ok thanks for the update there caleb maupin reporting from new york. a huge show of blank syrian passports has been stolen from the country's government germany's authorities say that over eleven thousand of them might have fallen into the hands of islamic state adding that fake passports give the terrorist easy access to europe artie's peter all of the picks up the story. eleven thousand blank syrian passports could be in the hands of isis starts according to an investigation that was carried out by the build on sunday newspaper citing documents from the german police and from the german interior ministry once filled in with a person's details these passports codes allow terrorists to into europe undetected using a valid passport disguising themselves as refugees developments in connection with the refugee situation has shown that terrorist organizations they using the opportunity to smuggle potential attackers all supporters into europe in germany undetected fake or altered passports are mostly used for illegal entry without further motives like carr

demanding the justice department immediately probe the obama administration's actions auntie's caleb maupin reports . trump's former campaign manager may have been wiretapped by the f.b.i. c.n.n. citing its sources says that paul man a fourth was wiretapped before and after the u.s. election under a warrant issued by the foreign intelligence surveillance act this sounds serious but remember how no one took trump seriously after he claimed he was tapped where is the proof i mean it was an idiotic move to anyone here disagree he wasn't going to hold anybody radionic where to get these ideas where is he getting his information we have a quote ridiculous unquote president well now it turns out that perhaps donald trump wasn't losing his mind after all especially when you take into account that paul man a fourth has a residence at trump tower now the c.n.n. report about the f.b.i. spying on manna for it could of course be wrong but if it isn't it suggests that lawmakers from both parties and leaders of the intelligence community misled the public i have not seen any evidence that this is occurre

artie's caleb maupin looks at what it would take for washington to fulfill its economic threats. a lot of the loud and angry noises are coming from washington directed against their longtime foes in pyongyang u.s. leaders are now even discussing an oil embargo economically punishing those who do business with north korea the united states will look at every country that does business with north korea as a country that is giving aid to their reckless and dangerous nuclear intentions and it's not just bombast the trumpet ministration is actively planning to block all trade with d p r k i have been executive order prepared it's ready to go to the president it will authorize me to stop doing trade and put sanctions and then he does trade with north korea the president will consider that at the appropriate time once he gives the u.n. time to act so what country does trump have in mind well it's no secret that ninety percent of north korea's trade is with china so is the usa ready to target beijing that's a little bit easier said than done at this point there's huge business interests

favor of a crisis prevention so rob was speaking at a media briefing at the un general assembly caleb maupin reports from new york. in donald trump's united nations general assembly speech he referred to kim jong un as a rocket man and talked about a possibility of totally destroying north korea then there was a response from north korea's leader kim jong un said that donald trump was mentally deranged he called him a rogue and he used the old english term doto to refer to donald trump now donald trump has shot back and referred to kim jong un as a madman now as these heated words and accusations and threats are being exchanged the russian foreign minister was taking questions from reporters at the u.n. headquarters in the press briefing room and he touched quite a bit on the crisis on the korean peninsula it's unacceptable to something that north korea's nuclear test but it's equally unacceptable to start with the korean peninsula china and russia will continue to insist on a move reasonable approach in contrast to the emotional one we see now where they behave like children fighting each o

resolution on whether to impose even tougher sanctions on north korea following its latest nuclear test caleb maupin has the latest from new york. the world is watching the u.n. security council as people are aware north korea and the united states have been exchanging threats for the last few weeks and now north korea has tested a hydrogen bomb now at this point russia and china are calling for a diplomatic solution to the tensions on the korean peninsula and we've heard russian president vladimir putin speaking in a phone call with german chancellor merkel talk about how the actions of north korea may be threatening global security. who have strongly condemned young's violations of the u.n. security council's resolutions the need is new to these actions pose a serious threat to regional peace and security the leaders agreed to dissolution to the crisis can be reached through diplomatic means only for the resumption of talks involving all interested parties now the first draft of the resolution that was proposed was rather harsh but we understand that a more mild version of this resolution will be

on your correspondent caleb maupin explains. this is a very different resolution than the draft that was circulated by the united states the original draft of the resolution that the u.s. circulated have actually called for a full oil and natural gas embargo against the d.p. r. k. forbidding north korea from importing any oil or natural gas well the resolution that just passed is far different simply caps the amount of oil and natural gas that north korea can import now the original draft that was being circulated furthermore called for a freezing of the assets of kim jong un and a travel ban on north korea's leader forbidding him from leaving north korea that was not included in the resolution that just passed now immediately after it was unanimously passed by the fifteen members of the u.n. security council quite a change in tone from u.s. leaders regarding north korea we heard nikki haley speaking before the u.n. security council today in kind of calm tone saying that the north koreans have not passed a point of no return tha

general assembly earlier this week artie's caleb maupin has been across the story for. the united nations general assembly here in manhattan has not yet concluded but already we're starting to see the results of donald trump's debut performance at a podium it's usually used to promote peace and dialogue we heard donald trump launch into an attack on several countries now the top target in trump's remarks was north korea and afterwards we now see north korea threatening an unprecedented weapons test in the pacific as washington has just slapped them with more sanctions let's take a listen to that exchange the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself words out we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. what kind of measure will be taken is decided by the chairman of the state affairs commission. but i think that the strongest ever hydrogen bomb might be tested in the pacific iran was also targeted by donald trump in his remarks he accused iran of exporting violence to

