obama administration the united sates the united states sold saudi arabia one hundred and fifteen delia dollars worth of on's so although. there were tensions between saudi arabia the united states at the time still hundred fifteen billion dollars of arms did that bring and secured to saudi arabia did that not bring more or more destruction to yemen what but what we're seeing now is basically doubling down on that committing to sell saudi arabia hunger than ten billion additional dollars of arms while the war in yemen is killing countless people it's interesting you mentioned defense secretary mattis because actually he is one of the people that the mother when someone is due to meet her for the next few days so i'm interested to see if anything comes out of that marwan bashar thank you. let's go to syria now where activists in eastern hooter's say that twenty eight people most of them children have been killed while attempting to shelter from air strikes in a school in the past twenty four hours indiscriminate air strikes and shelling by the syrian government have killed dozens of peop

face what the united nations calls a catastrophic situation. beirut. well the syrian government's operation to retake eastern huta has left a power vacuum in other areas of damascus the government has been forced to send reinforcements to a southern neighborhood in the capital after the area was overrun by i saw fighters the armed group captured the neighborhood which had been left at largely vacant the u.s. says voiced concerns that the chaos in syria could allow a revival of iso whose so-called caliphate collapse late last year twenty three russian diplomats expelled from the u.k. in the wake of the soul's very nerve agent attack have left the russian embassy in london along with their families they've been thrown out in response to the poisoning of former russian double agent sort of a scared and his daughter yulia two weeks ago wasco denies any involvement and is expelling twenty three british diplomats in retaliation there were mini buses and vans full of people leaving the russian embassy in notting hill gate in west london earlier today

united states imposed on china china saying though very strong words against the united states is moved to do this they said that this is not the way to move forward they say it's putting the situation the trade relationship trade and economic relationship between these two largest economies in the world on the edge and they say the united states should back down off the brink both countries have submitted legal arguments into the world trade organization because of each other's reaction to what's been going on now here in shanghai this is the commercial center for china there's been some reaction here the people here obviously very concerned about what's going on but most pacifically here they're worried about chinese jobs and chinese companies. protests are taking place in peru's capital lima ahead of the swearing in of the vice president's moxon he is due to replace present president chin ski who stepped down on wednesday following corruption allegations congress is debating whether to accept the resignation his car has arrived in lima for the inauguration protesters want a new elect

the the united states and russia and the diplomats were kicked out of the united states then of course u.s. diplomats were kicked out of russia as well these things tend to follow reciprocal measures russia has this policy of reciprocity where it thinks that you know if you do something to me we're going to basically do the same thing back to you of course they do things in a slightly different way and they try to. bring in some degree of imbalance to make things that much less predictable so yes if we get some kind of expulsions of russian diplomats in the united kingdom we're going to see something similar here if there are. economic measures taken against russia or that's something the russia has a much harder time responding to because the russian economy is is reasonably weak at the moment and they will have a hard time hitting back i think in the united kingdom in that regard all right thank you very much for a chalons in moscow of course we're waiting to hear that update from the u.k. prime minister trees in may here in the house of commons an update on the investigation into th

the economies of china and the united states but of course all server economies here in the asia pacific region which depend very much on trade with the united states and china all right agent thank you very much aaron brown live in beijing. turkey's military says eight of its soldiers were killed another thirteen were injured on thursday this took place in syria's northern african region making it one of the deadliest days for turkish forces since they began a cross border offensive against kurdish wife p g five has started in journey let's go live now to a solid binge of aid he's our correspondent who's in gaziantep that's on the turkish syrian border and i'm just wondering whether the turks are fearing that they might have bitten off more than they can chew insofar as when they started this operation president ed or one suggested that it was going to be pretty much in and out they thought that he could take it take his forces out after a couple of weeks but it's looking to be a lot more tricky. well it is the this incident just goes to show how complex the terrain is that the turkish

state against the united kingdom. but from russia so far blanket denial vladimir putin's spokesman says service group all worked for british intelligence the incident happened in britain so it has nothing to do with russia it seems that anglo russian relations are bound to get significantly worse now and the british will be hoping for international support from european and nato allies as they seek to put pressure on moscow. but what measures can britain take that will really be felt in the kremlin diplomatic expulsions sanctions against powerful individuals both seem likely but their impact may be limited the russian economy is under sanctions it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties are not very accurate so. things of symbolic nature do not hurt russia anymore because they expect for the investigators on the ground an unusual and unexpected test of their expertise for britain itself a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world to be phillip's al-j

