know u.s. is not. making it a condition anymore that assad leaves office but nevertheless there's still strong anti a sawed sentiment all right matthew we're going to take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking with dr. have that or an analyst and a former national intelligence counselor and we'll talk more about the challenges they today's world order stay with us. the memo has come and gone but this controversy is far from over the political bias of the deep state has been revealed and the legal activities exposed if anyone will be held responsible. despite it's tough going into history the soviet union i know has dominated international sport however this was not about the lives of those champions from the. right moment you're worth. more moved there with the ball for the think you're going to do with your brother this is for the lord your god what i wish was the most good example for you if you were to the first some of you to limp a team of nine hundred fifty two with some good seeds of life as concentration camp prisoners and frontline soldiers. maybe e

finish. than 16 years of fighting, the u.s. war in afghanistan intensifying again as pulled from iraq and syria, not to mentionon the domesticc budget at home in the u.s., to expand the longest war in the united states history. stevewe w will speak to coll, author of the new book "directorate s: the cia and america's secret wars in afghanistan and pakistan." more continuity with change with the trump administration. they have put some pressure on suspended aid. but mostly they decided to continue to warm or less along the lines of the obama administration and was it administration. they have dropped more on -- talked more bombs in 2017, trying to signal their going to be tougher and have more result. i'm afraid it is a case of doing the same thing militarily that previous a ministrations have done and expecting a different result. amy: pulitzer prize winning journalist steve coll, dean of the graduate school of columbia journalism. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. senate leaders have announced a bi

parts maker falls 10% as higher costs hit its profits and a charge related to u.s. tax reforms. >> affected by the fiscal reform in the u.s., which we had to reduce our tax asset, reducing completely our tax level in the u.s., with significant growth of our net profit. >>> swiss re says it is considering a partnership with softbank after better than expected profits and returning more cash to shareholders. >> we feel comfortable that we have the ability to return funds to share hoholders. >>> and a number of negative earnings limit cap gains in europe as james bullard tells cnbc that rates should not go up too quickly. >> the idea that we have to go 100 basis points in 2018, that seems like a lot to me that's price for perfection. everything would have to go just right. the economy would have to surprise on the upside a bunch of times in the year i'm not sure that's a good way to think about 2018. >>> good morning flat open so far across europe the stoxx 600 slightly into negative territory, but not by a massive, massive margin. it's down less than 0.1% we look at the individua

november, but the rand had been surging in the last month. 30 minutes into the session in the u.s. how is it looking over their? julie: the sixth day of rallying. it is the longest winning streak for the s&p 500 since january 9 but the largest spot day gain going back to october 2015. it has been quite a rally over the past several days. we get a look at just how big of rally has been. look at the five-day returns for the major averages plus the russell. the nasdaq gaining more than 6% over the past five sessions. the dow and s&p up. also take a look at what the u.s. dollar has been doing over the past five sessions. we have seen it go in opposite direction. it is interesting because we have been seeing rates climbed to the highest since january 2014, and yet we have seen the dollar go down here by about 1.9% in that time. back to today's session and some of the big movers we got in terms of their weight in the s&p 500. apple gaining after we learned through the filings that berkshire hathaway had added 30 million shares to its stake. a 23% increase in its holding. brochure is now

, that has come to the downside. one thing we are focusing on as we get closer to the u.s. session is u.s. 10 year yields. and that ofove 2.9, course throws into focus the big auctions late we have for this week. we have $151 billion of short dated bills just today. how high will those yields need to go to get this kind of borrowing away by the u.s. treasury? and because it was president's day yesterday, and because we work in the united states, we put the dollar spot index, up by .3%. manus: welcome back from president's day. let's have a look at what all of that richness means in the bond market. will they show up and buy the bonds? is it getting rich enough? this could be the battle royale between the asset managers and hedge funds. do we have gathered for you here is a difference of opinion. we have the asset managers and funds, the third widest in 10 years. you've got 2017, middle of 2010. this is where the real money wagers were, they came out on top. so tonight we have three months and six months. the yield you are getting is the highest in a decade when it comes to the spread.

has left a wasteland human rights groups such as amnesty international blame both i saw and the u.s. led coalition for unnecessary destruction and civilian deaths the nineveh reconstruction committee says the conflict destroyed three quarters of muslims roads almost all its bridges and two thirds of the electrical network unicef says three quarters of a million children in mosul region lack access to health services if. the government is not getting. like a. war children will be forced to. be forced to marry early by more young. iraqi officials come to quite looking for investments and over one hundred projects everything from the agricultural sector to the energy industry is on the table and iraq's prime minister well he says he needs one hundred billion dollars to get the job done. it's a huge amount of money we know our budget can't cover nor can the notion that it's almost impossible and that's why we are resorting to investment iraq is counting on outside help to salvage itself into a united and functioning state but when asked what commitments they're ready to make in the conf

