myanmar that may well be their best bet. meanwhile u.s. diplomat bill richardson has stepped down from the advisory panel to set up a deal with the refugee crisis he was handpicked by the civilian leadership often in ma to self on the committee but bridget's and said he feared the panel was becoming a whitewash and a cheerleading operation for me and mas leader aung san suu kyi have a listen she believes there's a concerted international effort against me amar and i believe she is wrong blames all the problems that we have mars having on the international media on the one hand on human rights groups. on other governments and i think this is caused by a bubble that is around or by individuals that are not giving her frank advice. and for more on the story let me join journalist david greene obama joins me from young gone in a me and ma now did very strong comments from richardson that one of the indicated how did unsung suchi react to them. yeah you know i spoke earlier today with aung san suu kyi spokesman he said they are very side about the resignation of bill richardson but he said

that may well be their best bet. meanwhile u.s. diplomat bill richardson will step down from an advisory panel set up to deal with the refugee crisis he was handpicked by the civilian leadership to sell on the committee but richardson said he feared the bottom was becoming a whitewash and a cheerleading operation. on sun city have a listen. there's. international effort against me m.r. . and i believe she is wrong she blames all the problems that mia mar is having on the international media on the when on human rights groups. on other governments and i think this is caused by the bubble that is around her by individuals that are not giving her frank advice and for more of the story let me join journalist david greene a bomb he joins me from young going in i'm in ma now did very strong coming from a visit soon that what it indicated how did on some future the act to them. yeah you know i spoke earlier today with aung san suu kyi spokesman he said they are very side about the resignation of bill richardson but he said that they were just and did not understand the advice the manda

current political climate our washington and moscow correspondents claire richardson and your shadow have this look back at the trump relationship so far. relations between the united states and russia are at an all time low since the end of the cold war but u.s. president donald trump has said repeatedly that he wants to see closer ties with russia particularly with its president vladimir putin and he's been very nice to me the times i've met him i've been nice to him he's a competitor somebody was saying is you an enemy of my enemy now for president trump's detractors all of this is evidence of a close relationship that could potentially be explained by allegedly russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen elections they say that russia's involvement helped tip the presidency in donald trump's favor if putin likes donald trump guess what folks that's an asset not a liability now we can only guess what vladimir putin thinks about. the russian president holds back on making remarks about counterpart but it's clear that putin will be a well prepared for this meeting he will likel

bring in the washington correspondent claire richardson and your correspondent get your comment this hi guys claire want to give you the first word a busy times a where you are america breaking bread with a north korean spy master and slapping its allies and biggest trading tariffs partners with terrorists how do you explain that absolutely it's been a busy week here in washington but look this decision comes after months of uncertainty surrounding these steel and aluminum tariffs the trumpet ministration first announced them back in march and then after an outcry from europe from allies in europe canada and mexico they issued exemptions to say ok we're going to put this on hold and see whether we can strike a deal and our europe has been looking at this very nervously ever since we had on the americal we had french president in my own home both come to washington d.c. to try and lobby trying to change his mind to get some kind of an agreement before these exemptions expired which was meant to take place overnight tonight so we've just seen this announcement saying we're going ahead

if this is sarah. claire richardson is standing by now with the latest reaction from washington claire what was the statement by north korea that donald trump was referring to there. hi sarah this statement in question was from north korea was referring to u.s. president vice me u.s. vice president mike pence as ignorant and stupid and that was in response to some comments that he made over the weekend in which he said that kim jong un could face an end like the libya model if you refused to make a deal now it's worth unpacking what that means the libya model why that would be seen as something that would elicit such a response from north korea if you remember where gadhafi government in libya back in early two thousand agreed with the george w. bush administration to give up its nuclear program and then years later we saw during the arab spring uprisings that this leader was brutally murdered by his own people and nato backed rebels and so kim jong un and the north korean a regime are looking at the libya model as a matter of in terms of how it stands for their own political su

