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Very last minute this followed attacks on oil tankers in the gulf of oman at the beginning of june which is being blamed on forces allied with iran. trump has since imposed toughest sanctions on the country americas decision to pull out of the 2050 nuclear deal triggered this standoff the agreement limited irans nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions in retaliation iran has been increasing production of enriched uranium. the countrys supreme leader ayatollah ali how money says the isl...

Gradually losing our justifications to follow through on the commitments we made with the u.s. >> kim jong-un has been friendly and smiled with donald trump, but what were seeing with the statements is to point a gun at the other guys head saying do what we want or we will launch missiles and test nuclear weapons. its all about leverage. >> today president trump seemed unfazed by the new threat. >> i think weve made tremendous progress with north korea. again, time is not of the essence, but goo...

And making our region ready to explode. if they want to talk about our missiles they need first to stop sending these. >> shepard: they are: for the united states to roll back economic sanctions against iran. trae youngs reporting live from our newsroom. >> we are getting mixed signals from the iranians about their willingness to work with united states and europe, the supreme leader saying today that europe is in for filling any of their commitments in the nuclear deal. despite that, he did app...

Confirmed him, mark esper will be the first permanent secretary of defense in seven months, just as president trump heads into the 2020 campaign with tensions flaring with iran and north korea. marquis per who has been acting secretary for a few weeks insists diplomacy is the best route to get iran to give up the program to develop nuclear weapons. >> we do not want war with iran. we are not seeking war with iran. we need to get back on the diplomatic channel. >> reporter: a similar message from...

Next month, scaled down drills, i should mention, if they go ahead, then they dont believe the working level talks between north korea and the u.s. can go ahead. what they are suggesting is that they have been promised from the leadership level, ie, president trump, back in singapore, a year and a half ago that there was going to be no more military drills between the u.s. and south korea, specifying as well that this was reconfirmed when kim jong un met with president trump at the dmz a couple ...

Earth you know in her speech today and in the last few days shes made huge commitments on you know the way that shes going to shape the european union in the years ahead and itll be interesting to see how much of that she can really keep going how well she can keep all the different factions within the european machine together particularly in view of this slim margin in this vote today although we may come to see this is a real remarkable achievement actually to get over this line given you kno...

A 3rd choice candidate so she has been on the charm offensive making promises hoping to win over lawmakers. keeping up with. its not an easy task last week. she was on the move constantly meeting almost all of the political groups of the e.u. parliament. she needs to convince enough parliamentarians that shes the right woman for the commission presidency and that could be a problem especially with the social democrats in the european parliament. theyve called her commitments to being and they di...

Its doors a mere 20 years after was 1st commissioned. the british destroyer h.m.s. done could see through turkeys bosphorus on its way to the persian gulf it will be britains 2nd advanced warship in the region amid a tense standoff with iran while tensions spiked this week after iranian gunboats reportedly tried to impede a u.k. super tanker in the gulf this after britain seized an iranian oil tanker off to brawl to all this to the bellicose rhetoric between tehran and the white house over the i...

The police chief told us that suzannes body had small tab wounds on it. he said the cause of death is asphyxiation. there is a massive homicide investigation underway. this entire island is reeling from this news. this sort of thing doesnt happen here. this island is safe. its a holiday destination. >> the story taking a bizarre turn. arwa damon reporting live. thank you. trade talks between the u.s. and china has resumed. the president took to twitter claiming china has not lived up to its pr...

Mayor pete buttigieg and say, oh, now you want our vote even though you didnt do the work to represent us consistently in your elected office. how does he combat that? >> well, i think this plan is part of it. you know, we talked about some of the problems that hes had in south bend relative to police staffing, which has actually dropped -- there are fewer african-american officers today than when he took office seven years ago. we talked about minority contracting in his town out of city govern...