pompeo: it is, senator, yes. sen. murphy: okay. thank you, mr. chairman. >> before i turn to senator isaacson, in essence the communique we saw coming out of the singapore meeting, that is the sum total of the agreement we have with them? sec. pompeo: yes. we've also had conversations after that. it is also the case that that agreement incorporated the panmunjom declaration which in turn incorporated previous inner korean agreements as well. the singapore summit is stacked on a series of agreements, each of which is encompassed in the agreement between president trump and chairman kim. you can look to the full breadth and scope of those agreements korean agreements as well. the things that north koreans have agreed to. >> i don't think any of us expect a meeting in singapore and all the issues would be worked out. i think we all understand it's going to take a long, a long time to get this all worked out. senator isaacson? sen. isaacson: i spent all week trying to come up with intuitive, brilliant, incisive questions to ask you, recognizing how in

mr. pompeo did not confirm. this gets to the issue of the talks being important, but if they are private, they create confusion and concern. jane: barbara plett-usher, thank s ve much for joining me. ha17 peopl died, nine from the same family, after a tourist boat sank in a missouri lake during a fierce storm. it is one of the most deadly such incidents in years, but the so-called duck boats have beenn involvedstring of fatal accidents. .vestigators are on the s the bbc's james cook reports. this duck boat made it back to the shore. the passengers not wearing life jackets, apparently unaware of quite how much in danger they were in. >>h my god. >> oh my god.in >> it's gog under. james: further out, a second duck boat was bigger trouble. unable to cope with the blast from a severe thunderstorm. >> they have lost sight of it. >> i need a rope. ojames: of the 31nboard, just 14 survived, brought ashore in shock. among the dead was a b one-year-oaby. >> call the emts, please. james: the missouri govcenor's ofold the

as mr pompeo left for tokyo yesterday he said that the nuclear talks were productive.taff enjoying a japanese sushi dinner. we all thought ok, thatis sushi dinner. we all thought ok, that is it, then we heard from the north korean state newsagency, calling the us attitude regrettable and, depending on how you want to translate the korean word, but some media have described it as gangster like and others said they were robbed of a good spirit that was achieved at the singapore summit last month. there is quite a bit of confusion there. mr pompeo, after meeting with his counterparts in japan, the japanese foreign minister, he continues to say that the talks were productive. it appears that what happened was that the us and demanded complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation, which south korean officials have reportedly been advising america not to because that would make kim jong—un feel rather vulnerable to a regime change. but it appears the us are still pushed for that during the summit and it really u pset for that during the summit and it really upset nor

we don't know whether mr pompeo will be accompanied by any journey less know whether mr pompeo will beght have to wait until he gets to tokyo to meet with the japanese and foreign ministers where he will also be holding a press c0 nfe re nce . where he will also be holding a press conference. marie here in britain, the government has accused russia of treating the country as "dumping ground for poison" after a second incident involving a nerve agent. two people from the town of amesbury in the south of england are critically ill. police say they handled a "contaminated item." they fell ill on saturday just 8 miles from where the former russian spy, sergei skripal, and his daughter were poisoned in march. moscow has denied being involved in either of the incidents. june kelly reports. this is dawn sturgess in a store in salisbury last friday, seen on cctv buying drinks. 2a hours later she was in intensive care. she and charlie rowley fell ill within hours of each other and both remain critical in hospital. like all their family members, charlie rowley‘s brother is just hoping for some p

mr. pompeo knows exactly what happened in that meeting. mr. trump's way of doing business is that's not what he does. he does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. to the surprise of his own national security team. comfort level a as to what happened in the room itself. we do know that in the public settings after the meeting, in , president. putin trump raised questions about our own intelligence agencies, sort of accepting president putin's's statement that he was not in interfering in our elections in 2016. allowing mr. putin to make a comment about american former diplomats being made available to the russians. that was not dismissed out of hand as it should have been. the list goes on and on and on. there is not a comfort level that mr. pompeo has a deep understanding as to what happened in that room. >> senator, you mentioned that you would like to know what happened in that meeting. we saw a number of moves by lawmakers in congress to try to around natossues and the intelligence community's findings for reinstatement. we saw some