qatar restart the log in which the united states is stated at the end of that they are all over that it will be current in the security solvent and territorial integrity of qatar that was in my book might be a very important development in the relationship between qatar. and the united states has actually we don't expect much out of this sort of provocation but even if this act of provision is meant to try to be to the air force in order to. you know in these efforts to resolve the crisis i think. we don't we don't believe that that will lead anywhere. quick thirty seconds of breaking news for you understand the stakes for the reuters news agency the u.s. state department has approved possible sales with two hundred seventy million dollars of three hundred sidewinder missiles and its related siller equipment to the united arab emirates the pentagon statement coming to us more on that for you as soon as we can. staying in the arabian gulf region some workers at foreign embassies in cats are say they've been abandoned because of the nine month blockade by neighboring countries some sta

putting the onus on the western countries in that case the united states today no doubt the united kingdom saying that all of this is just politically motivated it should be interesting to hear the fireworks in the security council chamber yet again between the west and russia if that does seem to be the likely scenario when that meeting gets under way just a look at a live shot now we just waiting for that u.n. security council meeting to start britain calling for an urgent meeting in order to update its fellow countries fellow council members on the investigation into the nerve agent attack in the southern city of souls bri we'll get to that as soon as it starts. all now from washington to new york to florida students across the united states have walked out of costumes calling for tighter gun safety laws a coordinated protest last it for seventeen minutes in memory of the seventeen people killed in parkland high school last month from there and he got a car reports. ok across the united states students left the classrooms in droves from the east coast to the west this was a mass protest

united states now the u.s. trade and voice lighthouse was quite negative an ominous lee said well we can't work all of this out the way it may be the way forward is just bilateral trade between these two countries and that's really quite ominous because these talks have been. ragging on the successive rounds with no end or any sort of real compromise in saw as year. meanwhile as many as forty mexican politicians have been killed since december in the lead up to this is general elections most of the victims have been local mayors or candidates in july's faute drug gangs are suspected of using violence to influence and intimidate politicians over twenty three thousand people murdered in two thousand and seventeen making it mexico's bloodiest year since records began. a russian former double agent is critically ill in the u.k. hospital after reportedly being exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old sergey script and a woman in her thirty's being treated by doctors often they were found unconscious on a b

leader of the free world the president of the united states on equal terms right rob thank you japanese prime minister shinzo says his government will continue to put maximum pressure on north korea until it gives up its nuclear weapons program helps to meet with next month. if i killed off or i'm hoping to visit the u.s. as early as april to hold a u.s. japan summit i agreed with the us president that we would continue the close cooperation between our two countries to resolve north korea's nuclear and missile issues north korea's nuclear program has escalated since kim jong un took power in twenty eleven his first nuclear test which took place underground was in february twenty thirty two years later north korea claimed to have tested a submarine launched a missile in january twenty sixth seen young and mounted it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb but this was made of skepticism from international analysts it also continued to make strides in its ballistic missile program in november north korea announced it had tested a new long range missile armed with a nuclear warhea

deny the charges the united states stands in absolute solidarity with great britain the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent of last year to give it the news stories are interested in finding the truth lost they guided by something else the using propaganda war to influence the public which is very easy to influence and not well educated the u.k. has asked the o.p.c. . organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to validate the findings of their investigation the russians say they're happy to cooperate but they won't respond to alternate arms the case says they'll continue to keep the international community apprised of progress in the investigation. hall is live for us in moscow so john a we are still starting to get more reaction from moscow it seems the rhetoric is getting amped up tell us more about their response from moscow. well still nothing on a concrete response concrete measures that moscow may be prepared to take in response to to reason may's announcement of the ex

between all the initial signatories except the united states rose out of the t.p. he's ashes and for australian agriculture it may be better than the initial deal for australian farmers the new trans-pacific partnership without the united states is the best of both worlds increased demand for their exports through tariff reduction without a big competitor on the supply side representatives of agricultural industries can hardly hide that lights are you feeling sorry for your american counterparts relying on them now we're never laugh when we face a number of common challenges. that harmonize ation of trade into other markets so we're more closely aligned and people might think however in the case of tape a lever and we certainly were disappointed not to have them at the table from a grand perspective for australia's economy as a whole it's more complicated the new deal is projected to raise australia's g.d.p. by no point five percent by twenty thirty the initial one including the united states would have risen it by no point six percent and having the us in the deal