correspondent claire richardson who is standing by in washington and claire as we just heard there this is now sixty five years after the korean war we're seeing this repatriation of the remains of u.s. soldiers that were fallen during that war and the timing is interesting isn't it. hi sara that's right this is really the first tangible result that we've seen from the meeting between president donald trump and north korean dictator kim jong un back in june in singapore that was mainly aimed at convincing north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program now transferring his remains has taken longer than some u.s. officials had hoped for but it really is the first step implementing the agreement that the two leaders said they came to back in a singapore and it's a small diplomatic victory for trump he of course says that this is evidence that his willingness to meet the north korean strongman is paying off that conjunction is good for his word and is actually going to follow through on some of the things they discussed and you can really hear that reflected in trump's comments fro

washington now our correspondent there claire richardson standing by for us claire how is washington reacting to this surprise meeting between the two korean leaders . hi christopher we're still waiting to see exactly what kind of reaction we're going to get from trump and the white house we do know that the white house has announced that a team is planning to leave from washington to singapore today to iron out some of the details for the planned meeting on june twelfth as though trump had never walked away from this arrangement but we know that the surprise meeting between the north and south korean leaders as you say also focused on they say that it focused on ensuring that a successful american north korean leader summit does take place at some point of course this would be historic if trump does sit down with kim it would be the first time a sitting u.s. president meets with a north korean leader a lot of the details still need to be fleshed out so that's why we would see this team in singapore trying to determine an agenda some of the nitty gritty details behind exactly what th

now is our correspondent claire richardson in quebec city clare we just heard that aagot americal said she thought there might not be a joint communiqué other indications that she could be wrong. hi it's still a little bit too early to decide exactly whether or not we're going to see a joint statement come out from the leaders here at the g. seven they're going to have to first talk about some of the thorniest issues that have been dogging this whole meeting things like climate change and trade policy now we know that usually g seven meetings are not meant to be surprises often the leaders go into these with a very clear idea of what kind of message they're going to want to put out at the end something that reflects their common values but with the united states increasingly isolated because a president trying to views on things like trade and financial we haven't seen any sort of unity on those topics and it's not clear that they've come any closer to finding common ground now as you mentioned trump is going to be leaving the summit early today for his historic meeting with the

hour. all right let's take this story now to our correspondent claire richardson is she is in the u.s. capital which is not far from annapolis trying to get the latest on this so clear it's been confirmed that five people have been shot dead what more do we know. hi brant that's right annapolis is about an hour's drive east of here we know five people have been killed officials are also saying that several others have been a gravely injured now we're already getting some reactions to this situation we've seen u.s. president donald trump tweet out his thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the families and he thanked the first responders for their work that of course has listed a strong backlash from the proponents of gun control in the united states who say that thoughts and prayers are not enough to stop this kind of incident. the definition of a mass shooting and how you count to here in the united states is quite tricky but by some counts you've seen more than one hundred fifty in the united states in this year alone so this is just the latest development to add to that numbe

panel dealing with the ribbon or refugee crisis bill richardson said he feared the panel would whitewash the role of mia mars government and he criticized what he called an absence of leadership by me and my leader and sons who cheat her office said richardson had been terminated for having his own agenda. on meanwhile a top u.n. official has warned against me and maurice plas to repatriate the nearly seven hundred thousand ranger refugees living currently in bangladesh unicef a director just in the four sites that says it's still not safe for them to return home and that members of mia mars' military are still attacking were injured villages but me and mara says it wants to begin bringing their work and access. for those traumatized by ethnic violence this may prove a forbidding prospect it's one of the holding camps myanmar is building just across its border with bangladesh the site will serve as a reception area for returning ranger refugees before they're sent to camps in other parts of wreck and state. the bangladesh side will send back the forms of those who want to retur

