from the us president and in a resistance close to us talking or president trump telling the world that the commander in chief possesses neither a moral compass nor the intellectual capacity to protect the country trump has called the letter gutless and he's demanding the new york times reveal the author on the grounds of national security or those closest to trump including vice president pence have come out one by one denying that they had anything to do with the weather the one thing that no one is denying the presidency of donald trump may have been changed forever i am part of the resistance inside the trumpet ministration the headline proclaims i work for the president but like minded colleagues and i have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda the new york times describes the author as a senior official in the government his claims have sparked controversy and of course damning criticism from the president in south. if the failing new york times has an anonymous editorial. meeting got a godless editorial. we're doing a great job the poll numbers are through the roof our poll numbers

many faltering from eight days in a i’ow many faltering from eight days in a row as the us presidentses the sta kes row as the us president raises the stakes in the heated trade dispute with china. later today, high level trade talks between the european union and the united states take place in brussels, with the aim of resolving the on—going trade dispute. us trade representative robert lighthizer will meet eu trade chief cecilia malmstrom to discuss how to build closer trading ties. let's see how the dispute began: in march, the trump administration hit the eu with increased import tariffs, which included 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium. the eu retaliated by increasing tariffs on $3.1 billion worth of us products, such as bourbon whiskey and motorcycles. however president trump and european commission president jean—claude juncker agreed to a trade truce injuly, which included the us not implementing its threat of raising tariffs on european cars. however disagreements remain. the eu wants to scrap car tariffs permanently as part of the trade deal — a proposal that trump rejects

us. it talks about president moon saying that the time is now to deliver an agreement.ings the sense it is really important that something is done, something concrete is done, more thanjust done, something concrete is done, more than just what we see on the screens, as more than just what we see on the screens, as in the warm hugs, the handshakes, the smiles, it is important real business is done. yes. the fact that this is the third time that the leaders the koreas have met. i think you are right with the mood music and the cadence of this is accelerating, they want to co—host the summer olympics in 2032. they are talking about allowing family visits and cooperating on healthcare and linking up railways. obviously the big goal is the denuclearisation of the korean peninsula. what is written in these articles sounds quite hopeful, but at the same time, they are not sceptical, as such, but they are basically saying there is a lot riding on this. and we can see that things can change quite quickly. it is interesting when they say they wa nt to is interesting when they say

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he got fifty eight percent of the vote the president abdoulaye i mean has conceded defeat the us president donald trump has just arrived at the united nations in new york for the annual general assembly meeting the two day gathering brings together leaders from across the world mr trump are set to speak on tuesday as is the iranian leader hassan rouhani tensions between the two powers is growing following an attack in the iranian city of ours several days ago hong kong has burned a pro independence political party accusing it of being a threat to national security this means anyone who runs or supports the hong kong national party can be fined or jailed a second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh she spoken to the new yorker magazine about an incident during his time at yale university was to have an organized both allegations. pope francis has arrived in the latvian capital for the second leg of a tour of the baltic states he's visiting latvia lithuania and estonia to mark one

it can be offered if it's on the stories making news around the bud china has hit back at us president dollar trump after he accused the country of trying to meddle in the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections a foreign ministry spokesman said beijing did not interfere in country other countries internal affairs trump made the allegation on wednesday saying beijing wanted to sway the elections against his republican party due to his stuff stance on trade. and clashes have erupted between anti india protests and police in indian controlled kashmir protests just threw stones while police fired tear gas and shotgun pellets the protest is angry about the death of a young man killed by indian troops last week rebel groups in indian controlled kashmir have been fighting for independence or a margit with pakistan since one thousand. now for a quick look at a video that's gone viral here's the moment when the scene slapped a kayaker in the face with an octopus. card melinda was battling of that goes to cry cooler in new zealand this is what happened. to. my first bicycle was a sawing machine. i com

