and north korea the responsibility of security pompei or assumed after the summit in single pole is very significant and minister khan and i stand handing hand with the secretary pump a zero to support him all the way till the end i would also like to pay tribute to the earnest effort by mr khan to serve as the bridge between us and the north career effort has paved the way for the subsequent summit in singapore today we were able to reaffirm our neighboring commitment to continue strengthening of our try that are all cooperation tours the common goal of those careers complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles of all ranges we have also had an in-depth discussion on how we can cooperate to urge north korea to take concrete actions towards the full implementation of relevant in not a nations security council resolutions and we confirm that security assurance will be provided to north korea. agreed in the summit in singapore at the same time we have reaffirmed the international community will continue to fully implement rive

meeting will be pursued but didn't until quote after the rush of witch hunt is over that is state mike pompei was grilled in the senate over the two leaders recently in helsinki. has the president told you what he and president putin discussed there to our closed door meeting took place you speak to the translators are you seen any of her know how should we be doing as you put it everything we can to push back on likely election interference by russia. and as donald trump tries to weather a political storm at home fresh concerns over possible russian interference in upcoming midterm elections are raised both democrats and republicans however assured that moscow will try to help you using pass a plan despite the saying it would not negotiate with a gun to its head u.s. tariffs european commission chief sean called young and donald trump agreed to work together towards eliminating trade taxes and also to come the tenth annual bric summit of emerging economies underway in south africa with american trade war on the agenda. others could have a company watching at international where she's gone fr

secretary of state but given of plans continue as they are currently laid out by pompei you is expected to step back from his personal role leading these talks he will be replaced with lower u.s. officials which adds to the concern of exactly how productive these continue talks maybe. well bruce kling there is a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation's asian studies center and he says this shows the u.s. and north korea don't agree about the nuclear. it makes it very clear that north korea and the u.s. still are very far apart on even the basic definition of what denuclearization is when north korea agreed in march that it would talk about the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the trump white house thought that meant they would unilaterally abandon their nuclear weapons as the u.n. resolutions require them to but any korea watcher knows that north korea has long defined it as part of global arms control and that as a member of the nuclear club they will go down to zero when the rest of the club including the united states totally abandoned their nuclear arsenal so ther

living up to what he talked about on the campaign trail thank you manila secretary of state mike pompei o says real progress has been made between the united states and north korea today in new york city it was pompei zero meeting with kim y'all chill who is a close advisor of north korean leader kim jong un president donald trump has a do twelve meeting in singapore could still happen after he initially called off secretary pompei o says the topic of denuclearization has been difficult the effort now is to come to a set of understanding which convinced the north koreans what president trump a set therefore able to achieve it if the north koreans are prepared in fact to denuclearize this includes all elements of their nuclear program if we convinced convince them of that that in fact their security is greater that in fact the real threat to their security is the continued holding onto of that nuclear weight nuclear weapons program and not the converse. sir j. lever off invited kim jong un to russia and passed on a message from president vladimir putin in response the north korean leader

with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions my pompei of face some tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee he was essentially forced into revealing a secret deal made between trump and putin just last week in the house thinking but in general comes haile held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice to assure everyone that trump did not show any weakness or approach has been the same to steadily raise the cost of aggression with aggression until vladimir putin chooses a less confrontational foreign policy otherwise the administration will continue imposing tough actions against russia in response to its malign activities and i personally make clear to the russians that will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes in helsinki we sought to explore whether russia was interesting in reproving our relationship but made clear that the ball is in russia's court pompei also reiterated that trump does agree with the intelligence community that russia did hack a b. twenty sixteen election but his sentiments

for another summit however another wave of hysteria ensued but just an hour before pompei a scheduled testimony john bolen trumps national security advisor announced that the summit would be postponed john bolen explained the decision citing the current political climate as the main. reason saying that the meeting should take place after the quote russia witch hunt is over though this decision appears to be a move to calm down his domestic critics it's clear that the pressure has worked i mean all this these claims about treason and being traitorous worked to pressure him to back off normalizing relations with russia. i believe this is being done in the interest of continuing the us on a permanent war footing and wasting trillions of dollars on wars and military equipment that we don't need to and rush is an excuse for that. meanwhile faces a major test of his presidency later the shit in the guise of mid-term elections they are widely seen as a bit of confidence in any administration but as artie's kind of explains whether it's republicans or democrats us politicians do seem to know

