counterpart mike pompei a. sudan's ruling military suspended schools across the country until further notice the announcement comes after security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters mass rallies are being held against monday's killing of 5 students the head of the ruling military blamed the opposition for the violence we have you heard of this protest has deviated from its course the group the called for the protests had exploited the students and other groups in a check to the market one of the banks and looted some of it's property some people say they were people on top of the building of khartoum bank who started shooting others say security stationed in front of the bank are the ones who shot. tad ambassadors for the u.n. security council have delivered a petition to the secretary general on syria they want antonia the terrorists to launch an investigation into the bombing of hospitals in their lives and u.s. democratic presidential candidates have taken center stage in detroit for the

administration secretary of state mike pompei or today saying there were more sanctions on individuals and companies which had been associated with iran's nuclear program as well as the deployment of 500 u.s. troops to saudi arabia as a preparedness mattia now we're also hearing that the iranian foreign minister has proposed fresh talks how likely is that he can get the 2 sides to the table. well that was yesterday speaking at the united nations in new york as we see things means very quickly and zarif invitation came with conditions namely that the united states removed those economic sanctions which are crippling the iranian economy that looks highly unlikely and then he said that iran would come back in line with a 2050 nuclear deal and of course this current administration a walked out of that deal anyway they didn't think it went far enough so i think it looks highly unlikely we have just heard from the president he says quote that iran is nothing but trouble right now but that he is confident that things will work out with tech run quote very nicely we do not know whether that is

secretary of state mike pompei are. incidents that ruling military council says it has suspended schools across the country until further notice and it comes off to security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas approaches mass rallies being held. against monday's killing of 5 students. well democratic candidates hoping to take on donald trump in 2020 of finished the 2nd round of their televised debates and sanders elizabeth warren better iraq among the contenders who took the stage in detroit a lot of hate as they share their views on a range of issues like health care climate and immigration we'll wrap it up with john hendren who's there in detroit for us they're all on the same side john they're all democrats but this got pretty fiery. it did indeed this is really a debate between the moderates in the party and the progressive in the progressive tea seemed to get a lot of the talk time and their worst snappy moments because this debate simply meant too much those at the top of the polls wanted to establish their

secretary of state mike pompei oh it describes what happened as ethnic cleansing now that has been a consistent. addition by the united states the last couple of years that's how they describe what happened but there are other governments like the government of canada that say that they believe that a genocide was perpetrated the fact now is you have the international criminal court there's a delegation that's on the ground in bangladesh they are continuing their polyphony investigations into what happened and the rain the refugees that are there say we just don't understand why more governments why more institutions are not calling what happened to us a genocide and you talk about the i.c.c. team that's currently in bangladesh how difficult will it be for them then to start a case do you think it's a tricky process daryn because let me try to walk you through it as briefly as i can so you had in the past year a decision was made at the international criminal court the jurisdiction could be given to the international criminal court to investigate the allegations of these crimes but c

secretary of state mike pompei oh is that one of the things that outraged the state department most in deciding to impose these sanctions is learning that the soldiers that were convicted in me and mar of committing this mass killing in the village of india in that they had been set free after only a few months in prison that means that the reporters the pulitzer prize winning reporters that were jailed for uncovering that atrocity wallow in and in that means that they spent more time in jail than those officials and mean more than this military official so that's one thing that really angered the u.s. that really showcase to them that man mars military wasn't taking any of this very seriously it will be interesting to see if they reply if they come up with some kind of statement because these sanctions are now being imposed but i wouldn't expect it any time soon all right mohammed thank you. all right time for short break here now is iraq when we come back the u.s. house condemns president trump for racist comments against 4 congresswoman plus. that office of the opposite that the may

secretary of state mike pompei remains optimistic he can still work with north korea despite its resumption of missile tests on player says he hopes to start a new round of talks next month it comes after pyongyang launched 2 new short range ballistic missiles on wednesday they were the 1st test since may last month the u.s. and north korea agreed to revive denuclearization talks. tunisia's 1st democratically elected president begg keda said she has died aged 92 had it in his years palmer hammered in the search has been sworn in as interim president he'll lead the country until presidential elections are held in mid september the european union says it will not renegotiate the breaks it would draw agreement with the u.k.'s new prime minister e.u. commission president jiang told boris johnson over the phone the existing deal is the best and only one that johnson says he will make a breakthrough soon. our mission is to deliver british on the 31st of all turn down for the purpose of uniting and reenergizing our great united kingdom and making this country the greatest place. on earth. the us g

