secretary of state mike pump aoe is in new delhi for talks with indian prime minister narendra modi and indian leaders now ahead of the trip pump called india an important partner in security and energy but there are plenty of points of contention between india and the us right now 1st and foremost is trade the trumpet ministration has lashed out at india for high tariffs and this month it withdrew special trade privileges for india the indian government has retaliated with higher tariffs on some u.s. goods india's deal to buy s $400.00 missile defense systems from russia has also raised controversy it could trigger u.s. sanctions which prohibit doing business with russia defense sector new delhi's looking for a waiver to avoid penalties now this is what pump aoe had to say about those pressures that a press conference with india's minister of external affairs but as the secretary of state i've never found a partner now i don't matter how close we didn't have rob he didn't have places where you had to work through things on each of those 2 issues. and we had a chance to talk today to tr

he is surrounded among his group of advisers by both hawks and doves and you can put secretary pump aoe as well as national security advisor john bolton squarely among the hawks and the very influential ones at that who reportedly advocated for this limited military strike on iran of course president trump all to milly did not follow that advice but the fact that we're seeing pump aoe now on this emergency trip to the middle east as well as bolton's present. today in israel that's telling that these 2 hawkish advisors have not fallen in esteem at least not in the president's eyes how does your castro in washington thank you and as heidi there talks about doves and hawks there was that nationwide interview on u.s. television where president trump likened his national security adviser john bolton to a whole new aggressive tone comes as bolton warned iran on sunday not to take washington's prudence as weakness to some with the support from western. the u.s. national security advisor has come to israel with a clear message for iran neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake u.s

secretary state my pump aoe has stopped saudi arabia from being added to a list of countries that recruit child soldiers it goes against a state department recommendation based on news reports and rights groups assessments they say the kingdom hired sudanese children to fight for the u.s. but coalition in yemen. gunman at least killed $41.00 people in separate attacks in central mali i think violence has surged in the area in recent months and canada has approved a plan to expand the controversial pipeline the $7000000000.00 project will link canada's long locked oil fields to a major port indigenous communities an environmentalist oppose the plan more news in half an hour to stay with us rewind is next. november 2009 and the president of the united states issues a stern warning to north korea over its nuclear program. north korea behaves in a provocative fashion. then. is willing to return to talks talks for a while and then leaves the talks seeking further concessions and there is never actually any progress on the core issues. while in pyongyang north korean officials insist that talk

found evidence of saudi arabia trafficking child soldiers from sudan but secretary of state mike pump aoe has refused to add saudi arabia to a list of countries that recruit child soldiers the list is part of a global human trafficking report that the u.s. government compiles annually donald trump has decided to marry the united states to saudi arabia so saudi arabia can do no wrong which includes assassinating and then melting or chopping into pieces a journalist inside a saudi consulate and employing large numbers of child soldiers president trump has leaned heavily on saudi arabia as an economic and military ally refusing to condemn the kingdom for the murder of u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi the state department did not respond to questions about saudi arabia recruiting child soldiers but said in a statement the united states condemns the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers we place great importance on ending the practice wherever it occurs some members of congress from both parties have moved to block $8000000.00 in u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia but what's happeni

found evidence of saudi arabia trafficking child soldiers from sudan but secretary of state mike bump aoe has refused to add saudi arabia to a list of countries that recruit child soldiers the list is part of a global human trafficking report that the u.s. government compiles annually donald trump has decided to marry the united states to saudi arabia so saudi arabia can do no wrong which includes assassinating and then melting or chopping into pieces a journalist inside a saudi consulate and employing large numbers of child soldiers president trump has leaned heavily on saudi arabia as an economic and military ally refusing to condemn the kingdom for the murder of u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi the state department did not respond to questions about saudi arabia recruiting child soldiers but said in a statement the united states condemns the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers we place great importance on ending the practice wherever it occurs some members of congress from both parties have moved to block $8000000.00 in u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia but what's happeni

