so we're going to keep working with our allies. secretary pompeo talked about this in his may speech, we are expanding our diplomacy. of course, we work closely with the e3 and china and russia. we know that this threat is not limited to those countries that were members of the deal. it's much broader than that. iran presents international threats to peace and security, so an international problem requires an international solution and so we continue to work with countries around the world. >> great. we have a question to that end here. if india and china, in particular, agree to help u.s. pressure iran on ballistic missiles, what about india and china's purchases of iranian oil by india and china? then you can even broaden that and talk about in general some of our allies and partners and their continued business with iran that does continue to enable or prop up the regime. what is the united states willing to do in order to get that to stop? >> we have said that our goal is to get imports of iranian oil to zero. i think something

so what is the united states and its allies doing to address it. for starters, we ended the practice of admiring the problem . secretary pompeo launched a multipronged pressure campaign that reflects the president's goal of protecting the american people and our allies from this regime. first, we are using the full scope of our sanctioned authorities to reflect real cost on the ballistic missile program. in march, the u.s. impose sanctions against 19 foreign entities for transferring equipment to iran's's program. in may 2010 redesignated five individuals for providing ballistic missile related technical expertise to the who sees. these individuals are responsible for transferring weapons to yemen on behalf of the forest. while we are sanctioning the missile activity, our economic pressure is much broader. the u.s. is re-imposing sanctions that were lifted or waived as part of the nuclear deal. the first of these went into effect on august 7 and the remainder will be imposed on november 5. we intend to get global iranian crude oil imports as close

they are an ally, and we have very good allies in the middle east, but if you are looking at saudi arabia, they are an ally and tremendous purchaser of military equipment and other things. when i went there they committed to purchase $450 billion of thing, and $110 billion of military and those are the biggest orders in the history of this country, and probably the his troif world. i don't think that there has ever been an order for $450 billion, and you remember that day in saudi arabia where that commitment was made. so they are an important ally, but i want to find out what happened, where is the fault, and we will probably know that by the end of the week, but mike pompeo is coming back, and we will have are a long talk. >> what about across the river in virginia and why not send in the fbi to figure this out. >> well, he is not a citizen of the country for one thing, and we will determine it, and you don't know whether we have or not, and do you know whether or not we have sent the fbi? >> have you sent the fbi? >> i am not going to the tell you. >> why not? >> why would i tell you?

pershing expected to fight as a separate army, but they allies the allies had suffered heavily duringhree years of fighting , and some american units were sent directly into the lines to strengthen french and british positions. our boys tasted trench warfare for the first time, and their initiation was a rugged one. is plan toesented form an independent american force. the time required to assemble such an army delayed its formation. the pressure of german drives along the some and in the spring of 1918, forced the deployment of american, and units on various parts of the front. although pershing had troops under his command, he was on ineffective at bringing them together in one army. the men who would make up such a force gained experience quickly and acquired the status of veterans as the germans were driven back. in late july, 1918, general pershing created the first united states army under his command. immediate steps were taken to concentrate american forces at one point on the line. that point was here. the germans had held a station 25 miles wide. this enabled the enemy to ha

penetrating the ally line, it enabled the enemy to harass operations.e than half a million army troops assembled for the tax of -- task of crushing it out of existence. 15 infantry divisions were moved into position. by the end of the day on september 11, 1918, the first army was ready for the first independent operation against the enemy. at dawn, on the 12th, in a drizzling rain, the attack was launched. [explosions] for the enemy, it was an unpleasant surprise. within four days it was obliterated, and the americans were then deployed along a new line. pershing said this striking victory has probably done more than any single operation in the war to encourage the tired allies. a massive offensive was then planned by the allies in which first army would play a critical role. the new campaign was west of verdon. george c marshall planned and directed the transfer of 600,000 men with complete secrecy. ♪ a three-hour barrage softened up the german trenches before the first army infantry launched their attack. [explosions] in the middle of the offensive, l

allied system, we're going to offset it, until that system -- that allied system is replaced, that's a pretty effective deterrent. things that we're tacking on here, if we're going to be soon at a point where we could go up and the system is damaged, we could go up and repair it, why would we not do that? we're getting into this capability as a force, we're going through an analysis of thanks for the zrdirection on defend and protect. we're going to figure out where we're at and make recommendations to my commander on where we should be going. if you look in the center here, this is sort of my cheat sheet of collaboration. you have the royal canadian air force, which two years ago i was handed the functional leadership for the space domain. our capabilities were built and just handed to the air force, and we're certainly all in on taking a leadership role on this doma domain. now that the royal canadian air force has functional leadership on air and space domain. if i look to the -- i have my canadian space operations center, you see the space ops, those are the canadians embedded in