secretary of state mike pompei o has been grilled by senators over president trump's recent summit with blood in me person. has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting in helsinki did you did he tell you did the president at this meeting call upon president putin to withdraw from crimea and eastern ukraine where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria going to do what took place you speak to the translator do you seen any of her notes that the president discussed relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia and i understood senator i understand the game that you're playing now and you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions my pompei of face some tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee he was essentially forced into revealing a secret deal made between trump and putin just last week in helsinki but in general comp a i held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice to assure everyone that trump did not show any weakness but

secretary of state mike pompei oh is currently being grilled by senators over president trump's recent summit with here some of the most intense moments today. has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting in helsinki did you did he tell you did the president at this meeting call upon president putin to withdraw from crimea and eastern ukraine where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria good to what took place you speak to the translator do you seen any of her notes that the president discussed relaxed relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia including cats or sanctions i understand senator i understand the game that you're playing now and you know mr secretary you with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. let's go to washington d.c. you know and seem you're a come from or similar i just see as i was speaking a little bit earlier mike pompei i was not wrapped up tell us more about his exchanges it must have been what three to four hours he was speaking for the senate foreig

and his push for the country to denuclearize the north koreans made those comments after mr pompei went to pyongyang for the latest round of talks now he's since been in tokyo to brief japanese and south korean leaders about progress. the still a lot of work to do but he is confident the north korean leader kim jong un will stick to the promises he made during the singapore summit with the u.s. president donald trump. the road ahead will be difficult and challenging and we know critics will try to minimize the work that we've achieved but our allies like the republic of korea and japan president trump and i believe that peace is worth the effort. and that's something that we all want as allies we share and are committed to the same goal the fully verified final denuclearization north korea has agreed to by chairman kim jong il. is in the south korean capital seoul. also in the message we got out of that press conference this morning was that talks were on track or the tactics of the accusations that north korea had made against the u.s. in the way to engage the north korean delegation i

will be perspiring that until quote after the russia witch hunt is over his secretary of state might pompei was grilled in the senate over that city leaders recent meeting in helsinki. has the president told you what the president from the sky to our closed door meeting took place you speak to the translator seen any of her no more should we be doing as you put it everything to push back the likely election interference by russia. and as donald trump tries to weather a political storm at home fresh concerns over possible russian interference in the upcoming midterm elections are raised both democrats and republicans however assured that moscow will try to help the opposing party despite the you saying it would not negotiate with a gun to its head over u.s. tyrus european commission chief sean called young and donald trump agree to work together towards eliminating trade taxes plus the tenth annual bric summits of emerging economies is underway in south africa at the moment with american trade. on the. well i welcome you watching r.t. international is just going to pm here in the russian cap

my pompei also confirmed that trump agrees with the intel communities assessment that russia did in fact a medal in the twenty six thousand election a one hundred eighty degree shift from last week i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be there was no collusion at all everybody knows that people are being brought out to the fore. so far that i know virtually none of it related to the campaign it was a clean campaign i beat hillary clinton easily and frankly and it's a shame that they could even be a little bit of a cloud over it. the summit resulted in a total hysteria here in the u.s. with the accusations thrown around of treason and a name calling from a traitor to kremlin stooge to a putin's puppet you name it but let's look at what politicians have to say donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to exceed the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treason this not only would trump common symbols silly his hole in the pocket of republican patriots where you instead of sta

a would meet with the north korean leader the encounter did not happen pompei only met with kim jong number two. kim young chill meanwhile south korea deciding today to temporarily suspend its summertime nationwide civilian defense drills to aid north korea talks and to ensure nuclear diplomacy what the north reporting in new york trinity each of us are. it's about this is the fun part about international diplomacy it's like after all the lights in the spectacular there shaking hands there signing a contract or whatever you want to call it and all that now comes like the miti gritty dirks and bolts of it right now actually it's the are we have to actually put this in the implementation which you know maybe we will maybe we won't but i'm happy.