secretary of state mike pompei you said iran is prepared to talk about its missiles earlier president donald trump said a lot of progress had been made with iran and that he was not pushing for regime change. and here a police officer will not face charges for killing a black man he was trying to arrest the justice department made the announcement on tuesday 5 years after eric garner died in a chokehold and the united states government is imposing its strongest sanctions to date on main mars top military leaders it's in response to the mass killing of wrong give muslims in 2017 washington says the government hasn't taken any action against those responsible for the abuses. and said stories next. you. buy huge stash of weapons found in italy with neo nazi sympathizers italian government says the seizure is unprecedented so how significant is this and what does it tell us about the reemergence of naziism and the far right movement in europe this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm has an arsenal of weapons has been seized by italian police in a raid on a far right grou

abated in recent days even though we did hear the president say on friday and the secretary of state mike pompei o echo those comments that the u.s. is willing to talk to iran without preconditions but iran has to change its behavior 1st thank you very much from washington from washington roslyn jordan thank you miles. u.s. president ronald trump is blaming fake news for the backlash against race this chance that his campaign rally in north carolina on wednesday has been an outpouring of support for a somali born congresswoman omagh after trump supporters chanted send her back at the event in a series of tweets over the weekend trumpet and 3 other progressive democratic congresswoman to go back to their countries of origin. of the trying to distance himself from those chants on thursday was back to attacking omar again when he spoke to reporters in the of alofa. i'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can aid our country among happy with the fact that he congresswoman can say anti-semitic things imo i'm happy with the fact that a congresswoman in this case a different congresswoman can ca

secretary of state mike pompei remains optimistic that a new round of talks with north korea can begin next month kyung and want sanctions lifted in return for denuclearization while sanctions on north korea appear to be having a devastating effect south korea's central bank says the north's g.d.p. fell by 4 point one percent last year that's the worst drop and more than 2 decades and the 2nd consecutive year the decline let's go now to rob mcbride he's joining us live from the south korean capital seoul where the central bank released these figures about an hour ago so talk us through them rob because they're not good news for the north and they might have an impact on how willing the north is on compromising in any talks on denuclearization. absolutely lizabeth they do make for very grim reading and shows the extent to which the sanctions are hurting the north korean economy as you mentioned there last year 2018 the economy contract by 4 point one percent in 2017 there was a further contraction of 3 and a half percent not 2017 you remember was the year that was the height of the stan

secretary of state mike pompei o and vote an exemption under the emergency arms control act that basically pushed forward $8100000000.00 in arms sales to saudi arabia as well as jordan and the united arab emirates in response the senate voted to block the deal with a bipartisan group both democrats and republicans objecting 8 most especially in the aftermath of the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in turkey the extra extrajudicial execution he walked in to the saudi embassy in turkey and never walked out again and the aftermath of that there has been widespread questioning of the continued u.s. financial and military relationship with saudi arabia and it seems that this disagreement that we saw before the senate foreign relations committee is the latest public episode of this strong disagreement about u.s. policy in the middle east and the continued u.s. support for saudi arabia. ok thanks for getting us up to speed on the reporting from new york kind of open thanks. x. the british ambassador to the united states you can direct has announced that he's stepping down after a series of h

seen further measures from the united states i mean early this morning secretary of state more mike pompei are saying that there are further sanctions against against companies and individuals believed to be helping iran in procuring movement nuclear materials and that a further $500.00 u.s. troops are on their way to saudi arabia in a prepared this measure. our very own helen humphrey in washington for us thank you very much. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world kosovo's prime minister denied as resigned he stepped down after being called for questioning by a court in the hague investigating crimes against ethnic serbs during the country's 19982999 war with serbia mr howard denies said he had agreed to be interviewed at the court next week and didn't want to do it as prime minister. says there's no sign that he bola has spread from the democratic republic of congo to neighboring rwanda the case of a congolese woman who died from the virus had previously sparked fears that the outbreak could spread and after it was thought that she had crossed the