designed to impede the momentum of allied landings.n general staff stationed 60 divisions in france, but there was a major oh weakness in the defense, -- major weakness in the defense, the law. they were cuts a point -- concentrate on two points. two beaches. on june 5,er doc 1944, first army paratroopers from the 82nd and 100 forced -- 101st airborne division's board of their aircraft. not a single man had ever parachuted into action. the main assault got underway immediately after a devastating shore bombardment. [explosions] 29th divisions assaulted the beach while other --isions drove in utah beach and on utah beach. offshore, general radley were needed operations during the early, critical hours. ♪ as the assault cut through nazi equipmentmore men and poured onto the beaches. behind the beaches, bordering the fields, or the hedgerows. each one was a potential death trap. the enemy made use of these barriers and used them fanatically. on june 26, the great sure felt of the first army. the germans seventh army included many battle s

it is always a close ally when you are president. it is always a close ally when you are president. the interior minister is in charge of police and security in this role has taken a bigger importance with terrorism. all interior ministers have been at the forefront, well-known to the french people and they have a close tie to the president. it was absolutely important for emmanuel macron to a point a o appoint a-- tw close ally. he was appointed junior minister, then emmanuel macron tapped him to head the fledgling party. this was a sign of trust. now he gives him the key, juster, his predecessor, maybe a symbol but he was the number two in the ranking of ministers of the government. this is only number 11, so it does not change much. more importantly, he also has the junior minister with him, who is not known at all. important and sensitive position. he was the head of the french internal intelligence service. this is a way for emmanuel macron to convey the message, yes, he is appointing someone he trusts, a political ally, who owe

reviewing support to those two allies? i would say the murder of khashoggi is, i would separate it out from the yemen situation. that stands unique, by itself. the president wants to get to the bottom and says we will. turkey has so far provided evidence for every allegation they have made about what happened. so no one nation controls all the information. i spoke to the foreign minister of saudi arabia two days ago in manama. he said there would be a full investigation. let me swing over to yemen, separate issue. what we have been providing since the last administration or in the last administration, we reviewed it when we came internally. in regards to this war that is going on. -- this war between the arab theition and the houthis, last administration agreed to provide certain information, refueling support so the pilots didn't feel they have to make a hasty decision to drop or not. than 20% probably less of their aircraft. they have their own. what is it we are pushing for at this point? we have been holding classes on

we have a very good allies in the middle east but if you look at saudi arabia they're an ally of tremendous purchaser donald trump's comments come as there is a huge amount of pressure mounting on the administration in response to outrage about the shoji incident president trump as. it is sizing the condemnation of saudi arabia over the case of missing journalist jamal khashoggi residence stunning statement as three sources tell c.n.n. that a high ranking officer with the saudi intelligence agency oversaw the saudis are now claiming was an interrogation and he wanted to a building a never came out of the building what are we talking about in the building was saudi if he's dead said republican senator marco rubio today the u.s. must respond or it risks its own standing the administration assures us that saudi arabia will get to the bottom of what actually took place eventually we're going to give them the space to complete their investigations of this incident when they issue their report for our judgment about their next step in the decisions they make about accountability connected to this

nuclear weapons on their territory so there are different european allies that the united states has in the e.u. and they have differences on their attitude to moscow i hope that the cooler heads will prevail and that nothing terrible will happen cooler heads will prevail i want to thank all our guests lawrence korb in washington dimitri babich in moscow and max all down in london and thank you too for watching you can see the program any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. in.

this time it has an expanded ally presence. i think what you will see is a big push being able to train in the contested environment, being able to train with our allies and having the infrom structure to do that. >> do you get a sense that our allies share our view of the threats in space? are they similar to what we are trying to do coming up with more defensive systems? >> i think there is growing understanding that space is clearly a contested domain. i am really happy with the partnerships that we are developing. we have in fact just a couple months ago -- we renamed the joint space operations center out at brandenburg the combined space operations center where we are doing combined operations with our allies and linking into their space operations centers. there is a great awareness. we have a great turnout coming for the cerebral war game. i think there is clearly an understanding of that. >> the underseth for engineering and development has talked a lot about the need for hyper somiso. what would we do with a hyper soni