one week off the us president donald trump's deadline for the trade talks with tannadice are wrapped up there's still no agreement that canada's top diplomat chrystia freeland says there is still goodwill on both sides officials from both countries worked through the night on a number of issues the u.s. wants an end to subsidies because of these canada's dairy industry and the right to enter the media and communications markets canada wants a mechanism to resolve trade disputes that doesn't involve going through the lengthy us court system to say only that progress is being made. germany's export is a thriving despite punitive tariffs and other trade barriers new figures show that in july germany said one hundred eleven billion euros worth of products brought that was a rise of seven point six percent on the previous year to mond was especially strong and european union countries but imports well they also grew strongly twelve percent on. at last he is touting. if he has been flying british airways recently this next piece of news might apply to you the airlines reporting a data brea

they are holding talks later today to lay the groundwork for a meeting between the us president and theister shinzo abe. the president trump has made it clear he is unhappy with the two thirds of auto ex—boss and he wa nts to two thirds of auto ex—boss and he wants to have an agreement that addresses it. last year's us deficit with japan trade was third behind china. and mexico at $71 billion. according to the nikkei newspaper, japan could potentially lower ta riffs japan could potentially lower tariffs on us agricultural imports by lowering those figures. a great deal of japanese cars are exported to the us. what is interesting is that the us would have gotten those lower agricultural tariffs had they remained in the trans—pacific partnership multilateral trade agreement. japan keen to avoid the high tariffs on cars and they want to use negotiations with eu cou nterpa rts to use negotiations with eu counterparts for a free trade pact asa counterparts for a free trade pact as a model for how they should deal with the us going forward. we will keep an eye on that as it progresses. the us

and the us president donald trump has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against peopleall countries found to have meddled in american elections trumpets vice months of criticism for not doing enough to prevent potential foreign interference in future votes it's all to coming with the mid-term elections in the united states less than two months away now and that is a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera our documentary series this is europe is next. ugandan pop star turned politician now charged with treason between east on bail and. is the only way you can poke fun that name but again if the president be taking that robert. bobby weiner talks to al-jazeera. they are so gentle that she and the polish i'm still talking spirit and are going to go on tough on crime or die on the park and play sports and also not. buy on spawn twine. don't bomb outside the store the long long months and months fanciers up. understand for me a little bit about in a political mind what are you how the media is how they did clean up into radiances on monday and chips. into the number could

and yet flip that around he also says the trade wall was already up and running before he became us president it can't be both well the president is known to make comments that later on are fact checked and and but nonetheless he is trying to underscore his his point i suppose at least by again reaffirming with his base that he's made good on his promise to start a trade war and that he isn't afraid to start one with china especially the try to close that trade deficit gap that currently exists and so he's made good on his promise he wants the base to know that again we're facing midterm elections where republicans stand a very good chance of losing control of the house of representatives and now they stand equally. big challenge on the senate side where it was an earlier suspected that they might lose control of the u.s. sent. but now republicans could possibly lose control of the united states senate as well so yes the president has to talk to the base yes to try to gin up support among republicans and americans who are going to be going to the polls in a little over a month to vote for mem

president which was really something that is a left the first time they've laughed at us and it's you know not just any guys sitting or their. prime is this right it's presidents so that's something you on the other side it's been a trump again so another headline could be trump a it's trump us a safe rich strong just because of me this is a very good point let's talk about politics right here in germany there is no doubt that the coalition government here has friends will there's even less about the erosion of uncle americal political influence and her power what headline does miracle deserve today considering that her parliamentary leader was told to take a hike. of course this was a defeat. she declared herself that you know she was fighting for him but poland was a vote was fighting for him as well so what do you have to have to see it was in no it wasn't an open vote it was a secret wote and there's a lot of frustration inside the city you know they had in that last election that mean they tried to get that coalition was the liberal and the greens they fade they had to go in the

