i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up . the african union has suspended sudan's membership of the organization in response to the crackdown on protesters by the military more than 100 people were killed this paramilitaries broke up a protest camp the african union's peace and security council says the suspension will remain any effect until power is handed to civilians the a who is also considering imposing sanctions against individuals that it says a responsible for the violence although they haven't yet been identified the u.s. made for that besides that fud it. needed to go through fear to hand over power. authority without any for deadly. measure on individuals and entities that out of stocks in the establishment of this if you know that as you know. the u.s. meanwhile has renewed calls for the resumption of talks to form a civilian led government however on wednesday protest leaders rejected an offer for talks from the military and russia's foreign ministry says that while it supports elections in sudan it opposes

i'm john hendren in portland where they are building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the african union is holding an emergency meeting to address the violent crackdown on a protest camp and sudan more than 100 people died in the assault by paramilitary forces so dan thrilling is disputing this figure saying 61 people have died since monday's attack outside the military headquarters and khartoum international pressure on the job to is growing the united nations has announced it is pulling some of its staff out of sudan all the u.k. has warned its citizens against traveling there and it too is removing staff from its and mysie the u.s. meanwhile has renewed calls for the resumption of talks to form a civilian led government however on wednesday protest leaders rejected an offer for talks from the military into russia's foreign minister ministry that is says that while it supports elections being held it opposes any foreign intervention stephanie decker has more now in a warning her report contains images some viewers may find disturbing. the muslim holiday of eid ma

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming out. hello again it's good to have you back what we do have a mix of clouds and rain across much of the levant over the next few days some of those showers could be heavy but we think most of them will be passing in terms of where they are going over the next few days so here across much of the middle east clouds in the forecast heavy rain up here towards eastern parts of turkey but in the overnight hours from friday to saturday maybe a few passing showers here anywhere from aleppo all the way down here towards beirut temporized beirut's again quite nice at about $26.00 degrees a little bit warmer in aleppo at 35 degrees there and then here across the gulf it is going to be hot it's going to dry as well doha 43 degrees as your forecast high really stay like that as we go toward saturday much of the area into the low forty's right now that along the coastal we are picking up a few clouds anywhere from saliva all the way down across yemen maybe have a light shower in those clouds but no

krishna of operating independently and outside of the state department well let's go straight to john hendrenwho joins us live now from washington d.c. john this was a 145 page transcript of to lessons testimony that's been revealed with plenty of revelations in it self talk us through some of the big ones. that's right it many members of the trumpet ministration have refused to testify before congressional committees run by democrats in the u.s. house of representatives but one of them who didn't was rex tillerson the former secretary of state is no longer and administration official and what he said in this more than 140 page report that you talk about is that he was running he was a member of an administration was running dual diplomacy that he often found that gerrard questioner was really running diplomacy in different parts of the world when he was the secretary of state and says that it was a frustrating experience to find that among other things he had to bump into an official from another country in a restaurant and discover that he was having dinner with jared christian or we put to

foreign policy correspondent john hendren joins us now live from washington d.c. john this was a $145.00 page transcript of to listens testimony talk us through the highlights that's right it is 7 hours of testimony that rex tillerson gave last month and this is what it looks like dog eared. and it he described dueling diplomacy by the administration of donald trump he says that often he was surprised to find that jared cushion or was practicing diplomacy with world leaders that tiller's it was not even aware of at one point tillerson says he was surprised to walk into a restaurant and find that jared questioner was meeting with the mexican official who he was not aware was even in the country and i'll read a little from that transcript he says i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i very as i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i don't want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time you're coming to town he says he mentioned this later on to jared cushion or and that question or s