more from clear richardson in washington both of donald trump and north korea have left the door open for a possible future summit but there would be major stumbling blocks to getting their cancellation this week in some ways gives north korea the upper hand in being seen as taking the high ground for its willingness to seek a diplomatic solution when the united states wanted to walk away so trans decision to back out of what would have been a historic face to face meeting between a sitting u.s. president and north korean leader also blindsided the united states key ally south korea and with just a few weeks to go until the originally planned day in singapore there is still major logistical questions about what exactly would be on the agenda so that ends the white house has said today that it is still sending a team to singapore to prepare for the meeting that had been slated for june twelfth just in case it ends up taking place. deja vue correspondent claire richardson there in washington. we can move on now to some other stories making news around the world in france thousands

richardson she's the china director of human rights watch and joins us from washington hi sophie thanks for being on our program how long have these camps been in existence and how prevalent are they. we've been documenting them for about a year now and last fall the reports are trickling in slowly and we had hoped that it would just be an isolated phenomenon but as the past twelve months have worn on we've been able to show that the camps are spreading that different kinds of facilities are being used to detain people and that in fact some scholars and journalists to do a brilliant job of going through government tenders in the region to document constructing new facilities in which to detain people it really does seem that this is beijing's new normal. but if you look at beijing's perspective perspective they say that your organization human rights watch is full of prejudice against the chinese government and that these reeducation camps are only mildly corrective centers to be radicalized weekers after a spike in violence specially in two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourte

workers and canadian interests. and joining me now is our correspondent claire richardson in quebec city following the g. seven summit so claire we did in fact see a signed statement after this you seven summit despite the tensions on the ground where have these leaders found common ground. i think they found common ground in wanting to save face and project a united message that this was not just a summit that drove a wedge more deeply between the u.s. and its partners now we heard we just heard there at them saying that they had come to that he had raised the issue of tariffs with donald trump referring of course it to the steel and aluminum tariffs that went into effect at the end of last month and this has been something that has been a real sore point throughout the summit the fact that u.s. allies see it as unfair trading practices canada went as far as to call these tariffs illegal and they have of course said that they are going to impose retaliatory it tariffs in order to try and maintain some semblance of fair trading practices so in some ways we're really seeing them kick

richardson here in the studio we have analysts and journalists yakob oh i see morning to both of you thanks for being with us i clarify can start with you president from said earlier that the u.s. was prepared to continue strikes and toll syria as he put it stopped its use of chemical weapons but the fence secretary james mattis is saying this could be yet let's give a listen to what he said. that will depend on mr assad pretty decide to use more chemical weapons in the future but right now this is a one time shot and i believe that it sent a very strong message to dissuade him to deter him from doing this again ok clear of what's the strategy here is the intention to keep damascus and moscow guessing about what washington's intentions are. hi brian well the immediate goal is to punish assad for these chemical weapons attacks and to send a strong message that the international community will not stand by as a government gases its own people it's not clear however what the long term strategy here really is and it's certainly not regime trained and it seems like these strikes are unlik

have team coverage of this story deny our correspondent clear richardson is in washington and our very own parent rigger is in brussels to both of you good evening clare let me start with you in washington what happens next will sanction be reintroduced immediately. but we've seen the treasury department say that it's going to be over the course of a period of eighty days and a hundred and scares me ninety days in one hundred eighty days of a wind down period as part of reinstating these sanctions now there was some talk that this might happen that they would not go into effect immediately as a way for the u.s. government to try in a last ditch effort to bring iran to the negotiating table to buy some time but they have course have said that they are not interested in renegotiating the deal and this is truly a monumental moment in the united states foreign policy and possibly the biggest foreign policy decision of trump's administration to date let's take a listen to more of what the u.s. president had to say today in a few moments i will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinsta

contemplating countermeasures. on george washington correspondent claire richardson and from brussels or course on that. to both of you good evening clearly we start with you now as the commerce secretary from the u.s. defended the american decision to slap its allies and its biggest trading partners with these terrorists. the u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross really tried to turn this on its head saying that european negotiators failed to convince washington not to extend id exemptions to these tariffs either another temporary one or a more permanent solution now this comes after months of anxiety about what the united states was going to do here we saw personal lobbying efforts by french president and manual micron and german chancellor angela merkel who came to d.c. to try and convince trump and not to impose these tariffs on the european union obviously that has not worked out originally when trump said it that this that these terrorists were going to take place he made the argument on a case of a national security he said that it was essential for the united states to have strong

happening in our country. and with us in the studio claire richardson who's been following this story for us ken as we just heard in that report at the heart of this memo is the allegation essentially that the f.b.i. used improper evidence to gain a warrant to spy on one of trump's aides and what exactly does this then mean for relations between the f.b.i. and the white house well this is a very rare public split to see between the president of the united states and the country's top federal law enforcement agency and to understand it you need to see the memo in the context of mahler's probe into russian meddling in the twenty six you know actions so let's take a step back and think about what the memo says it alleges that the f.b.i. abused its power supply to spy on a close aide of donald trump during the twenty sixteen election campaign and for trump this shows him that his long held suspicion that the f.b.i. is out to get him that they have an inherent bias against him has some foundations the democrats of course see it quite differently they say that actually this memo was had cherry pic

team coverage of this announcement for more i'm joined now by claire richardson from washington and teri schultz is standing by with the reaction from brussels welcome to both of you and clare i'd like to begin with you bring us up to date on this announcement well sara many of the united states' closest allies are furious about this announcement the i.m.f. and several other countries have already warned this could very well start a trade war and the e.u. has already said that it will impose retaliatory tariffs on things like crim berries peanut butter bluejeans even kentucky bourbon so obviously this will have such a great big dent as the steel and aluminum tariffs but they're meant to be politically targeted at states with republican leaders with the hope that this could have some sort of impact on washington and force a change is tact. and you know given this terry what is europe or countries within europe the likely to make of all of because one of the things the trump said he said that many of the countries who treat the united states the worst with trade and military relations

you know that it is. everybody plays games well let's bring in clay richardson in washington a washington correspondent do we have any idea clay of why president trump a base to be changing his mind again. hi christopher well his supporters would say that this is all part of a tactic to try and get a tough negotiation and concessions from north korea and as you say in fact the response from north korea has been quite conciliatory they said that they were willing to talk at any time and so people who support trump say that it was actually good that he decided to walk away from this summit where there are still so many open questions about the logistics of how it would take place we have a location set for singapore but aside from that there is no clear agenda it's not clear who is going to be there and they said it would not bode well for him to walk into these talks without having more of the specifics ironed out now his detractors would say that's not the case at all that trump was so desperate for a political win at home that he was willing to risk war on the korean peninsula

killed in that attack. i washington correspondent claire richardson is one of the protests in the u.s. capital clara what was the turnout like today. hi-lo we saw a couple hundred people here today which really pales in comparison to make kind of turnout that we've seen in the past from these national demonstrations remember this was the third nationwide effort to really draw attention to the issue of students demanding more gun control we saw the march for our lives protest in march and another national school walkout also earlier in march and those really drew much larger crowds in what we saw today and that being said it is an effort for people to walk out of their classrooms the people who made it out here to the u.s. capitol where just a small subsection however like i said it was not such a strong showing right so what does that mean does that mean that the movement is running out of steam. and certainly the national attention seems to be starting to shift away from this issue but not necessarily joe i don't think it necessarily means that the movement has run out of steam the r

means more trade tensions in the days to come. our washington correspondent claire richardson says the drums trade policies are likely to go down well with many americans at least until other countries start hitting back. the tariffs on aluminum and steel for example are very popular among labor unions and in the rust belt states where steel workers are hoping that they'll see this measure protect their jobs and in many ways and this is trump's effort to make good on his campaign promise that he's going to get tough on china that he's going to save american jobs but it could be devastating for u.s. consumers and some economists think that it's actually going to cost jobs for people who are employed in the steel and aluminum industries and as for the tariffs on china we've already seen threats of retaliatory measures that are meant to hit us industries like agriculture and punish states that trans going to need to win re-election so we'll see just how popular they are once china makes its next move that was our correspondent there richardson speaking to be earlier from washington wh