today and if that happens, beijing may decline to participate in proposed trade talks with the us presidentesident trump likes to boast he is winning the trade war, but according to the american chamber of commerce in china, these ta riffs chamber of commerce in china, these tariffs are hurting us companies more than chinese companies. a survey last week showed that nearly 6% of american firms in china would consider moving back to the us, despite tax incentives back home. us companies do not think that tariffs is the best way to address the lopsided economic relationship. however, we asked our companies, what do you want us companies to do for you? the number one and so was to level the playing field. —— cancer. —— answer. the second ends was promote an economic relationship with china based on fairness and reciprocal treatment. that is what the us administration is doing. —— answer. is it the best way, maybe not. but they have a sense, we are talking to they have a sense, we are talking to the chinese, they are serious, they don't want a trade war, any more than most of us us companies. s

kavanagh has denied the latest allegations calling them ridiculous us president trump also moved swiftly to defend his nominee today the senate judiciary committee is reviewing all of these claims amid calls from senate democrats for kavanaugh to withdraw all i strongly believe judge kavanaugh should draw from consideration and the president should withdraw this nomination if kavanagh won't do it voluntarily if he will not at the very least the hearing and vote should be postponed while the f.b.i. investigates all of these very serious and very troubling allegations that was in the minority leader chuck schumer speaking there let's go over to washington now our correspondent miles waiter is on the story for us good evening to you my if these allegations are coming in fast and furious talk to me a little bit about the the new claims what is this third accuser or what is she alleging. this was an accusation that was released today in what's called a sworn declaration which means it's an official document that could be submitted as evidence if theoretically there were a trial which is not s

. 0ther trump is doing to the us presidency.ty, if i could put it like that, in washington, dc, had described him as being corrosive, fundamentally damaging to an america's long—term national security interest. do you feel that way? i think something -- some things he does, such as the tough sanctions, will do more. they did respond to chemical weapons used in syria. those things are good. i obviously do not agree with the attacks on the press... before the election he signed that collective letter from the national—security elite, warning america about what you saw as the dangers of trump. we now havejohn you saw as the dangers of trump. we now have john brennan you saw as the dangers of trump. we now havejohn brennan saying this, i see no delight in seeing the steady colla pse see no delight in seeing the steady collapse of us presidency. all i can do is take comfort in that the rule of law and our great government institutions are prevailing. do you see the trump presidency as a state of collapse? i don't. ithink see the trum

later iran's president has done rouhani used his speech to push back against the u.s. accusing donald trump of trying to topple his government rouhani said the new u.s. sanctions amount to economic terrorism and violent that iran would not be piled by them president trump's attack on iran was not unexpected last year in his maiden speech at the u.n. general assembly shocked many world leaders this year that were friends of disapproval and at the end plight as. you know what a difference a year makes or perhaps it doesn't joining me tonight from new york is our very own alexandra phenomena good evening to you alexandra you know you were there at the u.n. general assembly last year you covered forests and you're back this year that's kind of compare in of the two experiences my impression is that we saw a lot today from trauma that we know and expect what was are today. well i'd like to mention one thing that was quite significant in my eyes and it was a radical shift to an approach towards north korea as you know last year president strummed described him as that's the

president says the u.s. is no longer an independent mediator in the middle east peace process. used his address at the u.n. general assembly she launched a strong attack on the u.s. and israel israeli problems to benjamin netanyahu focused his speech on iran china has accused u.s. president trump of slander after he said beijing is trying to meddle in the upcoming u.s. congressional elections told the u.n. security council this week that china was interfering because of his tough stance on trade. has been charged with fraud he's accused of misleading investors with a tweet in august that said he'd secured funding to take the electric car make a private regulation to seeking financial penalties and trying to remove mosque. his position. has more from washington d.c. . the regulators now suing him from the federal security and exchange commission says this all started with a tweet in early august musk tweeted to his twenty two million followers that he was considering taking tesla private at a price per share of four hundred twenty dollars federal regulators say there was never a real basis for musk to make t

need to put their problems aside as peter all of us now reports from but to president. germany with the extending of all of the branches the building of bridges and the turning over of new pages in the relationship between concrete and live in front and center. it is our responsibility to rationally move our relations forward on the basis of our shared interests quite apart from irrational fears peter while since he was here twenty fourteen was the last time i was in germany on official business and in that time. have there been some exchanges between the two nations. i can see turkey being admitted to the european union i have never been able to see it happening. a germany you have no relation whatsoever to democracy and you should know that your current actions and no different to those of the nazi period. president to go on your jeopardize and everything that you others have built and the unspeakable mare's of comparisons and not cut ties to those who want a partnership with turkey. i'm calling on all my countrymen in germany the christian democrats the s.t.p. and th

