us media is reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation over russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the charges are led by special counsel robert mueller are said to be still sealed and orders from a federal judge it isn't yet known what the accusations are but any one charged could reportedly be taken into custody as soon as monday bruce fein is a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and constitutional lawyer in washington d.c. he says even though little is known right now he believes that the focus and maybe on trump's former campaign manager paul manifold. we know that the charges are very serious they must be a felony if it's an indictment the alternate way of charging an individual the crime isn't information but that is for punishment for wrongdoing punishable by one year or less it's also very likely given the public knowledge that search warrants were directed and executed against paul man a fourth that he is probably the subject of the indictme

media are reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation over russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the charges led by special counsel robert mueller are said to be still sealed under orders from a federal judge it isn't yet know what the accusations are but anyone charged could be reportedly taken into custody as soon as monday. the united kingdom says military action should be considered a gates those who carried out chemical attacks in syria it follows a u.n. investigation that blames the syrian government for a lethal attack in april more than eighty people were killed in the sarin gas attack in concert the syrian government rejects the un's report mike hanna reports from the united nations. the security council debate is about women peace and security but in coming days the chambers likely to become the scene of heated argument about the future of the joint investigative mechanism jim its annual mandate needs to be renewed before the seventeenth of next mon

has slapped on canadian made airplanes alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . with the forefront of talks aimed at drawing up a new north american free trade agreement underway here in washington canadian prime minister justin to door came to meet with president donald trump but donald trump has been on the record since the moment he moved into the white house that he would like to see a new nothe agreement an agreement that has been in place for almost twenty five years and both canada and mexico see until this point has been walking relatively well but donald trump wants to see a new modernized agreement and justin trudeau says that is understandable and the second stance but well donald trump says he may want to walk away justin trudeau believes there is the possibility that they can come up with a new deal and he says it's up to the politicians to convince people why it is such a good thing. part of getting these trade deals to move forward requires us to get support public support for these trade deals and demonstrating that we're hearing the concerns that

perspective from washington d.c. . this is the first public of knowledge meant by the trumpet ministration that it has been in direct contact with north korea the secretary of state saying that there are two if not three avenues that it is using for communication he also made clear that it is not through china in other words the u.s. is using avenues of communication unilaterally separate from china this is very significant because it indicates that the secretary of state is still believes that there is a diplomatic resolution possible to this ongoing crisis the despite the hostile words that have been exchanged by the president of the u.s. and of the leader of north korea in recent months it's also an indication of the growing warmth in the relationship between china and the u.s. in the past china had a deal of houston not fully implementing the sanctions that had been passed against north korea in the u.n. security council and indeed these sanctions that had been unilaterally imposed by the united states but in recen

a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation of a russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election that's according to reports in the united states so far though it isn't known what the accusations are but anyone who's charged could be taken into custody as soon as monday the charges will be led by special counsel robert miller. u.s. defense secretary has warned north korea against escalating its nuclear and missile tests james mattis is in the south korean capital seoul for two days of talks and says any attack by the north would be met with a massive response the north would find overwhelming. now unofficial results from kenya's presidential election rerun have put president a little kenya in the lead with ninety seven percent of the vote compared with less than one percent for. the leader of the opposition he of course boycotted this exercise the electoral commission suspended voting indefinitely in full of positions strongholds at least six people have been

a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has reportedly approved the first charges in the investigation of a russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election u.s. media is reporting that is not yet what's the specific accusations are but anyone who's charged under them could be taken into. this monday the charges will be led by special counsel robert millner. the u.s. defense secretary has warned north korea against escalating its nuclear and missile tests james mattis is in the south korean capital seoul for two days of talks and says any attack by the north would be met with what he called a massive and overwhelming response. now official results from kenya's presidential election rerun have now put president a little kenya in the lead with ninety seven percent of the vote compared with less than one percent for the opposition leader raul or a dingo who of course boycotted the whole exercise voting in four opposition strongholds has been suspended because of fears of others for me to miller is following de

