incentivize greater compliance with u.s. sanctions by -- where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. the bill's countries on notice. the proposed legislation has been informed by the committee's ongoing work on north korea as well as the u.n. panel of --erts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. north korea's six tests on september 3 coupled with repeated launching of ballistic missiles undermines -- underlines that more must be done. legislative drafting we will be looking at laid out a choice. foreign banks can either do is get that benefits north korea, or they can do business with the united states. they cannot do both. as many of us here are aware, this is a similar approach taken to the one in 2010 against iran, which helped compel the ayatollah negotiate. while there are differences of opinion over how successful those negotiations were, there is consensus that in the absence of secondary sanctions affecting banks, it would've been less incentivized to engage in talks. a focus on banks is important given how north korea has even aided sanctions

dangerous to the u.s. earlier on sunday pyongyang successfully carried out a hard test the country's state television and that it took place in a northeastern province and was felt in neighboring china as well as russia with more his partridge in china. there's been widespread condemnation coming in from russia and china as well because this move comes in violation of the u.n. security council resolution just ahead of that new testing that we heard about north korea announced to their central news agency that the country had developed an advance hydrogen bomb this was very briefly then followed by that earthquake six point three on the richter scale in the north east of the country now what north korea then said is that they've developed a particular type of warhead that's been designed so we can be on an intercontinental ballistic missile the likes of which was tested last tuesday as it flew over japan u.s. president donald trump at the time he said that all options were on the table and this contributed to the strong rhetoric that points to rhetoric that each use throughout the escalatio

weekend every weekend only on c-span3. >>> next, a look at how efforts to reduce the u.s. trade deficit could impact foreign partners and the global economy. speakers included a formal consultant from the office of the u.s. trade representative and member of the white house council of economic advisors. from the american enterprise institute, this is two hours. >>> we'll start again. good morning, ladies and gentlemen, i'm glad you're with us. i'm alex pollock from the r street institute. and we welcome you on trade deficits and the trump administration. it goes without saying debates about trade, tariffs, other barriers to trade, balance of trade and payments and shifts in foreign exchanges, whether the flee of gold in old bays or reserves nominated in fiat currencies now have a long and controversial history in domestics and in politics. these debates feature the famous and essential contrast between the interests of producers on one side and those of consumers on the other, abiding asymmetry and pressures for adjustment between countries with persistent deficits like the u.s.

in the bush. is a tourist phobia videophone tone identity. headlines on. the u.s. and south korea all accuse north korea of carrying out another nuclear test for a larger earthquake was detected in the country. u.s. security services diplomatic outposts in san francisco and washington after they were shot down on the state department. is a clear violation of international law. we're seeing an example you need to match the relations. we haven't. asked. behind a booby trapped. driven out of the city of tal afar by the iraqi army here on the program we have an exclusive report from the. main stories of the week the top headlines all today welcome to the program it's all t. international. it is thought north korea has carried out a nuclear test that's off the earthquake measuring around six on the richter scale was detected in the country it took place in a north eastern province bordering both china and russia and was felt in both of these countries of south korea japan and the u.s. say the quakes the result of a six. new nuclear test and expected to make a statement within the next

. >> and then a visit to the home of franklin pierce to learn about the life of the 14th u.s. president. watch c-span cities tour of concord, new hampshire, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv. and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv, on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >>> u.s./south korea trade relations was the subject of a panel discussion with wendy cutler, u.s. trade representative during the obama administration. this was hosted by the center for strategic and international studies examining challenges and opportunities under the u.s./south korean alliance. >> good afternoon. we would like to begin session three. i'm the moderator of the session. my name is tae-ho bark. professor emeritus. i just retired at the end of last month, so i call myself professor emeritus. seoul national university, and i was the former trade minister of korea. let me first join our creative speakers in thanking the csis and the korea foundation for organizing such a timely conference as one we have today. since our topic this afternoon

the united nations. in terms of any kinds of u.s. military response we just need to wait and see. it's early now to talk about any kinds of u.s. military response. certainly we'll see stepped up u.s. military flights, patrols from its bombers. keep in mind, there are 80,000 u.s. military troops stationed on south korea and japan. you have warships from the 7th fleet. since the collisions of two destroyers resulting in the death of 17 sailors. the u.s. military is down two ballistic missile defense ships that can shoot down korean ballistic missiles. in terms of any kinds of military response, it's too early to tell. robert: how soon might we get those tests to make the determination in the past what has been -- is it something we'll know in a matter of hours? how likely will we get the confirmation it's the 6th nuclear test? >> the united states can get reconnaissance aircraft into the region pretty quickly. any kind of nuclear matter or raid logical matter will in the air for a long time, for days. so i expect the test to happen any time in the next few days. robert: what's the