terrorism to stop this other malign activities across the region we'd be very happy secretary pump aoe last year gave a speech realistic 12 things i've given you for a story an expanded list that's the endgame we want i so let's bring in our panel for today's discussion joining us now from tehran is my stuff. journalist and political commentator from vienna money go to see economist at the vienna institute for international economic studies and from washington d.c. alley vias director of the iran project at the international crisis group gentlemen welcome to you all ali let's start with you is iran's president right as the white house lost its mind. well without any doubt the latest round of sanctions are absolutely counterproductive for an administration that pretends that it's interested in negotiations to target the political leadership of iran and try to designate iran's foreign minister iran's chief diplomat it's really a signal that this administration is not interested in negotiations otherwise it would not increase the political part price of engagement would it $40.00 iranians

secretary of state might bump aoe says the trump administration does not want a military confrontation with iran the comments came after iranian president hassan rouhani said that iran will not wage war against any nation an alleged attack on oil tankers in the persian gulf is fueling tensions between washington and tehran boris johnson has cemented his lead in the race to become britain's next prime minister he took a 126 votes in a 2nd round of balloting to determine who will replace to resume a as conservative party leader the winner will be announced in late july after a nationwide vote among party members in japan has lifted a tsunami warning after a powerful earthquake struck off the country's northwest coast the magnitude $6.00 quake knocked out power to thousands of homes and calls minor damage but no injuries have been reported. well today german chancellor angela merkel hosted ukraine's new president golda meir of the linsky here in berlin the 2 discussed efforts to end the conflict in eastern ukraine as well as the possibility of slapping more sanctions on russia but all of

provenance or the origin of all those connections as simplistic not editorializing as simplistic as mr pump aoe seems to believe it is because he wants to point all the arrows at tehran. that's correct you know if you actually read. or listen to mike pump a statement on thursday after the attack on the oil tankers he tried to link the entire instability in the middle east. to iran pointing not just to the attack on the oil tankers but to you know attacks in iraq attacks in afghanistan that the taliban have laid claim for the situation in yemen so that's the narrative coming out of washington d.c. supported by its regional allies that iran is the number one threat to instability in the region if only it can be contained or rolled back the middle east would be a wonderful place but i don't think anyone who seriously understands the problems in the middle east today would buy that narrative ok when it comes to buying that narrative nuance what you're saying for us because if one was to extract if you will iranian proxy involvement in those those various jigsaw components that you're breaking for u

this could definitely pan out so jared has been the main architect of this plan of course and pump aoe has been largely watching from the side so it gives him a little bit of distance to look at it. but he has pushed very hard to promote the idea that this is something that's going to work john you say that pump air was frank here's some fairly incredulous phrases no guarantee is one might argue the plan is in executable it might don't gain traction is he trying to manage expectations or is it your feeling that these are his personal views. i think he is trying to manage expectations i mean he was struck into a crowd of people who are very interested in middle east affairs and he was being frank i mean he's seen all the signs he's seen the statements from abbas that this deal can go to hell he knows exactly what the temperature is in the middle east and so i think he was trying to manage expectations i think he was trying to make sure that it was clear that the administration is at least thinking about what would happen in the event that it's immediately rejected and possible demonstra

direction in libya they're only slightly going in a better direction with the iran crisis with pump aoe finally taking the advice of myself and others to dial down the rhetoric and go with no conditions to get talks going but there's so much distrust that it's not surprising to hear zarif saying they're not buying it but the iranians hopefully are talking about something intended for public consumption and in private they will start to engage the americans that's what's needed now but they could tories are right but they're still in a tough spot i'm afraid to if i want to ask you about some of that rhetoric because china's hardline rhetoric has been ongoing and now pump aoa saying there aren't any preconditions there are some mixed messages coming out of washington just how much is the us impacting gulf tensions and how to resolve them i mean it's extraordinary if we didn't have russian interference in the selection and hillary clinton became president said of donald trump and there was no gerry cushion or we wouldn't have m.b.a.'s and then busy doing what they're doing we wouldn't have

