Employees got fired. Lets talk, live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning, im carol costello. North korea says its carried out its most powerful nuclear test yet. The explosion registering the force of a 5. 3 earthquake. Kim jonguns government now claiming it can make Nuclear Warheads small enough to fit on to missiles. World leaders are strongly condemning the apparent test. With President Obama saying just moments ago there will be serious consequences. He also said, and im just getting his statement right now, that north Koreas Nuclear test is a grave threat. He says to be clear the United States does foot and will never accept north korea as a nuclear state. We have Suzanne Malveaux on this story. Shell join us in a little bit. Lets head to tokyo now for north koreas side. Will ripley has that. Hi, will. Hi, carol. That brandnew statement from President Obama comes after he was very busy during the overnight hours speaking on the phone separately with the japanese Prime Minister shinz
London. This is cnn newsroom. After five long years of war, a chance at peace may finally be in sight for syria. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart, the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, announced a ceasefire deal on friday. Under the plan, a czessation of hostilities across place in Syria At Sundown on monday. Secretary kerry says it should end the barrel bombs and end to the indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods that has left scores of people dead. The agreement comes after months of fruitless efforts to reach a ceasefire between the Syrian Regime and moderate syrian rebels. Our Nic Robertson has details now from geneva. Reporter so key to the czyzration of hostilities working, secretary kerry said for the United States to put pressure on the opposition to keep good on their obligations and for russia for their part to keep assad good on his obligations. He said the United States assessment is thats what russia would do. This is how he put it tod
Be Commander In Chief but trump is looking to turn the numbers around, laying some sharp criticism on Hillary Clinton. She never talks about policy. Reporter donald trump and Hillary Clinton Clashing Over whos ready to be Commander In Chief. He has no clue about what hes talking about. Reporter trump unveiling endorsements from nearly 90 retired u. S. Military leaders. And revealing his plan to demands a plan to take down isis. Were going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction. They will have 30 days to submit to the oval office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating isis. He says he has a secret plan to defeat isis. But the secret is, he has no plan. Rs clinton warns trump will lead the u. S. Back to war. When it comes to fighting isis, he has been all over the map. You would have to literally map it out. Hes talked about letting syria become a free zone for isis. Look at the map. Donald. Hes talked about sending in american ground troops. Not on my watch. Rep
The only people who use that many phones are usually involved in very, very and i mean very shady is activity. Rur see trump in typically colorful language there, accusing Hillary Clinton of shady activity. Hes going to go after the differences in his Foreign Policy vision versus hers. But hes also going to call for an end to the sequester and hes going to talk about what he will do to beef up military security and capacity. Hes campaigning in places that arent traditional for republicans today. Hell be in philadelphia and new york. Some call it colorful talk others call it hyperbolic and baseless talk. Well continue down this road. Sara, thank you very much. Hillary clinton returning the favor, pouncing on donald trump accusing him of concealing his foundations 25,000 donation to the campaign of floridas Attorney General, as she was considering investigating fraud claims against trump university. Now, were learning theres more reporting out there that this violation may not be trumps
The pentagon calling north koreas brazen nuclear test a serious provocation. President obama is promising serious consequences. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is here in studio with more on the u. S. Reaction. Barbara, great to have you here. Good morning. What are you hearing about what the u. S. Will do . This time around it is much different. This is not about the words. This is not about the rhetoric. If, indeed, the north korean regime did test a nuclear warhead, this puts them a huge step closer to being able to actually put a warhead on a missile, shoot off that missile, and potentially some day be able to strike the United States. What my sources have been telling me for the last several weeks is there is increasing concern the north koreans are Getting Better at this step by step with every test. Theyre having successful missile tests. Theyre now having this warhead test. And they have developed a mobile capability, which means in time of war, they can put a Nuclear Miss