. the spread of the aussie over the u.s. has basically disappeared. yield.the u.s. 10 year a rally across commodity prices. we do have a few markets that haidi was pointing out on top of that. vietnam, hong kong, shortened trading session. open in about 30 minutes, lunchtime, that's it for us for the day. china shut for the next few days. korea has been shut as well. quickly, the story of the day. dollar index. this was a chart sent to us by tom schroeder. he was on the show about two and half weeks back. he told us to watch the 8850 level on dxy. that essentially equates to about $1.24 on euro-dollar. basic formula, yields are up, dollar is down. there is a net outflow out of the u.s. dollar. we talk about strength in the yen. is it about the yen or weak dollar? the u.s. dollar has weakened against every single one of its peers. it comes back to the twin deficits, inflation. fundamentals, it is the twin deficits that matter. equities are up, but i would watch this more closely. fx.i: lots going on in let's get more on the yen. we are joined in singapore by mark cranfield. valentin

it is simply that there are maybe one hundred or two hundred subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates which are located in cayman which way use that as the ultimate holding vehicles for the net trading profits of those global us corporations now to the extent that the tax regime has just changed under the tax tax cuts and jobs act two thousand and seventeen. we may find there is no further use for those cayman subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates. and so we may be involved in having one hundred or two hundred companies. no no no longer used in the cayman islands and possibly liquidated but bear in mind that's out of a total of around one hundred thousand so it's a statistically irrelevant. percentage well it's been asked summated that this different deferral provision allowed companies to stockpile an estimated three point one trillion years dollars offshore and some of them for example apple have already said that they they would be paying those taxes directly in the united states you just said that it is a statistical irrelevance as far as the cayman islands. are co

the u.s. defense secretary says some syrian fighters it backs may have joined fellow kurds to fight turkey. russian investigators find two black boxes that could hold clues behind the plane crash that killed all seventy one on board plus. a month ago the cloud bridge project in costa rica where reforestation efforts could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. hello iraq is trying to secure one hundred billion dollars to rebuild cities an infrastructure destroyed in the fight against isis delegates from dozens of countries and potential investors are gathering at a donor conference in kuwait shortly we'll go live to sami dan. but first here's his report. this is what so-called liberation from i sort of looks like to has nally and his family it's been six months since iraq's prime minister declared nineveh province freed alys house is still in ruins so is much of robbie a town. he used to work as a farmer tilling the soil now he plows the rubble of his home and reaps what others have so in his life i say yes and. we've given up hope in returning home we've been displa

bigger meeting it is now soon expected. >>> also ahead, democrats lash out at the u.s. president. why they're saying the latest action should be counted as obstruction of justice. >>> later, the first gold medal is awarded at the pyeongchang olympics. a lot to tell you about there. welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell and "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> at 5:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast we start with breaking news. an invitation for north korea for the president of south korea to visit pyeonongyang. kim jong-un visited moon to visit pyongyang. she and a high-level delegation met with the president on saturday. the first member of the north korea ruling to visit the south since 1953. here you can see her carrying that blue folder. that blue folder containing a personal ledder to president moon. he hopes for betterer relations between the two nations. president moon responded by that invitation by suggesting that the talks should also involve the united states, talks needed there, as well. let's g

discussion. >> the head of the palestine liberation organization delegation to the u.s. delivered remarks in washington yesterday. -- in washington. he objected to president trump's recent decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and discussed the future of the middle east peace process. hosted by the jerusalem fund, this is an hour and half. >> good afternoon everybody. thank you for joining us today. if we c all cell phones, especially with the tv crews here. director heretive at the jerusalem fund and palestine center. on behalf of our board of directors and staff, it is a pleasure to welcome you all here today. including everyone watching online on our livestream. it is an honor to introduce and welcome our distinguished the investor. he will be speaking about the latest developments and at next steps for palestinians on the political and diplomatic fronts. trump recently announced his decision to recognize jerusalem as the undivided capital of israel. he also plans to move the u.s. embassy into jerusalem. this is a major change in official u.s. policy. with a jerusalem being such

otherwise u.s. influence in that area wanes so you mentioned supplies and training need seven trillion plus as you say over and over about another ten years ok we're number the everett dirksen quote right i mean sooner or later you're talking about real money sounds like real money what else are they spending this real money on michael other than supplies and troops i mean their infrastructure over there you're going to have infrastructure we've had to be roads. schools key water just to go in systems in the rural areas and that is in in addition to having to deal with fighters from various clans that that don't want any of that western influence in that region so it's really going to continue to be in and then struggle for quite some time and that that seven trillion dollars michael does that include the veterans and what we're doing here at home it will yeah it has to it has to include them and their medical medical attention and and also the families and and taking care of those who have been. severely wounded over time and taking care of them and it really all adds up over a period