, north ministeroreign reiterated the threat of a possible missile attack on the u.s. mainland. his remarks are just over 20 minutes. another give the floor -- i now give the floor to the minister of foreign affairs for the democratic people's republic of north korea. >> mr. president, first of all, allow me to congratulate your excellency, on your election, as the president of the 72nd >> allow me to congratulate i look forward to successful outcomes under your able guidance. before going into the main point of my debate, i feel forced to make comments on the speech uttered four days ago, by someone called, the u.s. president, that rendered this sacred u.n. arena, tainted. since trump gave this speech, it is fair for me to make a response, in the corresponding tone. during his eight months in power, he has turned the white house into a noisy, marketing place. now, he has tried to turn the u.n. arena into a trickster's 's nest, a gangster where money is respected. this comes from a mentally deranged person, full of egomania and complacence, a person who is chastised even by american

question the u.s.' future influence in asia. richard mcgregor's new book considers the complex relationship between these three countries t is called asia's reckoning. richard mcgregor joins me now from washington. we are pleased to have him back on this program. good to see you. >> thanks for having me, jeff, terrific to be here. >> glor: you talk a lot, richard, about the concept of past american blanca how do you define that today and is it over? >> not over yet. i guess let me define it first, it is really america as both the dominant power in east asia since the second world war and also the sort of policy-making power in asia since the second world war. i mean let may give you an example. it's quite remarkable that 70 years after the war the u.s. still has troops in south korea, it still has troops in japan. it has troops in australia, it has all sorts of facilities in thailand, singapore, the philippines and the like. that's past americana, this interwoven sort of set of security guarantees that the u.s. provides for asia, east asia and has provided for 70 years. i guess

. i'm ashley banks and you're watching our team america we begin today with the latest on how the u.s. is a working toward a nuclear free north korea up the senate banking committee heard from the treasury and state departments today but didn't get any resulting results so far on the economic sanctions tactic the thing that's important to remember is we've been down this road with north korea several times already and that they have continually undermined cheated and disregarded the agreements that we've entered into with them in an attempt to do what we are also attempting to do obviously with iran which is which is stop freeze and rollback in illegal nuclear programs for more on the u.s. tactics to disarm a nuclear north korea we go now to professor paul atwood from the university of massive cuts and a war and pyar of the american way of life thank you so much for joining us paul professor out of what i first want to start with the what's your reaction to that statement considering that the u.s. has no official treaty with north korea. well it certainly doesn't have an official trea

-un's eagerness enforcing the withdrawal of u.s. troops in the region may not be entirely inconsistent with chinese interests. for all the reckless talk of china exerting influence around the globe at arrival to u.s. power, we are curiously asked to believe that their hands are tied when it comes to a small, economically dependent state next door. well, if chinese officials hands are tied, then we should proceed with secondary sanctions so there banks can assist international efforts to cut off north korea's access to finance. if, on the other hand, china could do more than it has been secondary sanctions may finally inspire it to do so. i want to thank our witnesses were appearing today and i look forward to their testimony. the chair now recognize the ranking member of the subcommittee, when more for five minutes. >> thank you so much. in the absence of ranking member of the full committee, i would like to share some thoughts that she had committed to paper regarding today's hearing. i want to thank our witnesses for joining us to discuss the legislative proposal aimed at expanding t

continues to be hostile and dangerous to the u.s. before now china has cake part. but it stormy here in china in the city a storm seems to be brewing over the korean peninsula as well u.s. president john walsh trump has tweeted his response to the latest nuclear test from north korea north korea has conducted a major nuclear test their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the united states he goes on to say north korea is a robot nation which has become a great threat anti-virus mintz to china which is trying to help but with little success well this. north korea's first nuclear test during the trumpet ministration the last one came in september twenty sixth and here's some of the rhetoric from president trump that preceded the latest test north korea better get their act together or they're going to be trouble like your day should never have been a drop in this world. and this man will not get away with what he's doing believe me they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen for me while donald trump is sends another tweet he says that sou