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the west and sponsored by cattle and. well again it's good to have you back well we do have a mix of clouds and rain across much of the levant over the next few days some of those showers could be heavy but we think most of them will be passing in terms of where they are going over the next few days so here across much of the middle east clouds in the forecast heavier rain up here towards eastern parts of turkey but in the overnight hours from friday to saturday maybe a few passing showers here anywhere from aleppo all the way down here towards beirut temporized beirut's again quite nice at about $26.00 degrees a little bit warmer in aleppo at 35 degrees there and then here across the gulf it is going to be hot it's going to dry as well doha 43 degrees as your forecast high really stay like that as we go toward saturday much of the area into the low forty's right now that along the coastal we are picking up a few clouds anywhere from saliva all the way down across yemen maybe have

foreign policy while our correspondent john hendren joins us live now from washington d.c. john the transcript of to listen to testimony covers some 145 pages give us the highlights. there's asieh this is like so much in the trump administration extraordinary rex tillerson says it wasn't just a case of shadow diplomacy or somebody practicing freelance diplomacy says it was due to plough mizzy in which often he was the lesser character who did not know what was going on is jared cushion or was directing major foreign policy and he describes an incident in which he walks into a restaurant in washington d.c. in a surprise to discover that jared cushion or is actually having dinner with a mexican official who he didn't even know was in town and they were discussing major foreign policy issues he says any quote a little from that he said i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i don't want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time you're coming to town he says

said that intelligence have confirmed the drones were not launched from iraq let's cross live to john hendren in washington so to be clear john the iraqi government denied these allegations that was a few days ago on tuesday but what are u.s. officials saying now. that's right mary and this is really become a case of dueling intelligence the u.s. insists that these attacks that they originally thought were coming from the south in yemen by these who the rebels into saudi arabia were actually coming from the north from iraq into saudi arabia and they struck 2 aramco pumping stations that the saudi oil company that they nationally owned oil company shut down this 700 mile long pipeline well now the u.s. is saying that this clearly came in their estimate from iraq the iraqi prime minister not only outright denies it but says in fact regardless of the u.s. reports our intelligence agencies and the reports of the iraqi air force command have confirmed that none of this has happened and he's asking for more evidence from the u.s. and that means a couple of things that means iraq is no longer taking

the german chancellor angela merkel are pushing for a political solution so let's get more from john hendren in washington and john we have been hearing directly from president trump today striking a different tone perhaps one of more restraint than he has done in recent days. that's right the president said that he will institute additional tariffs on iran starting on monday but he said he looks forward to the day when through diplomacy those those sanctions can all be taken away and he even said let's make iran great again twisting his trademark line so we spot he's talking much more positively right now he's long been. a bit of an iran hawk but now he's talking a little more positively however we have learned through new reporting by the washington post and yahoo news that the president did authorize a cyber strike on the computer systems the iranian computer systems that run their missile and rocket systems and those were according to that reporting crippling attacks so there was an attack that simply wasn't one that was kinetic and that involved a loss of human life so the president app

tweeted that pump a it was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren al-jazeera washington joe ruben as president of the washington strategy and was a deputy assistant secretary of state of the obama administration and he says that question is white house role should be a huge can say we haven't had this before and i can't emphasize it enough we've never had a family member of the president of the united states running rogue foreign policy out of the white house and that's what we have in this instance this is why we have nepotism laws in this country because this should never happen and this isn't rex tillerson fault cushion or was doing this during the transition period when he was trying to set up a private channel with russia from the russian embassy so this is his pattern and it's very dangerous because it essentially means the united states doesn't have a single voice to our allies and adversaries abroad so how are we going to actually execute foreign policy when those who are hearing us don't really know where we stand and what we're trying to a

to discuss just that from portland oregon john hendren reports. if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there we're working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter. but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut in the fact

having taken place without his knowledge he said the state department's views were never expressed john hendren joins us live now from washington what does to listens testimony reveal about his time heading the state department and those tensions with. like much in this administration maryam it's extraordinary this is a $140.00 page transcript of 7 hours of testimony that tillerson gave last month before congress and in it he describes being completely in the dark about major diplomatic developments that were being run by jared questioner at one point he says that he walked into a restaurant and found out the cushion or was having dinner with the foreign secretary of mexico someone he didn't even know was in the country at the time and he says i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i don't want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time you're in town and he expressed a question or later that this was something that could not happen christian or affording to chillers and sai

