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They didnt do it. the russian government says they didnt do it. a chemical attack in a town held by the syrian government. syrian officials have their own explanation that the rebels did it. that they poisoned and killed those children in such a horrific way to convince other countries to get their milita militaries involved in this civil war, fred planken is the only american reporter in damascus. >> reporter: i dont think anybodys buying that the rebels themselves were behind this. its interes...

The region. they do not want to see the north korean regime collapse. that is their worst case scenario for instability right on their doorstep. so while everyones looking for stability, especially as we come up on the olympics in south korea after the new year, it may be that the u.s. and the chinese have a very different view of what that stability and what that diplomacy may look like in the coming weeks. brianna. >> cnns barbara star. thank you. secretary of state tillerson stated flatly i...

Thought that russia and china were getting too influential on the world stage. the spokeswoman for the foreign ministry also saying that she believed that the language that secretary of state tillerson was using would not work with russia. she called it a language of coercion and of trying to use economic influence to use power against russia. there was one other thing that you wrote in that op-ed, where secretary of state tillerson said the one place that russia and the u.s. could cooperate was...

Back with our world lead. a stern rebuke delivered from one to moscow. in a blistering "new york times" editorial, secretary of state rex tillerson aid quote, we have no illusions about the regime we are dealing with. the united states today has a poor relationship with a resurgent russia that has invaded its neighbors in the last decade and undermined the sovereignty of western nations by meddling in our elections and others. im going to get right to cnns senior international correspondent, fre...

The normal in these g20 protests. the president for his part, his motorcade whipped by all of it, he didnt see a thing, pamela. >> long night as fred pointed out as well. they have miles to go in their protest, jeff, live in hamburg, germany, thank you very much for that. so its what everybody seems to be talking about, except the president, will he confront vladimir putin for ordering cyber attacks? the latest and how it could shape the world as we keep an eye on the protests that have turned...

Other breakaway protest here. the challenge is going to be smaller groups tomorrow that are going to try and disrupt the delegations, trying to get to the summit. so theyre going to actually be taking all kinds of small roads, swarming the streets to try and disrupt leaders and delegations from actually reaching the summit, and thats when police will have -- the challenge will be for police tomorrow, pamela. >> and as we know, president trump just arrived there and ill ask you the same question ...

Behaving in a very, very dangerous manner. and something will have to be done about it. >> reporter: so president trump, pamela, just finished a dinner with the prime minister of japan as well as the president of south korea and north korea of course was front and center in that discussion, but pamela, right now, as the sun is setting here in hamburg, im going to look behind me here and have our photographer, bill arbitor zoom in on the smoke you can see in the distance there. since fred was on ...

Have been reporting, once sun falls, once the night falls, police are certainly mindful of these protests could again become more advanced. but that is just the scene here really from a gorgeous evening otherwise here in hamburg, brooke. >> incredible how bright it is still at quarter until 10:00 at night where you are, jeff. before i let you go, of course ahead of the all important trump/putin meeting tomorrow, youve now learned who else will be in the room. who is that? >> reporter: we have in...

Ground assault on eastern aleppo. >> they broke through rebel lines and entered into two eastern neighborhoods over the weekend. fred planken on more from london. >> reporter: these are arguably some of the most significant gains that syrian governments military forces have made at the civil war that the civil war has been going on. eastern aleppo for both the syrian government as well as the opposition is one of the main battle grounds in the civil war. its the last urban strong hold where the ...

Richard quest, as it pertains to the investigation with this news from the european investigators, what next? >> two things. besides the questions of national security or issues of retaliation and the like, from a purely aviation standpoint, how did they do it? and how can we prevent it happening again? it sounds basic, but now you have to go right into sharm el shake and discover how it was done. was it a system ic fall jury of aviation security or a form of bribery of one or two people in shar...