is more prudent at this point of time i think the latter strategy i think divesting from the u.s. to moving your assets abroad particularly when they're stating that some of these people may be designated at some point in the future under sanctions program is probably the right way to go i don't think there's a lot of political will in washington right now to revise the law or request an amended report be put out. by treasury so i think the latter and smarter strategy is actually to divest and i would also suggest that these parties who have been identified get in front of the treasury department and provide evidence to them as to why they are not they should not be considered as potential sanctions designations. it's interesting you say that because regardless of how tense the relationship between our two countries has been i think up until recently there was a strong belief at least here in russia dead in the united states businessmen regardless of their country of origin are protected by the rule of law from base kind of political arbitrary in this. i wonder if you can still c

literally. want other true colors of universities in the u.s. . elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it long before you like a million little pieces of my capacity is going to have no phil saviano maybe you know chango about a tough job or they should be the only palestinians is who gets the most help from his jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision could not only could give us a book and know it is all of us not just the hottest lady of the muslims to have i not going to continue muslims you know do more camillus also don't put this off. the london police. i. couldn't. believe. it. november thirtieth of two thousand and thirteen became the first turning point of your my down in one of its most reported and mysterious events the other then you must go. to somebody who is on the menu what. means thoughts from the world like you are on google so though it will soon get them we try to look as always each of the world and learn t

posture review. a periodic defense department review by congress. nuclear weapons and u.s. national security policy. hosted by the brookings institution it's about 2 hours. >> we're thrilled to have you here today to discuss the trump administration nuclear posture review. an important document that came out on grounds hog day, february 2nd. and the national defense strategy of january. so doing a nice job keeping the clock running smoothly. prior to now the unveiling of the budget request. we're thrilled to have david beginning our discussion today. he has one of the longer titles but most important. the principal deputy under secretary for defense of policy. a job that jim miller had and we'll talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. but for now, i want to introduce david who has been one of the administration's important authors and framing and writing of the document that we have available and you can access on the internet. about a 70 page document, much longer than the unclassified version of the national defense strategy. a lot of elaboration of the trum

point here. the u.s. senate passes a two-year budget agreement to boost spending and suspend the debt ceiling. the bill now goes to the house. matt: less than a half-hour from the open and we could be less than a half-hour from that vote as well. we are going to keep our eye on what is going on with the big slump in the cash trade yesterday. looking at futures this morning, we had a very negative picture as the route spread from the u.s. to asia and back to europe. now, we see some futures contracts turning positive. if you check in everything and see at fair value, you will an indication that we are still going to open lower up not as long as they would have earlier. --markets stopped to look start to look forward, maybe they recover a little bit. a lot of people point to the bond yields have one of the sugars for the selloff that we saw and continue to see. 2.85% on the 10 year bonds. we see it rising more than three basis points this morning. that may look more and more attractive to equity investors who decided is a good place to hide. -- now we have not seen a lot of safe haven t

shery: here are the top stories we are watching. its a huge week for u.s. treasuries with the results from the two-year auction coming in just moments. earlier the treasury sold three-month and six-month bills that yields not seen since 2008. special counsel robert mueller files more charges in the russia probe, this time against a former attorney. we will look at how this new charge impacts the broader mueller investigation. and as the u.s. doing enough to protect its voting systems from cyberattacks? fireeye. is the ceo of ♪ david: let's check in on the markets as we await results on the two-year treasury auction. here is bloomberg's abigail doolittle. abigail: the results of the two-year option, we are looking at next trading action and the dow is down 3/10 of 1%. the s&p and the nasdaq is higher , the nasdaq is off 7/10 of 1%. -- we wereare look looking at steep declines for the doubt but that seems to have slipped a little bit after mixed trading action. after weeks of a volatility we are looking at two big names, amazon walmart. amazon shares are up nearly two and a ha

hundred poor regime clashes in syria have been killed by the u.s. led coalition and allied local forces and unnamed official says the coalition was responding to an attack against the american backed syrian democratic forces and there are problems mainly kurdish alliance controls large areas of north east and syria. well elsewhere russian and syrian government forces are continuing to bomb and shelled two regions that remain in rebel hands and just four days nearly two hundred people have been killed in eastern guta and in the northeastern province of idlib were east and both allies near the capital damascus and has been under government siege for about five years almost half a million people are trapped there and often suffer severe food and medicine shortages and province a bombing has intensified since a russian plane was shot down by rebels on saturday killing the pilot. and eastern guta in the so-called deescalation zones where violence was supposed to be reduced but instead the body count continues to rise by the hour. the reports now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. civ