lot about nuclear and let me just tell you they're not going to have a nuclear weapon more from john hendren in washington d.c. interesting i'm comment there from president donald trump so what is the latest john in this back and forth. well you're right the president has definitely softened his tone on iran you heard him various and he wants to make iran great again he even thank the persian nation for not shooting down a manned u.s. plane that was nearby when iran shot down an unmanned drone meanwhile the president says he will initiate new sanctions against iran on monday and according to news reports here in the united states he approved a cyber attack that disabled iran's computer control of missile and rocket launching systems so he appears to be operating on a number of different levels and meanwhile my palm peo on saturday his secretary of state issued a statement with a little more bellicose rhetoric saying that among other things ron shot down that drone over international waters and not over its own territory as iran claims and pompei it goes on to say in a statement when the iran

power a lot about do let me tell you they're not going to have a nuclear weapon and more from john hendren now and washington so what is the latest on this back and forth. well rachele the president has definitely changed his tone on iran he said he can even envision being iran's best friend if the 2 nations can get on the same page and if iran ends its nuclear program that's a pretty dramatic difference from the kind of bellicose talk that we had just days ago and as you mentioned the president did reportedly authorize a cyber strike on iran if the reports that we're seeing are correct that strike was pretty devastating and disabled the rocket and missile launching systems of the iranian military so the president's tone has changed he's now suggesting there be a kind of reproach your mom between the u.s. and iran but on the other hand he's still dealing with hardliners in the administration pompei of the secretary of state john bolton the national security adviser in pompei we just put out a statement recently in the last couple of hours clarifying a couple of things he says they were mis

thank you very much with the latest from washington john hendren and for more on president johnson decision not to carry out strikes and of course the recent tensions between to her on a washington respected p. jack crowley who is a former u.s. assistant secretary of state she said for many years in the u.s. efforts the iranian government has been clear that it's not going to go sheet with the trump administration unless and until the trump administration. comes back into the jay sepia way but also going to mention that you know my pump aoa said he wants you know negotiations without preconditions and yet he himself has put forward at least a dozen conditions in terms of what he wants iran to do to become a quote unquote normal country that would transform you know iranian foreign policy you know so you know the united states has a legitimate objective you know dealing with things like missiles dealing with iran's behavior in the region but it to me the better course of action would have been to negotiate with iran inside the j. c.p.o. way rather than now trying to pressure iran into a nego

john hendren is in washington following the story and joins us now and so i suppose the message we're hearing that from president trump reflects a need to kick start perhaps some sort of negotiation by forcing iran into concessions while at the same time trying to appear as though he's flexing his muscles and not backing down. yeah let's make a run great again does not sound terribly bellicose it's a it's a different tune for trump to be singing he said that he's received praise for the decision he made yesterday in reality he's received both praise and criticism but of course in true trump style he is focused on the praise saying. everyone was saying i'm a warmonger now they're saying i'm a dove but i do think there is a sense of relief here in the u.s. that we're not in the middle of a major conflict but any little incident could of course provoke a conflict between those 2 nations and we know that there are $400.00 military contractors being evacuated out of belong to iraq that's a major airbase it's now an iraqi air base but there are a lot of u.s. personnel there and that is appa

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the honeymoon from the rancher modi's landslide victory was short lived reality struck as the economy lost its title as the world's fastest growing large economy and truth the economy was brushed under the carpet as modi concentrated on security issues modi had carefully crafted his image around his track record in the economic development of his native state of gujarat he promised to repeat that performance nationwide the economy expanded just 5.8 percent putting it firmly behind china's growth of 6.4 percent asia's 3rd biggest economy managed to grow 6.8 percent in the full fiscal year ending march 31st its slowest growth since 2014 and that's a problem because india needs to create 10000000 new jobs a year to keep up with the 1000000 young people entering the workforce every month and the trouble is that not even the former economic adviser believes the country's economic numbers now modi has appointed the country's 1st female finance minister since interior gandhi to tackle th

several votes aimed at blocky a multi-billion dollar arms deal with the kingdom and the allies are john hendren joins me now from washington d.c. and john i understand there have been developments. that's right nic in the past few minutes that resolution actually passed that is a resolution the 1st of a few resolutions blocking saudi arms sales from the united states billions of dollars worth of arms sales and it passed by a margin of 53 to 45 that means 6 republicans had to join this 747 democrats in order to pass that that shows a crack in that solid republican coalition behind the president in the united states senate is now that is not enough to override a certain presidential veto they need 67 votes for that but it's a very strong statement it is a protest against the killings by saudi agents of jamal khashoggi the u.s. resident and journalist for the washington post it's also a protest against the killing of civilians in yemen using u.s. weapons and those are the 2 things that both republicans and democrats cited in saying they were going to support this measure to block that vote but the

