international my names you know neil good to have your company our top story former cia director mike pompei o has officially been made washington's top diplomat for foreign policy after he was sworn in as the new secretary of state he's been given a strong endorsement by donald trump which is in stark contrast to his predecessor rex tillerson the latter rain which was often overshadowed by differences with the president. i must say that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department in a long time many years we can say many years maybe many decades it's going to be a fantastic start a fantastic day and that spirit will only be magnified only with this man right here i know that for a fact. now its official praises a true american hero my pump ale has been sworn in as the nation's chief diplomat and he's vowing to make state department great again i talked about getting back our swagger and i'll fill in what i mean by that but it's important the united states diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner every stretch of the world executing missions on behalf of this country pompei a speec

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons made the comment as a news conference with his side korean kind to pot ahead of a planned summit with the know if he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be needed. a senior iranian cleric has threatened israeli cities with annihilation as tension saw between the two countries is.

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons pompei made the comment as a news conference with his side corinne kind to pot ahead of a planned summit with the know if he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be needed. a senior iranian cleric has threatened israeli cities within the elation as tension saw between the two countries is.

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons pompei made the comment as a news conference with his side korean counterpart ahead of a planned summit with the north he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be needed. a senior iranian cleric has threatened israeli cities with annihilation as tensions saw between the two countries is.

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons pompei made the comment as a news conference with his side korean counterpart ahead of a planned summit with the know if he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be.

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons pompei made the comment as a news conference with his side korean counterpart ahead of a planned summit with the north he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be needed. a senior iranian cleric has threatened israeli cities with annihilation as tensions saw between the two countries israel's.

in moscow this is archie international i'm glad to have you with us now former cia director mike pompei o has been sworn in as the new u.s. secretary of state the ceremony was attended by president. i must say that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department in a long time many years we can say many years maybe many decades it's going to be a fantastic start a fantastic day and that spirit will only be magnified only with this man right here i know that for a fact the ceremony took place at the state department with trump president in fact it was the president's first ever visit but trump had nothing but praise for pompei of calling him a quote patriot with immense talent energy and into like an arguably the most memorable moment from pompei speech was when he vowed to help the united states get back its whacker. i talked about getting back our swagger and i'll fill in what i mean by that but it's important the united states diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner every stretch of the world executing missions on behalf of this country pompei a speech was well received by ever

secretary of state mike pompei o has issued a new warning to iran over the nuclear deal saying it will impose the toughest sanctions in history of tehran does not change course. there's always more on these and other stories that a website of you dot com also on our twitter feed as well for now though from me brian thomas of the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. devotion to. juggling to music. and does choreography to some of the best dance come to. an encounter with an exceptional artist. tauriel. play. the clip. once again and see final germany ul champion six time an hour. to scotland clock. the ball mechanics cup then back on the tracks. pick up notes. exciting but it may give these players sixty minutes d w. you can tell a lot about the society by its garbage. trucks it's worthless for the rich but for many poor people it offers their chance of survival of the country today just like. the reporters travel to nairobi hard to meet people who know the true value of garbage. it has created a strong. because. looking at this man for economic inequality. you guys are st

casualties as rights groups continue to call on saudi arabia to end the conflict former cia director mike pompei o has been sworn in as u.s. secretary of state more news today given a ringing endorsement by donald trump the president said he believes the appointment will reenergize the country's foreign policy establishment. i must say that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department in a long time many years we can say many years maybe many decades it's going to be a fantastic start a fantastic day and that spirit will only be magnified only with this man right here i know that for a fact right. now it's official praises a true american hero my palm pale has been sworn in as the nation's chief diplomat and he's vowing to make department great again i talked about getting back our swagger and i'll fill in what i mean by that but it's important the united states diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner every stretch of the world executing missions on behalf of this country and pump a speech was well received by everyone from the media to other officials some didn't even wait to compare

mike pompei o has concluded his first trip as u.s. secretary of state he spent much of it urging israel and palestine to restart the peace process but there was in jordan on monday on the final leg of his three day middle east tour. of the honeyed has more now from amman. if you go out his trip the israeli palestinian conflict didn't seem a priority in our. secretary of state was reminded it remains the main stumbling block to was achieving regional. solution remains the. pieces we believe in it is the solution that would allow for the emergence of an independent palestine states. also worried about the even in. the from tel aviv to jerusalem but maintained that final boundaries with the in jerusalem are for negotiations with respect to the two state solution the parties will ultimately make the decision about what the right resolution is we certainly open to a two two party solution that's a likely outcome we certainly believe that the israelis and palestinians need to need to have political engagement there was no come to nation how