after the russia witch hunt is over that's after us secretary of state mike pompei i was grilled in the senate over the recent meeting in helsinki between the two leaders of some air con reports has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting and did you did he tell you should we be doing as you put it everything we can to push back on likely election interference by russia where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria going to do what took place you speak to the translator do you seen any of her know that the president discussed relax relaxing u.s. sanctions on russia i understand senator i understand the game that you're playing now you know you know mr secretary with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions my pompei of face some tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee he was essentially forced into revealing a secret deal made between trump and putin just last week in the house thinking but in general comes haile held his ground occasionally snapping ba

oh about another big national security issue north korea and its nuclear weapons program pompei wereinsistent that the two page agreement signed by the president and by kim jong il the north korean leader is being complied with but he said that until there is proof and actual verification that north korea no longer has the capacity to build or to use nuclear weapons u.s. and global sanctions on that country will continue. donald trump has reached an agreement with the european union to reduce the impact of the global trade war almost immediately u.s. financial.

secretary of state mike pompei leaves north korea saying there was a lot of progress made in talks but that is not what pyongyang is saying. the rebels of iraq. give up their fight there's a new car near the border with jordan a syrian forces take control. floods and a mass evacuation more than one point six million people ordered out of their homes in western japan as officials talk of historic rainfall. and i'm santa hummus with the all sports where england are looking to be it's we then had to make the first world cup semi final in twenty eight years. ok let's get going the syrian government has retaken control of a border crossing with jordan in the southern province of iraq after a cease fire deal with the rebels the agreement ends more than two weeks of fighting which forced three hundred thirty thousand people to flee many towards the israeli occupied golan heights and the jordanian border now under the russia brokered deal the rebels will give up their heavy weapons while government forces will leave for villages in the province the russian military will then oversees security

secretary of state but given of plans continue as they are currently laid out by pompei you is expected to step back from his personal role leading these talks he will be replaced with lower u.s. officials which adds to the concern of exactly. how productive let's continue talks maybe well let's examine this a little bit further we're joined now i'm happy to say by bruce it clinging to who's an expert in korean affairs and senior a such fellow at the heritage foundation's asian studies center joins us now from silver spring in maryland and the cleaner welcome to the program what's your sense of this given the differing characterize ations of how these talks went by both sides. makes it very clear that north korea and the u.s. still are very far apart on even a basic definition of what denuclearization is when north korea agreed in march that it would talk about the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the trump white house thought that meant they would unilaterally abandon their nuclear weapons as the u.n. resolutions require them to that any korea watcher knows that north korea has

peninsula today is the second and the only full day of negotiations it's been a two day trip for pompei and his delegation he will leave pyongyang this afternoon and head to tokyo we'll meet the south korean foreign minister and the japanese foreign minister to discuss what they're change at this meeting as well as a shared commitment in the region the u.s. government says it needs more time to reunite migrant families after separating thousands as illegally crossed over from the mexico border this year a u.s. judge ordered the trumpet ministration to return children under five to their parents by tuesday but government lawyers say only about a half of the one hundred children in that age group will be reunited by then the separation sparked a fierce outcry and protests against donald trump zero tolerance policy john hendren has more from washington d.c. . the troubled ministration went to court in california to explain why it can't abide by an immigration court order the court had ordered that you'd ministration had to reunite the parents of undocumented children who had been separated

secretary of state but given of plans continue as they are currently laid out by pompei o is expected to step back from his personal role leaving these talks he will be replaced with lower u.s. officials which adds to the concern of exactly how productive these continue talks maybe. john feffer from the washington based institute for policy studies says the trumpet ministration is trying to look tough to criticism it was too soft on north korea at the singapore summit it's sensitive to criticism here in the united states that it's basically giving away the show to north korea so wants to demonstrate that it is actually resolved if you will and at the same time trump administration has invested enormous amount of political capital into this process you know wants to demonstrate that the singapore summit was a success so i think that explains why on peo has the best face on the results of this meeting and trump was determined to kind of break with or policy consensus here in washington d.c. there was some sense he had to make an end run around or policy establishment i do think however