media is reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation of a russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the charges alleged by special counsel robert mueller are said to be still sealed under orders from a federal judge it isn't yet known what the accusations are does anyone charged could reportedly be taken into custody as soon as monday and official has more from washington d.c. . we know that robert mueller has been conducting his investigation over the past five months or so or if it's true and this grand jury has decided that and they can be issued then that's a fairly speedy process if you look at two significant cases in the past from american political history bill clinton and richard nixon it took a grand jury almost a couple of years to come up with indictments the and the how did grand juries work well essentially people and empaneled they come along given evidence from the prosecutors the ilo to issue subpoenas and at one stage when the prosecutor believ

a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has reportedly approved the first charges in the investigation of the russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election u.s. media is reporting that is not yet know what the accusations are that any one charge could be taken into custody as soon as monday the charges will be led by special counsel robert millner. the u.s. defense secretary has well north korea against escalating its nuclear and missile tests james mattis is in the south korean capital seoul for two days of talks and says any attack by the north will be met with what he described as a massive and overwhelming response. minimal save media says the government will haul best rice from farmland there's been abandoned by range of families who fled violence in the american state the paddy fields cover more than seventy thousand acres in mound dawe that's a pulse of rock and state that was worst affected by the crackdown by the me and my military against the red minority let's go live now to mia miles largest city

has more from washington d.c. . christian groups in the united states have long wanted their government to do something about what they see as the ongoing persecution of christians in the middle east especially in iraq our fellow christians and all who are persecuted in the middle east should not have to rely on multinational institutions when america can help them directly and tonight it is my privilege to announce that president trump has ordered the state department to stop funding ineffective relief efforts at the united nations pence's announcement was cheered by the evan jellicoe community which wields considerable political influence but officials at both the state department and the u.n. don't yet have a lot of details on the policy and funding changes this does not apply to all u.n. programs and it applies to programs that address the first cuban displaced religious minority communities usa id will be involved in the us state department well as well we continue to make sure that our aid efforts on the groun

washington d.c. thank you. can you present who or kenya has won the re one of the presidential election with ninety eight percent of the vote kenya's electoral commission says that the poll was free and fair and credible despite it being postponed in some areas but it was held without a strong opposition candidate for many questions remain about the president's mandate for me to miller reports now from nairobi. the official announcement that who kenyatta had secured his second term in office was no surprise for millions of kenyans but a low voter turnout of thirty eight percent has raised questions around the legitimacy of the selection which was ordered by the supreme court after it's an old or because presidential vote saying the electoral commission had committed illegalities. deliberately sixty. ninety percent. of the same. ones. or. it. was nothing more. than the realization. of a. state. ten. or or so. trace. the rerun was marred by violent protests when opposition leader raila odinga and his national sup

is unlikely to answer mr tavist prayers for a new country called amazonia mohammed omar d.c. al jazeera. pro-democracy campaigners have been rallying outside hong kong's chinese national day celebrations police blocked a small group of protesters who march near the venue hong kong has been under chinese rule for twenty years now the self-governing territory has extra rights under china's one country two systems structure. dozens of football's rotators were injured when a crowd barrier collapse at a stadium in france the incident happened at the league one match between legal and . illegal supporters were celebrating the open goal when the fans collapsed under their weight three people were taken to hospital in serious injuries the match was abandoned thousands of people are marching in ireland there demanding a change to laws against abortion the so-called march for choice comes after the irish government said a referendum only issue will be held next year and has some of the most restrictive laws on abortion in europe terminations are illegal unless the mother's life is at r

and thousands of americans have joined up march for racial justice in washington d.c. relatives of people shot dead by police have been among the protesters. the u.s. state department says north korea has shown no signs of interest all right ines for talks about its nuclear program state secretary rex tillerson has revealed washington has been in direct communication with pyongyang he's in beijing for high level talks on the crisis the u.s. has been looking for china's help to toughen an economic squeeze on north korea like han is joining us live now from washington d.c. mike what is the significance of rexx tell us in that making this statement now during this visit to china. well it's the first public confirmation that the trump administration has been in contact with north korea the secretary of state said that there were at least three avenues that the u.s. was using to communicate with north korea you made clear as well though that it was not through china this clearly indicating that it is some unilateral channel that the u.s. is utilizing the significance though