is day eight of the news live from berlin north korea steps up its threats against the u.s. pyongyang's foreign minister tells the un an attack on the u.s. mainland is not inevitable this after u.s. bombers and fighter jets flying in north korea in an unprecedented show of force against the isolated state also coming up. with germany's election just hours away chancellor angela merkel makes a last minute push for votes she has a strong lead in the polls but with a main challenger martin schultz a distant second all eyes are on which party will come for that. and you ran says it launched a new missile a new ballistic missile that can carry multiple warheads over two thousand kilometers it's a sign of defiance against the u.s. . welcome to the program the u.s. has flown almost close to north korea's east coast in what the pentagon called a demonstration of its military options in the face. threats the u.s. said the fight flight went to the furthest north of the dividing line between the two koreas but any u.s. fighter jet has flown this century the show of force comes amid he

downward this applies to both russia u.s. relations and the ongoing events on the korean peninsula have we passed the point of no return. cross talking real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark slow boulder he's an international affairs and security a most we also have bitter or levity he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have alex chris afore he was the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you first here i guess this is the drama of tit for tat in u.s. russia relations why. close this consulate why search and where is this all where to come from and what is it going to lead to and what does the u.s. hope to accomplish ok well i mean we have to see where this all began back in december with obama's parthian shot in an attempt to sabotage the incoming. administration's campaign policy of detente with russia they kicked thirty five russian diplomats out of the country seized two ru

. flowing down jordan this is our live from doha also coming up. u.s. president donald trump calls for reforms to the u.n. as he attends his first general assembly. caribbean islands repair for yet another hurricane as category five memory makes landfall. on tension on the streets isn't louis in the u.s. where a fourth night of protests was held over the shooting death of a black man. minimized by fact only the anger has given her first speech on the violence against the range of people in her country so she says her government condemns human rights abuses and the violence taking place in rakhine state speech follows widespread criticism for the failure to condemn the ethnic cleansing of range are muslims. i'm aware of the fact that the world's attention is focused on the situation in rakhine state and as i said at this general assembly last year as a responsible member of the community of nations modest north korea international scrutiny and we are committed to a sustainable solution that would lead to peace stability and development for all communities within that state there has bee

accompany afghan units to provide nato support to them at a more u.s. troops alongside additional allied contributions and making clear that we are not quitting this fight in short uncertainty has been replaced by certainty all of this will be carried out within the coalition framework making this campaign politically fiscally and militarily sustainable this new strategy is conditions based not time based because war is principally a matter of will and we've made clear that we have the will to stand together our afghan partners have fought valiantly and the afghan security forces today number more than three hundred thousand strong will continue to take the lead as president gunny said last week in new york afghans are determined to fight no one should mistake our will to defend our country and we stand with you through our partnership we will suffocate any hope that al qaeda or isis dash a cannier the taliban have of winning by killing i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement we welcome those who

of a new sanctions. plus u.s. relations with cuba hit a ball no after a brief trawl the u.s. is pulling out half of its embassy staff and warning travelers to avoid the island that's after mysterious attacks that have left some diplomats deaf. and i'm sarah harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us tensions in spain are rising ahead of attempts by catalonia to hold a referendum on independence on sunday madrid says that's illegal and has sent thousands of police to the region but kut want to thore say everything is in place for this vote to go ahead. these are the ballot boxes that the leaders of self-governing catalonia say its citizens will use to vote in the planned referendum from spain on sunday and i was drive from the catalan capital barcelona where thirty's in the town of vic insist residents will be able to vote despite the ban from madrid. mayor says for her the issue is personal but. for me the worst punishment would be to go out into the streets and not be able to give my citizens the opportunity to express their opinion and decide. i am not afraid of

ballistic missile the likes of which was tested last tuesday as it flew over japan u.s. president donald trump at the time he said that all options were on the table and this contributed to the strong rhetoric the price to rhetoric that each used throughout the escalation of tensions on the korean peninsula and north korea better get their act together or they're going to be in trouble like your day shouldn't ever have been in trouble in this world. and this man will not get away with what he's doing believe they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen this is the first nuclear test of promise administration the last one coming in september twenty sixth eighteenth when the marines on the u.s. and south korea have been practicing widespread military drills also japanese fighter planes have also been going overhead as well much to the annoyance of p.r. nyang and since this latest testing south korea has also responded with some very strong language. searches we decided to discuss with the u.s. the deployment of the most powerful strategic assets of the american milita