and that is why there was lots of pressure on mr pompeo to get more thanjust lots of pressure on mr pompeoth korean officials have been advising washington to turn tone down the language and make kim jong—un feel more comfortable about what he can agree on. but that did not work too well because north koreans seem rather upset after mr pompeo spent two days in pyongyang. for the third timei two days in pyongyang. for the third time i should say as well. mr pompeo was expected to meet with kim jong—un but apparently that meeting never happened and the us delegation had to leave after he held two meetings with kim jong—un's right—hand man. thousands of people across the country have been taking pa rt across the country have been taking part in pride. these pictures were taken outside of the bbc headquarters here in london near oxford street. thousands lined to cheer the processions, which included party floats and soldiers. they are celebrating the lgbt community and will continue over the next few weeks. time to look at the weather forecast right now. good evening in our summer heat wave co

mr. pompeo is the secretary of state will fully support the president. he believes in the president, and he will fully support him. speaks that the united eight and russia have -- has been tough on russia, that is very hard. he questions his credibility on that. the sanctions imposed were required by congress. the president said nice things about mr. period. --mr. putin. we have learned the secretary of state will defend the president. >> have you seen any benefits or positive changes from this president, in regards to nato or our relations with other countries? >> the nato alliance is critically important to the u.s., the strength of the eu is important. the president has jeopardized all of that unity. what he did in interfering with the u.k. and prime minister may, dealing with the brexit issue, what he did with the leader of germany, ms. merkel, undermining her credibility. what he did as far as saying the g7 should become the g8. really making it impossible for a successful g7 summit among our closest allies in canada. using a national security waive

mr. pompeo to pyongyang. but as far as could tell, they are not updating regularly yesterday all of a sudden -- just appearance the meeting wrapped up we srted getting lots of tweets from mr. pompeo and from those journalists. but as far as we know, they have now set up thisporking gro nail down some of the details of the denuclearization of the korean peninsula which was aeed between president trump and kim jong-un in singapore last month. but that's -- as far as we know for now. nkem: ok. since we don't know very much, i'm sort of at a loss of what to ask you. but i'm still going to probe. what we think denuclearization of the korean peninsula means? does that mean just north korea? or does that mean northorea and the united states?: reportell, that's the big question ever since that declaration at the singapore summit. of course, that meeting between the s.ting u president, president trump, and kim jong-un was hisric and very symbolic. but there they kind of agreed in a very vague term that they're both co

mr. pompeo is that the secretary of state is goig to fully support the president. theables in the president and he will fully support him. so i think we have learned that 2 secretary of state will defend the president. >> have you seen any ben figgets or any positive changes from this president in regards to nato or our relations with other countries? nato the nailto -- alliance is important. the strength of the e.u. is important. has jeopardized u.k. and prime all of that unity. what he did in interfering with he dealing with the brexit issue, what he did with the leader of germany in undermining her credibility, what he did as far as saying the g-7 should become the g-8 really making it impossible for successful -- one of our closest allies in canada. all of that has questioned the president's sincerity in regards to the relationship with our closest allies that are standing next to us in battle and always there for us. so i think yes the u.s. is indispensible leader in the world there's no question about it, but the united states' credibility has been damaged. t

the us secretary of state, mr pompeo, has criticised iran during a keynote speech in california. composed mostly of iranian—americans, mr pompeo claimed the govnrmnent in tehran is run by something that resembles the mafia more than a government. to the he cited what he described as the vast wealth and corruption among the country's leaders. mr pompeo assured his audience that washington would support the long—ignored voice of the iranian people. but his message was topped by president trump who posted an all capitals tweet addressing iran's president rouhani directly with the message: a wave of protests that rocked southern iraq is entering a third week, deepening uncertainty about the country's shaky political future. the government promises to improve the infrastructure and create job opportunities, but that's done little to quell the anger. mouna ba reports from basra. four days, they have been taking to the streets. —— for days. hundreds we re the streets. —— for days. hundreds were injured in clashes with the security forces and several people lost their lives, including sa

