colin powell really got absorbed by it and really were not much more than figureheads i think what mr pompei was trying to do here is rouse the troops to fill that with a sense of the sprit to core say i mean i'm your guy but he still intends to point them in the direction that he wants to go let's look at some of the was he used that but i have talked about america's a sensual rightness in close but if it is what you think he means by that oh 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 a like a real recrudescence of the view of the silly union we're the vanguard of all progressive humanity peace progress is socialism archy's peace progress and human rights and that we are right and everybody else takes their cue from us i think that kind of arrogance unfortunately is pretty standard well let's have a look at this another thing that he said that where he talked about aggressiveness or aggression born of righteous knowledge i mean does that potentially send a worrying signal to the rest of the

complete it was he was secretary of state mark compare their earlier a senior policy advisor to mr pompei with the u.s. state department brian hook spoke to our washington bureau chief alexander phenomena let's take a look so mr huq the announcements today and the sanctions do you really believe if that stay can bring about change expect from iran well it certainly will bring about more change than we've had under the j c.p.o. way since adoption of the iran nuclear deal iran has actually increased its destabilizing behavior across the middle east and it also has not deterred iran's intent to acquire a nuclear weapon and so we're putting in place a new security architecture that we think is going to actually achieve our national security objectives not just for the united states but for the world. however many experts are skeptical saying that you are telling the run to stop being iran and its rival on the other on the realistic that the iran iranian regime is going to comply with the statement so are they on realistic well if it won if iran wants to be treated like a normal nation it has

created by the by be advisers to mr trump who are really in for a war with iran like mr bolton and mr pompei i suppose it does work both ways though doesn't it should be or mean we've heard from the e.u. there's a chance or a threat that they could actually start accepting euro's for iran's oil also paid for iran's oil with euros and not the petro dollar i mean that significantly could hurt america too. absolutely there are many options open over the last ten year globally dollar was exchanged for over ninety percent of the transactions but in the last year or two it has come down to sixty percent as all of you well know that i am earth have now recognize your the chinese currency as one of the international currencies for exchange so slowly i think people are weaning themselves off the greenback as the currency of desire and of the european union with the euro takes that move forward then i think we could see a lot of interesting changes occurring as far as the prospects of dollar not really become not really sort of being that important in the global trade ok should be a we're going to hav

mr trump's chief diplomat has arrived in north korea to prepare for a summit with kim jong un mike pompei i met mr kim in the north korean capital last month before he was sworn in as secretary of states both washington and pyongyang have agreed on a date and a location for the meeting but no further details have been released. the polls have opened in malaysia in an election marred by scandal and fierce competition in other prime minister najib razak cast his ballot in the city of pecan coalition is expected to win that the most seats but it's expected to be a close race between him and the opposition leader martin mohammed there are about fifteen million registered voters and really is here with two hundred twenty two seats in the parliament up for grabs. the reason is government has suffered his thirteenth defeats in recent weeks over its banks it plans in the house of lords members of britain's of us apollo and voted against the prime minister's plans to leave for europe single market after the u.k. breaks away from the e.u. they also backed an amendment to remove the fixed date to le

cause is just special and built upon america's core 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 then we're right and everybody else takes their cue from us i think that kind of arrogance unfortunately is very 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 amount to limit this attitude that we set up on high and judge everybody else and unfortunately this has been all too familiar not certainly just under this administration but i would say at least since nine hundred ninety one when the cold war ended through the bill clinton george bush and barack obama administration. it is often international their republican dominated u.s. senate intelligence committee has concluded that donal

resolve and that was he was secretary of state from peo brian hook is a senior policy adviser to mr pompei o today he spoke with our washington bureau chief alexander for not so mr hu the announcements today and the sanctions do you really believe if that stay can bring about change you expect from iraq well it certainly will bring about more change than we've had under the j c.p.o. way since adoption of the iran nuclear deal iran has actually increased its destabilizing behavior across the middle east and it also has not deterred iran's intent to acquire a nuclear weapon and so we're putting in place a new security architecture that we think is going to actually achieve our national security objectives not just for the united states but for the world. however many experts are skeptical saying that you are telling huron to stop being iran and its revenue on the realistic that the iran iranian regime is going to comply with the stigma and so are they on realistic well if it won if iran wants to be treated like a normal nation it has to start behaving like a normal nation and this is a still

