joe biden of who basically says that the ministry of foreign affairs here will have to respond essentially in mind and british diplomats will be going home very soon possibly more british diplomats going home and leaving russia than the u.k. has kicked out of russian diplomats going back to moscow we have also heard from the spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs and there is a quarter of a who has posted on facebook and her facebook statement basically that was defending her boss from attacks that she thought to reason may have launched against him now of course of course is a lot of rove now she says it's not up to british prime minister to reason made to pass judgment on the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov to reason she says lavrov is a russian minister not a british one and it's the russian president who evaluates him on the stand that you would like to think otherwise but your minister is boris johnson ok thanks very much. let's go back to that top story for you this thousands of students and teachers across the u.s. are walking out of their classrooms they've walked.

in fact, the ministry of foreign affairs was asked a few minutes ago was the north korean leader in beijing. her reply is i have no idea. we have to wait and see. >> plausible deniability. >>> the father of the pulse nightclub shooter was an informant for the fbi. now he is being investigated for payments overseas just before the attack. racing isn't the only and with godaddy, i'm making my ideas real. with godaddy you can get a website to sell online. and it will look good. i made my own way. now it's time to make yours. ♪ everything is working just like it should ♪ >>> good morning. 16 minutes past the hour. the fbi has permission of several locations in the washington, d.c. area. a law enforcement official tells cnn more than ten devices are involved and crudely made with black powder. none powerful enough for fatalities. one package sent to the national defense at ft. mcnair had explosive material. scanning the packages are examined in quantico, virginia. >>> the ethics inquiry targeting jared kushner. this stems from the meetings at the white house where the kushner companies were loan

ministry of foreign affairs but they did not care so completely different picture at the polling station number forty four we could film everything no problem whatsoever and then we went to the polling station number forty six and they told us that we could film but only from afar and this is kind of a sudden the ship is like i couldn't agree on that so i left and can you tell us have you seen any sort of election monitoring in place to ensure a fair vote when you were at those polling stations. well independent observers at polling station forty five they complained that there was no place for them to do their job there is an independent organisation to protect their electoral rights of citizens called goals and their election observer told me that they were not allowed to monitor the election at the polling station number forty five representatives of goals told me that they don't expect a mass fest of a false vacation season cousin but they do expect cases of fraud outside of cazan in the villages where you won't find any independent observers at all it's also difficult to accompany e

wanted to introduce papadopoulos to a contact and that his contacts were in the russian ministry of foreign affairswas known as a diplomat but professor mifsud's career had began as an academic here in valletta, at the university of malta. he resigned in 2007 under something of a cloud. he then moved through a series of academic institutions, touting his expertise in diplomacy, presenting as an ambassador, but this is not true. maltese journalistjurgen balzan has checked out the facts. there's no evidence of him, of mifsud being an ambassador or deployed in some maltese foreign ministry office abroad. the man who never was an ambassador moved to the london academy of diplomacy in 2013; an obscure outfit whose degrees were awarded by the university of east anglia and the university of stirling. here he is with a russian ambassador, a real one, that is. so why would a minor academic working in british universities be of interest to the russians? he is a very typical kind of character in this world, on the fringes of academia, think—tankery and governments. he looks nonthreatening, he's a hanger on, h

you know this is had an almost sort of comic feel to it today especially at the ministry of foreign affairs on tuesday afternoon she arrived in the room with a sort of expression on her face that said i know exactly what you want to ask me but any questions about whether the mystery guest really was kim jong un were batted away she was asked the question four times and again she simply refused to say she said i have absolutely no information about your question well when the press conference came to an end i remember this news conference was happening just as the train carrying this mystery v.i.p. guest was leaving beijing railway station just down the road i managed to ask the foreign ministry spokeswoman how ching yen one more time about why she the spokeswoman for the foreign ministry was unable to say who this guest was. is it possible that you wouldn't know that you can drive on this here. everything that worked for me. but the really big chill it's here it's here and you know you. see it seems to me you have more information i've been getting in the house of possible places how's that

