to destroy targets foreign land the united states has a presence in different countries in the middle east including kuwait and iraq its biggest base in the region is in qatar with more than $10000.00 personnel and a range of warplanes including b. $52.00 bombers for a wrong well hits forces antiquated but has a wide array of antiship and sells some can hit targets up to 300 kilometers away the iranian navy has a sizable submarine fleets with russian built cuter class subs quite enough to sneak up on the u.s. carrier group let's take this on let's speak to john mark quickly who is head of global risk at the geneva center for security policy joins us on skype from geneva so if we look at the balance of power on each side it is very balanced in favor of the united states and iran really can't fight against that kind of. when a kind of mention about an award for probably not for may not many countries the u.s. is actually spending more than the next top 7 spender in terms of military equipment into words but iran has developed over time a symmetrical capabilities some have to do with sur

hitting the united states where it is most vulnerable and local governments with aging digital infrastructure and fewer resources to defend themselves so a lot of these local governments of course or states they're near bankrupt after all these years is 0 percent interest rates where they have to pay off all these pensioners and retirees from state employees and local government and they are not earning their return so they have to spend more of their reserves but anyway they have old computer systems with old microsoft products on it that have they have not patched it because a cost money to patch and to protect yourself from this and turn all blue so it's. costing tens of millions of dollars across america so i don't know if you know this is basically an investigative piece from the new york times so i don't know what's the follow up what's being done about this how how we're going to stop this like basically you know all these all these that they just need to patch it but i don't know if they have the funds the patches or the know how to patch it because you know if there's

that they wanted to send a warning to the united states by saying that if they aggressive in the territory they will target said that if they wanted to attack they would have killed about $150.00 people in the rain inside but the question comes to me is the americans a country in the past by nuclear bombs do they really care about killing 150 people in the world and maybe they do because donald trump is a very unusual president you can be very critical about him but he has. i think he has his redeeming qualities at least and what i found very interesting is that he made this his decision as i said against the counsel of most of his security advisers and we are talking not about only john bolton who is always ready to you know bomb any country he sees but also you know his last hawkish advisers and one thing that i was kind of wondering about because it's clearly not trumpet sound that drawn into the iranian air space do you think that it was just the routing mistake or do you think that there were some forces perhaps in the united states who wanted that drawn to be in that territ

the united states i mean also the european union because you know the kind of articles that if all of these d.-day you know anthony beaver in the times compare it was you know days of change it was really disappointing to me this is a grammar story and he's related skills and he's an interesting historian but he's analogy was that russia and china are now like the drama nonsense and trump is is disintegrating the western alliance against them so he's misbehaving you know he is a new abuser and this apparently was absolutely wrong it's actually immoral the same parallel for all marked on the organ in the washington examiner. i am asking myself would american public support a more than amphibious assault to leave the. to foreign countries what if china seized the japanese islands off simcock 1st they're not japanese. and there are good you know there's so many more goods are there isn't that are going to go to india and then what the. invaded the baltics would we started in phoebus assault to help need to push them out of that these are provocative statements and unfortunately they're n

establishment in the united states and trump the l a law him to do unpopular things that they themselves want to to do with it's go back to london marcus it's not about china in russia i mean the critics of this relationship it growing relationship they call it a marriage of convenience you can also argue as i said in my introduction that it may be the pivotal relationship of the 21st century when what say you marcus well it was only in 2016 when i gave a speech at king's college london on the bus in sinai relations in which i asked can the relationship between moscow and beijing become even close oh well freeze on some that space it has it is unprecedented it's high level and there are a number of factors for that one of them is that russia has an extraordinary amount of natural resources and china lacks natural resources in particular to and the chinese economy is made massively dependence on natural resources so the russians of course a supply an oil gas coal and also water to china which is crucial for the chinese economy also china and russia are alarmed at american aggression in the wor

the land here in the united states and then you're see all timidly you know what has happened to you know members of our team and this whole who is and now al-jazeera c.c.t.v. all of that they're going to slowly start to just shrink who is allowed to be considered a journalist which comes not that long after of course that we are all journalists we are all the media and this is our push happened it got elbowed right about it's very true when you saw the rise of citizen journalism in the print media of them. no no no and the sad thing is when you see those corporate journalists you know when you see those guys on mainstream media would like you know kind of shooting away independent journals will know we're the authority of what was a journalist and now they can't be guaranteed that they have congressional prosperous and they can't be sure that they're going to have a white proud white house press pass by their name to c.n.n. r t you're all under that same unfair. work. also in the press in 2001 the netherlands passed the termination of life on request and assisted suicide action whic

