other stories making news around the world today russian president vladimir putin and his syrian counterpart bashar al assad have revealed they met yesterday in salt street the two leaders agreed to switch their efforts in syria from military operations to the search for a political solution to the country's civil war. us president donald trump has declared north korea a state sponsor of terrorism trump said the mood to blacklist the regime again was long overdue john yang was removed from the list in two thousand and eight north korea and the us are at loggerheads over kim jong un's controversial nuclear program. and hopes of finding a missing argentinian submarine have been dealt a setback a navy spokesman said a noise detected by search and rescue craft did not come from the sub been no sign of the vessel and its forty four man crew for nearly a week. to zimbabwe now war there where the ruling party has