secretary of state mike pompei o have been regrettable pyongyang also accuse washington of unilateral demands over its deeds there is ation the comments are in contrast with mr pompei those who describe his two day visit to pyongyang as being very productive somali security services and are said to be back in control of the interior ministry compound after two bomb blasts and a gun battle a car bomb exploded outside the building in the heart of the capital mogadishu before the gunman from al-shabaab headed inside eight people are reported to have been killed in the attack. and more than one point six million people have been ordered to leave their homes as a result of flooding in japan please forty nine people have been killed and dozens more are missing heavy rainfall triggered landslides causing widespread destruction in western and central reach each. of the team trying to rescue the young footballers from the thai cape says weather conditions are perfect but there's no word yet on when any attempts will be made to bring them out and heavy rain is in the forecast here scott hunter

secretary of state has already walked back some of trump's comments might pompei or says he's on board with meeting iran's president but he listed several requirements before it could go ahead president wants to meet with folks to solve problems of the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worthwhile to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them but joining us now is mohamed merah and the the head of the north american studies at the university of tehran good to have you with us so there you have it bit of a walk back from mike pompei o seems like he's saying there are preconditions donald trump was clear in saying there's absolutely no preconditions how do you think iran's president is going to take this you think he's going to accept an invitation for talks. no i don't think he is going to accept any negotiations until the united states returns to the j c p o a the nuclear agr

secretary of state mike pompei is facing difficult questions about donald trump's recent meeting the phantom a bit in. the electoral in zimbabwe have been accused of bias ahead of a landmark vote. and how this flare found in thousand the middle of a transfer five between two european rivals. i have the details in sports. an insider's perspective just six months ago we were at the brink of a war of the real donald trump i think he makes comments that he probably shouldn't make from the former campaign national security director dollars in a class all by himself and for the thirty years i've known donald he creates his own reality maybe his son goes head to head with j.p. coolidge and there has been no evidence that shows collusion if that's not collusion if that's not working with russian what is owned al-jazeera i was imprisoned for twenty one years based on false allegations that just made in the last couple of years there's been a number of high profile exonerations of the wrongfully convicted based on police and prosecutorial misconduct you can check me for gun check much well i d

a would meet with the north korean leader the encounter did not happen pompei only met with kim jong number two. kim young meanwhile south korea deciding today to temporarily suspend its summertime nationwide civilian defense drills to aid north korea talks and to ensure nuclear diplomacy what the north reporting in new york trinity charges r.t. . it's a this is the fun part of international diplomacy it's like after all the lights in the spectacular oh they're shaking hands they're signing a contract or whatever you want to call it and all that now comes like the movie gritty dirks and bolts of it right now actually it's the all right we have to actually put this in the implementation which you know maybe we will maybe we won't but i'm happy to see the two sides talking three sides undersides north and south korea to me or you know you are of course i mean the idea of north and south korea and then obviously china you know them coming up with this whole agreement so to me worrying about what the united states says should be secondary to anybody in that region honestly and i say that

my pompei always bringing the negotiating position john bolton and mike pence to the negotiating table in pyongyang whereby the united states insists that d.p. r. k. north korea unilaterally surrender and then it may be perhaps the u.s. will change its policy of hostility and a policy whereby it uses economic sanctions to deprive north koreans of food and medicine if it then was my pompei was negotiating position that won't work for the d.p. r. k. and the p r k said it was regrettable that the us adopted this position this negotiating position but what that the p r k also said is that they still want friendly relations with the united states and that the path to denuclearization in the korean peninsula think was a step by step confidence building and receptor equal synchronized approach by both sides would actually work that could want you for the short break . became this national camera. roughly once they showed some new play you for the. future uncool videos doing the woke up and someone with the broccoli string and. lying around more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. the corrupt

living up to what he talked about on the campaign trail thank you manila secretary of state mike pompei o says real progress has been made between the united states and north korea today in new york city it was pompei zero meeting with kim y'all chill who is a close advisor of north korean leader kim jong un president donald trump says a june twelfth meeting in singapore could still happen after he initially called off secretary pompei uses the topic of denuclearization has been difficult the effort now is to come to a set of understandings which convince the north koreans of what president trying to set this.