that is all about is increased military cooperation between the united states and poland. the president announced early today that he is considered and this is close to being a done deal, considering sending a number more u.s. troops into poland. this would not be an additional number of troops stationed in europe. he would take and transfer them from an existing nato country into poland. there is an agreement signed in 1997 between nato and russia which does not allow the permanent positioning of significant combat forces in former warsaw pack countries. here's the president talking about it a little earlier today. >> we're talking about 2,000 troops. there would be no additional troops to europe. we haven't made up a decision, no. we haven't finalized anything. but the facility itself would be world class. >> reporter: the president's talking about the facility that poland would build in order to house these troops as they rotate in and out of poland. the suggestion has been named that poland will name it for trump. the president said, i'd probably get criticized for that, but i have

means for the united states. we'll hear from former state department and pentagon officials in this 90-minute conversation. >>> good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. i'm mike o'hanlon, here to welcome you about a discussion with possible wartime scenarios with russia and/or china. this panel has a lot of expertise on these subjects. i'm going to briefly introduce folks in a minute and hand the baton, so to speak, over to my good friend and colleague jung pak, who will be our moderator. she'll pose questions to the panelists. we're talk amongst ourselves for the first half of this 90-minute event then go to you. the panelists have all been kind enough, as well as jung as moderator, to allow me to use my new book "the senkaku paradox" as the spring board for this discussion, but only the spring board, and the conversation will range much more widely. but let me just say a brief word of introduction to the subject before introducing them. just so you know, at least where our starting point is in this project and this conversation today. i think back to something that my goo

synthetic opioids such as the u series drugs, which have caused fatalities in the united states. they may have the same effect on the human body as fentanyl or an analog, but are not fentanyl related in the chemical structure and therefore, not automatically controlled under the dea's temporary scheduling action. moreover, we have begun to see an increase in the illicit production of other substances similar to fentanyl. but instead of the molecular additions or substitutions to the fentanyl skeleton, they have molecular deletions. currently placing there the size regulatory status in question. this time, we do not know if the substances, being ceased at america's ports of entry send mail facilities, are being used as precursor chemicals to make illicit fentanyl or for some other purpose. in short, today we face a vast array of synthetic opioids that are potentially deadly, inexpensive, and are shipped directly to consumers in small packages that are extremely difficult to detect. this is a grave new world of synthetic drug trafficking. and it would not be too much of an exaggeration

where washington from looking our, what would the united states and japan do it wonder we woke up and saw chinese forces on the shore on islands?e sankoku the u.s. government has no position on whose islands should he, but we respect and recognize japan's current administration of the islands, whatever it means to administer islands where no one lives and nothing happens. therefore, we consider our treaty with japan to apply to those islands, which means american lives are on the line potentially. and the other plausible attacker would be china. in other words, we could imagine a great power war over uninhabited worthless rocks, with all due respect to those who care about the evidence for symbolic or virtual reasons. they are not even big enough to qualify for their own economic zones, let alone this treaty so it is about history, which is already enough to make this issue already potent in relations. general wisler said, we could take those islands back if instructed to. what i can also think of ways we maybe it will to deal with that problem without lending anyone onshore. subtle.u

democratic socialism. >> in the year 2019, the united states and the rest of the world face two very different political paths. on one hand, there is a growing movement toward oligarchy and authoritarianism in which a small number of incredibly wealthy and powerful billionaires own and control a significant part of the economy and exert enormous influence over the political life of our country. on the other hand, in opposition to oligarchy, there is a movement of working people and young people who, in ever increasing numbers, are fighting for justice. they are the teachers, taking to the streets. [ cheers and applause ] >> to make certain that schools are adequately funded and that their students get a quality education. they are workers. they are workers at disney, amazon, walmart and the fast food industry. standing up -- standing up and fighting for a living wage of at least $15 an hour, and the right to have a union. >> they are the young people, taking on the fossil fuel industry and demanding policies that transform our energy system and protect our planet from the ravages of

