the ministration argued in a quote, that would be a coercive remedy. the third recommendation that i have is to ensure children are not in cbp custody for any longer than 72 hours. this ministration has failed to provide plaintiffs counsel and floors with any data about how long children are being held in cbp custody. you have oversight powers on this question. fourth, children should not be separated from their parents. immigration officers should not be separating children from their mothers, fathers, brothers, grandmothers, absent or reason to believe there is imminent risk of harm to the child. finally, my fifth recommendation. is that we look at the data and do what works. when families have access to a lawyer they appear at the immigration court hearing. 99% of the time. when families are offered support from social workers due to ice family case management programs they show up for immigration proceedings, 99% of the time. children and families belong together, they do not belong in detention, they should be released and they should be free. in

i think that's absolutely right i think the term of ministration despite putting massive financial economic and some would even say military pressure on these lama public is looking to get iran to come back to the negotiating table to iran to set some of these different preconditions i shot a couple of drone has shot a drone out of the sky has fired on tankers that using mines iran i think is trying to get the conditions ready for it to eventually come back to the table because i think it knows that it eventually will have to come back to the table and but i mean just yesterday and we have to address this a british newspaper publishing these leaked memos from the former you came back to washington essentially saying. he claims that trump pulled out of the nuclear deal with no plan on what to do next does the united states have a plan well the plan seems to be to use exactly the same sanctions exactly the same tools that got us to the nuclear deal but again once you get to the table to broaden the issues that the administration has talked about these 12 points i'm sure that you know it's not

he said saudi arabia indiscriminately wages the war in yemen under both the obama and trumpet ministrations we have given the saudis specific lists of targets not to strike we have told them do not hit this specific hospital or this port facility or that bridge and then repeatedly they have gone ahead and hit the precise coordinates on our no strike lists and then we just keep on selling them the bombs what does that say to the people of yemen what does it say to the leadership of saudi arabia as part of the same defense authorization bill the house also voted to require president donald trump to get congressional permission before he launches any attack on iran the senate rejected a similar measure last month. the 251 to 170 vote was unusually bipartisan with 27 republicans joining all but a handful of democrats in support on both of the amendments iran and the saudi u.a.e. arms sales negotiations now are between the senate and house on which of those amendments might make it into the compromise final defense bill gabriels on doe al-jazeera washington the head of hezbollah says the trumpet

in the first few months, the trumpet ministration which is the only organization we have any organized accurate information at all, taxpayers funded massive payments, department of defense spent $379,000, including the trump hotel in washington. the commerce department spent almost $4000 primarily at the trump hotel in august alone, we don't know how much they spent at that time, congress, on behalf of the american people has the right to obtain this information, because we have to defend the integrity of the business practices of the government. nbc has reported, that $56,000 have been spent by the department of defense, the department of agriculture, and the gsa itself, at the hotel. does the gsa actually occupy rooms at the hotel for business purposes? >> i would have to check the facts on that, we often get tagged for spending not hours going through one of the programs and so forth, just in general, employees staying at the hotel. >> what legal authority are you going to say for, continuing to allow federal agencies and departments to spend money at the hotel or foreign government

now the head of hezbollah says the trumpet ministration is seeking channels of communication despite imposing new sanctions on the group the u.s. designates a terrorist organization for the 1st time the us is that it has blood and peas in lebanon on to its sanctions list as in a how to reports now from beirut. they conveyed a message of business as usual but 2 of hezbollah m.p.'s are now on a u.s. sanctions list including the head of the bloc in parliament mohamed rod the u.s. has long considered hezbollah a terrorist organization not differentiating between its military and political wings but it's the 1st time its elected politicians have been targeted this way this deed would be what's new about sanctions as adding elected representatives of the wise there's nothing new such tactics one side line is because we are a big force the latest move is seen as part of the trumpet ministrations maximum pressure campaign on iran and its allies across the region while in beirut in march u.s. secretary of state mike pompei ago told lebanese officials to stand up to the group but has below and

