secretary of state mike pompei o. says al qaeda has established a new home base in iran he made that assertion without providing any hard evidence it appears to be a last minute diplomatic offensive against tehran in the final days of the trumpet ministration al qaeda.

secretary of state agree with pompei as genocide declaration how prominent do you think the plight of the we goes will feature on joe biden's agenda it was terrific to hear joe biden's team on the can here in trail already speaking about that this is truly a symbol is ational crisis can you continue business as usual with the government committing genocide can you trade can you import those cotton garments that are made with slave labor can you send an olympic team to beijing but the 2022 winter olympic games and force american athletes athletes from all over the world to compete in the shadow of concentration camps it's a big decision it has to be faced and that's an important point to make louisa because in terms of getting multilateral support from the international community and corporates companies you just talked about them there it's been disappointing so far hasn't it i mean many companies claim to be socially responsible but deliver very difficult so what needs to change do you think. these companies in need to grasp what we're dealing with a 21st century high tech genocide w

secretary of state might pompei was accusing china of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against wigan muslims it's believed around a 1000000 been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the shin chung region activists of documented atrocities including rape torture and the sterilization of women china denies all such accusations and says people are being educated and trained in special centers. of the statement after what he said was a careful examination of the facts he also said i believe this genocide is ongoing and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy we goes by the chinese party state and the incoming biden administration seems to agree with pompei assessment secretary of state nominee anthony blinken echoed pompei a statement at his senate confirmation hearing secretary pump aoe designated the chinese communist party as having engaged in general regarding the weaker my muslim population do you agree with that that would be my judgment as well you do agree yes so let's bring in ana tangan he's a china political analyst and joins us live now

one of the iranians saying well the foreign minister dismissed the allegations from pompei or this was his tweet from java from designated cuba fictitious iran d. classifications and a.q. claims mr that we lie cheat steal is pathetically ending his disastrous career with more war mongering lies no one's full the 911 terrorists came from secretary powell his favorite middle east estimations not from iran dosage of the in teheran bit of colorful reaction there from jevons or if he is reacting to. very specific accusations and claims from my pump which had very little evidence to back him up. certainly and the position here is that these are seen as and that really desperate attempts in the final days of the trump administration to try and really further destabilize this region and that's something that they have not been successful in doing the spike the numerous efforts that they've undertaken over the past 4 years but what was significant about the specifics of each by the secretary of state was that he drew the links between these 2 between these 2 groups iran and al qaeda would be ve

with apparently pompei you being pursued. and the european commission saying that officials didn't want to meet him they didn't elaborate on not but we've also heard from diplomatic sources there was a sense of embarrassment around the idea of being in europe given that although he had condemned the violence of those crowds who stormed the capitol building in washington last week he hasn't said whether president from being a cause a factor in that however the luxemburg foreign minister he said the trumpet egg them on the trumpets a criminal a political pyromaniac who should be sent to the criminal court he's a person who was elected democratically but who isn't interested in democracy in the slightest and it also seems that there were other reasons to save face and to cancel those meetings because had meetings gone ahead with officials in that there was a problem that would have. to be addressed and this is the compensation of the jewish families whose artifacts were stolen during the holocaust in the 2nd world war i dispute

well have to do partly with the causing problem for the buy to diminish rationed and partly with pompei you prepare himself for a country could you fall run for the u.s. presidency. china we know was clearly unhappy about this visit and i'm wondering what is the benefit to taiwan dense taiwan have reason to believe that the biden administration will pick up and follow one trumps policy. well thailand has been treated so badly hit by the rest of the world for so long that they simply cannot politically resist the temptation of hosting a cabinet level to see the a u.s. official which the us and bus the 2 that you and is. and they may also calculate that one has a high level visit like the has happened it will be more difficult but if i did the administration's to prove back and therefore us taiwan relations were still be on a stronger basis moving forward but they're also mindful that they will have to pay a price because the chinese will be very angry and they will punish somebody and give the companies to us do you punish time or. and one of the hong kong in this equation joe biden he's