battles for the united states army took place in the eastern theater. more casualties took place within 20 miles of fredericksburg, virginia than in any other state in the confederacy. 19 of the 20 union regiments that suffered the highest percentage of union casualties during the war fought in the eastern theater, as did 10 of the 15 confederate regiments and 8 of the 10 confederate brigades that earned that grisly distinction. several factors conspired to focus attention on the east, in the united states, in the confederacy, and in europe, and by europe, i mean in london and paris. the rest of it did not matter. [laughter] dr. gallagher: the eastern theater, among these factors, contained the two national capitals, they are only 100 miles apart. they also contain the war's two most famous armies, the army of the potomac and the army of northern virginia. it was the theater closest to the most large cities in the loyal state, and thus, the newspapers with the largest circulations in the united states. british and french observers habitually gauged the progress of the war by what was ha

the next president of the united states here tonight. y'all give it up. >> wonderful. thank you so much for those remarks. are we ready for the next speaker? >> [inaudible] >> i know, right? ok .if jamie harrison could come -- ok. ok. if jamie harrison could come to the stage, please. and while we're waiting for him to come up, we'll have remarks from cedric richmond, a representative from louisiana. >> well, i have the great title of being assistant to the whip, which means i do whatever he wants me to do for free. so in that light and in honor of the first amendment right now, he's going to get a free speech. actually, what he's going to get is a free introduction. jim clybourn is one of those special people. he means what he says and he says what he means. and he is absolutely the conscience of the congress. he is our leader. he is our majority whip. come on up, james t. clybourn. [applause] better known as the husband to ms. emily. >> thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you, cedric. thanks to each and every one of you. thank you so much for all that you are doing.

the leading cause of injury and death in the united states. there currently, as i said, the highest level ever recorded . the 2017 numbers and have outnumbered deaths from firearms, motor vehicles, suicide and homicide. in 2016, 174 americans died every day from drug overdoses. in my home state of texas, we remain severely impacted in terms of the volume of trafficking and all related mayhem that accompanies the illicit activity. the 2017, nearly 3000 texans died of drug overdoses. approximately half of those are related to opioids with a dramatic increase in synthetic opioid -related deaths. the emergence of fentanyl a headache opioid is a significant contributor to and has skyrocketed in prominence over the past 2 years and has been the subject of previous hearings of this caucus. and i know efforts, international diplomatic efforts by the trump administration and by you mr. secretary of the numbers indicate illicit drugs as well as the transnational and domestic criminal organizations that traffic them represent a significant threat to public health, law enforcement and our natio

cut across borders, which the united states cannot meet alone. while the u.n. and its subsidiary bodies are far from perfect institution, they have the power to facilitate remarkable achievements and leverage partnerships. if you are confirmed, i hope you address the following priorities. first, we must actively seek so balance china's influence. this administration's pullback from the u.n. risks enabling china to fill the vacuum by ceding diplomatic ground. china is eager to undermine u.n. human rights mechanisms and impose china's authoritarian world view. second, the u.s. -- i should say the u.n. must be fair and appropriately condemn human rights abuses and atrocities and stop politically motivated resolutions. one of the persistent weaknesses of the united nations system has been the bias and ugly approach toward israel. you must use your voice to end and combat these efforts. third, the united states must pay our arears. the u.n. is in a financial crisis in part due to u.s. shortfalls. for peacekeeping alone, we are $776 million in arears. these arears have accrued in just

mohamed. the most important thing in this story is that the united states is waging economic warfare against iranian women and children the united states is exercising what our foreign minister said economic economic terrorism and that they are trying to make the iranian people suffer and to force the iranian people to suffer so much that the government will submit to the united states and basically raise the white flag and this is based in my opinion on calculations that are due to these so-called iran experts that we so i call the see in think tanks in the united states in europe and pundits yes exactly they are people who know nothing about iran or very little about iran or if they do know a thing or 2 about the country they really can't say the truth because if they do then they lose their position at their think tanks or their they've ceased to be invited to different organizations or platforms so this is economic warfare everything that comes after it is the foundation of that is is this economic warfare so the heightened tension in the region in the persian gulf in the strait