the north korean statement is somewhat at odds with what mr pompeo had to say as he left pyongyang ony. many hours of productive conversations. these are complicated issues but we made progress on almost all of the central issues. some areas a great deal of progress, other places there is still more work to be done. very productive conversations but the process by which we will deliver on the commitments made in the singapore summit, i think we made progress on every element of our discussion. well, earlier i spoke tojohn delury, associate professor of chinese studies at yonsei university graduate school of international studies, in seoul. i asked him about the difference of opinion between mike pompeo and kim yong—chol. this was never going to be an easy process. the dialogue has been opened at the highest level. that is really the biggest hurdle. this will be on and off in fits and starts. both sides came out spinning in a slightly different way. secretary pompeo emphasised when he thought there was progress and the north koreans, the north korean statements, that was not a pulling

mr pompeo said no change in terms of the military stature and cooperation with the russians.rivate. but i am telling you the policy has not changed and that did the policy has not changed and that doesn't seem to have satisfied the senator very much. but they also having getting off their own test their frustrations with not having been in the loop about all of this. i believe this hearing is actually supposed to be about north korea but russia was added to the agenda because of the concerns. that is right. the senators haven't been told about. the summit injune between trump and the north koreans, they statement about denuclearization and mr pompeo went to north korea to fill in the details and they haven't heard anything more about that. it's also being asked questions about that, do you have any concrete evidence that north korea is ready to the nuclear rise. he said yes there is, but then he tells the senators only about the discussions they had and said they we re discussions they had and said they were at the table. he had a really released any more information. althoug

mr pompeo was apparently supposed to meet with kim jong—un but apparently that meeting never happenede descended on the british capital this weekend as part of london pride to celebrate the city's diversity. thousands lined the streets to join the festivities. the events up and down the country are celebrating the lg bt down the country are celebrating the lgbt community and will continue over the next few weeks. time forever catch the weather forecast. another glorious day. we are getting quite used to this theme to the weather, it has been hot, dry and sunny once again, and impact that is the way it looks notjust for the rest of the weekend but through for the week ahead. this was the picture on saturday afternoon in berkshire. a bit of fair cloud here and there, but not spoiling those blue skies. 0ver but not spoiling those blue skies. over the next few days, more blue skies, more strong sunshine and for most of us it is looking drive. if you are crossing your fingers for a bit of rain for your garden you might be disappointed. you can see that fair weather cloud on saturday that f

mr. pompeo, look, we have faith in you and it is the president we are concerned about. another senatorai i know you are making the distinction between the u.s. policy in the president's atements, but the president's statemlits are u.s. . jane: are we any clearer about what happened behind closed doors at the two-hour meeting between president trump and president putin? barbara: not really, jane. he has not given detail about what took place in the composition. he defended the president's right to have a conversation with the adversary, and is a protest to argue again and again that it remains what it is -- his approach is to argue again and again that it remains what it is. the secretary of state h been careful not to contradict or upstage the president. ne: what about north korea? he said he would not allow the negotiations to drag on. tdoes t mean we are getting closer to a timeline for ondenucleariza barbara: no, it doesn't, and he said that he doesn't know what the timeline is, he did acknowledge that it would be a while, and every step of the way would be contested