singapore's ministry of foreign affairs has told the bbc it is aware of these cases, and has said that is credible information of offences committed under singapore law, the government has begun investigations. a draft copy of the report has been seen by the bbc. here's more from karishma vaswani. this is a shop in pyongyang, selling branded watches, handbags and alcohol — items which are banned under un sanctions and singapore law too. but now, a leaked un report claims there's evidence of at least one singaporean company selling luxury goods in north korea as recently as lastjuly. there are two singaporean companies named in the un report. they both share the same director and up until late last year, they both shared the same address here at this building. the main allegation against them in the report that we've seen is that they received funds in singapore for doing business in north korea. both singaporean companies deny any wrongdoing. according to the un, in 1997, singapore's ocn opened an account with north korea's daedong credit bank. it later to changed the account's name to

so when it's that that's an open dialogue is necessary and the minister of foreign affairs in russia has the ministry of foreign affairs and russia rather house released a statement on their website saying that they express strong protest in this decision taken by a number of members and it doesn't help in the said for the paper traitors of the incident and that they will respond soon but a reminder that chemical weapons body who are conducting the investigation said it will take another two to three weeks to finalize the analysis and now they we've seen a wave of expulsion following the u.k. prime minister's visit to brussels but we will bring you more official statements since we have them. thank you to both all correspondents but we have had a reaction from russia's foreign ministry with a statement protesting the expulsion of the diplomat saying the accusations against russia are unfounded. the u.k. defacto took a prejudiced biased and hypocritical stance producing indiscriminate accusations against the russian federation in the absence of explanations of what happened and refusing to engage in s

singapore's ministry of foreign affairs has told the bbc it is aware of these cases, and has said thatre credible information of offences committed under singapore law, the government has begun investigations. a draft copy of the report has been seen by the bbc. here's more from karishma vaswani. this is a shop in pyongyang, selling branded watches, handbags and alcohol — items which are banned under un sanctions and singapore law too. but now, a leaked un report claims there's evidence of at least one singaporean company selling luxury goods in north korea as recently as lastjuly. there are two singaporean companies named in the un report. they both shared the same director, and up until late last year, they also shared the same address — here at this building. the main allegation against them in the report that we've seen is that they received funds in singapore for doing business in north korea. both singaporean companies deny any wrongdoing. according to the un, in 1997, singapore's ocn opened an account with north korea's daedong credit bank. it later change the account's name to

singapore's ministry of foreign affairs has told the bbc it is aware of these cases, and has said thater singapore law, the government has begun investigations. a draft copy of the report has been seen by the bbc. here's more from karishma vaswani. this is a shop in pyongyang, selling branded watches, handbags and alcohol — items which are banned under un sanctions and singapore law too. tll l-ll -llj ll.l lll llll hereatthisbuildingl is that they received funds in singapore for doing business in north korea. both singaporean companies deny any wrongdoing. according to the un, in 1997, singapore's 0cn opened an account with north korea's daedong credit bank. it later changed the account's name to t specialist, it's claimed. that account was allegedly used to transfer money for goods t specialist sold in north korea to its account in singapore. between 2011 to 2014, when sanctions had already kicked in, that account continued to transfer money into t specialist‘s singapore account, the draft report says. the companies deny any knowledge, both in relation to the goods being sold in north

foreign ministry after his meeting, the uk ambassador to russia, dr laurie bristow, made this statement good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i've just had a meeting in the russian ministry of foreign affairsrisis has arisen as a result of an appalling act in the united kingdom, the attempted murder of two people using a chemical weapon developed in russia and not declared by russia to the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, as russia was and is obliged to do. earlier this week, the prime minister set out in parliament a number of measures that we took or have taken to defend ourselves against this type of plan. we gave russia the opportunity to explain, and we asked russia to declare the material to the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. russia did neither. therefore, we announced certain steps. russia today has informed me of the steps that russia will be taking in response to that. as our prime minister made clear in the houses of parliament, we have no dispute with the russian people. and a large part of the work of my embassy here in russia been and is to promote those productive links between russia and the united kingdom. but we will always do wh

crackdown bangladesh originally provided a list of more than eight thousand names but minimise ministry of foreign affairs says it couldn't verify all of their identities it's unclear whether the referenda on minimize list want to return many say for their safety if they go back across the border for and so he has reported extensively from him joins us now from kuala lumpur why such a small number and what else did officials say at the press of. that's right three hundred seventy four names is really just a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the number of refugees who fled to bangladesh now as you said this list comes from a list of about eight thousand names that bangladeshi officials have provided to them myanmar counterparts but myanmar said the information on on that list was lacking as there wasn't enough documentation including fingerprint records or photographs so they weren't able to verify all of those names now young officers were also keen to point out point out that they've taken a very broad and liberal interpretation of what constitutes proof of residency because that's essentially what peop