not only in the state of nevada but throughout the united states. the way that occurred is i was fortunate enough between 1995 and 2005 to acquire the records of some of the gaming manufacturing companies. it many of them were in chicago. at of them was out of los angeles. would put those records together along with artifacts we had and they reflected gaming throughout nevada and the united states and the caribbean. we have the largest collection of original gaming record in of united states possibly in the world. you have to remember that when gaming started, it was a contest between the person operating the game and the various players. gameu couldn't control the , you werely days probably going to lose your money. letterlity of the victim depended on the ability to cheat. thatve some items here reflect the earlier days of game -- gaming. we also have one that could be operated by a single dealer. if this were in a small club during the prohibition, a game like this was easy to operate. in order to control the game, they would use various forms -- special equipment that was pri

united states toward state or on do on iran we're now hearing. them americans saying by the way we're ready to negotiate without preconditions. and at this point iran's later anything this is just play words getting it's delayed i think there'll be talks. i'm not going to make predictions in this case because you know that u.s. policy seems to change from day to day. very hard to predict what will happen next but so 2 things one is u.s. policy is really unclear and. we should keep that in mind as we go forward and i think the iranian leadership is also very much aware of that and they are probably i imagine hesitant to stake any kind of. future on the fact that. they cannot predict what the united states will do next secondly there is a real difference within the american administration about how to deal with not only iran but the world and that difference is most starkly evident in the approach of different approaches of president trump and his national security advisor john bolton. president trump is someone who is more of an isolationist mindset he does not want to see the use of a

campus in the united states. a lot of it is thanks to these great corporate partners we have. couple other things about saint college, i also want to mention, we have the senate president here, donna suzy. [applause] remember, she is in the middle of her budget process with the senator, who is here as well. [applause] so their cars will be speeding for concord soon. but i want to mention, this quarter's magazine, the senate president is a graduate of a local college, so i picked one up, it is great. i have been here about nine years. in the nine years i have been here, my absolute best partner is a new event council for everything that they do, we do together. it's been an absolute fantastic partnership. my friend jim brett, who leads that effort, continues to amaze me with the people they bring throughout new england to their membership. they are a great partner with politics and eggs. for the purposes of introduction, my good friend, jim brett. [applause] >> thank you. you said it just the way i wrote it. [laughter] appreciate it. let me also acknowledge the president of a very goo

innovation and entrepreneurship and i think you still do have in the united states i think if you look at these enormously wealthy people like. gates and how did they make their money through through innovation you know they they made their money by selling people things that people valued but i also agree with you that this enormous increase in inequality is is a challenge you know i'm not you know in the book we point out this happened in the 19th century in the united states and the system was able to respond to that you know the inclusive political institutions was able to kind of respond to the enormous increase in inequality in the political challenges that create is to the american constitution was written in the in the late 18th century james madison and how milton and other people who formulated it they were worried about populism in the 17th eighties so i think populism is an old thing inequalities and old thing you know what we try to argue in the book is that you know these challenges of being met successfully in the past in inclusive societies like the united states b

century economically and technologically the united states is fighting very hard to preserve the status quo its position in the world and we can focus in on the tech sector and this is really what it's more about it's who is going to dominate and that's why it's taking so hard to get an agreement and it's and that's why it's so politically important more so for trump because he's up for reelection but of course the chinese leadership has. it come through for the chinese people because well they've been on a pretty good roll for the last 30 years they want to keep it going go ahead heather that is that is very true i think it's important to state where we are in the tariff negotiations the u.s. has imposed thus far 25 percent on $200000000000.00 worth of goods coming from china and that was recently increased from only 10 percent now china has also retaliated anywhere between 5 and 20 percent tariff on $110000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods i think it's also important to remember that we buy we meaning the us a lot more goods from china than they do for my so at some point in time china wi

and the initiative is on the side of iran now not the united states go ahead joe. i think that. donald trump is totally inscrutable and in a way that's part of his political genius and what i mean by that is that you know we've been talking about donald trump now for 4 years for 2 years while he was during the primaries and for 2 years since he's been president and he has an incredible talent for making people talk about him all the time because he never does what you expect and he does outrageous things and then doesn't follow through with them and nothing is coherent so yes as in your question of course like many observers i see the pressure of the neo cons. bolton and so on pushing him to do things which he then doesn't do we told us over venezuela he venezuela fizzled out and it was clearly a failure but it was cooked up by bolton and pompei o ditto iran so you know what we have servers are left perplexed and i you know i have no special information is it that he is their puppet and that he doesn't know what to do is he playing some clever game it's impossible to say what we have i