state department official has defended the trumpet ministrations use of and much of the palace to sell arms to saudi arabia that's despite concerns over civilian deaths in yemen. was grilled by senators an expert paid $1000000000.00 worth of precision guided missiles weapons which have repeatedly been used on schools and hospitals and he came up with some surprising justifications as more reports. well there is a heated exchange on the floor of the u.s. congress before a hearing of the senate foreign relations committing now at this point we saw a state department official being grilled about the fact that the trumpet ministration decided to press ahead with the sale of weapons to saudi arabia despite objections from both houses of congress now the state department official was actually an assistant secretary of state r. clarke cooper and he was the u.s. secretary of state the assistant secretary of state for military and political affairs and he argued that essentially the sale of weapons to saudi arabia fits in with an overall strategy from the united states for promoting human right

representatives gets away with saying such ridiculous things the trumpet ministration is going around congress to sell these weapons by calling it a national emergency and as the senators were asking what is this emergency and it's a very dangerous slope when the administration can go around the congress and now that you then give them notification of weapons sales do so much money to be made these weapons manufacturers are very powerful they have strong lobbies in washington d.c. and the other is the american people don't know very much about this because it's not our news media and so they don't care very much about it. the british ambassador to the u.s. the kentaro cuz announced he's stepping down after a series of highly critical comments that he made about the trumpet ministration were leaked to the press in confidential cable sent back to officials in london the diplomat had described the white house as dysfunctional and apt and chaotic. since the leak of official documents from this embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and that you ration o

a letter i'm starting attain this is al jazeera live from die hard also coming up the trumpet ministration announces it will fast track deportations of undocumented migrants. plunged into darkness venezuela's government claims an almost countrywide blackout on sabotage. kenya's finance minister is arrested on corruption charges into the construction of 2 diamonds. now iran says it doesn't want to see a confrontation with the u.k. over the seizure of a british flag oil tanker but the u.k. is demanding the vessel and its crew be released and once european led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the strait of hormuz the stand off will be a priority for the incoming u.k. prime minister this week state to be boris johnson. i think it is very important from. iran who. normally. respond. but the u.k.'s foreign minister jeremy hunt says the tank a seizure is an act of state piracy that must be met with an international response and aren't lee has more from london. this emergency couldn't have come as a worse time for the u.k. and the ministers who left the crisis meeting all know it's ap

the obama ministration but it was never personal.and it was not linked to what simply facts of what mexicans do. let's have a serious debate about security. in about immigration. let's have mexico do more of its informant. and they can put a wall there for a long time. they have enough money. >> two, the reason your country is cracking down on immigrationn right now is because donald trump saw a video of 1000 people crossing through a hole in the fence. if there was aal wall there they would not have crossed it and we would not of had this to begin with. a wall is not a catchall solution for everything. but it's a part, everybody agrees until donald trump came along, it was one part of a copper heads of solution that requires nixing asylum walls and you cracking on on your border in dealing with the drug problem and things like that. but you would not have the terror threat if there would've wall. [laughter] >> i'm not necessarily in agreement. >> i think there needs to be a series of questions. i think the mexican government in us w

even under a republican in ministration and spoke out when i was afraid the u.s. was not doing enough to stop the erosion of democracy and rule of law in russia. the managers remain gravely concerned with the deterioration in systematic dismantling of democracy and the rule of off in russia and we pushed president bush's demonstration a republican administration to do more. of course, i helped lead the charge against the obama administration completelypo feckless russian policy. president obama marked his 2012 opponent for taking russia to seriously and his administration sought a naÏve reset with the kremlin and for eight years i helped lead the charge against that weakness.lp in 2010 i stood with john mccain to oppose the new start treaty, a watered-down placeholder for the sort of tough stance we knew was necessary. the vladimir putin build up his missile arsenal we had to push president obama to commit to deploying capable missile defenses to europe. in 2012 firmly supported sweeping legislation to authorize heavy sanctions following the killing of surrogate m