it is the u.s. that has more to worry b. >> do you think there are other victims of weapons in north korea? >> it is very clear that japan are not nited states free from the threat of north korea. >> sent 11, 2001. is under attack. the government went into survival mode. since the cold war the federal government has been preparing scenario.t case >> only time we have ever paid these ose attention to plans is after realizing in an emergency they don't work. sharyl: welcome to "full measure." i'm sharyl attkisson. the new and latest aggression from north korea builds on years that is attention rising to a threat of war. the fact is the korean war never ended. we recently visited south korea to hear from those who have lived under north korea's threat more than 60 years and been convinced for some time that the ictator does have nuclear weaponry. >> that is the northern boundary. sharyl: we are at the world's most dangerous border. fortified most position on planet earth. haryl: rick lamb led a u.s. military quick reaction force during the last fire fight. 1984 and the defector dashed a

stop an independence referendum. u.s. president donald trump is ramping up pressure on north korea by imposing further sanctions on top of those passed by the u.n. the e.u. and china are also stepping up measures against pyongyang over its nuclear program our diplomatic editor james bays reports from new york. days after he threatened to destroy north korea militarily now a fresh attempt by president trump at economic destruction today i'm announcing a new executive order just signed that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals companies financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea he was flanked by the leaders of the two countries most at risk from north korea the prime minister of japan and the president of south korea not present the nation which will probably be most affected by the new sanctions china but it appears there was some coordination before this move was taken china their central bank has told their other banks it's a massive banking system to immediately stop doing business with north korea in his speech to the general a

operation to retake the city of beer and saw for myself the u.s. coalition and rebel militias they support halted their operation in iraq which was a stronghold of eisel and through their forces behind trying to push the syrian army out of dairies or as if the americans were competing with the syrian government over control of derrius or instead of fighting ice and rock. the remaining terrorists indira saw and now surrounded by both the syrian army and the u.s. backed kurdish forces our correspondent is there. the sieged may have been lifted but it's not over yet isis holds out in parts of dead as order though not for long. day and night battles rage around the city that you harvests are throwing everything they have into the fight. every day there is combat they'll use heavy weapons from range although trying to infiltrate in the middle of the night fear attack with suicide vests and car bombs the battle goes on every day but the tables have turned it is isis now that is surrounded and slowly being squeezed out. we're it's a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial cit

that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. russian foreign ministry slums u.s. searches of russian diplomatic site says quote an illegal diabolical circus in san francisco and washington was shut down on the state department's. review of the week islamic state leaves behind a booby trapped ghost town after driven out of tal afar by the iraqi army we'll bring you an exclusive report. good evening to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. tensions on the north korean peninsula are ratcheting up with pyongyang announcing that it's conducted a successful test donald trump has hinted that a u.s. strike on the north is possible. president we would check the work for you. from scotland comes as the u.s. president prepares for a meeting with his military officials earlier trumpet tweeted the only force will work with pyongyang and it all comes after north korean state t.v. announced the country had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that announcement was made after an earthquake measuring around six on the richter scale was detected in north korea took place in the country's

nafta next week. we preview the high-stakes rather in. -- gathering. tensions between the u.s. and north korea hit a new high. donald trump has given companies punishing those who trade with north korea. kim jong-un responded overnight -- the north korean foreign ministry explaining what the leader could have meant, a hydrogen bomb detonated in the pacific. this morning, donald trump tweeting in kind. let's get to our roundtable. megan murphy joins me from new york. and our washington bureau chief joins us from washington, d.c. megan, we have seen the rhetoric escalate. what are you going to be watching this weekend? megan: i think we have to ignore the rhetoric we see on twitter and people making statements like this that only escalate tensions. want to thisdon't on news of a hydrogen test -- it's alarming indeed. but economic sanctions, yes. that's probably the one positive out of this week with trump. however, they have not been shown to really clamp down. what we need in the region is diplomacy. we need china to ramp up pressure. japan, south korea. we have no indication we are