theme is believe prints for a better future and it appears that way it's may play a starring role john hendren reports if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would they challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there we're working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which

tweeted that pump a it was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren al-jazeera washington. how did josh allen as executive director of the absent of washington and he says the u.s. president is letting his private advisers hijack the state department's responsibility. is already significant revelations. essentially revealed how dysfunctional this administration has been since its beginning when you have a secretary of state and a secretary of defense kept in the dark when it comes to major decisions pertaining to their turf if you will. essential job that shows you would. be the process has been hijacked from the state department from the defense department into basically that the private advice section. of the white house floor for the secretary of state to learn to wait after the fact of these major trips major decisions being made on behalf of the united states yet the person who was supposed to be in charge of forcing an implement in u.s. foreign policy doesn't know that he could of all of these meetings is a very serious violation i think of 1st

leaving pompei reiterated washington's willingness for unconditional talks with iran let's go to john hendren now in washington d.c. for more on those comments so john what do we know. well richelle you heard the president talk about john bolton as being a hawk on iran well mike pompei of the secretary of state is another hawk in the administration on his way to the united arab emirates and to saudi arabia he made some statements to reporters there and he said that iran was engaging in pure and blatant deceit information about the strike that shot down an american global hawk drone on thursday he said iran iranian leaders were selling false information he referred to a tweet by the foreign minister of iran as childish this was a tweet in which there was a picture of where the drone allegedly was shot down iran says that was in iranian waters that the u.s. says that was in international waters and therefore it was not fair game for the iranian officials here's a little bit more of what mike pompei o had to say before he left. i'm heading out today our 1st stop will be in the kingdom of saudi a

and the president seems to be holding his hand but any little incident could change that ok and john hendren with an update from washington thank you let's take the song with hillary mann leverett she served in the white house and was director for iran in the persian gulf at the national security council she's also joining us from washington nice to have you with us again on al-jazeera are we out of the a period of danger. no we are not out of the period of danger president trump has had iran in his sights since the the campaign in 2016 he's having ronit sites into almost diametrically opposed ways one because he sees iran as it a very important country in the region and even on the world stage and energy to international and energy dynamics and geopolitics but he also sees iran is as a problem a convenient problem to beat up on so he has pursued this dual track approach since 2016 which is both to hold out the product possibility of a bigger better deal with iran but also that he can get very close if not go over the edge to military confrontation in you say that he has iran in his sights b

most dangerous major city in the united states a dubious honor everyone here would like to lose john hendren al jazeera chicago. shameful and unacceptable that's how canada's prime minister has described the findings of a report into the killings of indigenous women justin trudeau has promised a national action plan after a government inquiry concluded that canada was complicit in a racist based genocide yeah britain's a reports and at the center of the star blanket is i can't hide the full commission is of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls placed sacred objects into their final report and wrap the report in a ceremonial blanket. before handing it to the canadian nation the report's conclusions on the quizzical the significant persistent and deliberate pattern of systemic racial and gender it human and indigenous rights violations and abuses and this is genocide. mission is accepted that many might bristle at being accused of participating in genocide but they urged canadians to actually read the report the some $1200.00 pages of evidence that is now o

year's theme is blueprints for a better future and it seems that words may play a leading bow john hendren has this report if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would be challenges actually believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there were working in the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions check knology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cu

reiterated washington's willingness for unconditional talks with the ron for more on those comments john hendren joins us now from washington d.c. so tell us more about this john. well rachele might bump a 0 as we know is a bit of a hawk on iran and this shows that he is following through with the plan to continue that pressure campaign against iran he stopping at the united arab emirates and saudi arabia in order to work up a campaign against iran pompei is said a few things on his way out including that iran was engaging in pure and blatant dissin from ation by arguing that the u.s. drone the global hawk surveillance drone that was shot down was shot down over iranian territory the u.s. contends that that happened in international waters and therefore it was an illegal act by iran to do so he also accused iran's foreign milk minister of false information saying that a map that the foreign minister tweeted out showing where the drone allegedly was was childlike here's a little bit more of what pompei 0 had to say today. i'm heading out today our 1st stop will be in the kingdom of saudi arabia t