deportation policy is just the trumpet ministrations latest effort to crack down on what it says is an immigration crisis primarily from central and south america the planned would change the authority that immigration officers have to immediately deport those persons who are in the country without the proper documentation as of right now they can only deal with people who have been inside the united states for fewer than 14 days and who are found within 100 miles of the u.s. border this plan if it does take effect on tuesday will cover the entire united states and the people who could be affected may have been in the country as long as up to 2 years immigrations rights groups say that as many as 300000 people could find themselves being targeted for this immediate deportation plan and they say that they are planning to file lawsuits to keep it from taking effect these groups saying they're worried that people who have permanent residency or who are u.s. citizens may find themselves being kicked out of the united states without legal recourse and something that would be a violation of

referring to the trumpet ministration as inept or from alan fischer. president friends it was a high profile jennifer qatar's amir she brought together political and business leaders as well as washington's top diplomats press missing the uki ambassador disinvited by the white house after the publication of leaked memos sharply critical of president donald trump a career diplomat has been the u.k.'s man in washington says 2016 part of his job is to file reports back to london it's been revealed he described the trump white house as uniquely dysfunctional clumsy and inept he described u.s. policy on iran as incoherent chaotic and his summary we don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal less dysfunctional less unpredictable i work for the state department for many years and we were always encouraged to be direct and frank with what our superiors here in washington about our interactions with government officials with whom leaked out so technically he did not do anything wrong but politically it probably would h

which again is in line with the truck ministrations hard line view on iran's activities across the region but all that being said they're trying to balance this with a diplomatic engagement trying to suggest to the iranians that we're still willing to talk but there are certain red lines that britain wants to enforce and that's what they did. in tehran doesn't agree with you i'll bring you in in just a 2nd but let me just say get joe rubin is of you 1st joe how do you view this latest escalation in the region is it a foreseeable response to britain seizure of the iranian tanker engine brought to 2 weeks ago well this incident is not just and was not just foreseeable but the entire tit for tat explanation that we had earlier of drones being shot down both sides that was all highly predictable the american policy in this president trumps policy is i believe ultimately to try to break the regime it's a maximum pressure policy and it has not led to diplomatic engagement so we're in a very dangerous spot right now we're in a tinderbox of this back and forth about who's right to seize who's shi

also coming up on the day of the trumpet ministration increases its efforts to deter migrants a group of good samaritans is a braving of the dangers of the desert to help them win. america's so-called border angels. are. hard. because they're a gallon of water might be able to be. a warm welcome to our viewers on p.b.s. and all around the world we start the day with a clear and concise condemnation for donald trump following his racist attack on 4 democratic congresswoman the rebuke comes from german chancellor angela merkel who made an exception to do so the chancellor is known to stay out of domestic disputes in other countries but today she didn't hesitate at her annual news conference she was asked about the president's tweets telling the congressman congresswoman of color to go back to the quote crime infested places that they come from she said she firmly projects those comments and that his attacks quote undermine america's strength at the chancellor also faced tough questions of her own including on her handling of the climate crisis and her personal health. confident unsatisf

other 3rd parties or even some elements in it within the united states and within the trumpet the ministration who aspire year to see a war between iran and the united states they want and that's why we have been seeing these things iran has been denouncing condemning these things while iranian leader was meeting the prime minister of japan one of those incidents happened in the sea of oman this doesn't make sense for iran to do such a thing at that timing exactly against the japanese tankers and i think in this situation where the iran is expected to react to the threats or pressure by the united states that will be much easier to finger point to have the finger pointed towards iran and i think there might be some 3rd parties involved in this issue there are some speculations on social media about the alleged involvement of people's mujahedeen of iran and their organization that is banned in iran but have portrayed in the united states there are also some allegations of their ties with saudi arabia but all at this point all those allegations are on the verified and they will remain and verifi

it's deeply concerning i hope that the iranians would be prepared to parlay with the trump of ministration should the trump administration. agreed to negotiate without preconditions but i can't necessarily blame them for not having faith that president trump is going to be honest with them we've heard from the president of iran is simply saying that they don't trust trump because they see him as you said mecurio and he'll change his mind with the wind i said earlier in the program that iran in the u.s. are now on a collision course we do you see in the all friends here it is the only way to stop a conflict. maybe a total freeze of activities on both sides the u.s. and iran would that be feasible. i don't i i think if the united states took unilateral action to relieve the economic pressure on iran iran would likely follow suit and reverse this recent development which is accumulating more than 300 kilograms of of and rich material i think sequencing a tit for tat in which the united states work to relieve those sanctions in exchange for a media degree iranian agreement to reverse its decis

