up on the show today. we discover why people are. not. possible and why. they might be cute but a few titles on the web people often aren t aware that they should not kill the animals or take them back home in the coastal town of what tumble in kenya and organization is trying to protect this my way in creatures its workers collect them from the sea shore and release them back into that natural habitat that s the kind of. races across the sands to its new home the indian ocean conservationist. if such is fighting the job well done but back in his office he seems an emergency call he turtles were coming up to nest on the beach here in the what henri national park. a times they would get so people became quite upset about all of that and sort of patrolling the beach at night and that s how the first program started everything back in the day started. here. by the local fishermen he drives through the village buying up titles that have become trapped in fishing nets each title saved the fisherman between three dollars to ten dollars depending on size and location the. weight and tugged they bought are not going to be let. people really know what importance title how in the ocean you have to understand when the importance of it so we it was really hard for them to do what we are doing topics: Shea butter is good for more than just skin; Doing Your Bit: Cleanup flash mobs in Zimbabwe; Spirulina, an algae superfood for Africa; Saving Kenya s. today a green bottle needs medical attention this clinic is a safe refuge for ailing tuttle s. brings them to a rehab caretaker. if attacked out there. if it happens. it. may at some point confuse with its natural diet with plastic. in one court. and be slapped with a twenty thousand and a fine or first life imprisonment. trust community a very leads a program that aims to teach local villagers alternative ways of finding a donor by finding indigenous drop resistant. so there are a lot of fishermen so if the country find enough fish they might decide to kill the turtle instead and sell it. we have to teach them about alternative sources of cleanup flash mobs are taking action in harare. in symbolic ways capital the waste disposal system doesn t work as officially as it should. so there s a new trend citizens cleaning the trash themselves. members of a local church scour this parking lot close to a shopping mall. there mormons and for them although god may work miracles they also believe that your own responsibility to clean up the neighborhood. another example and environmental n.g.o.s also getting in on the action. some trailblazers show others how it s done. and how to use a mask to protect yourself against diseases. the whole idea works suddenly other spontaneously help cleaning up so it s no longer cool to just sit around and watch while others do the dirty work of cleaning up. i m losing like that. if you are also doing your view tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit we share your story. she is just sixteen years old but she s already started how in business week ali is there right nick farms fish using aquaculture the waste from which feeds the hydroponic vegetable enterprise has a double use in times of drought in south africa that s right as she has great success to what side i would a thousand fish has now roll into a business that supplies about six stalls and because he says neighborhood yes south africa s capital pretoria what would you say a great idea. i her passion is farming fish reka lisa reineke a is sixteen and still at school four years ago she started implementing an aqua panic system on her father s farm in pretoria south africa it combines conventional aqua culture like raising fish in tanks with hydroponics cultivating plants in water she started out with a thousand fish now her experiment has grown into a business that supplies fish and greens at the same time. i says and you see by me this time because you look so you can be in your backyard or when you do you really you know this is the you can feed about four to six times people on everything the basis you can make the place in the south sustainable with fish and vegetables stagehands i tend to indicate that you believe i alternative systems like this one are especially important as south africa suffers from one of the most severe droughts in its history. many farmers have lost crops and animals due to the lack of water. we make getting no where near the rainfall we should be getting at this time of those of the year the season and it s only a devastating effect on me and on the water table holes are drying up one of the things we re going to be doing the speaker that she learning up wolf trying to. get a little bit more water out of it. we have to bolster literally draw it up and that we can even use aqua panix as a reliable alternative especially in dry times the uses what she calls a decoupled system in order to save water it s a simple way to recycle used water back into the system we send all that wood to to a friend tank it then thousand to ten from day it s been filtered through this system the problems of diesel over a new chance and then also in eight hours cycle that was the steam that then what it was in the fish so since being loose in this world just back to the fish tanks so this is basically a big big filter or in a natural way she can say it s a big way to. another advantage you can grow anything from cucumbers to tomatoes and lettuce releases vision is to roll it out to places where people are poor and water is scarce. he added loads of wanting to this is to me only once a week you need to twenty five liters of water that some day you can have your fish and vegetables in your backyard and you can sell the salad to have an income as well in south africa is still in its infancy so far there are more than one hundred ninety freshwater and over thirty salt water opera culture farms official see a lot of growth potential in panic systems. we have aquaculture our in this campaign we also have programs whereby jerry and i wouldn t companies who actually go and hold to hold their families hand by hand to advise them on how to start on our next farm we give them step by step excise i do not think think that the government has helped enough. especially for young up coming into premier s who needs funding he needs financial advice i don t think i ve got enough help and advice from the government in south africa. with or without government support rick elisa run a co will continue her business and passion growing vegetables and farming fish on a big scale. thriving green is a project set up by german students developing especially breeder of all ga that could soon be used to help feed people in barren and drought stricken regions initial pilot programs already underway in kenya s took on a region thriving green students see cultivating all gee isn t all hard work it s also lots and lots of fun just a few final adjustments then there detector will be ready for a test run. a device allows the students from regensburg to determine how many microscopic algae are present in a water sample and not just any algae but a very specific kind spirulina algae are also now being grown in kenya. via the internet the students in southern germany are monitoring the growth of the algae in a basin they set up in kenya that way they can alert their african collaborators to the best time to harvest it spirulina tastes like salty salad but packs a much bigger nutritional punch. from that comment which people you know one hundred grams of spirulina algernon s have more than sixty grams of protein and six month that s six times as much as eggs and spirulina also has a lot of essential vitamins that people here are often missing the invention evicted fearon. to occur in their county and northern kenya is an extremely hot and arid region it borders on the world s biggest desert lake but lake took on as water is becoming more and more say a line salt has accumulated in the dry soil making it useless for growing crops people and animals in the region suffer from hunger and malnourishment in april twenty seventeen the students set up the first basins through their start up thriving green financing came from crowdfunding donations and prize money the project only uses materials from the region because ultimately the people who live here will have to be able to run the facility and make repairs the first basin was up and running in just three weeks after construction began. water is becoming more and more say a line salt has accumulated in the dry soil making it useless for growing crops people and animals in the region suffer from hunger and malnourishment in april twenty seventeen the students set up the first basins through their start up thriving green financing came from crowdfunding donations and prize money the project only uses materials from the region because ultimately the people who live here will have to be able to run the facility and make repairs the first basin was up and running in just three weeks. after construction began. to hope people will think it s ready and. you know what i m looking forward to going to school although . it was for you know we go one two three. many of the villagers turned up to watch as researchers outside city and yet exceeded the fifty square meter basin with spirulina cultures it s filled with salty water from lake took. us for some just mud to spec and the three kilometer we got the first basin up and running and saw how quickly and at what kind of scale the biomass started to appear and we were pretty amazed by this seeing algae grow in the lab in a test tube is one thing experimental at the speed at which the algae reproduced and several thousand liters of water well that s a natural wonder those two holes. from the. thriving green wants to extend the farm until it can eventually supply spirulina for four hundred people the micro algae reproduces all on its own through cell division and every part of it can be used the only input is water and has to be changed occasionally because evaporation otherwise causes the salinity in the basins to rise circulation also mixes up the water algae mixture which promotes growth. the spirulina can be harvested every twenty five days. aside from goats beans and corn a little thrives in the region around lake took on a new approach. that. even so the people here are a little suspicious of the bright green algae at first but they soon lose their reservations people weakened by malnourishment can be helped back to strength by the nutrient rich food stuff. i guess and if you like it yeah i love it you know what s going on i thought those. thriving green and the people around lake talk cannot have developed recipes together when mixed with corn meal and water powdered algae make scent alicia s flatbread. youngest indices and over half a million people in kenya s turkana region suffer from malnutrition even more and other east african countries fresh water is increasingly scarce in many regions especially in developing countries so we think that algae farming has potential but can still help the farmers have received requests to set up facilities in ethiopia and bolivia as well. nigeria has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the country s population is growing rapidly and i would call it is expanding to meet demand but it s a vicious circle before station courses so i leave ocean on sunday worsen feels the need for more land our next report shows just how dramatic the situation is caught in the act the ranger tells the men they have no rights to be here. on the. the forest guards can rest them because they have entered a strictly reserved area the cause of a forest in a new state and federal dollars are the annals of what went on the other policeman to do consider to quote the protection zone as part of a wider strategy of the nigerian conservation foundation the ngo hopes to save the diminishing forest in the country each year nigeria loses more than three thousand square kilometers of woodland only seven percent of its land mass is still covered by trees the foundation a set of grass roots because of asian comedians to help to protect the forests the chairman fred explains the zone system of neighboring going to get a forest that covers three hundred fifty square kilometers divided into three times we are transitional and causal yeah we are transitional. where we re plant. last. july august so we are also intense or blunt. last. august. so we are also intense or blunt one with your trees this year the transitions season of the most human activity farmers are allowed to plant crops here in the close supervision however one major concern is arsenic people sneak into the area to set fire to the land and drive animals out of the brush they also go to the forest to light up the forests because. for four on the months it has been made me. into projects them vicious goal of the nigerian prince of asian foundation is to have twenty five percent of nigeria s land mass covered with forest again within thirty years that s about the will of the nigerian prince of asian foundation is to have twenty five percent of nigeria s landmass covered with forest again within thirty years that s about four times more than now. one approach is to ban all human activity and let the forest regenerate itself every adult every leave every warning type of valuable year so the commitment is i believe just released on porch that this way where. those things will be like beef the next step will be to plant more than two million trees over the next three years to ensure the survival and growth of nigeria s forests. cher bots are becoming ever more popular in africa for cooking i mean. but the award of the share not. a body of all my energy and that s why it s made into charcoal in book enough. to stop the resulting deforestation what i m doing. the group is training the women to make the top. recognize that the thinking here. on this one a live tree is more valuable than the dead one. sacks of charcoal selling on the side of the road go for bargain prices it s charcoal made from she a word some producers are allowed to cut down trees selected by the forest authority the producers pay a fee for every tree they cut or bullet from keep it on the ground and. women who cook in the big restaurants would have made govern save a lot by using sheer charcoal that s because it s very slow burning at last for a long time in the oven. so not surprisingly she trees are often cut down illegally either for personal use or by people looking to make money. so has a huge problem with the forestation over one hundred thousand hectares of forest disappear every year. we ve adopted various measures to try to reverse this