the north korean statement is somewhat at odds with what mr pompeo had to say as he left pyongyang onive conversations. these are complicated issues but we made progress on almost all of the central issues. some areas a great deal of progress, other places there is still more work to be done. very productive conversations but the process by which we will deliver on the commitments made in the singapore summit, i think we made progress on every element of our discussion. our correspondent in washington david willis has more details. depending on whose version of events you care to believe, these talks were either productive or deeply regrettable. at the summit in singapore last month, the two sides reached an agreement, a tentative agreement, on the denuclearisation of the north, but it was vague and this meeting was intended to put some flesh on the bone, if you like. america sending its top diplomat, the us secretary of state mike pompeo, all the way to pyongyang but he failed to meet with the north korean leader kim jong—un and it doesn't appear that the two sides have reached an ag

mr. pompeo had a sympathetic audience, opposition activists encouraged by his aggressiveev stance though he did not talk about changing the regime, just its behavior. >> the only way you can change it is to remove them.di i think that hsay it, but not directly. we have an old expression in iran, you speak to tl but the ceiling understands. barbara: you understood what he was saying? >> absolutely. barbara: southern california is home to a quarter million iranian americans. they call this neighborhood tehrangeles. getting them on board with president trump's agenda could be a tough sell because they are divided over his decision to pull out of e nuclear deal, d they are angry about the travel ban, which hits iranians particularly hard. one man was eager to hear what mike pompeo had to say. prerecorded his radio program so he cld attend the speech. he is no fan of the regime, but thinks mr. trump's position decision to scrap the nuclear deal was - >> bad. word that he said, then deal -- bad deal, say bad decision. barbara: why is it bad? >> because you are putting new sanctions and that go

mr pompeo is expected to meet the north korean leader on saturday before he leaves for tokyo. oi in seoul. as you mentioned, mike pompeo arrived on friday afternoon and he met with kim jong—un‘s right—hand man. that was the only meeting as far as we know that took place late yesterday. it wrapped up around 7:30pm local time and they spoke about three hours before breaking for dinner. apparently the mood appeared relaxed. mike pompeo joked that this was his third time and that if he came another time he would have to start to pay taxes. to which the right—hand man suggested that the more he came the more trust could be built. this morning his first meeting was scheduled at 9am local time, about one hour ago. we still do not know who he is meeting with. as you can imagine, the information is only trickling in. i'm basically following some journalists who are accompanying mike pompeo to pyongyang — as far as i could tell they are not updating regularly. yesterday, all of a sudden, just as the meeting wrapped up we started to get a lot of tweets from mike pompeo and the journalists

but speaking in tokyo after talks with his japanese and south korean counterparts, mr pompeo said he was encouraged by the progress made during his recent two—day visit to north korea. we had lengthy discussions about the scope of what complete denuclearization means over the past two days. they acknowledged that this is broad, this is, as my two colleagues have said from weapons systems to the physical materials, the production facilities, enrichment facilities, across the range of weapons and missiles, it is a broad definition of denuclearization and north koreans understand that and have not challenged that. second, they also understand that denuclearization makes no sense, absent of verification. they acknowledge that as well. there will be a verification connected to the complete denuclearization, that is what president trump and chairman kim both agree to, and so people can try to parch words should they choose to do so, but the most important is that the north koreans understand and the demands that the world is making of north korea and that can be unmistakable, the scope of

the north korean statement is somewhat at odds with what mr pompeo had to say as he left pyongyang ony hours of productive conversations. these are complicated issues. but we made progress on almost all of the central issues. some places, a great deal of progress — other places, there's still more work be done. a very productive conversation about the process by which we will deliver on the commitments that were made in the singapore summit. i think we made progress in every element of our discussion. let's speak to the bbc‘s david willis who is in washington. very productive, said the american side of things there. but not what the north koreans thought at all. absolutely right. depending on whose version of events you believe these we re version of events you believe these were either deeply regrettable talks or highly productive. after that summit in singapore they came to a rather vague declaration and america sent its top tips diplomat, mike pompeo to put some flesh on the bone and nail down commitments from north korea. he failed to meet with the north korean leader kim jong own