one without the united states is beyond even while the story. at full and skeptical that's how the trumpet ministration is reacting to north korea's announcement that it is willing to discuss suspending its nuclear program and begin talks with washington the u.s. state department confirmed it will hold a meeting with south korea later this week to discuss potential de nuclearization talks with pyongyang the north and south have agreed to hold a historic summit next month. president donald trump welcome the news saying he believes the north's motives for the talks are genuine i think that they are sincere but i think they're sincere also because these sanctions and what we're doing with respect to north korea including you know the great help that we've been given from china and they can do more but i think they have done more than certainly they've ever done for our country before so china has been a big help i think that's been a factor but the sanctions have been very very strong and very biting and we don't want that to happen so i really bel

to include the influence of the united arab emirates you know times of the f.b.i. has been questioning george natan american lebanese businessman is that vies it's the crown prince of the u.a.e. social council of muslim which no focus was on context from donald trump's come pain and russia time after protests more on the story so it appears that robert muller's investigation is not just now focused on russia and whether or not it influenced the campaign in the election of two thousand and sixteen and potentially the white house but whether other countries might be trying to buy access to the trumpet ministration as well and that brings us to this lebanese american businessman george nader and gerard cushion or nader is this advisor to the u.a.e. he's been a frequent visitor to the white house and has in fact met with jared cushion or which is raising some eyebrows this past week it's cushion or was stripped of his top secret security clearance as an investigation into his background continues and one of the things that's raising a red flag is question or spam lee's

egypt has not signed the treaty banning cluster munitions the united states has not signed the treaty either the egyptian military has been fighting armed groups in the northern sinai since two thousand and thirteen hundreds of egyptian security offices have been killed there since the military deposed the country's first democratically elected leader mohammed morsi despite several military campaigns egyptian authorities of fail to regain full control over the sinai according to state media the military's latest operation which began on february ninth has killed at least eighty two fighters. and imprisoned more than one thousand eight hundred. u.s. senators are trying to overrule the president's military authority by forcing a vote on the country's involvement in the war in yemen members of congress are using a nine hundred seventy three law to try to force the withdrawal of american forces from what they call an authorized war the united states has provided weapons and intelligence for the saudi led coalition targeting iranian backed fighters in yemen since twenty fifteen german inte

now russia in the united kingdom obviously while the script. comatose in the hospital access to them was important but not absolutely essential but now you describe how is so we're being told conscious recovering and perhaps going to be talkative sometime soon well that makes things very very different and russia's foreign minister has renewed demands to be given access to u.s. cripple the daughter of the former russian spy who was also poisoned with a nerve agent as our moscow correspondent reported missed cripple is recovering well in hospital and is now in a stable condition doctors say she is improving rapidly although it's unclear if she will be able to speak to investigators mr cripple remains in a critical condition. united nations is calling on venezuela to launch an investigation into a prison riots and a fire that killed sixty eight people in the city of lengthier describing the death toll as appalling rights groups and the opposition have been quick to blame president nicolas maduro for not dealing with overcrowding and violence in t

the united nations says it has permission to deliver supplies enough for seventy thousand people in the next few days but it is estimated up to four hundred thousand people are in eastern huta an area that has been under siege for four years an area that doesn't receive aid regularly whatever aid does reach those trapped inside will help but it is far from enough. beirut there's it's almost spokeswoman for the united nations office for the coronation of humanitarian affairs in syria she says there's still hope medical supplies will get . convoy still contains nutrition supplies somehow supplies along with food for over twenty seven thousand people in need so this is of course we are extremely disappointed that many lifesaving health supply were not allowed to be loaded but we also have a follow up conway on thursday and we hope that we both medical supplies will be able to be loaded. in the rest of and the rest of the supplies that are destined for duma as we had said earlier the full package is for somebody's mouth and people in need in dumas but this is far from enough we haven't been

against the united kingdom. but from russia so far blanket denial vladimir putin's spokesman says surrogates cripple worked for british intelligence the incident happened in britain so it has nothing to do with russia it seems that anglo russian relations are bound to get significantly worse now and the british will be hoping for international support from european and nato allies as they seek to put pressure on moscow but what measures can britain take that will really be felt in the kremlin diplomatic expulsions sanctions against powerful individuals both seem likely but their impact may be limited a mash an economy is under such. it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties are not american so. things of symbolic nature do not hurt russia anymore because they expect for the investigators on the ground not usual not expected test of their expertise for britain itself a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world barnaby phillips al-jazeera london

