Of the past in the House Of Commons . Well have the latest on the dress code which could leave some breathing easier. Welcome to the programme. I am in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The pentagon is concerned that north Koreas Nuclear programme has advanced so quickly, they are no longer able to monitor it effectively. Intelligence experts believe that, very soon, pyongyang will have a Nuclear Weapon capable of reaching the western seaboard of the United States. That is forcing a rethink in the white house. The president recently suggested chinas attempts to put pressure on pyongyang has failed. So what is the right way forward . Nobody wants to consider a Military Option but one is being prepared nonetheless. What we see now is really two fundamental things have changed. One is the threat is much more immediate now and so its clear that we cant repeat the same approach, failed approach, of the past. And the second is the recognition that previous approaches have not worked and so the definition of insanity would be to continue to do the same thing and expect a different result. Tonight donald trump will meet the new south korean president moon jae in at the white house. The two countries are closely aligned. There are over 20,000 american troops on the Korean Peninsula. Both men want an end to north Koreas Nuclear programme but they disagree on how to get there. And in recent months the alliance has been strained. And joining us now is christopher hill, who formerly served as Us Ambassador to south korea and is currently dean of the International Studies school at the university of denver. We often hear the north korean programme is advancing more quickly than we thought beforehand. Is there something new in the intelligence . They are referring to engine tests on missiles, that they have managed successfully to Start Testing this new generation of solid feel rockets. An abundance of caution. There is an expectation that in the next couple of years we may have a deliverable north Korean Nuclear missile and that presents huge challenges for the United States and presents questions about the degree to which the us would be prepared to get into a war on the Korean Peninsula if that were could include attacks on the us mainland with Nuclear Weapons. We are getting to a no kidding period of time and the president bet heavily on china and what he has seen is that china has been encouraging north korea to come back to talks but in no way does that mean that north korea has indicated that they will give up their Nuclear Weapons as they did before or that they plan to negotiate elimination of Nuclear Weapons. There is a very serious problem and the administration is quite concerned about what to do with it and now comes the planned new south korean president who has indicated mod of an interest and somehow having talks with the north koreans, talks about talks, and that is not a very robust response. Certainly not in the way this administration likes to look at things. The focus will be on the alliance between the us and south korea. For decades to have had thousands of troops on the peninsula but is there a point when this Nuclear Capability goes so far that what takes president says americas domestic influence . Does it become a domestic influence . Does it become a domestic debate . It becomes more so but i do not think it ever becomes exclusively so. It is inconceivable for the us to take Military Action without working together with its south korean ally. If it comes to some kind of Military Action they need the south koreans and 20 million south koreans live within range of north korean artillery so any type of decision to move mullet early would probably involve some kind of civilian evacuations and it is not clear that the south koreans are prepared for these kind of steps as yet. What is important about this meeting is if they are going to have to establish a Good Relationship with south korean want to show they can manage the american relationship but also wants to appoint the americans with some of their special problems that are different with the problems that are different with the problems of the us several thousand miles away. It was just last week President Trump tweeted does that suggest that the president has a different strategy, that he has a different strategy, that he has pitched the idea that chinese could be the way to tame north korea . It is premature to say that. He is trying to respond to criticism especially within the Republican Party that somehow he has been duped by the chinese. He wants to be able to say i am disappointed as well but at least they are trying as opposed to others. He is trying to manage that and double down on china. That said he needs to and will feel he needs to look beyond china to solve this because it is clear the way china is talking is to somehow have the freeze for freeze, if they can get north korea to freeze these things maybe we can freeze ourjoint exercises with south korea, and that is not a dog that is going to hunt in washington. Thank you. There are no good Military Options but no Certainty Diplomacy will work either. The white house has some scepticism about the diplomacy. Yes. The great bromance, the white house Setting Stall that china could be answer. Officials saying that the administration is proposing more Trade Sanctions against china. This week the State Department have put china on a list of countries that are guilty of human trafficking. I wondered if you would have seen that list, out at the beginning of the administration. There are not very many other good options. The National Security adviser said we are still going to try to cooperate with china. Once again we are in a situation where an you make sense of it, messages coming out of the administration when it comes to china and north korea are modelled. The south koreans are worried about it. I was looking about the research. 88 of south koreans in favour of the job that barack obama was doing and i7 have confidence in donald trump. No doubt they are worried about it. After months of court battles, parts of Donald Trumps travel ban finally come into effect tonight. On monday, the Supreme Court partially upheld his executive order, restricting travel from six mainly muslim countries. There is an exception for those with a credible claim of a bona fide relationship. Those with business or educational ties are also exempt. So will this make the country safer . Joining us now is republican Congressman Will Hurd who sits on the Intelligence Committee and formerly served in the cia. You know from your claim and the cia that America Works closely with countries like iraq and syria with civilians and military members of those countries and they need those people to translate them, to help protect them in those countries. To what extent does this undermine americas security and a sense in countries like iraq and syria . americas security and a sense in countries like iraq and syria . I was originally against the travel ban in its initialforum just originally against the travel ban in its initial forum just for that reason and when it comes to iraq and syria the people that we are fighting shoulder to shoulder with our iraqis and syrians. This changed travel ban, if you have a relationship already, so if you are a translator, if you are going to school, you will be allowed to continue to come to the country. It addresses some of the biggest concerns we had which was making sure those that are being helpful to our country are allowed to come back and forth. The way that we are going to solve the problem of security in our homeland and making sure we are defending our borders is by improving Information