but as nick schifrin reports, the announcement increases already escalating tensions with the united states. >> schifrin: judy, the iran dent made a funda trade: iran restricted its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions reef. one year ago today, the trump administration withdrew from the deal, and has since re-imposed sanction today, iran said it would not abide by all the deal's restrictions. number one, the deal limits iran's stockpiles of low- enriched uranium, wh nuclear fuel, and heavy water, which is used to operate a clear reactor. today iran said it would no longerdhere to those limits. and if iran does exceed the caps, it will no longer be in compliance. and then iran threatened even more dramatic actions: to produce a bomb, u need to enrich uranium at 90%. before the deal, iran enched uranium at nearly 20%, which u.s. intelligence said meant iran could break out and creat a bomb within a few months. after the deal, iran enriched uranium at 3.67% and removed most of its centrifuges, moving breakout time to more than one year. today, iran said if it doesn't receive econom

>> schifrin: but on may 19, a rocket att k landed less than a mile from the u.s. embassy in baghdad. iranian-backed militia commanders later disavowed the attack. and today, shanahan suggested that military deployhad prevented iranian attacks. >> schifrin: we now hear from two senators who were at today's briefing. we begin with new jersey democrat robert menendez, ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee. senator menendez, welcome back to the newshour. wre you reassured by the intelligence tha presented today and the u.s. actions in response to that intelligence over the last couple week >> well, not reassured that we don't ve an environment in which a miscalculation on either side can take place. a miscalculation that then canra acce into a more major conflict. and so that is deeply concerning r me. and stiains concerning, especially after everything i heard. and the second rt that i am also very concerned about is at i do not get a sense fromra the adminiion that they have a strategy to takthir maximum pressure campaign and turn it into a diplom

thanks, nick. >> schifrin: we now turn to ambassador wdy sherman. e was the lead u.s. negotiator for the nuclear agreement with iran during the obama administration, and is senior fellow at the bell ford center at harvard. you heard me ask brian hook where the u.s. intention is to provoke iran, to wage war, which we heard from the iranian ambassador. >> i hope that the u.s. intention is not to provoke iran to leave the deal or to provoke iran into a regional conflict. indeed, i think that president rouhani very carefully threaded nge needle today, not lea the deal, but beginning to take steps to say, "please, le's not escalate the situation." i wish the trumpministration were as measured in its approach. and i would say to bryan hook that-- and to the trump administration-- what have they gotten as a result of withdrawing from this deal a year ago? there is more maligned behavior in the msdle east, not les. americans are still in prison and missing in iran.l the iranian pedo not have more freedom. and the administration has set iran back on a path to perhaps working to

nick schifrin reports on fears that it might lead to silencing critics of beijing. >> schifrin: idowntowng ng, the protestors, and the brumellas they hold to symbolize resistance, fill a city street. last month, more than 100,000 demonstrated peacefully. in a city that's long valuedpe indendence, thtr say a new exition law can be used to shackle them to mainland china.( translated ): once this law has been passed, it won't matter if you are an average person or a foreigner coming through hong kong, there will be a possibility you'll be taken and sent off to the mainland. ( marching and chanting ) >> schifrin: they demonstrated in march outside the local government headquarters. they describe the law as "rendition," allowing chinaap to kidnnd imprison any hong kong residents or visitors accused ofri significant-- and any hong kong leading activists critical of the chinese governme, like joshua ng. >> perhaps in the worst scenario, activists mimat be jailed iinland china, even though they are permanentng hong koesidents. >> schifrin: buthe people's republic of china is fighting in. one week

welcome back to the newshour. >> great to be with you. >> schifrin: let's start big picture. we saw a weakeninof the centre-left and the centre-right parties that have dominated european politics for decades. does that mean the european union, the european experims ent itselftting weaker? >> well, the european unity that was once held by these two traditional parties, the centre-right and the cent-left, that order is ending. so there is some new organic forces coming into ple . certainly rage right is here to stay. they earned 25% of the vote. but theres a new exciting force coming to the forefront, the liberals, the the green party. there a regeneration. what this means right now is there is total fragmentation. really no one party can hold a majority. now it will take two, three,ev four parties to put forward a majority. and european leaders don't kno how to do that type ofty complet the european level. so we are in some unchartered t it's exciting but probably not the excitement that those 28 european leaders tught they uld have. >> schifrin: no, it usually isn't these day