the weapons the expertise and the requisite intelligence information to pull this off secretary pump aoe outlined a litany of incidents which i also shared with the council that demonstrate the clear threat that iran poses to international peace and security united states will continue its diplomatic and economic efforts to bring iran to the negotiating table and iran should meet us with diplomacy not with terror attacks on ships infrastructure and diplomatic facilities now robin wright is a foreign affairs analyst and writes about the tank attacks this week for the new yorker magazine she's based in washington welcome to day w a day ability of the united states has proved that iran is behind these attacks. i think there are still quite a few questions about what happened who did it the evidence and usually is very damning but it's not accepted by much of the world and so i think there will be an ongoing investigation that a lot of countries will be interested in in seeing further details if you run was behind these attacks why would they why wouldn't they say so. well iran has often eng

and destruction and with guys like might bump aoe and john bolton pushing trying to squeeze that trigger it seems a war could be looming but thank god it can be just the president's cool thing like this needs congress' approval on paper except that really it doesn't we were absolutely presented with a full formal presentation on how the 2001 math might authorize war on iran yes i'm certain i'm sorry sir secretary powell pale said it with his own words he did not say i want to go to iran and i'm going to use 2001 he referenced a relationship between iran and al qaeda there's a convenient loophole that can help them and it's something called a u.s. a u.s. stands for authorization for use of military force against terrorists a long name but basically it allows the u.s. to attack any country that has ties to al qaida this is already been used in iraq and afghanistan and if you look hard enough terrorists can be found everywhere in the past few months iran has been turning into a more and more of an al qaeda haven according to washington for 40 years the islamic republic's revolutionary guard

of venezuela and the region we must support the venezuelan people and do so right now though my comp aoe isn't too concerned about what happens in venezuela after the current leadership is overthrown now let's not forget that the us meddling in the country's internal affairs is motivated purely by selfless humanitarian concerns about the people so after regime change there are 40 plus contenders who will then fight it out for power now does that remind you of any recent events in current history take for example the us invasion of iraq dick cheney said that it would go well my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators but there's been nothing but chaos and civil war in iraq since the usa invaded there are 288000 deaths so far and counting and dick cheney wasn't completely clueless listen to what he said in 1904 once you got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government the money going to put in place for take libya hillary clinton was delighted to hear that gadhafi had been put to the sword we came we saw our died but now even barack obama admits that toppli

washington accused tehran of attacking 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman secretary of state mike bump aoe said washington's assessment was based on intelligence and that no one else in the region had the capacity to carry out such an attack. it is the assessment of the united states government that the islamic republic of iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the gulf of oman today these unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation and then an acceptable campaign of escalating tension by iran the us immediately jumped to make allegations against iran without a shred of factual circumstantial evidence only makes it abundantly clear that the b. team is moving to a plan b. sabotage diplomacy after the iranian foreign minister's statement to the u.s. central command released a grainy video which it claims shows iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels the owner of the tanker though says the crew reported being hit by flying projectiles. the 2 vessels caught fire in

officials to the middle east national security advisor john bolton israel while sect of state might pump aoe is now in saudi arabia before he left the u.s. pompeo said washington is ready to negotiate with iran. i'm heading out today our 1st stop will be in the kingdom of saudi arabia the united arab emirates 2 great allies in the challenge that iran presents and will be talking with them about how to make sure that we are all teaching line and how we can go about it global coalition coalition not only throughout the gulf states but in asia europe that understands this challenge is that it repaired to push back against the world's largest state sponsor of terror we're prepared to negotiate with no preconditions they know precisely how to find us. joins us live now from tehran saying that might pump a 0 saying that washington is willing to talk to terror on with no preconditions and what law we're hearing from the iranians. well leaders in teheran are likely to see mr pompei as comments as disingenuous they've accused the united states of that in the past iranian officials say that you can't

secretary of state mike pump aoe isn't saudi arabia seeking to form an international coalition against iran he will meet with officials in the persian gulf in asia and europe it comes after the u.s. threatened iran with a military strike in retaliation for the downing of an american drone. some 250000 people took to the streets of prague on sunday to demands of the resignation of czech prime minister andre baddish it was the biggest protest since the overthrow of communism in 1989 sunday's rally was the culmination of a series of demonstrations in recent weeks against bobbish the leader of the populist you know party he's under investigation for corruption. we don't know no more they call they've had enough of czech prime minister andre bobbish this is the country's largest demonstration since the velvet revolution that overthrew communism. and many here say the fight for freedom that began in 1990 isn't over yet. next year it's other acceptable that we have someone in the p.m.'s office who's facing criminal proceedings that he worked for the communist secret service that's not normal