so there you are you just heard the president donald trump addressed us here in the country don't and we're just about the french president. addressed the security council let's take a listen to the distinguished ministers dear friends i would like to first of all a little thank you can be us the presidency of the security council thank you for having brought us here today to discuss the serious threats to the threats to international peace and security which are represented indeed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction they mean and their means of delivery i'd like to thank the secretary general for being present with us here today the first issue here that comes to my mind a more on a day when we consider the divisions frankly that we have had in the past year on such issues for example as a nuclear issue all of the chemical weapons used by the syrian regime is appalling question what is it that we member states of the security council can do together with the nonproliferation regime which organizers in control of new nuclear weapons in order to limit the danger of nucl

former us presidents george w bush and barack obama will deliver eulogies at the service at washington'sthedral. and coming up in talking books, kirsty wark talks us race relations with t geronimo johnson. good afternoon. government documents have revealed how hm revenue and customs use a traffic light system to rate the tax arrangements of people who've been nominated for an honour. that's according to an official document seen by the times. it's claimed the system has meant some high profile nominees may not have received awards as a result. jonathan blake reports. a trip to buckingham palace beckons for those who make the annual honours lists. recognition from the establishment of outstanding service in theirfield. but how much of a say does the taxman have in who receives the highest honours each year? a document obtained by the times sets out a traffic light system used by hmrc to rate those nominated. red for high risk nominees, amber for those whose tax activity is likely to cause adverse comment and green for those who pose a low risk. it is claimed the risk factor is based on wh

former us presidents barack obama and george w bush have led tributes at a service for senatorjohn mccainington's national cathedral today. the vietnam war hero, who was one of america's most high—profile politicians, died a week ago from brain cancer at the age of 81. our north america correspondent, chris buckler reports. from us for decades john for almost four decades, john mccain served inside the capitol building. today, his body was carried from it. to begin a finaljourney through washington. the cortege paused at the vietnam memorial. a moment for his family to pay tribute to senator mccain's military as well as his political service. during the vietnam war, john mccain was shot down back as he flew over hanoi. for years he was held prisoner and periods of torture and interrogation were to leave him with lasting injuries. as well as a sense of duty. when he returned to america, he rose through the ranks of the republican party, eventually becoming its presidential candidate. he may have failed in that attempt. but with his sense of public service and duty, he was remembered here a

oh and welcome to crossfire we're all paying for consider time peter lavelle us president donald trump took center stage at the united nations this week the middle east was very much on his mind particularly iran for some sitting in the general assembly trump's words were simply laughable however what is happening in the middle east and beyond is.

their absence drew praise from us president donald trump who called it "a big and very positive statement with serena williams, saying she understands why the home crowd in new york was backing serena. that's all. stay with bbc world news. and the top story in the uk: the tuc general secretary has said trade unions could throw their "full weight" behind the campaign for a referendum

the us president leaving world leaders waiting, defying the norms of diplomatic protocol.e boardroom, and today donald trump was in the chair. thank you very much. the 8,362nd meeting of the security council is called to order. he wanted this meeting to focus on iran, but he took everybody by surprise with an extraordinary attack on china. regrettably, we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election, coming up in november, against my administration. they do not want me or us to win, because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade, and we are winning on trade. we are winning at every level. we don't want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election. the chinese delegation held an emergency huddle, and what make this all the more remarkable was that president trump made no criticism of russia for its meddling in the 2016 election. i now give the floor to the minister for foreign affairs of china. finally, beijing delivered its response. translation: we did not and will not interfere in any country's domestic affair

