relations between washington and pyongyang. the u.s. made a deal with libya more than a decade ago for it to hand over its nuclear weapons. and some security guarantees. in the end the u.s. ended up turning on muammar gadhafi and supporting the same rebels who dragged him into a ditch and shot him dead after a rebel uprising backed by nato and u.s. air strikes. there is a question about whether or not a deal with the u.s. holds particularly after the u.s. and president trump just pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. the south korean president, he traveled to washington to try to convince president trump that, yes, north korea was serious about talking about denuclearization. is it the same denuclearization that the trump administration wants? complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization? north korea this week says it is going to make a show to the
fulfillment of the president s campaign promises. but of course it s more complicated than that. we are at war, again in iraq as well as in syria and fighting against the islamic state also known as isis. we ve dropped about 10,000 bombs on those countries since august and officials say the u.s.-led coalition has killed more than 8,000 isis fighters. nor does the u.s. have its hands clean in yemen, which is sliding further into chaos in the aftermath of a rebel uprising and ouster of the country s president. now saudi arabia with help from the united states is bombing the rebel groups and may order a ground invasion. all this after years of the american military to use drones to bomb suspected al qaeda targets throughout yemen. iran is closely involved in both of these conflicts. in iraq it is iranian supported militias who are fighting against isis on the same side as the iraqi government and u.s.-led coalition. in yemen, iran is reportedly backing the rebels who have taken over the c
advisers on the ground. you have to understand this surface to air missile system that apparently was used in this case. it s a very complex system. normally, it takes about six months for people to learn to operate the system and perhaps it was precisely because people did not have that sort of training that we saw this terrible tragedy happening. but you do need advisers to run as sophisticated a rebel uprising as we ve seen over the past few months in donetsk. the international community is calling for those responsible to be held accountable. what does that look like? those there by the missile launcher? those that were the individuals? what will be the likelihood of finding them? are we talking about a larger body being held accountable? personally, i believe that the people were responsible for this will never go to any kind of trial. i cannot foresee that happening. i do think that it will be a
stronghold and it there is. danetsk. that entire region has been the center of a month are long rebel uprising. part of the president s proposal for peace was they lay down their weapons. even the russian president vladimir putin says he supports that plan, but the head of nato accuses russian russia of sending more troops. the headline is the russians have moved more troops to the border, ready to quell any violence in ukraine, and that is the headline of the day as russia is at it again. house republicans just elected their enough second ranking leader who will replace eric cantor. more on majority whip kevin
two rounds of what the embassy calls indirect fire hit the building. that normally refers to things like mortar attacks. nobody was hurt. the taliban though posted on a website that they did it. and the u.s. military is still on stand by to evacuate all americans from the troubled new nation of south sudan. hundreds of people have been killed in a rebel uprising and ethic fighting put that number in the thousands now. right now, u.s. marines getting into position to help get americans out in case the situation does get worse. our barbara starr is at the pentagon. that s very different to the u.n. force who are going in to try to stop the fighting. where are these marines going and what happens when they get there in. well, at the moment, you know, earlier this week, the pentagon sent about 150 marines from their base in the mediterranean to the horn of africa to djibouti. and then yesterday they took