pompei are released the statement saying he will notify congress of the move he says the state department will designate the group's leaders as quote terrorists the decision to blacklist the iranian backed organization is expected to undermine peace negotiation efforts as well because the u.s. backed saudi led coalition has been fighting the group in yemen since 2015 accusing the he's of launching attacks against civilians. in saudi arabia and of targeting major oil facilities here's a look at what might pump aoe the secretary of state said these designations will provide additional tools to confront terrorist activity and terrorism by. the official name a deadly iran backed militia group in the region the designations are intended to hold and countable for terrorist acts including cross border attacks threatening civilian populations infrastructure and commercial shipping let's start in. there for us anything more of the reaction from the herman. yes so far we haven't received any awful reactions by the whole of these. and previous occasions. as the washington department of state departm

well your sector state might pompei i went on to say these designations will provide additional tools to confront terrorist activity and terrorism by a deadly iran backed militia group in the gulf region the designations are intended to hold the answer countable for its terrorist acts including cross border attacks threatening civilian populations infrastructure and commercial shipping. and we'll have more on that story later here on the bulletin let's move on because the push to make donald trump accountable for the riots at the u.s. capitol is gathering pace u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she will go ahead with impeachment proceedings against donald trump unless the vice president mike pence takes measures to remove him from office the 25th amendment allows pence and the cabinet to declare the president unfit to carry out his duties and new video emerging from wednesday's attack makes those calls for accountability even more urgent practical hain has more from washington d.c. . this video obtained by the washington post shows just how few police officers there were to keep rio

secretary of state mike pompei all canceled a planned trip to europe after luxembourg's foreign minister refused to meet him well fisher joins me now from the white house on this breaking news what else do we know about this. this coming just in the last vote or so we know that joss allbaugh who is the luxembourg foreign minister who was due to meet with might pompeo has been very critical of what he saw happen in the capital just last whedon's the in fact he described donald trump the president of the united states close. as a criminal and pyromaniac so he was very unhappy with what he saw clearly understood this to be an attack on democracy we know that might pompeo of course famously said that there could still be the possibility of a 2nd trump terram when he was asked that question and so i saw bomb has decided that he wasn't going to meet my pompei or my pump it was going to go from luxembourg all the way over to belgium not that far he was going to meet the belgian foreign minister and he was also going to have a private meeting with the secretary general of nato no it appears that

said washington will classify yemen's the rebels as foreign terrorists are less than 24 hours later pompei announced putting cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism let's bring in p.j. crowley he's a former u.s. assistant secretary of state for public affairs he joins us via skype from alexandria in virginia p.j. crowley we've seen the trumpet ministration make a series of these big last minute foreign policy changes on issues like taiwan yemen cuba why now and is this all about domestic politics do you think. well i think in 2 cases here there you can point to geopolitics certainly as you look at the 4 years of the trump administration and major story has been the dramatic decline in the relations between the united states and china so in the case of taiwan it is it is poking beijing in the eye with a stick as it as it goes 'd out the door i mean likewise the trump administration has paid a great deal of attention you know to to the middle east to chad breakthroughs this year in terms of relations between gulf states sudan and morocco you can question the that. 'd the nature

or policies for it it's good to see you again maybe you can explain to us here the thinking of mr pompei of al-qaeda is an extremist sunni muslim group in iran is run by shia muslim hardliners a meat can these 2 can they live in the same place can they be allons. if there was any conclusive evidence that there is some sort of an alliance between iran and al qaida then pompeo surely would have put that forward much earlier than he does now for him to come out with these last minute accusations 8 days before his his administration comes to an end is hardly convincing mindful of the fact that the administration has been pursuing maximum pressure against iran for 4 years if there was evidence for this they would have come out with that earlier on the reason why they're coming out now i suspect is because pompei o is trying to do absolutely everything he can to make it impossible for the by the administration to pursue diplomacy not just with iran but with other actors in the region as well and undo the mess that trump and pump aoe has caused i would point your attention to the terrorist list