that how dare he because be frustrated by not getting the support that was expecting from washington d.c. in the gulf crisis as we know the american position was has been actually split in terms of the. support to saudi arabia and the gulf and then president donald trump would say one thing and the state department would say something else so this frustrated saudi arabia because the absence of a unified strong position from washington d.c. as they thought they received it in the riyadh summit backward from donald trump that wasn't the case which led to weakening their position in the gulf crisis it could be then that saudi arabia is syndicate message that you know there are others that we can work with specially importantly is that. build an image for itself that support their autocratic allies there is a threat because and yes as has been the case in syria so russia has nor no problem supporting the bluejeans and when equally important reason i think that we should not miss in this conversation which is that i think the king of saudi arabia is trying to get some support also for his son

all right dan thank you very much for that stan estabrook joining us live from washington d.c. well alternators chief editor of the turkish language news site washington hati he says the tension is going to make things difficult for turkey. when you start talking about the problems between the two countries and when you cannot stop anywhere there are so many issues this point are very much in uncharted territory as far as we can though there is there is we have not seen such suspension of visas big being the countries and the turkey also suspense is really the u.s. government there is kind of a chicken game between the capitals but the same time does to a allies not allies and allies for about seventy years would call each other and strategic ally of working in many areas across the world this kind of town sure and this going of fights between the capitals i think going to escalate and going to make it turkey which is already isolated in the neighborhood. will make things very much much more difficult for our own corrupt. let's move on to other news now and an armed coalition l

territory cuba says there is no evidence the attacks took place mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . relations between the u.s. and cuba continue to deteriorate in the wake of what u.s. officials described as a covert sonic attack last month the u.s. withdrew all non-essential personnel from the embassy in havana following what they said was a series of staff falling ill because of some kind of sonic attack now the u.s. did not provide any evidence and said that it could not establish exactly what the so-called attack was but now cuba is fighting back the foreign minister is visiting d.c. at the moment and this is what he had to say a lot of that is surely the so-called attacks are on just whatever the type of attack whatever the incident it is completely false. the foreign minister also described the whole incident as and i quote political manipulation aimed dead damaging bilateral relations now important to note that the u.s. has never directly accused cuba of being responsible for the illness of its diplomats however it did say that cuba has not done enough to investigate the c

so even listen to us president donald hamm speaking from washington d.c. . a rebound if you like of u.s. strategy towards iran he did speak about the iran nuclear deal and it all went down pretty much as expected with u.s. president donald trump refusing to sign off on the sort of regular endorsement of the deal which the president has to do every ninety days this does not mean that the u.s. is pulling out of the deal but it does trigger a process a sixty day period in which congress has to decide whether to reimpose sanctions to reimpose nuclear sanctions the white house president said that he's not happy with the deal because it doesn't incorporate iran's non-nuclear activities things like its ballistic missile program and exact and its activities in the region so the trouble ministration one. congress to amend u.s. legislation on iran so let's look at what all this means about diplomatic editor james bays who's covered the nuclear talks extensively of course trump also said that you wanted to impose sanctions on the iranian revolutionary guard james that

to go outside the district court in washington d.c. tell us what's going on right now shihab. well we expect rick gates to appear before a federal judge within the next fifteen minutes or so for an initial appearance the judge will explain what charges these men these men face twelve counts under the indictment was released this morning by conspiracy but also of hiding their lobbying activities for a foreign government in the united states and then laundering the money they received from ukraine to fund and modify this case a lavish lifestyle these charges will be explained to both men and the judge will decide whether or not to release the two men on bail both men may or may not at this point enter a plea of guilty or not guilty that's not clear that's up to them but this is their initial appearance and then we expect we do expect bell to be granted because it's a nonviolent crime but this is what we'll discover in the next fifteen twenty minutes or so it may be a very quick hearing it may just be a five ten minutes or so and then they're out they came in secretly a bit with

