when he's trying to send a message to a u.s. adversary this is no exception the last couple of hours tweeting a very simple message to iran saying iran made a very big mistake now we're looking for the president to elaborate on what he means by that is he considering some sort of military response it's very unclear and that tweet is somewhat vague but he is expected to meet the canadian prime minister justin trudeau in the next half hour or so he's expected the canadian prime minister to arrive any moment you may see his car drive behind me as we're talking but there's no question that this is an escalating volatile situation between the united states and iran the u.s. central command saying that this is an unprovoked attack on a u.s. surveillance asset in international airspace i reached out to the national security council to

accordance with the latest measurement a white house correspondent kimberly halkett is following events in the united states. the white house has not responded directly to the iranian foreign minister's comments but there's no question that it has continued its what it calls maximum pressure campaign on iran the latest of course the sanctions on iran's largest petro chemical company they say that this is in response to its financial support for the iran revolutionary guard corps i r g c the united states of course has labeled the i.r.g.c. as a foreign terrorist organization now these latest sanctions by the trumpet ministration come even as the administration has said that it is willing to sit down with iran's leadership and to have talks without preconditions according to the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o now these sanctions also follow an escalation by the trumpet administration of course the deployment of the carrier strike group to the persian gulf even as a run has maintained until recently that it has complied with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement to limit its nucle

president to visit russia next chair from also white house correspondent kimberly halkett. smiles and even a fist bump between japanese leader shinzo india's narendra modi and u.s. president donald trump even though prior to their g 20 meeting trump criticized both. and at a g. 20 leaders family photo trump was again smiling with saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman even though u.s. intelligence congress and the united nations say the kingdom was responsible for the murder of journalist. also notable during that photo op chinese president xi seeking out trump in the midst of their ongoing trade war to shake hands that gesture was apparently lost on trump despite she's defense of china's digital policies trump indirectly blame she's government for intellectual property theft and risks to 5 g. security at the same time as we expand digital trade we must also ensure the resilience and security of our 5 g. networks this is essential to our shared safety and prosperi. the process of data collection analysis and circulation east but we also need to respect our soldiers

this diverted big arena president trump speaking right now in our land florida let's bring in kimberly halkett she is missing and joining us from there so as we're saying kimberly the president has just started speaking to officially announce his reelection campaign. yeah he hasn't actually added those words it just took the stage all right not certainly there has been one meant to that has been building throughout this was that in fact this is the beginning of a very long more than 16 months till election day the official story was actually the president of the united states in 2020 that throughout the night will have heard later it's been the president signs are even the vice president was evidenced by the number of people attending the stadium some $20000.00 thousands who was there this is the start of the growing conservative movement that will really like dollars from somebody like that who has kept his campaign promises all building a wall getting tough on immigration and freezing the number of jobs in the united states and lowering unemployment and they say this is a reason to talk abou

national security emergency citing growing threats from iran to justify an $8000000000.00 arms sale kimberly halkett is joining us from washington d.c. you've been listening into the testimony so far kimberly what's been said. well what we're hearing is the trumpet ministration defending the intelligence that it believes justified the white house declaring an emergency to bypass congress and push through arms sales to saudi arabia this is a rage not just senators but members in the house of representatives the lower chamber in the u.s. congress who have called this a phony emergency and abuse of law and a 5 passing of a co-equal branch of government so they hearing that's been taking place is titled and really says it all what emergency arms sales in the dubious end run around congress by the trumpet ministration so we've heard sort of the. the case being made that this is a legitimate concern for u.s. interests that the threat from iran remains imminent in the broader middle east but at the same time it doesn't seem to be sitting well with members of congress who have really been calling into quest

at the last g 20 in december or shortly will cross to yell and our white house correspondent kimberly halkett but let's begin with our diplomatic editor james bays in our sarkozy james as we mentioned there are a number of areas in contention for leaders to discuss not least of which is the current trade tensions between the united states and china. yeah absolutely the formal events continue and in fact the dinner is taking place with all the leaders right now and those of us the important those main sessions but much of the business gets done in the sidelines so many leaders here there is a flurry of diplomatic activity the focus i think on the trump putin meeting we don't know really what happened there you'll hear a little bit more from kimberley but also the focus looking forward to the meeting between president trump and president xi is there some possible deal between china and the u.s. in the works they've been talking about it from some of the public comments though very limited public comments perhaps things aren't looking particularly good it's too early i think to pronounce on this

mohammed bin salman but he later refused to blame him for being behind it white house correspondent kimberly halkett begins our coverage. with fears of further escalation in the trade war between the united states and china chinese president xi jinping issued words of warning to u.s. president donald trump. should only china and the united states benefit from. a confrontation. of the united states donald j. troll those words may have resonated following that meeting on the 2nd day of the g. 20 summit trump announced a breakthrough no new u.s. tariffs on chinese goods and a restart of stalled trade talks we're going to work with china on where we left off to see if we can make a deal but the 25 percent tariff already on 250000000000 in chinese goods into the united states remains in place the threat of tariffs on an additional $300000000000.00 more in chinese products a potential risk to the global economy have been delayed for now still unresolved the issue of huawei the chinese telecoms manufacturer the u.s. is banned from its markets and accused of facilitating espionage and intellectual property

president xi james ways al-jazeera asako well also in japan is our white house correspondent kimberly halkett she was at the airport as president touched down. officially donald trump is here to promote. to the white house for jobs. u.s. president generating headlines like he's down in. health concerns. with. the indian prime minister criticizing the very high tariffs put on u.s. goods lashing out at chinese leaders and europe alike its u.s. president has been attending trade agreements in defense of. economics i don't expect the same comes to a 60 year old defense pact with the host nation to serve uncertainty well it also at the same time generates the headlights on the truck so often frayed on the international stage. that the u.s. special envoy for iran brian hope he's warning of consequences of tehran breaches the new clear restrictions he's accusing iran of nuclear blackmail is what he calls it and says washington is committed to its policy of maximum economic pressure on tehran because he said it's working he's in europe for talks on the tension in the gulf. iran's foreign minister has

our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more from the campaign launch in florida. oh as donald trump officially kicks off his $21.00 to the election big year you know landover not even notice that this is going to be an honest movement one that starts in a very competitive battleground state and continues to spread across the country donald trump argues that there wasn't enough enthusiasm to be contagious he's highlighting would he says are the achievements of the past few years in office not only that he's delivering on his campaign promises he says he would a hard line immigration policies were directing the wolong the southern border of mexico but also creating jobs the was challenging continues to make the argument that the special counsel robert muller in his probe into whether or not donald trump's campaign for good with russian dogs was that is that exonerated him the fact remains that the report says that congress should continue to investigate something that the democrats in the house of representatives continue to do they're not only looking into that but

jabari is standing by for us in tehran but 1st let's go straight to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett who is out the white outside the white house in washington d.c. so can you tell us more about what donald trump has been saying. yeah pretty astonishing tweets coming from the u.s. president that americans have been waking up to not only for some of them the news that there had been planes in the air that the president called back but then the president following up with early morning tweets giving us some insight into why and how he made that decision take a listen and follow along with me here the president writes in his tweets on monday or on shot down an unmanned drone flying in international waters we were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night of 3 different sites when i asked how many will die 150 people sir was the answer from a general 10 months before rather 10 minutes before the strike i stopped it proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone i am in no hurry our military is rebuilt new and ready to go by far the best in the world sanctions are biting and more added