share but i don't think the question is are they willing to sign up to the trump ministrations or ron paul's they are they willing to sign up to the max pressure campaign that's really not the question on the table in berlin the question berlin is what is germany willing to do protect its core national security and economic interests with respect to freedom of navigation an unfettered flow of maritime commers roughly one 5th of the world's all goes through the strait what is germany willing to do and the goal is to avoid war in the gulf which no one wants no one wants the best way to do that is to deter additional iranian attacks on international shipping where we will see if if that is the conclusion of the german government hopefully you know went in the next day or so and covered with the german council on foreign relations and bradley bowman with the foundation for defense of democracies to both of you thank you very much. you're watching the day still to come brazil's president wants to fight crime by making it easier for everyone to own a gun we'll hear from brazilians he believ

at this juncture actually a country if fought to get off the trumpet ministration because the whole german industry is dependent on the safety of the travel of the of the routes and the escalation in this region affect the german economic sector in a way that unprecedented so there has to be an onset but the problem is the coalition and as you already pointed out. that. part of the government so far has been pretty outspoken that it will not support the mission on u.s. leadership and didn't it's still discussing the option off it is your mission and i think. depict accountability of having 2 missions here and my might not be what will come out at the end fell i'm pretty convinced that yet it has to be something in the middle there were 2 missions in the last week we're talking about a european led mission and we've also had the u.s. trying to create a coalition an international coalition and it seems now with this new british government that maybe these projects are merging i mean who knows better let me ask you what do you think about the germans concerns that if they joined this m

i don't think they're trying to ministrations going to react positively to it but because they are so used to getting their way with the german government especially with angela merkel angela merkel has been a patsy of the american governments since george w. bush when it is george bush who want to join in support for the iraq war for the illegal iraq war then and angela merkel who was a position leader at the time chasa sized the german government for not sending troops and for not participating in the coalition that fought the illegal iraq war so angela merkel is very much in favor of every u.s. president even when president obama was caught red handed to be listening in to her calls with the n.s.a. surveillance scandal she didn't really care so it is a bit unusual for her not to follow through with any request from washington but you have to understand in the context of the growing peace movement throughout germany ok beyond very good to get your take as always be on the soli a member of the left party in germany. a global conference for media freedom is underway in london co-hoste

announced he's stepping down after a series of highly critical comments he'd made about the trumpet ministration were leaked to the press in confidential cables sent back to officials in london the diplomats had the scribed the white house as dysfunctional inept and chaotic. since the leak of official documents from this embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and that your ration of my remaining term as ambassador i want to put an end to that speculation the current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. ok let's get right up to date on this story you can go live to london and ortiz shall be. good to see you through what led to this big departure and the reaction to it. well britain's most senior diplomat has been forced to resign and that comes after donald trump the president of the united states that he no longer be able to deal with him so 2nd darrick he's the u.k. ambassador to the u.s. he's e-mails to the united kingdom they in fact were leaked and they describe donald trump's administration as inept now this polit

but they're not any more than the then an individual in america and american and the trump of ministration are not the same thing so but the report assumes there is that they are the same entity essentially and this that this federal judge has pointed out that that is not the case and he's ordered mueller to stop suggesting anything to the contrary this includes quite a dramatic ruling does this mean then that the other revelations made by the special counsel likely to be treated differently off the back of this ruling. well yes i mean the at the other half of the special counsel's. case is that the russian g.r.u. hacked the democratic national committee and then released thousands of emails to wiki leaks which that made them public in july 2016 but that's also very likely untrue i can't say it's absolutely untrue but it's very likely untrue because the scenario that that mueller outlines in his report just doesn't make sense the chronology does not add up so essentially what happens is we have the 2 parts of mueller's case now really just don't add up to anything at all they're both equal