o goes before senators on wednesday to try to explain what happened some experts say pompei or might have a hard time doing so but they don't know what trump talked about with putin in that meeting it was it was just the two of them and translators. and things are emerging every day that are clearly coming as a surprise even to some of tom's closest advisors in fact it's been moscow that has revealed what trump and putin discussed behind closed doors the syrian civil war north korea's nuclear weapons program joint counter-terrorism operations in the middle east the crisis in eastern ukraine and crimea arms control treaties and the charges russia is undermining the us political process but some analysts say despite their anger republicans won't put as much pressure on pompei o as one might expect many of them are up for election in the mid-term elections it's more important for them to stay in power than to act on principle no matter what happens in the hearing there is a growing consensus on capitol hill that trump is permanently changing the u.s. is global authority changes that cou

that create tremendous distrust pompei this response demonstrate just how tough the administration has already been on russia over two hundred sanctions two hundred sanctions under is reflective of this in mission administration steadfastness with respect to our willingness to push back against russia paul pale also said the president doesn't question what happened during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election excepts our intelligence community's conclusion that russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election he has a complete and proper understanding of what happened i know i briefed him on it for over a year but the senator skepticism was bipartisan and considerable compare the following barack obama speaking tough on russia and doing nothing those are true it is trying to say you want to rewrite the obama policy on russia but the remarks reported by russian news agency summed up the mood that mr trump sided with the kremlin over his own intelligence agency so there the russian media characterizing the meeting and we have no readout to dispute any of that pump aoe

secretary of state mike pompei was on his way to pyongyang for talks with north korea's leader kim jongil denuclearization of the korean peninsula will be top of the agenda when the two meet on friday pompei a will then travel on to tokyo to brief his japanese and south korean counterparts . and a victory for same sex couples in hong kong the territory's highest court has granted a british lesbian the right to a spousal visa rejecting an appeal by the immigration department the ruling could mean expatriates same sex partners will be able to join them in hong kong taking a taxi used to be an anonymous affair but that's a thing of the past in one chinese city where authorities are installing say szell recognition systems in caps it's part of china's push for increaser valence where there is one camera for every eight citizens that out as our reporter muchas bellinger found out the system still has its quirks. catch a cab in the southern chinese metropolis of sion gen and like me you can expect to be watched taxes here are gradually gaining close circuit t.v. cameras installed above their

secretary of state mike pompei o took aim at iran's leaders the level of corruption wealth among or a leader shows that iran is run by something that resembles the mafia more than a government it has to be said that many iranians would be just as critical of their own government the wealth gap is getting bigger and complaints of corruption are common but for every anti-government protest by nature or by design there have been bigger pro-government route some people specifically mention general costs money a senior revolutionary guard commander who many here consider a national hero he's been part of iran's campaign against immortalized in this twenty seventeen animated film it depicts a military victory against u.s. naval forces with leading the charge. for many iranians this is the inevitable conclusion of american hostility towards their country and even peace makers here agree the closer these two sides come to open conflict. the harder it will be to walk. the old a zero. she had joins me from washington d.c. she had given the exchange of words feed scene it's almost comical but th

secretary of state mike pompei o says economic sanctions need to be fully enforced against north korea to keep the pressure on for denuclearization mr pompei and made those comments after meeting the south korean foreign minister. and u.n. officials to brief them on the on going talks with pyongyang mr pompei also accused north korea of illegally smuggling petroleum and coal that's in violation of u.n. sanctions the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley also called on the u.n. security council to remain strict with pyongyang we can't do one thing i'm till we see north korea respond. to their promise to denuclearize we have to see some sort of action and so until that action happens the security council's going to hold tight the international community we ask you to hold tight as we go forward the former president of south korea will be spending at least thirty years in prison parky on hayes just being given an additional eight year sentence for embezzling almost three million dollars of state funds and interfering in the choosing of election candidates she was already serving twenty