that's what hurts our allies. i wish we would work more closely with our nato allies. >> fair point. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, we're will have more on the russia investigation as robert mueller drills down on roger stone's context with wikileaks. is there evidence of collusion? >>> kremlin officials are making threats of their own as mr. trump's national security adviser meets with russian officials. we'll go live to moscow for a report. this is actually under your budget. it's great. mm-hmm. yeah, and when you move in, geico could help you save on renters' insurance! man 1: (behind wall) yep, geico helped me with renters insurance, too! um... the walls seem a bit thin... man 2: (behind wall) they are! and craig practices the accordion every night! says the guy who sings karaoke by himself. i'm a very shy singer. you're tone deaf! ehh... should we move on to the next one? it's a great building! you'll love it here! we have mixers every thursday. geico®. it's easy to switch a

how come your sided with the allies? >> it is simple. we were strongly anti-german because of the persecution of the jews. we knew about that. we certainly had no sympathy for the germans and did not want them to win and that the japanese won, it would have meant that the germans had won, too. >> were you aware of a larger jewish community in japan? i know there are some. y great uncle was briefly in japan during the war and had an address in a jewish community in kobe. were there any other jews around? >> yes. the largest jewish community in japan was in kobe. it was a major port, the major port for ships from europe. >> what about where you are living? >> no. kobe is a good distance from tokyo. i do not remember being in obe until after the war. >> i grew up speaking russian for the first five years of my life, even though we lived in china. learned no chinese. when i moved back to japan in the summer of 1936, i was enrolled in a british chool. i started to learn english for he first time. i knew no english. my mother came to school wi

ally.rrick husinger is part of the invasion force. >> get our guns situated, put the tripod down, set the gun up, and stable platform. >> the exercise also a deterrent, as the north atlantic region becomes more contested. with this exercise, the u.s. and its allies are practicing their response in case a friendly nation gets attacked. the adversary is fictitious, but it comes as a time when there's increasing -- russia is beefing up its capabilities right in the heart of europe. cnn has obtained satellite images, seemingly showing massive construction work at russia's bases up grading a nuclear storage facility there, adding new ammunition bunkers and upgrading the military air field. is vladimir putin building up his military. russia's defense minstraer didn't response to cnn's request for information, but the commander of u.s. naval forces in europe and africa tell me there's a pattern of russia upgrading its capabilities in the region. >> they're putting a lot in their modern weapon syst

ambassador be seen as a way to kind of scare up the nato ally allies into raising their defense funding levels. i think the nato allies in europe where enough that they have to scale up their budget to question is whether they're going to do it quickly enough and well enough in terms of the quantity that you get out of it you spending so i don't think it's going to change really what is on the allies mind since twenty fourteen when russia invaded ukraine that was do re on with a court but obviously it's going to create more concern and what also it's going to do is anything that nato we do in the future all by literally the folks up at the u.s. decides to create a new media terry base in poland dissolute be seen a spot of supposed to go to skid nation visit to russia and i think the french the germans and few other nato allies will be extremely cautious when it comes to that and as far as. where things stand now between the u.s. and russia because we're still kind of heard mixed signals from washington we're where we often hear president trump saying one one thing talking very warmly ab

working with allies. things like that we're tacking on here if we're going to be soon at a point where go up and the system is damaged and we can repair it, why wouldn't we do it. we're getting into this capability as a force. we're going through an analysis of thanks for the direction on, you know, defend and protect. this is everything it means. we're going to figure out where we're at and make recommendations to my commander where we should be going, including our level of cooperation with allies like the united states. if you look in the center here, this is sort of my cheat sheet of collaboration both internally and externally. in the center you have the royal canadian air force. two years ago, it was handed this functional leadership. our capabilities were built under a joint contract and they were handed to the air force. if i look to the -- if i go up and i have my canadian space operation center, you can those canadians embedded in u.s. units. my space operations center is integrated in my canadi

polls are set to open in germany's bavaria region with allies of chancellor merkel under pressure frommaller parties. march of the migrants — on the road with the honduran families defying washington to seek a better life in the united states. and like father, like son — schumacherjunior wins his first drivers title. hello and welcome to bbc news. the bbc has learned that britain and the united states are considering boycotting a major international conference in saudi arabia after the disappearance of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. a joint statement of condemnation is also being discussed by western allies if it is confirmed that mr khashoggi was killed by saudi agents. eliza philippidis reports. president trump is under international and domestic pressure to help determine what happened to mr khashoggi and punish saudi arabia if investigations show its government had him killed. and though he's promised severe punishment, sanctions on arms don't seem to be on the cards. when we take away $110 billion of purchases from our country, that hurts our workers, that hurts our factor