2 years ago when the blockade started when it looked like at least some figures in the trumpet ministration were giving the green light to that blockade now you have the emir being feted here in washington at a time when those carrying out the blockade are certainly facing a lot of international criticism for the ongoing war in yemen and the civilian death toll from that war and saudi arabia that leads that coalition also of course being condemned for the murder of jamal khashoggi so 4 cats are on the emea of qatar this is a moment where i think he's been in a stronger position with the u.s. than the only time since president trump took office and james a lot of countries will be looking into the comments which the u.s. president had to make about the u.s. base once again explain the strategic importance of who gets. the host which bases which u.s. bases of the middle east mean something in the balance of power between these countries in the middle east right. yeah well it is interesting that the 2 biggest bases are the air base in qatar and the naval base in bahrain are there 2 countries o

shared equally between turkey which controls the northern part of cyprus and the greek cypriot ministration in the south. slow progress is being made to rebuild the ruined city of mosul in northern iraq it's 2 years since the iraqi army drove eisel fighters from the capital of their self declared caliphate as are some a binge of aid reports reconstruction efforts aren't being helped by the sanctions imposed by the united states on iraq's ally iran this is the old city of mosul but due years after eisel defeat iraq's victory has not still meant the restoration of life as it was before the war much of the city remains in ruins more than 300000 people are still displaced a mix of sectarian division unemployment and security concerns linger on. the main threat and danger remains the neglect of reconstruction in mosul the displaced are still living in limbo all these issues have not been given serious enough attention or by the iraqi government. the iraqi government says it's doing all it can and asking international partners to help rebuild the city human agencies estimate it could take tens of

state department official has been defending the trumpet ministrations use of emergency powers to sell to saudi arabia despite concerns over civilian deaths in yemen. grew by senators on the export of $8000000000.00 worth of precision guided missiles weapons that have been repeatedly used on schools and hospitals and he came up with some surprising justifications for it listening across to the hearing our correspondent in new york can you tell us how the hearing went and. well it was a heated exchange on capitol hill it was a hearing of the senate foreign relations committee and we saw this state department official being grilled over the fact that the trumpet ministration pressed ahead with arms sales to saudi arabia despite the objections of both houses of the u.s. congress and now the individual in question from the state department was actually the assistant secretary of state our clarke cooper is the assistant secretary of state for political and military affairs and he actually said that selling these weapons fits into a strategy of the united states for promoting human rights th

official event a longer address is the political struggles of the community under the trumpet ministration meanwhile a new report suggests a sharp decline in except since gay and lesbian people among young americans according to that survey in 2018 fewer people aged 18 to 34 felt comfortable interacting with. paypal compared with the year before while the number feeling uncomfortable with a relative coming out increase. just more young americans also didn't like the idea of gay issues being taught in school on the other hand though the acceptance rate among people age 72 and over was higher than the previous year we got reaction to the decline in tolerance from a community representative and also from the author of the study. the least munisteri experiencing could be leading to this a version it's a new news to take time for people to understand our job is to educate about nonconformity we counter the narrative that young people are more progressive intolerant these numbers are very alarming in signal a looming social crisis and discrimination. act his brand and track assess that radicals

or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom and it said ministration of hong kong and past the shoulder of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping plethora tarion is in. al-jazeera hong kong. still ahead on al-jazeera an attack on a hotel in somalia that began with a car bomb and turned into an all night scene the. monsoon rains in nepal trigger landslides and flooding killing at least 43 people. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast or still seeing the very heavy rain here across parts of china now we are getting a break across at southeastern coast hong kong you'll be just on the edge over towards taiwan though it isn't quite nice not a lot of rain in your forecast there it is going to be the clouds though that you will see shanghai fuzhou down here to an inning that is where the rain is going to be quite heavy over the next few days and as we go towards monday we're going to be seeing that rain really staying in much of the same locations hong ko

