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Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, 11 00pm in london and 8 00pm in the evening in washington, where the response to Donald Trumps first speech to the us Congress Since taking office has been largely positive. The president has himself tweeted to simply say thank you. And the Financial Markets seemed to approve, with the Dowjones Closing at a record high, an apparent endorsement of his calls for a massive Infrastructure Investment programme. The battle now for the president will be how much...

Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, 11 00pm in london and 8 00pm in the evening in washington, where the response to Donald Trumps first speech to the us Congress Since taking office has been largely positive. The president has himself tweeted to simply say thank you. And the Financial Markets seemed to approve, with the Dowjones Closing at a record high, an apparent endorsement of his calls for a massive Infrastructure Investment programme. The battle now for the president will be how much...

Japans attempts to reach out to North Korea to hold a summit are unlikely to affect the trilateral partnerships overall objectives against Pyongyang, experts said.

In afghanistan while the united states was there. thats very important that we knew that. i myself with lieutenant can -- very concerned americans, have attempted to bring legitimate security allies that help the united states and the u.k. back into the united states and there was not a mechanism so theres problem in both ways where an enormous the welcoming nation -- we do want to bring talented people here to the united states that can assist, but theres a method, and we love the opportunity a...

Iraq and afghanistan. their improvement in their defense spending. and their grave concerns about what president trump might give away to putin in helsinki a week from today. i do think there are things we can do. senator corker and senator flake were on the decision. senator flake was leading it. senator corker has made a strong stand for to us pull back some of the power that the senate should have to review any attempt by the president to impose tariffs, especially on close security allies. i...

Nations. a block has completely severed ties over allegations of state funded terrorism. rich edson joins us live from the state department. this is a key one to watch. not all of their hands are clean. >> reporter: when you look at what the secretary of state has been doing, he has been traveling to both sides of this conflict. to qatar, saudi arabia, back to qatar, kuwait. thats a country trying to mediate this conflict. secretary of state has said little about his progress or lack there of ov...

Change or whether hes going to go back to the more aggressive. but for the most it went surprisingly well. >> you write that this america first strategy from president trump is really going to, from your perspective, lead to the decline of the u.s. as it compares to and competes with asia, namely china. >> it depends how it goes but i think one of the risky things its done is pull america out of the transpacific partnership. and one can understand given trumps rhetoric on the campaign trail he h...