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coastal city of sinpo, home to north korea s submarine base, u.s. pacific command saying it was a failure, almost immediately after launch. and what i have experienced in the past when i m inside this count country, it s never reported in the state-controlled media. of course a successful launch would be a lead story with pictures of the north korean leader overseeing the event. given that this appears to be this test appears to be a failure, probably most north koreans, the vast majority, will never know that it happened, ana. and, will, explain the difference between this failed launch and an actual nuclear test. reporter: so north korea has conducted a number of missile launches since the beginning of last year, three dozen missile tests. it s fairly easy for north korea to fire these. they probably don t have a warhead inside the trajectory, has them falling in the waters off the korean peninsula. there was a simultaneous missile launch last month where three missile ....
tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. and ken vogel political reporter for the new york times. thank you all for being with us especially as part of our leadoff panel tonight. ken, i ll lead off with you. what do you make of this bank subpoena, if true, is it a big deal? what else does it speak of? absolutely. we always kind of knew that this was a possibility that mueller would start looking into donald trump s finances and this subpoena, again, if it is accurate that deutsche bank has been subpoenaed, would indicate that he is fully going down that route. deutsche bank is significant because donald trump it has at least $130 million worth of donald trump s debt and it sold some of that debt or could have sold some of that debt to russian banks. that could potentially give these russian banks some leverage over donald trump. and so you have the combination here potentially of donald trump s finances as well as his dealings with russia and how those two things ....
four ships for the breaching sanctions on the regime. three of those ships fly north korean colors. the flag of the fourth ship is not clear. north korea has defied u.n. sanctions and restrictions in the past. now a north korean defector tells cnn the regime has a sophisticated smuggling network and can easily trade in banned goods. cnn s brian todd has this report for us. we have new information tonight from this defector on exactly how kim jong un s regime gets weapons and other banned material out of the country to sell on the black market. this man knows how kim gets his cash and helped him get it, funneling billions of dollars a year to the young dictator. august 2016, a freighter is heading to the suez canal. around 30,000 rocket propelled grenades made in north korea. part of what a north korean defector describes as a smuggling to line the pockets of kim jong un. how do north korean smuggling operations work? are there people with false names? are there ships with ....
you like i said. it s not an office it will what it all meant and made any not if that wasn t what he thought and probably it was it was just their. defeat eating and oh yes this all you don t hear. so nic thank you so much for talking with us and congratulations again on winning this year s freedom prize of press freedom prize a specific super column he joined us from kermanshah in iran by a skype thank you again now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a powerful dust storm has left more than seventy people dead in northern india extreme winds and rains brought down trees and destroyed temporary structures throughout the region causing many of the deaths officials say the toll could rise . police in southern germany have been conducting a large scale raid on an asylum seekers hostel they re trying to arrest a totally smashed and who is wanted for deportation they were prevented from detaining the man two days ago after being threatened by othe ....
you re. going to tell you account. for the last sixty. four mines. you accidentally shot at some. time in the field. can you get out. with code telling syria. this week on d w. welcome to focus on europe i michelle henery turkey is only weeks away from snap elections called by the ruling party in april whoever is elected will assume sweeping powers critics say president. the clear favorite is the term and to use the upcoming vote to once and for all silence any dissenting voices these turks are part of the glenn movement a group that is openly critical of arda one despite living and working in kosovo they were kidnapped and returned against their will to turkey. president earlier one blames the preacher at the two legoland for the coup attempt in turkey in the summer of two thousand and sixteen amid a wide ranging government crackdown on dissent that led to the imprisonment of many of his followers thousands fled abroad turkey s extradition requests are often viewed with skept ....