scientists against the trunk ministrations. some goods from china that's among the stories to come. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. real crisis metaphysic crisis and they sure. as a scale of natural disaster and guns are just like malaysia. and they bring to this. is the. year when japan. for the problem of you say a group of substances which is a rather big saw that governments and international organisations do not cover enough time to change gradually. that again the leading make is of computer game consoles and intend and microsoft to join forces against the trumpet ministrations new tariffs on goods from china. the video game console supply chain has developed in china over many years of investments by our companies and our partners it would cause significant supply chain disruption to shift sourcing entirely to the united states' refe

deportation policy is just the trumpet ministrations latest effort to crack down on what it says is an immigration crisis primarily from central and south america the plan would change the authority that immigration officers have to immediately deport those persons who are in the country without the proper documentation as of right now they can only deal with people who have been inside the united states for fewer than 14 days and who are found within 100 miles of the u.s. border this plan if it does take effect on tuesday would cover the entire united states and the people who could be affected may have been in the country as long as up to 2 years immigrations rights groups say that as many as 300000 people could find themselves being targeted for this immediate deportation plan and they say that they are planning to file lawsuits to keep it from taking effect these groups saying they're worried that people who have permanent residency or who are u.s. citizens may find themselves being kicked out of the united states without legal recourse and something that would be a violation of th

special representative who's working with jared cushion are on the trumpet ministrations peace plan and european envoys at the security council all of the e.u. members came out and read out a statement condemning the demolition of those palestinian homes but the strongest criticism came from the german ambassador and that is after jason greenlighted said that the international consensus was out of date on the issue and that international law was something that was interpreted in different ways by different people he was referring in particular to the last resolution that was passed by the obama administration under the obama administration 2234 on settlements that was passed by the security council the obama administration decided to abstain and not to use their veto angering the trumpet ministration it was about to come into office so that was the backdrop for this angry exchange we will not get to the bottom of who's interpretation of international law is correct on this conflict there is no judge jury or court in the world that the parties involved have agreed to give jurisdiction in

the hearing kids in cages inhumane treatment at the border that's an indictment of the trumpet ministrations family separation policy everyone seems to agree there's a crisis at the border with republicans saying it's the pressure of immigrants coming to the us and democrats saying it's the detention policy itself. the name also expresses the outrage over what democrats described as jails for children we are creating the generation of children they'll never forget we did say that this type of trauma can wait some republicans push back i am frustrated with the title of the hearing it is a hearing entitled kids in cages what we say and i personally will use matters i've been to the border many times in this day i've never seen a kid in a cage just a former immigration and customs enforcement chief says it is unfair to blame immigration agencies coping with this surge of central american immigrants fleeing violence and poverty if you don't reduce the flow you're going to continue to get the same thing that we've seen for the last 78 months it's bad it's getting worse arrests at the border fell

premiership begins now this is ministration plans to move fast for immediate consideration tax cuts getting tough on crime and the controversially allowing police back on university campuses. police were banned from campus as half a century ago after they forced their way onto the athens polytechnic to quell a student sit in seat is a leader alexis tsipras says he will now focus on molding his party into the center left progressive alliance neither leader will have much of a honeymoon instead of allowing parliament to go on a summer break it's a very loose plans to start a new plenary session next week and table his 1st bills or soon after ultimately image and likeness says he will have to approach greece's european creditors to persuade them to lower greece's debt repayment he believes the bailout terms are stifling growth but the last 4 greek prime ministers have asked for better terms and didn't always get them. concentrate on making sure that he meets the target. primarily. cutting spending. and if he does so then he will have some good will in the future to open this discussion with th

pompous fall so after a leaked memo in which the envoy gave a damning assessment of the trump ministration the feud has put a strain on the so-called special relationship between the 2 countries as more. this all began when this message message was leaked which showed the you can bask in the describing the trumpet ministration in really harsh terms describing them as being inept and not seeing the situation improving any time soon and perhaps in typical donald trump fashion the u.s. president took to twitter to express his feeling. they didn't pull any punches and he described the u.k. ambassador as being a very stupid guy the wacky ambassador that the u.k. foisted upon the united states is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and prime minister may about their failed break that negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was. now here in the u.k. of course we are watching as the 2 candidates go head to head to be the next conservative leader and thus the next prime minister there of course the former foreign secretary boris j