trend but it s true that illegal logging is still taking place in our forests this is what i don t see. her working together with the state to finally put a stop to this phenomenon in burkina faso. these women are collecting the fruit of the sheer tree ready to turn it into she a better product you. many cosmetics and creams in the little honey do sabir each text the quality of the fruit he works for a local ngo c.e. s it s training the women creams the little honey do severe each text the quality of the fruit he works for a local ngo c.e. s it s training the women to produce more and better quality she of butter this will allow them to increase their income making their families less likely to cut down she trees illegally the ngo has taught the women to process the fruit as quickly as possible before it can be attacked by insects or the kernels begin to germinate. we used to gather the fruit into a heap and leave it until we were ready now we boil it up as soon as we ve collected it and then put it out to dry in the sun the butter we get now is much better. in the capital walk into sells all kinds of goods made from shiah butter ranging from baby care products to vaseline and shampoo shiah butter is an important export product but the owner is already feeling the impact of the illegal cutting of shia trees with their production output has gone down compared to ten years ago and that s reflected in the price we used to pay three hundred to four hundred francs for one now we paid double the price because the product has become more rare. and that s because there are fewer trees and. see a lot of. protecting the trees is the name of c.d. s here in the southwest of the country the ngo recently installed a modern shia but a production unit here to use to bury has been training some of the women from the local village of. crushing the shia colonels provides the raw material for the better. the work is physically much easier the women are able to put you small data on the quality has also improved so they ve seen their income go up significantly and room while we re looking at the future of our children school fees and health care for our kids. the hopes that by improving the women s financial situation this will in turn help to protect shia trees. it is in part the families of these women who are chopping down the trees so if we can convince them of the importance of protecting the trees they can in turn help to persuade others and when they see they can earn more from the butter they ll be more motivated to protect that source of income and . get on. with the projects in bikini faso count on the women and their families realizing that it s in their own best interest to keep the shia trees a life. that wraps it up for this week s show we do hope you enjoy the last half of reports africa and you so it s bye bye from the ancient city of baby in niger and it s goodbye from me here in my roby kenya we do hope that you ll join us again next week for another had this on all of our environmental and don t forget to speak to us on our social media we love to 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The latest news from around the world. neighborhood rebuild after last year s fire wiped out nearly everything. welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and all around the world. i m natalie allen live to you from atlanta this is cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. venezuelan president nicolas maduro says he has survived an assassination attempt and now promises to find those responsible. mr. maduro says drones detonated explosives near him during a military ceremony. you can see him and his wife right there react to the first explosion. then there was a second, and soldiers broke ranks and scattered. video also shows bodyguards surrounding mr. maduro with shields and taking him off the stage. hours later, he addressed the nation again and he seemed unharmed. he revisited a conspiracy theory of that has been going on for the last couple of years. of course, we ll have to wait to see the evidence to see what was really behind it. it is very possible that it could have been an attempt. there have been a couple of others this year. but also some people say it was, you know, something organized by the government in order to drum up support for it. the government does regularly make accusations of conspiracies from abroad and in this case, he s accused colombia and venezuelans living in the united states. there is a real attempt, that would certainly show how vulnerable the government is, because the situation is very untenable for most people living in venezuela. if the government if it was a made up event, if it was something that the government constructed itself, it also shows its vulnerability. for the dissatisfaction of life. they have announced a new economic plan that will supposedly save the economy, but i think many outside economists do not have faith in that plan. so we are unlikely to see a dramatic improvement in living standards in venezuela very soon. another top story we re following here, sources close to the white house tell cnn that president trump is worried his family will get called up in the russia investigation led by the special counsel robert mueller. mr. trump is said to be especially concerned about his son don jr. though the president s attorney rudy giuliani denied that in a statement to cnn. even so, the president may have reason to worry. mueller has been looking into the meeting at trump tower that don jr. held with a group of russians during the campaign. if don jr. was lying when he told congress under oath that his father did not know about the meeting at the time, he could be charged with a crime. u.s. first lady melania trump is defending nba star lebron james after her husband insulted the nba player for giving an exclusive interview to cnn s don lemon. a spokeswoman for mrs. trump praised james for his charity work with children and said the first lady was open to visiting the new public school james has opened in ohio. in a statement to cnn, the spokeswoman said, as you know, mrs. trump has traveled to the country and world talking to children about their well-being, healthy living and the importance of responsible online behavior with her be best initiative. her platform centers around visiting organizations, hospitals and schools and she would be open to visiting the i promise school in akron. well, that is certainly in sharp contrast to this dig from her husband friday night. he tweeted this. lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which president, et cetera, et cetera, there is nothing dissuading his base from following him 100%. do you think that will continue to persist? well, there is nothing disseminating those people that show up at trump rallies, some of whom shout at journalists fake news from believing in trump. but the question is how many of those people are out there? we know donald trump s popularity ratings are roughly around the same, around about 40% as they have been since the start of the presidency, we know that democrats have about a 9 to 10% lead in projecting congressional races, so what does this base mean? i think you have to put this in wider context there is some people that will support donald trump come hell or high water, but the majority of americans either do not or are still making up their minds and that s going to be the narrative we see all the way to november. to the lebron james story and the president s attack on him and cnn s don lemon via tweet. the president cedes over the media, constantly at war with cnn, yet apparently he s watching it. so what do you make of that and what do you make of his attacks here at lebron james and his wife, melania, being completely opposite of her husband on this? well, where do we start? i mean, partly it is a strategy. if donald trump has a strategy that is, look, he s going to make people support him or choose him over all these evil journalists at cnn, at other outlets and evil academics who keep pointing out the facts. but on top of that, look, let s be honest, his ego. he got really upset when lebron james told don lemon he would not sit down with trump, he would sit down with barack obama for a one on one. and then there is a third element, let s be honest here, what do lebron james, many players in the national football league, who donald trump have condemned, don lemon, and representative maxine waters who trump uses as a punching bag, what do they all have in common? there may be a racial element here. also, it is interesting that melania trump differs from her husband, his intelligence over the russia investigation differs from mr. trump and ivanka trump was asked is the press an enemy of state and her answer was no. we re out of time. thank you for your insights. we appreciate it. thank you. we mentioned the owe owe rally and president trump s visit there. his political clout is on the line in that state. on tuesday as we mentioned, voters there go to the polls in a special election, the last such contest before the november midterms and the president is using his star power to energize his base, hoping to avoid losing another republican seat to a democrat. but, mr. trump dismissed the possibility of republicans getting crushed in november. here he is. they re talking about this blue wave. i don t think so. i don t think so. maxine waters is leading the maxine. she s a real beauty. maxine. a seriously low iq person. seriously. maxine waters. that was the attack as you can see on maxine waters that scott just referenced in our interview. she is a democrat, an african-american woman and frequent target of mr. trump s insults. boris sanchez was traveling with the president in ohio. reporter: president trump making his way to just outside columbus, ohio, on saturday, to the 12th congressional district to campaign for a special election candidate that is in a dead heat with a democrat, troy bolderson running against danny o connor in a race that should not be this close. frankly we wouldn t be talking about the 12th congressional district were it not for president trump, as it has been ruby red for decades. president trump won it by 11 points, but a recent poll shows that the two candidates are in a virtual tie, a 1 percentage point difference between the two. president trump came here on saturday to try to prevent a blue wave that many have speculated is headed to congress in the november midterm elections. now, president trump spent the majority of his speech touting his agenda, success in the economy, and bashing his enemies including democrats and, of course, the media. the president did mention the russia investigation, yet again calling it a hoax, and pushing the idea that the united states has to be prepared from cyberattacks from a lot of different actors. listen to this. we got to stop it. we got to stop meddling. we got to stop everybody from attacking us, but there are a lot, russia s there, china s there, hey, we re doing well with north korea, but they re probably there. we got to stop everybody. there was also an unexpected guest here for president trump s speech. former communications director hope hicks, who, of course, resigned from the administration in february, white house officials say that her presence here should not signal a return. essentially telling cnn that it doesn t mean much more than just a friendly visit. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president outside columbus, ohio. funerals in zimbabwe have begun for those killed in post election violence as the opposition refuses to concede. we ll have the latest for you coming next on that story. plus, firefighters in portugal battling a dangerous wildfire as much as europe continues to swelter in intense heat. you wouldn t accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? 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yes, that will happen. as far as what kind of impact we re talking about, just too far out. you have to hang out here with us and keep checking back as forecasts will likely change over the next several days. there you see the cone, and as you know, natalie, that cone could move further south that would be great. but if it moves a bit further north, then we have to pay attention to hawaii why the emergency officials have been telling folks to get ready just in case. that s where we have the volcano as well. yeah. they need this. they don t need it. not at all. ivan, thank you. we ll get back to all of these fires that we keep talking about. california is getting federal disaster relief to help shasta county where the massive carr fire continues to burn. what started nearly two weeks ago as sparks from a flat tire has now become the sixth most destructive wildfire in california history. it has consumed about 141,000 acres or 57,000 hectares. they have contained 41% of the fire. look at the aftermath there. as 17 large wildfires continue to rage up and down california, we want to pause now and revisit a santa rosa neighborhood that is in the wine country that was completely wiped out. you may remember by a fire last year. our dan simon talks with some people still rebuilding from california s most destructive wildfire. reporter: the tubs fire last october left an endless trail of destruction, the worst wildfire in california history, it destroyed more than 3,000 homes. almost half of them in one neighborhood, coffey park. it is like wow. just can t you can t put words to it. reporter: we met john weber and his wife jodie last fall as they walked through the charred debris of the house they lived in for 30 years. what has been the most overwhelming aspect to all of this? everything is gone. everything is gone. it is unbelievable that a fire could destroy a whole subdivision. reporter: but now ten months later, coffey park is on the rebound. the ashes and twisted metal have been removed and one by one the houses are being rebuilt. hundreds of homes are currently under construction, with hundreds more slated to begin over the next few months. no one really knows how long it will take for the community to fully recover, but the quiet scenes of wreckage have been replaced by power tools and heavy equipment. i kind of prefer this to the dead silence. it was just eerie, like, surreal. this was a dining room. reporter: we met john at the same spot, where soon construction workers will break ground on his new house. the story of coffey park s resurgence perhaps could be an inspirational one to the community of redding, california, now grappling with another historic wildfire. more than a thousand homes there destroyed. for the people there feeling totally hopeless right now, what do you tell them? reach out to your neighbors, friends, family. comfort each other. reassure each other. reporter: what really helped, he says, is his neighbors formed a support group called coffey strong to talk about rebuilding their lives and their homes. setting aside time to mourn, to be sad, cry, go ahead and cry, but group together with your friends and neighbors and you might be able to pull some strings from them. reporter: simple yet meaningful advice from someone who has been there. dan simon, cnn, santa rosa, california. north korea calls recent moves by the united states alarming. could the optimistic glow after the trump/kim summit be fading? we ll talk about that coming up here in a live interview. why a minority group is leading massive protests against the government. we ll go live to israel for the latest. you re watching cnn newsroom. your hair is so soft! did you use head and shoulders two in one? i did mom. wanna try it? yes. it intensely moisturizes your hair and scalp and keeps you flake free. manolo? 