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horn of africa. the united nations says it has received half of the $2.5 billion it needs to tackle the crisis. china says it is slowing down its bullet trains and stopping new construction because of an accident that killed last month that killed at least 40 people. the accident was blamed on design flaws on equipment. and syrian troop -- efforts are growing to end the crackdown. under scored the urgency of the situation there. those are the top stories from cnn, the world news le...

Lasting impact on afghanistan, were building a client state where your son was killed unfortunately in a civilian attack on the village, we will give you $11,000 for your sons life. we will build an irrigation canal. now, we have large numbers of afghanises who know the americans have the money and give us some money and they dont care whos there and not there, they will be there the next 50, 60 years. >> theres two ways of looking at this. one is u.s. security and the other is afghan security. ...

We will have troops. we will politically support you. and you, afghanistan, we should be telli ining them, you, afghanistan, dont want to be a client state of pakistan. you want your options. you want to be an independent country. dont become a client state of pakistan. were in the midst of a regional power dynamic. >> there are four players there. pakistan, al qaeda, the taliban and then the afghan government of karzai, right? we think that our allies here are karzai and the pakistani governmen...

Mike? >> what a delicate situation it is, chris. egypt, a top client state to the united states, its number thee, number four. for a while, it has been the number one representant of u.s. aid, not only civilian aid, but egypt buys a lot of military hardware from the united states. we heard president obama just yesterday an interview on youtube basically calling for nonviolence, respecting the rights for people to take to the streets and protest to vent whatever frustrations, disappointments, ang...

War. he is being too insinsd area with regard to iran. rush limbaugh had a pretty interesting take on iran and same liberals not being tough enough with russia. >> the drive buy byes are now obsessed for the moment with trump and all caps list to president rouhani of iran who is continuing to shout death to america here and death to america there. and trump has had it. we dont laud over anybody. we justable who we are. there ask no shame in becoming a super power. iran good bet, is russias numbe...

That we dont. they have native arabic speakers that blend in. if that cooperation were disrupted it would be bad for the united states and its national security. there have been a number of high-profile joint operations that its been reported the u.s. worked with israel to infiltrate the iranian nuclear problem and inject the virus that slowed down iranian centrifuges. back in january stories were in the israeli press that israeli intelligence officials were concerned about sharing information w...

Also think kim jong un is crazy. will donald trump do preemptive strike? not preemptive, but a strike from the uss vinson in north carolina and at waters off north korea? >> we arent going to give the playbook away. but assad regime is a client state of other nations other nations keep it alive and prop it up. those sponsoring nations are sitting down, i guarantee that, and going through a very simple calculus in their minds. asking themselves, wheres my red line for how long im going support so...

Goals than others." there working for a hostile foreign policy. these are your words. they are on your website. a im not making them up. im just asking you, how does that claim square with what we saw on thursday night where we bombed a client state of russia? >> first of all, i mean... one exception does not prove the rule. you know, this could very well be interpreted as an attempt by the administration to get out from under the claim that they are colluding with russia. but the bottom line is...

There. but it is just as crucial as what was hit as what was not hit. the runway itself was not hit. chemical weapons depots were not hit. the pentagon did not want to cause these chemical weapons to be dispersed. also crucial to say that russian forces were not hit. that very intentional. we know the u.s. was in touch with russian military commanders on the ground yesterday to let them know this was coming. we know people on the ground witnessed some russian forces moving out of the area before...

He turned north korea into a hedge hog with spines in every direction of which he meant missiles and a hedge hog cant be attacked by anima larger animal. >> so theea assumption of i thik lot of people in washington is that china will prevent this from happening. north koreas a client state, is that true? do they have control over the north korean government? >> china has been leaning on them and trying to>> get them to calm down for a very long time and north korea revels in the fact theyre a co...