i‘ve been in contact with singapore‘s ministry of foreign affairs, it has told me it is aware of theseible information of offences committed on —— under singapore law, authorities have undertaken investigations. and does the draft report say anything about how widespread this is? yes, it certainly does suggest that this might bea certainly does suggest that this might be a potential problem in the future, if indeed the claims in the d raft future, if indeed the claims in the draft report are proven. i‘ve been speaking to north korea watchers, if you will, but these alleged cases and what else has been alleged in the draft report. william newcomb, a former member of the un panel of experts, has told me that north korea often uses these complex ownership structures as a way to evade sanctions. that means that potentially if the contents of this lea ked potentially if the contents of this leaked draft report are proven, this could be happening all over the world, not just could be happening all over the world, notjust allegedly here in asia, as this draft report suggests. in the leaked dr

an islamic entity either so this is what i also spoke about that in the duma and at the ministry of foreign affairs the stability in the region the stability in the middle east on africa how do we deal. mess immigration not only today but in the future is something that we have in common with a russia or without russia i believe in the future it will be very much more problematic to deal and to solve the just to clarify because you you know the issue of islam and immigration is it fundamentally just islamic immigrants that you're against you know the opposed to just immigration on its own now today because of the immigration crisis of the last few years it's very difficult to have any more immigrants at all but we advocate my party at the stop of immigrants from non-western mostly islamic countries and today those are indeed the majority used majority of the asylum seekers or immigrants coming to the netherlands and to western euro is this because you feel that they're harder to assimilate for them to join in to become part of society well first most of them are not refugees i mean you have to make

while the line from both the kremlin and the russian ministry of foreign affairs is that this is all an anti russian media campaign that they have very little information london has not actually approached them yet for any assistance in the matter the inevitable comparisons with the poisoning to death of former spy alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six all those of only been strengthened by comments made by one of the men wanted by u.k. authorities for murder now on day lugovoy were never extradited to face any charges in britain in fact he was made a member of parliament here in russia he says that britain's suffer from phobias and watches of russian state t.v. have also noticed the kind of nod nod wink wink attitudes of the coverage with the suggestion being that being a traitor is one of the most dangerous things you can be in perhaps these people shouldn't move to the u.k. clearly something is going wrong there because there have been so many strange cases recently with grave outcomes and if this was a state hit that's of course exactly the kind of message that w

. >> ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation, dubbing 60 of our staff persona nongrata and must depart within 60 days and the closing of our consulate in 48 hours. it's clear that the russian federation is not interested in a dialogue on issues that matter to our two countries. i spoke with him a short time ago and other colleagues serving in moscow. i left ambassador huntsman know that the entire state department and u.s. government stands with our people admission russia. >> you heard her, josh. this 60 for 60. does it end there? >> i think it ends this round of the tit-for-tat. who knows what putin will do next. each of these steps that they take is in response to something egregious and often illegal that the russian government did in the first place, right? first invading crimea, then eastern ukraine, interfered in our election. now they're killing people on the streets of england. so, sure, we can have this sort of diplomatic detante for a while. john bolton, incoming national security adviser, said a couple of weeks ago that really the only way to really stop put

bangladesh originally provided a list of more than eight thousand names put me in mass ministry of foreign affairs says they couldn't verify all of their identities it's unclear whether the remainder on the list from me and my want to return many fear for their safety if they go back across the border. officials from football's world governing body fee for a meeting in greece after the president of one of the best known teams marched on to the pitch armed with a gun even savitt is was enraged from the late goal was disallowed for power thessaloniki against the league leaders say at katherine's after pitch invasion and when the game had ended the referee did allow the goal to stand the police have issued a warrant for the president's arrest and all matches in the greek super league are suspended fifa says any punishment is up to the hellenic football federation up next al-jazeera world all season by. and a b. and b. it would be should give it all up on me to set the event to we've become. a local bit. under so we. can subsume the i'm going to a little bit of a deal like deal them in the he will she