well have to do partly with the causing problem for the buy to diminish rationed and partly with pompei you prepare himself for a 2024 run for the us presidency. china we know is clearly unhappy about this visit and i'm wondering what is the benefit to taiwan i'm dense taiwan have reason to believe that the biden administration will pick up in forward trumps policy. well thailand has been treated so badly hit by the rest of the world for so long that they simply cannot politically resist the temptation of hosting a cabinet level to see the 8 u.s. official which the u.s. and bus that to the u.n. and it's. and they may also calculate that one has a high level visit like the has happened it will be more difficult put it by the administration's to prove back and therefore u.s. taiwan relations will still be on a stronger basis moving forward but they're also mindful that they will have to pay a price because the chinese will be very angry and they will punish somebody and give the companies to us do you punish taiwan and one of their own to hong kong in this equation joe biden he's going to

secretary of state mike pompei oh there's al qaeda has established a new home base in iran he made that assertion without providing any hard evidence it appears to be a last minute diplomatic offensive against tehran in the final days of the trumpet ministration al qaeda has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran as a result dillard's wicked creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities we ignore this iran or qaeda nexus at our own peril we need to acknowledge it we must confront it indeed we must defeat it meanwhile pompei as boss u.s. president on trump has made his 1st public appearance since the attack on the capital last week he again accused democrats of a witch hunt over his 2nd impeachment trump says attempts to oust him are causing tremendous anger but added that he wants no violence. it's really a continuation of the greatest with your politics it. is absolutely ridiculous to be. watching demented anger you're doing it and it's really a general thing that they're doing. just to continue and i think it's a good thing they do our country and it's causing treme

secretary of state's mike pompei o is accused china of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against the muslims it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in cabs in recent years mostly in the jang rain. jhon activists have documented atrocities including rape torture and the sterilization of women china says the camps are centers for education and training pompei you issued this statement after what he said was a cur for examination of the facts and he also said i believe this genocide is ongoing and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy by the chinese party state. biden secretary of state nominee anthony blinken echoed his statement this senate confirmation hearing secretary pump designated the chinese communist party as having engaged in generous gurning do we muslim population do you agree with the judges well you do agree yes iran's president hassan rouhani has called on the biden administration to return to the nuclear deal which trump withdrew from in 2018 it's also called the outgoing administration's iran policy a complete failure to embr

secretary state might pompei or has condemned the arrest of alexina valley what do you make of pompei as a response and is it likely to make any difference in moscow in the dying days of the trump administration. it's hard to tell i mean look as it as you said these are the last days the dying days of the administration the real question is what will the biden administration do once it takes over in days from now in just a few days from now and that in and of itself remains unclear we don't fully know what but what type of policy by aims to pursue towards russia and the fact of the matter is putin always tests for an international response and if there's no strong pushback. he really interprets that as a signal to continue and that's an important point to make because president trump had a very cozy relationship with president putin and there was a response from the kremlin we know when joe biden won is moscow bracing itself then for more confrontational relationship with washington. while out to be perfectly frank i think the kremlin expected a difficult relationship with washington

state department mike pompei is a man who didn't know it 1st of all the boy didn't have one victory in the u.s. election last year has said that he is now determined to preside over a smooth transition. we are fully committed to the completion of a smooth and orderly transition process to be finalized over the next 8 days as a result we're canceling all planned travel this week including the secretary's trip to europe. well it seems that there was a different tale in the european union. where apparently. is the norm crossed it with the e.u. commission the european commission saying that new officials were prepared to meet . and we also some through diplomatic sources were barrister about the idea of meeting who had condemned the violence we saw the storming of the capitol building in washington last week but if refused to mention if the torch from had had any sort of impact on not the luxembourg foreign minister before from eggs didn't always. trump a criminal a political pyromaniac who should be sent to the criminal court he's a person who was elected democratically but who isn't inte

says it will end its decades old restrictions on official contact with taiwan secretary state mike pompei oh says officials interactions with their time in his counterparts have been regulated to appease beijing china views taiwan as his own territory and has worked to keep it isolated on the world stage the change comes just days before the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. is set to visit taiwan the highest ranking u.s. official to do so let's bring in russ feingold he's an asia political risk analyst who joins us via skype from taipei the capital of taiwan ross good to have you back on the program how significant is this statement then by mike pompei a because in the last few is the u.s. government wasn't sticking to most of these restrictions anyway. that that's correct these restrictions had existed on paper for decades but in reality in its recent interactions with the government of taiwan on a government to government level the united states had largely departed from these restrictions anyway regardless of the fact that the united states is making this. an official announcement it's cert