acosta has more from washington d.c. . florence's comments in an interview with bloomberg news marked a significant change in tone gone was the optimism we heard three months ago when tillerson last visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in. progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that they're ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following week and to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u.s. policy on this gulf crisis started back in june if you remember that's when u.s. president donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership and in achieving this blockade and trying to claim credit that was a direct result of president trump's visit to the region since then the white house has been more silent on this topic while the state department has taken a lead here with tillerson returnin

from human rights groups to the you went to washington d.c. there is growing pressure on myanmar to stop the violence against with an increasing number of u.s. lawmakers demanding action secretary of state rex tillerson says his country holds myanmar's military leadership accountable for what's happening in iraq and state and its latest report and stay international's accusing security forces of the systematic rape and murder of hundreds of the henge of villages since august almost six hundred thousand one hundred have fled myanmar. because of what the u.n. has described as a textbook case of ethnic cleansing well the un human rights chief is threatening to seek the security council's intervention of the perpetrators punished as a sane spoke with al-jazeera as mike hanna on wednesday. the attacks by the american salvation army was met by a very methodical and well planned well organized response that did not seem to us to be anything remotely like counterinsurgency but a wholesale displacement of people from northern iraq to cox bazaar and ban

this content believing it to be authentic we'll have our times he joins us live now from washington d.c. so she had what are they trying to achieve with this hearing. but there are several goals depending on which which bit of this the committee and indeed the those those appearing before the committee ones thinking about the committee as a whole clearly wants to know what i actually happened what's the scale of the russian influence on these social media platforms the timeline when facebook google and others knew something weird was happening what they can do about it in the future the democratic members of the committee are keen to keep pushing this idea that russia hijacked the election that the social media activities completely social media activities or russia vindicate their position that one of the main reasons the and i sort of quite recovered from this that hillary clinton managed to lose the presidential election to donald trump was because there was this coordinated campaign from the kremlin that was to destroy hillary clinton in favor of dollar trouble that we've not seen a

we'll do what has to be done well for more on this let's get to mike hanna who's live in washington d.c. hi there mike so just yesterday we spoke about the u.s. actively using these back channel communications to negotiate with north korea and and now this. well indeed yes effectively the president is publicly repudiating his secretary of state and in the most public way possible through a tweet even by the standards of the trumpet ministration the expression of foreign policy via social media is quite stunning in a lot of ways yesterday to listen held a series of meetings in beijing including with the president xi jinping and the chinese foreign minister you also made some statements about contacts with north korea saying publicly for the first time that they were back channel points of communication with north korea that diplomatic options were being explored through two possibly three channels making clear too that these were not through china they were unilateral channels being exercised by the united states but now the president comes out publicly and says this is all a waste of ti

people coming in and out of the buildings for more now we can speak to diane estabrook in washington d.c. dime give us some of the background to this story first of all right and this is sort of a diplomatic battle if you will that's been going on throughout the day but it actually started last week when turkey arrested and detained a u.s. employee who works in the consulate there saying that he had ties to a cleric a turkish cleric who's been living in the u.s. who the turkish government says was behind last year's failed military coup and that is that cleric is federal and. turkey has been trying to get him extradited from the u.s. back to turkey now for quite a while the u.s. has failed has not been compliant with that and the turkish government and it's difficult for them to do that if even if they would be agreeable to that it could be challenged in federal court so that's part of the reason that could be behind this employee that was arrested and held last week now in addition to that there are some a dozen other u.s. citizens who have been arrested and detained in turkey one inclu