organisation, political organisation, in the united states, which did the largest youth voter mobilisation in american history last year, that knocked on 10 million doors with their partners in the organised labour movement, and that also ran three statewide propositions to push for 50% clean energy by 2030. so it's true that our organisation need to impeach has got over 8 million signatures, and i've spent a lot of time doing town halls talking to people about the danger that trump presents to the people of the united states and to our way of life. but it's also true that our organisation has done a lot of grassroots, the most of any organisation. true, and that's why i mention your commitment to the climate change issue. you have been committed to that for many years. you have funded various democratic party campaigns. but as i say, in the last couple of years, i would like to know how much money you have spent on the need to impeach president trump movement, and in particular on a whole series of tv ads that have run across the nation? i honest to goodness don't have a hard number, stephen

and most importantly for protest what the role of the united states government is and sowing discord and chaos and suffering all around the world whether that's in yemen the invasion of libya and ongoing chaos in libya in syria in venezuela the suffering imposed by as a consequence of sanctions on iran i think that you know the mainstream media the corporate media deserves much of the blame but i think it's facilitated by a shift in tactics that the pentagon war machine has undergone since the 2003 invasion of iraq which of course involved large numbers of troops on the ground quote unquote boots on the ground where hundreds of thousands of u.s. soldiers were stationed in iraq were occupying the country were patrolling the streets every day and as a consequence of course the iraqi people didn't like being occupied and so there was a resistance movement that formed and so thousands of u.s. troops were killed many thousands more suffered life altering wounds serious serious injuries and that made the war you know more more real for people that made it in other words harder to conceal b

form by all of you up the siren you of china both in the united states. but part of this uncertain cyprus security is a huge importance area it is so room barking or it globally is one of the most one wants the areas both. governments to date. at the wharf they're moving on to the rails a security environment we're looking at the cyber espionage but also. option off operation is a is a sense of losses arising there in the star in one of the recent papers myself on the we have shown that there is ousts them it resists the lower on the status of events in private sector. changes around the wall both stock exchanges where the companies that appeal in fact the buy the box and these they also beyond that so in other words if you ship and i think dealing with now is going to be very problematic simply because yes alone that the chinese hardware and software. used by atlas are a power such as china in different instances and if i think violence in the phone case is against the targets in the united states and in the us. well somewhere that we were the ball for innovation is more along the

, this is his first full day back in the united states after spending several days in the united kingdom, france and ireland, but he spent most of the day on twitter with his plan. the first tweet he was thinking mexican is visuals, saying he like to think the president of mexico. with all the many representatives of the united states and mexico for working so long and hard to get our agreement on immigration completed. here are some of the highlights of the plan, the mexican president is to to deploy 6000 troops to the southern border, allow migrants to seek asylum to be sent to mexico, give migrants a chance to work and get an education, the agreement says mexico must stop human trafficking. last night mexico's ambassador to the united states and other officials announced a new policy and important when for the triple ministration. >> the united states and mexico are working with regional and international partners to build a more secure central america. reviewed though no policy is allowing those seeking asylum to stay mexico nothing it states, treasury secretary steve mnuchin

the should of c. o 2 our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day 75 years from d.-day it was on this day 75 years ago when 160000 allied troops embark on a world war 2 mission that most of them knew nothing about when d.-day had come and gone thousands of the soldiers had fallen on the beaches of normandy now we know how the story ended nazi germany was defeated and the allies won the war we live in the world and in the piece that began taking shape on d.-day today leaders of those wartime allies and we're time enemies gathered in england in an emotional show of respect and remembrance it would be impossible to separate our present from our past on a day like today for helps it would be better to do so but then again if we did we would probably do so at our own peril tonight the lessons of d.-day do we remember them too. remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice with drugs. and the words of the fallen. among the 16 heads of state in attendance canadian prime minister justin trudeau colonel merritt french president emmanuel mcc

only n.b.a. team outside the united states to tell the world took over. the our planet creating his own history as the finals most valuable player. you know largest caps driving. you know push and you know i may go with the trophy but everybody deserves it is a dream is a dream and and if it was amazing to be able to realize their dreams golden state's meanwhile taste defeat for the 2nd time and their run of fife strike finals ah really proud of the way that we fought to the end and it's 5 euros been been awesome but definitely think it's over everybody thinks it's gonna end of us. this is not a smart. we don't hear the best team of the past 5 years we'll try again next season but they'll have to come up the new kings of the n.b.a. the toronto raptors of canada paul reese i'll just share. all these were the scenes of 4000 kilometers away in toronto after the raptors sealed that 114210 victory on thursday night at their 42 series win over the worry is the biggest sporting achievement by the city since the blue jays one back to back will series baseball titles and 990 s. we. presume f