raised over the consequences of president transplant so american troop numbers in the country caleb maupin now looks at the biggest challenges in bringing peace to the region how many times have you heard that afghanistan is a huge mess there is a messy mix of extremist jihadists in afghanistan afghanistan an absolute mess blood and fortune there. we were in an illusion. mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate. twenty seventeen is going to be another tough year for the valiant security forces yes pretty much every year since the two thousand and one intervention led by the united states has been tough in afghanistan since then they've become the world's top source of opium and there's also been a rise in terrorist groups from the taliban al qaida to the islamic state and it's not just afghanistan that's been affected there's been a spillover into neighboring countries first there is iran iran is worried about extremist influences coming in from afghanistan back in june iranian special forces hunted down the leaders of a local sunni terrorist group who they said had links to american for

correspondent caleb maupin joins us live from new york now ok look the promise of fresh sanctions comes as trump prepares to meet with the leaders of japan and south korea to discuss the growing crisis over pyongyang's nuclear program can you bring us up to speed on what we've just heard. yes well not many details there from donald trump he simply responded saying yes there would be more sanctions now many voices are telling us there will be some kind of important announcement after this meeting on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly with japan and south korea that's upcoming but this crisis has been escalating let's take a listen and let's look over some of the events that have taken place over the last month or so. this is the most stringent set of sanctions on any country and a generation these sanctions will cut deep. you will feel good about ginning today's resolution builds on what we're already the deepest cutting sanctions ever leveled against north korea those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen. now to top it all off we had a speech by

to stop pushing its own agenda on the international stage caleb maupin explains as world leaders gathered for the united nations general assembly we heard the foreign minister of germany slammed trump for is national ego as and warned against pursuing the interests of just one country you know of the country first known leads to more national compensation and less prosperity in then there will be losers. looking around the world today it seems there will be which puts one's own national interests first and is no longer engaged in the balancing of winches between nations and countries of this world is even more. national and is worthless as a true principle for a world for this world vs describes the world as in the marina a can of ground which everyone is fighting against everyone else and which everyone has their own interests sigler gabriel was speaking in response to donald trump's america first rhetoric as president of the united states i will always put america first meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov stressed the need for diplomacy on north korea and stir the pressure

criticizing the organization for bureaucracy and mismanagement and calling for reform artie's caleb maupin reports from new york on how the businessman turned president would like to see more value for money in diplomacy. with its owner so. donald trump has made his debut before the un the world's leading international body a body that he once called a club for people to get together talk and have a good time trouble opened the first session of the un general assembly with a quite familiar message make things great again with reform recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by one hundred forty percent and its staff has more than doubled since two thousand we are not seeing the results in line with this investment at this point the united states is the top contributor to the united nations the usa pays twenty two percent of the core un budget and twenty eight percent of the peacekeeping operations that's three times the second largest contributor china being a busine

of his rhetoric seems remarkably reminiscent of what his predecessors used to say correspondent caleb maupin looks at some of the new president's rather old for marks trouble opened up his debut in the green marble hall of the united nations with some of his signature rhetoric which many people argue. as president of the united states i will always put america first but from putting national interests first this speech quickly move to a globalist agenda with a list of condemnations of other governments rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity trump last out of the syrian government reiterating claims that damascus has used chemical weapons the actions of the criminal regime of bashar. including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens even innocent children shock the conscience of every decent person trying to threaten to destroy north korea prompting a walkout from the country's ambassador the united states has great strength and patients but if it is for

ok caleb thanks for that that thought is caleb maupin there well let's delve a little deeper into this issue now and discuss it with our guest political analyst chris bambery a welcome to the program mr banbury now in this state when the coalition said it's more likely than not that sixty one civilians were killed i'm going to ask this question again is that it's close to an admission that we're going to get from the coalition i think it is the reverse attempts to see. these killings of landmines and so on that's been disproved i think this is probably going to get and is that an underestimate of what's happening in both mosul and in rocker because what we're seeing though is the this battle is going on much longer than the caller should forces expected it both in syria and iraq the expected quick of a truce than this is becoming concentrated into smaller areas of each city which means there are war people crammed into shelter in the houses and yet the u.s. are still using with their favorite method which is via power both in the form of strikes not turi as a way to win this weapon but

general assembly we can now live to our correspondent caleb maupin for the highlights of what we've said candidate to see here now what did donald trump have to say in his opening address. well the speech to the u.n. general assembly given by donald trump began with some of his standard rhetoric some of the stuff we heard on the campaign trail about america first let's take a listen to that great middle class once the bedrock of american prosperity was forgotten and left behind but they are forgot no more now from there it shifted a little bit and he began talking about countries around the world that he didn't seem to approve of let's take a listen to that the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or it's our lives we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea in fact our country has achieved more against isis in the last eight months than it has in many many years combined the united states of america has been among the greatest forces for good in the history of the world and the greatest defenders of sovereignty security and pro