richardson is following the build up to this summit and claire president trump we heard has already announced that he will be leaving the meeting earlier than planned is he lowering expectations there hi sara yes the u.s. is suggesting that things are going so well so quickly that the u.s. president doesn't need to stick stick around as long as expected but look so far we haven't seen any evidence of a concrete preliminary agreement that would achieve what we just heard secretary of state might say is the point of this meeting he says ultimately the united states wants complete and verifiable and irreversible denuclearized ation and one of the big problems here is that it's not clear that north korea and the united states even share a common definition of what that exactly means north korea has suggested that they include the entire of the united states of belittle to strike north korea from all of its overseas bases in that definition the u.s. of course wants to see nuclear weapons programs off the korean peninsula and there's so much hype around this meeting and simultaneously suc

washington our correspondent claire richardson is on the story for us tonight good evening to you claire so we know president trump is already and i so iran steel tariffs on many countries including china so why are we seeing the u.s. now seems willing out beijing for further penalties well it's a fairly wide held a view among business leaders here in the u.s. that something needs to be done about unfair trading practices by china and how it's flooding the market with steel and aluminum but the reason we're seeing these tariffs come into place now is because the u.s. just wrapped up an investigation that says that it says shows the chinese state used hackers to steal business secrets and gave american companies unfair positions in the chinese market so what's so controversial about these tariffs is that they're sweeping and they could provoke retaliatory measures from china and ultimately result in a trade war between the world's two largest economies i mean that is the big worry tonight a sigh of relief maybe for the european union we found out today that the u.s. plans to exit the e.u. an

denuclearization. well i'm joined now by our correspondent in washington clare richardson good evening to you claire so we know that kim jong un spent four days in china that is a long time plenty of time for talks and we also understand that the u.s. president's double trouble he was informed about this meeting by the chinese president do we know exactly what the chinese president told mr trump about those talks. hi branch well trump says she told him that the meeting went well with him and the official reports we've seen coming out of both north korea and china seem to bear that out they downplayed any tensions to emphasize a good working relationship between the two countries now remember china has traditionally been a major ally for north korea but its more recent support for u.n. sanctions on pyongyang has really put a strain on their ties so the point of this meeting for china at least seems to be largely an effort to save face to try and present itself as a relevant player in any north korean talks after south korea and the u.s. have been the ones making headlines but th

. claire richardson is in san diego california near the u.s. by xico border she's been gauging reaction to trump's policy reversal. the majority of americans have never supported the idea of separating children from their parents when they cross the u.s. border so you can imagine that this reversal has been very welcome here indeed now the immigration rights organizations that i've been speaking to here in san diego say that it doesn't go far enough they want to see more comprehensive reform to the immigration system they want to see an end to the war on drugs that they say fuels instability and drives people up to the border and they say that they want to silence seekers it to be seen as people who are fleeing a terrible violence not as criminals who need to be locked up they say that one a silver lining of all of this is that outside of latino communities in the united states perhaps it has raised public awareness of the plight of these people and they hope that that will translate into more comprehensive immigration reform if you don't just play a richardson there in san die

correspondent claire richardson is standing by good evening to you clear are we expecting any major developments on north korea to come out of this meeting with. hi branch well we can generally expect to see trump trying to offer some kind of assurances to japan that they're not going to be left out of the loop when it comes to negotiations with north korea that's been the issue that's really been hanging over this meeting are they and trump of had a pretty good relationship today ahead of this particular meeting trumbull calls ave a quote truly fine gentleman but this is clearly the elephant in the room and if trump does have this sit down at meeting with the north korean leader kim jong un it would be the first of its kind the first time you would see a sitting u.s. president holding a face to face meeting with a north korean leader he's already said in his meeting with a that the u.s. is considering a five possible locations for such a meeting that could be a neutral third country in europe it could be islands off of south korea it could even be in the united states and he also h