jane mayor, "the official said that he was merely relaying talk circulating in the russian ministry of foreign affairs but what he'd heard was astonishing. people were saying that the kremlin had interviewed to block trump's initial choice for secretary of state, mitt romney. if what the source heard was true, that is a foreign power was exercising influence over our government. >> john heilemann -- >> single source, not clear. it's raw intelligence, like all the rest of the things in the steele dossier. if you think about donald trump's candidacy and his presidency, the things he says, the policies he's pursued and he hasn't pursued, who is secretary of state, each one of them would be the choice that vladimir putin would make, in every instance if you look at the entirety of it. if you think about that and the fact that we're still concerned about the russians meddling in the 2018 elections. there is nothing of this surprising, including the detail jane mayor writes about. >> in so many of his appearances today, nunberg has casually tossed in the conversation, "you know, i came up with the wall." wh

i just had a meeting in the russian ministry of foreign affairs. this crisis has arisen as a result of an attack on the united kingdom. the attempted murder of two people using a chemical weapon developed in russia and not declared by russia, the organization of chemical weapons. earlier this week, the prime minister set up a number of measures with we took to defend ourselves against this type of attack. we gave russia the opportunity to explain the material and we asked russia to declare that material, that capability to the organization of weapons. russia denied it. therefore, we announced certain steps. russia informed us of the steps. as the prime minister made clear in parliament, a very large work of my embassy here in russia is to -- but we always do what is necessary to defend ourselves, our allies and values against an attack of this sort on the united kingdom, which all countries, including russia defend safety and security. thank you. >> laurie bristow there talking ability his meeting with moscow. summoned to talk about the ramification

. >> jon: a spokesperson from china's ministry of foreign affairs says china does not want a trade warut we're never afraid of having one. we have the confidence and capacity so as to not bring the economic and trade relations between china and u.s. into danger. joining us now, brian brenberg from kings college here in new york city. so parse that chinese statement for us. it does seem that there is actually a certain amount of caution built in to the president's tariff proposal. >> yeah, a lot of caution here. neither the president, nor the chinese want a trade war. they want to get a deal. if you look what is happening, you can see that. on the u.s. side, we're talking about the $60 billion in tariffs. but they won't take effect for at least 45 days. that creates time for a deal. on the chinese side, their response was $3 billion in planned tariffs. that's very small relative to how much the u.s. experts to china. we're talking 2%. both sides are playing this moderately. both sides want a deal. that's why markets came back a little bit today. overnight they said this probably isn't w

steele's words quote speaking on november 29th, 2016 a senior official working at the russian ministry of foreign affairs reported that a rumor is circulating there that u.s. president elect trump's delay and appointing a new secretary of state is the result of an intervention by president putin/the kremlin. quote, the latter meaning the kremlin reportedly asked that trump appoint a russia-friendly figure to this to position prepd to move quickly on lifting ukraine-related sanctions and cooperation in syria. the source assumes the kremlin's intervention was in response to the possibility that mitt romney viewed as hostile to russia might be appointed as secretary of state. this memo from christopher steele makes this somewhat mind-blowing allegation that russia believed it for some reason deserved to have veto power over who is secretary of state as long as donald trump is president. not only do they believe they should, they felt it was their right to ask but they blocked romney. now, that source sited by christopher steele said to be speaking on november 29th, well then two weeks after that, december 1

typically these 60 would have been sent here under the cover of the ministry of foreign affairs. 's aequivalent of the state department posing as military aides but doing the work of russian intelligence. what does that mean? that is meeting with american government officials, meeting with american business people, meeting with academics and with reporters, with civil sewite elemen -- society to glean information to send back to moscow. and they look for unique information. information that a true russian diplomat couldn't get from attending a meeting at state department for the u.n. but they also have a second charge. and that is to recruit additional american agents so to spot, assess and if that is is favorable, to then pitch americans to ask them to spy on behalf of moscow. and taking this back to the case of trump, it was recently made trump that carter page who featured in the steele dossier was the target of a russian pitch and attempted recruitment several years ago. >> and so we know this is happening and today it seems there is concern from the white house about the seat