president there convinced the north korea wants to denuclearize wants peace although there's no evidence to tell us that that's where it's headed and then you've got the president doubling down on iran despite the fact that it's met all of the terms of the nuclear deal so how do you square that circle so the u.s. have many problems with iran or the europeans as well because it's not only the nuclear missiles it's terrorism it's the support for she had groups in conflicts in the neighborhood but that's all true and that's gotten worse yeah and the europeans are happy that they get the nuclear off the table to focus on the rest and i would say you can't actually have a package now when when all the trust is gone there's going to be more difficult to work against the other things only by pressing iran so long that as the americans hope the iranians will step up and throw out the government and become great at democrats which is not the most plausible scenario you have in office in iran that it might go wrong and you might have a even worse dictatorship if it happened i mean we hear time and time again

is among those who want relations to improve the war in syria the unpredictable us president and the currency crisis provide plenty of reasons for turkey and germany to work together he says this is his wish list for the machal adlon meeting myself more understanding from chancellor merkel to turkey sensitivities cooperation with turkey in the fight against terror more business cooperation. and to be more. optimistic about thirty years european prospects and what can chancellor merkel expect from president add one thing. she can expect from turkey true friendship true cooperation and everyone who knows presenter dawn with a greenie that if he makes a promise he keeps it so if she can. to make some promises in exchange of the promises that she will make of course then she knows she'll be delivered a cartoonist who will be watching the macula adwan meeting closely at the very least he says it should serve up enough material for some fresh set tire. we're going to bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild clashes have erupted between anti india protesters

if the us president fires him this week the stakes and the drama are set to reach a record high i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. we have great people in the department of justice and at this point have you seen any evidence of good cause for firing up special counsel moller no i have not but yeah it's a real bad ones you see in what's happened at the f.b.i. if the president orders to fire this special council why what you do if they were good cause i would consider it if they were not good cause it wouldn't matter to me what anybody says. but there's a lingering tension we're going to get rid of that. you know you afraid of president trophy barring you know i'm not. also coming up tonight a breakthrough medical procedure three paralyzed people learning to walk again. to be able to move. my legs and. to walk even a stand it means a lot. that there is hope for not only me but other people. or we begin the day with two questions which almost brought political washington d.c. to a standstill today will deputy attorney general rod rosenstein quit his job or is president about

test the resolve of the western world order that has already been shaken by bragg sit and by a us president named donald trump or theresa may today had no answer for that. these are the men british prosecutors have charged with conspiracy to murder. alexander petroff and. a russian citizens but police believe their names are probably since. the men are accused of attempting to murder former russian agent. and his daughter yulia with a military grade nerve agent. a police officer was also hospitalized following the attack in march in the english city of salisbury. another couple also fell seriously ill after coming into contact with the nerve agent police believe it was through this persian bottle don sturgis of salisbury later died. they will face british justice. obviously the government of the time we want to see what we have managed to achieve to the. british police have released close circuit t.v. images of petrol of and it off arriving at london's gatwick airport two days before the script polls were targeted. this image of the man was taken at salisbury train station a day before the

us. president trump insists the fbi has no restrictions, no constraints to use his words, free rein in this new investigation of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. and now this is just into cnn, we're learning that christine blasey ford and judge k kavanaugh's names are not on the list of suggested witnesses to interview. but we do have confirmation that fbi agents spoke today with deborah ramirez, the woman who claims kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a college age party, a claim that kavanaugh strongly denies. a source close to the fbi investigation says ramirez today gave agents the names of other witnesses. as for whether the fbi really has, quote, free rein, at least two sources close to the investigation say hold on, that is not exactly the case. cnn is being told today that the white house is working closely with senate republicans to steer the fbi investigation. and keep its scope as narrow as possible. here is how we're told this is happening. judge kavanaugh's overall drinking history not being looked at. the fbi is getting orders only from the white house. and agents will m