personnel to deal with emergencies and medical evacuations syria is accusing the u.s. of committing a war crime by bombing fighters loyal to president bashar asad the u.s. led coalition says one hundred fighters died in the airstrikes and that as our province that was a response to what the u.s. court an unprovoked attack on its allies the syrian democratic forces russia says the u.s. strikes are part of an american effort to control economic assets and turkey has resumed bombing raids over the northern survey an enclave of a fleeing after a five day break local kurdish media posted this video showing turkish airstrikes on the outskirts of the well turkey begad an air and ground operation last month to oust the twi peachey group from thinking those are the headlines on al-jazeera one o one east is coming up next. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. the

u.s. pushes the case to modernize its nuclear weapons triggering fears of a new arms race. volatile week for digital currencies bitcoin loses a third of its value plus. i'm wayne hay in the town of la one providing we will tell you about a chinese mega project that's causing through here that the lao government hopes will help open this landlocked country up. the u.s. congress has released a republican memo criticizing the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election it was the classified by president donald trump the documents says the f.b.i. and department of justice abuse their power and showed anti trump bias while examining alleged ties between the campaign and the kremlin the f.b.i. had argued against its release saying it had grave concerns the document contained what it called material admissions of fact democrats say the memo is saying that the railings special counsel robert muller's investigation a white house correspondent kimberly reports. republicans promised a bombshell that would destroy any idea the trump campaign col

culture of violence in the u.s. is encouraged by policy at the highest level. well it's not hard to obtain weapons in the united states one can do it through a friend or through an online or go to a gun show or or there's all sorts of ways to obtain guns there's a. big problem here is that prevalence of weapons another problem is the prevalence of a violent set but at the state level in we know that the new budget that that's being implemented increases the military by eighty billion dollars so already we have the united states spending more on that on the military than the next eight countries combined just the increase in the u.s. military spending is more than the entire russian military budget eighty billion dollars just imagine if that eighty billion dollars was put to positive uses promoting conflict resolution. putting using it for improving social needs and resolving conflict instead of promoting violence and military solutions we might see a dramatic decline in these kinds of incidents. this is a developing story and of course our news room is keeping across that we will ke

it's unclear why it is time to have an exercise this week veto as a u.s. ambassador and a u.n. nikki haley state as straight after devote to russia tried it to slow it down at the procedure and it seems that defers to a solution was supposed to possum wednesday but because of russia resistance you passed just today ok so there was some resistance they didn't use that you know we're not sure necessarily why but they are saying that they don't want this to take immediate effect why. because there you are courting to the russian ambassador you must take some time soon because there are like. there are a lot of things going on on the ground many say that they need some time so you know order to. in order to do to have a cease fire would it would end in fact so this is why also interest every solution a language they don't talk about immediate as it as soon as possible so the real change and i thought something that was probably they want to continue on eastern kentucky although right now it's got is a little bit unclear what's going to happen in the next couple of days ok as soon as poss

u.s. attorney. let me read what you wrote. perhaps a u.s. attorney should take over this. a better way forward would be for mr. sessions to appoint a u.s. attorney to investigate abuses of power within the justice department and f.b.i. rather than destroying these organizations, the goal of the investigation would be to restore their credibility by identifying any abuses of power and removing the responsible individuals. if there are these allegations for abuses of power wouldn't that be an internal investigation >> that's the whole point. a special counsel is supposed to be independent but is part of the executive branch. the department of justice is fully capable of doing this. notwithstanding a lot of questions about the department of justice. find a u.s. attorney from outside the d.c. area. find a retired u.s. attorney like andy mccarthy up here in new york. give him a team of investigators and let him go at it. the purpose was to find abuses, not sniff out crimes. maybe they do come up with crimes. just as congress if they find a crime or what they think they can send a crimin

on their defense my use of it u.s. so russia which spends four times less than the european allies on they don't defense is so dangerous it's moving its troops inside its own borders it's created and you would have to of war in europe that's the object that we get from the newspapers not only in the united states about those you don't see too many russian warships in the great lakes do you mean. there but they go they do go to the black sea no their books signed the baltic sea right next to st petersburg i think alex put up a really good point before this is about the nature of al-qaeda in syria. i wouldn't say that isis came from al-qaeda it had kind of its own roots in the u.s. occupation of iraq it didn't spread into syria the number of passes and others who were imprisoned by the by u.s. authorities tortured there and and so not that that's any kind of justification for what isis became but it had spread into syria and at times they were allied with both the u.s. backed free syrian army and with al-qaeda such as when east aleppo was taken but all through this this conflict whil