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons pompei made the comment as a news conference with his south korean counterpart ahead of a planned summit with the north he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be needed. a senior iranian cleric has threatened israeli cities with annihilation as tensions saw between the two countries in.

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons pompei made the comment as a news conference with his side korean counterpart ahead of a planned summit with the north he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be needed. a senior iranian cleric has threatened israeli cities with annihilation as tensions saw between the two countries is.

and saudi arabia donald trump's chief diplomat mike pompei o has arrived in north korea to prepare for the summit with kim jong il both washington and pyongyang have agreed on a date and a location for the meeting but no further details have been released voting is underway in malaysia and an election marred by scandal and fierce competition the prime minister najib razak cast his ballot in the city of peak can it's expected to be a close race between him and the opposition leader dr mahathir mohamad those are your headlines so far the news continues here on al-jazeera after powerful seeds of discord i will see you very soon. plath. was i. was there was. was. was. was. absolutely. the voice there david ben-gurion declaring the establishment of the state of israel in maine one nine hundred forty eight. the balfour declaration was a letter sent by british foreign secretary arthur balfour to a member of the british house of lords child on the second of november one thousand nine hundred seventeen. this letter sent to a leading figure in the british jewish community one hundred years ago h

has held a phone call with his u.s. counterpart mike pompei o trying to look for positives trying to be upbeat and interestingly finding those positives in the reaction from north korea north korea has been accused by donald trump of showing hostility and anger in their first official reaction they showed anything but they seem determined to be the injured party or to show themselves as the injured party in this case giving a very measured statement which you mentioned there from the deputy foreign minister kim saying that north korea welcomes the opportunity at any time to sit down and to can have have this dialogue or put the dialogue back on track so pump a zero and can have said that obviously that's a positive that should be worked towards they still want to see this negotiation process continue and also not to lose the momentum as they have said from the first summit the summit between kim jong un of north korea and the moon jay in the john summit of a month ago which you'll remember seemed like very heady days compared with what we have n

the bigger picture we have john bolton as trump's national security advisor mike pompei o as secretary of state and now china has phil as cia director so as far as u.s. foreign policy goes we can't be too sure we'll see yeah. the line up from some interesting stories america on the latest from washington. meanwhile the u.s. president is urging north korea to dismantle its nuclear program and claimed that north korea can become quote very rich if it agrees to washington's demands on side of a planned summit between conjunct and donald trump. we make a deal i think kim jong un is going to be very very happy i really believe he's going to be very happy and he'll get protections that will be very strong his country would be very rich is people are tremendously industrious if you look at south korea this would be really a south korean model in terms of their industry in terms of what they do the hard work an incredible people do you have to remember that for the last several decades donald trump has been very well known as a businessman he actually wrote a book a best selling book called the art of the deal so we sho

mike pompei o. and national security advisor john bolton the us has we mentioned pulled out of the twenty fifteen accord a move which germany has called a threat to international security. in my opinion we are far away from a compromise. we are taking two completely different approaches the approach that germany has decided to take along with france and the u.k. that is the one we will continue to pursue in europe. german foreign minister speaking in washington there earlier about the iran nuclear deal well our washington bureau chief xander phenomena has been following the german foreign minister's u.s. visit she sent us this report. frank but constructive discussion with national security advisor a bold. and firm handshake with u.s. secretary of state but no joint statement no breakthrough german foreign minister came to washington to make clear that europe is united in supporting the existing deal with iran and that it wants to work together with the u.s. however at the end of his visit he had to acknowledge that the transatlantic partners remain deeply divided and are far away from a compromise and