lived up to the spirit of their agreement al-jazeera particle hanging has more now from washington d.c. . just saw twenty four hours ago secretary of defense jim maddest tell the u.s. congress that he thinks that it's in the u.s. national security interest to stay in the iran deal and at the time that many people thought he was speaking to an audience of one president donald trump but if you really look back in now with this reporting that president may have found what he sees as a loophole where he can decertify but the not push congress to reimpose sanctions there's satisfying his base mattis is a key voice he is respected on capitol hill and we're starting to see some republicans especially within the leadership say basically it will quote the uses the toothpaste is always an overt out of the bottle the money has been given to iran the sanctions have been lifted if they were to reimpose sanction they know the allies would blame them for and walked away from the nuclear deal and it's not at all clear that the allies would follow suit and which would mean the same sions were somewhat

is unlikely to answer mr tavist prayers for a new country called amazonia mohammed omar d.c. al jazeera the. simpson has been released from a u.s. prison nine years for. the seventeen year old was released from the nevada jail early on sunday and will now be supervised by parole offices for five in one thousand nine hundred five he was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a trial that gripped the world. tavor says they can look at the top stories here and out as air scuffles a breaking out between spanish police and voters in catalonia secession referendum the paramedics are treating people outside polling stations who've been injured elsewhere people are causing their ballots in some polling stations al-jazeera is called pan hole and camera operator inman got caught up in the clashes outside a polling station in barcelona. right there. but if you can see why are now starting to move all the. time to the crowd. that shot down the crowd from the national voters ask your patient. when then was. the light. from other areas of maine to catch a load a specific orde

you're trying to take care of the health care facilities for the population of the city of washington d.c. that is about the size of a population of refugees who crossed over to bangladesh in recent days from me on my plus those who arrived there in recent years that would make up close to one million the size of the population we're living in squarely refugee camps all across not there just isn't and off hospital beds in this part of cox about there's one government on hospital with about two hundred bats and now they're in ok i bought about sixty bags and a field hospital recently opened by red cross and red cross together which has a sixty bad hospital then in trouble a lot of in-house patients sent to where patients would be actually admitted most of the clinics we see are mobile clinics now here we can see woman friendly space which supports gender based violence survivor as well as maternity issues health related problem for woman lactating problem mothers how to take care of their children etc in the long run the government needs to find a solution to provide hospital care faciliti

suspended nonimmigrant visa services at its missions in turkey don estabrook reports from washington d.c. . the u.s. fired off the first volley in the diplomatic dispute on sunday issuing a statement saying it was suspending all nonimmigrant visa services at diplomatic facilities across turkey by the end of the day the turkish embassy responded in kind to the u.s. the visa suspension war started just days after turkish authorities arrested a us consulate employee met in tokyo claiming topas was fine for an exiled turkish cleric the u.s. says those accusations are baseless oh look i was a look are retired and basswood her and former principal representative to the european union says the u.s. is sending a clear and deliberate message. from the army to come say. already they're warning that. whole what's going. to go are talking to the i'm going to press the exiled cleric fettle a good one has been a bone of contention between the u.s. and turkey for nearly two decades turkish president. claims google and masterminded last year's bloody military coup attempt from his compound in the u.s. s

he also said we'll do what has to be done on this let's speak to mike hanna his live in washington d.c. hi there mike so just yesterday we spoke about the u.s. actively using what they call back channel communications to negotiate with north korea and now this tweet. yes indeed well the secretary of state rex tillerson has been in beijing holding the talks with chinese leaders in the course of the past twenty four hours and he said yesterday that yes the u.s. did have back channel communication with north korea at least three did have a news of communication he said this is the first time that a member of the transferred ministration has publicly confirmed that the of that door channels of discussion with the north koreans however rex tillerson who was making these comments in between talking to senior chinese leaders has now been publicly repudiated by his president in making those tweets donald trump has embarrassed his secretary of state in front of the chinese and in fact in front of the american public basically what he said is that his secretary of state doesn't know the real pol