sorry to outlaw and it accuses mr pompeo of insisting on unilateral denuclearisation — which it says. removing the nuclear threat from the korean peninsula had been a key part of donald trump's approach during his meeting with kimjong un in singapore. the north korean statement is somewhat at odds with what mr pompeo had to say as he left pyongyang on saturday. the many hours, they were connected conversations. these are compensated issues but we made progress on all of the central issues. in some areas, there is still more work to be done. very productive conversations but the process by which we will do bill —— deliver on the commitments made in the singapore summit, i think we made progress on every element of our discussion. our correspondent in washington david willis has more details. depending on whose version of events uk to believe, these talks were either reductive or deeply reg retta ble. either reductive or deeply regrettable. at the summit in singapore last month, the two sides reached an agreement. a tentative agreement, on the denuclearisation of the north. it was vagu

the north korean statement is somewhat at odds with what mr pompeo had to say as he left pyongyang on many hours of productive conversations. these are complicated issues but we made progress on almost all of the central issues. some areas a great deal of progress, other places there is still more work to be done. very productive conversations but the process by which we will deliver on the commitments made in the singapore summit, i think we made progress on every element of our discussion. we speak out tojohn delury who is based in china. thank you so much for joining based in china. thank you so much forjoining us based in china. thank you so much for joining us —— based in china. thank you so much forjoining us —— we speak now. there is a division released a difference between the accounts from north korea and from mike pompeo. is this difference a roadblock orjust a speed hump? i think we are in the category of speed bump. this was never going to be an easy process. the dialogue has been opened at the highest level. that is really the biggest hurdle. this will be on and off in fi

mr pompeo has been giving evidence to the senate foreign relations committee.reign policy. a series of measures to try to avert an all—out trade war have been agreed by the united states and the european union. after talks at the white house with the eu commission president — jean—claude juncker — mr trump claimed a new phase in their trade relations had begun. 80 people are now known to have died in the wildfires around athens — they are the deadliest ever recorded in greece. and dozens of people are still missing. survivors have been describing their desperate battles to escape now on bbc news — it's hardtalk.

but speaking in tokyo after talks with his japanese and south korean counterparts, mr pompeo said heress made during his recent two—day visit to north korea. we had lengthy discussions about the scope of what complete denuclearization means over the past two days.

but speaking in tokyo after talks with his japanese and south korean counterparts, mr pompeo said heg his recent two—day visit to north korea. we had lengthy discussions about the scope of what complete denuclearization means over the past two days. they acknowledged that this is broad, this is, as my two colleagues have said from weapons systems to the physical materials, the production facilities, enrichment facilities, across the range of weapons and missiles, it is a broad definition of denuclearization and north koreans understand that and have not challenged that. second, they also understand that denuclearization makes no sense, absent of verification. they acknowledge that as well. there will be a verification connected to the complete denuclearization, that is what president trump and chairman kim both agreed to, and so people can try to parch words should they choose to do so, but the most important is that the north koreans understand and the demands that the world is making of north korea and that can be unmistakable, the scope of what denuclearization means to the north

but speaking in tokyo, mr pompeo said he was encouraged by the progress made during his recent two—dayons about the scope of what complete denuclearisation means over the past two days. they acknowledged that. this is broad. this is from weapons systems to fissile material to the production enrichment facilities, across the range of weapons and missiles. it's a broad definition of denuclearisation. the north koreans understand that and have not challenged that. second, they also understand that denuclearisation makes no sense absent verification. they acknowledged that as well. there will be a verification connected to the complete denuclearisation, that is what president trump and chairman kim both agreed to. so folks can try to parse words, should they choose to do so. what's most important is what the north koreans understand and demands that the world is making of north korea will be, it's unmistakable, the scope of what denuclearisation means to the north koreans, i've been very clear with them. mike pompeo there. there are warnings that people are trying to smuggle migrants acros