tweeted that pompei i was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren al-jazeera washington. jobar joe biden the u.s. democratic front runner in the race for the white house has come under fire in the 2nd televised debate california senator kaamelott harris question is recalled on race and called his remarks about working with segregationist senators hurtful and again i got reports from miami. outside the debate hall crowds gathered to back their candidate of choice. many support the 2 best known former vice president joe biden and vermont senator bernie sanders but everyone here wants change 1st of all we have are now so mad bake america think hard right now but i think i. can do it better the 1st great. because by doing so with unite. the people i get there and that he's going to make it better and then from i will release children from cages on a stage candidates keen to make the voices heard made this the robust debate many expected at times it was hard to hear what was being said in an area where we have not heard senator kemal how is it who with a

in patience for now those laboring behind america's plows seem willing to wait a little longer john hendren al-jazeera colfax illinois. well now let's speak to adam triggs in canberra he's the director at the asian bureau of economic research at israeli national university so adam trump is clearly holding on to many of his supporters for now at least what does he want is this about trade with china or is this about the upcoming us election well that's the key question is how does and really depends on how donald trump defines success if you define success as being a situation where china agrees to buy more of the u.s. exports perhaps opens up some of those industries to u.s. companies then that something new can be achieved in that something that china is came to do if however he measures success as being a reduction in the u.s. trade deficit which is something he's commented on several times that's more problematic basic economics tells you that the reason the u.s. runs a trade deficit is because it borrows a lot internationally to finance investment at home do as with china won't change t

about jared cushion a while testifying before congress about his rocky 13 months in the job his john hendren now from washington. the united states' former secretary of state says he often had to practice diplomacy in the dark rex tillerson told congress that president donald trump's son in law jared cushion or directed his own foreign policy without tillerson is knowledge president trump did not know him and president trump had no idea about how the process was supposed to work he probably thought oh well this is the way i've run my business in a newly released transcript from closed door testimony to the house committee on foreign affairs tillerson says he was surprised to walk into a washington restaurant to find jared cushion or meeting with mexico's foreign secretary i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i very i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i don't want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time you're coming to town tillers and says he was taken aback when he was told cushion or in presidential

from abroad they will go it let's make the run great again so let's get more now from john hendren in washington and so john the message that from president trump is that he is definitely up for perhaps reversing any escalation in the conflict with iran but at the same time these new sanctions are coming any more detail nann. yeah the president announced that on twitter today he is clearly trying to raise the pressure on iran perhaps to get them to come to the table for another nuclear agreement one that he this time could sign on to he was of course very critical of the one that barack obama negotiated the president has also received a lot of criticism from iran hawks here in the united states for the way he responded to the shooting down of that drone but he points out in true trumpy in fashion that he's also received a lot of praise he said this morning everyone was saying i'm a warmonger now they're saying i'm a dove it's important to note that trump came into office campaigning to get the u.s. military out of iraq and afghanistan and another conflict right now might very well spl

hesitation you were asking about marian thank you very much with all the night's us from washington john hendren thank you john well iranians in the capital tehran say that they are hopeful conflict can be avoided in the situation with the u.s. will deescalate about. one on may the situation is already worrying because. the economic state of the country's bad i don't think the americans are very ready for a war because we live in a strategic region turned off a lot of the time they got out into a war is very worrying and stressful for us it will be an experience we have already lived we are obliged to show our resistance and perseverance but i hope for doesn't happen i have a gun. every country around the world experiencing war is faced with many disturbing consequences as in syria or iraq they have suffered considerable losses it's scary to clear it every 1st has to defend their homeland it's a juicy i myself will go to the front but you never know if i will come back tensions between the u.s. and iran have pushed oil prices up to a new 3 week high noon while analysts say price rises have been