secretary of state mike pompei ago told lebanese officials to stand up to the group but has below and its allies control parliament and government making it hard to target it without targeting the country sanctioning someone who's an elected parliament area and head of the parliamentary block for the last 24 years is not simple this means that the us government has no problem and also legally it has the right to sanction action the parliament or any government abuse government institution this has to be a clear message that the lebanese have to fall in line and to be part of the international community or actually face sanctions themselves. the u.s. state department did say the lebanese government needs to sever its dealings with the hezbollah politicians it's sanctioned along with one of the group's security officials will fix his job is to coordinate with lebanon security agencies the government cannot do much because i got to the house we saw it was hezbollah which is. a major part of the government but this would put him in contradiction with the whole work. order here to. to be t

secretary of state mike pompei as praise to argentina for declaring the lebanese group hezbollah a terrorist organization pompei it was in buenos aires where he attended a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of an attack on a jewish center which left 85 people dead argentina has blamed hezbollah and iran for the bombing both deny any involvement speaking at a counterterrorism summits pompei a promised greater u.s. cooperation and commitment in the region and elsewhere with. america looking in general terms for allies of the united states war against terrorism more specifically in the war of words against iran he's found it here in argentina his timing was perfect arriving the day off the 25th anniversary of the attack on the army jewish cultural center in one of cyrus in which 85 people were killed 2 years previous to that the israeli embassy just a short distance from here was also destroyed 29 people killed those were attacks at the argentine north or it is blamed specifically on the hezbollah group more generally against iran by usually a lot of the majority of the countries in the regi

secretary of state mike pompei oh he put an invoked an emergency exemption in the arms export control act to push through a sale of $8100000000.00 worth of weapons to saudi arabia jordan and the united arab emirates now as that was moving ahead we saw congress object very strongly and we saw congress ultimately voting to block that deal now there has been widespread questioning in the united states of the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia in most particularly after the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi who worked with the washington post jamal khashoggi visited the saudi embassy in turkey and his life was taken it was an extrajudicial killing essentially an assassination and in the aftermath of that there has been quite a bit of questioning of the u.s. saudi relationship in american media and it seems that this heated exchange we saw today before the senate committee is just the latest articulation of this disagreement in american politics. and 2 activist medea benjamin told us the state department's defense of arms sales to the saudis lacks any credibility. it was comical today

secretary of state mike pompei you said iran is prepared to talk about its missiles earlier president donald trump said a lot of progress had been made with iran and that he was not pushing for regime change. and here police officer will not face charges for killing a black man he was trying to arrest the justice department made the announcement on tuesday 5 years after it garnered died in a chokehold and the united states government is imposing its strongest sanctions to date on main mars top military leaders it's in response to the mass killing of wrong give muslims in 2017 washington says the government hasn't taken any action against those responsible for the abuses. inside stories next. a huge stash of weapons found in italy with neo nazi sympathizers italian government says the seizure is unprecedented so how significant is this and what does it tell us about the reemergence of naziism and the far right movement in europe this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program and has an awful of weapons has been seized by italian police in a raid on a far right group authorities

pouring in through the 280 character format of twitter from the administration we have secretary mike pompei oh the u.s. secretary of state saying the world's top sponsor of terrorism can never be allowed to enrich uranium at any level john bolton the national security adviser for the u.s. says there is no reason for iran to increase its enrichment unless it is part of an effort to reduce the breakout time to produce nuclear weapons there have also been responses from the democratic presidential candidates bernie sanders says he's pushed us to the brink of war with iran and kept us in the horrific saudi led war in yemen we need real diplomacy any clothes are a centrist candidate says now iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than before trump took office this did not need to happen and we should negotiate back into the agreement that's the 2015 nuclear agreement the us has bailed out of and joe biden the former vice president and leading candidate in the democratic presidential race says trump's iran policy has alienated us from our allies and taken us to the brink of another war in the middle

secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran that cattle has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats and the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james pays out 0 washington. a funeral has taken place for the youngest known victim of the philippine so-called war on drugs 3 year old michael pina was killed in a police operation last week officers say the girl was used by her father an alleged drug dealer as a human shield during a shoot out east of manila the girl's mother denies this 6000 people have been killed since president rabbani go to ted to introduce the crackdown in 2016 china is demanding that the united states immediately cancel a potential $2200000000.00 arms sale to taiwan china considers taiwan to be a breakaway province when he reports now from beijing. taiwan's military is built on equipment from the united states its main supply of arms announcements from wash

secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran katter has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats in the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james bay and washington. after weeks of huge rallies and pressure from protesters all calls leaders is a controversial extradition bill is now dead kerry lamb admitted her government's work on the proposed law was a total failure sparking the territories biggest political crisis in decades but pro-democracy activists i'm convinced that the end now. when to actually marks the end of the veil pride has more now from. after more unprecedented protests hong kong's chief executive county lamb appeared to yield. with an admission of failure in mishandling this controversial legislation she promised it is now dead there are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity always whether the government will restart the process in the legislat

secretary of state mike pompei o has praised argentina for declaring lebanese group hezbollah a terrorist organization as envoy in osiris where he attended a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of an attack on a jewish center which left 85 people dead argentina has blamed hezbollah and iran for the bombing deny any involvement speaking at a counterterrorism summit promised greater u.s. cooperation and commitment to the region. now on july 20th as the 50th anniversary of the 1st landing the face of scientific engineers he was supposed to hasten a new era of space exploration but only a handful of manned noumenon missions were ever accomplished now the venue the effort to overturn is more complicated expensive and current and vol more than just the us also in jordan reports from washington d.c. . apollo 11 was the result of hard work little sleep and billions of dollars 300000 kilometers away a small blue planet watched in awe for. our. american neil armstrong setting foot on the moon we didn't get to see the the moon until we were just practically at the end of our trip to it when we wer

secretary of state mike pompei was in mexico city earlier as part of his tour of latin american countries relations between the 2 countries have been strained as president continues his efforts to stop migrants and asylum seekers arriving at the southern border model rapido has more from mexico city. this meeting between us secretary of state mike palm pale and mexican foreign minister marcello it out is certainly a timely want to riving just one day before the 45 day deadline on that deal between mexico and the united states where the 2 countries managed to avoid slapping tariffs on mexican at exports a less mexico could rein in and curb the flow of central american migrants making their way north toward the united states the meeting that took place here in mexico city appeared to be a very positive one both men took photographs shaking hands it appears as though they were in good spirits as though that that meeting actually produced some positive results specifically the topic of discussion between these 2 officials was immigration is specifically again that change in policy in the unit

between london and washington as regards the foreign office here run now by jeremy hunt of course and mike pompei oh they're perfectly core deal the rest of the world and the rest of the world diplomatic community level in the summer parties of different embassies happening within a few miles of this studio be wondering what exactly is going on does washington control who who london can put in this country or that country as a representative of her majesty the queen as you say said. very longstanding respected but his language was. when he put it out there whether or not he knew that people were going to be talking about it i'm not sure he would have said the same thing as though the 2 on the side who stuns the benefit from this resignation do you think. yes of course the british media and jeremy hunt the current foreign secretary very keen and the low be journalists here to say russia was behind the leak because russia would benefit from a leak of information of this kind just so discord between london and washington there's no proof no evidence of that the russian authorities are denied any of

secretary of state mike pompei was in latin america looking in general terms for allies of the united states war against terrorism more specifically in the war of words against iran he's found here in argentina his timing was perfect arriving the day after the 25th anniversary of the attack on the army jewish cultural center in one osiris in which 85 people were killed 2 years previous to that the israeli embassy just a short distance from here was also destroyed $29.00 people killed those were attacks at the argentine north or it is blamed specifically on the hezbollah group more generally against iran by usually a lot of the majority of the countries in the region agree that hizbollah is dangerous for us all his blood because of its links with other terrorist organizations which are present here the united states has said it will do all it can to help argentina in the search for what they call the perpetrators of those crimes something that iran has always said it was not involved in the army bombing was cured up by this war with the full support of the regime. as you know it's at t

secretary of state mike pompei o. plus is chinese and russian counterparts the region facing many challenges including the dispute over the south china sea and the ongoing us china trade war scott hide the reporting now. as thailand hosts the foreign ministers of r.c. and regional forums this week which due to be discussed won't just be about southeast asia in addition to the u.s. secretary of state the foreign ministers from china russia japan and south korea are expected. one issue of particular focus the tension on the korean peninsula a senior official from pyongyang is expected in bangkok for the meetings possible discussions on the next summit between chairman kim jong un and president donald trump could take place after 3 meetings the leaders have made no progress on moving toward an agreement over north korea's nuclear program this after north korea last week tested what it said were new tactical guided weapons and released photos of a new submarine the meetings here in bangkok could be viewed as an opportunit

secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran that cattle has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats and the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james pays out 0 washington. meanwhile china is demanding the united states immediately cancel a potential $2200000000.00 arms sales to taiwan of course china still considers taiwan to be a breakaway province when he reports from beijing. taiwan's military is built on equipment from the united states its main supply of arms announcements from washington of sales are always met by an angry response from china and this was no difference is a crude interference in china's internal affairs and a harms china's servant and a security interest china is strongly east dissensions wired and thoroughly opposed to this and has already made a stern representations to the u.s. side and. china regards taiwan as a breakaway province that it will one

secretary of state mike pompei as his new talks on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula could still start within weeks robert bryde reports from seoul. the figures provide the stark is devore dense yet of how sanctions against north korea are hurting it economically last year the economy contract did by 4 point one percent that's on top of a 3 and a half percent contraction the year before at the height of the nuclear and missile testing crisis when the toughest sanctions were introduced compare that with 2016 when the north korean economy grew at nearly 4 percent better even than south korea in the same year figures released earlier this month in seoul also show how sanctions have cut north korea's trade with its neighbors by nearly half with a staggering 86 percent drop in exports especially affected has been its mining sector with a complete ban on one of its biggest exports coal it shows the extent to which kim jong un stated ambition to develop his country's economy rather than the military is being frustrated but state run media is reporting that thursday's launch was ov

secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran that cattle has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats and the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james pays out 0 washington. the united states is calling on turkey to stop drilling for oil and gas around cyprus. the state department says the turks are being provocative by sending 2 ships to explore off the coast of the politically divided island the u.s. says energy resources should be equally shared between turkey which controls the northern part of cyprus and the great secret administration in the south this president has ramped up his twitter attacks on the british ambassador as well as outgoing prime minister theresa may on tuesday trump called may's handling of bricks it foolish and said the british envoy kim derek is a very stupid guy but the case foreign secretary a setback calling trump's comments disrespectful alan fis

secretary of state mike pompei ago told lebanese officials to stand up to the group but has below and its allies control parliament and government making it hard to target it without targeting the country sanctioning someone who's an elected parliament area and head of the parliamentary block for the last 24 years is not simple this means that the us government has no problem and also legally it has the right to sanction action the parliament or any government abuse government institution this has to be a clear message that the lebanese have to fall in line and to be part of the international community or actually face sanctions themselves. the u.s. state department did say the lebanese government needs to sever its dealings with the hezbollah politicians it's sanctioned along with one of the group's security officials will fix his job is to coordinate with lebanon security agencies the government cannot do much because i doubt he has to saw it was hezbollah which is. a major part of the government but this would put him in contradiction with the whole work. order here to. to be to to

counterpart mike pompei are sudan's ruling military gentle suspended schools across the country until further notice the announcement comes after security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters mass rallies are being held against monday's killings of 5 students the head of the ruling military judge has blamed the opposition for tensions in the country. said ambassadors from the u.n. security council have delivered a petition to the secretary general on syria they want to turn you the terrorist to launch an investigation into the bombing of hospitals in the. demonstrators surrounded the police station in hong kong after 40 people who rallied at the weekend work charged with rioting in the past 8 weeks protests have turned increasingly violent they initially started after an attempted use a controversial extradition bill but have turned into wider calls for democracy. democratic presidential candidates in the u.s. have taken center stage in detroit for their 2nd televised debate they're expected to highlight donald trump's recent string of racist tweets while also tryin

secretary of state mike pompei you said you were on is prepared to talk about its missile earlier president donald trump said a lot of progress had been made with iran and that he was not pushing for regime change. in your police officer will not face charges for killing a black man he was trying to arrest the justice department made the announcement on tuesday 5 years after eric garner died in a chokehold. and the united states government is imposing its strongest sanctions to date on me in march the top military leaders it's in response to the mass killing of rohingya muslims in 2017 washington says the government hasn't taken any action against those responsible for human rights abuses. the south african singer and anti-apartheid activist johnny clegg has died at the age of $66.00. 1 of the few white artists to defy segregation laws and openly criticize the apartheid government nicknamed the wide zulu he was famed for blending traditional african rhythms and western music styles he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer or years ago. well those are the headlines we'll have more news after

