south eastern china you might see the increasing showers as i mentioned. the high right about 22 here your friday. i do want to take your attention here to peru. it feels like this has been a repeated story. this season has been exceptionally intense across the country especially north of lima where you've been getting this on shore flow of moisture out here. that's been causing some severe flooding. i'll show you some of the video we have coming out of this area here just outside of lima where severe flooding has been rather intense. you can see with these incredible aerial images. the death toll has risen from 50 to 62 now in recent days. over 500,000 people have been displaced and it's for the reasons you can see here. people having to be evacuated and across the road using the efforts right there. the forecast, unfortunately, we are still in wet season and really last all the way out to april. we're still expecting more showers out across this area. that's going to be an ongoing story as we look ahead. also i want to take your attention here across the

that is bringing heavy showers in the south eastern areas of china.o want to know this is kind of foreshadowing the start of the rainy season out here. we're getting to that time of year. somebody keep in mind if you live across this area increasing chances of flooding especially around the river there. take a look at your temperatures. we have the scattered showers. taipei at 23. the tokyo getting up to 14 with sunny skies in the forecast. western europe. look at this low right here. you have another low moving back towards the north. this one is cut off from the jet stream. that means it will be lingering here. this is bringing foul weather. i'll show you video that we have coming out of spain here on thursday. pretty heavy snowfall. five centimeters or more has been reported across this area. even in madrid temperatures dropped as low as minus 1.5 degrees celsius. this is the first time below freezing temperatures have been seen in that city since january 26th. about ten degrees below the average. snow is still forecasted out there. some of these a

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south korean reports that beijing's move is in retaliation to the finland deployment of an advanced u.s. missile defense system for china's eastern neighbor. the missile system is the terminal high altitude aerial defense, known as thaad. the south korean foreign ministry said if true china's measure would be regrettable as it would artificially curb normal human exchanges. chinese travelers accounted for nearly half of all foreign tourists visiting south korea last year. the acting president indicated his country will not change its deployment plans. >> translator: we expect china's opposition to the system to intensify as the deployment begins. we will monitor china's measures against us and put more effort into having more talks with china. we will also make provisions for any necessary measures. china's foreign ministry was quick to react. >> translator: south korea shouldn't say uncertain things and wrap itself up in suspicion. instead it should listen to the people's voices and take proper measures if he doesn't want to cause more damage to exchanges in cooperation between the two countries. >> seoul says the missile defens

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eastern europe, you have russian aggression. you have china flexing its muscles in the south china sea. ung, korea, kim jun threatening his neighbors and also the united states. you need someone to restore national order. but united do that states? power states is the only with the global reach. so that's why. said before, if the u.s. retreats from that role, you and leave behind a vacuum the bad guys in the situation. didn't sident obama sad crossed the red lines. putin has stepped in and has facts on the grounds that has made a solution much difficult now. guest: david is calling in from smiths grove kentucky on our democratic line. david. caller: hey, how you doing in i've always admired you. i've watched you for years on tv, and i think we need people pragmatic at have views of the world and russia europe. i just wanted to ask, how did view untries of europe trump and also, what are the military capabilities of nato? thank you. guest: first, on trump, well, i to say that in europe, it crisis in h like the the united states. of course, people are divided on a lot of there's skepticis

been a little bit too cautious in responding to putin's aggression in eastern europe, and likewise chinese assertiveness in the south chinabama was slow responding to the rise of my soul. -- the rise of isil. the question is, can the new team resolve those doubts query and -- resolve those doubts? . they have raised new doubts. it is so early i think they have time to write the ship. when secretary tillerson and secretary mathis meet with our allies, the allies seem to be reassured by what they hear and how the u.s. will lead going forward. tom: we greatly appreciate that. are you sure this dialogue -- it comes up to a new world order. is there a new economic world order as well or are you still saying there is a britain would consensus or a get consensus? >> i think one comes with the other. the old talk about alliance between the u.s. and western europe, that has been as much as political as economic. the newt signals by administration, taken at face value, they want to renegotiate everything and start from scratch. as a european, that has been alienating people in europe. they don't understand where the u.s. wants to g