the caravan a provocation and warned it could be denied entry to w.'s claire richardson reports from the border. these are some of the faces that have invoked degrading president donald trump the reason he's threatened to mexico and called for thousands of troops to be sent to protect the border and stop short on their journeys they've set up a makeshift camp into want to mexico. but as you know we're sending many many national guardsman down to the border most of them are already there and that's having a big impact most are from can join us they say the united states must hear their asylum case that they left their homes because they had reasons to fear for their safety but imagine if they killed my father. or i mean that's less than what they because of death threats that's what forced me to lave one of the men pulled out a gun pointed at me and told me if i didn't give him what he wanted he was going to kill me soon all of that battle came up with maybe i'm not that. they travel together for over a month my first boss and training. they sought safety in numbers and what can be an

responses from muslim and young here in clare richardson in washington the major had got storage in moscow as well as ben we got in brussels that welcome all we'll start with you simon young and then what is germany been saying about the four diplomats that it is to expel. well fool the german government has told the russian embassy here in berlin that four of its people of course a leave within the next seven days and it says that this is intended as a strong signal of solidarity with the united kingdom and of the determination that an attack on germany's partners and allies cannot go without a response at the same time the german government has stressed that it remains open for dialogue with moscow it doesn't want to cut off old toys and it's also linked to this action interestingly with cyber attacks which the german government believes have been carried out against german government computer systems sourced in russia as it says so a comprehensive response very much in line with what the british government has been asking for so for diplomats gone from germany sixty going from the unite

richardson is here with us in studio to analyze this address hi claire along the sweeping speech what stood out to you the big question going into this was is donald trump going to stay on script is he going to be a twitter president or a teleprompter president and for the most part he delivered a fairly sober address usually the state of the union is a fairly rare opportunity to get some insight into what the president of the united states is thinking what his plans are for the future of the country in the coming year with donald trump we know what he's thinking in real time because we can see his reactions on twitter so in this case we saw some things that we expected to see we saw him promote the strength of the united states economy we saw him tout the new republican tax plan that was passed at the end of last year but there are some parts that observers had expected to see that were conspicuously missing from this speech one area where he didn't go into great detail was on immigration which has been one of the most divisive issues in the last month particularly the fates of people who

canceled summit we have the view from the korean peninsula and from the united states richardson is standing by in washington and josh smith is joining us from seoul and clare i'd like to begin with you because we just heard the secretary of state cite there in that letter open hostility and anger what was trump referring to there and why cancel the summit now. it seems that he's referring to some comments that were made by the north koreans which in turn seem to have been prompted by things said by vice president mike pence he was referring to the libya model when it came to dealing with north korea and that of course would be seen by the north koreans as the incident in which wal-mart get off the agreed under george bush's administration to give up his nuclear weapons program and then during the arab spring uprisings we saw that he was brutally murdered by his own people and we talk about the libya model you can see from a foreign perspective that how that might be interpreted as a signal that if a nation is going to give up its nuclear weapons it's not going to mean good things f

correspondent claire richardson who is in the back that is so clear it looks like that we will actually see some sort of signed a joint statement after this g. seven summit where have these leaders now found common ground. nice to see you miles well this seems to be common ground in the sense of them all wanting to save face and reject criticisms that this meeting has actually done more to deepen the divide between the g seven countries the six countries who have come together perhaps on this agreement and the united states under the administration of donald trump we did hear the president just earlier in his surprise last remarks before leaving saying essentially accusing u.s. allies of robbing the united states saying that the u.s. is the piggy bank that everybody is robbing and this very much goes to his philosophy that the u.s. is getting the bad end of a deal now the fact that we're even discussing whether there is going to be a joint statement at the end of this summit is quite remarkable generally going into this kind of meeting the leaders have already met ahead of time they hav