about barack obama and whether or not, it's almost a decade since we knew he was going to be the us presidentoors to the unfinished conversations that we still needed to have at the time and are only now having, so it wasn't until after... everything we see now with trump actually started under obama in terms of the alt right and the militias... under obama's administration, the militias grew 1,000% across the nation. people started stockpiling assault rifles and there is this general anxiety of fear that he might in some way retaliate for this perceived historical injustice that people of colour had experienced in the country. all of this anxiety is mixed up with, will he live and what is the pushback going to be? we are seeing the push back now. the right is running roughshod. yes. are you pessimistic about america? no, i'm not pessimistic. it's just that i don't focus wholly on the aspirational as a writer. i think that everyone has to do what works for them and it's very important for us to have books that look at how things could be and it's just that these two novels, i felt it more imp

did the president promise any concessions on us sanctions on russia? the us commitment in nato, the recognition policy ofthe crimea annexation. we simply don't know . we do know that at the press conference, president trump said he spent a great deal of time talking about the election and that putin feels strongly about it and has quote, an interesting idea. what does that mean? the president you'll doubt and speculation by refusing to say whether he believes the united states intelligence community or the russian dictator on the subject of election interference in 2016. trump said the special counsel's russia investigation has been a disaster for the us and has kept america and russia separated. these comments can be added to a very long list of ways the president has gone out of his way to cozy up to putin. i wish this resolution work necessary but here we are 60 days after the helsinki summit and we still don't know what president trump said or committed to. we area coequal branch of government . indeed, in theconstitution, we are the first article.

the president offered us much more than $2 billion to do this. thank you very much. would you like to have a question? >> a question to president trump. -- what wee the heard a few moments ago concerning the threat by russia and the you also share the view that american bases in poland , but also due to the security of the united states. >> i think it is a very aggressive situation. >> we have the greatest strength in the world. theere being depleted under last administration. we had planes that were old and tired. this is the united states. we make the greatest planes in enhanced and we have our military. it is being rebuilt as we speak with literally hundreds and hundreds of planes and missiles and everything you can imagine. good.ever had it so i viewed it two ways, number one military is always more a --tant including -- than .lways more important russia respect that. i'm the president. i feel he is right. you look at the history and say a long and complicated history. >> after the meeting, there is a that they will be implemented. are they going to be a fact? >>

and yet flip that around he also says the trade wall was already up and running before he became us president it can't be both well the president is known to make comments that later on are fact checked and and but nonetheless he is trying to underscore his his point i suppose at least by again reaffirming with his base that he's made good on his promise to start a trade war and that he isn't afraid to start one with china especially the try to close that trade deficit gap that currently exists and so he's made good on his promise he wants the base to know that again we're facing midterm elections where republicans stand a very good chance of losing control of the house of representatives and now they stand in equally. big challenge on the senate side where it wasn't earlier suspected that they might lose control of the u.s. senate but now republicans could possibly lose control of the united states senate as well so yes the president has to talk to the base yes to try to gin up support among republicans and americans who are going to be going to the polls in a little over a month to vote for

is the trade war between the us and china about to get a lot worse? presidentrump's new tariffs on chinese products could be announced as soon as today. and it's a stormy start to the week for financial markets in asia as typhoon mangkhut rips through the region. japan is closed today for a public holiday. as we have just mentioned, just six months ago, the clock is ticking, until we are scheduled to leave the european union. britain has yet to agree a brexit deal with the bloc. this week prime minister theresa may will attend an eu summit in salzburg which will allow the eu's leaders to properly discuss her proposals to leave the eu. so where are we in the negotiations? well, around 80% of a deal between the two sides has been agreed, according to eu chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier. theresa may's proposals would see britain signing up to a common rulebook — effectively keeping british goods in the single market but without accepting regulations for services, the european court ofjustice, or free movement of people. the border between northern ireland a

used to build affordable, eco—friendly homes. good morning. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in new york, where president trump has accused chinaf trying to interfere in the us congressional elections in november. he said beijing did not want his republican party to do well because of his position on trade. he made the claim at a meeting of the united nations security council, which he chaired for the first time. china rejected the accusation. our correspondent nick bryant reports from new york. for the second day running, it was a case of america late rather than america first. the us president leaving world leaders waiting, defying the norms of diplomatic protocol. the un security council is the closest thing in international diplomacy to a corporate boardroom and, today, donald trump was in the chair. thank you very much. the 8362nd meeting of the security council is called to order. he called this meeting to focus on iran, but then took everyone by surprise with an extraordinary attack on china. regrettably, we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election, coming up in november, against my