think this represents another area where trump is going against the core interests of his european allies and walking away from arms control let me bring in washington d.c. hey i will bring in moscow as well shortly. in d.c. and lawrence korb. you are bringing the world to another race if you pull the this treaty is that true. well i think so and as your guest in u.k. pointed out if you don't extend neustar if i were back in government i would have said to the president look president putin has asked to extend new start which you can do for five years without even getting senate or duma approval say ok you'll do that but let us go find out let us inspect the see what you're doing in the i.n.f. treaty and the other thing is that if we wanted to deploy those type of weapons in europe we'd have to get the permission of the europeans and i was involved in trying to put them in back in the eighty's so before we could get the forgetting they don't want them you know be very very difficult you know for example for the germans to to accept to accept this so again i think you don't announce it at

it was of paramount important to european allies.re was fears of an arms race in russia, and soviet intermediate range missiles. it was seen as a watershed for them to sign the agreement. where are we 31 years later? why would the u.s. want to leave this agreement now? the trump administration says that russia has already violated the treaty by deploying tactical nuclear weapons in and around europe as well as a new category of cruise missile. the kremlin, of course, denies that it has ever violated the treaty. but let's be clear. it's not just the trump administration who is accusing russia of violations. theome bah administration did so in 2014. nato as well. so the u.s. has been pushing russia on this for some time, calling them out for these missiles, these weapons, which again, all these years later are making u.s. allies in europe very nervous, and fears of an arms race in europe. who else is not covered by the treaty? china is not covered. in those 30 years. china has become a lot more powerful economically and militarily. and

and allied security interests for years. as reflected in the administration's national security strategy, and oechoed n our national defense strategy, great power competition is reemerging. wuk no longer be complacent. we need to be creative and flexible in how we approach and manage our strategic competition with russia. and that includes an evaluation of where we stand with respect to our arms control, our interrelationship with our deterrents and defense. skripals. chemical agent. we have been clear with moscow and will continue to execute our mandate. meanwhile, the united states and our nato allies -- the department of state also leads efforts to push back. of particular concern, russia has experimental satellites that conduct sophisticated activities, at least some of which are intended to advance counterspace capabilities. and finally, i would also note that our sanctions policy is an important tool in maintaining pressure on moscow to abandon its malign activities. we assess that our global campaign to implement sect

division is europe and its transatlantic allies canada and the u.s. appear unwilling to reconsider weapons.

i'm happy to stand with my ally. but when you throw candy at the chancellor of germany or use hostile rhetoric against, good lord, the prime minister of canada, it's very hard to understand and explain. >> what about when you make up or make nice with the leader of north korea, which was busy testing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles? what about that? he claims that the tone and temperature has been dramatically reduced because of his style and his efforts. >> well, i think it's absolutely true that the hostility and the temperature has been turned down. and so in that regard, you know, i can't argue with the president that his personal engagement with the north korean leader has brought about good results. but, you know, that's an example of what i'm talking about. in that regard the president's rhetoric tracks more traditionally with the approach that i think a successful president should have regarding leaders of other countries. and much better for them to be talking than for him to be calli

as max rightly says, everybody is all over the place but the second thing is you need your alli allieshinese don't have is allies. it makes us powerful. you showed the gdp. the u.s. plus major ally gdp still 50% of global output. the same as in 1945. if the united states were to have a strategy where we bring european allies, asian allies, indians along in a strategy to confront china, not beat them, now find some kind of win which is what the president seems to look for but to get them back into work on the rules that matter. >> tareq, ann tarek, anne-mari about soft power. do people want the american model or the chinese model of soft power? >> that is a big difference between this period and the cold war. i would submit the majority of people in my part of the world, they wanted to be this, not the soviet union. if you look at the united states and the political system you see the dysfunction s ths that max been talking about. what does china get you? competence, economic development, a miracle of lifting more people out of poverty than ever happened in the shortest period of time.