announced it's sending an extra $1000.00 troops to the middle east president trump and secretary pump aoe have expressed very clearly our willingness to negotiate with iran when the time is right no one should be uncertain about our desire for peace or our readiness to normalize relations should we reach a comprehensive deal we have put the possibility of a much brighter future on the table for the iranian people well earlier we spoke to hillary mann leverett she's a former white house national security official and she says don't trump appears convinced his tough line on iran could yield positive results. president trump from from the very beginning from when he campaigned in 2016 has had 2 messages about iran one is that he thought that the deal that obama struck was terrible not because the deal itself was so bad but president obama really was so bad and that he trump was so such a great deal maker he could make such a bigger better deal and the way he was going to do that was to get extremely tough with iran extremely aggressive and militaristic but at the same time hold out more and

secretary of state my pump aoe also allege that tehran was behind the blast but iran . says the u.s. allegations are baseless and has accused washington of warmongering. smoke billows from a stricken ship but is it a smoking gun the u.s. says iran was behind attacks on 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman this is based on intelligence the weapons used the level of expertise needed to execute the operation recent similar raiding attacks on shipping and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication. the u.s. military has released photographs appearing to show damage under limpets mind on one of the time because. it also published a video of grainy black and white footage that it says shows evidence of iran's revolutionary guard removing an unexploded limp it. on thursday a fire broke out on a norwegian oil tanker following explosions. hours later a 2nd tanker japanese owned also radioed for help both ships had departed from saudi arabia and had passed through the strait of hormuz a strate

secretary of state mike comp aoe of talking to iran with no preconditions though a positive sign of a softer tone from washington was received here into heroin by iranian leaders with a great deal of suspicion in a statement from iran's foreign ministry the spokesman abbas mousavi said for the islamist republic of iran wordplay and expressing a hidden agenda with new words is not the foundation for practical actions for iran the basis is the united states altering its approach and practical behavior towards the nation of iran but mr pompei was emphasis on the continuation of maximum pressure on iran shows it is the same long running old approach that needs to be revised so the message there is that for america talk is cheap but for iran economic sanctions have been costly and continued economic pressure from those sanctions on the iranian people is unlikely to set the stage or the mood for any kind of conversation somebody like me because talking is the continuation of the process of pressure he's imposing pressure this may work in the real estate market it does not work in the last e

secretary of state my pump aoe is looking to form take a listen to what he said. if you move to it. at least with regard to the coalition and he was talking about the importance of enhancing the international involvement in an operation for physical protection of oil tankers and other vessels in the persian gulf because of them on the strait of hormuz or wherever i can confirm that any practical steps in this direction are aimed at providing security to the vessels in the goals but not against iran. so the u.a.e. norway and saudi arabia were all looking into this were investigating and the result they said really didn't point to any specific country they said it was a state actor who was responsible didn't name a country but u.s. national security advisor john bolton continues to reiterate and repeat that it was iran and listen to what he said. well i've said it was almost certainly the case that iran was responsible for the attack on the tankers we expect that the countries of the vessels in saudi arabia the united arab emirates and norway will in due course and i think fairly shor