and no child should have to be able to do tha >> schifrin: it wasn't always that way.illage runs along a stream where oleg and s cousin yarik grew up swimming. they are best friends, and even on the front lines, boys find time to be boys. but at school, the camera lingers on oleg's face as classmates talk about what to do if they find mines. elementary school students practice escaping to the school basement. and oleg gets caught out of the house too late, after the nightly shelling begins. it was overwhelming and scary, he told us in an interview earlier this year. >> ( translated ): each time we went to the basement, i was afraid. i was sced that shells would fall somewhere near. i was hoping that our housldand school wemain unharmed. it was very scary to me. nei was worried for everyo in my family. ( making gun sounds ) >> schifrin: as time goes on, especially with his older friend kostya, oleg's innocence evaporates. e pretends to be a soldier. when the kids ar an old industrial warehouse, they're fascinated by the tools of war. and oleg begins to lose his fear..no

as nick schifrin reports, humanitarian groups fear the fighting could set off the worst crisis of the eight-year-old war. >> and a warningimsome of the ages in this report are >> schifrin: in idlib's valley of the shadow of death, there is no walking to safety. only run ng. >> allahu akbar, allah! sxplosion) >>chifrin: and praying that on this day, the bomb misses its target. but for so many, they fear this th the end. e slow and brutal end of the last major rebel-held province, where streets that used to be markets, are bombed into mangled messes, and funeral pyres, where what looks like snow is actually bomb's aftermath. and a baby's future seems as blacas night. idlib is in syria's northwest, controlled by rebels and extremists in green, the final refuge of syrians opposed to their vernment, in red. it is a few hundred miles from u.s. and kurdish-controlled areas, in yellow. ntse months ago with presi recep tayeb erdogan and vladimir putin looking on, turkey and russia signed a deal that was tapposed to make idlib a demized buffer zone. but turkey has failed to deliver on promises

ti nick schifrin reports, china's top negoator left washington without an agreement. >> schifrin: onunny friday morning in washington, trade war escalated with a handshake. thtop chinese and u.s. netiators ended their 11th round of talks cordially, but the two countries are in economic conict. today, the u.s. increased tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion of chinese exports, includinseafood, luggage, purses, and parts sold to u.s. companies suchs circuit boards, microprocessors, and machinery.d e u.s. is threatening to go even further and impose tariffs on all cell phones, clothing, anlaptops made in china, and exported to the u.s. in response, the chinese foreign ministry vowed "necessary countermeasures," and spokesman geng shuang asked the u.s. to give a little. >> ( translated ): the two sides need to meet each other halfway. >> schifrin: but the u.s. accuses china of not going halfway. u.s. officials say that over 11 rounds of negotiations, they0 hammered out aage deal with changes to chinese laws that would open the chinese market to u. companies, and protect u.s. technology

. >> schifrin: he was disoriented, and used his adopted name: abdul hamid. >> schifrin: but john walker lindh was unmistakably american. >> my father? myather's name, you mean? it was frank. >> schifrin: lindh was a 20-year-old american who become an american enemy, captured alongside taliban fighters in late 2001. he was born in california, grew dup in washington, d.c., converted to islam. in 2000, h e traveled to this religious school in pakistan to study quran. and then he crossed the border into afghanistan, to volunteer to fight foraliban. he arrived at the front on september 6, just before 9/11. he was captured in dber, and c.i.a. officer johnny "mike" spann interrogated him in video filmed by afghan intelligence. >> hey, look at me. do you know the people that you're here working with are terrorists? >> schifrin: shortly after, prisoners,ncluding lindh rioted, and spann was killed. law enfoement brought lindh back to face charges in spann's death, but in a plea bargain, he only admto illegally supporting the taliban. this week, spann's daughter alison wrote to president trump req

