Caliphate in iraq and syria is on the brink of being completely extinguished thanks to an aggressive new strategy led by the president what we have accomplished we have done as a team. Similarly secretary mineta has levied economic sanctions on north korean related entities countries must increasingly decide whether they will do business with north korea or with the community of peace loving nations Ambassador Haley has spearheaded in achieved enormous success passing the toughest u. N. Sanctions to date hold north korea general madison ah communicate virtually every day and we agree that there must be the highest level of coordination between our diplomatic efforts and our military efforts you cant have a stronger partner than a secretary of defense who embraces diplomacy and i hope he feels he has the partner he needs at the state department. And this is just the beginning of the list of partners and friends across the government who are all working for the American People theres much to be done and were just Getting Started to address a few specifics that have been irani asli reported this morning. The Vice President has never had to persuade me to remain as secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post i value the friendship and the counsel of the Vice President and i admire his leadership within president Trumps Administration to address the many important agendas of President Trump both form a Foreign Policy perspective and it dipped diplomatic im sorry domestic objective let me tell you what ive learned about this president whom i did not know before taking this office he loves this country he puts americans and America First hes smart he demands results wherever he goes any holds those around him accountable for whether theyve done the job hes asked them to do accountability is one of the bedrock values the president and i share while im new to washington. I have learned that there are some who try to sow dissension to advance their own agenda by tearing others apart in an effort to undermine President Trumps own agenda i do not and i will not operate that way and the same applies to everyone on my team here at the state bar when i wake up in the morning my first thoughts are about the safety of our citizens at home and abroad theres no more important sponsibility i carry with me than ensuring that americans are safe providing for the security of the United States must be the number one goal of our american Foreign PolicyPresident Trump and his administration will keep moving forward as one team with one mission doing great things for the United States of america. To make America Great again. Thank you. I think its the most important of all the article is to reaffirm my commitment to this role that President Trumps asked me to serve and to dispel with this notion that i have ever considered leaving i have actually that question repeatedly for some reason it continues to be mis reported theres never been a consideration in my mind only i serve at the appointment of the president and im here for as long as the president feels like can be useful to achieving his objectives. He. Will have a recommendation for the president were going to give him a couple of options of how to move forward to vans the important policy towards iran as youve heard us say many times the j. C. Feel way represents only a small part of the many issues that we need to deal with when it comes to the iranian relationship so it is an important part of that but it is not the only part and ive said many times we cannot let the iranian relationship be defined solely by that nuclear agreement. I want. Im just im not going to deal with petty stuff like that i mean this is this is what i dont understand about washington again you know im not from this place. But the places i come from we dont deal with that kind of petty nonsense and it is intended to know nothing but divide people and im just not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration. Abu mazen or i have not spoken to the president this morning i think is on its way to las vegas this is my understanding so you. Know one. More. Yes i believe we do you know i think the pakistan relations its very pakistan relationship and u. S. Relationship is extraordinarily important regionally and as we rolled out the south asia strategy we spoke about it in a regional context it is not just about afghanistan this is about the importance of pakistan and pakistans long term stability as well we have concerns about the future of pakistans government too in terms of them we want their government to be stable we want to be peaceful and many of the same issues theyre struggling with inside of pakistan are our issues so we think there is opportunity for us to strengthen that relationship were going to be working very hard at all levels from the state department to the Defense Department to our intelligence communities as well as economic commerce opportunities as well so it really is a regional approach in pakistan is critical i think to the long term stability of the region thank you very much. And youre watching the news good thanks for joining us so what you were just seeing is the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson he was a making a statement of the state departments and what he says is that he is addressing his comments were addressed as he called them erroneous reports that have been put out there the secretary of state said that us commitments to trump is still remain strong and he also said that the Vice President s my. Pence never had to persuade him to remain secretary of States Tillerson saying that he has never considered leaving his post in the end administration has much to be done and according to him they are just Getting Started kimberly joining us from the white house worth taking a step back and really for a moment and just tell us how we got here. Well there have been a series of reports and i think anyone could understand how there could have been this speculation and washing the potentially the secretary of state was unhappy in his post because just human nature given some of the interactions given the sort of brusque management style of the president and then the more methodical contrast of the secretary of state has left many people wondering how the secretary of state could continue in his role take for example with the secretary of state Rex Tillerson recently in china putting pressure on china to sort of step up economic pressure on north korea in the sort of incremental approach of diplomacy to rein in north Koreas Nuclear program and then undercut well hes in that process by the president in a social media tweet where essentially he said his own secretary of state is wasting his time it isnt the first time the president has kind of knocked the secretary of state out sort of figurative lee at the knees and so there were many here in washington that sort of felt the tension that was escalating and thats why you had the secretary of state coming out to address that reporting that has been almost feverish really hysterical in the last couple of hours here in washington with the speculation that he had had enough and he wanted out its no secret i can tell you from a variety of sources that there have been adjustments for not just the secretary of state but a number of the members of the trumpet ministration were found the adjustment to the prednisone the nit picking of one side and the other in washington to be a bit tiresome and so you hear him addressing that head on but also focusing on what he wanted to be reported because he doesnt make very many public statements and that is is that there isnt the division that has been reported and he has sort of spoke to that. Head on saying that he felt that this was really sowing the seeds of division which is detracting from what he says is the greater goal and that is trying to advance an America First agenda which is what he says not just he has signed on Rex Tillerson but the president making haley the u. S. Ambassador at the United Nations so certainly thats what appears to be on his mind thats why he came out but certainly washington very stirred up thinking that he would be giving an announcement of just the opposite