at the foreign ministry for the last hour or so it's essentially a room full of ambassadors or representatives of embassies here in moscow that have been summoned by the ministry of foreign affairs and basically they're being told the russian version of the script all case and that russian version as outlined by vladimir yama covers the head of the russian foreign ministry departments of arms nonproliferation and control essentially russia had nothing to do with it see says that london. has basically sort of been putting out various hysterical accusations none of which would stand criticism that there are two options mirroring the two options that the reason may outlines the russian version of these two options is either u.k. authorities are unable to protect against terrorist acts on their own territory or they've directives this attack against a russian citizen themselves there's no third option they say they see that the u.k. authorities are becoming more and more nervous. and that the reason why this is the case is that the clock is ticking and they've driven selves into a corner that this is a blatantly frayn's illegal adventure this is the kind of stuff that we're getting

described as a sen yr russi -- senior russian official and talks circulating the russian ministry of foreign affairs but what he heard was astonishing. people were saying the kremlin intervened to block trump's choice for secretary of state. he was notably hawkish on russia calling it the single greatest threat to the u.s. steel's memo said the kremlin through unspecified channels had asked trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift ukraine related sanctions and who would cooperate on security issues of interest to russia. if what the source heard was true that a foreign power was exercising pivotal influence over policy and an incoming president. the quote on december 18th, 2016, the secretary of state job, it was a surprise to most and a happy one. tillerson's business ties were long-standing in 2011 he brokered a historic partnership between exxonmobil and the state-owned russian giant. after the election, congress imposed additional sanctions on russia and retaliation for the election interference but trump and tillerson have resisted enacting those additional sanctions. it's interes

the ministry of foreign affairs was asked outright was kim jong-un in beijing.the reply was, chris, i have no idea. but it does point to kim. the timing is important because we got the upcoming summit between the two koreas and the meeting with donald trump and kim. china wants some influence in the meetings and north korea wants to restore the relations between beijing and north korea. maybe this is a way to do that. >> the recent trump move would incentivize the chinese to mess with the u.s.'s game a little bit with north korea. sometimes it's what they don't tell you that reveals the truth of a situation. andrew, thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> so there's going to be a question about citizenship status in the census included in 2020. they haven't been asking that question for a while. it's controversial. why is it happening? the request of the justice department saying it was needed to better enforce the voting rights act. now, remember, that's about disenfranchisement. this is a point what we're trying to protect against. president trump's reelection

memo based on one source who is talking about saying this is what people are saying in the ministry of foreign affairs compared to some of the other memos which have numerous sources, this is just a one source memo. on the other hand, you have to say it's very eye-opening and the timing was really interesting, because the memo is the very end of november 2016 and at that point, mitt romney was kind of hanging by a thread about whether or not he would be chosen as secretary of state by trump, and he was having dinners with trump, he was making statements where he was saying i'm loyal to you, i think you now a great leader after having been critical of him during the campaign, so he was almost groveling, really, and after the end of this process which was kind of embarrassingly prolonged, really, finally on december 13th, trump named somebody else, he named rex tillerson, who is kind of a surprise to everybody. and you know, it may be that this is just talk in the kremlin and it's not really based on anything, but tillerson really did turn out to be a choice who was considered acceptable to the kremlin

november 2016, in which a senior russian official relayed talk circulating in the russian ministry of foreign affairsmlin had intervened to block trump's initial choice of secretary of state mitt romney. and that the kremlin, through unspecified channels, had asked trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift ukraine-related sanctions. >> seth: that's right, the russians allegedly intervened to block mitt romney from being secretary of state, which is a bummer for romney, because he still had to have dinner with donald trump. [ light laughter ] look at romney's face. that face is the physical manifestation of this sound. [ sad tuba note ] [ laughter ] so trump is swinging wildly on policy, he's being sued by a porn star, and investigators are homing in on his ties to the kremlin. and even his biggest supporters seem to be mostly interested in -- >> peeing, urinating hookers. >> seth: which, not for nothing -- isn't a bad porn title. [ laughter ] this has been "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] we'll be right back with more "late night", everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ this is s