in patience for now those laboring behind america's plows seem willing to wait a little longer john hendren al-jazeera colfax illinois. the u.s. secretary of state has been in but lending creasing pressure on the europeans to support washington's policy on iran germany is party to the tie 50 nuclear agreement that the u.s. pulled out solve last year my pompei also sounded a warning about doing business with chinese tech giant huawei domenic cain has more on this now from ballin. it was a meeting of strategic allies in berlin a chance for a show of unity at least in public and an opportunity to concentrate on apparently shared policy objectives notably iran but on many people's minds was the dispute between the u.s. and germany over the nuclear deal agreed with the iranians in 2015 but rejected by president donald trump in 28. thought when will the world is in great restlessness especially the issue of iran and how we prevent the country coming into ownership of nuclear weapons also how we prevent other aggressive actions from iraq to win this and yet germany has joined forces with britain a

place without his knowledge he said the state department's views were never expressed on this well john hendrenjoins us live now from washington john tell us more about rex tillerson is testimony and what we've learned about his time heading the state department. well tillerson outlines an administration in which donald trump kept foreign policy close to him with jared cushion or doing much of it and often the secretary of state had no idea what was going on and he testified that that was a real challenge for him if i can just read you one excerpt the bit about the gulf crisis he's told in the congressional hearing that there was a meeting between steve bannon jared kirschner and the rulers of the saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and he asked did you know about that this happened well before the gulf crisis and he said no i did not. he said we understand as part of the dinner the leaders of saudi and u.a.e. did lay out for mr kushner and mr bannon their plans for the blockade he said he had no idea about that and he said his reaction was that he was angry or a foreign hearing that in this congressio

john hendren, colfax, illinois.'s speak to adam in canberra, from australia and national university. holding --president what does he want? is it about trade with china or the upcoming elections? adam: that is the key question is how does this end depends on how donald trump defines success. if he defined success as being a situation where china agrees to exports,of the u.s.'s open up industries and u.s. companies, it is something that can be achieved and china is keen to do. if he measures success as being a reduction in the u.s. trade deficit, something he has commented on several times, it is more problematic. basic economics tells you the reason the chinese -- u.s. runs a trade deficit is because it borrows a lot to finance investment at home. deals with china will not change those. if that is his measure of success we might have longer to go. he appears to be using this politically. he might use it for the 2020 presidential election. if that is the case, the trade war, we heard our one-year university and we ha

white house advisor jared kushner of operating independently and outside of the state department john hendrenhas more from washington d.c. this is like so much in the trump administration extraordinary rex tillerson says it wasn't just a case of shuttle diplomacy or somebody practicing freelance diplomacy says it was diplomacy in which often he was the lesser character who did not know what was going on is jeered cushion or was directing major foreign policy donald trump has met with g 20 host a and india's lead in around ramadi ahead of the formal start of the summit in japan the trio discussed trade on north korea as well as security in the south china sea but tom's most anticipated meeting comes late on friday when he sets down with russian president vladimir prison. one person has died after twin suicide attacks targeted security forces into his ears capital tunis one bomber targeted a police vehicle near the french embassy in central to nest and the other hit the counterterrorism head courses and in a separate development that unity and president said he has been taken to hospital and wh

split his base of support if he were doing gaijin another conflict this time with iran all right john hendren with the latest in washington d.c. thank you john 3 hunter is a research professor at georgetown university and author of the book arab iranian relations dynamics a conflict an accommodation she joins us live from washington d.c. thank you so much for your time so what is it that it seems to you the u.s. has actually trying to accomplish is it clear. well i think that united states is sending actually leave rather confusing signals to tehran on the one hand for example president trump says that i am ready to talk to iran without preconditions and just right now your reports reports that point it was said that whenever iran is ready to meet all conditions you're ready to talk it seems to me that what president trump ones is essentially a victory without having to fire a shot and i think that unfortunately in some ways they iranian leadership here i have to say that it's not so much the president or the executive branch in iraq but rather the supreme leader and basically the revolutiona

to discuss just that from portland oregon john hendren reports. if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there were working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut in the

this year's theme is blueprints for a better future and it seems points may play a starring role john hendren has more. if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there were working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter. but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut in

are struggling as the dispute escalates but for now many of them continue to support president john hendren reports from colfax in the state of illinois. is the u.s. administration plans ahead in each trade with china american farmers say they're getting crushed between the world's 2 largest economy we grew a record soybean crop record corn crop and then you take the fact that our largest buyer just disappeared you know we created a huge ending stockpile that is it's going to take years to eat through it not to many. and we tripled what we normally carry china's retaliatory tariffs on corn soybeans in pork have hit their mark american farmers deep in trump country across the midwest are suffering this is private and one of the toughest years that i've experienced in my 40 plus years of farming are bankers i'm starting to get nervous next year is going to be. a tough time and some farmers are not going to get their operating loans they're not going to pay off their operating loans from this year and they're not going to be able to get credit to put a crop out next year for the 2nd straight y

