all right let s catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world two people have been killed and dozens others injured as a powerful typhoon swept across the japanese naval highwinds and having rainfall battered regions that are still reeling from a series of extreme storms this latest typhoon has left hundreds of thousands of homes without power. iran s revolutionary guard says it has launched missiles targeting the militants behind the attack on a military parade in our vase nine days ago state run television said the attacks had killed and wounded militants in eastern syria and there was no word from syrian state media on the strike rights groups in iraq are sounding the alarm over a number of recent killings of high profile women the latest death was twenty two year old iraqi model and instagram star tara faras who was shot dead in her car in baghdad last week iraq s prime minister has ordered elite intelligence units to investigate the murders. and in catalonia
investigation, when they meddle in the investigation. moments after president trump tweeted that russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. the president essentially giving vladimir putin a pass, despite intelligence assessments that say otherwise despite his own secretary of state saying otherwise. his meeting with putin underscores the growing tension between the u.s. and its allies. let s bring in fred pleitgen. is this another pr win for vladimir putin at the hands of the united states president? yeah, it certainly seems that way. it s interesting, dave, because when you see the official line coming out of the kremlin, they say, look, we don t want america to call into question its alliances with other country photocopies you look at especially russian state-run television which essentially is controlled by the government here, then the tone certainly is very different. they are saying that president trump is on their side. they have a longsta
own singapore summit because he wanted to start those talks a day early. here to talk about her report, washington post white house reporter and nabs political analyst started because apparently in singapore the president commented on a reporter on north korean television who he thought maybe should come to work at fox news, he joked. state television, state-run television praising kim jong-un. is that what he wants more of here? he does not seem to fully grasp or acknowledge this oppressive regime in north korea and how they squash any sort of political disend with executions and other means of government cra crackdown. this is not the first time we ve heard him be drawn to an authoritarian figure. he talks highly about putin.
him that he could use that down day to prepare a bit more. and according to the people we talked to, that is what he used some of that time for, and perhaps the most compelling agent, they didn t necessarily quite use the words ratings. they said if you move the summit up, you ll get less wall to wall television coverage in the united states. that confluence of arguments made him ultimately stay on track. our understanding is there were a couple of very tense moments where aides thought this entire summit was going to be derailed because the president was trying to move it all by 24 hours. betsy, you have and actually ashley wrote about this as well in her article. you have the president really focussed on state-run television and how the north korean news anchor was really positive about kim. you have the statement the president made this morning that he essentially would like people to sit up and take notice when he talks, and now for me, this
u.s. military strikes. how is this playing out this morning in syria? playing ow as greut as a gre victory for assad. demonstrations well planned, put together by the government. you know this as well as anybody i think. the way, arab authoritarian governments will spin things in their favor. not a hard thing to do on this one the we played sort of a three day bad game of hide-and-se hide-and-seek. the president said he will strike syria. most locations have the equipment moved out of those areas. especially out of the hangars, chemical weapon sites were wound down, 72 hours ago. now assad is saying on, on, state run television that he has thwarted, the surviving and defiance in itself is victory. calling it the three headed monster, united kingdom, united states, france, carrying out the attack. saying they shot down almost all of the missiles. battlefield is complex.