Where President Trump has declared north korea a state sponsor of terrorism as he increases pressure on kim jong un over his nuclear ambitions. Speaking to reporters at the white house, President Trump said the move would trigger further sanctions against pyongyang to be announced on tuesday. This designation will impose further sanctions on penalties in north korea and related persons, and supports our maximum Pressure Campaign to isolate the murderous regime. Tomorrow, the Treasury Department will announce an additional sanction, and a very large one, on north korea. This will be going on in the next few weeks. It will be the highest level of sanctions when it is over. The north korean regime must be lawful and it must end its unlawful nuclear and Ballistic Missile development and stop all support for international terrorism, which it is not doing. The new us restrictions are seen as a way of increasing pressure on other states and foreign banks that might not be fully enforcing exis
Calls for sanders unity behind Hillary Clinton. She never buckles under pressure, said Michelle Obama. Francois hollande and in theerior minister are town of saintetiennedurouvray after a priest was killed. Hostagest the chur there. The priest reportedlyad his throat slit. Another hostage was seriously injured. The attackers were later killed by police. Prime mr. Manuel valls has described it as a barbaric attack. The vatican agrees, saying it is all the more heinous because it happened in a sacred place p rejoining mao in a sacred place. Kate moody, what do we know at this stage . Kate detailed the details of what were happening in the church in saintetiennedudurouvray ts was morning mass. There were not a lot of people there. And twore two priests other members of the congregation these two armed men entered the church from a backdoor, and we understand they were armed with knives, possibly other weapons, though we do not have confirmation of that. They took the congregation hostage.
Claimed, a victory for democracy . He has moved quickly to initiate what he calls essential cleansing ordering the arrest of thousands, purging the military and academia. Our question on this edition of quadriga, turkey coup blank check for erdogan . To answer the question, we have invited three guests following events in turkey very closely. It is a pleasure to welcome seda serdar. She says erdogan does not need anyone to give him a blank check. He is doing what he wants. It is a great pleasure to welcome back alan posener. He is a british german commentator at die welt. He says nobody is about to give erdogan a blank check, but demonizing him will help neither turkey nor the west. Great to have antje bauer with us, a freelance journalist who has reported on the middle east, turkey, and afghanistan, and is working with the Deutsche Welle academy. She says turkey has a new national hero, mr. Erdogan. He is as much an image of his ataturk was for his own. So, seda serdar, if this is a b
Assured that other nations will not treat amemerica with respec, the respect that we deserve. Amy donald trump accepts the republican president ial nomination giving what was described as one of the darkest, most foreboding, and aggressively fearmongering speeches in modern political memory. We will get response. He spoke in the quicken loans arena. Rolell look at the firms in the subprime mortgage crisis. We will also look at paypal cofounder peter thiel, the bibillionaire investoror whoadae history y at the rnc. Im proud to be gay. Im proud to be a republican. Most of all, im proud to be an american. We will look at his role in the lawsuit that might take down a website. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. This is breakining with convention. Im m amy goodman. Donald trump accepted the republican president ial nomination. His hour and 1 15 minute speech portrayed the nation under threat at home and abroad. Mr. Trump ouru
Discussing the syria crisis and controversy on the campaign trail as the u. S. President ial hopeful can criticized for comments he didnt make. Hungary has seized a train carrying more than 4,000 refugees from croatia, both governments criticizing each other for not doing enough to stem the flow of people. Closing 7 of 8 crossings, at least 7,000 have entered the country in the past two days. Croatia had originally opened its borders to refugees, now saying it cant take anymore. We are not getting any assistance, we are dealing on our own and we said originally, that we could deal with thousands but not tens of thousands and we were dealing with it and we are dealing even now in terms of normal humane treatment of these people but we cannot provide them all with accommodations and plus, they mostly dont want, when you put them up into this refugee centers, most of them actually want to leave because croatia is not their destination. Well, tens of thousands of refugees have been moving