the danger the iranians though have dismissed american claims the foreign minister tweeting that pompey or was pathetically ending his disastrous career with more war mongering lies relations between washington and tehran have deteriorated even farther in the last 12 months. in january last year the u.s. carried out the targeted killing of kassam cilla money the head of iran's revolutionary guard force in baghdad and a u.s. aircraft carrier his company in the region responding to what the americans call threats from people has claimed links between iran and al qaeda in the past without providing any firm evidence one expert says this is more of the same if there were any whatsoever they would have rolled that out very quickly and very early in order to further justify the maximum pressure campaign against you are they my pump has been cranking up the pressure on iran in recent weeks and is even unknownst fresh sanctions those close to joe biden believe that this is calculated the intention to make it more difficult for him to reengage with iran when he takes over on january the 20th ala

or policies for it it's good to see you again maybe you can explain to us here the thinking of mr pompei of al-qaeda is an extremist sunni muslim group in iran is run by shia muslim hardliners a meat can these 2 can they live in the same place can they be allies. if there was any conclusive evidence that there is some sort of an alliance between iran and al qaida then pompeo surely would have put that forward much earlier than he does now for him to come out with these last minute accusations 8 days before his his administration comes to an end is hardly convincing mindful of the fact that the administration has been pursuing maximum pressure against iran for 4 years if there was evidence for this they would have come out with that earlier on the reason why they're coming out now i suspect is because pompei 0 is trying to do absolutely everything he can to make it impossible for the by the administration to pursue diplomacy not just with iran but with other actors in the region as well and undo the mess that trump and pump aoe has caused i would point your attention to the terrorist list

or policies trade it's good to see you again maybe you can explain to us here the thinking of mr pompei of al qaida is an extremist sunni muslim group iran is run by shia muslim hardliners i meet these 2 can they live in the same place can they be allons. if there was any conclusive evidence that there is some sort of an alliance between iran and al qaida then pompeo surely would have put that forward much earlier than he does now for him to come out with these last minute accusations 8 days before his his administration comes to an end is hardly convincing mindful of the fact that the administration has been pursuing maximum pressure against iran for 4 years if there was evidence for this they would have come out with that earlier on the reason why they're coming out now i suspect is because pompei o is trying to do absolutely everything he can to make it impossible for the by that administration to pursue diplomacy not just with iran but with other actors in the region as well and undo the mess that trump and pump aoe has caused i would point your attention to the terrorist listing of

secretary of state mike pompei it says al qaeda has established a new home base in iraq he provided no evidence to back up his statement it appears to be a last minute diplomatic offensive against iran in the final days of the trump administration . indonesia's president were due to has become the 1st person in the country to be vaccinated against coronavirus he was given the chinese made corona van. into the ship plans to inoculate more than 190000000 people about 2 thirds of the population by box next year next nation of health workers will begin infections. more than 9000 per day more than 24000 people have died since the pandemic began jessica washington joins me now from the indonesian capital you know what is it to these is a huge country comprising of many islands so where does the rollout begin one presumes with health care workers to start with. well that's right into the asia has been hit hard by the code 19 pandemic what we saw this morning at the presidential palace kicks off an effort to vaccinate millions in the world's 4th most populous country president djoko widows vac

is a storm the capitol building in washington last week near nazi sympathizers this could have put pompei you in a bit of a pickle it seems to trump administration will come to an end in a blaze of glory within a few weeks of very lax where. europe is suffering a new surgeon covert cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest daily rates and sausage emerging from one of germany's worst affected regions is highlighting to how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies are piling up in a queue for a crime a tory i'm in saxony but coffin stark one on top of the other often simply labeled with words like code it and in sections risk. but it comes as the european union struggles to maintain unity over covert vaccine purchases brussels is urging member states to keep to the block centralized distribution scheme but not all seems to be keeping to the agreement as artie's piece all of the reports. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan as colp against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an