in china and hong kong. very interesting couple of days to come. we are keenly watching the u.s. inflation report. disappoints if cpi to a market that has been awkwardly repricing. we're also passing these comments from jay powell is saying that nothing has changed. also a reminder, the last trading day for mainland markets before they shut down for the one-week holiday. the last trading day of the year of the rooster. a modest recovery story playing out a link the lead from wall street. david, it is a busy day in terms of investors passing the data. david: there is a lot of data coming through. as you alluded to, there is an inflation report that we are stuck between that. we are waiting to exhale or to gasp. yes, you are getting gains but they are capped. across the getting likes of gold, the dollar is back below one .08. -- 1.08. that is essentially a picture across the region. little higher on the regional benchmark. we have malaysia gdp still do out. a decision coming out of thailand. japan and singapore reporting their growth numbers. south korea, as promised we are lookin

well the u.s. president on the trumpets also have been speaking about syria in a media briefing with the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull trying to criticize the role played by allies of the syrian government can only help it has more from washington as warplanes continue to pelt eastern tell the white house has said very little beyond strongly condemning the attacks but now in a joint press conference with australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull donald trump had this to say i will say what russia and one iran and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you that we're there for one reason we're there to get isis and get rid of isis and go home we're not there for any other reason and we've largely accomplished our goal but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a disgrace but when pressed by a reporter for what both leaders believe would be a solution to ending the bloodshed neither had any answers beyond suggesting that the solution must come from the region through diplomacy. at least eighteen

traditionally where supposedly all russian military personnel were bombarded by u.s. forces muslim arab news agency a number of other american media including c.n.n. . new york times and washington post telling me don't publish materials claiming a lot of russian military personnel i quote died from the u.s. air strike and their allies or. reported two hundred casualties first hundred c.n.n. spoke of over one hundred casualties and the new york times. said dozens of the russian military personnel were killed interestingly i know if you even before with you know these reports the same claims were media by the government of the syrian militants which for some reason. the show from mars and then superimposed destroyed military hard with possibly even a ukrainian from twenty fourteen. and the reports about the dozens and hundreds of for russian citizens being killed is classical example of the misinformation it's not four hundred not two kind of republican not one hundred them not that it was even sensible courting to preliminary forwards as a result of this clash and the reasons for w

. we've come to an agreement to take joint steps together. the u.s. and turkey agree to work together on the syria conflict dominates talks jewing to secretary of state rex with us and visit to the region. and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha. fraud and also ahead. a poser to deliver his first state of the nation address says south africa's new president the struggling economy and corruption some of his key challenges. political uncertainty in ethiopia after the sudden resignation of prime minister haile muddy and desolate implants. the year of the dog millions of people around the world celebrate the lunar new year. the u.s. and turkey have agreed to normalize relations off the talks and well u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been holding talks with his counterpart. between the two countries have been strained in recent months particularly over u.s. the kurdish fighters in syria. the turkish foreign minister says they have decided to tackle the issues together. the doctor to our relations are going through a critical stage we are either going to mend fence

death of opposition leader morgan chiang rai the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson arrives in lebanon as part of his middle east tour . and its wave has it in one thousand eight hundred up exhibition that showcases the artist and technology that heralded a moment of unprecedented cultural change. south africa is awaiting a changing of the guard after jacob zuma resigned from the presidency sumos told a step down by the governing a.n.c. party his nine year term has been plagued by numerous corruption scandals well the stage is now set for a.n.c. lead a civil vom opposed to become the country's next president he will face an election next year but in the meantime he'll be dealing with the many challenges including high unemployment and crime family the mother reports from johannesburg. a reluctant announcement from an embattled president i have therefore coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of the leadership of my organization. i have always been a disciplined member of the sea it came just h

in kabul. if the recent spate of islamist atrocities in the afghan capital can be connected to u.s. president. u.s. ask elation unfortunately was the council in britain creating a benchmark for hiding. among the grammys. on the north of new zealand well the civil going up about. to him going underground. the release the memo moment is upon us republicans are billing it as some kind of silver bullet revealing political corruption at the highest levels of the department of justice and f.b.i. the democrats on the other hand and their supporters in the liberal media call it a distraction finally the public will decide here's what people have been saying about redacted in the. bill the show i go out of my way to you know. really packed a punch. is the john oliver of a party america is doing the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of love back to the night i'm president of the world bank . seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back to go through some of the week stories now is the broadcast of a liberal democrat member of parliament lembit opaque and you g

