retiring. mo brooks is hoping to advance there without trump s endorsement after brooks said that voters should move past trump s 2020 defeat. and in arkansas, sarah huckabee sanders is favored to win the republican nomination in what is a deep red state. but the spotlight will be on the race for governor in georgia today. the popular incumbent governor kemp faces david perdue. kemp was a target of trump after he refused to help overturn the 2020 election results, that race also pitting mike pence against his former boss. pence stumping for kemp at a primary eve rally monday. the polls indicate kemp is headed for a rematch with stacey abrams in november. and meantime herschel walker is expected to easily win his senate primary in georgia setting the stage for one of the most closely watched senate races pitting the former nfl star against the current democratic senator raphael war warnock. joining us now to break it all down, rachel bay. nice to have you this morning. let s
su semiconductor plant. the other stop is japan. but as biden makes the rounds, there is also growing concern over what north korea might do next to rattle the saber. the united states preparing for the distinct possibility that kim jong-un would conduct a missile test, an icbm, in coordination with biden s trip. wouldn t be the first time he did it. more on that in a moment. let s begin in seoul, south korea, cnn s jeremy diamond is there. tell us what the biden administration hopes to accomplish on this trip, both in south korea and japan. reporter: well, jim, president biden has arrived here in south korea at a moment of extraordinary tension as the potential for north korean ballistic missile tests looms large over the president s trip. we have learned according to an official familiar with the intelligence that south that north korea appears to be taking steps to fuel an icbm, which would be one of the final stages before a launch. really raising the stakes and the p
Welcome to the third and final panel session. Im Deputy Director and senior fellow and moderator for this panel. We have a discussion this morning id like to continue this afternoon with a distinct panel that, is here. They do not need an introduction but let me briefly introduce them. He served as the National Intelligence officer for north korea at the council between 2014 and 2015 he was a special envoy. Welcome to the panel. On his left hes very well known to many of us and currently the Senior Advisor in new york. Prioroo to that the director of the program at the Wilson Center former senior fellow officer for korea, japan. Currently the president of the institute for National Security for the graduate school of International Studies where he is a professor of studies. Last but not least at the Carnegie Endowment fore International Peace prior to that the graduate school hes a councilmember of the institute for strategic studies from 2013 to 2016 and served as the ambassador. I wo
Hello and welcome to the aljazeera news hour live from our headquarters in doha with me and as a purana coming up in the next sixty minutes. Should have happened a long time ago should happen years ago u. S. President donald trump says hes designating north korea a state sponsor of terrorism paving the way for more sanctions zimbabwes voting party begins in page one proceedings against Robert Mugabe as he refuses to resign as president the head of syrias main opposition body the High Negotiations Committee steps down just days before kate talks on solving arabia plus as Coalition Talks fail in germany and going to merkel says shed prefer a new election. U. S. President donald trump has designated north korea states. Terrorism trump also promised more sanctions against pyongyang but secretary of state Rex Tillerson says washington has not given up hope on dissolving the Nuclear Crisis on the Korean Peninsula through diplomacy shihab or tom seaver reports from washington d. C. And presid
1990. Kim jongun tells the world north Koreas Nuclear weapons are a reality and a button is on his desk. Good morning to haidi and good morning to our viewers across the world. We ended 2017 year to date for equities on a high note but we are seeing some volatility possibly happening coming out of north asia with kim jongun. Taking a look at what happened in the last day of trading here, down by half a percent. If you were totally in from 1 through the end of the year, you were 1 through the ene year, you were up by 20 , as much as 30 if you are in the nasdaq. Haidi absolutely. We were talking to garfield earlier, 7 when it comes to aussie stocks, barely a blip in comparison to the heavy gains we have seen for u. S. Equities and across asian equities. In particular when it comes to japan. One of the markets not trading today is japan as we have a number of markets still offer the new years holiday. New zealand, tokyo, thailand and the philippines on a break today. We are setting up for