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secretary of state mike pompei i was accusing china of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against we go muslims it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the region activists have documented atrocities including rape torture and the sterilization of women china says the camps are centers for education and training pompei issued this statement after what he said was a careful examination of the facts or you also said i believe this genocide is ongoing and that we're witnessing the systematic attempts to destroy by the chinese party state by then secretary of state nominee anthony blinken echoed his statement at these senate confirmation hearing secretary pump. the chinese communist party as having engaged in general regarding the weaker more muslim population do you agree with the judges well you do agree yes. as we mentioned earlier joe biden will take the oath under the shadow of a pandemic that's hit the u.s. harder than anywhere else a mutation strains been detected in the state of california different from a more contagious

department has designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism a statement from secretary of state mike pompei or said that cuba had repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism by granting safe harbor to terrorists in 2015 then president barack obama delisted cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism in order to normalize relations at augustan reports now from havana. this announcement by the trumper ministration today is transparently motivated by domestic political and. the primary reason that doing it is to make it more difficult for 'd the incoming by the administration to normalize relations with the cuban government. wants and needs normalize relations with the u.s. and it's no secret that the biden administration has of course joe biden as president who was involved in the negotiations. with which you go back in 201415 and many on the transition team have experience because they should have accused this is something of a time bomb none of this tells you to get in the way and make it more difficult for the organization to proceed i'm looking down the press statement that w

department has designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism a statement from secretary of state by pompei 0 said that cuba had repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism by granting safe harbor to terrorists it also accuses cuba of harboring american fugitives wanted for political violence in 2015 then president barack obama delisted cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism in order to normalize relations and the u.s. is also moving to designate yemen's who think movement of foreign terror groups the decision to blacklist the iran backed organization could undermine peace negotiation efforts the u.k.'s health system is on the severe pressure from rising corona virus infections the health minister says that all than 32000 people are in hospitals with covert 19 and that the government is prepared to introduce tougher restrictions what do you see here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next. torture enforced disappearances the lack of human rights the story of guantanamo bay more than 10 years ago one man promised the detention center would close so incoming u.s. presi

state department has designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism 60 of state marc pompei o says cuba has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism by granting safe harbor to terrorists 2015 then president barack obama removed cuba from the list to normalize relations malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency at the request of the country's embattled prime minister who he didn't just and says additional powers are needed to stop a surge in covert 19 cases critics say it's an attempt by an unstable government to cling to power comes at a time when some of the prime ministers coalition partners have been calling for his resignation and snap elections. indonesian search and rescue teams have recovered more human remains in the java sea days after a passenger plane crashed with 62 people on board as victims' families more divers are searching the waters to the north of jakarta looking for the aircraft's black boxes devices are expected to shed light on the reasons behind the plane sudden plunge just minutes after takeoff. those are the headlines for news here

send a signal and to move that political process forward he quoted his boss secretary of state mike pompei a quite extensively in his remarks and again promised to try to work with aid agencies to resolve the concerns they have about getting food to needy people. this message is already being taken to the next administration we certainly don't expect any changes before president champ leaves office on the 9th on the 20th and the 19th is when this is supposed to go into effect but already calls are being made to joe biden to reverse this decision and no response yet but they have promised to look at these last minute foreign policy decisions being made by the trump administration once they're in office chris and guys who it doesn't seem to be the united nations in new york. health care workers improve going on strike demanding better working conditions the country is experiencing a surge in corona virus cases and those on the front line often without the equipment needed to keep them safe and save lives by on a sanchez reports now from lima. putting pressure on an already strained health sy

has warned the move could tip the country into a large scale famine secretary of state might pompei or says the who these must be held accountable for what he calls terrorist acts hundreds of migrants in honduras are heading for guatemala they're planning to walk thousands of kilometers through central america and to the u.s. has deployed more than 2000 police and soldiers along its borders those with headlines question of all of the stories on our web site at al-jazeera dot com witnesses next to stay with us. what is that we have been doing with the money that it's boring we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in seen as congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars from the super rich to support families hit hard by the endemic counting the cost on al-jazeera. are. about. most only one. little boy in a fun little less than an asian man. living room. that's going to. the moon i'm loving. and even i remember that the pool room does so. somewhere oh i just thank channel that and a half an hour connect. as well all. over.

