cartels must be in the deal but at what cost to japan that's a question i want to discuss with michael penn he's the chief of the gets a news agency michael welcome how is japan going to pay for for that promise they want from the u.s. . well it looks maybe 6 months ago that it would be very expensive for the japanese because they didn't want to be into in these bilateral trade talks at all in fact they resisted for many months to to get into this by that will trade framework with with the trumpet ministration however signs seem to suggest that that things have been going japan's way in these in these negotiations more and more particularly because the united states has gotten book bogged down with its trade war with china which is kind of left japan in a somewhat better position. what do you reckon who is more important for whom here which side has more leverage well you see that again that's something where 6 months ago you would have said the united states definitely was in a stronger position but no it's united states is weaker both because of what i said about the trade war china but a

brent: that was michael penn reporting from tokyo. relations between britain and russia have been frosty ever since the intended murder of a former spy and his daughter in england. the skripal case led london to accuse moscow of attempting to export state-sponsored terrorism to bitter sore, but some say the kremlin's criminal reach it does not stop in the u.k. the recent killing of a former chechen military leader allegedly by a russian citizen has thrown new questions. was he murdered in germany on orders from the russian state on something that he did 20 years ago? 20 years ago, when russia was the enemy? reporter: why was zelimkhan khangoshvili murdered? it is a question his ex-wife cannot stop thinking about. she says khangoshvilili sought asylum in n germany in 2 2016 because he was being pursued by the russian secret service. >> we were warned that something good hapappen at some point, bui never thought t such a brutal attack could t take place so easilyly here in germany, where the security services, the popolice, and the law

it was michael penn there reporting from tokyo relations between britain and russia have been frosty ever since the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter last year in england the scrip all case web london to accuse moscow of exporting state sponsored terrorism on to british soil but some say the kremlin's criminal reach does not stop in the u.k. the recent fatal shooting here in berlin of a former chechen military leader allegedly by a russian citizen as thrown at new questions was he murdered in germany on orders from the russian state for something that he did 20 years ago 20 years ago when russia was the enemy. by was it in 100 that it's a question his ex-wife manana tivo can stop thinking about she says and wish readers sought asylum in germany in 2016 because he was being pursued by the russian secret service. who is mechanical system where he played a priest and we will warn that something could happen at some point but i never thought such a brutal attack could take place so easily here in germany where the security services the police and the law are among

for more on this let's bring in michael penn and tokyo is a journalist with news agency good morning michael can you tell us why the court issued its verdict of not guilty well the court will still going to take a little time to actually give its full reasoning although we have some ideas. in many cases it's about. the difficulty to to prosecute white collar crimes we saw it for example more than 10 years ago in the in the financial crisis and here again when these major events happen and we're talking about high level elite business executives legal systems and seem to have a lot of difficulty to find anybody responsible for for these major events and this is another case of that certainly seems to be the case i mean these are the only individuals who faced criminal prosecution for a nuclear disaster that will haunt japan for decades to come. that is correct and probably what is worse is that this was kind of the verdict that everybody was expecting the prosecutors not just once but twice refused to indict anybody over the nuclear crisis and they were only forced to do so because cit

considering an appeal a final bid in the long search for accountability for more on this let's bring in michael penn in tokyo he's a journalist of the news agency michael thank you for joining us start with just why did the court issue a verdict of not guilty well according to the reasoning of the court the. executives. were not sufficiently accountable for predicting that a giant tsunami could happen and that this sort of disaster might happen and this is this is rather in spite of a considerable evidence that they had been given reports and in fact in 2008 they were warned quite specifically that a giant tsunami could hit the plant and cause such a disaster and they were advised to build a safety wall but they decided that if they built the safety wall it be too expensive and might alarm a residents feeling that the plant's unsafe so they pulled the plug on that safety wall but the court said that's still not enough they still weren't responsible for . for predicting the tsunami and we've seen a lot of public anger about this decision but is that likely to change anything or do you think there wil

the nuclear industry to continue its current work michael thanks very much for that from tokyo michael penn with us from the shin gets his agency. as preview now some of the other stories making the news this hour finland's prime minister and here in a says britain has until the end of the month to submit written proposals for threats of plans to the e.u. were made the comment during a visit to paris to see the french president saying without british proposals quote it's over finland currently holds the presidency. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called on his main rival to form a broad governing coalition after tuesday's election ended with no clear winner. party leaders said there was no choice but to join the centrist blue and white party of many guns in a national unity government at least 20 people have been killed and more than 90 wounded in a truck bombing in southern afghanistan authorities say the early morning blast occurred next to a hospital in the city of kolob the taliban have claimed responsibility. canadian prime minister justin trudeau has apologized after a p

. >> want to go to penn state professor michael man, who has been talking with me a lot about our changingmate. i don't know any actual climate deniers. i know they exist but i don't know any personally. i don't know where they live. you cannot live in coastal america and not understand a fundamental fact and that's our cities are flooding more often, more regularly, with less im pet tus they they needed to 50 years ago. >> thank you, it's good to be with you. indeed, whether you live on the coast or inland with the unpress debited surm storms and floods and heat waves and wildfires we have seen in recent years, the impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. we can see them with our own two eyes. in this case we have an ocean that's very warm. the global oceans have warmd up by a degree so far. it's a little less than 2 degrees fahrenheit. we know for each degree of warming, of the ocean surface, you get an increase of 7% in the maximum sustained winds of these very strong storms. that might not sound that big, but the destructive potential of the storm goes as the third power of the

completely transformed our whole global economy we turned into a war machine michael mann who's a leading climate scientist at penn state university he said we need that kind of effort is what we need now so it's difficult but it's not impossible and that's what we need to achieve and i 3rd demand as i mentioned before is a citizens' assembly so having a large group of people from the general public to come in to learn about the crisis and then inform the government about what they want to do is work and i. and with the abortion and gay rights gay marriage issues and it could work here you see the government would say we are the 1st country here in britain to declare a claim an emergency and i'm sure if you spoke to a fully disgraced defense secretary gavin williamson but now runs out of education he'd say that when you deface the department saying tell the truth the government are telling the truth ok so there is going to there is a commitment to 0 percent yes emissions but how difficult is it to declare an emergency or make a commitment i mean it's it's the easiest thing in the world it takes no effort it takes

michael mann is the distinguished professor of atmospheric science at penn state university.s away from a press conference with president trump. just minutes ago he insisted again that he did not pressure the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden. joining me now with a look at what to expect is nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. in a day when we haven't expected anything that's happened, what do we expect next? >> reporter: well, first of all we should say that our reporters have just entered the room it. >> looks like things are relatively speaking running on time that we could see the president soon. i expect this will be yet another free-willing press conference with president trump. remember a year ago when he was at the u.n. general assembly, there was a wide range of questions. today i anticipate they will be largely on this topic, trying to pick through the various revelations by that memo that was released by the white house earlier today. president trump, as you note, has denied essentially pressuring the president of ukraine during that phone

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