coasters, huge gain after yesterday's loss. brand-new rocket takes a big step for u.s. based space explosion. this is "special report" ." good evening. i am shannon bream in for bret baier. no warning from president trump. he says he's perfectly willing to let the government shutdown again if his border security plans are not accepted. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. good evening, john. >> good evening. clock ticking down to the march 5 deadline to get something done on the dreamers and the government set to run out of money again on thursday evening, the president appeared to roll those two things together into a threat that seemed to take everyone in washington by surprise. chairing a meeting on strategy to confront ms-13, president trump threw a bomb into talks on the budget deal, saying if he can't get an agreement on immigration reform, he's happy to have another government shutdown. >> i would shut it down over this issue. if we don't straighten out our border, we don't have a country. without borders, we don't have a country. so what i shu

o'brien. is it time for the u.s. to engage with north korea? the u.s. secretary of state and in -- weighnt way in on possible talks fixing the nuts and bolts of america, but who pays the bills? a bumpy road could lie ahead for president trump's infrastructure plan. and king a spin back to the 1960's -- a new exhibit celebrates a decade of pop art, political change, and groovy designs. jane: welcome to our viewers on public television and also around the globe. the olympics are well underway on the korean peninsula, but the political gamesmanship is grabbing a lot of the attention. u.s. vice president mike pence has opened the door to talks with pyongyang while stressing the importance of sanctions, but the u.s. secretary of state says it is still up to norea to show sincerity. the bbc's laura bicker reports. ♪ laura: "let's meet again," they sing. on the right, a k-pop star, on the left, ang png pinup. gla thenostalgice pass, which proves to emotional for the north korean head of state. this time, president moon sits c evser to kim jong-un's sister. his new friends are not wel

prime minister on his country's future relationship with the u.s. and the role they played. other topics include iran and russia. this happened yesterday at the american enterprise institute in washington. it is just short of one hour. >> welcome to the american enterprise institute. i think you will this extraordinarily interesting. excuse my pronunciation. he was appointed human affairs fordeputy prime minister foreign affairs. he is here for a series of conversations with the department of of defense, and department of state. what is going to happen today? the minister will join us in .it-down on the stage then open up to questions from the talking. there is a lot to talk about. been at ther has center of an ugly agreement that has divided u.s. allies and so divisions within the u.s. government. we are interested to hear your perspective. careful on the steps. >> good morning. thank you for inviting me today. hope i will be able to shed the light on some issues with .aking place in our region that i can propose some ideas. u.s. has been allies for 45 years. we have dozens for -

counterparts on foreign soil. this is part of the u.s. sanctions and is supposed to be barred from the u.s. the meetings came to light in a january 30th tweet from the russian embassy. >> a u.s. official says it is no accident that russia announced the meeting and the target was to sow discord in the united states. on thursday, pompeo defended in a letter to senate minority leader chuck schumer. he said he and others met with russians to keep america safe. schumer told cnn yesterday if this administration is ignoring sanctions, that's very serious. >>> a state department spokeswoman says sanctions can be waived in cases of national security. last year, russians revealed an oval office meeting with sergei kislyak. it is fair to note that past administrations have also met with russian intelligence officials. >>> nikki haley slamming russia an the republican retreat in west virginia. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. telling lawmakers moscow is not and will not be our friend. she defended the administration handling of russia although it failed to impose new sanctions as mandated by congress.

. and its ability to accept a much more nationalistic government in poland. u.s. president donald trump has phoned in to express his condolences over sunday's plane crash in russia which claimed the lives of seventy one people cross slide and even watched over for the details of that media what more do we know about what was discussed between the two leaders. indeed the union russian president had a telephone conversation with his american counterpart now the u.s. president donald trump first express condolences to letterman pruden over the recent deadly crash of a russian passenger plane that claimed the lives of seventy one people also the two parties discussed the settlement of the israeli palestinian conflict now these details were revealed by vladimir putin the ring his meeting with the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas that took place on monday evening now also added that russia has always supported the palestinian people mahmoud abbas said that due to the recent actions of the u.s. side notably their recognition alpha jerusalem as israel's capital washington has been ruled out as

trillion dollars of u.s. government subsidies a seat on the energy industry yes government can subsidize mining of big currencies and put those into wall it's called american citizens going to each have an automatic wallet tied to the salsa security account and they can get a daily and weekly or monthly air drop points that they can then years to boost the economy with the government and as they did that. stein is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos him in bill for the commission to do it loving you i can believe this isn't my cup of tea is going up local study hall maybe a bit you know john without a doubt over there should be the only palestinians who gets the most hopeful is jerusalem counterpart i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision would know only could do this. and though it is unfair advantage to have this lady of the muscle that you have i don't know if you continue muslims you know do more commitments also don't put this off. we had to have no phone the east coast of the united stat