campaign officials colluded with russian efforts or rob reynolds joins us live now from washington d.c. so rob scan details about who's on this arrest list but the investigation must be moving forwards if we're getting to that stage. that's right sue and we don't know exactly who's been indicted but we do know some of the people who special counsel robert bolton has shown a great deal of interest in among them michael flynn who served briefly as the national security advisor in the trump administration before he was fired for lying about the extent of his contacts with russians another is paul man of four who was trump's campaign manager for a time and who has had extensive contacts with ukrainian groups backed by russia and received several millions of dollars from groups like that but did not report as a agent of a foreign power as he's required to do by by law and then there's donald trump jr who had a meeting with a russian lawyer linked to the kremlin in which he was promised they some damaging information about hillary clinton so whether or not those individuals will be the subje

to top russian officials a white house correspondent kimberly how could has more now from washington d.c. . trump do solemnly swear donald trump has been in office less than a year but this is perhaps the most significant day of his presidency so far on monday two of his former associates avoided handcuffs and turned themselves into the authorities in washington. the first is paul mann afford the former chair of donald trump's presidential election campaign the other is rick gates a longtime business associate of man affords and worked with the white house until march both men appeared in court pleading not guilty to a dozen charges they include conspiracy against the united states also to launder money acting as an agent for a foreign principal providing false statements to investigators and failure to report foreign bank accounts the announcement which caught many off guard that a third person tied to the truck campaign george papadopoulos had pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. that was over the timing of his meetings with alleged go betweens for russia he is now cooperating with the s

behind and egypt cut diplomatic and trade ties my calorie ports from washington d.c. . there was no sign of friction among gulf leaders when they met president trump on his first foreign trip it was all smiles and a common pledge to combat terrorism in all its forms less than two weeks later the blockade against cutter was launched much to the surprise of carter's emir shaikh bin. we were praising each other. laughing with each other this cussing you know how to solve this terrorism that is a threat for the rest of the world they are making demands of you that you shut down al-jazeera that you may give them your word that you're not supporting in islamic groups are you going to meet these demands our sovereignty is a red line we don't accept anybody interfering in our sovereignty when you tell me to close a channel like al-jazeera history were right one day in fifty or sixty seventy years how it changed the whole idea of a free speech in the region do you believe that they want regime change yes they one they want a regime change it's just so obvious history as well tel

twitter all right thanks very much patty called high and say across developments for us in washington d.c. well now president trump himself is expected to arrive in last vegas this hour you'll meet the survivors and first responders of sunday's mass shooting which left at least fifty eight people dead and more than five hundred injured as he left the white house said investigators are learning a lot more about the gunman. well it's a very sad thing we're going to pay our respects and to see the police who doesn't really affect the job or diversion or. you know they're learning a lot more and. that'll be it out to the appropriate times in a very very sad day for me personally thank you well last vegas police a new details are emerging about the mass shooting suggesting that it was meticulously planned officials say stephen paddick set up cameras in an outside his hotel room to watch for at least a sixty four year old killed himself a swat teams closed in officers found an arsenal of weapons in his room and at other locations across nevada paddocks partner is now being questioned by the f.b

reports from washington d.c. . john trump do solemnly swear that the road to indictment began in january when the u.s. intelligence community concluded russia meddled in the twenty sixteen election on behalf of donald trump i have not yet seen any temp tentative that didn't have collapsed and i've seen a lot of bad and set the rations for very active in trying to imply once the election f.b.i. director james comey was investigating possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign when president trump abruptly fired him in may trump soon admitted coma's dismissal was related to the russia investigation the justice department then appointed robert muller a former prosecutor and f.b.i. director and gave him broad authority to conduct a wide ranging investigation which is now about to bring its first charges. become your jersey governor chris christie is a trump supporter and also a former federal prosecutor but when you're going after the smaller fish to get the bigger fish usual charge them that's usually stu

decades to take place in the united states can we how could live with the latest that in washington d.c. all machine in las vegas thanks kony. now catalonia as president has called for international mediation to resolve the crisis over his region's attempt to break away from spain almost nine hundred people were injured when riot police tried to stop sunday's referendum on the issue carlos pushed them all said the overwhelming yes vote meant catalonia had won the right to be an independent state but he softened his previous line saying he wants a new understanding with spain not a traumatic break with spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is meeting the opposition leader to discuss his response spain's constitution gives him the power to dismiss catalonia regional government and suspend its autonomy wisdom on the e.u. to intervene but it considers it to be an internal matter for spain european commission spokesman has called for all the players to move from confrontation to dialogue let's take you live now to our visitors john hendren who's in barcelona for us and john all of this leads