o goes before senators on wednesday to try to explain what happened some experts say pompei or might have a hard time doing so but they don't know what trump talked about with putin in that meeting it was it was just the two of them and translators. and things are emerging every day that are clearly coming as a surprise even to some of tom's closest advisors in fact it's been moscow that has revealed what trump and putin discussed behind closed doors the syrian civil war north korea's nuclear weapons program joint counter-terrorism operations in the middle east the crisis in eastern ukraine and crimea arms control treaties and the charges russia is undermining the us political process but some analysts say despite their anger republicans won't put as much pressure on pompei o as one might expect many of them are up for election in the mid-term elections it's more important for them to stay in power than to act on principle no matter what happens in the hearing there is a growing consensus on capitol hill that trump is permanently changing the u.s. is global authority changes that cou

that create tremendous distrust pompei of this response demonstrate just how tough the administration has already been on russia over two hundred sanctions two hundred sanctions under is reflective of this in mission administration steadfastness with respect to our willingness to push back against russia paul pale also said the president doesn't question what happened during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election except our intelligence community's conclusion that russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election he has a complete and proper understanding of what happened i know i briefed him on it for over a year but the senator skepticism was bipartisan and considerable compare the following barack obama speaking tough on russia and doing nothing those are true it is trying to see if you want to rewrite the obama policy on russia the remarks reported by russian news agency summed up the mood that mr trump sided with the kremlin over his own intelligence agency so there the russian media characterizing the meeting and we have no readout to dispute any of that pump a

secretary of state mike pompei or face criticism from within his own party. i am afraid there is this point the united states the trouble ministration is being taken for a ride you're not senator you're not. there is no doubt the u.s. intelligence community is watching north korea closely it is unclear however what progress has been made toward denuclearization since the trump him summit. all right and not like to welcome our brand or he is an asia analyst with the german council on foreign relations good to see you mr berger is america being taken for a ride not doing things that were i mean at the moment the consultations are ongoing on the border when joe and they are at the moment trying to set up a framework for a process where they will actually make small steps which it sure will lead to to clear ideas what's going to happen with the missile poster article can the findings the intelligence leaks that the report is based on can these findings be corroborated in the bend of the independently verified well at this stage it's very difficult so far we don't

this is the problem so just like with singapore pompei oh follows up with a trip to pyongyang trying to extract more concessions more detail to put on the bones of what was a pretty white statement out of singapore and has a very tough time getting any of that i think similarly pompei oh we will have great difficulty because the moment to get those concessions is now russia's coming off of the first stage as the president mentioned the world cup they don't want that tarnish this is when you need to tighten the screws on food for the moment to but we'll leave it there and of course that's analysis with you throughout the day thanks so much for your time and joining us from time to race let's cross over to our correspondent who is in health think certainly it's a different venue a different atmosphere protest is obviously not very happy with either president it seems arriving all the finnish soil. absolutely so i mean these protesters have marched through helsinki it's been a carnival atmosphere there's been lots of music and. levity if you like but there are serious issues that protes

secretary of state mike pompei o has been in tokyo after another round of talks in pyongyang where he was accused of behaving like a gangster is sarah clarke. the u.s. secretary of state was among friends when he arrived in tokyo met by japanese prime minister shinzo abhay my pompei i briefed the u.s. ally playing down accusations he engaged gangsta like demands that the two like talks in pyongyang and so if those requests were gangster like there the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision of the un security council about what needs to be achieved instead he described the meeting as productive making good progress he said north korea agreed to destroy test sites and the mix round of talks the sit down for later this month. north korea reaffirmed its commitment to complete denuclearization we had detailed and subs in discussions about the next steps towards a fully verified and complete denuclearization. but north korea painted a very different picture describing the talks as regrettable and relations were entering a dangerous phase in a statement released by the fo

on the border immigration top the agenda of a meeting between mr pompei and an rick opinion yet mr pompei only later met mexico's president elect lopez obrador as a latin america the senior. outside angry demonstrators protested against the u.s. administration's deportation of mexican migrants and the separation of children from their parents but inside the office of mexico's president elect and his money over have a lot of it was handshakes all around just two weeks after his election what top u.s. officials including u.s. secretary of state mike bump ale and president trump son in law jared had dropped by actually on the initiative of the white house it was a priority for me and our team to come to mexico soon after the election to begin building our relationship with him and his team we share nearly a two thousand mile border. is committed to making measurable progress in the security on both sides of the border the meeting was unprecedented breaking a sixty year tradition in which the mexican president elect visits washington first to meet and greet his u.s. counterpart at the invite