her give him some leverage around to wait and see what we're referring to secretary of state mike pompei on his way out the door released a statement accusing the chinese government of genocide when it comes to the weavers now this isn't necessarily going to be a difference for joe biden his 6 presidential campaign put out a statement saying what's happening amounts to genocide and let's not forget pompei is not the secretary of state 24 hours so the biden team can simply choose to ignore him or they could pursue that policy it does trigger some actions at the state department but again he's on his way out the door so he could be trying to send a message to complicate the chinese relationship with the incoming by did ministration but the biden ministration really is on the same page it seems so we'll have to wait and see how that plays out but this isn't necessarily something that biden doesn't agree with and passion we have to remember an emotional joe biden talking about his is posture the presidency. you know unfortunately i wasn't able to hear joe biden because i was coming up these

is ending decades of restrictions on official contacts with taiwan secretary of state might pompei or says it's time to change rules that have been in place to appease beijing china views taiwan as its own territory and so the u.s. announcement is likely to increase tensions as the new administration prepares to take over in washington d.c. with all analyst either tangan joins us now live from beijing 1st of all how do you think beijing is likely to react to this u.s. move. well very quickly and very harshly they're only going to be tempered by the fact that they know this is a last ditch effort not by donald trump but actually by pompei o seems to be intense on putting up as many roadblocks as possible against biden doing anything and in essence creating political attack points he has his own presidential ambitions and he's trying to set the table for i'm glad you mentioned that point do you think beijing is likely to say that it's china that is being targeted here all perhaps the by the administration in the manner you mentioned well they might understand by an administration but th

trader nice to have you with us and it is no surprise i guess bad that secretary pompei wants to focus on iran it has been a focus of the state departments and it's day one however the fact that he went to such specifics about individuals and sanctions alike and didn't really seem to back any of it up with actually any hard evidence or that is his modus operandi if there are as many lies as possible makes it really difficult for people to sort through what is lie and what is true i think we have seen now that the priority for trump instruction for compañero has not been either if it had been they would have gone after those who are funding it which includes individuals as saudi arabia instead is that a stray she has shielded saudi arabia they would not have supported the war in yemen mindful of the fact that the u.s. intelligence pointed out that it was the who these that was the main force against al qaida instead the trumpet mistreated has been fighting the hooty the priority for this assertion the focus of this administration has been this obsession with war with iraq and this appea

well my pompei also says these designations will provide additional tools to confront terrorist activity and terrorism by. a deadly iran bat's militia group in the gulf region the designations are intended to hold. accountable for its terrorist acts including cross border attacks threatening civilian populations infrastructure and commercial shipping well earlier we spoke with hussein alba a pro who the journalist from the yemeni capital sana'a he says the designation will have a major effect on the ongoing peace talks. i was expecting this to have been there like a many many months ago because. they have u.s. policy in the region and they the united states would like that and they will build them in a terrorist organization this action will actually undermine the dispose us but to be honest this is actually will be in favor of the military wing of. the holy see because for the last 6 years the peace process actually hasn't done anything it is even here and somehow they are blaming mr griffith. to be biased towards saudi arabia that he's not actually trying to bring peace into yemen and

had something more pressing on his agenda but anyway he's off to texas his secretary of state mike pompei o is also speaking i believe about 25 minutes from now. mike pompeo has had an interesting 2 or 3 weeks he's done a lot on twitter he's hailed a lot of what he calls successes of the trump campaign among them he claimed that the summit with kim jong un was a success quite how we characterize is that i'm not entirely sure but he's also some critics believe setting fires that would be difficult for the by the administration to put out just about 24 hours ago he designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism joining a list that includes north korea syria and iran and now he is going to make a speech at the national press club here in washington d.c. where he is going to claim according to all reports that iran has links with al qaeda no this isn't something new we've had this before we had it before 911 we had to after 911 largely debunked the say that there is nor official connection between either of them certainly there are intelligence officials who say this simply isn't true but you r