united states it was going to be twelve countries but the united states as we know pulled out three days after president donald trump took office now for a commerce and foreign ministers gathered here say that this is an antidote to washington's increased protectionist policies and in fact the timing of this deal that was signed just one day after the european union and the i.m.f. one president donald trump that he is on the verge of unleashing a trade war if he insists on making good on his promise to impose duties on steel and on aluminum imports into the united states stay in south america for more reaction to those u.s. tariffs john holdren is in cancun and he's been speaking to the mexican president john what did he say. well president mary kay pena nieto was quietly pleased we grabbed him in a spare moment the oceans summit where we are at now and he said that really dis was about a harmonious relationship between the three countries mexico the united states and canada that make up the nafta trading zone that's the north american free trade agreement zone and he said he was lo

and the united states now the u.s. senators killed a resolution that would have prevented continued american involvement in the saudi led war in yemen the vote was fifty five to forty four now the vote took place after the saudi crown prince mohammed bin son man visited the white house on monday in syria more than sixty civilians have been killed in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern guta they were killed in attacks by the syrian military and its allies another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed in the market in government controlled damascus it happened in the kurdish cool area close to the frontline of the fighting between government and rebel forces. also police in texas believe they're looking for a serial after a package exploded at a fed ex building a ball contained in a package exploded near the u.s. city of san antonio on choose day it's the latest in a series of five attacks those are the headlines of the news in thirty minutes next on al-jazeera it's inside story. just. s

al-jazeera the united nations the d.n.i. the states rather joins britain in accusing russia of poisoning a former spy in the u.k. and says they'll be consequences. multibillion dollar deal between the u.s. and a single port tech company is blocked donald trump says it's a threat to national security. welcome back now across southeastern parts of asia has seen some pretty heavy showers affecting the island of borneo kuching as seen some sizeable rainfall total a hundred forty eight millimeters in twenty four hours is quite impressive elsewhere looking to refine across the philippines and it should stay that way too in the course of wednesday showers few and far between here so manila coming in with the top temperature thirty two but again across borneo some pretty big day importers same goes for much of java through into bally's big storms are likely here could be some localized flooding and those you move up through them in a pinch there is jerry looking five or singapore in kuala lumpur still wanted to showers around the gu

groundwork for north korea to have talks with the united states the u.s. has always stated that the north must commit itself to denuclearization so that seems far harder to achieve but the new guinea is being shaken by three strong aftershocks a week after a major earthquake killed at least fifty five people the mountain the southern highlands are worst affected six hundred kilometers from the capital port moresby one hundred fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies damaged roads and landslides are hampering aid delivery food water and sanitation are badly needed a.b.c. australian journalist erik classic has more for us from the capital port moresby. one of the things this earthquake did was destroy food god and smoke people up there are subsistence farmers without those gardens they don't have food and it also dammed rivers the mountains have caved in upon river systems and most people's access to water comes from those rivers and streams and they're now backing up and becoming polluted so there's an ongoing problem now about acce

the united kingdom. but from russia so far blanket denial vladimir putin's spokesman says surrogates group all worked for british intelligence the incident happened in britain so it has nothing to do with russia it seems that anglo russian relations are bound to get significantly worse now and the british will be hoping for international support from european and nato allies as they seek to put pressure on moscow but what measures can britain take that will really be felt in the kremlin diplomatic expulsions sanctions against powerful individuals both seem likely but their impact may be limited i rush an economy is under such it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties. so. things of symbolic nature do not hurt russia anymore because they expect. for the investigators on the ground an unusual not expected test of their expertise for britain itself a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world body phillips al-jazeera london adam airily as

the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations was the chief architect of president george w. bush's justification for the two thousand and three us invasion of iraq and appears ready to construct the cases for other wars for national security advisor among whatever other functions he or she might have has two critical roles number one making sure that the president has the four range of options in published editorials bolton has called for the bombing of iran and north korea last month in the wall street journal newspaper he called north korea an imminent threat arguing it is perfectly legitimate for the united states to respond to the current necessity posed by north korea's nuclear weapons by striking first but it's not just bolton surrounding trump with aggressive ideas trump's new pick to lead the u.s. state department is equally hawkish mike pompei o as cia director favors confrontation with iran tearing up the iran agreement and supported trump's moving of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem will not a cabinet appointment in pompei as place trump has left jena housefull to ta

world so this idea of the critic the spy case in the united kingdom and notably russia's response countermeasures to three's amaze measures in response to the poisoning of the script all fair in london were delivered on saturday the eve of this election it was it was a bold response it was certainly being portrayed that way in the media at russia failing for refusing to back down before john justified provocations from the outside world that that's the sort of way the story is told and it doesn't hurt at all the polls and the turnout figures i'm sure will still several more hours before those polls close we come back to you throughout the day thanks joe the owner of the correspondents in the country is also following the poll that's what we challenge seasons of us to poll the largest city in crimea which russia annexed from ukraine four years ago. this is basically a little medal has been given to all the voters who come here to this voting station. and at the top it says sevastopol the name of the city underneath its marks the date of the referendum the sixteenth of march two thousand and fourte