has spoken with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o south korea says it will continue to work with the u.s. in pursuit of talks with the north the indonesian parliament has approved stronger anti terror legislation following a series of recent suicide bomb attacks change allows military involvement in counter-terrorism policing and extended periods of detention more than twenty people were killed in attacks in indonesia second largest city sort of by earlier this month the suicide blasts were carried out by two families including children linked to eyesore. malaysian police have seized nearly thirty million dollars from three apartments linked to the family of the former prime minister najib razak police say now son and daughter were living in the apartments it's already being questioned by anti corruption offices his opponents accuse him and his associates of stealing billions from the state investment fund one n.d.p. being banned from leaving the country after a shock election defeat to mental dr marty mohamad. in libya at least seven people have been killed and twenty five others wounded

matter johnson met with the newly appointed secretary of state mike pompei o and also appeared on trump's favorite t.v. show. the president has been right to call attention to it but you couldn't do that without just throwing the baby out with the bathwater without scrapping the whole thing because if you do that you have to answer the question what next foreign secretaries first stop in d.c. was fox and friends why well johnson wasn't able to speak to the president so he decided to deliver his message via trump's favorite t.v. show he's not the first european official that's tried to warn the us against leaving the deal the german and french foreign ministers have stated that there's no justifiable reason to pull out of the deal and before that president mccrone and chancellor merkel even visited washington d.c. to discuss the matter but they were unable to convince trump otherwise we could open a pandora's box there could be a war i don't think that donald trump wants war while the u.s. is divided along partisan lines and it's mostly democrats who want to uphold what's widely regarded as obama's only foreign policy achievem

has dismissed u.s. threats of sanctions calling them funny and ridiculous arraign president hassan rouhani was responding to the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o ok a war duran to expect these stronger sanctions ever if it did not stop enriching uranium. u.s. president donald trump has been using an official mobile phone that is ill equipped to defend against hackers or surveillance white house insiders say the president has gone as long as five months without having his phone checked by security officials the president has reportedly resisted through changes phones once a month saying it was too inconvenient. authorities in a y. say the lava flowing from the killer way of all kaino is producing toxic clouds as a reaches the pacific ocean residents are being warned to remain away from the fumes a dangerous mix of hydrochloric acid steam and extremely fine shards of glass lava haze or lays can cause lung damage and i and skinner titian's. also in our court has found a catholic archbishop guilty of covering up child sexual abuse in one nine hundred seventy s. sixty seven year old thought paulson could face two years in prison for failing to repo

has spoken with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o they agreed to continue pursuing talks with pyongyang. announcement came just hours after north korea said it had blown up its only nuclear test site in a gesture of goodwill to reduce regional tensions reporters were given rare access to witness the event but international nuclear inspectors were not invited. at least nineteen people are missing after cycling macoun hit the yemeni island of a state of emergency has now been declared and evacuations are underway in nearby oman where the storm is expected to make landfall next moment well reports now from the southern omani city of salah. high waters ahead of the coming storm locals in the almighty city of sanaa to gather their belongings and scramble to evacuate buses and helicopters take the vulnerable out of the path of cyclonic emergency services are being deployed and people are being urged to seek safety the government warns that the low lying areas are risk from flooding until the early hours of friday morning the city of continuous to prepare for the cycle on scenes like this one f

has spoken to u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o they agreed to continue pursuing talks with pyongyang. police in canada looking for a motive after a bomb explosion at an indian restaurant fifteen diners were injured three of them seriously in the city of mississauga yet toronto detectives are studying security camera video of two men who'd entered the restaurants with the restaurant other with their faces covered. and those are the headlines now no zero let's get you back to. my late april nine hundred forty eight the city of haifa had fallen to jewish forces. the coastal town of jaffa was now the next target. here must have been given. only. to. what the military led be bored when you were to. hear. from you cared. about. the edited. by wayne. is about what he behold he said they get that he or she fairly bestseller skating. but. although designated as part of the arab state in one thousand nine hundred forty seven un partition plan jewish forces set their sights on jaffa. during the last week of april bombing of the city intensified the city's inhabitants were forced to flee the shel