their courage their. their inspiration eight hours and seven minutes u.s. political leaders marathon monologue about the plight of young immigrants. more than one hundred pro regime fighters in syria have been killed by the u.s. led coalition and allied local forces and on named officials as the coalition was responding to an attack against the american backed syrian democratic forces and their problems the s.d.f. of mainly could controls large areas of northeastern syria well elsewhere russian and syrian government forces are continuing to bomb and shell two regions that remain in rebel hands in just four days nearly two hundred people have been killed in eastern guta and in the northeastern province of. the capital damascus and has been on the government for about five years almost half a million people are trapped there and often suffer from severe food and medicine shortages and edler province bombing has intensified since a russian plane was shot down by rebels on saturday killing the pilot ad lib and. violence was supposed to be reduced but instead help continues to rise. sayin

to the u.s. now where the crime ridden city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to me it's skyrocketing murder rates last year saw a record three hundred forty three homicides in the city that's the spike it's population shrinking the increase in violence has been linked to severe inequality the prevalence of illegal firearms and an opioid epidemic so we record has more now on the initiative. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire asking for a weekend without any violence whatsoever this is the third event of its kind in the last six months but these cease fire weekends began in august when baltimore's homicide rate reached a record high last year with three hundred forty three murders the highest in the u.s. people all around the city make commitments to just be peaceful and not be violent for three days and to celebrate life and do life affirming event so their events all over the city would distort what a weekend he would keep it is a week in no homicides the rise is partly attributed to a drastic drop in arrests mad

speech is describing one of the shortest revivals ever of a nation in eighty minutes u.s. president donald trump reminded his country of its one year transformation from american carnage to a new american moment tonight thirty minutes on what this means for the world i'm often berlin this is the day. we have gone forward with a clear vision and a righteous mission. to make america great again for all americans that saw no joy in his speech and the speech was very long it was really encouraged that he started out by things that unite us i thought the president struck a good bipartisan tone that he did talk about china and russia and he talked about the threat that they pose and he should have explained to congress why he lately refused to impose sanctions on russia donald trump is the least popular president the one year in office of any president in modern american history. this in fact is our new american moment there has never been a better time to start living the american dream. and welcome to the program everyone we begin the day with the consequences of twitter trump turning i

tough tactics of u.s. president trump versus the olympic overtures of south korean president moves neither is favored to win neither can afford to let the other lose i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. that. these would be enough to step foot for the future. generations to bring north korea back to the dialogue table so. that the united states of america will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder and be reversible and abandon their nuclear ballistic missile ambitions to. korea. and those are the realities. also coming up there once was a u.s. president who warned of the military industrial complex now the u.s. president is warning of an american loser complex and his remedy is a row the military parade. i think president trump's sentiment is right on the sentiment is the celebrate the troops over at the soldiers and i think that's right on honestly it has reflections of the things that we the very things that we make fun of north korea for going to make you make fun of rocket man. oh we begin the day but the fear of a nuclear cloud hanging over the olympic flame the growing c

or satellite provider. >> and now the senate foreign relations committee assessing u.s. strategy in afghanistan among the witnesses deputy secretary of state john sullivan discussing the role of neighboring pakistan and randall slieber outlining the military role in training. this is about two hours. >>> we'll come to order and we thank those in attendance rolling out the new strategy. reiterated our commitment to helping establish a foundation for political resolution. with a recent report of shrinking government control of territory continued of afghan forces and deadly attacks in kabul about -- and isis and it is clear that foundation is a long way off. we are encouraged by the troops strength authorized in the new strategy at 12,300 military personnel with an additional 1,000 on request in 2014. our nato and nonnato allies reinforced their troop commitments and support to afghan forces through 2020. u.s. commander general nickelson says he has what he needs to achieve a sustainable for afghanistan and the region. providing afghans and our allies and tall ban a clear signal of am

sector in the red, the dollar gaining momentum after three job of loss after the u.s. statement. today inramatic moment a michigan sentencing hearing for larry nassar. a father of three of his victims tried to attack him on the stand. he was quickly tackled by bailiffs. earlier the man told the judge he would like five minutes in a locked room with nasser. the judge said there is no way -- he apologized after a few hours. michel barnier will talk with u.k. president secretary in london according to people familiar with the situation. british and european officials are concerned that a march deadline for the brexit transition deal may slip. is trump administration targeting hezbollah's financial network to undermine iran's influence overseas. the treasury department says the sanctions target a network of companies in liberia and elsewhere linked to a prominent hezbollah operation. the millionss all of dollars every year. the flu outbreak shows no signs of slowing down. the center for disease control and prevention says one out of every 14 infants were for flu symptoms. that is th