the lead i think the eleventh largest steel exporter to the united states so this china at least says is not going to have a significant or profound impact on its economy what china is much more concerned about martine is this much wider investigation that's currently going on into chinese trade practices and the outcome of that inquiry is jew fairly soon and this has been looking at things like intellectual property rights copyright piracy and companies like ten cent the big tech companies which want a greater share of the united states market are very worried about what the impact and the recommendations of that inquiry are going to be alright adrian thank you very much adrian brown live in beijing it's the fourth day of a partial ceasefire in syria. but the fighting has continued with at least nineteen civilians killed by syrian government airstrikes on thursday and that brings the civilian death toll there to over six hundred just in the last twelve days then the harder it has this report from beirut in neighboring lebanon eastern hooter's the last major rebel stronghold around th

in the united nations with the aim of stopping civilian suffering. schoolchildren in nigeria's northeastern borno state are being kept at home due to fears of more mass kidnappings by book around as follows a series of attacks by the armed group and the kidnapping of one hundred ten girls from neighboring state last month donald trump says he's open to testifying before special counsel robert miller who's investigating russian interference in the election u.s. president spoke just hours after his key person a lawyer announced he was resigning john dowd reportedly clash with trump over his handling of his investigation and just in the last few minutes donald trump has tweeted that he has appointed john bolton as his new national security advisor bolton replaces a charm that masta much more on that story at the top of the next hour from. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new carrots on imports of steel and alum in your bra by gene will be off today to try to about ten times faster than forty we'll bring you the stories that are shaping

united states our closest allies the u.s. relied on its heels. to do to fight their so-called war on terror in the horn of africa bordered somalia south don it has bought them out of peacekeepers troops on the ground in these areas and certainly it relies on this country for stability it doesn't want to see any sort of you know of this country falling into chaos because that the entire horn of africa is at risk so i think at this point in time it is a crucial point is the o.p.'s history standing in the next couple of days all to the ruling party will be meeting to discuss lou could be the next prime minister you have to there's that meeting with the foreign minister today with the outgoing prime minister all these things will be discussed so we are expecting a press conference in about an hour from now so let's wait and see what's going to come out of that. russian farmers also in the neighborhood are you going to meet. it is going to be a busy time there was talk this from the russian suggesting that possibly to listen elabo

the area at the united nations the u.s. has called for an immediate cease fire and has threatened to act alone if it doesn't get the support of the security council russia says it will respond if there are any u.s. missile strikes and syrian state t.v. has released footage of fighters families leaving eastern huta are said to be related to fighters from j. shoeless lands several among them in need of medical treatment it's unclear where exactly the group will be taken to and fishes live wrists in gaziantep on the turkey syria border so allan what more do we know about those evacuations. well the medical evacuations you remember it was a good deal agreed with the united nations the russians and all islam and they agreed that a number of people would be taken out of eastern go to and receive medical treatment of the united nations i said their own a thousand people needed medical treatment around seventy of them needed urgent medical treatment the fact that the first batches have started to move will be in college went to the

united nations showing the nuclear. disaster if iran you know develops nuclear weapon and that was a total flop so i'm not exactly sure why president tom decided to do and at the now two point zero but i think americans like to admit it israelis know a days including with those children illustrations because that's what it was it was children illustrations i mean why exactly we need the map and where the jobs are you q could have just said it but i think you need to use that kind of educational aid if you want now i think seriously i mean it's was a bit of a fun moment but says peking it is. it's a tragic comedy because in the day he was showing. numbers in the billions on the hundreds of millions about the sieves of arms to soldier a be a white it's a twar in yemen and tens of thousands of people dying misplaced and so on so forth tens of thousands of casualties complete destruction of the country and generally speaking even when it's totally hypocritical the united states and us president would be going you know we we

well certainly that has been complicated by the actions of the united states namely the declaration of jerusalem is israel's capital that of course has led to the palestinians no longer viewing the u.s. as capable or an honest broker in negotiating talks and looking to the international community add to that you have the complication of gerrard cushion or donald trump's son in law who has been sort of orchestrating or leading this. mid east policy plan which has been very thin to almost no details at all but the fact that he has lost his security clearance for such a high level and sensitive portfolio is certainly adding to the complication so it is amidst all of this this drama of the scandal investigations that these two leaders will be meeting to discuss some very important topics of growing and great concern on the world stage well kimberly we'll check in with you again when the two leaders actually reveal what they spoke about for the moment kimberly halkett at the white house thank you. south korean officials have met north korea's leader kim jong un for the first time since h

