secretary of defense william perry has visited and talked to north korea for many, many decades. under the clinton administration, there was a moment they moved back. i was there when they sort of shuttered their pyongyang bluetomy yum plant. what we have now is a situation where north korean officials are telling anyone who will listen to them they will not denuclearizelet their goals are, one, survival of the kim jong-un din city, two, power, three, grow our economy. that's what they've been doing with kim jong-un. for the rest of the world that's what they've been doing. what people don't want and what people fear is if they're not assured of these issues, there could be a catastrophic blunder. people do not agree who engage with north korea that there could be a suicidal regime, but there could be a misstep, mishap that could lead to awful and dreadful military consequences. i talked to another former cia analyst and again they reiterated, why would we give up our nuclear card. we can't to -- we want to survive. as you know between the united states and north korea, there's o

having said that, those who have engaged william perry, former defense secretary, they don't believeuicidal. he may be volatile, he may be determined to have his nuclear program, he may blunder into a miscommunication, a misinterpretation of what u.s. strategy is or whatever it might be but they don't believe they want to start a nuclear war. >> christiane amanpour joining us from london, thank you so much. >>> i don't know if you remember that today is a national day for prayer for those affected by hurricane harvey. president trump made the declaration from the oval office on friday along with faith leader and representatives from the red cross and salvation army. >> 53 people so far, the number just updated this morning have died in houston in that area alone and thousands more displaced. the president and first lady met with storm survivors in texas and louisiana yesterday and met with local and state official and pledged billions of dollars for the government to on help rebuild. >> i've been working to help coordinator and connect city official and county officials with state of

with their nuclear weapons i totally agree with my friend and hero former secretary of defense william perrywho says look we cannot rely upon china to do all the heavy lifting on this sanctions alone are not going to do it no military option is a good one. the only way ahead is serious direct talks including of course with south korea china and japan secretary perry was here last week he makes quite a case what do you make of that. is valueless what do you make of the those year making headlines again who. yes and dave the m i six officer christopher steele. more and more information comes out daily it's hard to absorb all of it and make sense of it what i would say is this as a former cia officer what i find really odd and very concerning is that in the period before donald trump was even a candidate much less elected there was an incredible amount of. cooperation conversations contacts with russian officials i find that really odd you would think that a presidential candidate would be busy thinking about how what pre-sentencing needs to bring up to where any is to deploy his resources inse

. >> the trenton branch of the naacp is calling for the arrest of william perry. they held a news conference say that perry abused his authority and has no respect for a community whose safety he is suppose to ensure. the local naacp president says that the citizens of trenton deserve better. >> appoint people that respect us as individuals and a community at large. it's never okay to be labeled as hood rats and other expletives especially from the mouth of a director. if we cannot recognize bad behavior, how can we correct it? >> he referred to two citizens there as hood rats and apologized later for it. and accused of making an illegal traffic stop. >>> and thursday night lets get a che "action news" traffic report now. matt pellman is live now in the traffic center. >> good evening, we watched a motorcade come through along the schuylkill expressway eastbound side we are looking live at south street. we believe they will exit here and the motorcade carrying the body of a fallen philadelphia fire lieutenant this afternoon. we are watching out for them and all ea

we heard from former secretary of defense william perry. i've been speaking to these people for months as this crisis escalates who says north korea wants three things. a, the survival of the kim din city and the country, b, to be taken seriously as an international nuclear power and partnersnd and, c, to venetz policy. i talked to a former iowa analyst to actually meet with senior north korean officials to hear what they have in mind and they have reaffirmed that just in the last month or so as well. the north koreans tell them, tell these american officials, that they will not denuclearize, that they would be crazy to so so now that they're finally in the last throws of pe ferkting it. they want to change the relationship and change the balance of power between north korea and the rest of the world. they want to be taken seriously. but they also want to say, they say, sign a peace deal. the problem with that is analysts believe that will be the only thing they want. they want all u.s. forces out of the korean peninsula and out of that are

perry williams joins us right now from sydney. y, why does the government think restricting export will help? a messy it's a bit of picture here in australia. basically, three of the egg export plants up in queensland have sucked up so much gas from australia's domestic market that there's not really enough left for local users. while the government is now scrambling amid price spikes to find enough gas for australian businesses, their solution is to curve exports. are not sure what type of volumes we are looking at, but it certainly came as a shock to producers here. yousef: talk to me about how exactly this place to qatar's advantage, given that they both export to asia. >> sure. had a bit of as price advantage, but of course australia has been on its patch in recent years and has pretty strong links to places like japan, south korea, and china. hearingf thing we are is some of those buyers are getting a little nervous about how sure they can be reliant on whether australia, there is more intervention to come from the government

the former defense secretary, william perry, believed in conversations before this latest test that north korea, the regime is not "suicidal." that they will thought start a nuclear war. that's what they believe. however, you cannot underestimate the possibility for a blunder. you cannot underestimate the possibility for a catastrophic mistake of north korea, living in that sort of isolated hermit kingdom, which i visited several times at a time when negotiations were working, and not knowing potentially what message is coming from the u.s. well, now they have an unambiguous message. not interested in annihilating you, but if you use any of that capability, you need to pay nap needs to be the start of a very smart, new coordinated gathering of containment and deterrence sbi the u.s., its allies in the permanent fight and the security council. >> that terse and succinct message may have quieted or allayed fears of any kind of pre-emptive strike that the u.s. would impose, given that there have been so many missile tests. this one at a whole new level, but clearly a lot of global fears abou

i have been speaking of this crisis as it has risen to such a level to william perry who is engaged in the nuclear issue and he has said it's very, very important to realize what kim jong-un wants. what he wants is the survival of his own dynasty. he wants to be assured that regime change is not in the offing. that is why they want to keep their nuclear weapons. that's why the officials met with north koreans outside the country and were told we're not giving up or going to denuclearize. you need to take us seriously. the other thing is, he is worried, secretary perry they could blunder into a terrible conflict. if north korea believes that the united states or anyone else might launch a pre-emptive strike, north korea might jump the gun and do that. there need to be back channel or front channel or whatever it is array of strooeategic points to bring up with the north koreans in this moment of high tension so there is not a catastrophic blunder. and the other thing that is really important to note is that the era of really dangerous nuclear war sort of started to dissipate after the e

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