secretary of state mike pompei o called it the latest in a series of russian attempts to silence no volley meanwhile the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief joseph burrell called on russian authorities to respect misson of all these rights and release him immediately and german foreign minister heikal mosse reiterating that call he said of all these arrest was completely in comprehensible all right well let's see if those words of condemnation will be turned into words of action or rather turn into action want to turn out to your going heart he is a foreign policy spokesman for chance on america's ruling conserve is a very good day sir great to have you a with us what are the german government's options when it comes to russia. if as i would like to say that. the trip back of nobody back to russia is not only a brave but very patriotic move of nobody he shows to the people in russia and or over the road he is a russian patriot he wants to change the political situation in its country and therefore he wants to go back and he is now back in russia with or consequences this is something that impress

look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. a secretary of state mike pompei and says he is lifting restrictions on contacts between u.s. officials and their taiwanese counterparts that's likely to anger beijing and increasing u.s. and china tensions as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations kelly craft is to visit taiwan next week for high level meetings that has prompted china to warn washington it is playing with fire for his insightful leadership thousands of protesters gathered in jerusalem on saturday calling for the israeli prime minister to resign it's the latest in what's become a weekly protests outside benyamin netanyahu is residence this comes after that now his trial on corruption charges was postponed indefinitely due to the country's 3rd coronavirus lockdown he israeli leader to nice any wrongdoing. and security has been bolstered around the u.s. capitol following serious concern over a breach that led to a mob of donald trump supporters storming the building earlier this week more than 6000 national guard troops will be in washington d.c. wh

secretary of state by pompei it says al qaeda has established a new home base in iran he provided no evidence to back up his statement it appears to be a last minute diplomatic offensive against iran in the final days of the trumpet ministration and indonesia's president who are due to become the 1st person in the country to be vaccinated against coronavirus he was given the chinese made corona indonesia plans to inoculate more than 180000000 people about 2 thirds of the population by march next year backs a nation of health workers will begin on thursday infections are at their peak more than $9000.00 per day and china has reported $115.00 new krona virus cases the highest a the increase in more than 5 months authorities have put 3 cities in hervey province under lockdown to curb the spread before the upcoming luna holiday those will have lots more news in half an hour we return to witness to stay with us. that's. you. under the story emerged at least be and listen to the story. that i really believe this is harlan county usa. i saw this movie when i was 19 everybody glad on the big

wait until they see what impacts there are i have to say the bigger issue right no is the secretary pompei out as the notes the designation but these exemptions of waivers the treasury department is meant to put together that allows the u.s. and usa id the u.s. aid organization and international n.g.o.s to work in yemen still not in place so when this comes into force in southern days there is the possibility that no one will be able to work in the country and even a short term shock of $1.00 to $3.00 weeks of nothing coming in again could drive prices up and could have a pretty devastating effect at least in the short. this is there's been a lot of outcry over several of the president's actions in the past few days obviously do you feel that perhaps this isn't getting a lot of attention because yemen is in many ways one of the forgotten crises of the world that doesn't get a lot of attention and because of that i guess no one really cares enough to try to resolve it not that it would be easy but do you think that's part of it i think that definitely plays into that this is been left so th

and china as much as possible and that followed an announcement by mike pompei or that the u.s. would send its ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft to visit taiwan this week on wednesday but we have had an even stronger response today from chinese state media on monday writing in an editorial saying that this move was dangerous for taiwan and that china wouldn't hesitate to use its military force to defend what it it considers its own territory right now katrina as i mentioned beijing is vowing to fight back what kind of options are on the table for beijing. well thomas president xi jinping has made no secret of the fact that he wants to retake taiwan he sees taiwan as a rogue state and beijing sees rediff occasion between taiwan and mainland as inevitable but many analysts that we have spoken to say that time china is far from ready to do that militarily may take 510 or even more years so what they might do initially is probably send its fighter jets across to the taiwan strait and put pressure on the taiwanese government that way they might also impose trade sanctions some of su