donald trump's chief diplomat has arrived in north korea to prepare for a summit with kim jong un mike pompei o met kim in the north korean capital last month before he was sworn in as the u.s. secretary of state's both washington and pyongyang have agreed on a date and location for the meeting but no further details have been given so far let's get more now from kathy novak our correspondent in seoul so kathy what we expecting from this visit by mr pompei o. well two major things we're expecting to be discussed peter the first is setting the details for that meeting that is expected between the u.s. president donald trump of the north korean leader kim jong un donald trump had said that the date and location worst set but the firm details had not yet been announced and of course donald trump has said in the past that he could still walk away from those plans or indeed walk away while a meeting is going on if he were displeased so this move by pump aoe to go back to pyongyang to firm up those plans seems to be to want to ensure that that meeting does go ahead we don't know yet if he will meet t

washington's new top diplomat has promising to bring a more direct approach to foreign policy during a closed meeting with stuff secretary of state mike pompei o talked about bringing swagger back to the state department. in our case it's america's essential brightness and it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that all cause is just special and built upon america's cool principles i don't think it is that's unique to mr pompei i think you have an attitude throughout the political class here in washington that's almost like like a real recrudescence of the view of the soviet union we are the vanguard of all progressive humanity peace progress is socialism archy's peace progress and human rights and that we're right and everybody else takes their cue from us i think that kind of arrogance unfortunately is pretty standard this goes beyond in my opinion just simple patriotism love of country and even a sense that our values are something that are dear to us this seems to set up a kind of amounted to a limp this attitude that we sit up on high and judge everybody else and unfortunately this has been all too familiar not certainly jus

after secretary of state mike pompei o traveled to north korea to finalize plans for a summit between president donald trump and kim jong il. but israel's defense minister says has been the trees destroyed nearly all iranian military installations inside syria i think all lieberman says it's in response to iranian rockets fired at israeli positions in the occupied golan heights more on that story now from harry forces who is in israel the pied golan heights. literals military says twenty rockets were fired from inside syrian territory here towards the occupied golan heights and israeli targets here it says that four of those rockets were intercepted by israel and the other sixteen fell inside syrian territory nonetheless the response from israel was overwhelming and very different from the kind of strikes that israel's been carried out carrying out so far in syria during the course of the civil war it says dozens of iranian targets were struck in israel it says that it hit almost all of iran's infrastructure within israel the israeli military today saying that if iran wants to rebuild that infrastructure it will be a long process should it wish to do so the isra

feel and this was the words of the secretary of state mike pompei o that this is an example of donald trump's peace through strength policies that has been another sort of manifestation of that if you will something that they very much hope to continue as they look toward this summit that will take place between the u.s. president and the north korean leader kim jong il and rather kim jong un and i should point out that in fact again the day in the time of that summit not yet released but we are expecting court to the secretary of state that that could be released early next week asked in a cabinet meeting here at the white house whether or not the president thought he deserved a nobel prize for this it she's been so far of even getting to this point he said that he sort of shrugged that suggestion off saying that if he's able to sort of achieve denuclearize ation that this would be the greatest achievement he could hope for and really how can we the laces from the white house can release thank you . well still to come on al-jazeera for this news hour. gunmen launched coordinated attacks in the afghan capital battling security force

mike pompei o. . the sunday chat shows so this is sensually this is a man who's very comfortable in front of the camera engaging with the media probably has a lot to do with his background as a u.s. congressman and very much there has been this effort to set a new tone as you point out at the u.s. state department certainly this is not only are we sure it's of the world allies but also of the diplomats that are in charge of carrying out the policy decisions around the world thousands of them that are now sort of after years or rather months of feeling a little bit of a morale. plummet if you will due to some of the policy decisions of rex tillerson now there seems to be this effort to try and turn that page and you speaking there about resolution to tensions on the korean peninsula tell us more about the policy decisions that lie ahead for him. big ones may twelfth that's a big deadline for the president to recertify compliance under the iran nuclear deal for in terms of iran's compliance to that deal that was negotiated with world powers so there there's already been kind of an indication that in fact the u.s. president and mike pompei w