1000 troops to the middle east as relations continue to worsen with iran secretary of state my pump aoe says the deployment is being made for defensive purposes and not. mean his commander in chief wants war. but we are there to deter aggression present trump does not want war and we will continue to communicate that message wall doing the things that are necessary to protect american interests in the region the responsibility for diplomacy achieving the strategic outcomes the president trying to set forth falls on all of us but the state department as the 1st or the water on that but we can't do that without making sure that we have the capability to respond if iran makes a bad decision earlier my colleagues. have discussed the significance of the deployment. the step itself isn't entirely significant but there have been so many steps leading up to this less than a month ago a $1500.00 more troops was sent to the middle east they had strategic bombers stationed in the middle east additional strategic bombers they had ph it and t. ed defense system station in the middle east carrier bat

secretary of state like pump aoe has pin the blame for attacks today on 2 tankers in the gulf of oman firmly on iran. accusing iran of trying to restrict the flow of oil through the key strait of hormuz oil prices today jumped by 4 percent on the news. between the u.s. and iran have been running high since president withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal last year u.n. secretary general and tony has warned that the world cannot afford a major confrontation in the gulf black smoke billows from the norwegian to our own tanker the front. that only john maritime authority says they were reportedly 3 explosions on board he described the incident as an attack. the 2nd ship involved in the incident was the japanese own koku cut courageous. both ships departed from saudi arabia and were passing between iran and the united arab emirates through the strait of hormuz the strategic strike to connects the persian gulf and the gulf of oman and serves as a conduit for a 5th of all global oil consumption. leaders from around the world have expressed alarm. if there is something the world cannot afford

attacking the vessel's he's long been calling for regime change into her and us secretary of state my pump aoe says it's possible to her alleged attack was an attempt to raise the price of oil the saudi ambassador to the u.n. also blamed iran but iran's foreign minister rejects the accusations as ludicrous and is calling for an investigation in a tweet he left little doubt about who he thinks is responsible accusing the israeli intelligence agency mossad of fabricating information to link to her and to the attacks russia's deputy ambassador to the u.n. says the investigation should continue you shouldn't jump to conclusions to want to know in the case are you really this is really going on or you know no. no no conclusions. will be continued so no name no iran no you would be buying your i just know more than a claim and has to guess you were going to be. but that's going to leave but he told me you believe in the investigation so far no one has presented evidence of their claims all of this comes after the u.s. re imposed sanctions on the reigning oil exports after withdrawing from the 2050 n

eventually security advisor bolton and a secretary of state pump aoe and their allies in the israeli government they would like to really get tough on iran to try and force them to make concessions on the nuclear agreement that was reached by the obama administration so this seems to be their foreign policy goal and it's unclear how much pain they're willing to put up with in order to achieve that and result what happens if this current situation escalates and where then having to face a scenario where the strait is perhaps closed with ships in effect to blockade on the wrong side of that closer to saudi arabia as well as being such a big producer also has more reserves than anyone else that's correct saudi arabia is in fact. the escape valve if you will there's one country that has massive amounts of surplus capacity if they can't get it out through the straits of hormuz then the world one market will indeed be locked up and as you said earlier in your introduction this represents 20 to 30 percent of world oil supplies and it could sharply push up prices seen suggestions that could

happening and as you know mexico called they want to meet they're going to meet on wednesday secretary pump aoe is going to be at the meeting along with a few others that are very good at this and we are going to see if we can do something but i think it's more likely that the tariffs go on and we'll probably be talking during the time that the tariffs are on and they're going to be paid and if they don't step up and give us security for our nation look millions of people are flowing through mexico that's unacceptable millions and millions of people are coming right through mexico it's a 2000 mile journey and they're coming up to our border and our border patrol which is incredible they're apprehending them but our lawyers have bed because the democrats don't want to pass laws that could be passed in 15 minutes that could be passed quickly in one day it could change but even beyond the laws mexico shouldn't allow millions of people to try and enter our country and they could stop it very quickly and i think they will and if they won't we're going to put tariffs on in every month those tariffs g

secretary of state might pump aoe has arrived in saudi arabia to deal with the escalating dispute between the united states and iran donald trump is threatened to impose new sanctions on tehran but russia says it will take steps to counter those measures calling them illegal to iran's responded by saying u.s. efforts to turn the world against them will be useless if you need. forming a coalition is nothing new we've seen it before they fail us iran is a powerful country with 15 neighboring countries and we stand tall in the region so forming a coalition against such a country is not an easy thing to do even if u.s. officials come to the region every week and have meetings to try and form a coalition it's not easy to do turkey's opposition party has one istanbul's may already it's a huge setback for president bush it. was party has run the city for 25 years the opposition now only won the 1st election in march before the out party forced a revolt and planning through. ethiopia's military still hunting for the general behind an attempted rebellion in the northern state of i'm hala. gorani g