or donald trump has again hit out a rising fuel prices the us president's comments come as the world's top oil producers consider boosting production by a half a million barrels a day the increase would make up for falling oil supply from iran because of u.s. sanctions ahead of sunday's opec meeting in algeria translated we protect the countries of the middle east they would not be safe for very long without us and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices we were member the opec monopoly must get prices down now the price of a brand crude is close to a four year high at the moment trading at just under eighty dollars a barrel that's still well short of the two thousand and eight peak of one hundred forty seven dollars or prices have risen around forty percent in the past year though many share attack in is an international oil and energy consultant and former research showed opec he says opec countries will be united in their decision . i think overall the opec countries will keep their cohesion they have done it in the past in spite of differences that the media exag

barack obama has accused president trump's republican party of abusing power, dividing america and threatening democracy. in his first major speech of the us mid—term election season, the former president said americans were living in "dangerous times." he urged voters to come out in force to support democratic candidates in november. nick bryant reports. cheering this was barack obama returning to political centre stage. using what has always been the strongest weapon in his armoury — the power of speech. and deploying it against donald trump. hello, illinois. and he addressed this week's explosive revelations that trump appointees are working secretly to subvert the president. you are not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff coming out of this white house and then saying, "don't worry — we're preventing the other io%." that's not how things are supposed to work. this is not normal. these are extraordinary times. and they're dangerous times. these were his strongest criticisms yet of the man who succeeded him and he was scathing about donald trump's response to events last year in charlottesville, the clashes in

we now havejohn brennan saying this, "i take no delight in seeing the steady collapse of us presidencyg that the rule of law and our great government institutions are prevailing." do you see the trump presidency as in a state of collapse? i don't see it in a state of collapse. i think the rule of law and our institutions continue to work. as i said, i don't think attacking the press or attacking the rule of law is an appropriate thing to do. i have a lot of faith, with people who work in the government, including judges, members of congress, members of the executive branch. are you treading a little carefully, because whenjohn brennan said things like ijust quoted, he saw his security clearances completely removed and he no longer got the confidential information that he had had before. what about you ? i am not treading carefully. currently are you still on that list of former national security people who get the clearance? let me explain. clearances are given not to give you things, but when the government wants you to help you can come in and help. give them advice based on real inf

leader on the other hand you've got iran which was abiding by the iran nuclear deal and yet all the us president could do today was again trash that deal how do you explain that i think he sees north korea as an example of his his own. solid bargaining diplomacy that he with his own personality could make a change and he doesn't want to dispute his or his own successes in this in this area so what he says is there will be success but it may be years away there will be good news but you don't see him today or tomorrow. but this is on a good track although north korea has not given any hint of giving up nuclear weapons and iran was abiding to the nuclear deal but was using its new freedoms to to support shiite groups elsewhere to be in conflict in yemen and syria very active to build up missile technology so that it's all true and the europeans are happy that they could take the nuclear out of the deal but they failed actually through to bring forward successes elsewhere so it's good to put pressure on iran but it was wrong to give up the nuclear deal and which of course he heard that from all the

us president donald trump has warned president assad not to quote recklessly attack the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley said this let's take a listen i will continue our conversation at the i think what you are seeing is the president saying to iran russia and assad don't go there we're not going to accept it it's not ok what you're saying from us and the fact that the security council wants to talk about it is do not let a chemical weapons attack happen on the people of it led. it's a strong warning but what does it mean i mean all the rest is fair game massacre torture just don't gas your people. at least that is what it means that i don't expect them to use gas at this stage they have sufficient manpower to go into it live with conventional force. i think the americans have a very weak position here one that could. be their demand that chemicals not be used might be satisfied but i don't think they have much influence over whether a conventional attack occurs right now and let's talk about the role of the us in this theater because it's played a very insi