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we ll start with that s all wrong, it is not up, it is down. for him to, like i said, use sports to kind of divide us is something i can t i can t sit back and not say nothing. you tweeted about a couple of you tweeted about you tweeted about when steph curry, he call him you called him a bum because he steph said i m not going to the white house. he already said he wasn t going and he tried to use it after that to say well, you re not invited. you can t uninvite me to something i already said i m not going to. we know steph curry, model citizen, great kid, comes from a great background, great family, great father, so many kids, white, black, hispanic, all different races, love what he s doing and rightfully so. there is no reason for anyone to ever attack him, you know. and that s i felt that. whenever there is something, like he s in trouble, he can t wiggle his way out of something, he ll bring up the national anthem thing and kneeling or standing. do you think he uses black athletes as a scapegoat in. at times. at times. and more often than not. i believe he uses anything that s popular to try to negate people from thinking about the positive things that they can actually be doing and try to just get our minds to not be as sharp as possible right then, just to, you know, from kneeling, football players kneeling, look at kaepernick, who was a protesting something he believed in, and he did it in the most calm fashion way possible, very respectful, did all his due diligence, knowledgeable about it and everyone knew why he did it, look at the nfl players still kneeling, look at steph, look at marshawn lynch, you look at all the instances where he s trying to divide our sport, but at the end of the day, sport is the reason why we all come together. what with you say to the president if he s sitting right here? i would never sit across from him. you would never. you wouldn t talk to him? no. i sit across from barack, though. former nba great michael jordan also came to james defense. the president in his tweet also said, i like mike, presumably referring to jordan. but, jordan fired back, through a spokeswoman saying, i support lebron james. he s doing an amazing job for his community. north korea is pushing back against u.s. diplomacy. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo shared a handshake with his north korean counterpart. this after the foreign minister was given a letter from president trump to deliver to north korean leader kim jong-un. let s talk more about the developments with kenneth choi, international editor for the newspaper, he joins us now from seoul, south korea. thank you for being with us. we appreciate you joining us. first of all, let s talk about north korea, not happy with the latest comments from the u.s. calling it alarming. here is what the north korean foreign minister was referring to, the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo said this saturday at the asean summit in singapore. we have seen reports that russia is allowing for joint ventures of north korean firms and giving new work permits. if these reports prove accurate and we have every reason to believe they are, that would be in violation of u.n. security council resolution 2375. i want to remind every nation, that supported the resolutions, that this is a serious issue and something that we will discuss with moscow. is there any reason for the u.s. not to encourage the continuation of sanctions on north korea from what we know about what they are or aren t doing? actually what the u.s. is doing probably the right staying on the right course because north korea hasn t given up really much about the nuclear dismantlement. north korea sent the 55 remains of the u.s. soldiers in the korean war. it has the icbm launching pact, the nuclear facilities, but these are peripheral compared to the actual nuclear dismantlement program. so far i think north koreans are trying to push how far they can push around president trump and see how much room they have because right now they re pretty dire about their economic revival. and economy is not going anywhere, the sanctions are still put in place, they have been trying to struggle the oils and so on. and all these things shows how serious situation they re in on economic terms. so on a political terms, with the nuclear dismantlement program, they re trying to push around and see how much room they have and try to buy more time as much as they can. their number one priority is to get the end of the war declaration, which, i think, you know, should come after they at least give up some sort of the list of the nuclear facilities in north korea, the list of north korean nuclear sanctions and so on. there has to be a concrete evidence they are actually moving into this dismantlement program, otherwise u.s. is on the right course and a catch-22. they want that declaration now. the u.s. and its allies are saying no way until you make some concrete steps. then there is the new independent report that came out this weekend, that indicates north korea isn t making any moves in the right direction, flouting sanctions, continuing the nuclear ambitions. so with that news, where does that leave north korea trying to convince otherwise that it is cooperating? well, north korea has been doing this for the past 25, 30 years. here we go again. they have been coming out and they turn around and do different things. so it remains to be seen. that s why the experts in the u.s., experts in south korea, dealing with north korea the past 30 year, they have been keep saying that, you are to see something with a concrete evidence that north korea is actually moving into this nuclear dismantlement program procedure. otherwise, you have to stay put. and right now it seems like north korea, they infused the they are not even they didn t even have a formal with secretary pompeo and so on, this indicates they are trying to push how far they can go and when they re put in a corner, they probably come out and say, okay, we will try to do something. you ve covered this for quite some time. what do you make of north korea that we re dealing with now. is there anything new here? is there any serious refreshing attitude that you can see from north korea? well, the only refreshing new attitude i see is that they are exchanging letters with president of the united states. that s the only thing that is different from the past. and my opinion, you know, whatever they re doing, it is sort of inconceivable for them to give up nuclear program, unless they get security guarantee. but, again, as you said, catch-22. and north korea has been violating all these things before. and we have seen all these. and, you know, we believe that north korea must come out with something different this time, other than last time, because president trump is not a conventional american president. he s very unconventional and there are a lot of tactics he can do with very unconventional manners. so the time is not on north korea, the time is on us. and i think north korea should realize that, you know, even though it seems like president trump is eyeing on the november election next year, but that s not really the time set for the north koreans. north koreans, they have to come up with some sort of concrete plans to dismantle the program, relatively short period of time. because if they don t do it, we ll be really they are dealing with an unconventional u.s. president to be sure. so we ll continue to watch the dynamics play out. hope for the best there. kenneth choi, thank you for joining us. thank you. israel s new law sparks massive protests in the streets from a minority group that is usually considered loyal to the state. we ll have a live report about it coming up. can be relentless. tremfya® is for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i m ready. with tremfya®, you can get clearer. and stay clearer. in fact, most patients who saw 90% clearer skin at 28 weeks stayed clearer through 48 weeks. tremfya® works better than humira® at providing clearer skin, and more patients were symptom free with tremfya®. tremfya® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections. before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. before starting tremfya® tell your doctor if you plan to or have recently received a vaccine. ask your doctor about tremfya®. tremfya®. because you deserve to stay clearer. janssen wants to help you explore cost support options. oh, mianother dilemma.kfast, am i willing to pay the price for loving you? 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reporter: well, prime minister netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting he would appoint a special ministerial committee to find ways to work with the druze community, but he did not say he s willing to change the law itself. now it is important here to clarify what the problem is that the druze have with the law. it is not that israel is a jewish state. they have supported that. they share support, the issue is that the law makes no mention of minorities, the druze, equality, democracy, or minority rights. and that s why they say they feel second class citizens and that is criticism we have heard from many who have criticized this law as being some of the harshest criticism called this law a racist law. what the druze want is some sort of amendment to the law that acknowledges their commitment to the state and gives them equal rights specifically within the law. it is because they haven t had this yet that they organized one of the biggest protests, the biggest protest we have seen against the law. tens of thousands of protesters led by the druze went to tel aviv central holding mostly israeli flags and the druze flag. whenever there was a point made by one of the speakers that the crowd agreed with, they would shout equality and that gives you a sense of how much anger there is and what specifically their anger is about. now, it wasn t just druze protesting here. israeli israeli mayor of tel aviv said, this is paraphrasing his quote, he said before this law, israel was a jewish and democratic state. following this law, he paraphrasing, israeli citizens are not treated equally. that s the problem what critics see as the pro be with thblem w. netanyahu in follow-up meetings with the druze, the meetings fell apart, much of the anger very much on display on saturday night. it is important to note that the druze are only a small subset here. less than 150,000 druze live in israel. but they participate in every aspect of israeli society, from the military to israel s parliament and they re supported from across the political spectrum here and that is why their protest here is so poignant. we ll see where this leads, oren lieberman, thank you very much. a red tide is poisoning florida s gulf coast and killing thousands of marine animals. we ll tell you what authorities are trying to do to stop the deadly tide coming next here. you wouldn t accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? 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comes as the administration touts a code, but not great, july jobs report. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us with the numbers. good evening, john. of the president s chief economic advisor, larry kudlow, said today they traded talks with china are going nowhere, in fact, he says the white house says that even heard from china about it for weeks. there were some promising signs of a continued strong economy today, though, even if those numbers were somewhat tempered. the jobs numbers for july came in lower than expected. 157,000, versus a projected 195,000. but the white house one reason to celebrate. pointing out may and june s numbers were revised upwards, and the outlook for economic growth is good for you to speak strong. professional services, an appointment with don, very nice report. but to the gdp model, preliminaries, predicted 5%. i mean, i would be happy with three. they are predicting five. we are off to a good start. A weeknight look at the news, featuring interviews, analysis and panel discussions hosted by Bret Baier. for the week, the dow was up a fraction, s&p 500 rows of three quarters of a percentage point. nasdaq jumped almost a full percentage point. the defense for one-time trump campaign chairman paul manafort will begin. its cross-examination of of their clients former accountants monday. that accountant testified today. she very much regrets falsifying manafort s tax return. manafort faces charges of bank fraud and tax evasion that could put him in prison for the rest of his life. this is the first trial brought by the special counsel, robert mueller, looking into alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia. two things that will not be mentioned in this trial. north korea is still violating united nations security council resolutions, despite warming relations with the u.s. that is the word from the secretary of state mike pompeo tonight. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot takes a look at the efforts. back to singapore, secretary of state mike pompeo at a others. treasury department sanctioning a russian bank for doing a significant transaction with the north. new reports of north korean workers there. both in defiance of a u.n. ban. pyongyang s foreign ministers of the conference as well. no word on whether secretary pompeo will meet with them. further he might deliver a response, why does officials say president trump has written to a letter kim jong un sent earlier this week. u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, backing up pompeo, saying in a statement today, don t always do the final, fully verified to denuclearization of north korea, there can be no easing of sanctions. bret? bret: thank you. secretary of state mike pompeo also said the clock has run out on turkey to release a captive american prisoner i m sorry, captive american pastor and other u.s. prisoners. so far, turkey s standing firm. correspondent richardson has the latest tonight from the state department. good evening. good evening, bret. secretary stayed mike pompeo pressed the turkish government in person today, meeting with tn minister earlier today. for nearly two years, turkey has detained american pastor andrew bronson. speaking to reporters after his meeting with other foreign minister, the guitar he pompeo said, it s pretty straightforward. they have been holding these folks very long time. these are innocent people. pastor branson is an innocent pastor and they need to let him return to the united states and they need to let our locally employed folks, everyone needs to be let out. the state department official says turkey has detained or deported dozens of americans, mostly u.s.-turkish dual citizens since the july 2016 coup attempt and turkey is still holding what the official describes as a small number of americans. the u.s. has pressed for pastor brunson s release and is losing patience. president trump has been tweeting about the case and this week, the treasury department sanction two senior turkish officials over his detention. the turkish government has been kavanaugh is defeated! experts say kavanaugh s lengthy paper trail helps reassure conservatives he s reliable, but provides a challenge with democrats. it does allow the senators on the judiciary committee to have a lot of fodder for questions for him. he goes in with a burden to show that he will respect president. others addressed the democrats request is excessive and installed tactic. senate democrats are in a fishing expedition. they are seeking the documents that are least likely to provide any inkling of his thinking on legal issues. the white house as many of the democrats who say they will now meet with kavanaugh have already public opposed him. officials there say democrats are still seeking millions of relevant documents. bret: had a long way to go. thank you. up next time a new report about that shooter at the las vegas concert massacre. you want to see this. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 40 in sacramento, we get a look at some of the record from a massive wildfire in northern california. experts say the fire burned so hot at its peak it created a cyclone of flames that reached 143 miles per hour, ripping through that region with the force of a destructive midwest tornado. the national weather service says the fire we were all uprooted trees and tore roofs from homes. fox 10 in phoenix with her tornado comparison also being applied to severe storms, sweeping through that region. several homes were destroyed and many were left without power by the second monsoon storm to rip through that area in four days. and this is a live look at orlando from our affiliate, fox 35. one of the big stories they are, nasa has assigned astronauts who will ride the first commercial space capsules into orbit next year. they will bring human lunches back to the u.s. space acts and following are shooting for a test flight of these capsules to the international space station by the end of this year or early next year with the first cruise line from cape canaveral, florida, by spring or summer. that is tonight s live look outside the beltway from special report. we are back in the beltway tonight. we ll be right back. insurance with geico! goin up the country. bowl without me. frank. i m going to get nachos. snack bar s closed. gah! ah, ah ah. i m goin up the country, baby don t you wanna go? 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bret: jonathan hunt to live in l.a. thanks. an engineering firm assessing the condition of a dam in lynchburg, virginia, says it has found no seepage and it is therefore considered stable at this point. residents of more than 100 nearby homes have been evacuated and those orders are still in effect tonight by the national weather service says up to 6 inches of rain fell within hours yesterday, filling college like beyond capacity. the service as a failure of the college lake dam code for flood parts of lynchburg with 17 feet of water and just 7 minutes. in tonight s whatever happened to segment, the woman s political movement by the most recent iteration begins shortly after president trump s inauguration. now its effects are showing up on balance everywhere this midterm season. tonight, correspondent anita vogel looks at where the movement has been and may be where it s going. they came from all walks of life to protest donald trump selection. women disappointed there would be first female president fell short at the poll and so a movement was born. we are absolutely thrilled to see so many women running for office in 2018. there is no way to put the genie back in the bottle. once that women s march happened, and women seemed to understand that they didn t just need to march, they needed to vote, and then they needed to run for office. from a possible first native american woman to be elected to congress, to a young community organizer in new york no one had ever heard of, female candidates are now lining up. for the upcoming midterms, a total of 476 women have filed to run for the house of representatives. more than 300 are still running. on the senate side, 54 have filed for 36 and still in the hunt. 62 women have entered governors races and more than 2,000 are targeting seats in state legislatures. we need women and every single position. so more women are heading to the classroom to learn how to run for office and how to win. what we are teaching them as how to really speak with power, how to talk about why you are the best person for the job, how to resonate with voters, how to raise that money. i ve seen what women can do. aaron heads up vote, run, lead, which attracts progressive candidates. i m young. i have time to figure out how i want to say what i want to say, how can i best of my message out there. her speakable public and women have their own groups. in california, it s the marian bergeson series. i don t think anyone should assume that it s easy to run for office, whether you are democrat or republican. rito took the class and won her latest primary. i ve done is four times. i can almost be a joke, people could say, she s running again, but you know what, each time i run, i learn. speak but the key is turning out votes, and while there are a record number of women were running for office this year, mostly democrats, as of 2016, only about 25% of elected positions in the u.s. were held by women. bret? bret: thank you. up next, a look at how forensic scientists are trying to identify remains of u.s. service members return to this week from north korea. first, beyond our borders tonight, gaza s hamas rulers led to several thousand palestinians in a protest along the frontier with israel today. it occurred as egyptian efforts intensified to try to broker a broad truth between the islamic militant group and israel. gaza officials say a 25 euro palestinian was killed and 90 were wounded by israeli army fire. israel says palestinians crossed that frontier and through mack bombs across alberta. two suicide bombers attacked a shiite mosque in eastern afghanistan during friday prayers, killing at least 29 people and wounding another 81. a provincial spokesman says heavily armed attackers disguised in burqas worn by conservative afghan women opened fire on private security guards outside that mosque. then they slept inside the mosque and set off their explosives, around 100 worshipers. the opposition party in zimbabwe says it will challenge the results of monday s presidential election. the party leader calls the election of the current president a vote stolen from the people. zimbabwe s president says the election was free, fair, and credible. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we ll be right back. allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? 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north korea. among the items that are not bones, which can help solve the 65 euro mystery, helmets, partial uniforms, part of a weapon, and one authentic dog tag which will be given to the soldiers two sons next week. we ve already contacted the next of kin of the individuals on that dog tag. we ve told them that we have the dog pig. but also, again conveyed to them that we don t know until we do the analysis, whether their family member s home. that further analysis will include an array of tools. north korea gave locations for where the remains were found. that will be cross-referenced with major battlefield and known plane crash sites involving the 7600 servicemen killed in korea whose remains are still missing. it will also include cutting edge forensic technology, such as stabilized isotope testing of the bones, that can produce amazing results. they can pinpoint the geographical region based upon the diet, the water, in both your adolescent years, as well as your early growing years, and that can differentiate very quickly and straightforward whether these are american or caucasian that was raised. north korea s cold climate bodes well for extracting dna from the bones returned. the key in about two-thirds of the positive identifications made by the defense p.o.w. m.i.a. accounting agency. 90% of the families are still missing servicemen have provided a dna sample for comparison. scientists will also be looking for clavicle bones, which are as unique to individuals as fingerprints. for years, the department of defense took a chest x-rays to screen recruits for tuberculosis. tuberculosis. those x-rays are on file for a majority of the still missing. some either notifications may be done in a month but most will take much longer, even years. in seattle, dan springer, fox news. bret: perhaps no one in washington has a bigger and more daunting job then the new head of the veterans affairs department. robert wilkie was sworn in earlier this week. tonight, he talks exclusively with national security correspondent jennifer griffin about the challenges ahead. when robert wilkie raised his right hand and agreed to to to serve as the next veterans affairs secretary, he did so knowing he was entering a storm front. he is the fourth head since a nationwide scandal rocked the v.a. for years ago, involving secret weight lists, systemic neglect, and veterans dying while waiting to see a doctor. this is an institution that has been buffeted by continuous body blows for a number of years. political sniping and inefficiency continue to plague the second largest government department that is supposed to serve 9 million veterans. when i walked into the building, i heard some of the people who work in this building talking about how bad morales and that was while i was waiting in line for security. what are you going to do to tackle the bad morale? i fall back on my military life in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post. there are 370,000 employees in this department, probably 100 bad eggs at about 370,000. i spent the last day and a half just walking around this building. doing something he says his predecessors rarely did, eating in the cafeteria with the v.a. staff. in an exclusive interview, his first since becoming secretary, wilkie pushed back on persistent rumors that trump administration wants to privatize the v.a. does the president want to privatize the v.a.? the president wants to deliver the best care possible. which includes giving vets more choice to see private doctors and avoid long waits or long drives to be a facilities while having the federal government pay for it, a program called veterans choice that started in 2014. it s now part of the v.a. mission act. it makes no sense to me that we require someone to travel, let s use a state like montana, where the distances are enormous six or 700 miles round-trip. they pass a lot of doctors along the way. we need to bring those doctors into the veterans system. secretary wilkie was shocked to find out the v.a. was stiffing some of those private doctors by not paying all of its bills. we don t get a hold of what we owe americans who are providing services to our veterans, then the entire system collapses. wilkie downplayed reports that he is planning to sign line trump loyalists who used the months since his predecessor, david shulkin, was fired by the president, to purge longtime veterans affairs and staff contributing to a siege mentality. there s a headline this week of the washington post that you are planning to remove those political appointees who were part of that purge. is that true? no. in fact, i haven t moved anybody. he did not rule it out. is part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team, you come into a ss, you come into rearrange. firing those who have given the v.a. a bad name isn t always easy. for instance, the disgraced director of the washington v.a. had to be rehired after being fired, even though under his watch, it was found that inventories were so mismanaged that doctors would have to run out med procedure and borrow them from neighboring hospitals after patients were already under anesthesia. do you agree with that decision? what are you going to do about that? the laws have changed since that time and the laws and i ll you the authority to override most of what i would consider to be the normal bureaucratic protections for those in those situations. wilkie s biggest problem off the bat, more than 20,000 civil servants have left the v.a. since the start of the trap at administration. top jobs remain empty after 15 months. the v.a. is short 33,000 doctors and nurses. in an organization that is 370,000 strong, that represents about 9% of the force. compared to health systems in the private sector, where they have on a daily basis, 15, 16, 17% vacancies, that is not bad. however, we are going to go crazy trying to fill all 33,000. defense secretary jim mattis chose a wilkie to serve on his close combat attacks force in his previous role of the pentagon. now the new v.a. secretary may need those skills to survive at the v.a. your predecessor was fired by a presidential suite. are you worried that that might be your end as well? no. the last thing i will pay attention to it as any of the usual washington back and forth. this president has been magnificent me. in washington, jennifer griffin, fox news. bret: continuing to follow the v.a. china makes another big threat for more tariffs against the u.s. exports. we ll get reaction from the panel plus breaking news about daca when we come back. when you barely clip a tpassing car. minor accident - no big deal, right? wrong. your insurance company is gonna raise your rate after the other car got a scratch so small you coulda fixed it with a pen. maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different insurance company. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won t raise their 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saying, no, we don t. daca was enacted by president obama on his executive authority. it can be rescinded by president trump on his executive authority. one more effectiveness, though, there has been a lot of talk about deal on capitol hill for daca legalization in favor of the wall or some other policies the president wants. democrats don t need the deal. the courts are going to keep daca alive and possibly restorative. they are doing their work for them. bret: mollie, it seems like it s common sense that this thing was not set up legislatively, and would need to come if it had to go forward, so reading between the lines, the federal judges looking for a better explanation? the constitution gives the authority for this type of program to congress. congress is the one that should be doing this. a very similar type of program that president obama had was ruled unconstitutional in state attorney general challenged. it would be exactly the same situation with this one. it seems kind of unbelievable that you would be told that this is something that can t be done. president obama didn t have the authority to do this, but somehow, that was okay but when president trump tries to correct that issue, by resending it, then he can t do it. bret: this is delayed until august 23rd to allow this administration to appeal it, likely will, and then we go onto the next court battle. i find it interesting because justice kennedy s resignation took effect just a couple of days ago, july 31st. now we don t have nine people on the supreme court and we were in for quite some time. it will be a tie, 4-4, the supreme court if it comes up. that means that this judge s ruling would stay in place. in other words, the supreme court has ruled it out of the action, out of the game, if that is where president trump was hoping to get his way. bret: president trump at this rally talking about immigration, specifically about border security. and i understand it. i m a little torn myself. i would personally prefer before, but it s whether before or after, we are either getting it or we are closing down government. we need border security! we need border to sit security! bret: talking about a government shutdown either before the midterms are after. the bottom line, so massive deal including daca and border security, doesn t look to get moving before them in terms. certainly doesn t look like it s happening before but it s very difficult to do a shutdown after. i think president trump is trying to signal the importance of this issue and undermined elected representatives how important it is for a huge part of their race. bret: i want to turn to china tariffs. take a listen to this. right now china is not too happy with me. china is in trouble right now. their economy is lousy. investors are walking out. the currency is falling. china better take president trump s efforts to solve the unfair and illegal trade and their tariff problem, lack of reciprocity, technology stealing, ip theft, they don t take president trump seriously. we help help the trade policy makers in the united states will be cool-headed and listen to the voice of u.s. consumers and pay high attention to the voice of the american business community. bret: this comes in a backdrop of a july jobs report, 157,000 jobs added in july, unemployment rate edging down, 3.9%, down from 4%. the changes since trump took office. again, we put these up every once in a while but it s pretty interesting, the real gdp growth obviously the biggest mover there but also a couple of other changes. and then, the trade imbalance with key u.s. partners. china, e.u., mexico, and canada, and it s pretty clear the deficit with china is $33.5 billion. the question is, the patient s factor that we talked about on the panel many times afraid to speak is more threatening for the president. if you make a graph of the tariffs the president has threatened versus the ones he has enacted, an enormous difference between the two. now on the other hand, as far as political approval, going after china on trade was a promise the president made over and over in the campaign. it was one of his biggest campaign promises. we have a lot of documentation from the u.s. trade representatives about all of china s trade offenses, forced technology transfers, intellectual property theft, all of that stuff. going after china is actually a good idea and it makes a lot more sense than going after the e.u. or mexico or canada. so i think you are going to keep hearing more and more of this. bret: mexico and canada, i m hearing they are close on nafta and that they could be a couple weeks away from wrapping up that deal. if that s true, and they get that done, that will relieve a lot of the pressure for some of these farmers and others. it s important to remember what happened with the e.u. last week. china was trying to cut a deal with the e.u., they ve been unable to. we were able to do this. that is key. if you believe the term strategy is ultimately low tariffs in dealing with china s unfair trade practices, they are doing these high tariffs as a way to get to low tariffs. so the question really is, are you okay with china s system of stealing intellectual property, their state control of so many businesses, unfair barriers, or do you want to change the situation? if you want to change the situation, trump is trying this sort of risky tariff approach which you are not hearing a lot of suggestions from people who don t like it. bret: in the meantime, the realclearpolitics average of the president s job approval on the economy is approved. 50.3% disapprove, 42.4%, 7.9 spread there, average of recent polls. i mean, people are feeling pretty good about what he s doing on the economy. that is why i don t think china will make any kind of concession before the midterm election. because as that chinese officials sort of indicated, i hope the president will listen to the voice of his consumers on his business community. translation, we are trying to encourage political backlash against this president s trade policy and we are going to see if that works. if the president and his party take reverses, in the fall election, i think it is going to make the chinese feel vindicated that he was less popular than he seemed to. and vice versa. a recent poll showed that business owners, 71% approve of tariffs on china. even among the business community, it is not just that people are opposed, some people support the idea of going after them. bret: the question is how that translate politically and we don t yet know. the more you focus on china, the batterers politically. they know mike there is no doubt it played a part in his getting elected and can be used by republicans in 2018. bret: china. next up, the lightning rod. a fight over the president supreme court effect, where we are, north korea, plus, winners and losers. the nerves in your colon. miralax is different. it works with the water in your 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claim there is this giant trove of secret documents that could tell you everything you need to know and disqualify this candidate and the republicans are trying to cover it up. you see some version of this in most confirmation battles, and this one, cavanaugh left a huge paper trail, more than a decade as a federal judge. but looking after the bush white house, i think this is a democratic attempt to sort of try all the controversies of the bush years, war powers, enhanced interrogations, signing statements, tying them all around kavanaugh s neck and see if it works. bret: the clinton investigation, ken s door, he worked with ken starr. this is entirely foreseeable, bret, the fundamental dilemma this poses for the democrats is that there are certain senators whose jobs might be at risk if they voted no on brett kavanaugh because they are from red state states. this is essentially a delaying tactic, a procedural objection, not a subject of objective, that allowed those red state dems to avoid taking a position on brett kavanaugh as long as possible. in that sense, it s more than your usual delaying maneuver because it meets the specific needs that the party has two avoid pushing the senators into a dilemma. bret: the president on north korea last night. they are not testing any more nuclear! they haven t had a test in nine months! you know what else? they are not sending rockets over japan. the media is going to treat me finally, still good. if you look at the news today, as reported u.s. intelligence reports that additional progress is being made by north korea on its nuclear production. it s time that the administration follow through with additional sanctions on north korean individuals. bret: doesn t seem like that is where they are going to be. i think they are applying new sanctions, including the one on russians helping on north korea. sanctions are a great way to go. one of the people he s working with the national security council on this topic as an expert and how to use sanctions to accomplish your goal. two things to be simultaneously true, things are much better with north korea than they were a year ago and a lot more needs to be done and you really need to verify anything that s getting done. but we had some good progress this week with the return of these american bodies, that apparently were done with no conditions attached to it, and so we have two deter but keep engagement going, so we can get to a solution. bret: winners and losers. down the road. my winter eight jeong, a blog or hired by the new york times editorial board, despite an extensive history of racially charged antiwhite hate speech on twitter. despite calls for her firings, the times is standing by her, proving that an ugly online past is not damage a career. on the other hand, the loser is the new york times, which has opened itself up to charges of hypocrisy in this matter. they fired, just this year, a new editorial board member within hours or for less than wt jeong did. winner, a stunning victory in tennessee for the gubernatorial primary over two establishment candidates. it shows that voters are still excited by outsider candidates, who don t have a political background. my loser is senator dianne feinstein, one of the top instigators of the trump is a russian agent collusion theory. she was being driven around for 20 years, we learned this week, 20 years by staff member who was sharing information with the chinese while she was heading up sensitive intelligence investigations in the senate. bret: winner or loser? my winner, apple, whose market capitalization reached a record $1 trillion this week. not bad for a company which, love them or hate them, was almost bankrupt a mere 20 years ago. my loser is the ohio state aesthetic program, which has all kinds of problems, starting with the accusations of sexual misconduct by a doctor for the wrestling team, and now football coach urban meyer is under suspension. terrible week for ohio state, may be some michigan people are feeling good about it. bret: oh, man. my winner, the panel, for getting through that quickly. when we come come back, notable quotes. guys. i think he might need some support. yes start them off right. with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. save $200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. save $200 on this dell laptop with advil liqui-gels, what bad shoulder? what headache? advil is relief that s fast strength that lasts you ll ask. what pain? with advil liqui-gels sustained 3% growth at least. it s not an order. the president is not obstructing brady s fighting back. we would be out of our minds if we but the president up for that raid door preconditions. we do not leave our humanity behind when we reported for duty. we are very few mentally family separation. that was a low point for me as well. you are either getting it or we are closing down government. we will pass her metal detectors without a blip, buzz camara 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The latest news from around the world. official traveling with mike pompeo in indonesia said they heard the reports and are following the situation closely. venezuela is in the middle of a deep financial crisis. the international monetary fund said inflation will reach 1 million percent this year. blackouts and shortages of basic items are common place. cnn atlanta. what does this apparent attack tell us about the political and economic turmoil effecting venezuela? we posed that question to jennifer mccoy. a professor at georgia state university and the co-author of the book international mediation in venezuela. there s a great deal of unrest in venezuela and a lot of dissatisfaction apparently among military ranks. the government has been arresting and removing military personnel from the ranks The latest news from around the world. yet. there were funerals of those killed. the president elect said he welcomes the opposition taking their dispute to the courts here in zimbabwe but the growing cause in the region and continent for the opposition and leader to concede defeat. but so far, this dispute continues leaving this country in a potentially difficult limbo as it tries to move beyond years of economic stagnation. sources close to the white house tell cnn that president trump is worried his children will get called up in the russia investigation lead by special counsel robert mueller. mr. trump is said to be especially concerned about his son don jr. although the president s attorney denied that in a statement to cnn. mueller has been looking into the meeting at trump tower that don jr. held with a group of russians during the campaign. if don jr. was lying when he told con depress underoath that his father did not know about the meeting at the time, he could be charged with with a crime. the political clout of u.s. president trump is about to be tested. on tuesday, voters in ohio go to the polls for a special election. the president is using his star power to energize his supporters hoping it will be enough to send troy to congress. the district normally favors republicans but democratic challenger danny o connor surged in the polls and is now statistically even. if he loses it could foreshadow aan electoral backlash