daryn so far the chinese government has not commented on this a spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs said on tuesday morning that they weren't aware of this situation but as you rightly point out it's japanese media who've been taking the lead they say that a heavily armored train crossed the friendship bridge in dandong which is on the north korean chinese border on sunday and apparently hotels in the vicinity have not been taking bookings for the past few days that train that apparently arrived at beijing railway station on monday this railway station is the oldest railway station in beijing and that on monday afternoon a motorcade a large motorcade was seen passing along chang and avenue the main thoroughfare here in beijing heading towards the diode thai guest house this is where normally v.i.p.'s are put on tuesday morning there was a large media presence outside the east gate of the dietary guesthouse and they are being prevented from getting close to this particular guest house so it seems quite obviously a high profile a high ranking official from north korea is here but we d

it is a move directly against the russian ministry of foreign affairs, against russia's ability not only to conduct diplomatic actions but to gather intelligence. it is a significant move. russia saying that this is not a big deal, that it's blackmail from the united states, pressuring the world community, bullying the world community, but it was perhaps a larger response or a stronger response against russia than russia may have anticipated after the poisoning in this country of a former russian spy and his daughter. >> ambassador burns, as you heard the ambassador and sergey lavrov threatening the united states, threatening the countries, what kind of retaliation do you expect? >> i think you have to fully expect putin, a kgb person after all, will hit back and we will see a series of european and canadian and american diplomats expelled from russia. we expected that. i think the trump administration was right to agree to this. we had to respond to this. it was really the french president, emmanuel macron, the german chancellor and british prime minister who led this and said this is t

quote, the official said that he was merely relying to talk circulating in the ministry of foreign affairse heard was astonishing. people were saying that the kremlin had intervened to block trump's initial voice for secretary of state, mitt romney. furthermore, steel further learned that the kremlin through unspecified channels had asked someone who would be prepared to lift ukraine-related sanction and would cooperate on security issues of interest to russia. well, i don't know how far to go with this, evan. but if we had a blackballing situation in moscow where the president was thinking, the president-elect was thinking romney is sort of good. he is not my best friend, but he is competent. he speaks other languages. he has been around the world. he is a smart guy. but i'm not going to do it because the russkis said i couldn't do it. that's frightening. >> that is frightening. i think we have to get past this idea that the president is just irresponsible or he is offended by accusations that the russians helped him get elected and it wasn't his win. >> are you putting down ruth's theory

we've heard from the kremlin over the last few days that's the message we've heard from the ministry of foreign affairs over the last few days as well and that's the person was question at an event in the city. today by a british journalist in response to that journalist was to say look the u.k. needs to work out what happens in the script all case and then russia can. approach it or deal with it so that's the official view behind all that yes i think the russians will be preparing themselves in some way or other for a british response but of course we don't know what that british response is at the moment there are various options that the u.k. has at its disposal we could get something like you know some diplomatic sanctions intelligence operatives working under diplomatic cover could be kicked out there could be some sort of world cup boycotts with either the entire english team or u.k. dignitaries not coming to russia this summer for the world cup there could be some tightening of regulations regarding the russian media in the u.k. and of course that could also be financial sanctions the levied aga

bangladesh originally provided a list of more than eight thousand names but meanwhile as ministry of foreign affairs says it couldn't verify all of their identities it is unclear whether the writing on the list want to return many fear for their safety if they go back across the border florence louis has more. myanmar government officials said they were only able to verify the three hundred seventy four names out of a list of about eight thousand names given to them by bangladesh because the wreck or it's furnished to them were incomplete they weren't fingerprint records they went photographs so they've only been able to verify the small number now they appear to be really keen to show they that they are ready to get the repatch relation process started especially when only a week ago a bangladeshi minister had said that he didn't think the repatriation process was likely to succeed and appeared to lay the blame on myanmar which he described as an evil rogue government now the reality is however conditions on the ground in myanmar may not be suitable for revenge or refugees to return there was an am

the russian ministry of foreign affairs said that british comments were preposterous. is exaggerating the case. but even back in russia, it seems that there is not that much doubt about what might have happened here, even though no one is conducting a properly. we should not be quick tojump to conducting a properly. we should not be quick to jump to conclusions, but it seems this exchange of top words between diplomats on both sides will not actually lead to any results. many thanks for that. to get the political reaction to this, let's speak to our chief political correspondent, vicki young. we know that the prime minister has been briefed in a meeting of the national security council, boris johnson has been on his feet this afternoon, making it clear that there could be serious ramifications it is proved that there was the fa i rest it is proved that there was the fairest intent from the kremlin. senior figures, fairest intent from the kremlin. seniorfigures, including boris johnson, saying they do not want to jump johnson, saying they do not want to jump to conclusi