mr pompeo is due to meet kim jong un on saturday. rescue teams in thailand say an air supply line has been installed in the cave where 12 boys and their football coach have been trapped for two weeks. there had been concern about falling oxygen levels as rescuers try to work out how to bring the boys to safety. coming up in 10 minutes‘ time, news watch, but first on bbc news, click. the thing i love about mit in boston is that whenever you open a door in a basement you could run into anything. unless it runs into you first. which might be why, for the seventh straight year, mit has been named the world's number one university. and, i am going to say it, this is one of my favourite places in the world. what i love about mit is that it is all over the place. the buildings have this brilliant higgledy—piggledy nature and inside is the same. here at csail, for example, there is stuff all over the place. it is wonderful. the computer science and artificial intelligence lab, csail, is mit's ai powerhouse with some of the world's foremost r

mr. pompeo was firm in what he wanted to get. at this teenage, all they say is he was very firm in his conversations. so we now wait for mr. pompeo to land in tokyo. he has left after meetings with come yong chul. they met fried and again this morning we don't know if he went on to meet kim jong-un it's the third time he has visited and met him previous two times. so we don't know whether that meeting took place today. the assumption was there was going to be one. it certainly would be a unusual if he didn't. it would raise questions so meek pompeo will be meeting with his counterparts in japan and south korea and tokyo. >> certainly the optics, very important here. of course, we'll continue to find out what happened there. andrew stevens i've for us in seoul, south korea, thank you for your reporting today. >>> still ahead here on cnn "newsroom," why the next few days would be critical for the thailand ahead. residents of puerto rico prepare for the first hurricane of the atlantic season. stay with us. >>> welcome back to cnn "n

earlier, mr pompeo said there had been progress during his two days of talks in the north korean capitalany details. the bbc‘s seoul correspondent, mariko oi, has more on this developing story. they did not take long for north korea to stadler shing out that the united states. mr mike pompeo, before leaving to tokyo, told reporters he thought that the nuclear talks were very productive, that now he had a timeline for it. several hours after he landed in tokyo, we heard from north korea's state news agency that they thought the attitude of the us negotiators was regrettable. they thought the americans made too many demands, that they wanted a unilateral force denuclearisation of the korean peninsula. critics have always won, after president trump and kim jong—un agreeing to commit to the denuclearisation of the peninsula, that that term, the term denuclearisation, is interpreted differently between the different sides, because the americans want kim jong—un to give sides, because the americans want kimjong—un to give up his nuclear weapons, whereas he does not want to do that because he h

it was hoped on this trip that mr pompeo would come back with the remains of the us war dead and technicallyar, there is only an armistice. he returns in a few days time for another round of negotiations. again, ithink, this story will go back and forth and we will not quite see the sort of definitive outcome of the abolition of all nuclear weapons in north korea that the us government province last. let's talk about now this story in the financial times about vodafone developing don't come and train detection systems, talking about the threat of drains and the mayhem that they can cause. —— talking about the threat of drones. it was suspected they were used in paris to try and and work out how to get a famous criminal out ofjail. it was a massive break what we. there is bad and we have heard criminal elements before and people are using drones to work out the things. interestingly, this piece spoked about british telecom and one of theirdrains spoked about british telecom and one of their drains getting too close to an electricity pylon. moving on now to gareth southgate and his waistcoat.

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mr. pompeo is good for that since he was in intelligence before and probably more than anyone in the stateartment among the diplomats, he knows their capabilities and what we're doing. i'm assuming also that there's a plan b. if president trump is serious that they cannot acquire this technology to strike us at home he may have to use plan b. connell: what do you think it is? >> i don't know. i think it might be more use of military force. connell: really? that would be the next step? >> it's a big step. a lot riding on this. but if you take the president seriously that he said they cannot be allowed to get this capacity, we'll find out. that's the test. either it fails -- and we'll know pretty quickly. if they get the capacity, they'll announce it and so forth. we'll know within president bush's ferm in office. connell: within president trump's term of office. just a little flip. the supreme court i want to talk about that. that's the big announcement coming out monday night. first, let's listen to this. >> there's now a vacancy on the supreme court. and if you tune in monday at 9:00, i t