no i think it is and i think mr pompei i would like this to move forward although i can't be sure you compare for example to his all to made him to iran to be there is a certain misstep here between the way we've handled these two things on the what had a nuclear only agreement with iran is not sufficient in fact we pulled out of the j.c. peel way but we we demand that iran accommodate us a whole raft of issues but then we say we're willing to turn around to the north koreans and say no no we're only talking about the nukes you don't have to do anything else well which is why i am a little skeptical that some people in washington will be happy with the notion of a deal just on the nukes and that it may not be an immediate giving up of their nuclear capability and then finally jim on that basis then on given what you just said you think north korea could become less isolated in the short term i think it could but i think it would be a gradual process if there really would involve some flexibility on the part of the united states and look at i think one of the real drivers here is clear

i think what they want to see is a regime change in the country and what we didn't hear but from mr pompei yo was the war which in changed what was in fact what he meant by the war itself comments he made and he showed that. by as much as john bolton the national security adviser of the united states he is also a regime changer and supporter of the regime change in iran iran has made it clear it's a don't stand its ground if washington's going to take an aggressive stance is that not going to destroy any interest now between the u.s. and iran but also couldn't harm trust between iran and anyone else including europe . so you mean on different issues or just syria i think on any issues at this point given that you know the u.s. is just ripped up a deal that that iran must have thought that it had locked down for several years. ok what in any other choice can iran have because iran arctic countries including the united states as well as e.u. russia china and european countries they negotiated for over two more than two years and they could a strike and this could come back to more than. let'

mrs susan pompei oh thank you for coming the best ambassador i ever worked for ambassador louis susman and two dear mentors of mine senior cia officers and then later senior i.c. officials mary margaret graham and charlie allen i am here because i have been nominated to lead the extraordinary men and women at the central intelligence agency men and women who are our country's silent warriors these dedicated professionals bend much of their careers in difficult far flung out host of the globe striving to make our fellow americans more secure at home it has been the privilege of my professional life to be one of those cia officers now i have been asked by president trump to lead this work force and to continue the work that my palm pale and i began a little more than a year ago ensuring that cia is postured to meet the complex challenges our nation faces those challenges include a changing but still lethal threat from terrorist groups a nuclear threat against the continental united states from a rogue state destabilizing iranian adventurism an aggressive and sometimes brutal russia and t

secretary of state mike pompei oh mr moss said that europe seemed far away from a compromise with the u.s. over and iran deal on peo has threatened what he called the strongest sanctions in history if tehran fails to comply with washington's demands and one of the greatest american writers philip roth has died he was eighty five years old a roth pushed literary in social boundaries with his explorations of sex death and assimilation he won every major u.s. literary award including the pulitzer prize. reclusive and often reluctant to give interviews philip roth was known for his provocative and uncompromising novels about the american jewish experience there's a certain odessa to writing books without the audacity of can't write books and perhaps there's even a certain recklessness in writing books. i think that the society i live in can live with my recklessness such as it is rob who is the author of more than thirty novels and short story collections spanning seven decades is a work frequently blurred the lines between fiction and memoir and drew on his experience growing up in a jew

mr trump's chief diplomat has arrived in north korea to prepare for a summit with kim jong un might pompei who met mr kim in the north korean capital last month before he was sworn in as secretary of state's both washington and pyongyang have agreed on a date and a location for the meeting but no further details have been released the poles have opened in malaysia in an election marred by scandal and fierce competition in other prime minister najib razak cast his ballot in the city of pecan coalition is expected to win that the most seats but it's expected to be a close race between him and the opposition leader martin mohammed there are about fifteen million registered voters in the leaders here with two hundred twenty two seats in the parliament up for grabs the reason is government has suffered its thirteenth defeat in recent weeks over its bracks it plans in the house of lords members of britain's of us a parliament voted against the prime minister's plans to leave europe's single market after the u.k. breaks away from the e.u. they also backed an amendment to remove the fixed date to