service personnel were killed company has more from washington d.c. . the trumpet ministration is ramping up the rhetoric when it comes to iran it is signaling that it will begin to crack down on the armed wing of hezbollah which the united states says is backed by iran now the u.s. state department declared hezbollah a terrorist group in the late one nine hundred ninety s. but now the trumpet ministration is launching a new campaign to undermine the group's political legitimacy it's important to recall that hasn't developed its military and terrorist capabilities on its own it has become the global threat it is today for one reason tehran's deep and abiding assistance the iranian regime has built and bankrolled has the lot to film of instability throughout the region and across the world now this is all part of a wider u.s. strategy on iran the president has until the end of the week to recertify iran's compliance under the terms of the twenty fifteen agreement to limit iran's nuclear program it is widely believed that the president will announce that

americans now can't apply for visas to travel to each other's countries let's go live to washington d.c. and speak to our correspondent there diane estabrook and diane why is always happening. well this tit for tat actually was prompted last week by the arrest and the detention of a and an embassy a u.s. consulate employee in turkey and is stamboul who the turkish government claims had ties to a muslim cleric a turkish cleric who's been living in exile in the u.s. for almost twenty years a federal a google and now the u.s. says that these claims are baseless and this is been a bone of contention between the u.s. and turkey for many many years turkey has been trying to pressure the united states to extradite google and without success so it seems that they're now upping the ante by detaining this consulate employee there are also about a dozen other u.s. citizens who have been arrested and detained in turkey at this point one is a nasa scientist another is a christian missionary vice president pants and secretary of state to listen have both tried to. tried to intervene on the the behalf

whether trump campaign officials colluded with russia rob reynolds joins us live now from washington d.c. and rob of course we don't know who's going to be indicted but which figures have been under the most scrutiny by special counsel. well there's a fairly long list of people that miller has put his spotlight on mario but i mean starting at the top there's michael flynn he was very active in the campaign a former u.s. military general and served for just about a month as the national security adviser in the white house before being fired when it was revealed that he had lied about the extent of his contacts with russian officials during the transition period then there is paul mann afore he was the trump campaign manager for months during the campaign and he is also under intense scrutiny of his had numerous contacts with russian officials business leaders and extensive ties with russia leaning parties in ukraine that that paid him millions of dollars for his work there then there's donald trump jr who held a meeting at trump tower in new york in june of two thousand and sixteen with a

exactly what the so-called attack was but now cuba is fighting back the foreign minister is visiting d.c. at the moment and this is what he had to say last year my only showing the so-called attacks are on just whatever the type of attack whatever the incident it is completely false the foreign minister also described the whole incident as and i quote political manipulation aimed at damaging bilateral relations now important to note that the u.s. has never directly accused cuba of being responsible for the illness of its diplomats however it did say that cuba has not done enough to investigate the causes of those cuba's position very clearly there is no such attacks underway there have been no attacks and even if there were certainly cuba has got nothing to do with it but all of this is got to be seen as well in the context of the trumpet ministration relations with cuba were reestablished under a bomber under the trumpet ministration things have changed substantially from the very beginning a president making very clear he is not that happy with these increasingly warm relations with cu

outlaw the procedure after twenty weeks let's go live to diana easterbrook estabrook sorry in washington d.c. with the details diane talk about a scandal tell us about how this all unfolded. well and in fact a congressman tim murphy announced tonight that he is going to retire from his congressional seat in pennsylvania when his term is up next year and this came after a behind closed meetings earlier today with the speaker of the house paul ryan how this all came about was this congressman was named potentially named in a divorce that involved his ex mistress and her husband this came to light several weeks ago and then earlier this week the fill in the gazette published e-mails between congressman murphy and his mistress in which she took him to task for being so stridently against abortion when earlier in the year she had he had actually encouraged her to get an abortion when she thought she might be pregnant so this is all very embarrassing to the republican party however this the district that he happens to be in is heavily republican so it's likely that the republicans will keep that s