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the african union has suspended sedans membership in the spawns to the cracks and on protesters by the military jinsa more the. $100.00 people have been killed since monday including attacks on a success in the military headquarters in car c. now the african union's peace and security council says the suspension will remain in effect until power is handed over to civilians they you is also considering imposing sanctions against individuals it says are responsible for the violence so though they haven't yet been identified. besides that should it. be that it does appear to hand over power to civilian authority without any affordably automatic impose predictive measures on individuals and entities that are out of stocks in the establishment of this if you will that. the u.s. meanwhile has renewed calls for the resumption of talks to form a civilian led governments process leaders rejected an offer for talks from the military giunta well russia's foreign ministry says while it suppor

blueprint for a better future and it seems that in the future would they be playing a big role john hendren reports if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there were working in the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered wood technology that uses small diameter too. but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut

i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the honeymoon from the ranger modi's landslide victory was short lived reality struck as the economy lost its title as the world's fastest growing large economy and truth the economy was rushing to the carpet as modi concentrated on security issues modi had carefully crafted his image around his track record in the economic development of his native state of gujarat he promised to repeat that performance nationwide the economy expanded just 5.8 percent putting it firmly behind china's growth of 6.4 percent 3rd biggest economy managed to grow 6.8 percent in the full fiscal year ending march 31st its slowest growth since 2014 and that's a problem because india needs to create 10000000 new jobs a year to keep up with the 1000000 young people entering the workforce every month and the trouble is that not even the former economic adviser believes the country's economic numbers now modi has appointed the country's 1st female finance minister since interior. on day to tackle the challeng

he made the remark about well testifying before congress about his rocky 13 months on the job john hendren has more washington d.c. . the united states' former secretary of state says he often had to practice diplomacy in the dark rex tillerson told congress that president donald trump's son in law jared cushion or directed his own foreign policy without tillerson is knowledge president trump did not know him and president trump had no idea about how the process was supposed to work he probably thought oh well this is the way i run my business in a newly released transcript from closed door testimony to the house committee on foreign affairs tillerson says he was surprised to walk into a washington restaurant to find jared cushion or meeting with mexico's foreign secretary i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i very i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i don't want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time you're coming to town tillers and says he was taken aback when he was told cushion or in president

drone being shot down on thursday in the strait of hormuz john hendren has more from washington d.c.. president donald trump appears to have changed his tone somewhat on iran the president says he can imagine the u.s. and iran being best of friends he even went on to say he'd like to make iran great again and even thanked the persian nation for not shooting down a man's plane that was nearby with about $35.00 crew members according to iranian officials when it shot down an unmanned u.s. drone but the president also said he will go ahead with new sanctions against iran starting on monday and according to news reports the president approved last week a cyber strike against iran disabled computer systems that run the country's missile and rocket systems so the president appears to be operating on a number of different levels and meanwhile on saturday mike pompei of the president's secretary of state issued a statement with somewhat more bellicose rhetoric saying that iran shot down that drone over international waters not as iran says over iranian territory and pompei went on to say whe

of military contractors work there it was hit by a mortar attack last week no one was injured john hendren has more from washington d.c. . what happens now in the standoff between the united states and iran could depend on 2 things number one whom president trump is listening to and number 2 whether there are further provocations now the president of the united states was elected on a campaign saying he would pull the u.s. military out of iraq and afghanistan and another divisive and potentially unpopular conflict with iran could split the base that he needs in order to get reelected however he is long talks tough on iran and his national security director john bolton has long been an iran hawk the president is also getting criticism from republicans such as congresswoman lynne cheney who says that weakness is a provocation so we've been getting some heat on that secondly if there is another provocative incident between the 2 countries that could also set off some kind of military conflict and in a sign that things are getting tense or the u.s. is evacuating 40800 military conflict tractor