mr. pompeo coming up here for north korea. i would just urge mr. pompeo and senator corker, let us make sure that mr. pompeo is prepared and has the time not only to address north korea, but also address what happened in helsinki. we have a right, an obligation to find out. and while we are able to question representatives from the executive branch in regards to helsinki, let's make sure that we have a chance to talk to ambassador huntsman, our ambassador to russia, to get his take on what happened and his assessment. we need to talk to our d.n.i. director as to his assessments. we need to have oversight hearings here in congress. and most importantly, we need to understand what happened in the room, where it happened, where mr. putin and mr. trump spent over two hours. we have no information about what happened in that room. we have a responsibility as members of congress to understand what discussions took place or commitments in regards to our elections, in regards to ukraine, in regards to syria, in regards to north korea, in regards to iran. we

mr. pompeo and mr. lavrov, the russian foreign minister, in which they say mr. pompeo, the u.s. secretary of state himself initiated that call. that's what they mean by the american initiative. in it they repeated some detail of what they claim was agreed, or under negotiation raised by the two presidents when they met in secret accompanies by only one official translator on each side. now, the lack of noting -- notes taken by mr. trump unmatched by mr. putin, who's a kgb agent, trained to recall a verbatim conversation over many years and this is playing directly into his hands. they're eking out isn't some of information, indicating maybe a summit, also maybe an agreement over cyber issues. quite an ironic suggestion, and equally that syria may come in for, there may be a peace deal agreed that would somehow allow 1.7 million syrians to return to government controlled areas that are currently also supported by russia. that under the president's only policy could be inconceivable what they're really trying to do, drive the narrative, own the story. >> one thing we've learned ab

mr pompeo is under pressure to get more details on how and when the regime might give up its nuclear from our correspondent mariko oi, who's in the south korean capital, seoul. could see you. is happening now? —— good to see you. what is happening 110w. good to see you. what is happening now. we believe that mike pompeo has arrived in pyongyang, scheduled to arrived in pyongyang, scheduled to arrive around two hours ago but even though he is accompanied by some foreign journalists we have not been getting that many a rates but we believe he has landed and there is a lot of pressure on the us secretary of state because since that singapore summit where kim jong—un said he is committed to the denuclearisation of the korean peninsula, we had us intelligence agencies saying that they had evidence that the country is continuing to work on its nuclear programme. so mike pompeo is hoping to get more than just words and more detailed plans of how to do that denuclearisation, but the us has also softened the language, remember after the singapore summit where president trump and kim jong—un m

there is some confusion about what exactly the policy is, even after mr pompeo's speech.respondent anthony zurcher is in washington. it would seem that the trump administration believes the idea maximum pressure worked to get the north koreans to the negotiating table over their nuclear ambitions and therefore maximum pressure could work with the iranians, as well, does that make sense? that is diplomacy in the donald trump era, the fire and fury the likes of which the fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen, used that line about north korea last year, and then he pivoted to have a face—to—face meeting with kim jong—un and negotiating about their nuclear arms programme, although whether any progress has been made, the administration, donald trump likes to boast in particular about the change of rhetoric represents a breakthrough... so we could see this as an opening gambit in his attempt to negotiate with iran. he cancelled the american participation in the iran deal, but he says his wedding to go to the table to negotiate a better deal, so he could pivo

there is some confusion about what exactly the policy is, even after mr pompeo's speech.g—time opponents of the regime sense a window of opportunity, and are waiting to see how far the administration is willing to go. barbara plett usher, bbc news, los angeles. we're joined now from tehran by professor mohamed marandi. heuristic what from the iranian president. do not play with the line's tale, this will only lead to regret. —— here is the quote. —— lion's tail. it goes beyond that. what the regime in washington is trying to do is strangle the iranian economy, they are trying to make ordinary iranians peoplesoft, they are trying to make women and children suffer, this is a barbaric policy. and the iranians have shown goodwill to the international community, even though from day one, the iranian nuclear programme had always been within a framework of international law. but because of us accusations, they signed a deal and got rid of the excuse the americans we re got rid of the excuse the americans were using for years. but now we see that the americans, despite the nuclea

