In the past hour President Trump has said he is abandoning his plan to host the 2020 g7 summit at his florida golf resort. It comes after democrats and others said the decision was evidence of the president misusing his office for personal gain. In a series of tweets, trump said he would drop the plan which was announced on thursday. He cited what he called the crazed and irrational hostility from democrats and the news media. Brett samuels is the White House Reporter for the hill, hejoins me now on the line. Very good to speak to you, particularly given the fact that these tweets came out so late. The president has backed down. Why . Yes, well, thanks for having me on, james. This is certainly a bit of a shakeup for a james. This is certainly a bit of a sha keup for a saturday james. This is certainly a bit of a shakeup for a saturday night, the president making some big news here. He put himself in a difficult position by choosing to host the g7 summit at his own family property near
A phone call with the ukrainian leader u. S. President donald trump thursday called on china to get involved what. Is just about as bad as what happened with. You phrase the unconventional request to beijing comes as trump faces questions over his administrations request to foreign governments to help investigate former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden his potential democratic rival in next years president ial contest. Trump was chinese authorities and other countries to investigate bidens son hunter and his business dealings overseas members of the u. S. Congress are investigating allegations trump abused his president ial powers in a july phone call with ukrainian president vladimir selenski we need real support in a trunk calls for an investigation into the bidens which is now the foundation of an impeachment inquiry led by democratic lawmakers on capitol hill 3 committees in the house of representatives on thursday question former u. S. Special envoy kurt volker about his orders from
This is obviously a very tall order and it requires a lot of optimism and were hoping that you know the Political Leadership is there to make sure that we ever have a more kind of military crises that we saw in recent weeks involved in the tankers and the drones because we know by way of miscommunication or miscalculation those things could be really stupid things out of control ok so hell show that in london thank you so much and to be here thank you ok in a Senate Tension to washington and donald trump again lashing out at a group of 4 high profile Congress Women mr trump is demanding an apology from them for what he called quote horrible and disgusting actions of comes one day after he sent racially charged tweets to the politicians telling them to go back to where they came from. If youre not happy in the u. S. If youre complaining all the time very simply you can leave you can leave right now come back if you want dont come back its ok to but if youre not happy you can leave can y
Thanks for. The Research Associate in the Africa Program at Chatham House in london chris welcome back to news how much credibility does he have. So i think that this is being seen really as zuma coming out and defending himself as we heard claiming that this is a political agenda that has been put against him that as weve just heard is over 20 years old and dates back to his. Time but then so there is there is this push from him of this is a political thing but theres also within what hes saying there will of course be. Credible. Evidence and that this is a man who was at the center of state capture and this is the man around which this holds on the commission has been set up to look into what went on on in south africa under his presidency so of course he knows a lot about what was going on weve heard that hes denying a lot of what was going on a lot of the allegations against him but hes also going to use this as a political means to try and shift the attention away from him persona
When they receive these package. Bill. There was only one short cannot finally working alone check out the stapes and keep them safe. Aljazeera is a place you can travel to the northeast of mali and met up with a group of migrants on the 1st leg of their journey across the sun hard smuggling of people is a big business here and you couldnt risk filming in town thats why were out here in the desert trying to meet up with the travellers already on their way to tell gerry this was the north mottram you know trip or 2 you would see on t. V. Ringback but it is the same words and now as obvious a region of france age. Something that would never be broadcast something you might never watch again and said. Ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback look the smugglers car shows up seems like you know we have a breakdown now. Because if. You know but. Now find the live. Thank you. You know. Quite a bit if. You listen to the phone connie the sort of comment to my comments are. Good medical ones