good evening, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight, faceoff, the justice department taking aim at trump s argument for a special master. today, announcing fbi agents have already sorted through those documents and weeded out any material that may be covered by attorney/client privilege. trump s team has argued much of the seized material contained presidential communications and therefore in their view is protected. the former president s attorney today making it clear that trump is not leaving it up to doj to sort the documents. listen to this. now, they are trying to suggest with this pleading, judge, don t be surprised we have already taken care of all this. nothing to see here. well, we re not in a position where we can really have a lot of faith in that. we still need judicial intervention. we need a judge to monitor our access to these documents. also tonight, another court deadline looming. this one fo
that s barely over 300 feet. the international atomic energy agency warning this heightens the risk of a potential nuclear accident. radioactivity levels are within normal range right now, but that could change at any moment and thousands of residents living in the shadow of this plant are all too aware of the dangers as city authorities are now handing out iodine pills in case of a nuclear disaster. cnn s sam kiley has the latest from zaporizhzhia in ukraine. reporter: jim, the ukrainian authorities remain deeply concerned about what might happen at the zaporizhzhia power plant. for the first time now issuing iodine tablets to the population here in zaporizhzhia. we re only about 20 miles from that nuclear power station. of course iodine being given out as a potential pro-phylacticrop. this boils down to the problem that the nuclear power station is on the frontline being used as a firebase by the russians. the russians claim the ukrainians are shooting back at it. there s
Newsday. Glad you could join us. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, dc, where the administration has given new details about its plans on how to deal with north korea. The Us State Department said the president aims to put pressure on pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and lipstick programmes. In an unusual move, all us senators we re in an unusual move, all us senators were given a classified briefing on the strategy. Ballistic missile programmes. One us senator called the briefing sobering. This isnt for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. A Live Fire Exercise conducted by 2000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. Its a show of force, and a show of unity. A Military Exercise with an unmistakable message to the souths unpredictable northern neighbour we want peace, but we are ready for all eventualities. In washington this morning, the head of us Pacific Command put it like this. As P
Newsday. Glad you could join us. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, dc, where the administration has given new details about its plans on how to deal with north korea. The Us State Department said the president aims to put pressure on pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and lipstick programmes. In an unusual move, all us senators we re in an unusual move, all us senators were given a classified briefing on the strategy. Ballistic missile programmes. One us senator called the briefing sobering. This isnt for real but it looks terrifyingly like it. A Live Fire Exercise conducted by 2000 us and south korean troops, just miles from the north korean border at a time of extraordinary tension. Its a show of force, and a show of unity. A Military Exercise with an unmistakable message to the souths unpredictable northern neighbour we want peace, but we are ready for all eventualities. In washington this morning, the head of us Pacific Command put it like this. As P
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in new york, where diplomatic efforts to try to ease the tension on the Korean Peninsula are stepping up a gear this friday. The us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson will attend a Un Security Council meeting. The United States and its allies are expected to turn up the pressure on china to use its leverage to rain in kim jong un. Speaking to the bbc, republican Senatorjohn Barrasso explained the renewed diplomacy drive. Well, of course the goal is a peaceful resolution of the process, thats what we want. We want north korea without Nuclear Weapons and this whole thing peacefully resolved. Thats the deliberations and discussions with china so they can get much more involved because you know after all, that 85 of the trading that north korea does is with china and i think china right now realises theyre interests are aligned with the United States with regard to a Nuclear Armed north korea because the question is really can t