boosting its defenses after a weekend fly over by u.s. bombers. refugees are moved from an australian run prison camp to the u.s. under a controversial resettlement plan. and they've escaped violence and mayhem are now the hinge of children putting their experiences into pictures. three members of the israeli security forces have been killed and one injured in a shooting at an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank the palestinian gunman was shot dead israeli media say that he opened fire after arriving with palestinian laborers at the settlement of. near jerusalem lived out to that settlement of just outside it al-jazeera is harry force it is there harry what more can you tell us about what happened. well we're here in the occupied west bank just a couple of hundred meters away from the entrance to the settlement of har dyer which you can see just on the hill behind us the entrance itself is where this took place just before seven o'clock local time so about four hours ago now and as you say the attacker was among a group of palestinian workers he is he was said to b

from care cook thanks very much for that update u.s. president donald trump is under pressure to do more to help puerto rico which has been paralyzed by hurricane maria the caribbean island is a u.s. territory its people are american citizens supplies of food and clean water are low in many areas and the power remains out for most of the island this is kind of on us one week after hurricane maria and the efforts to clean up the rebuilding tentative most people here still just trying to survive. federal emergency teams are going from house to house trying to assess people's needs but the scale of the task is huge mud deborah and sewage block the streets the power grid is almost completely gone there are no communications and almost half of puerto rico's three point four million people don't even have clean water. and lovely little truly this is the first water tanker that i've seen in this area it's the first. time they didn't bring any water to this place that's why you're seeing people going crazy like this. they say the eights coming from the u.s. but i still haven't got any. the

has never seen. when the means on the u.s. and south korea have been practicing widespread military drills also japanese fighter planes have also been going overhead as well much to the annoyance of p.r. young and since this latest testing south korea has also responded with some very strong language. has already decided to discuss with the u.s. the deployment of the most powerful strategic assets of the american military that would enable us to neutralize north korea's nuclear facility and missiles and show us. capabilities. they believe the only way to solve the problems on the. dialogue. around the. president. the russian foreign ministry has demanded the return of us diplomatic properties in the united states which were closed. after washington's order a more. deeply hostile aimed at undermining u.s. russia relations for more. where security forces have conducted searches in the facilities that we do have is a number of videos to show the facility in san francisco when the inspection took place and you can see from one of the videos that the security officials were actually sear

struggles to recover from what's set to become the most expensive natural disaster in u.s. history. the relief bill is on track to go to president trump for his signature by friday, just ahead of hurricane irma's expected landfall in south florida. president trump traveled to north dakota wednesday to pitch a tax plan that would overwhelmimingly favor the wealthiest americans, while touting his admiministration's role in slashing environmental protections and promoting the fossil fuel industry. trump made the remarks at an oil refinery in mandan, across the missouri river from the state capital bismarck. protectump: in order r to american industry and workerers, we w withdrew w the united stats from the jobob killing paris climimate acrd. job killer. people have no idea. many people have no idea how bad that was. and right here in north dakota, the dakota access pipeline is finally open for b business. amy: president trump also touted his move to o re-authorize t the keystone xl pipeline, which would carry more than 80800,000 barrels ofof tar sands oil per y from alberta, canada, t

the u.s. on how to stop him there's a split u.s. president donald trump talking to troops on the seventieth anniversary of the u.s. air force suggests they could have a role. after seeing your capabilities and commitment here today i want to tell students in there that our. existing just read the posts thank you. for one president donald trump already said sanctions passed by the united nations security council on monday were nothing compared to what will have to happen but others including his ambassador to the united nations stressed sanctions time we have strangled their economic situation at this point that's going to take a little bit of time but it has already started to take effect the united nations security council met again on friday and condemned the latest launch but there was no suggestion in their statement of further sanctions and from china a renewed call for talks with the year of a delusion also calls for reopening dialogue every job in the issue of consultations the regulations should be implemented comprehensive lee but south korea no longer wants dialogue in

u.s. backed forces both closing it. for good evening to you my name is neil harvey you're watching international north korea says that washington will be fully to blame for the response it decides to give to new u.n. sanctions speaking at a news conference the d.p. r. k. s. envoy to russia accused the u.s. of using the u.n. security council to isolate pyongyang after a new resolution on tougher measures against the state was adopted unanimously in new york earlier we got more details from our correspondents medina cochon of. speaking at a news conference said the north korea shan forty two russia accused the u.s. of using the security council as an instrument to isolate. the latest sanctions imposed by the u.n. security council a result of the heinous u.s. attempts to isolate and suffocating talk country. place in violation of our sovereignty that's why we totally reject and condemn these sanctions and he also added that washington is trying to shift the blame for instigating townshend's on the korean peninsula is sad that so the u.s. is wrong if it believes that its north korea wo