also coming up the trumpet ministration announces it will fast track deportations of undocumented migrants. plunged into darkness venezuela's government claims an almost countrywide. to break up protests against the territories embattled governor. now iran says it doesn't want to see a confrontation with the u.k. over the seizure of a british flag boyles hanka the u.k. is demanding that the vessel and its crew be released and once a european led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the strait of hormuz the stand off will be a priority for the incoming british prime minister this week tipped to be boris johnson. maybe. it would be him. i think it is very important for border strums as he and. 10 downing street who understand that iran does not seek confrontation iran wants to have normal relations based on mutual respect but the u.k.'s foreign minister jeremy hunt says the tank a seizure is an act of state piracy that must be met with an international response our lawrence lee has more from london this emergency couldn't have come as a worse time for the u.k. and the ministers who

deal with him if there is the leaking of diplomatic cables in which 2nd dark describe the trumpet ministration as clumsy and inept zeros lawrence lee reports there is no precedent for this kim darrick all of the u.k.'s most senior diplomats in the most important world capital forced from office after a concerted attack on his credibility by actors in london and at the white house prime minister in parliaments both the prime minister and leader of the opposition expressed what you can only call thinly disguised outrage at what they see as in the assault on the integrity of the u.k.'s diplomatic service good government depends on public servants being able to give full and frank advice i want all of our public servants to have the confidence to be able to do that. the parliament's foreign affairs committee met to try to make sense of its asking the head of the country's diplomatic service if he'd ever known anything like it not in his career he said nor in anyone else's in the last 150 years the last time i know that we had difficulty with the united states was 856. when the incumbent was accuse

now the head of hezbollah says the trumpet ministration is seeking channels of communication despite imposing new sanctions on the group that the u.s. designates a terrorist organization for the 1st time the u.s. has added hezbollah m.p.'s and lebanon to its sanctions list said a hot it reports from beirut. they conveyed a message of business as usual but 2 of hezbollah m.p.'s are now on a u.s. sanctions list including the head of the bloc in parliament mohamed rod the u.s. has long considered hezbollah a terrorist organization not differentiating between its military and political wings but it's the 1st time its elected politicians have been targeted this way listed with bill what's new about sanctions is adding elected representatives of the wise there's nothing new such tactics one side line is because we are a big force the latest move is seen as part of the trumpet ministrations maximum pressure campaign on iran and its allies across the region while in beirut in march u.s. secretary of state mike pompei ago told lebanese officials to stand up to the group but has below and its

special representative who's working with jared cushion are on the trumpet ministrations peace plan and european envoys at the security council all of the e.u. members came out and read out a statement condemning the demolition of those palestinian homes but the strongest criticism came from the german ambassador and that is after jason greenlighted said that the international consensus was out of date only issue and that international law was something that was interpreted in different ways by different people he was referring in particular to the last resolution that was passed by the obama administration under the obama administration 2234 on settlements that was passed by the security council the obama administration decided to abstain and not to use their veto angering the trumpet ministration it was about to come into office so that was the backdrop for this angry exchange we will not get to the bottom of who's interpretation of international law is correct on this conflict there is no judge jury or court in the world that the parties involved have agreed to give jurisdiction in o

our ministration has directed over half $1 million to fix lake okeechobee. i was out there three months ago with the governor and senator from florida. we had our two senators marco rubio and our great governor. commitment andin it has already been in place. people are very happy about it in the florida everglades. we are restoring the ecosystems in the everglades and i also signed legislation authorizing one of $2 million to fight red tide, a big problem that some people don't know about, but when you do know about it that means trouble because it is bad. other toxic algae that is damaging coastal areas and we have a way of straightening it out and we are getting it done. by bruce.ned today his is is was devastated by toxic algae from lake okeechobee. bruce, can you come up and tell us about what is happening and what we are doing for you? [applause] >> hello. .e made a big trip up here this is very important. .his is my family's business i have owned a bait and tackle store since 2001 and have been in florida since 2006. i have my son here. he is 21 now wi