i walked into the ministry of foreign affairs in taiwan, i heard some shouting, turned around, there were six prc flags across the street with the unification party of the white wolf out there and it's a democracy. okay, got a right to yell. how does that work internally in student life, that's a different question. it's there. i don't know of any great incidents that have provoked uproar but i think it's got to be looked at. >> if i may, mike's point about not overreacting is very important. one of the challenges we increasingly see, though, is as it becomes harder and harder with the direction xi jinping has been following domestically in china to separate the notion of china from the notion of the communist party of china. that makes it harder and harder for universities, i think. in the past, they could kind of have a fig leaf and say i do china, noi ti know the ccp is d but i do china. that space is rapidly diminishing. all chinese institutions are under orders to make sure that message is very clear. we see a decided shift post the 19th party congress to this sort of idea of, fr

is basically a branding campaign for the state and in 2009 the deputy director for the ministry of foreign affairs told "the new york times" we will send a well-known novelist and novelist overseas, theater companies the state you show israel's prettier face so we are not thought of purely in the context of war. after 2009 israel started to do things like creating a brand ambassador and if you look up someone told lyon he was the first israeli brand ambassador. the boycott has actually been endorsed by significant number of artists. give me one moment. i think i am out of order. including, as you can see, roger waters who decided that he would perform in israel and the later decided that was a bad decision and announced his support for a boycott of israel. cassandra wilson, santana canceled in 2010 and later decided to go back. of course, the moral deacon of the world snoop dogg canceled his concert in israel. additionally you have found others like [inaudible], cornell west, naomi klein and alice walker endorsing bds. if stevie wonder canceling, i mentioned the 501 canceling of fundraiser for a m

persian is not independent," and what it describes as its financial affiliation with the ministry of foreign affairs, but frankly, everything else has failed. it is not right for families orjournalists or others involved in the bbc persian service to be intimidated and abused in this sort of way, and actually there is a broader principle at stake here. we want the community of nations through the un to stand up for the rights ofjournalists to report freely and fairly on what is going on around the world. the bbc hopes a senior correspondent of its service will be allowed to address the un meeting, and that the human rights council will use its influence to change iran's behaviour. the labour party says that debbie abrahams steps down while what spain claimed as unemployment issue is being investigated. —— what they claim. debbie abrahams claims this is the result of bullying. yesterday evening, the labour party put out a short statement saying that debbie abrahams stepped aside so that could be this investigation into employment issues. this concerns allegations of bullying, allegations that debbie

provocation the russian foreign ministry has calls to reason may's comments essentially tales we've also heard from the first deputy head of the federation council's foreign affairs committee the federation council is the russian version of the senate they say or he says that script did not stand in russia's way didn't threaten russia in any way and therefore russia was not interested in eliminating him and this head of the federation council's foreign affairs committee has also said that essentially what's going on in the u.k. is a provocation ahead of russia's presidential elections and the fee for world cup coming up in a in a couple of months we've also heard from a dewar deputy a parliamentarian called on lugovoy. now on lugovoy is actually one of the men wanted in the united kingdom for the murder of alexander litvinenko in two thousand and six poisoned with polonium two ten he was never extradited to the u.k. but was actually made a deal with deputy now he says that the u.k. prime minister's hasty statement that a substance used to poison scripture was developed in russia is irresponsible to say the least considering the sensitivities there are of course i

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of u.s. affairs when it comes to the north korean foreign ministry. s also the man who spent much of the pyeongchang winter olympics in pyeongchang, talking to south korean officials. he was part of those talks between north and south korea. so he has really been front and center of this whole process. so this is something that we have seen a number of times in the past. in fact, many times we don't even know that these track 1.5 or track 2 talks are ongoing. but it's a good chance for each side to talk in a more unofficial fashion to find out what each other's positions are. rosemary? >> and paula, while this is happen, sweden is trying to negotiate the release of three americans held in north korea. what progress has been made on that issue? and how likely is it we'll see some sort of breakthrough? >> it's really not clear at this point when or if this could happen. we're hearing from a number of experts and officials that it's something that would show good faith from the north koreans to actually release these three detainees that are american citi