the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: the nose are 39. the amendment is adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 40 printed in part a of house report 116-111 offered by the gentleman from from indiana and the yeas prevailed. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 40 printed in part arch of house report 116-111 offered by mr. visclosky of indiana. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representative

strong in the united states even though the media didn't like the coverage there was a real anti-war movement now speed up to 2019 under the trumpet ministration the we here we hear calls for war and violence and invasion of venezuela of the rand we have the united states supplying lethal weapons to ukraine we have the united states going to the south china sea as remarkably in the middle of trade negotiations here we have a hyper aggressive foreign policy but where is the anti-war movement other than places like this and people like yourselves go ahead medea in washington. unfortunately i think people are so consumed by domestic issues and there are so many important issues in the mainstream media in this country is super hyper focused on domestic issues and on partisan issues and there is very little coverage of what's going on in the world i think for the most part people are unaware of all of these global wars that are still going on 2 decades afterwards and the new threats that are happening so we have an educated public and those who are educated in terms of being active and wa

importantly, the things that the united states and india can continue to do to build out what is an incredibly important relationship for both countries. i thought, too, i'd spend just a minute talking about the agreement that was reached with the united states and mexico on friday of the week. frankly, it reflects diplomacy at its finest, shows the enduring strength of the relationship between our two countries, and it's a significant win for the american people. the deal continues the trump administration's commitment to strongest confrontation of the tide of illegal immigration along our southern border including the drug trafficking issues there. the president did precisely what he said he would do. we agreed to a number of things including the placement of 6,000 mexican national guard along the mexican southern border. it's the biggest effort to date that the mexicans -- something that we pressed for with them throughout the time of negotiations. we'll work closely with them to make sure that is a successful effort. those crossing the u.s. southern border will be rapidly return

essence we in the united states have privatized the old public function more shadow on al-jazeera. made a big mistake. that's donald trump responds to iran shooting down an american drone we'll have the latest in a live report from washington. iran says the drone was known to have international waters and it will take it to the just take the dispute to the united nations. this is al jazeera live from doha so u.s. president donald trump is warning that iran made a very big mistake after its revolutionary guard to shut down an american drone u.s. military says iran sought to disrupt america's ability to monitor the persian gulf region this drone was in international waters clearly we have it all documented it's documented scientifically not just words and it made a very bad mistake. ok. we'll find out and. you'll find out you'll find. obviously obviously you know we're not going to be talking too much about it we're going to find out they made a very big mistake well just to remind you the u.s. train was shut down early on thursday a bit center on disputing exactly what happened the u.s. mi

united states from sliding into yet another middle eastern war to discuss that i'm now joined by david morris and author of dangerous delusion why the west is wrong about nuclear iran mr morrison's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now back in 2013 you published a book with be there all born making a rational argument against a war with iran and i think many of the points you made back then there are still valid but do you think this whole debate on iran especially in the united states is still within the reality of rationality do rational arguments still matter well the basic facts of disappeared really from public view. the united states spent 10 years from 2003 to 2013 attempting to coerce around into giving up. rich rooms. even though that was around. the p.t. which allowed enrichment and other activities as long as it was. for. civil and not mostly purposes. despite their best efforts they got sanctions imposed by the u.n. security council they imposed sanctions themselves obama did and when most of 2000 . 12 i think. nevertheless they. continued with their en

china and russia and other countries all could be dependent on united states information technology. dollar and finance. in their culture so that these countries do something america doesn't like it can impose sanctions on them that will hold whole apart all of the connections of their economy no other economy is going to go along. yes and china and any other economy is going to say we'd better be independent from any ability of the united states to suddenly disrupt their activity by imposing sanctions so we're going to have our own arrangements for food for oil or mation technology so the but what was doing is. china together with other countries to make turn to ways to in effect trump is imposing sanctions on the united states well it's very interesting because john i mean what i want hang on let me go to john and then we could make it a free for all john made you know what you know with the kind of relationship that is occurring during the so-called trade war here i mean doesn't this give initiative to for the chinese to actually innovate even more if they're going to be cut off