Exchange with our allies. We have to make sure we get the right information to the right people at the right time to keep terrorists off of our shores andi keep terrorists off of our shores and i have introduced legislation to do that, to give some open sourced knowledge it to our partners to improve Information Sharing with allies. Because of the concerns you outline, iraq was taken off of the list, syria is still on it, but the message is the same. You sit on the house Intelligence Committee. Youve said before that this investigation into russia needs to be thorough and bipartisan. Yesterday, former nato ambassador Nicholas Burns testified at the committees hearing on the russian meddling in elections. And heres what he said. It is his duty, President Trumps, to be sceptical of russia. It is his duty to investigate and defend our country against cyber defences because russia is our most dangerous adversary in the world today. If he continues to refuse to act it is a dereliction to defend the country. Russia is going to do this again. Those are pretty strong words. It seems that everybody in Congress Sees the russian interference as a problem but when donald trump hears russia and the russia investigation he hears it is bad for him and he does not want to engage with it so how do you get round that . We do not have an emperor, we have a president. We are getting ready to start the appropriations process and when it comes to. We are looking to get more money to the agencies trying to collect more information on the russians. Our secretary of defence has been very clear at the threat russia poses. I was recently in ukraine and i saw what the russians were doing in Eastern Ukraine and they are a threat and we should be doing everything to stop them and be prepared for them to try to manipulate and influence our elections in 2018. We should be having a broader conversation about how to do a counter covert influence campaign will stop the russians are using Debt Information and asymmetrical warfare to try to erode trust in our institutions and we cannot let that stand. President trump will have a meeting with president clinton on the sidelines of the g20 summit president putin. Iam of the g20 summit president putin. I am sure the issue of syria will come up but america does not have a strategy, does it . |j will come up but america does not have a strategy, does it . I would not agree with the premise of your statement. I would say it has been very clear that we are not going to let al asad use Chemical Weapons. I believe assad must go. He has used Chemical Weapons on his own people dozens Chemical Weapons on his own people d Oze Ns Of Chemical Weapons on his own people dozens of times. That is unacceptable. I think the recent state m e nts unacceptable. I think the recent statements that they used weapons we will respond and making sure that we make clear what our response is going to be to different actions is partly a deterrent as well. That is a strategy in of itself. That is something that in the International Community we need to get on the same page and look at what happens in syria after assad and one of the questions President Trump should be asking glad you put in is why Vladimir Putin is not outraged and what he is going to do if assad uses Chemical Weapons again. Because of the syrians use Chemical Weapons it is just as the syrians use Chemical Weapons it isjust as much the syrians use Chemical Weapons it is just as much at fault as the russian government or the iranian government. Thank you. On the issue of the travel ban, the numbers do not look huge. In the fiscal year of 2015 60,000 people from the six countries affected received visas, half of those went to people in iran. Those people apparently will not be affected because they tend to have a bona fide reason for coming orafamily have a bona fide reason for coming or a Family Member so that is down to 30,000, some of whom will meet the criteria. It is not very many. You are starting to look at 10,000 or 20,000 people who could be affected. It is worth bearing that in mind given all of the chaos that we saw on the first few weeks of the administration and the scenes that we saw. Those lines at the airport. We may see that again tonight. It comes into effect in six hours. It will be interesting to see what happens. North korea, the travel ban, health care, the issues that the white house wants us to focus on. Todays tweaked targets an anchor. The response from the president s own party has not given him much support. And heres what House Speaker paul ryan had to say. Obviously i dont see that as an appropriate comment. What we are trying to do round here is improve the tone and civility of the debate and this doesnt help do that. And heres what the Vice President of communication at Nbc Universal news group tweeted. Full disclosure, she is somebody i work with, she is a friend of mine, but i would not say this is about how or that programme. What has caused the uproar, the response from republicans has been swift and condemnatory, has been the words that he used and the particularly personal way he talked about how bleeding, are having a face lift. That is what has shocked people. Yesterday we ran a piece of footage that was from the briefing and the Press Secretary said americans deserve Something Better from the media. Reading twitter today, that is the point many people are making, we need Something Betterfrom is the point many people are making, we need Something Better from the office, because if you make that comment with any company or perhaps anywhere else in politics you might be fired. What is frustrating for the congressmen we quoted as they are working hard on the agenda of the white house is putting out and they are being pulled away from the agenda when they come out of their Committee Rooms to comment on something he is tweeting. She is saying we are not addressing policy. They need to speak to the president and ask him to keep them on policy. It is his tweets shifting the agenda. Yes. The White House Communications team has to spend time cleaning up something the president has tweeted about but not a single republican or supporter of donald trump has defended. Mullally is running an Anti Bullying Campaign on cyber. She has come out in support of her husband and said when he is attacked he attacks back. Even harder. That has been her response. A retired Court Of Appealjudge, sir Martin Moore Bick, has been chosen to lead the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. He said hes doubtful that the investigation will be broad enough to satisfy all the survivors. Police believe that about 80 people died in the fire in west london two weeks ago. One of the popes closest advisors, Cardinal George pell, has been charged with historical Sexual Offences against children. At a Press Conference this morning the cardinal insisted he was innocent and said he looked forward to having his day in court. Theresa may has such a wafer thin majority in the House Of Commons, she cant afford to miss any of the important votes. Today she was in berlin at a Planning Meeting for the g20, a trip she cut short. Hours later she was back in the uk to ensure the Governments Legislative Programme passed. Within it are eight brexit related bills. Tonight, with the support of the dup, the queens speech was approved by a majority of 1a votes. Through the day the conservatives did have to see off a series of challenges from the opposition. Not that the labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been getting it all his own way. One amendment tabled by his own backbencher, chuka umunna, exposed labours own divisions, over mr corbyns wish to leave the Single Market. Labours Hi