against transatlantic allies canada and the us the unwilling to reconsider weapons sales to saudi arabia in the wake of the killing of became dims dissident journalist jamal khashoggi. on a plot to me at putin's raise concerns over the future of nuclear weapons treaties with the us saying if there are bound and it would result in nothing but a new arms race. you can find those stories in full and plenty more on our website r.t. dot com will be back with the world news updates in about an hour in the meantime for you. below in welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle in this unique edition of cross-talk we review a new and very important book john mearsheimer the great delusion liberal dreams and international realities it's a real bombshell. cross talking the great delusion liberal dreams and international realities i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark slaughter he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dmitri bobbitt he's a political analyst we spoke nick international and we have wendy's and he is a professor at the higher school of

>> that's just who allie is.ut who has completely given up on herself. she's so different from me. i really believed in myself when i started out. i was like, i'm going to do this. my friends called me gaga. like, all right, yeah, i'm gaga. ♪ >> reporter: that name, gaga, now synonymous with some of the biggest hits in pop music. "just dance." "poker face." ♪ poker face ♪ my poker face my poker face >> reporter: and "born this way." ♪ i was born this way >> reporter: her songs dominating the charts for the last decade. >> i hit the ground running. i knocked down every door to play every club in new york city. i mean, i had something to say. i wanted to say it. i believed in myself. but this girl, allie, she's jaded by the business. she's been told she's not beautiful enough. what's amazing is that this is a love story. and it's his love for her that gives her wings to fly. >> i was wondering if there's a part of you that goes, i remember those days of singing in places that people would never imagine that i would

is biggest allies of the middle east are the powerful liberal the. proceeds of saudi arabia qatar and bahrain and. the united arab emirates so the us supplies successive liberal for regimes of liberal foreign policy the us arms over seventy percent of the world's dictatorships according to u.s. researchers and they're trying to cut russia out of the remaining twenty five percent that russia and china share amongst them so you know it's it's really a case of liberal foreign policy is an exercise in a park or see it's weaponized liberalism as as a basically a means of demonizing propaganda for my enemies and for my dictator friends well we all see the press coverage that mahatma been sob and then i thought it would be it's really interesting because it really is a p.r. trap because even if it fails like iraq afghanistan syria what's going on besides you arabia it's still your intentions were good ok and that's why no one loses their job and cable t.v. in the u.s. so it's not the first time that the lofty ideas lead to the table results in fact that the

this ally is an ally of convenience and should be an ally of convenience. we're interested in saudi arabia because of their oil, we're not nearly as interested in their oil. we need to remember that 15 out of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were saudi arabian. and they play a very dirty game and we're seeing it play out right now. >> bin laden was a -- an elderly guy, a body double, that showed up at the saudi consulate. when he's leaving, he's wearing jamal khashoggie's clothes, he looks like him, he's got a beard. people are assuming that he was sent in to pretend to be khashoggie leaving. what's your reaction to the fact that they sent a guy in there as a body double, knowing that jahma jamal khashoggie would never leave, but trying to make it look like that person was jamal khashoggie. >> it shows that this was very premeditated. and the crown prince clearly has a very thin skin, that's why we have had so many beheadings in that country in the last year, and probably why they thought they could just behead him because they thought they were on saudi soil and n

who are riyadh's allies right now? >> few and far between. it's interesting that russia has kept pretty much silent on this. the russians simply said they had noted what the saudis said. they clearly noted that the saudis have changed their position over the last couple of weeks. but more support, more actively supportive we're seeing saudi arabia's regional allies. its allies in particular in the r against the houthis in bahrain. ait, and and egypt which expressed its respect for the law and desire to see justice delivered. not many people around the world at this moment would be in much sympathy with that position, but locally there's no doubt that those regional allies are staying onboard with saudi arabia at the moment. >> thank you very much for that. robert parsons there, france 24's chief foreign editor. after weeks of conflicting accounts, riyadh now admits khashog gy. was killed but a rogue operation. ankara has promise add full investigation with the president saying key questions remain unanswered. the shocking case has dominated g

go and inspect these systems in russia and why doesn't your european allies could the u.s. to allow russians to inspect ballistic missile defense systems in your.