right now so concerned about it the u.s. military is concerned about all of these things this is where money should have been spent after katrina there should have been no question that you need to earmark this money and you need to make a serious change in how we rescue people how we protect american citizens on i'm here and they have seems obvious seems obvious right but it's not when you look at these numbers that this is where all the talk about budgets and cuts it always seems like well we'll get rid of the fat sometimes you're taking things remember before hurricane harvey sort of caused all this massive flooding and destruction in texas the house spending. spending bills homeland security section had eight hundred and seventy six million dollars specifically to feed. to their disaster relief i'd say we're going to cut all this and the point of that was. you know put that down payment on the wall that we need oh right i'm not going to stop water your house that brilliant wall to keep people out yes let's let's move some money over that may be used to save people's lives jus

and listened to u.s. president donald trump explain his world and the roles expected of them in it tonight america first at the u.n. and the axis of evil two point zero i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. to put it simply we meet at a time of both immense promise and great peril the united states will forever be a great friend to the world but we can no longer be taken advantage of or enter into a one sided deal where the united states gets nothing in return. as president of the united states i will always put america first just like you as the leaders of your countries will always and should always put your countries first. strong sovereign nations let their people take ownership of the future and control their own destiny that's what the united nations is all about that's what the united nations is for let's see how they do. also on the show remember that euro crisis just before the last election in germany efforts to rescue the euro were the stuff o

forced to make comments on the speech uttered four days ago by someone called the u.s. president who rendered this sacred u.n. arena tainted. since trump uttered such reckless and violent words, provoking the supreme dignity of the democratic people's republic of korea on this very platform, it is fair enough for me to make a response in the corresponding tone. during his eight months in power, he has turned the white house into a noisy marketing now, he hasf -- tried to turn the u.n. arena into a gangster's nest where bloodshed is the order of the day. trump is a mentally deranged , a person who is chastised even by the american people as the commander in grief, lying king, holding the seat of u.s. president and the dangerous reality that -- using against a land that holds the nuclear button. these constitute the greatest threat to international peace and security today. his lacking of basic common knowledge and proper sentiment, he tried to insult the supreme dignity of my it as aby referring to rocket. he committed an error possible rocket'sf making our visit to the u.s. mainland

about 500 miles and went about 2300 miles, that's quite a long distance now, the u.s. government, the u.s. pacific command has come out and said that this looks like an intermediate range bl s ballistic missile. that's similar to the style that was launched over hokkaido two woo weeks ago. still compared to the trajectory that was launched this morning and the one two weeks ago this was quite a bit longer this is a range that looks more like an intercontinental ballistic missile, the kind that the north koreans launched back in july that caused so much worry in the united states and here in japan and in south korea. now, the japanese did alert their population to this launch. they activated their j.-alert system which sent text messages to japanese citizens and flash warnings on television so far the north koreans say they can shrink a thermonuclear device to fit on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but there's no evidence that they can make that stride quite yet. back to you. >> china's foreign ministry said they did not hold the key to the korean peninsula issue let's ge

how are the media in the u.s. and both previous handling it another thirty journalists in turkey are in court over the failed coup that led to the reshaping of the media landscape there and twitter wants to know how did the line for the president make him the toast of hollywood. if what they say is true and journalism really is the first rough draft of history then the second draft often comes in the form of a book written by one of the principals such as hillary clinton's take on what happened that's the title of her new book published last week and it's a statement not a question. clinton does start out by accepting responsibility for her failure to win the white house before moving on and sharing the blame that's where the us news media come in clinton's primary grievance with the coverage was the fixation on one story the journey her time as u.s. secretary of state she used her family's private e-mail server for official communications she says that that story overshadowed any substantive reporting of her policies and that that helped put donald trump in the oval office but is th