mr. pompeos speech. longtime opponents of the regime sense a window of opportunity and are waiting to see how far the administration is willing to go. barbara plett-usher, bbc news, s angeles. laura: for more on the war of words tween the u.s. and iran, i spoke a brief time ago with karim saadpour, a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace. do you feel that there is a rising risk of conflict between the u.s. and iran? karim: there is. you have in president trump an erratic president who is not necessarily ideological but he is very impulsive. a -caps tweet taunting iran'san president hassan ro is an escalation. perhaps more importantly, you have the folks around president, ularly national security bolton, when he was out of government, almost every piece that he wrote about iran advocates military conflict. secrary pompeo himself is ve proudly hawkish. i think the onus is on iran to try to de-escalate, and that is generally not the instinct of iran's supreme leader. laura: on that

mr pompeo's declaration came shortly before he gave evidence to the senate foreign relations committeeafter talks at the white house with the eu commission president jean—claude juncker president donald trump said a new phase in their trade relations had begun. the greek authorities say 80 people are now known to have died in wildfires around athens — making them the deadliest ever recorded in greece. dozens of people remain missing after the fast—moving fires swept across the attica region — trapping some people in their homes or cars. now on bbc news, westminster in review.

mr pompeo has his work cut out.eds to do is get that declaration of what they have and that they can start talking about what happens next. here is your very favourite story of the day! fans of the grumpy cat and other such gifs can breathe a hugh sigh of relief today — the european parliament has voted against a controversial copyright law that would have forced individual websites to check for copyright infringements. had it passed, the new rules would have forced technology companies to scan through everything users post online to check whether the material was in breach of copyright. campaigners said that would destroy internet freedom and the kind of memes and remixes many of us enjoy. i am not sure how i feel about this. there are one or two of our viewers out there i think would have fallen foul of this new bill. just one of several gifs doing the rounds. this is from my time in brussels last week. what do you think? what on earth are you doing? just before we came back on the, my microphone inexplicably fell

mr. pompeo mentioned that when we talk about the syrian cooperation, the ball is in the syrian court. mr. putin , in russian court is it true and how would you use this fact? president trump: i guess i'll answer the first part of the question. we've worked with israel long and hard for many years, many decades. i think we've -- never has anyone in any country been closer than we are. president putin also is helping srael and we both spoke with netanyahu and they would like to do certain things with respect to syria, having to do with the safety of israel. so in that respect we absolutely would like to work in order to help israel and israel will be working with us. so both countries would work jointly. and i think that when you look at all the progress that's been made in certain sections with the eradication of isis, we have 98%, 99% there. and other thing that was taken place. that we've done. and that frankly russia has helped us with in certain respects. but i think that working with veil a great thing and creating safety for israel is something that president putin and i would lik

mr pompeo urged north korea to follow the example of vietnam, saying president trump believed pyongyang normal relations with washington and to prosperity. the british man poisoned by the novichok nerve agent has regained consciousness, two days after his partner dawn sturgess, who was also poisoned, died. doctors treating charlie rowley in a hospital in southern england say there's been a small but significant improvement in his condition. police are investigating a possible link to the case of russians sergei and yulia skripal — who were poisoned with the same substance in nearby salisbury. hollywood star george clooney has suffered minor injuries in a scooter crash in sardinia. the 57 year old's scooter was hit by a car that failed to stop — and he slammed into its windshield. clooney was taken to hospital, but is now recovering at home. president trump has arrived in brussels, ahead of a wednesday's nato summit. he's been trying to persuade european nations to spend more money on defence — making his point on twitter before he left and when he landed. but that prompted a rebuke from