as far as an 8.6, west coast people know, that s a big, big number. yep. bill karins, thanks very much. keep on that. after the break, we re going to talk to richard haass about developing major foreign policy stories, syria and north korea. we ll be right back. i m freaking out man.
that s why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what s it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we ve got to be smart about this. it s a smart way to go. all right. 45 past the hour. let s get to these two foreign policy stories. north korea moving forward with plans to launch a satellite into orbit despite international criticism. the rocket is now on the launching pad, and fuel preparations are under way. the test launch is meant to coincide with the 100th birthday celebrations of the country s founder. earlier today that founder s
story of 2011, the arab spring. with the fate of many of the countries involved uncertain and some old global hot spots flaring up. 2012 is shaepg up to be another challenging year, so, which foreign policy stories will dominate the deadlines. we are dominate the headlines. matt, where is the world going to intrude this year? hardly know where to begin. it s a very difficult year and starting with iran, we saw this week, there was a dispute between the u.s. and iran with iran starting to close the straits of hormuz. an enormous amount of the world s oil path. and pretty hard sanctions for the iranian reseems and unpredictable one, obviously, and we have problems in europe which are going to dominate a lot of the discussion there certainly, and here, which relate to the euro and the economy, the arab spring is still not finished business,
you have been wrong. finally tonight, three major foreign policy stories, north korean dictator kim jong un is threatening the united states by saying that a nuclear button is always on his desk and that he has nuclear weapons that can now reach the united states. president trump just about well 45 minutes ago fired back on twitter saying well, he has an even bigger nuclear button and his actually works. we have more on that later. president trump is actually putting pakistan on notice by tweeting and calling them out for helping terrorists not fully cooperating with the united states. he is right on that point u and also finally, a major story, protests continuing tonight to break out in iran. so far 20 people have been killed. over 450 people have been arrested. now, these are people that are revolting against this repleivrepressive are regime and radical mullahs in iran. it s something that president trump predicted would happen in september. this is the opportunity of a lifetime fo
every come a months a big foreign policy win and a story how the president strode manfully into the room add was the central personal player in this decision. it just is mccain has a point. a long drum beat of the drama on the new york times article. i think the bin laden kill is stoelgtsly different from the kill list. you may not be a swing voter. clearly not looking for people s heads on stakes. the kill list was driven. everything we know about the drone program, by investigating reporting. that kill list story was excellent reporting at the new york times. the way they framed it, ben exactly right. frame it as, obama is in control. i think i ve written one of those foreign policy stories where obama walks into the, you know, oval office but i really think that they were forced the media and civil liberties group forced their hand on the kill list and finally said, okay, we re going to give it out to you.