russia's backing brussels for them or putin is already talking dollar trade with major allies i didn't washington's just shot itself in the foot and actually americans killed but it was an american partners in making a colossal strategic mistake undermining the credibility of the dollar is universal and essentially the only reserve currency undermining trust in it they can sing the branch they're sitting on this is the typical mistake of any empire when people think that nothing will happen but they believe that everything is so powerful so strong so stable that there will be no negative consequences but you know sure they will come sooner or later but the whole days to wallop. maybe from america's biggest rival china. beijing shop window now plans an ample dollar free range from old trade in petrol you one the only one crypto you won the new silk road colossus and beijing's own swift world banking network even u.s. media admit washington's now waging economic war in one tenth of the world and one in four people on this planet now live on the government's committed to drownd dollar dom

allies. >> one thing that is clear, i'm sure you have had the same experience. when i have spoken to diplomats, politicians in countries, particular in the east of europe on the front lines in the conflict with russia, they will frequently cite from nikki haley in support of them, with great strength and conviction, et cetera, as a confidence builder for them. often at times when they have not heard similar statements and reassurances from president trump. >> richard roth is with us, who has covered the united nations for decades, literally. richard, so your read and what you're hearing in the halls there? >> i haven't hurt the speculation that preceded me, but it didn't take long after nikki haley was in office that a major security council diplomat who sat with her at the table said she's a politician, and you don't often hear that from u.n. diplomats. my sense would be as people start to get the news is they think that she's got her eye on bigger dreams than the u.n. ambassadorship. she ha

and they are an ally. we have other very good allies in the middle east. but if you look at saudi arabia, they're an ally and they're a tremendous purchaser of not only military equipment, but other things. so they're an important ally. >> we're talking about a man that lived across the river in virginia. why not send the fbi in to figure it out? >> well, he wasn't a citizen of this country for one thing. we're going to determine that. and you don't know whether or not we have, do you? no, do you know whether or not we've sent the fbi? >> have you sent the fbi? >> i'm not going to tell you. why would i tell you? >> i'm a shameful performance because the whole world is watching, donald. that's why you should tell him. the whole world is watching and they're listening to you and it seems you are for sale. the russians give you a lot of money. you come on our show three years ago and you defend it. you say at least he's a strong leader. why? because it's your son saying you make all of this money from russia. all of these russians, they spent money. you tweet

ambassador be seen as a way to kind of scare up the nato ally allies into raising their defense funding levels i think the nato allies in europe where enough that they have to scale up their budget to question is whether they're going to do it quickly enough and well enough in terms of the quantity that you get out of it you spending so i don't figure it's going to change really what is on the allies minds to.

and for the social democrats two weeks ago miracles bavarian allies the c.s.u. slumped to their worst election result in decades. frankfurt germany financial hope an economic powerhouse and the biggest city in has the southwest and german state governed by angler merkel's conservative c.d.u. and the green party after twenty years in power the conservatives are bracing for huge losses as has heads to the polls. but this time around the state election isn't only about local politics how hesse's four million voters cast their ballots on sunday could have huge repercussions. not least of all for german chancellor angela merkel despite projecting an image of stability on the campaign trail and has a macro has every reason to be concerned the conservatives are at a record low the worst case scenario would be if her close ally and has a say premier folk of what pushed out of office months of squabbling and debates over migration impersonality federal level have overshadowed the has a state election. on sunday the vote is about has. then we'll talk about berlin. i think

allies for years. as reflected in the administration national security strategy, and echoed in the defense strategy, great power competition is reemerging. we can no longer be complacent in the face of challenges by competitors. we need to be creative and flexible in how we approach and manage the strategic competition with russia. that includes an evaluation of where we stand with respect to our arms-control agreement, and the interrelationship with the deterrence and defense requirements. i will begin with the new start treaty. in february of this year, both countries confirmed compliance with the treaty central limits. we are committed to implementing the treaty and ensuring russia stays in compliance. i know this committee has sought the administration's view of extending the treaty. no decision hasn't made at this time. in the meanwhile, rush has persisted in violation of the inf treated through their ground launch missile program. this administration is utilized diplomatic, economic -- economic t

they shared with the allies. we understand from the source briefed by one of the allies and intelligence officials. he says that the intelligence agencies are shocked -- shocked by the nature of what they heard. it took some time to digest it. it reveals assault and struggle and the death of jamal khashoggi very, very damaging evidence turks sharing with allies. it paints saudi arabia into a difficult corner. how do they get out of it? last night they said they were forming a joint investigative committee with the turkish authorities to look at the investigation. having seen and having understood what the turks are releasing to allies, it makes the saudi position, almost, it would seem, untenable, at this point. growing on saudi arabia. turkey's allies clearly understanding, aware and shocked we're told by the details. graphic details of his death. dave. >> president trump made clear yesterday even if this is true, he wants no part of cancelling an arms deal with the saudis. nic robertson, thank you. >>> u.s. off