not one that he was committed and staying but perhaps unhappy and wanted to go bit of a surprise there ok can really help that we thank you for giving us about update from the white house moving on its already the worlds Fastest Growing refugee crisis thats the exodus of hundreds of thousands of muslims from me and him are all the way to bangladesh and now the u. N. Increasingly believes that crimes against humanity are being committed its particularly worried about the state of women and children falling victim to killings rape as well as force displacements meanwhile according to a report from Human Rights Watch me in mars military executed dozens of on all this the twenty seven mean mars Government Military denies such abuses saying theyre only targeting armed groups or more than half a million revenge on muslims have fled weeks of violence in myanmar and theyre now living in camps in bangladesh aid organizations say they need at least four hundred thirty four Million Dollars thats in the next six months to help them peter hart is the emergencies director at Human Rights Watch he says the stories coming out of Rakhine State are imaginable. Human rights watch has been working in the camps in bangladesh for the last month electing these accounts we have interviewed dozens of eyewitnesses and survivors todays massacres they are really at large you know massacres ive been working at Human Rights Watch for today and some of the cons are elected over the last few weeks have been some of the most horrific ever like that where human rights fights were talking about women having their children taken away from them in front of them and it turned into debt large scale rape people put into houses and burned alive. These are massacres involving hundreds of people and individual villages this is absolutely a court and they that Campaign Carried out by that me on my military were talking about soldiers in uniform and women and children to the meeting acts of rape and burning these villages there are supported by helicopters in many of these attacks so these are not the actions of rogue soldiers were talking about an organized military force and gazed in ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity on the router steps. Well the overcrowded camps are creating perfect indifference for major disease outbreaks like colorado Doctors Without Borders and the camps are on the brink of a Health Disaster thats as filthy water and sea flow through. Time for child rule has more from outside coxs bazar where many of the camps are set up. No one can describe the condition of some of this temporary refugee shelter built and to prolong area thousands of people concentrate in one area and scratching get up to thirty a degree there is very few left. Floating in the drainage there is no sewage system no fresh water system very few fresh two boats are set up which is some help but the International Aid agencies are warning that you need to be far more number of electrons and fresh water sources in this camp one bangladeshi and you say that there are three hundred twenty seven person using one letter and thats a very dissimilar condition now we spoke to a lot of the doctors who are running this training and different camps most of the doctors told us the majority of the patients theyre saying have diarrheal diseases skin infection and respiratory illness with high fever most of the patients are women and children unless there is a Long Term Strategy chalked out by the Government International donor agency there is a clear danger of cholera and dysentery epidemics spreading out in this camp the International Coordination group is sending about one million or a vaccination people that should help the situation to a bit most of the refugees are not going back very soon that has to be a Long Term Strategy once the media focuses on out of this refuges theres a clear danger of aid flow into this camp will slow down while you often hear the room described as the worlds most persecuted minority so were online put together an indepth feature on why that is also in this article we take a look at exactly who the real are and what the governments in me and maher has been saying as well you can find it on aljazeera dot com by searching for me and maher who are there were. Just a reminder that youre with a news group we are streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com as well and we do want to hear from you from on any of these stories you can send in your comments to any one of our Online Platforms you can tweet us at a. J. English or were on facebook at facebook dot com. You can send us a whatsapp on plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine just a reminder to use the a. J. News. Now the vote in favor of secession in iraqs kurdish region is bringing two if its neighbors closer together the president s of turkey and iran have met in teheran discussing a joint response to the curtis referendum which they fiercely oppose. And Hasan Rouhani said they wanted to keep National Borders as they are and threatened to take steps against any breakaway kurdish region. As far as we concerned iraq is one single country syria is one single country and we do not accept the geographical border changes in any way whatsoever we do not wish to exert these pressure but the wrong decisions made by some of the heads of the Kurdish Regional government need to be compensated for. We correspond with the iraqi Central Government as far as were concerned this referendum is illegitimate we have already taken certain steps but from this moment on which more decisive steps will be taken. Andersons joining us from istanbul so theyre threatening to take steps andrew what kind of steps can we expect if they elaborates. Well very short on detail from both of those president s their grim faces in the Briefing Room by all the main players and it would seem that there is certainly cooperation on a security level the two arm is the chiefs of staff iran and turkey have spent two days prior to this meeting having discussions it appears there are plans afoot for more cooperation on military issues and also anti terror operations as theyre described but in terms of what threats implicit threats were getting from both president rouhani and president urged one its unclear whether its economic sanctions further economic sanctions or Security Issues it seems the saber rattling will continue it seems they want to engage in pressuring the iraqi kurds even more the leadership that is it is not clear has to be said exactly how this is going to be done now what is clear is that theyre both saying that categorically that there is effectively a three way mechanism now and its going to be very very together thats iran but the iraqi Central Government and turkey from the same hymn sheet pushing in the same direction taking action on a basically it would seem an increasingly strong basis but whether or not that means cutting off the oil pipeline that runs through turkey that will hurt both sides both the goods and the turks and indeed the International Community and particularly russia that has a massive investment in kurdish oil so there are lots of unclear aspects to this meeting involving these two president s who have now what in different terms is described as converging interests of course in. The syrian war that very very large distances apart on that issue that is still a cause for concern in terms of what can be agreed to the start a process rights ok and are simmons we thank you elsewhere iran and iraqs military have held joint drills along their border after that kurdish votes Charles Stratford has an update from the Border Crossing the iranian tanks that we saw on the border yesterday in this area have gone today weve spoken to members of the Iraqi Ministry of interior the Border Guards in this area they say that the joint military maneuvers between the iraqi and Iranian Military that were happening close to here now have stopped today they say that military exercises what they describe as exercises continue the border remains very quiet it is still open we have seen very little traffic here all day but whats so interesting is that they slanguage coming out of chair on from president Has