state against the united kingdom. but from russia so far blanket denial vladimir putin's spokesman says surrogates group i'll work for british intelligence the incident happened in britain so it has nothing to do with russia it seems that anglo russian relations are bound to get significantly worse now and the british will be hoping for international support from european and nato allies as they seek to put pressure on moscow but what measures can britain take that will really be felt in the kremlin diplomatic expulsions sanctions against powerful individuals both seem likely but their impact may be limited i'm actually going to me is under sanctions it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties. so. things of symbolic nature do not hurt russia any more because the expense. for the investigators on the ground an unusual and unexpected test of their expertise for britain itself a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world to be phillips al jazeera london

threat but the european union has been particularly tough on the united states. they make it almost impossible for us to do business with them and yet they send their cars and everything else back into the united states and they can do whatever they'd like but if they do that then we put a big tax of twenty five percent on their cars and believe me they won't be doing it very long the position of trumps commerce secretary who clashed with cone trade policies with the e.u. are out of date concessions made to rebuild a post-war europe don't make sense in the context of a strong modern european economy concessions that were perfectly reasonable to make to germany in one nine hundred forty five or trying to nineteen forty five don't go exeunt certainly more than those in the very mature big strong economies and winston social media trump continued to deflect fears of a global trade war arguing the us has lost more than fifty five thousand factories six million manufacturing jobs and accumulated trade deficit of more than twelve trillion dollars the white house says d

at the united nations south korea's president jane says japan hasn't resolved the issue of the so-called comfort woman and then spoke at an event to mark one thousand years since korea rose up against japanese rule thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for japanese soldiers during world war two the government of japan has apologized and offered to compensate victims robin upright has more from south korea's capital seoul moon j and criticism came on a day that is full of symbolism here in south korea it's a national holiday commemorating a failed uprising by koreans against japanese colonial rulers and the event took place at a former prison that was used by japan to house mainly political prisoners and freedom fighters move to japan still had not fully atoned for the treatment of these so called comfort women women from korea who were forced into sexual slavery at the service of the japanese military moon like many people in south korea believes that japan has never really fully come to terms with the issue that's despite an agreement that was signed in twenty fiftee

up korea along with the united states japan and our many partners around the world remain fully. committed to the complete team to put up the korean peninsula along with president trump we are optimistic about continuing a diplomatic process to test the possibility of a peaceful resolution. public or korea the united states and all parts of the. stand together insisting. that misstates. the pressure will continue on to north korea. thank you very much. so there you have it live pictures coming from in front of the white house the north korean security adviser who's been in washington d.c. with his delegation meeting president trump he said he had the privilege of meeting president trump and his national security team he said he told the president that the north korean leader kim jong un will refrain from any further nuclear tests he said that the north korean leader expressed eagerness to actually meet president trump and he said the president sent he may meet with kim jong il and he said all parties remain committed to the total denuclearization of the korean peninsula and to fo

the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. interested in finding the truth lost they guided by something else the using propaganda war to influence the public which is very easy to influence and not well educated the u.k. has asked the o.p.c. . organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to validate the findings of their investigation the russians say they're happy to cooperate but they won't respond to alternate arms the case says continue to keep the international community apprised of progress in the investigation let's get more on those measures that the british prime minister announced against russia to resume a has given twenty three russian diplomats a week to leave the country a move that the white house backs a u.k. correspondent reports. there was an air of inevitability to the private a says i'm not surprised given what she calls the contempt with which russia has responded to her demands for next probational what the british authorities say was a hit. so mr speaker there

united states and twenty three from the united kingdom. and the u.s. state department has reacted angrily to the russian action insisting that russia does not have the right to play the victim there is no justification for the russian response our actions were motivated purely by the attack on the united kingdom the attack on a british citizen and his daughter remember this is the first time that a weapons grade nerve agent no overt shock has been used outside of war on allied soil the russian consulate in seattle now stands empty but importantly the u.s. has made clear it reserves the right to further response the diplomatic dispute is far from. my kind of al-jazeera washington the daughter of the former russian spy was also poisoned in the attack on her father but she's getting better according to british doctors despite your scruples for coverage doctors say she may not be well enough to speak to investigators her father cripple remains in critical condition with reporters and with the nerve agent that was left on the front door of thei