social network as a part of a report on alleged russian meddling and the u.s. election. meanwhile wiki leaks publishes an e-mail exchange between hillary clinton's campaign chief and a facebook official who similarly pledges support in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election. spain's catalonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid but the authorities increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights experts are voicing their concerns. and there are fears a terrorist group is exploiting the fate of myanmar's persecuted broken broken minority to raise money for its activities. this is r t international coming to you live from moscow where it's just turned four pm. thank you for joining us this hour. twitter has unveiled a report on how it battled alleged russian interference and the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election taking aim at r.t. in the process according to the statement the social network giant revealed to the u.s. senate confidential information on artie's ad out like twitter claims a little vaguely that over a thousand

referendum vote on sunday. president trump plans to cut the number of refugees entering the u.s. to the lowest level for decades plus south korea. celebrates another four. hours after winning a landslide in the secession referendum the government of the rocks kurdish region has rejected baghdad's demand to hand over control of the results been announced despite a last minute appeal to cancel it by the iraqi prime minister reports and to build . up the percent of voters city. yes to secession to the kurdish region of northern iraq. the referendum is very important it will for my future and i hope at least that baghdad will eventually to be independent. with the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result let alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy over future independence for iraq. events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the most momentous in this region's history but the political ramifications are massive the threats continue from the baghdad governmen

a u.s. strike on the north is possible. president we were tracking were real. so this is a very ominous message coming from the president who posted on line that all options are on the table when it comes to north korea and that he was in fact going to meet with his generals and a number of other military officials to discuss the crisis now mattis his secretary of defense recently stated that is always a possibility to find a diplomatic solution to such a crisis but trump himself has already repeated that speaking with north korea is not going to be effective at the same time we have a number of world powers china and russia calling for all sides to show restraint but trump it seems a sticking to his guns and is going to continue to escalate the aggressive rhetoric that we've heard from him as of late they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see north korea better get their act together where they're going to be trouble like you day should ever have been to trouble in this world. and this may not get away with what he's doing really now of course this is alr

u.s. has given rush of 48 hours to close its consulate in california. the trump administration made reductionon after the in diplomatic staff in russia. >> by saturday the russian consulate in san francisco will have closed its doors following an order by the state department. >> we are requiring the russian government to close its consulate general in san annex in, a train washington, d.c. and in new york city. they have to be completed by september 2. we have taken a firm and response. we want to halt the downward spiral. >> but improvement in relations looks increasingly unlikely. tensions have heightened after the kremlin ordered a reduction in the number of u.s. diplomatic staff next month -- staff last month. in a statement from the russian foreign ministry, moscow expressed regrets at the escalation of tensions and bilateral relations for which it said it wasn't responsible. separately, a member of parliament accused the u.s. of ramping up tensions describing the impasse as a phase of the diplomatic war. the move has angered russian nationals living in america. >> when i thin

u.s. cracked the north korea crisis the u.s. secretary of state gets a warm welcome from his chinese counterpart to find out what chance they have of bringing kim jong un's rogue states to heel also coming up. confrontation in catalonia as the independence referendum approaches rallies take place in both madrid and barcelona to opals the sunday's vote of the catalonian government insists the vote will go ahead. and in the wonderous legal battle plan and hamburg's inability to score has cost them points can tonight's match spark life into their tax. money welcome to the program growing tension between the u.s. and north korea is at the top of the agenda in meetings between chinese officials and u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson now to listen is in beijing for talks with his chinese counterparts wang ye and with president xi jinping the u.s. feels china is crucial to attempts to stop north korea developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with pyongyang accounting for around ninety percent of its foreign trade. and for more let's bring in correspondent stephen barr aw

? >>> diplomatic war. a surprise move as the u.s. retaliates against russia. what's just been ordered from new york to san francisco. >>> caught on camera. outrage over what an officer is heard saying during a traffic stop. >> remember, we only kill black people. yeah, we only kill black people, right? all the videos you've seen, have you seen black people get killed? you have. >> tonight the department responds. >>> and bogus bank accounts. the growing scandal at wells fargo. customers on the hook for accounts they didn't want and charges they didn't even know they owed. are you one of them? "nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, and thank you for being here tonight. as the remnants of hurricane harvey finally exit the state of texas and rescue crews intensify their search for victims, there is a new pressing danger in the flood zone tonight. a chemical plant burning. it's already been rocked by two explosions early today after critical cooling systems failed in the floo