correspondent claire richardson and come back thirty clare good to see you trumpets calling for russia to rejoin the g. seven how big a shadow has been cast over the entire meeting high of a well these g seven meetings are not meant to be surprising generally the countries who are meeting together have hashed out some kind of understanding of what's going to come out of them before they even sit down together so it certainly came as a major surprise when we heard it from calling for russia to be readmitted after it was suspended in two thousand and fourteen perhaps even more surprising the fact that the italian prime minister seemed to support this idea we heard chancellor angela merkel here on the sidelines say that the european union countries had agreed before this conference that this was not going to be an issue that was on the table that conditions had not been met for any kind of conversations about russia rejoining the group now an issue that is on the table tariff the gulf as wide as ever between the united states and its allies or has there been some positive movement absolut

claire richardson she is in the us following this claire what more can you tell us. well we're just hearing brant that police have confirmed there is funding to an active shooter situation in san bruno at the you tube headquarters san bruno is of course a city that's just south of san francisco in the bay area right next to the san francisco international airport we know that some people have been evacuated that many of the employees are out on the street we heard one of those employees before he was evacuated when it went on twitter to describe the situation that he was seeing inside he said heard shots and saki people running while at my desk now barricaded inside a room with coworkers he clarified sense and made it out to safety but as far as we know the suspect or the suspects are not in custody we're seeing police frisk lots of employees there of course concerns that this could be a similar situation to what we saw at the school massacre in parklane florida just over a month ago when the shooter dropped his weapon and blended into the crowd for nearly an hour before he was take

the attack. let's go to washington where correspondent claire richardson is standing by clare it's been just hours since we heard about this attack but why has the u.s. been so quick to get involved here hi michelle you have the u.s. state department was quick to respond to say that it's monitoring these reports and significantly they've called for an immediate response from the international community as well as criticize russia for its ongoing support of bashar al assad's regime now it they said that it is russia who is ultimately responsible for this possible chemical weapons attack because of its continued support for the syrian government and its perhaps its strongest ally so now this all puts donald trump in a rather sticky situation if you'll remember just last week he said he wanted to pull all u.s. troops out of syria but didn't offer a clear timeline of when he was going to do it so now we're seeing him on twitter calling it the chemical weapons attack and atrocity also criticizing former president barack obama for not using military force after evidence that the syrian g

this story now to the u.s. capital washington d.c. our correspondent claire richardson is there working that angle of the story for us going to you claire or so was the u.s. government expecting what happened today brant it's hard to imagine that they would not expect some sort of retaliation as soon as the white house announced that it was expelling russian diplomats we heard from the russian foreign minister that there would be some kind of retaliation what's interesting here is that this is exactly tit for tat we're seeing sixty diplomats expelled in exchange for the sixty that the u.s. kicked off they've also been given a week to pack their bags and get out of the country and it makes sense that we're seeing a tough response from russia because this was the toughest action we've seen from the trump administration to date when it comes to taking a tough stance on russia and has the trunk and ministration is the white house reacted to today's news. a silence so far from the white house and the state department but it's worth pointing out that faced earlier criticism for not ac

analysis good to see you mr stein and claire richardson she joins us in washington claire let me start with you so what are the biggest takeaway today from president rob what would you say that takeaway is. well this is a truly a momentous moment in u.s. foreign policy history we heard donald trump reiterate a lot of his concerns about the iran nuclear deal that he had expressed beforehand remember it was one of his key campaign promises that he was going to pull the united states out of what he saw as a poorly negotiated a bad deal for the united states now of course that goes completely counter to what the united states european allies wanted to see we've seen weeks of lobbying by both chancellor merkel and french president and the new immigrants here in washington d.c. to try to convince him otherwise but he came out strongly today pointing to some of these issues that we've heard about before reiterating that he thinks that the deal is too weak that it doesn't address things like what he calls sunset clauses that allow some restrictions to expire after a number of years that