white house the signal is the united states is hope that will bring about a brighter future for the north korean people but while this meeting is scheduled to take place this is by no means a relaxing pressure that was put in place by the united states when donald trump took office in fact just the opposite donald trump and his staff say that they will continue to exert maximum economic pressure as well as diplomatic isolation in conjunction with the international community and there are expectations for north korea in all of this from the united states that there will remain a commitment to nuclearize that there should be a refraining of testing of nuclear weapons and missiles and also that there is a need for the understanding something that north korea says it has recognize that the joint military exercises that will take place at the end of this month to south korea and the united states will continue something that had been delayed as a result of the a lympics taking place in young chang so there are considerable expectations on the part of the united states but still there is

suggesting a businessman with links to the united arab emirates trying to convince the u.s. president or trying to sack his secretary of state rex tillerson lead to e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. find any it's brady or major trump fundraiser wanted to listen fired for not supporting the u.a.e. backed blockade against cattle wasn't jordan has more. u.s. citizens have the constitutional right to lobby the government but they have to obey the law when they do so on behalf of another country please write news reports say the special counsel for the russia investigation robert muller has expanded his work to include those who may be lobbying on behalf of the united arab emirates the new york times says muller has already interviewed this man businessman george nader about his ties to the iraqi government and his meetings with white house officials the news reports also say nader knows another u.s. businessman elliott brody brody too has u.a.e. ties according to the b.b.c. broidery reportedly lobbied to president donald trump in october to support the blockade against qatar to hol

hailed as an antidote to the increasingly protectionist policies of the united states despite the rising trend when you have. a cause. that we stand behind. every station. many thought the tepee people's finished after president donald trump pulled out of the deal that his predecessor barack obama believed would offset china's growing economic and geopolitical power but spurred by japan the remaining countries forged ahead regardless leaving the u.s. on the sidelines the new revised agreement includes eleven countries that together account for more than five hundred million people and word and thirteen percent of global g.d.p. with the us it would have been forty percent but other countries like taiwan south korea the philippines and even the u.k. post bracks it could also join the pact now. but there are critics demonstrators gathered in front of the treaty venue saying that the deal was to go shaded in secret and that it will favor corporations at the expense of workers and small businesses a charge canada's commerce minister refutes it is the first trade agreement in the world where y

to serve the united states and he had been at odds with the u.s. president over a number of subjects and what was the biggest strain. well it really depends on the day lauren it could have been north korea because he was publicly criticized by the president on twitter for trying to build some sort of network to engage with north korea as it was really ramping up its nuclear weapons testing and its ballistic missiles testing it particularly in the latter half of last year they clashed of course on whether or not to maintain the iran nuclear deal or the way tiller's tillerson supported it the president campaigned on trying to get rid of it and replacing it with a much better deal on the matter of syria tillerson was much more interested in trying to broker things but instead the president had the u.n. ambassador nikki haley really take the lead on that matter even on mideast peace which is usually at the center of any secretary of state agenda this was not given to mr tellers and even though he wasn't a diplomat by training when he led exxon mobil he

welcome to the program our top story the united states and fourteen e.u. nations of expelled more than one hundred russian diplomats it's in a coordinated response to the nerve agent attack on form a double agent sergey scruple in the united kingdom earlier this month u.s. president donald trump ordered sixty russian diplomats to leave including twelve attached to the united nations and he's also closed the russian consulate in seattle russia are saying it will respond in kind where he is the overall breakdown more than sixty russian officials will be kicked out of europe france germany and poland expelling four diplomats ukraine which is not an e.u. member state is also taking action they are expelling thirteen russian diplomats from the country and canada and now it's the expulsion of four diplomats and said it was denying accreditation to three more that speak to our diplomatic editor james bays who's at the united nations what what's the latest on this from there. well diplomats are watching this extremely closely and last hour we've heard from the spo

to defend the right to bear arms the second amendment of the united states and it's unlikely that will change that she's very emblematic of what you see outside of many american cities and more rural parts of america there are many who fear that liberal leaning particularly politicians will take away the right to bear arms in fact when barack obama was in the white house the sale of firearms in the united states skyrocketed you couldn't go into a sporting goods store and find certain types of ammunition because people were stocking up fearful that left leaning politicians and the president would take their guns in fact the numbers have gone down now as a result of donald trump being in office there's this belief that he will protect and preserve that right but many are concerned and this is been the case all the way along that any sort of giving in to the other side in terms of what some call commonsense gun reforms others say is just sort of a chipping away at gun rights there's this back and forth and so what i can tell you is that well most polls show that there is some reasonable s