in the midterm election which is are three months away. the president addressed that possibility with disdain and insults. they re talking about this blue wave. i don t think so. i don t think so. maxine waters is leading the charge maxine. she s a real beauty. maxine. a seriously low iq person. seriously. maxine waters. maxine waters, a democrat. well, the president also addr s addressed election meddling but declined to single out russia. we have to stop it. we have to stop meddling. we have to stop everybody from attacking us. but there are a lot. russia is there, china s there. we re doing well with north korea but they re probably there. we have to stop everybody. let s talk more about it with the chief diplomatic correspondent from the new york times. he joins us from brussels. we appreciate you being with us. let s begin there with the rally in the state of ohio. this is the final special election. a congressional battle between a republican and democrat. the vote is tuesday prior to the midterms. how critical is this outcome for mr. trump? well, for us it s critical. i think momentum is what we re talking about. if the republicans lose this seat which is possible, it would indicate that mr. trump has not only been energizing his base but has been energizing the opposition to him also because the democratic party is always arguing with itself. but the fact is there are a lot of people out there who will campaign and will vote against mr. trump as well as his base that fights enthusiastically for him. he is someone that lives on division and creates division and it could be that in the midterms his party is cursed by that kind of division. but we have to see. yes. he continues to blast the media during his rally. was the attack on the news industry his war, if you will, on the media, do you think that could help him or hurt him in the november midterms? some of these are like trump s greatest hits. the way he goes after maxine waters and hillary clinton, these are buttons that he presses that he knows excites his supporters and the media is a very good target for him. we are, you know, he likes to use us as i keep saying as puppets in his little show. i do think, you know, it has certainly helped us as a newspaper. it s helped you as a network with more viewers. again, the country has become so polarized that people are much they were three or four years - ago. what worries me is i don t think he actually in his heart of hearts means it. that s left to be said but enemies of the people, that s a dangerous phrase and i m worried that he s going to get somebody killed. he is having fun and may not be thinking of the consequences. when his daughter was out this week does she think the media is the enemy of the state. she said no. that s right. and then his press secretary, you know was dodging it. i don t think she thinks so but rather than say so which would have annoyed her boss. she said i speak for him and you know what his words are. and what he actually believes inside himself, this is a man that has an outer person and inner person both arranged differently but they don t always agree with one another. right. let s talk about the investigation. sources close to the white house tell cnn the president is growing concern that the russia investigation is getting close to his son don jr., about that meeting at trump tower during the election with some russians and perhaps getting close to his son-in-law jared kushner and that may be what is behind his increasing public frenzied agitation over robert mueller. he continues to relent leslie attack the investigation. what do you think about that report about hill being concerned about his family. i think he s right to be concerned. i think he s right to be concerned. donald trump junior is on the record in an e-mail asking for more dirt on hillary clinton from this meeting with russians. that s why he took the meeting. and so this, you know, makes him vulnerable, particularly if he lied to congress about it. i don t think anyone is is going to get him for perjury particularly but he is an instrument that mueller is looking at trying to decide whether there was real conspiracy, collusion, between the trump campaign and russia because the trump campaign was clearly looking for dirt on hillary clinton and these so-called representatives of russia seem to be offering it. so that s what mueller is looking into and i think the president is right to be concerned that this investigation will touch his son. i also want to ask you, steven, why is there such a back and forth about whether mr. trump will sit down with mueller s team. well, his lawyers would like him not to. but president trump as we know is full of self-confidence. he believes he can get into a room with anyone, whether it s kim jong un or it s the president of iran or vladimir putin and win the day through his personal negotiating skill. so partly, i think he just, you know, wants a conversation with robert mueller because that s who trump is. but i think his lawyers will probably restrain him, maybe he ll answer questions, written questions that they ll be able to vet but, you know, the president does, as we know, what he pretty much wants to do. he wanted to beat vladimir putin and his aids thought it would go away and he didn t so he met vladimir putin. if he really wants to do a face to face interview with mueller that s what he wants to do but his lawyers will encourage him not to do that. we always appreciate your insight. thanks for giving us the time. thanks, natalie. well, speaking of vladimir putin, how about this one, american martial arts actor steven segal became a russian citizen a couple of years ago and now the kremlin is awarding him. seagal has become a special representative to promote russia and u.s. relations. he is a close friend of the russian president. a small minority group gathers. why they re protesting a new law in israel. we ll tell you about that. plus officials are warning hawaiians to get their misdemeanor kits ready as hurricane hector gains power on its way toward the island. ahh. summer is coming. and it s time to get outside. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. if you don t like it exchange it any time. no questions asked. you can also roll your credits to the next month if you don t use them. so take audible with you this summer. on the road. on the trail. or to the beach. 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netanyahu had been meeting to workout some sort of compromise. it looked like he a historic compromise but that fell apart when the meetings between netanyahu and the druze fell apart angrily. that lead into this protest where you see tens of thousands of people in the central square. two flags there you see. one the israeli flag and the second that multicolored druze flag. they lead this protest but they weren t the only speakers. in fact, the israeli mayor spoke and before this law was passed they were both jewish and democratic. all israel citizens are not treating he equally. that gets at the anger of this law. the question now is what happens next? dru e leaders said there could be a special law passed but israel s parliament isn t in session so any solution is on hold as anger over this law builds. we ll see if there was more protests planned but this was an he enormous one. are they getting supports from others? they very much are. that protest was not only druze. would have been more than half the druze population in israel. others see it as discriminatory. it treats others as second class citizens. i mentioned the mayor of tel-aviv. he called for a solution to make them feel whole again. acknowledge what they contributed and not only the druze, but other israeli citizens and there are a number of different groups there so they were all part of that anger over the law and we ll see what kind of fix some of the politicians can work around or does this anger continue to grow here. all right. you ll be watching it for us. as always, thank you. more than 700 firefighters are battling a forest fire in southern portugal. two villages were evacuated when flames erupted saturday and ten water carrying aircraft were deployed. the peninsula has been experiencing near record high temperatures. an extreme heat wave is stifling much of europe bringing drought and fires. and western europe remains in the grip of the heat wave with more records being set. we re going to talk about hawaii as well. something interesting going on there with hurricane hector but it was only a matter of time before portugal took fire here as a result of very dry conditions. basically what s occurring in california on a much, much smaller scale and we re hoping to avoid the calamity that was 2017 when we lost upwards of 100 people here as a result of the fires. so the government issued 700 plus now fire personnel as natalie mentioned. 10 aircraft are dropping fire retardant on these fires here. 1,000 hectares have been burned as a result. the temperatures are not helping out. it s well into the 100s. curtesy of this area of high pressure which will begin to move and the dry air will go away. we ll get into much cooler temperatures here. you ll be able to see what i m talking about here. see the cloud cover north and west? that s the milder air and rainfall from northern europe coming in but as you can see it s still a ways away so tuesday and into wednesday before we can get into the noticeably cooler air. so for now, mid 40s. 113 degrees in portugal. this is where they re fighting fires and dealing with these temperatures where they should be, well, they should be in the 20s and lower 30s or 70s and 80 degrees. temperatures similar to where they have been the last few days. this afternoon we ll continue to see this and one more day tomorrow before we begin to cool off. by the way, the rest of europe is doing okay thank you as far as the temperatures. it s not cool but it s seasonal with temperatures in the 20s and the lower 30s but we ll get rid of extreme heat as that begins to push in and by the way as the cooler air ushers in from the atlanta it will bump the high east so the hot air not experienced across central europe will be on the way so here we go. look at that. one more day in the 30s. 40s today. 30s tomorrow and then the rest of the week will be in the 20s and it will be the other way around across berlin where temperatures here will be in the 20s and will begin to climb into the 30s by later on this week. this is a cat 4 right now. it s 130 miles per hour. get perspective here because otherwise where is this thing? well it s 1,300 miles away from the big island of hawaii. this looks to be a mover here to the west for the next few days. it s not going to have much movement latitude wise north or south so it s got to go in a westerly direction. two things to watch with this forecast here. one the system will be weakening as it moves toward the west. so we re going down categories as opposed to the other way around and also the cone is just to the south of the big island. the problem with that is forecast areas are huge natalie by the time we get into wednesday here. so it shifts a little bit to the north. we could be seeing direct impacts from hector. and by the way, the rainfall associated with it will also mix in with the volcano. because that s where it is. that is also not going to be good. we ll watch that closely and we have plenty of time to do so. they don deserve to have a double whammy. thank you. coming up here, sharp divisions within the democrats. factions within the party are arguing about how to pest handle november s midterm elections. the different strategies. coming up here on cnn newsroom. plus paying tribute to a man that lost his life on a rescue mission. the way the thai soccer team is expressing their thanks. this story ahead here. please stay with us. what do harvard graduates but it s not too late to experience a brain boost formulated by some of their brightest minds. just text the keyword on the screen to 20-20-20 with your smartphone to claim your complimentary bottle of forebrain. do it now - before you forget. that s the keyword on the screen to 20-20-20. do it now - before you forget. i m a small business, but i have. big dreams. and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? 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congress about what he knows, he could face criminal charges. the president s attorney rudy giuliani denies anyone at the white house is worried. in the u.s. the midterm elections are just three months away. both democrats and republicans are struggling to find a winning strategy. the democrats are split. should their candidates push for impeachment of the president or favor a more moderate message? miguel reports from new orleans where many democrats gathered this weekend. the yearly gathering. i think he is a threat to the united states and our people and our democracy. one star of the show, tom that spent millions urging the impeachment of donald j. trump. why hasn t congress started impeachment proceedings. all the immigration talk worries mainstream establishment democrats. running a campaign by having an impeachment vote when we could have spending that time and energy revealing to the american people how corrupt this administration is. i don t think that that s a productive way to go right now. the fear, talking impeachment before the special counsel s investigation is complete could turn off independents and moderates ahead of the midterms and beyond. is there any concern that that fissure between the far left and the center is going to hurt candidates in november and possibly the presidential contenders in 2020? i don t think we should be quite so clever about pollsters and i think that the political establishment in washington d.c. should get back to much simpler questions which is are we telling the truth about the most important things in america? are we standing up for the american people? potential 2020 contenders making their way. senators elizabeth warren, and pamela harris. voting and supporting him for governor is the right thing to do. and alexandria cortez that upset an establishment democrat in her primary and is stomping for progressives nationwide. we don t believe the way forward and the way to win for progressives and democrats is to go moderate. we want candidates that are bold that are visionary and speak to the people. now mainstream and the republican national committee called net roots a far left progressive movement that s become a key force in moving the democratic party further left. do you think the democratic party has moved to the left or is this just more open these days? i do think it s moving more and more left. i don t think progressivism or liberalism is a far out idea anymore. the elections are november 6th. north korea is pushing back against u.s. diplomacy. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo shared a handshake with his north korean counter part in singapore but he now says washington is going back on its word to declare an end to the korean war and he criticized the u.s. for not moving to end sanctions. he said that was not what president trump intended when he met with north korean kim jong un and promised good will measures including a moretorium on nuclear tests. a 7th day of large student protests unfolded saturday. students are demanding safer roads and a crack down on unlicensed drivers and unregistered vehicles after a deadly incident a week ago. traffic brought to a halt. hundreds of cars set on fire and dozens of people injured. a student protest that began peacefully 7 days ago in the bangladeshi capital is spreading across the country triggered by the death of two teenagers run down by a speeding bus. we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with demands. we re demanding justice for those students killed by a bus and we want safe roads. it was a privately owned bus that plowed them them on sunday. the state run news agency reports that the driver had been arrested wednesday but tens of thousands of students are demanding a crack down on traffic safety in a country where more than 4,000 people die in road accidents each year. one of the highest rates a cording to the world bank. blocking intersections in bangladesh s largest city videos show school kids chanting for justice. some simply hold up placards. one reading our transport system equals serial killer. others demanding to see the driver s certification. unlicensed bus drivers are reportedly a common problem in bangladesh. anger toward them became more heated as the protesting continued. i continue to stop our buses running as students a tacked and damaged our vehicles. we cannot go on the road. no vehicles could move. according to bangladesh s state run news agency the country s education minister told protestors saturday that their demands were accepted and the government would be working to bring discipline to the country s transportation but the outraged students show little sign of swapping. a city of more than 10 million. cnn. 11 of the boys rescued in thailand from a dark flooded cave last month are honoring the man that saved them and the one that died trying. the boys age 11 to 16 and their soccer coach participated in a traditional buddhist ceremony in memory of a former thai navy s.e.a.l. the boy spent nine days training. the 12th rescue boy is a christian and was not ordained. the ms-13 gang has the attention of donald trump. he said they are animals and that they are a danger to the entire country of the united states. we ll see how far their reach really goes coming up next in a special report. part of his law and order platform. mr. trump zeroed in on this gang made up largely of immigrants from central america. it is not the largest gang in the u.s. and it isn t just made up of undocumented immigrants. that said without a doubt, ms-13 is extremely violent and it poses a serious threat. cnn has our story. her life was taken, stolen from her. it s not right. she had dreams, she had goals, she had a future. just 16 years old. a talented athlete nicknamed the bullet. they named her the bullet because she was so quick. and sadly unable to escape the violence just outside her door. kayla and her best friend savagely murdered just blocks from home september 13th, 2016. this is where it happened. she was found right here. attacked with baseball bats and a machete investigators say. victims of the gang better known as ms-13. i miss her every second of the day. ms-13 is one of the most violent street gangs in the united states. federal and local officials agreed. designated a transnational criminal organization with roots in central america more than 30,000 members worldwide. up to 10,000 in the u.s. and as many as 1,000 on long island alo alone. we have about 500 identified members here. out of that 500 we have 215 active. how do you identify who is active? self-admitting. they ll be all tattooed up. they do the signs. when they get arrested, are you a gang affiliate? yeah i m ms-13. what s the mo? kill, rape, control. ruling by fear, victims are often young. local law enforcement says the gang first came on their radar in 2010 but they started to see an up tick in gang violence in 2013. that s when leaders of ms-13 in el salvador made an effort to grow and establish new branches of the gang in different pockets of the u.s. including the affluent suburbs of new york city and long island. why new york is the question. and the wbr id= wbr26820 /> answer is that in suffolk county at least there s a large salvadorian population. there s also a record number of unaccompanied minors coming to suffolk county during that time. since 2014 the u.s. government placed more than 9,000 unaccompanied minors. /b> undocumented children and teenagers that crossed into the us. without parents and guardian with sponsors in long island communities. many don t speak english. they don t have money in their pocket. their parents aren t with them. they re seeking a sense of belonging and ms-13 says we can provide that but if you tonight join the gang, this is what is going to happen to you and you know, what we know where your family lives. you wouldn t believe how bad these people are. these are people. these are animals. is the immigration rhetoric that we re hearing from the current administration in d.c. helping or hurting your efforts? certainly the administration s wbr-id= wbr27420 /> focus on ms-13 is helpful. both in terms of awareness, resources, and driving the mission. but i think it is also very clear that we need to be sending a message to the immigrant population. the immigrant kmuncommunities t we stand with them. you don t feel like your community is being used as a political pawn in anyway. as a police commissioner i stay out of politics. my job is to serve and protect all the people. it doesn t matter your political affiliation or color of your skin, it doesn t matter to me. rodriguez says she is grateful for the support of the president and new york s governor that recently allocated more than $18 million for gang violence intervention and prevention programs and she wants to be part of the solution to a safer community, whatever it takes to prevent another family s pain. i just want them to stop what they re doing. you re hurting family members, loved ones. and the end result, you re hu hurting yourself. renee marsh has our exclusive report. a new personal tsa document cnn exclusively obtained shows the proposal to eliminate screening at more than 150 small to medium sized airports is just one of several cost saving measures the agency is discussing. a senior tsa employee tells cnn the agency is looking at cuts that could save more than $300 million in 2020. one cut reducing the number of air marshals. eliminating screens at small airports, staffing cuts at tsa headquaters and changing to benefits are also being discussed. tsa did not comment. a former official with the department of homeland security under obama is concerned. ending security at certain airports and ending or flat lining the air marshall service are inconsistent. if you re going to decrease security what you would want to do is increase the he presence of air marshals or other security features just in case. cnn revealed the most controversial cut. eliminating screening at small airports like this one in redding, california where bryant garrett is the manager. since i don t want to take on the liability nor the cost and i m quite certain the airlines don t want to take that on. so if tsa backs out there s a void and i don t know who would fill it. air marshals are the last line of defense. armed agents aboard planes to prevent hijackings. critics questioned it s effectiveness but the tsa defended the program as a deturrent. the big question that congress and the american public is asking and would like explained is whether they re being considered because the threat and risk to aviation has changed or is this an indication that the agency is under extreme pressure to cut cost. an vierenvironmental story f you. the grieving process of a mother orca is taking her on an endless journey. how it mirrors the endangered species fight to survive. for hundreds of kilobymeters over ten days a mother orca can t let go carrying her lifeless calf through the waters of the pacific northwest. mourning her baby s death in the sad portrayal of the struggle for survival. this population has seen it s numbers reduced dramatically over the years and it s something that maybe they re very aware of. they re losing family members and they haven t had a successful calf in three years. marine biologist spoke to cnn by phone near where he and a team have been watching the mother known as j-35 at a distance for days now. his team keeps an eye on her health and warns other boats away from her location trying to mitigate risk to the pod. after 17 months of gestation her calf was only alive for a matter of minutes before it died more than a week ago. since then she has been arching her back pushing her dead offspring along the surface of the water with her forehead or finns or carrying it along by clutching it s tail in her mouth. whales and other animals know death as old age or a trauma related injury or being eaten by something. maybe they don t understand these outside pressures and effects that are causing them to die. they don t understand it because it s not their fault. it s this outside pressure, that is us, that is humans. they often suffer from malnutrition. largely from man made contamination and overfishing of their main food source salmon as well as noise pollution from boating traffic. sound is how they find food and communication. a recent recording from washington s whale museum captures the grieving mother using calls and whistles to talk with her pod. likely foraging for much needed nourishment, fighting for their kind after the death of another calf. experts say orca s have carried dead family members in the past but the length of time j-35 has been pushing her lifeless calf is unprecedented. a sign she may be experiencing difficult and complex emotions not so unlike our own. it s just a heartbreaking story but i think that people can relate to these whales in a multitude of ways and they re now showing us that they have this extreme grief and strong ties to family and i think that people can see that. it pulls at your heart strings. so very sad. we want to update you on a story we told you about yesterday. after backlash, the museum in washington has dropped that shirt right there, the fake news t-shirts it was selling in his gift shop. the organization said it was a mistake to carry the item. the museum is dedicated to journalism and the first amendment. finally here, one man is adding some horsepower to his new ride sharing opposition. check it out. he calls it amish, uber and it has four wheels, four lesson and good gas mileage. for $5 the driver will take you on horse and buggy to anywhere in michigan. unlike uber you can t use a cell phone. you ll have to flag him down to let a ride. i ll be right back with another hour of cnn newsroom. please stay with us. and kissed them all soundly. lights out. good night. child, 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hit. injured people in hallways and i in the car park at this hospital in the resort island of bali medical teams are moving patients i cite fearing aftershocks. and i think. we are constructing emergency tents with the assistance from the disaster mitigation agency so that we can gather all patients out there. to visit them but we are also hoping that our medical teams and nurses can concentrate more on treating patients and. that without any question that. the parish will seven point zero magnitude earthquake struck the end uneasy an island of lombok at a depth of just ten kilometers shaking nearby palli as well an initial tsunami warning was later withdrawn but authorities urged people to stay away from the the last night it read. the length play. that now. to clean up the road now access to the location of the remote. shortly after arraf and we hear that the region where it was aaron we hear that the hospital have been evacuated how are people being helped medically now that the hospitals have been closed down. because. the dollar is still tough stuff so therefore they are the military certainly though it may be the last night. i work there and you learn you very first place the. politicians of leading the country into ruin with mismanagement and corruption. the misery is plain to see even among people who aren t marching his son is certain that his life won t get better anytime soon. jim and even then i don t know what the aim of the u.s. sanctions is shit. all i know is that for iranians everything is getting worse the sanctions just hit alternately people who are poor anyway like mean the rich once. food prices have risen by forty percent in just a few months few people can afford to buy meat even the price of bread has soared iran s currency has plunged in value since may when the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and threatened iran with new sanctions. the reaal has lost seventy percent of its value against the euro with disastrous consequences for iranians. neighbors and things like tomatoes and bread they were foodstuffs we could still afford to buy i think that when you can t even pay for a kumba then that s really bad for it became too expensive long ago. and. deepening hostility between iran and the u.s. also has people worried many are concerned that conflict could break out in earnest . last month the war of words looks like it was spinning out of control. iran s president cautioned the u.s. that a war with iran could be the mother of all wars trump shot back with an all caps tweet warning tehran to never threaten the u.s. again. then last week president trump stirred the pot further with a surprising proposal. thank you very much thank you i would certainly make with iran if they wanted to meet i don t know that they re ready yet to have a hard time right now. but i ended the arendelle it was a ridiculous deal. tehran hasn t directly replied to trump suggestion. but some international media report a meeting might happen in new york at the next general assembly of the united nations. president hassan rouhani is expected to go on national television later today to give trump his answer. ok