richardson who is standing by with the latest from washington so clear we have hear more back and forth on whether or not this summit could actually go ahead do we know why president trump appears to be changing his mind again. hi sara well his supporters would say this is all part of a grand strategy that it's a tough negotiating tactic that's aimed at actually extracting more concessions of from north korea and those supporters gave him a lot of credit for walking away from this summit because there does seem to be a huge gap between expectations from the united states and north korea although we have a date and a play date and a place in singapore on june twelfth a lot of the details of the meeting were still up in the air there was no clear agenda and so they say that it's important that donald trump stepped away from this sort of united states did not go to the negotiating table and come back with an embarrassment now his critics would say that's all nonsense and in fact it was just so desperate for a political win at home to be seen as the man who had brought kim jong un to the negot

the summit. for more let's bring in claire richardson who is standing by with the latest from washington so clear you know as we see here more back and forth on whether this summit could actually go ahead to we know why president trump appears to be changing his mind again. hi sarah well term supporters would say that this is all part of his grand strategy that it's a tough negotiating tactic that's meant to actually extract more concessions from north korea and they have praised him for walking away from this meeting because there is such a wide gap between expectations we know now that there's a date and there was there had been a date in a place for it obviously june twelfth in singapore but aside from that it was not clear what was on the agenda who was going to be there any of the nitty gritty details that are so important to the off chance of a meeting like this i had not been sorted out now his detractors would say that that was not the case at all and that was in fact so desperate for a political victory at home to be seen as the man who was able to bring kim jong un t

richardson who is following the g. seven summit for us from quebec city so clearly looks like we will actually see a sign a joint statement at the end of this what kind of common ground have the g seven found. the common ground seems to be a desire to show a face of some kind of stability even though it's quite clear that there is still deep divisions between at the countries taking part in the g seven countries in the g. seven summit and the united states and the very fact that we are still talking about whether or not we would even see a mutually signed statement at the end of this meeting is quite unusual often leaders know exactly what sort of talking points they're going to come out of this meeting with before they even go into it it's meant to express common values and things that are relatively innocuous topics most of the time but of course this year is different because we've had u.s. president donald trump here and back differing from his canadian hosts and the other leaders taking part and making it difficult to come to a consensus even to release this joint statement at th

go straight to washington and clear kora a clear richardson standing by for us a clear the president clearly relishing this moment as an important victory on the road to the summit with kim jong un. absolutely he is touting this as a victory for his a strong campaign of pressure on north korea he says that that's what's been able to bring kim jong un to the negotiating table and it really was quite a spectacle we saw that welcome to these prisoners home it's rare to have the president and his wife the vice president and other high ranking officials come out in the middle of the night in washington d.c. to greet these prisoners to have them come down a red carpeted stairway to really kind of try and show the nation how proud they are of having secured their release through the new secretary of state might pump aoe during his surprise trip to pyongyang so it looks like a goodwill gesture from north korea and trump is very much making sure that he's receiving credit at home for the fact that he is really secure this release it should also be noted however that this is not uncommon we've

want to be part of a u.s. diplomat bill richardson has quit an advisory panel set up to tackle the ranger refugee crisis richardson said he feared the panel had was becoming a cheerleading operation for myanmar's government as decision raises new doubts about efforts to repatriate seven hundred thousand rippin jim muslims who fled myanmar last year yes present donald trump is expected to arrive in davos switzerland later today for a much discussed visit to the world economic forum but first the focus is on britain with a speech by prime minister theresa may that will certainly touch on the exit from of britain from the european union the w.'s been facility is in davos he says it's dealt all she'll be as outspoken about drugs as her predecessor david cameron. cameron stepped down as prime minister in twenty sixteen after that disastrous british vote to leave the european union i was quite surprised to learn that he even show his face again here in davos and he's been caught of the sidelines saying to a billionaire businessman that it was a mistake the referendum but that it wasn't a