builders and consumers will buy into the idea of living in a wooden building towering into the sky john hendren l.g. 0 portland oregon time for sports is pull. thank you very much less than 24 hours after its president gianni infantino claimed that days of corruption were in the past one of its leading officials was detained by police in france. has been questioned in paris in relation to his role as the head of african football he's been accused by a former official at the continent's governing body of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars is also a fee for vice president we don't have. any concrete information. where the outcome of this but in general. at the press conference 0 tolerance if anyone anyone thinks he can enrich himself or felicity leading up to this around football he has no place in football. well it's not the ideal build up to one of flagship tournament's the biggest women sporting event in history kicks off in france on friday with the host nation playing south korea in game one of the world cup interest in women's football is a new page as a sports correspondent lee well

thank you very much for the latest on that story from washington john hendren well judges ruled that the. government broke the law allowing weapons sales to saudi arabia activists argued that was a k. a risk that weapons fired in the war in yemen violating human rights laws and british government must now evaluate how and where its weapons exports to saudi are used bachar explains from london. british weapons sales to saudi arabia currently engaged in the war in yemen a law for the perfect of one of britain's highest courts. the case was brought by the campaign against arms trade it says the government license arms sales to saudi despite a risk the weapons could be used to kill civilians the u.k. government has played an utterly shameful role within this terrible war from day one it's time to end the arms sales and trying to end the policies which have allowed was arms sales to continue for so long the ruling doesn't mean the u.k. has to stop selling weapons to saudi but it does mean the government will need to scrutinize what british may weapons they use for the government says it w

builders and consumers will buy into the idea of living in a wooden building towering into the sky john hendren 0 portland oregon. time to sports news his poll. thank you very much less than 24 hours after its president gianni infantino claim that days of corruption were in the past one of its leading officials was detained by police in france. has been questioned in paris in relation to his role as the head of african football he's been accused by a former official of the continent's governing body of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars is also a fee for vice president we don't have. any concrete information. the outcome of this but in general. said yesterday at the press conference 0 tolerance if anyone anyone thinks he can enrich himself or felicity leading up to this around football he has no place in football. well it's not the ideal build up to one of flagship tournament's the biggest women sporting event in history kicks off in france on friday with the host nation playing south korea in game one of the world cup interest in women's football is a new page as a sports correspondent

signed a $16000000000.00 bailout for farmers we have 2 reports for you this week in a few moments john hendren reports from colfax illinois deep in trunk country to find out whether the president still has the support of farmers but 1st as mexico steps up security to stop the flow of immigrants on its southern border with guatemala david mercer went to pot i hate layon to look at how climate change is forcing people to look for opportunities in the united states. on this dusty hillside in guatemala's western highlands francisco lay on soft prepares the fields for planting a decade ago he could grow enough corn to feed his family for most of the year but these days his harvests are getting smaller and smaller francisco says climate change is to blame is that input on the weather shouldn't be like this it used to rain in the middle of april but now the rain doesn't arrive until the end of may or the beginning of june we always wait until it's rained before we plant our corn if it doesn't rain and we don't plant because the seeds won't grow average daytime temperatures in guatemala have risen ove

military contractors work there it was hit by a mortar attack last week but no one was injured john hendren has more from washington d.c. . what happens now in the standoff between the united states and iran could depend on 2 things number one whom president trump is listening to and number 2 whether there are further provocations now the president of the united states was elected on a campaign saying he would pull the u.s. military out of iraq and afghanistan and another divisive and potentially unpopular conflict with iran could split the base that he needs in order to get reelected however he is long talks tough on iran and his national security director john bolton has long been an iran hawk the president is also getting criticism from republicans such as congresswoman lynne cheney who says that weakness is a provocation so we've been getting some heat on that secondly if there is another provocative incident between the 2 countries that could also set off some kind of military conflict and in a sign that things are getting tense or the u.s. is evacuating 40800 military conflict tractor

the future the world's great cities may have some skylines built of a different material would john hendren reports. if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would the challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there were working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which i