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Is absurd. >> cnns ben weederman is monitoring all of this for us. ben, how frustrating and challenging is this for the south korean leadership trying to de-escalate this while the president seems to be making things worse? >> reporter: traditionally rosemary, relations between seoul and washington were good. they saw eye to eye on the threat posed by the north korean nuclear program. but certainly since the candidacy of donald trump, the signals have been much different from the united states. ...

I think people would be concerned, but not particularly exercised. whats different and you heard it from bens description was this very specific threat from the north korean foreign minster that they might conduct an atmospheric test. it doesnt sound big, but its a big difference. they have all been contained underground, radio activities contained and you are not worried about the winds. the atmospheric test which they agreed to ban in 1963, early days of the cold war is a different thing. hard...

Between some of the leaders of syria and iraq with the trump administration. obviously the u.s. does rely on help to battle isis. certainly that is -- those sort of relations are now under threat. >> well, listen, i think coming on an official line coming from the iraqui government, for example, they have asked the united states to reconsider the ban. they said they are going to look into measures theyre going to take, but it is a give-and-take relationship. the iraqis need the united states as...

It on the screen. a country of about 8 million people. thats 40,000. .5% of the population. if you look at the united states, that the equivalent, take a look at this. equivalent of 1.5 million u.s. military reservist. thats a major decision on a relatively small country like israel to go ahead and authorize that kind of deployment for a ground invasion. >> that right. as you said, thats a significant number. and it tells me that they are preparing for possibly, as they see it, the worset that m...

determine their own destiny in a new and democratic libya. >> no details from the president as to exactly how gadhafi died. there are clearly many, many questions about that. i want you to take a look at that. this footage shot today in gadhafis home town. sirte. it appears to show gadhafi in custody and still alive up against that truck. it is jumpy, hard to follow. we do see this man purportedly gadhafi, in this semi upright position. clearly under duress. quite possibly mortally wou...

>> has no business and no obligation having to pay for wall streets bad bets. thats their bad bets and they can eat them. >> well, congresswoman, yes, were not so sure. different political goal but both movements are taking full advantage of our precious right of free speech. what we dont know is whether the protesters from the left are going to rival the tea party. >> only pakistan can save pakistan. only afghanistan can save afghanistan. and right now, we should focus on america savi...

the reality is that employers will hire, if theyve got the right incentives. but the incentives have to outweigh the costs. as an example, businesses arent going to hire someone because the governments going to give them a $4,000 tax credit. if the government mandates that are imposed on them cost a lot more than that, temporary credit. in recent years these mandates have been overwhelming. private sector job creators of all sizes have been pummeled by decisions being made right here i...

be part of a possible terror plot against the u.s. planned to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary. government sources say they think two of these three people are american citizens. we will have the very latest in a moment. republicans running for president getting ready for monday nights big debate in tampa. cnn and the tea party express teaming up and sponsoring this event which will feature questions from the audience. we are just minutes away from nasa heading to the moon. a sch...

One told cnn he resigned over the killing of civilians. in a telephone interview, he said, gadhafi told me he was planning on using airplanes against the people in benghazi. i told him he would have thousands of people killed if he does that. in the hours after he said he resigned, the state-run media reported that the exinterior minister had been kidnapped by anti-government gangs. a little later in the show, ben weederman will take a look at the libyan army as muammar gadhafi refuses to back d...

The u.s. is against getting the citizens out of libya. its chartered a ferry. thats scheduled to depart tripoli less than three hours from now. passengers will need to reimburse the government for the cost of the trip. the state department says so far its not been able to schedule chartered flights out of the country. tonight spend a little time now looking at some of the important divisions within the libyan army. cnns ben weederman was the first western tv journalist to report from inside li...