watched with keen interest as canada, mexico, and the u.s. concluded their sixth round of negotiations over the north american free trade agreement. ♪ >> u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer struck a chord of optimism, saying the latest round of nafta negotiations wrap up today. >> they made progress, but we are still not friends. contentious issues remain. the u.s. trade representative, while more upbeat than in the past, is continuing to say mexico and canada are taking advantage of the u.s., citing import and export data, and called on both countries to help modernize nafta and rebalance trade. while he is willing to continue the negotiations and he says they have to move faster. the canadian foreign minister was upbeat, saying they have made progress and is pleased with what they accomplished. the mexican economy secretary said the three sides basically are close to being able to make a deal. jamie dimon, warren buffett, jeff bezos planning to join forces. jp morgan, berkshire hathaway, and amazon announcing a way to collaborate on healthcare services to their

. former u.s. president barack obama has reportedly received a letter containing an unidentified white powdery substance and he's among a number of high profile figures to be sent such mail in the last couple of days and i'm open has the details now the incident took place at the office of former u.s. president barack obama this is his office on the northwest side of washington d.c. place he has been renting for the purpose of conducting business not too far from his residence now this comes just hours after a similar package with a similar suspicious white powder was delivered to the house of parliament in the united kingdom so questions are being raised about that individuals are trying to get to the surface of that situation in the u.k. it's being investigated on the previous day we have the delivery of a suspicious and lope to the residence of donald trump jr the son of the u.s. president now when the package was delivered we then heard that his wife vanessa trump the wife of the president's son that she was taken to the hospital preemptively in the concern that this is fish's whit

by the united states in syria however in the past we've heard u.s. leaders quite adamant about their support for the kurds the coalition's more can join with the syrian democratic forces to stop and train the new syrian border security force approximately two hundred individuals training in the b.s.f. sanogo close with the goal of a final four sons of approximate thirty thousand now the turkish government considers these kurdish forces operating in syria to be terrorists and feels quite threatened by them and has been a long outspoken in demanding that the united states and its support for these forces this is what we've heard from the turkish president. why you still here why do these weapons that arrive america is in the process of creating a terror army do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience tillerson has arrived in turkey and he'll be going to an embassy a u.s. embassy in turkey that is on a street that's actually maimed for the military operation against those kurdish forces armed by the united states operation olive branch that's sending a

protect ourselves. that was something that we always have the right to. do that. u.s. special operations forces in syria say that this is the second time that they have come under attack from pro assad forces in less than a week our correspondents american has more. the pentagon says that it was an act of self-defense accusing syrian forces of trying to attack kurdish forces but apparently with u.s. forces embedded they were forced to respond now on wednesday the u.s. said it carried out defensive airstrikes in retaliation for what they saw as an unprovoked attack but according to reports more than a hundred fighters aligned with the syrian government were killed in the airstrike now this latest escalation is definitely definitely something to worry about on all sides especially considering that the syrian conflict spin out largely perceived as a fight against terror well against isis in particular which is almost wiped out but it's also opened way to a whole series of new conflicts we have the turkish kurdish conflict the tensions between israel and iran and then american and kurdish fo

speed skater shani davis one of the most decorated winter olympians in this u.s. team and the first african-american to win an olympic winter olympic medal back in two thousand and six this was his fifth winter olympics and he was expecting to get to bear the flag but there was a vote among the athletes on the u.s. team of the athletes council and it was a tie between him and aaron hamlin the loser. davis lost out on the tiebreaker which was a coin flip and you know he tweeted later saying that he was he thought that was a rather unbecoming way for a guy like him who's really put a lot into the olympic movement over a course of twelve sixteen years he complained about it on twitter and he said you know just is just going to skip the ceremony and concentrate on my event which is coming up in just a few days so it was it was a bit of a sour story perhaps makes a bit of sense there though if he is actually focusing on the games and you know performing a lot of people also saying that it's quite cold there so some of the athletes didn't show up. some of the action is already underway th

moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem is still a bad idea. cross-checking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alex chris so far he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it mark let's first go to this authorization for the use of military force the pentagon says. it doesn't need any kind of authorization because the authorization that the u.s. government gave to the military to intervene in iraq still holds though isis didn't exist in two thousand and three. under international law this is just a blatant violation there is no there is no united nations security council resolution the country involved syria has not requested for help and on top of it you you have. a military presence in a country where you possibly could go into a military coup. with another mate a nato country turkey and of course it's a face down with russia is this a