d.c. and speak talk or spot on that so tom explain what is behind this decision. the embassy says that the reason for this is security reasons but it's plainly linked to their previous condemnation of the arrest of a local employee at the u.s. consulate in istanbul who has been accused by the turkish authorities of plot a conspiracy or participating in a conspiracy to overthrow the turkish government more than a year ago led by allegedly by self exiled turkish pastor of a tuna glenn lives in the united states and the embassy at that at the time the american embassy said that there are only without merits those charges that he was linked to a terrorist plot but nevertheless it's clear that this is just one more ratcheting up of the of the war of words between the united states and turkey the turks have had no success in getting the drug administration to approve an extradition of good men and since the start of the or actually is for more than a year the turks have imprisoned more than a do

opiate addiction and overdose white house correspondent kimberly how good how small from washington d.c. figure the white house president said that the opioid epidemic in the united states is the worst drug crisis in american history with the signing of this presidential memorandum the president says this is a critical first step in addressing the epidemic. for too long we have allowed drugs to ravage american homes cities and towns we owe it to our children and to our country to do everything in our power to address this national shame and this human tragedy we must stop the flow of. illegal drugs into our communities. many people are disappointed the president has stopped short of declaring this a national emergency had that occurred this would have provided the necessary federal funding that states say they need in order to address this crisis instead by calling this a public health emergency what this will do is in essence redirect existing funds something that many critics say stopped short of the president's promise not only on the campaign trail but also as president still many a

none at all kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington i don't fish or joins us now from washington d.c. what do you think donald trump is up to here al and what does he want. well explained his base there's no doubt about that throughout the election campaign he stood up many many times and said the iran deals a terrible deal and as soon as i get into office i'm going to scrap it the difficulty of course is between what you promised in the campaign trail and the real politic of governing in side the white house know james mattis who is his defense sector rex tillerson both of them have said recently that iran is in compliance here's the difficulty for donald trump he may well kick this literally don't the road down pennsylvania avenue to congress and say you need to deal with it but they can only not certify the deal with iran if the white house provides evidence of how they are not in compliance with the deal no the deal deals with iran's nuclear program other things that donald trump is talking about funding for hezbollah or things like that they're outside the deal they were never p

the president is trying to push forward his legislative agenda complete how to report from washington d.c. . his promise to repeal obamacare has failed money to build a border wall with mexico remains in question so hoping for a legislative victory donald trump on tuesday went to capitol hill seeking support from fellow republicans for some of the steepest tax cuts in a generation this will be the lowest rate in more than eighty years so this would be just before leaving the white house he spoke to reporters to explain how his tax reform plan will ensure his keeping a campaign promise to get americans back to work our plan can be summarized in three simple words jobs jobs jobs but what was supposed to be a serious day of policy discussion quickly devolved into a bitter fight with the governing republican party itself for months trump's been alienating some of the most senior members of his own party on tuesday it got even more personal for two centers. senator bob corker who will leave the senate next year went on a blistering attack against trump before the president arrived on capitol h

patrol of us and share in troops but ambush near the border with mali don estabrook is in washington d.c. for us well the pentagon at this point is not releasing a lot of details about this attack what we do know from other media reports is that three u.s. commandos were killed two others were wounded this attack happened in southwest new cher near the mali border what we understand is that there in this particular area there's a heavy presence of insurgents in that area some from al qaida some from the islamic state in greater so horror at this point though we don't know if one of those groups was responsible for this attack now the u.s. has military throughout western africa we know that several troops are have been in share they have been assisting in counterterrorism efforts in reconnaissance and in training they were on a routine patrol when this occurred and as we understand president trump has been alerted and has been briefed on what has happened we are expecting more information about this attack tomorrow from the pentagon now madagascar's trying to contain the outbreak of the h