e our nick schifrin is herwith an update. >> schifrin: hormuz strait of hormuz hello, nick. >> hi, judy. >> nawaz: what do we know? >> the saudis are accuseing t howities of launching an armed drone against twopiaudi pg stations inside saudi arabia and they did claim credit for this one. s saudi officis, this is a game changer. ev have seen attacks before, but we haver seen an attack with this level of precision, never flown so far from thir bases in yemen with an armed drone, and they have flavor hit state-owned oil targets with such success according to a saudi official. a former u.s. intelligence official with experience manyia saudi arays, let's take this with a grain of salt. they have attacked oil lities in saudi arabia before and they have flown this far into saudi arabia. saudi arabia just doesn't make those attacks publicly usually. thisttack was close to riyadh, the capital of saudi arabia. it was by a group that even th u.n. says receives weapons or missile parts from iran itselha, and ira vowed to attack saudi arabia some we're getting a lot of concern from both saudi and u.

ntto put these moves into t, i'm joined by our nick schifrin. so hello, nick.st of all, what are they talking about deploying? >> they're talking about 1,500 additional tops in four categories, an additional fighter squadron t the middle east, e tending the deployment of patriot missile, intelligence and reconnaissance -- dr ies to monitn and proxies -- and engineers to strengthen. they looked around the region d they say they're actually at a lower posture than a few years ago and iranaghas adva in the region, so they felt they had to rei inforce andist that this is defensive, that they are responding to iranian actions and that their goal is not toa fight n but, instead, to get iran back to the negotiating table. and you talked with senator tim cotton of arkansas -- tom cotton, sorry, of arkansas a few minutes ago and he echoed that statement. >> i believe it's the right steps to increase the force posture in the middle east. the intelligence coming from the middle east and the thsing at iran might take imminent action against u.s. personnel or facilities has

here to unpack allf this is foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin. so the u.s.s we've got thise onse we have to have against iran. what is it exactly we are deploying the >> you mentioned it, a carrier strike group, the u.s.s. abraham lincoln and about half a dozen other ships. and the carrier strike group that sails together is one of the most visible and potent, frankly, of aspects of u.s. military. alongside that is a bomber task force, a collection of b-51 or b-52 bombers. what we saw from national security advolor john bn in an unusual statement last night, usual in that not only when it came out but the national security advisor announcedli ry movements like this, he said this was to send a clear an unmistakable message that any attack will be met with unrelentable force. so military officials say the abraham lincoln carrier strike group was on the way to the b middle east, this advanced this by a few weeks so think rai get there earlier. air force officials say they are still figuring out which will get there when but this will increase their lethalky in

r.at makes it the second worst ebola outbreak e but as nick schifrin reports, experts fear the outbreakincreasing,he virus could soon spread. >> reporter: this is all that's left of a health clinic in democratic republic of congo north kivu. a local militia burned it down and threatened t doctors. since january there have been dozens of deadly attacks on clinics-- where beds nowit under openky. in geneva today, the w.h.o. honored a murdered d.r.c. health worker. and director general tedros adhanom ghebreyesus warned the risk that ebola could spread to other countries was "very high." >> we are fighting one of the world's most dangerous viruses in one of the world's most dangerous areas. >> reporter: for a quarter century the region's residents have fled from armeextremist groups and militias. they attack the military and anyone who collaborates with the government. that means villages devastated by violence, now also wracked by disease, aren't safe for health workers, allowing the disease to spread. international organizations sit with villagers to fight deep distrust of foreign doctors

amy asked you earlier in the show, nick schifrin reported f n two e several flashpoints in the world,this case north korea and iran, but we don't see voters responding to polls. policy in why is this not an issue in this >>mpaign and what are the issues? think in 2008, foreign policy was popular becausehe iraq war was unpopular and there was a dividing line between barack obama and hillary clion on o supported the war, so that made that a big issue.av now we don't that same issue dominating the issue set for voters, democrat or republican. instead, what we're finding is what democrats are really concerned about, there's a poll that came out today, nbc "wall street journal," overwhelming issue for democrats healthcare, overwhelming issue for republica immigration, not prize surprising. those are things that are taking up most of the oxygen. more broadly, healthcare andom ec are the two top issues. >> tam? regular people in america that the candidates are coming in ctact with on a regular basis, they started asking about foreign policy, but not to go back to 2016 again and again, i was