found evidence of saudi arabia trafficking child soldiers from sudan but secretary of state mike pump aoe has refused to add saudi arabia to a list of countries that recruit child soldiers the list is part of a global human trafficking report that the u.s. government compiles annually donald trump has decided to marry the united states to saudi arabia so saudi arabia can do no wrong which includes assassinating and then melting or chopping into pieces a journalist inside a saudi consulate and employing large numbers of child soldiers president trump has leaned heavily on saudi arabia as an economic and military ally refusing to condemn the kingdom for the murder of u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi the state department did not respond to questions about saudi arabia recruiting child soldiers but said in a statement the united states condemns the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers we place great importance on. ending the practice wherever it occurs some members of congress from both parties have moved to block $8000000.00 in u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia but what's happen

president has said that he doesn't want war but nonetheless his people and i don't know what this is pump aoe or bolton or both seem to be taking actions to undercut that mission to stay out of warfare at a time when the president sent a message apparently through the japanese prime minister of an interest in going back to the table to negotiate bolton was announcing new sanctions on iran now is that an effort to scuttle the president's effort to initiate a dialogue it certainly seems to have that effect. but i think the the whole idea that somehow through this pressure campaign we were going to force around to complete chile and say ok we'll come back to the table give up everything was naive dangerously naive in the 1st place and this is what our allies are reacting to so both the democrats and the republicans by and large is standing behind this intelligence assessment but what are they doing to convince allies. well secretary of state mike pompei o speaking to u.s. media earlier on sunday said that he's been calling lots of allies in particular asian allies as 80 percent of the oil that c

president has said that he doesn't want war but nonetheless his people and i don't know what this is pump aoe or bolton or both seem to be taking actions to undercut that to stay out of warfare at this time when the president sent a message apparently through the japanese prime minister of an interest in going back to the table to negotiate bolton was announcing new sanctions on iran now is that an effort to scuttle the president's effort to initiate a dialogue it certainly seemed to have that effect. but i think the the whole idea that somehow through this pressure campaign we were going to force around to compare chile and say ok we'll come back to the table give up everything was naive dangerously naive in the 1st place and this is what our allies are reacting to the courts order the wife of the israeli prime minister to pay $15000.00 after she was found guilty of misusing state funds but benjamin netanyahu was in court with instead he chose to inaugurate a new israeli settlement in the occupied golan heights it's been named trump heights in the u.s. president after he recognized israeli s

thank you for taking the time to speak to us so perhaps a somewhat awkward meeting there between pomp aoe and. then we know that the u.s. and germany are odds on a number of key international issues chief among them iran would the u.s. take the step of penalizing anyone associated with this mechanism that the europeans want to put in place that to bypass u.s. sanctions would with the u.s. take a step like that judging them by their behavior they probably would have done things to their allies and canada mexico europe or other places. raising a tariffs and doing all those things so they probably would if they think it was going to achieve their objectives in washington the problem is the united states is going crucially isolated around the world and being seen as a bully who's pushing its own policies and prepared to hurt other economies really seriously with germany for instance they're trying to get the germans not to buy gas from russia which the germans want to do and they're telling people they can't buy oil from iran and other things like that which i know a lot of weight and things

status quo would that be enough perhaps to embolden the opposition they could talk to people like pump aoe and then the country could move in a different direction yeah possibly peter but i think that in the end the only way this is going to really work is either if there is such a massive. popular rebellion against the government that forces him to leave or if there is a very significant split from of the military in the move the military told her you're gone we have to find a way of fixing this country and moving into a democracy and that has yet to happen we thought or at least the united states government thought that they had some deal with a couple of the top generals in venezuela and why though declared that you know in the months afterward to declare himself president when he had that many rebellion at the end of april but until the military really takes a strong move i have trouble seeing that anything's going to happen because the military really has a monopoly on power in that country and controls everything and tony a great structure as ever thanks so much antonio to the course