governments of the of the day and of course in the u.s. this constant shifting of the level of terror threats is used as a part of the political theater surrounding this whole war on terror and everything that goes with it one presumes from the if they've reduced the terror threat than they've they've got reason to do that but of course we don't necessarily always trust the government sells about these things of the capital's mayor in the past has said that living with the threat of terrorism is something that londoners just have to accept. you won't succeed but you want to fight us we will be cowered by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean creased number off. across. the attempts to make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together . and. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of armed officers. will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be a long. road. to be any. longer as we'll see an increased number of visible police officers. now it has been ano

year's united nations general assembly. it comes amidst rising tension between u.s. and north korea. president trump is to speak to the general simply tuesday. on sunday, trump called north korea leader kim jong-un rocket man in a tweet as the white house continues to threaten military responses to north korea's recent missile test. trump also claimed there were long lines at gas stations in north korea. it was in response to the fighting of sanctions come although, multiple news reports disputed claims. trump is planning to have a dinner with the presidents of peru, colombia, and brazil a trump tower tonight to discuss venezuela. the trump administration has the right to intervene materially in venezuela to oust president nicolas maduro. ahead of the opening of the u.n. general assembly, the trump administration is putting out conflicting information about whether the unitited statates' s to pull out of the landmark 2015 paris climate accord. on saturday, the white house doubled down on trump's threats to pull out of the climate accord. but on sunday, secretary of state rex tillers

u.s. refuge resettlement program. this heritage foundation event is 90 minutes. >> good morning. welcomed to the heritage foundation in our auditorium. we also welcome those joining us on our heritage.org website and the c-span network this morning. for those inhouse we ask that you check to be sure our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. for those watching online you are always welcome to send questions or comments e-mailing speaker@heritage.org and we will post today's program on the heritage home page for everyone's future reference as well. welcoming our guests and introducing our program is our active vice president for research and recently served heritage as vice president of policy studies and director of davis institute. the founding editor of index over economic freedom which has become a signature heritage publication from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. bush administration as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. please join me in welcoming dr. kim holm. kim. >> thank you. three minutes. good morning, everyone. wel

. secretary general and turn over turn as his speech followed an address by the u.s. president donald trump who spoke there at that forum which is a dressing the issue of u.n. reform with the u.s. president expressing support for terrorism is efforts to find a way as he put it for the u.n. to be better at development managing peace and security in the world feeding the hungry in disaster relief but he was also critical saying the u.n. had not reached its full potential but we've got our diplomatic editor genspace is still standing by live for us watching what's been going on so as i said there james you still had some criticism there about the doubling of budgets the increase in staff. clear there that the u.s. president still sticking to some of the things he said on the campaign trail when it comes to the u.n. and how inefficient he sees it as being. yes but i think the u.n. can live with those criticisms i think they'll be very happy with the way this event unfolded because they have managed to turn this around then you have to really look there to the wily political skills of the

make sure madrid's police do not close them down also coming up. the u.s. secretary of state goes to china high on the agenda what to do about north korea's nuclear weapons tests. and america's relations with cuba go on sick leave the u.s. is pulling out half its embassy staff after mysterious attacks that have left some diplomats dead. i need a few money welcome to the program tensions in spain are rising ahead of attempts by catalonia to hold a referendum on independence on sunday but reed says the move is illegal and has sent thousands of police to the region but catalan authorities say everything is in place for the votes to go ahead in barcelona the region's capital people have been rallying to show their support. we will vote. there are thousands turn out for the final rally ahead of sunday's on authorized referendum on satellite independence from spain. such as a controversy the campaign has stoked the regional president claimed victory before a single ballot had been cast. today we won. today we won against the fear and threats we won against the pressure the lies and the int

rejects a bipartisan bill trying to end u.s. involvement in afghanistan and iraq. plus a hurricane or mad claims more lives find out how on was after a fax caused the deaths of six nursing home residents today. it's wednesday september thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i mean this week and you're watching r.t. america our top story this hour is the ongoing tensions between the u.s. and north korea president donald trump describes the resolution of the united nations security council sanctions against north korea as quote not a big deal however he did say the unanimous vote itself spoke volumes all this comes as the south korean government started testing that long range ballistic missiles artes on your part in pill as in seoul south korea where tensions between the penciler countries are expected to rise. as officials here meet to discuss how to implement the unprecedented sanctions passed by the un security council this week targeting north korea and the foreign ministry underscores its commitment to apply economic and diplomatic pressure in order to weaken pyongyang today in