its invasion of the sovereign state is toodee sizive. and disproportionate. and to distribute to defending the international order. to apply it to the korean peninsula, as well. janis, there s been a lot of speculation. failed missile it s not the first time it s failed. there s a lot of speculation maybe it was american cyber activity that caused it to fail or it could be failure on its own. they can learn from that failure. it doesn t mean they re not progressing. could that embarrassment inspire some more aggressive actions such as the nuclear tests that people were anticipating? reporter: well, the regime has we know is unpredictable. on the one hand, we have the rhetoric calling for all-out war. certainly the provocations and the fortunatelies of missile tests and the threat of a nuclear test suggesting that the regime will not be held back in
one-on-one meeting with president putin in moscow before they went to the g-20 summit where the president is now. as you noted those pictures, at least they were smiling, there was a bit of a hand shake. they are trying to maybe mend fences at least for public consumption. but they have sharapova differences. russia has had a long relationship with syria in terms of selling arms and blocking u.s. military action particularly with allies. putin escalating the rhetoric calling secretary of state john kerry a liar yesterday. you look back where president putin was looking at his shoes. a little better than that. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., sampan that powers had sharp words for russia over everything that s happened in recent weeks. instead, the system has protected the prerogatives of russia, the patron of a regime that would brazenly stage the