to the united states for 2 in the sun we know in the united states they've been directed to on to 17 counts under the espionage act for. classified documents related to the iraq war on the war in afghanistan but also one of conspiracy to hack a government computer to actually leak the secret classified documents while some say his crimes his so-called alleged crimes awful whistle blowing and indeed posing a national security risk and threat many say that he will not face a fair trial in the united states and that's an opinion that's been held also by the wiki leaks editor in chief i do believe that we are going. to win this with legal argument there is no chance that julian will get a fair trial here in the u.k. or in the u.s. of course unless there's a change of reporting that people actually start speaking out we're not talking about a prosecution we're talking about a persecution opposed to misunderstand back into the public ah this year in april when he was pulled out of the ecuadorian embassy by british police he was there for a long amount of time in fact 2 and a half 1000 days

the united states did when they created nato it's what european leaders did a few years later when they created the european union we must refine the meaning of the promise of normandy we must seize again this and gauge meant what we owe to our country what we owe to our alliance of states that share the same values democracy and freedom. well markhor and trump elect the ceremony to attend a luncheon car the main city in normandy and they held talks now the elisei has been putting something of a positive spin on it saying that you know the u.s. is not wavering ally and perhaps seeing these talks as a way of resetting reviving this strained relationship the 2 discussed issues such as iran a climate change they talked about trade they talked about what they call terrorism but it's clear there are many differences between the 2 we know that the french leader is frustrated with donald trump for pulling the united states out of the climate deal out of the iran deal we know that donald trump wants european members of nato to up their defense spending budget and there's a real bone of con

much greater risk of being. extradited to the united states and the related risk for serious rights eventually swedish prosecution is into london but by then of course he had sought asylum in the ecuadorian embassy do you see that this narrative the the women involved in those original allegations dropping the allegations at one point and then the case resuming do you see all of this as judicial harassment in contributing to what you say in the press release we or a port to cruel and degrading treatment oh absolutely. the whole episode of julian assange being holed up in that as he was because of the swedish absolution request and not because he wanted to escape the tradition to sweden but because the swedish at the same time if you're used to beer and he they would not you know actually that and for a few nights the total very weak evidence actually nonexistent against the has served to keep the innocent arbitrarily confined in genesee for many years and held the trigger then that the criminal prosecution for burial by omission in new york for which he's now being detained in the w

rebellion. welcome to the program the war of words between the united states and iran is intensifying after president donald trump announced new sanctions against iran the measures target iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and other senior officials iranian president hassan rouhani has dismissed the measures as outrageous an idiotic sanctions on monday saying they're part of efforts to stop terror on developing nuclear weapons but rouhani said the moves a sign of desperation to charge. me sure that they are suffering from mental disability the white house is afflicted by mental retardation and does not know what to do. this means the certain failure and defeat of the united states i do not have any doubt about that from a political viewpoint no wise person would do what they're doing these days i feel that there is severe frustration and a big confusion among the u.s. leaders and the white house. correspondent is following events forced from the iranian capital tehran i mean the insults coming in thick and fast zain and certainly the iranian president fuming mad that's exact

nothing to do with the attacks on two oil tankers. but the united states and the uk think otherwise it is the assessment of the united states government that the islamic republic of iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the gulf of oman today. after a controversial and difficult two years in the white house, press secretary sarah sanders confirms she's quitting at the end of the month. i'm samantha simmons in london. also in the programme. calm descends on hong kong as government offices in the financial district stay shut following the worst violence in the city for decades. a photo exhibition by the wife of one of china's most famous dissidents, gives a rare insight into her life live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, 1 o'clock in the morning in london and 4am in the gulf of oman, where two oil tankers were hit by explosions on thursday. the us secretary of state mike pompeo has accused iran of carrying out the attacks. a us navy destroyer is now heading to the scene. tehran has denie

