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Biggest drug kingpin in u.s. custody has been sentenced to life in prison. he is said to be responsible for importing multitone quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine into the u.s. he was once aligned with joaquin guzman. north koreas latest missile test will give president trump and his chinese counterpart plenty to talk about when there to meet tomorrow. the u.s. wants china to rein in the north koreans without much indication of what washington can do if china doesnt comply. here is rich e...

Global threat and will be a key agenda item for the u.s.-china discussion. respondent, the secretary said "north korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile. the united states has spoken enough about north korea. we have no further comment. ">> the statement was a bit perplexing but i think it was probably designed to keep the north koreans on edge. to keep options on the table. >> trump administration has pushed china to use leverage over north korea to pressure her to halt ...

>> when government officials get up here in beijing in just a few hours from now and react, i think youre going to hear a very consistent policy position from the chinese that has been their position for well over a decade now. and that chinese, they think the only way to solve the on going crisis in the korean peninsula is through getting back to the negotiating table. either under the kind of framework during the six party talks that ultimately failed in the mid 2000s or direct negotiations be...

Peninsula, anyone interested in air strikes being the only weapon we have at our disposal, to stop a north korean weapons development. this is against your interests. >> how much did we learn, a few years pack i went to moscow to interview ed snowden who said, they can turn on your phone any time they want to. that was kind of shocking but in a rolling sense, is the company better or worse off made more safe or less safe by what wikileaks has put out today? >> i think the level of detail was def...

Anybody who has an interest in preventing war in the korean peninsula, anyone interested in air strikes being the only weapon we have at our disposal, to stop a north korean weapons development. this is against your interests. >> how much did we learn, a few years pack i went to moscow to interview ed snowden who said, they can turn on your phone any time they want to. that was kind of shocking but in a rolling sense, is the company better or worse off made more safe or less safe by what wikilea...

Spent on developing these weapons by some estimates up to a quarter of its gdp. and, so, you have people who will might be coming from homes that dont have electricity and yet theyre seeing these lavish displays. you have people outside of pyonyang in the country side who dont have a nutritionally sufficient diet who may be watching these extravagant celebration on television during the couple of hours a day that they have power. and, so, that is the real -- thats the perplexing thing about this...

Investing in the nuclear realm. told whole lives theyre under eminent 38 of invasion by united states and its allies. say the weapons are the only chance for their country to survive as society and say willing to go hungry and without the comforts of life if need to for the weapons development to continue and it has significantly in the last year. two nuclear tests and more than 20 missile launches and since heavy sanctions began, five nuclear tests. and kim jong-un is saying there are more to c...

Clear insult. to date, china has shown no signs of being ready to abandon the north korean dictator. consider the repercussions. if beijing were to cut aid and the regime collapsed, and thats a big if, china would have to deal with millions of refugee on its border, not to mention unsecured nuclear weapons. they would also lose a substantial buffer in its positioning in the region against the u.s. if china continues to prop up the regime, what else can be done to change north korean behavior? >>...

No previous iaea report has so clearly linked irans past nuclear work to weapons development. whats the significance of this? >> well, jenna, whats significant is the iaea can is coming out in very clear terms and saying that iran has lied about its nuclear weaponization work, that iran was actually developing nuclear weapons in a formal way up until 2003, that those activities continued at least until 2009, and it also completely undercuts the iranian narrative that they were never working on s...

It certainly supports the a.p.s reporting that iran will play a major role in the so-called inspection regimen of one of its major nuclear sites at parchin by providing the iaea with crucial information and details. let me show you some of what we have learned. in taking a look at this document its called separate arrangement two. in it iran would provide the iaea with photos and videos, also environmental samples of select locations at parchin, taking into account some military concerns. it als...