lusane: these were afro panamanians. amy: a little before the invasion of panama, explain the iran contract deal and the role of general powell at the time. the invasion of panama was under george h w bush and the iran-contra deal was when he was vice president, when it was president ronald reagan, the ultimately illegal deal to sell weapons to iran, take that money, and illegally support the contras, which was against the memo that said the u.s. could not support counterrevolutionaries and nicaragua. >> he was the chief administration advocate. the u.s. sponsored an injured and she -- an insurgency. human rights organizations around the world have documented 10 thousands of people killed, raped, destroyed and colin powell would go on to say that i have no regrets about my role and that he fought very hard to get support for the contras. how as assistant secretary to weinberger was privy to information about the arms for hostages and giving money to the contras deal, but managed to evade judgment, unlike weinberger, who

robert kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy at lusan national university. he says north korea is using miss all diplomacy to get more attention from the white house. the advancement towards a submarine launch missile is actually a pretty big step. i mean, the most obvious thing it gives north gray is tremendous. rain, right? and you could send the submarine basically anywhere in the world as long as i mean undetected, which is something of a challenge depending on the subs, agent, engine type. but i mean, as long as that means under attack them, you could effectively launch from anywhere. the big advantage to north korea that this gives is what we called assured 2nd strike. and other words, even if the united states hits all of north korea, land based weapons, north green tab, submarines, etc, the launch. and so this makes it harder for the united states to pull up a per strike against north korea, which is probably the reason why they, they, they built it. but there's also a potential event, a possibility, which is it would just park this thing off the coa

north. 11 people are still missing, the storm swept through the country's most populous island of lusan on monday and intensified as it approached the island of parliament. severe flooding in china has killed at least 15 people. it's impacted more than a 1000000 and a half in shun g. province, rob mcbride reports with unrelenting rain. since the start of october, shank sea is said to be experiencing the worst autumn flooding in history, resulting in the destruction of dams, rail lines and highways. there have been multiple landslides and the fan, her river, a tributary of the yellow river, has recorded its most powerful flood peak in 57 years. emergency teams helped by heavy equipment, have been racing to shore up defenses to prevent more flooding. but already thousands of hacked airs of farm land have been inundated, 19000 homes, destroyed, and 820000 people evacuated. considered the birthplace of chinese civilization. shang, see as rich in culturally important sites and relics with many now said to be at risk. shang c is also an important coal producing province. and there have been f