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Finished loading fuel into the bashir plant s reactor. secretary of state hillary clinton is reaching out to several countries ahead of an expected wikileaks release of state department documents and include secret information that could undermine u.s. relationships with foreign countries. and as the u.s. and south korea gear up for this weekend s war games, the north is warning that the drills could lead to unpredictable consequences. joining me now, major general bob scales, retired u.s. army and fox news military analyst, got to see you, general. hi, jamie. you say read between the lines. all this means is that north korea is weak. absolutely. we need to view this less of a threat and more of a demonstration of the weakness of north korea. the reason they re doing what they re doing is because they re trying to ease the transition between father and son and they re trying to, ....
Head off a refugee crisis at its borders? absolutely, they don t the refugees flooding in. but also china is crafty, they can use korea to keep pressure on us and to bring us to the negotiating take. north korea has we are has nuclear weapons, think about what that would do to the world economy if a conflict broke out in those two vital economic engines for the world. china is leveraging north korea against the united states. really what is high stakes diplomacy going on. brinksmanship, frankly. uma: the stakes are very high, general, thank you for joining us. we ll keep a close watch. always great to be with you. uma: after years of delay iran appears to be one step closer to cranking up its first nuclear power plan. nuclear chief sestaks have finished loading fuel into the ....
rick: bottom of the hour, time is flying, jamie! here s your headlines, iranian and russian engineers have begun loading fuel into iran s first nuclear power plant and it marks the start-up of a facility the u.s. once hoped to block. jamie: have to watch that story and gunmen engaging in a massive firefight outside a luxury hotel in rio de janeiro and one woman was killed and the gunman took 30 people hostage. look at this. it was incredible. then they surrendered, that was later. rick: and a 14-year-old dutch sailor set off on a quest to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. her manager says the sailor departed in secrecy from a portuguese port in order to avoid the media. jamie: we found out about it. the sagging economy reportedly forcing a record number of americans to do what was the unthinkable. raid their 401(k) retirement accounts, to make ends meet, and, we have talked about how ....
Despite ongoing concerns from the united nations. engineers from iran and russia loading fuel into the country s first nuclear power plant. with iran still insisting it only has interest in energy production. and the russians saying, they ll make sure the facility is not used to make weapons. fox s caroline shively has the latest developments from washington. so, caroline, the big question of the day is, why should we believe that iran, when they say that this plant isn t being used to make weapons? well, for one thing, kelly the international atommic energy agency is there and watching them when they bring in the fuel rods and don t divert them to use for a bomb. a capability question. you need to enrich more than 90% for a nuclear weapon. this new plan is set to 3 1/2% and iran has a pilot program that enriches it to 20% for a medical research reactor. take a listen to one iranian official. we had said this over and over, that we are not ....
Jurisdiction and why is it happening there? here s the deal, sweden plays a big role in wikileaks international operations and some of the servers are there and, last week, he was there, and applied for a special publishing license, which would grant wikileaks special immunity under sweden s whistleblower protection laws. so there you go. jamie: julie kirtz, live in washington, thanks so much. who is julian assange? coming up we ll find more about him and about this from a former cia officer, stay right where you are. rick: iran pushing ahead with the nuclear ambitions despite growing alarm from the u.s., israel and the united nations. and engineers from iran and russia loading fuel into the country s first nuclear power plant. with iran still insisting that it only has interest in energy production, and the russians saying that the bill makes sure the facility is not used to make weapons. ....