secretary of state mike pompei o said iran was prepared to negotiate about its missile program tensions between the u.s. and iran escalated after washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement last year. iran's supreme leader has spoken for the 1st time meanwhile on the u.k.'s seizure of an iranian tanker. the grace one tanker was detained by the u.k. earlier this month in a move which only raised recent tensions which were already between iran and western powers. the vicious british government committed piracy and attacked our ship they commit crimes and legalize it they're trying to legitimize this maritime robbery the islamic republic will not leave such a vicious acts without a response. from tehran. this supreme leader also went on to comment about the current status of the 2015 nuclear agreement he said that according to our foreign ministry the europeans have 11 commitments to fulfill under this deal and they have yet to fulfill one now when we decide to scale back our commitment they voiced their concern he said this is an act of insulin so they will not tolerate it the sai

secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran that cattle has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats and the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james pays out 0 washington. him of the united states says it is attempting to form a military coalition to protect shipping in waters off the coast of iran and yemen but trump administrations blamed its proxies for several attacks on tankers in the gulf in the past few months a 5th of the world's oil passes through that area earlier a commander in iran's revolutionary guard issued a new threat against u.s. bases and aircraft carriers which are stationed in the region saying they would be destroyed if they made a mistake. iraq's prime minister says any disruption to shipping in the strait of hormuz could hurt the country's economy the strait provides the only sea passage from the gulf out to the rest of the world and of course oil ex

secretary of state mike pompei is that iran is prepared to talk about its missiles earlier president donald trump said a lot of progress has been made with iran and that he was not pushing for regime change tensions between the u.s. and iran escalated last year of to washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement. meanwhile iran's supreme leader has spoken for the 1st time on u.k. seizure of an iranian tanker near job alter there's a grace one tanker was detained earlier last this month and the move has raised tensions between iran and western powers because. the vicious british government committed piracy in a top down ship they commit crimes and legalize it they're trying to legitimize this maritime robbery these lawmaker public will not leave such vicious acts without a response. the u.s. president has insisted he's working to find a solution with turkey over the sale of the f. 35 fighter jets donald trump says the u.s. is in what he called a tough situation that's after turkey bought a russian air defense system washington had threatened sanctions over the purchase a trump h

secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran catarrh has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats and the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james pays out 0 washington china is demanding however the united states immediately counsel a potential $2200000000.00 arms sales to taiwan china still considers taiwan to be breakaway province when he reports from beijing. taiwan's military is built on equipment from the united states its main supply of arms announcements from washington of sales are always met by an angry response from china and this was no difference it's a crude interference in china's internal affairs and a harms china's servant and a security interest china is strong least dissensions far and thoroughly opposed to this and has already made a stern representations to the u.s. side and. china regards taiwan as a breakaway province that it will one day retake tha

secretary of state mike pompei remains optimistic that he can still work with north korea says he hopes to start a new round of talks next month. celebrations are continuing in puerto rico after the resignation of the island's governor because announced he will leave office on wednesday after nearly 2 weeks of mass protests against government corruption it began over leaked text messages that were condemned as sexist and homophobic and the alico reports from san juan. dancing in the streets of san juan celebrating what's being called a people's revolution demonstrators have for days demanded gov ricardo rajjo step down after text messages revealed a leader who spoke poorly of his own people and used sexist and homophobic language the young puerto ricans who spearheaded the marches it's of the bed to speak truth i mean i bet you were here when you saw a 1000000 people on the street and that's amazing that that's. almost a zen martial. beautiful man but it's no worse for that i have 22 sons one is 10 and the other is 8 so i do this for them and for my future maybe grandsons you know and f