. believe this showdown between washington and tehran is a lot like the united states clash with north korea 2 years ago except for one crucial difference there is no regional ally capable or even the willing to restrain. the barbs traded and sanctions imposed what gives the united states from sliding into yet another middle eastern war to discuss that i'm now joined by david morris and author all by a dangerous delusion why the. west is wrong about nuclear iran mr morrison's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now back in 2013 you published a book with be their old war and making a rational argument against a war with iran and i think many of the points you made bag down are still valid but do you think this whole debate on iran especially in the united states is still within their ryall most rationality do rational arguments still matter well the basic facts of disappeared really from public view. the united states spent 10 years from 2003 to 22013 attempting to coerce around into giving up the radium and richmond. even though that was around right under the p.t. w

another reason why the iranians simply cannot negotiate with the united states they're both unreliable and it's unclear what they're after the president is constantly speaking in inconsistent ways and if he's his. secretary of state and another senior officials like bolton their own language in their statements are inconsistent with what the president says so the iranians basically cannot count on anything that comes out of washington what's important for you ron is that the united states is waging war on iran this is an economic war trampas admitted that and he says it's a brutal these are brutal sanctions so it's brutalizing the iranian population he's attacking iranian women and children on a daily basis basically and the iranians are saying that the united states has escalated the situation through not only violating the nuclear deal but trying to harm ordinary iranians as much as possible. constantly threatening iran we have to remember that trump just recently spoke about destroying iran constantly speaking about our options on the table surrounding himself with people who are co

united states this week after washington accused iran of attacking to oil tankers in the gulf of oman on thursday now the u.s. claims no one else in the region how they can't possibly carry out the act u.s. central command released the greeny video which it claims shows a reunion special forces removing and on exploded mine from the vessel the owner of the tanker though saved the crew reported being hit by flying projectiles iran for its part has accused the us of attempting to undermine peace and stability in the region. its rival is engaging in quote sabotage diplomacy well the 2 vessels caught fire in one of the world's key oil routes close to the strait of hormuz it's the only way in the persian gulf the incident immediately listed worldwide reaction triggering a surge in oil prices with russia saying the situation could pose a threat to the global economy with more on the story here i think. so there were 2 oil tankers that were. probably. back. from tokyo you. don't. know if i went oh i am sure but i don't want. to go into. the boat but it will do the civil. service men that it wil

senses goes out you should be able to ask whether or not someone is a citizen of the united states. >> mr. president are the u.s. troops ready for deployment? >> we are talking about. that is one of the reasons we are here. there's a lot of money being spent on a great military facility in poland. basically one primary facility . we will see how it works out. >> we talk about the threat to poland and europe? >> i hope not. i think russia will treat poland with respect. poland has built up a great country. they get hurt unfortunately too often. there in the middle of everything. when bad things happen poland is always the first one in the middle. and it's unfortunate. i hope that russia, poland, and in germany is going to get along. i want everyone to get along. >> is a china overplaying their hand? >> massive demonstrations. 1 million people. people talk about they had 2000 people but it was really 200 people. i see it all the time. when you look at this a demonstration they said it was 1 million people. that's as big a demonstration i have ever seen. i hope it works out for china and hon

united states currently has a single nonstrategic nuclear weapon system. we assess russia has 2006 nonstrategic nuclear warheads not covered by the treaty and because of the lack of russia transparency we have uncertainty in our understanding of the scope and disposition of the stock while. accurately accounting for these nonstrategic nuclear weapons is not only complicated by the lack of trench currency by the dual nature capability. these systems lack external distinguishing features that would allow the observer to differentiate between conventional and nuclear variance. -such as with the inf treaty the initiative russia has not fulfilled them. by 2015 russia had completed that appears to be purposely designed to disguise the true nature of their activity as well as the true capacity of the missile. the compliance is ultimately determined by u.s. enter agency policy committee. want to be clear about the role of the intelligence committee. the job down to analyze the activity that has implications for countries international obligations. they do not use the word compliant but rat

humanity how one city and if a quarter of the united states is coping with the knowledge influx of refugees in africa. hello again it's good to have you back well across the levant we're looking at temperatures that are coming up for coate city over the next few days and as we go towards maybe tuesday those temperatures will be getting very close to almost 50 degrees right now we're going to see here on sunday $45.00 degrees as your high but as we go towards monday that goes up to about $48.00 degrees another i said the temperature continues to climb as we go towards mid week well here across the gulf the winds have actually died down we were seeing a big problem with the winds over the last several days and here through the rest of the weekend we're looking better in terms of those winds as well as the dust temporize for doha 42 degrees there abu dhabi at about 39 temperatures will be coming up in doha to maybe 44 degrees but over here towards medina it's going to be even warmer with the time to them about $45.00 oman some clouds on the coast with a temperature for saliva at 30 de