his heel with the message that the united states still cares about africa. but u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson stool is all about what african leaders already know about the threat but mr sharon's approach to the continent counterterrorism is top of the agenda what human rights and democracy take a box that the u.s. military presence here does facilitate a very quick response to terrorism and violent extremism that threatens both of our countries but as well it threatens the region and stability in this region wherever that threat may come from his two ways also about pushing back of the perception that suffocates not a priority for the u.s. especially after the democratic comments reportedly made by the president about african countries in generally tennyson's tools so comes at a time that the u.s. has been up flunked and outspent by china which has provided billions of dollars much of it in loans for infrastructure projects which african leaders have struggled to fund themselves it's he ain't djibouti host to complement america's largest and most important mi

the united states imported into the united states but the fact that many countries were exempted from that canada being one of the major trading partner certainly left many scratching their head about the president's trade strategy this is something that the u.s. trade representative speaking at a senate finance committee hearing just in the last couple of hours tried to clarify in terms of those exemptions for u.s. senators take a listen to what he had to say. so what he has decided to do is to pause the imposition of the terms with respect to those countries and i know one very well so we have we have two to nafta countries which we know where they are we have europe we have australia we have argentina we have brazil. and obviously korea where we're negotiating of course. so those are the tariff on aluminum and stealing you heard the trade representative talking there about all of the carve outs of their calls here in the united states of countries that will be exempted from those tariffs it really leaves the united states pointing the finger at one country in particular and that is

the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. the news of the earth already interested in finding the truth lost they guided by something else the using propaganda war to influence the public which is very easy to influence and not well educated the u.k. has asked the o.p.c. . organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to validate the findings of their investigation the russians say they're happy to cooperate but they won't respond to alternate arms the u.k. says they'll continue to keep the international community apprised of progress in the investigation more now on the measures that britain's prime minister announced against russia tourism is given twenty three russian diplomats a week to leave the country a move the white house backs are u.k. correspondent bondy phillips reports. there was an air of inevitability to the prime minister's announcement given what she calls the contempt with which russia has responded to her demands for an explanation of what the british authorities s

united states and twenty three from the united kingdom. and the u.s. state department has reacted angrily to the russian action insisting that russia does not have the right to play the victim there is no justification for the russian response our actions were motivated purely by the attack on the united kingdom the attack on a british citizen and his daughter remember this is the first time that a weapons grade nerve agent no overt shock has been used outside of war on allied soil the russian consulate in seattle now stands empty but importantly the u.s. has made clear it reserves the right to further response the diplomatic dispute is far from over mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the daughter of that former russian spy was also poisoned in the attack she's getting better according to british doctors despite julius cripples recovery doctors say she might not be well enough to speak to investigators her father said he remains in critical condition both were poisoned with a nerve agent that was left on the front door of their home in engl

deny the charges the united states stands in absolute solidarity with great britain the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. interested in finding the truth lost they guided by something else the using propaganda war to influence the public which is very easy to influence and not well educated the u.k. has asked the o.p.c. w the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to validate the findings of their investigation the russians say they're happy to cooperate but they won't respond to alternate arms the u.k. says they'll continue to keep the international community apprised of progress in the investigation more now on the measures britain's prime minister announced against russia to resume a has given twenty three russian diplomats a week to leave the country and move the white house back so you can correspondent body phillips reports. there was an air of inevitability to the private asis announcement given what she calls the contempt with which russia has responded to her

united states and twenty three from the united kingdom. and the u.s. state department has reacted angrily to the russian action insisting that russia does not have the right to play the victim there is no justification for the russian response our actions were motivated purely by the attack on the united kingdom the attack on a british citizen and his daughter remember this is the first time that a weapons grade nerve agent no overt shock has been used outside of war on allied soil the russian consulate in seattle now stands empty but importantly the u.s. has made clear it reserves the right to further response the diplomatic dispute is far from over mike hanna al-jazeera washington. you know eunice cryptology daughter of the former russian spy who was also poisoned in that attack is getting better that's according to hospital officials russia has demanded access to her doctors say she is recovering although it's unclear if she will be well enough to speak to investigators father said yes cripple remains in a critical condition u.s. presid

deny the charges the united states stands in absolute solidarity with great britain the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent the last of it it could be done use a thorough interested in finding the truth lost they guided by something else the using propaganda war to influence the public which is very easy to influence and not well educated the u.k. has asked the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to validate the findings of their investigation the russians say they're happy to cooperate but they won't respond to alternate arms the u.k. says they'll continue to keep the international community apprised of progress in the investigation. as we mentioned britain's order of the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats correspondent aren't the phillips has more. there was an air of inevitability to the private a says i'm not surprised given what she calls the contempt with which russia has responded to her demands for explanations of what the british authori