twitter and there you hear members of the administration saying what you might expect them to say mike pompei oh the secretary of state of the u.s. is the world's top sponsor of terrorism can never be allowed to enrich uranium at any level john bolton the national security advisor for the president says there is no reason for iran to increase its enrichment unless it's part of an effort to reduce the breakout time to produce nuclear weapons but on the other side of this debate a number of democratic presidential candidates have weighed in among them bernie sanders one of the top polling candidates who says he's pushed us to the brink of war with iran and kept us in the horrific saudi led war in yemen we need real diplomacy he says and any club which are a centrist candidate says now iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than before he took office this did not need to happen and we should negotiate back into the agreement that is the 2015 nuclear agreement the u.s. has withdrawn from and then joe biden the top polling candidate in most polls here in the united states the former vice president say

negotiation with anyone or any country now that contradicts comments from the us secretary of state mike pompei you who said iran is prepared to talk about its missiles earlier president donald trump said a lot of progress has been made with iran and that he was not pushing for regime change tensions between the u.s. and iran escalated last year after washington redrew from the 2050 nuclear agreement. iran's supreme leader has spoken for the 1st time about the u.k. seizure of an iranian tanker near gibraltar the grace one tanker was detained earlier this month. the vicious british government committed piracy and a top down ship they commit crimes and legalize it they're trying to legitimize this maritime robbery republic will not leave such vicious acts without a response. has more from terror. this supreme leader also went on to comment about the current status of the 2015 nuclear agreement he said that according to our foreign ministry the europeans have 11 commitments to fulfill under this deal and they have yet to fulfill one now when we decide to scale back our commitment they voiced their

secretary of state mike pompei was in latin america looking in general terms for allies of the united states' war against terrorism more specifically in the war of words against iran he's found here in argentina his timing was perfect arriving the day after the 25th anniversary of the attack on the army a jewish cultural center in one of cyrus in which 85 people were killed 2 years previous to that the israeli embassy just a short distance from here was also destroyed 29 people killed those are attacks that the argentine north or it is blamed specifically on that the hezbollah group more generally against iran by usually a lot of the majority of the countries in the region agree that hizbollah is dangerous for us all his blood because of its links with other terrorist organizations which are present here the united states has said it will do all it can to help argentina in the search for what they call the perpetrators of those crimes something that iran has always said it was not involved in bombing was cured up by the full support of the regime. as you know said the minister you kno

secretary of state mike pompei ago told lebanese officials to stand up to the group but has below and its allies control parliament and government making it hard to target it without targeting the country sanctioning someone who's an elected parliament area and head of the parliamentary block for the last 24 years is not simple this means that the us government has no problem and also legally it has the right to sanction action the parliament or any government abuse government institution this has to be a clear message that the lebanese have to fall in line and to be part of the international community or actually face sanctions themselves. the u.s. state department did say the lebanese government needs to sever its dealings with the hezbollah politicians it's sanctioned along with one of the group security officials will fix his job is to coordinate with lebanon security agencies the government cannot do much because i got to the house side was hezbollah which is. a major part of the government but this would put him in contradiction with the whole work. order here to. to be to to co

secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran katter has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats in the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james bay and washington. palestinians say they're being imprisoned in their own neighborhoods by israel's separation wall the israeli government began building it in 2002. to prevent attacks exactly 15 years ago the international court of justice ruled the war legal but that hasn't stopped israel expanding it. 1st sections around 475 kilometers in and around the occupied west bank other segments stretch for 22 kilometers to the north and south of jerusalem since then it's expanded to more than 700 kilometers dividing palestinian communities keeping them from their farmland and separating them from illegal israeli settlement blocks which have expanded thanks to the. more than 620000 israeli settlers now live in the occupied west bank while th

secretary of state mike pompei with his new talks on denuclearization of the korean peninsula could still start within weeks from mcbride reports from cell. the figures provide the stark is devore dense yet of how sanctions against north korea are hurting it economically last year the economy contract did by 4 point one percent that's on top of a 3 and a half percent contraction the year before at the height of the nuclear and missile testing crisis when the tougher sanctions were introduced compare that with 2016 when the north korean economy grew at nearly 4 percent better even than south korea in the same year figures released earlier this month in seoul also show how sanctions have cut north korea's trade with its neighbors by nearly half with a staggering 86 percent drop in exports especially affected has been its mining sector with a complete ban on one of its biggest exports coal it shows the extent to which kim jong un stated ambition to develop his country's economy rather than the military is being frustrated but state run media is reporting that thursday's launch was overseen p