let s get some analysis now with correspondent eric randolph joining us from tehran eric good morning to you all what kind of response can we expect from iran when the new sanctions are announced later today well they ve been fairly cagey they don t want to give the impression that the sanctions are going to cause too much damage to the economy because they don t want to give protesters more reason to go out on the streets and they don t want to panic the other currencies already collapsed by more than. the last few months. there s a delicate balancing act that the government has to play between showing results showing how it s going to come to these measures and then has limited tools at its disposal to do that ok talking about limited tools. going to be looking at these sanctions and how they re going to be impacting the country s foreign trade internationally especially it s crucial oil sector what can we expect to happen there. the sanctions are coming back in two phases the first lawsuit coming back tomorrow that s going to hit things like cars some financial transactions and sales of carpets and things the really difficult ones are going to come in november when the u.s. is going to try and block oil sales now some countries like india and china have already said they re not going to cut or who sells from iran completely definitely that s going to be a major blow to iran s economy and that s where we re going to start to see potentially a real impact on the domestic economy with prices going up and things like that and all of this is coming at a time when we ve already seen days of protests about the economy and about the government s handling of this crisis now i d like to pick up on that what about the iranian people eric how are they likely to take the increased hardships that will inevitably result from the new sanctions. obviously a lot of people do blame the u.s. but i would say most of the anger is directed against their own government. is have gotten used to hostility from americans that s been going on for forty years they expect that representatives to do something about it there was a lot of hope that the twenty fifty nuclear deal finally iran was coming out of that diplomatic isolation that we could see some profit connections with the outside weldon trade and foreign investment flooding in and a lot of people feel deeply disappointed that it hasn t managed just that and that s from the reform as conservatives say the government of the past. stupid to trust the americans that it s shown itself to be naive and now it s paying the price to pay well no more later today of course when we hear exactly what these sanctions are going to be for now though or ground all thanks very much for that from tehran. i ll take a look at some of the other stories making the news this hour south sudan s government and the country s main rebel group have signed a cease fire and power sharing agreement now this deal will lead to the formation of a unity government. has been torn by civil war since two thousand and thirteen previous attempts at a peace agreement have failed. police in switzerland are investigating the cause of a vintage plane crash that killed all twenty people on board the world war two propeller plane smashed into a mountain and this was helps a high speed police say they have not found any evidence of a distress call being made before that. the japanese city of herat is remembering the victims of the world s first atomic bomb attack seventy three years ago today. sex is commemorated globally with calls for peace and nuclear disarmament. a bomb dropped by an american more plane instantly killed eighty thousand people. in our religious leaders led prayers for peace on sunday as our country struggles to recover from weiland post-election clashes now that s especially difficult for those who are now burying their dead tensions between the victorious zano p.f. and the opposition are still high i. heard a ball and a dream krishna sent us this report on the bloody aftermath of zimbabwe s election . i ve. either friends and family paid their respects to susie on the fourth and final journey the mother of two was killed in zimbabwe s post-election violence last week she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by soldiers bullets it s the death of the brother joshua still can t be. sure that would be what she was the breadwinner in the family. when we would sit. up and. he says god and wednesday opposition m.d.c. supporters took to the streets and were met was brutal violence by zimbabwe s move through what they can and tear gas rubber bullets and life any mission to crackdown on opposition demonstrators. president elect emerson has promised consequences that was. easy to listen to the most lenders. institute and indeed ended. it with these fears of violence have been subsided the opposition is vowing to challenge the election results nelson chamisa insists the presidency is his. lucas oh this is just. to make sure that we. will split but so far has not provided any evidence to back up his claims and the tense situation life in harare is only slowly getting back to normal many people in the capital are still scabs scattered speak out scats to criticize the government or the security forces after last week s violent clashes many fear that the time of god will rule the country for thirty seven years with an iron fist might be gun but that his legacy of brutal repression still lives on. was. among those afraid stupid fingers over his sister is this i. i. you know you re. not i would think. for. once this little comfort in the fact that the deaths have sparked outrage since happiness across the country as they mourn they suspect the government is just hoping that the dust settles as quickly as possible. to venezuela now where an investigation is underway after an apparent assassination attempt on president nicolas maduro he survived what appeared to be a drone bomb attack saturday police have reportedly arrested a number of suspects. colombians or venezuelan exiles living in the u.s. state of florida were behind the incident which occurred during a military parade in the capital caracas. late afternoon and caracas. president nicolas maduro speech to soldiers is interrupted. it was a drone armed with a bomb it broke off and me right in front of me something flying exploded. it was a powerful explosion which. protects me. then a second explosion seven soldiers are wounded the duro accuses financial backers in the u.s. and colombia s president juan manuel santos of orchestrating the attack colombia rejects the charge calling it absurd washington also denies any responsibility well i can say unequivocally there was no u.s. government involved in this at all look i could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the itself to something else. one venezuela journalist who broadcasts on the internet read a purported letter claiming responsibility by an unknown group now called them off the net that cannot tolerate that our people have nothing to eat and no medicine and that our money is worth something about nothing not a lot of. the government says it has already arrested several perpetrators but there appear to be contradictions some people have questions about the second explosion. i think the government staged the whole thing you don t. mention that the government was hurt itself. by the way this just pulls our country further down and many fear maduro may use the incident to justify more repression in his divided country while the european championships and laws ago there was more joy for team germany in the pool as florian belle ball took gold in the men s fifteen hundred meter freestyle the twenty year old clocked a national record of fourteen minutes thirty six point one five seconds to secure germany second swimming gold of the weekend after the surprise when in the freestyle mixed relay and there was more success for germany in the velodrome as well as cyclists dominate of einstein claimed gold in the individual four thousand meters he beat portugal s evil all of vera to win germany s eighth cycling medal of this championships. at football brasier dortmund have signed a belgian midfielder axel that s all the new coach lucien fabio wants improvement after the squad could only finish fourth in the bundesliga last season but still joins the german side from the chinese club challenge in kong s young belgian international starred as his country finished third at the summer s world cup dortmund triggered his twenty million euro release clause to sign him this will reportedly take a hefty pay cut after moving from the cash rich chinese super league. so over to our down tensions between the u.s. and turkey are putting some new pressure on the turkish currency that s right brian turkey s dispute with the united states over the fate of u.s. pastor andrew bronson is threatening to further destabilize the lira the u.s. had imposed further sanctions on two ministers and president. havenot after months of plunging exchange rates the turkish currency has now hit a fresh low against the dollar inflation also rose again in july nearly sixteen percent a fifteen year high increasing pressure on the central bank to hike interest rates . for days one issue has been dominating the front pages of turkey s newspapers. the country spak with the united states has fueled fears of full blown economic turmoil. at the center of the dispute is u.s. pastor andrew brunson s seen here in a white t. shirt turkey accuses him of helping to plot a failed military coup in twenty sixteen after spending twenty one months in jail he was transferred to house arrest at the end of july. that didn t go far enough for u.s. president donald trump who swiftly imposed sanctions on two senior turkish ministers . that in turn caused the lira to slide to a record low against the u.s. dollar continuing in a ready existing trends take a look at this. as you can see the number of turkish lira you need to buy a dollar has been rising since the beginning of the year but in august a record was set by turkish lira and now buying new just one u.s. dollar on surprisingly on the streets of istanbul the mood is far from offbeat. things aren t going in a good direction it s terrible that one u.s. dollar is now worth five yr are we ready have financial problems i don t approve of it things will get worse that s what we re expecting. turkey s dispute with washington isn t the only factor affecting its economic prospects concerns over the independence of the country s central bank president ed one s ability to tackle soaring inflation are among other issues weighing on investors minds. and this just goes beyond just this dispute between the us. professor of economics at the university. is the situation in turkey and how is everything. you know we need to see that these sanctions imposed by the u.s. are so cold smart sanctions and they aim on a very specific problem but at the same time they tried not to harm the whole economy so the direct effect of the sanctions i would not see a big one i would not expect a big one the reason why we have seen such a big reaction last week on the exchange rate originates from the general problematic economic conditions inflation has risen again current account deficit is increasing so the country is moving towards a serious financial crisis day by day a crucial question is the sanctions have a signal and the question is whether other countries will react in a similar way and their financial investors serving the reactions very clearly turkey s worship with europe is also on the rocks but what role can the e.u. play in this dispute. yeah exactly the question is the americans have reacted very clearly would cause a one single pass or there are thirty german citizens and there are increasing war says that europe should also take such strong steps but one need to bear in mind that turkey has different interests with the european union compared to the us or what s the worst that we have a migration deal as europeans with turkey we have also this financial integration a large extent of these loans in dollars and your terms for turkish companies are coming from italian banks or spanish banks so i m skeptical that europe can act as heavily as the u.s. with respect to sanctions and the question is also whether we should do need because a collapsing financial system in turkey will have had a cost also for europe just let s talk with more about that is a is a collapse really eminent and in which way would it be limited to turkey turkey or would it would it have further consequences. so it is no exaggeration that turkey is moving towards a financial collapse because it s a tragedy how can an economy stabilize the exchange rate and the current account by keeping this high growth rate so there is no signal that there is a political will to reduce this comes on certain based growth rates at the same time if this collapse comes of course we have a large amount of loans in italy and we know at the same time that italian banks have been in troubles for months or just remember after the elections how critical the situation was in europe and if turkey the financial system collapse in turkey the central bank in europe has also again to bail out italian banks and that will trigger a political conflict again and europe so in this bigger picture destabilizing turkey is not in the interest of the european union. thank you very much for this analysis. thank you. china says it s prepared for a long trade war with the united states the statement comes in response to a series of tweets from u.s. president all trump praising the effects of trade tariffs that he has imposed this followed beijing s publication of a new list of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products the family responds to washington starts to impose new duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports chinese state media lashed out at trump and described the new u.s. tariffs as quote extortion. case international trade secretary liam fox says the chance of a no deal breaker is growing he blamed what he called the european commission s intransigence in an interview with the sunday times newspaper fox said there was a sixty percent chance the e.u. k. and the e.u. would fail to reach an agreement talks of hit a rough patch as the use negotiators have said that britain has failed to make realistic proposals the british government has so far insisted it has drafted a mutually acceptable bags of plan promise of tourism a scab and harbor is split on how close the u.k. s economic relationship to the e.u. should be. and so your business and here s a reminder 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