cease that activity by the islamic republic of iran thank you thank you mr chairman about today's lawmakers speaking to my pompei of the u.s. secretary of state flattering questions really between the situation as regards north korea and also the iran deal speaking about how he hopes the european allies will join him let's cross to victory victory's been good enough to stay with as we've been speaking about what's been happening in north korea and about america's . failed really mission to go through at the summit in june next year victor victor is director of the china national association of international studies victor one of the most i catch ing remarks about the whole situation was a but washington saying that if they're not perfect the situation north korea is going to turn in to libya the north african state which is in a state of conflict the capital tripoli in a very bad way what do you think was meant by that. not think this is exactly the wrong message that the united states is to the. rest of the world the libya situation is very clear. they gave up the nuclear weapon one way or another the western c

mr. just to remind our viewers very quickly this was pompei laying out twelve conditions the washington wants to be met for any new deal with tehran they've pulled out of that old nuclear deal with them now one of them is that iran must withdraw all of its forces from syria what does that got to do with new clear energy security because it sounds like they're trying to tie u.s. foreign policy in with an energy deal. yes and not only that it was syria was yemen was iraq was you know he was asking for you know a complete change of the whole region without actually saying that for example if without actually the iterating what the president dropped by withdrawing withdrawal of the american troops from syria. but nothing happened on the ground let's see let's see all foreign forces there withdraw from syria can we see that like russian a russian foreign ministry actually it wishes to see all four armies withdraw from syria did we see that on the american part not did we see any any stance on the americans to actually open the way for negotiations for a kind of a dialogue with the iranian authorit

mr prosper if i want you to take a listen to what mr trump said today about the korean peninsula think of us in fact at this very moment secretary pompei o is on his way to north career in preparation for my upcoming meeting with kim jong un plans are being made relationships are building hopefully a deal will happen and with the help of china south korea and japan a future of great prosperity and security can be achieved for everyone. so mr probert is the us president is he betting that his rocket man approach is also going to work with the movies in tehran well you're presuming that his rocket man approach is working with kim jong loon i don't like this is the case i mean proof is going to be in the putting ok obviously he thinks that but. you know all we know now is that he may have a meeting with him we have no idea of the substantive outcome and i would bet against one. in terms of he's clearly someone who's willing to take risks in this arena more risks than president obama was i think your previous guest some summarize of well he's taking a risk that he can pull the lifeline out from this regime and he thinks that lifeline is a

issues the south korean president says he is perplexed by mr trump's decision his foreign minister has spoken with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeio south korea says it will continue to work with the u.s. in pursuit of talks with the north mierda me ask for advice foreign minister kim statement we see no change of a sincere will by the relevant countries when it comes to resolving the current situation through dialogue the government will continue our diplomatic efforts to further extend this momentum for the talks. the announcement came just hours after north korea's 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 however international nuclear inspectors weren't invited. in other news dutch investigators have concluded that the missile used to shoot down a civilian passenger plane in twenty fourteen came from a russian military unit all two hundred ninety eight people on board the malaysia airlines flights seventeen were killed the plane was traveling over eastern ukraine the russian president vladimir putin said russia doe

issues the south korean president says he is perplexed by mr trump's decision his foreign minister has spoken with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of south korea says it will continue to work with the u.s. in pursuit of talks with the north meantime me ask for advice foreign minister kim statement you see no change at least since you will by the relevant countries when it comes to resolving the current situation through dialogue the government will continue our diplomatic efforts to further extend this momentum for the talks. well the announcement came just hours after north korea said it had blown up its only nuclear test sites in a gesture of goodwill to reduce regional tensions reporters were given rare access to witness the event but international nuclear inspectors weren't invited. 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's second largest city sort of buyer earlier this month the suicide