secretary of state my pompei you said the meetings in pyongyang were productive he's now in tokyo for talks with the japanese and south korean foreign ministers. south sudan's feuding leaders have agreed a power sharing deal reinstating riek machar as vice president in june president salva kiir greed to a cease fire but that was broken within a few hours. the proposed a rise in fuel prices in haiti has been suspended after violent protests across the capital at least three people died since friday when demonstrators took to the streets in anger over the price hike. are rescuers in thailand trying to bring out twelve boys and their football coach from a flooded cave say conditions there are perfect over the next four days the boys are trying to reassure their parents who are waiting anxiously outside scott highland reports from chiang rai coming from hundreds of meters deep within this mountain handwritten notes from the trip thirteen were delivered to the eager and worried parents outside the. it was the first direct contact they've had since the boys went missing one read i love you

over an hour ago just after mr pompei you flew out of the capital pyongyang he left describing his two day visit there is being very productive on his way to brief allies in japan and he said there had been progress on setting up a timeline for deep nuclearization sarah clarke is in seoul for us this sara is there a deal or not. well silly as you said the last word we had from the u.s. delegation on departure from pyongyang and just before their arrival in tokyo they released a statement basically saying that progress is being made on central issues now as well as essentials issues i suppose it remain on some key central issues progress still had to be or more work had to be done on those other areas but the key word was progress and now a couple of hours later we're hearing a very different story from the north korean side as you mentioned and this is from the foreign ministry of expressed regret over the attitude of the u.s. negotiators on how to denuclearize the korean peninsula extend their extremely disappointed by washington's posture and they're expecting a gesture in the spirit

mike pompei oh i just got back from my third trip as you know to north korea has become a true expert on the trips to north korea the best way to get there the best way to get out and he gets along very well he's doing a great job over there yes ma'am yes. i told people that are be very unhappy if they didn't up their commitments very substantially because the united states has been paying a tremendous amount probably ninety percent of the cost of nato and now people are going to start and countries are going to start up being there could happen so i let them know yesterday actually i was surprised they didn't pick it up it took till today but yesterday i let them know that i was extremely unhappy with what was happening and they have substantially up their commitment and now we're very happy and have a very very powerful very very strong nato much stronger than it was two days ago yes ma'am. yes hi howie i know you're very famous on television. very. well they were probably worried because the united states was not being treated fairly but now we are because the commitment has been u

in his push for the country to be denuclearized the north koreans made those comments after mike pompei or went to pyongyang for the latest round of talks he's since been in tokyo to brief japan and south korea about progress mr pompei o says there's still a lot to do but he is confident that the north korean leader kim jong un will stick to the promises he made during the singapore summits with donald trump. i am determined to achieve the commitment the president made and i counting on chairman kim to be determined to follow through on the commitment that he made. and so if those requests were gangster like there the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision at the un security council sarah clarke now with more from the south korean capital so. also in the message we got out of that press conference this morning was that talks were on track or the tactics of the accusations that north korea had made against the u.s. in the waiting gauged the north korean delegation in the pyongyang talks he played that down he suggested that they had a good and open lengthy discussions

that create tremendous distrust pompei of this response demonstrate just how tough the administration has already been on russia over two hundred sanctions.

secretary of state but given of plans continue as they are currently laid out my pompei o is expected to step back from his personal role leaving these talks he will be replaced with lower u.s. officials which adds to the concern of exactly how productive these continue talks maybe. well john feffer is director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies he joins us now from washington via skype thanks very much for being with us so what do you think is going on here why why are we getting to starkly different assessments of the same militia agree with well they're obviously we're two different interpretations. so ok i'm not sure if you can if he can still hear me apparently not apologies for that we'll move on for now plenty more ahead on this news out including dozens dead and injured in japan after torrential rain triggers flooding and landslides. least eight people have been killed and dozens more injured in a car bombing in the somali capital the group al-shabaab says it was behind the attack near the interior ministry building in mogadishu barbara has more. on