has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. visit to the u.s. state department for the first time to swear in former cia director mike pompei o as the country's new top diplomat. so they're trying to bamboozle the entire world in a word like the president trying to say. enough of that the israeli prime minister urges the u.s. to abandon the iran nuclear deal and accuses tehran of lying about secret weapons program plus. made a riots cause havoc in paris with active activists smashing windows torching cars and clashing with police over the french president's labor reform. party broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow is our chief international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now former cia director mike pompei or has been sworn in as the new u.s. secretary of state the ceremony was attended by president. i must say that's more spirit than i've heard from the state department in a long time many years we can say many years maybe many decades it's going to be a fantastic start a fantastic day and that spirit will only be magnified only with this man right here i know that for a fact the ceremony took place at the state dep

has more from washington d.c. . well the white house is confirming when north korea's vice chair travels to new york city it is the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o with whom he will be meeting this is significant because previous visits between the u.s. secretary of state and north korean officials happened in pyongyang this is now happening on u.s. soil an important gesture in the eyes of the united states as the two sides begin to build trust leading towards what the white house says will be an expected meeting between the north korean leader kim jong un and the u.s. president but of course the date not yet confirmed now the white house says it is continuing to actively prepare for a meeting between the two leaders in addition to delegations in asia there is also work happening here at the white house the national security adviser john bolton discussions daily going on we're told according to the white house press secretary between not only the national security team here in the united states but also the counterparts in south korea as well as japan in addition to just trying to nail down the the meeting and whether or not it will occur other

has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. visit to the u.s. state department for the first time to swear in former cia director mike pompei o as the country's newop diplomat. so they're trying to bamboozle the entire ruled in on. the president trying to slow down on and off without the israeli prime minister urges the u.s. to abandon the.

delegation has not been seeing leaving the hotel they have had have had a couple of breaks before now and i think it's probably reasonable to speculate that with kim young child and mike pompei o effectively their bosses in all of this negotiating process going to be holding higher level talks thursday in new york possibly they are taking a break to see what comes of those talks before they resume their talks again and of course down in singapore we have another group of officials meeting to go through all of the protocols on the logistics assuming that this summit is going to take place could point let's let's remember it's officially not actually happening at this point is that right mcbride in seoul with the latest thank you. just became the director of the center for conflict management sat at weill woman's university has told us there's already been great progress if the u.s. and north korea are willing to discuss denuclearization. so as long as the term dismantlement what it means is on the agenda for the singapore summit on june twelfth or whenever it takes place i think that's great progress i mean the fact that they want to agree on day one or minute one of that meeti

secretary of state mike pompei o has said the u.s. could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons comp a made the comment as a news conference with his side korean counterpart ahead of a planned summit with the north he added that robust verification of denuclearization would be needed. a senior iranian cleric has threatened israeli cities with annihilation as tensions saw between the two countries israel's foreign minister has called on syria to expel iranian forces that its comes after israel struck iranian positions in syria in retaliation for an alleged rocket attack. the u.n. has asked to make a regular to let it investigate the deaths of dozens of students in protests thousands of people took to the streets of the capital monocular on friday demanding the resignation of president daniel ortega over the violent police crackdown the protests began in april as a reaction to social security reforms. and they voted i'd break his head to a remote part of the democratic republic of congo at least e

secretary of state mike pompei o. has threatened to impose the strongest ever sanctions on iran if the country doesn't change course the list of demands to be included in the nuclear treaty requires turan to stop uranium enrichment the islamic republic must also end its support for hezbollah militias in lebanon and hooty rebels in yemen and withdraw its forces from syria or them all. a documentary by german public broadcaster accuses russian sports authorities of covering up suspicious doping test results of soccer players in two thousand and fourteen including members of the current provisional world cup squad the revelations come just weeks before the tournament kicks off in russia. it's a dangerous assumption yet to be tested the u.s. policy of maximum pressure on north korea trump believes that he can force the regime to change its ways for good what's a day the u.s. secretary of state announced what he calls a new plan on iran using the same old assumption and tonight the one assumption that has proven true tehran's