in paula hancocks. paula, the fifth nuclear test north korea appears to have conducted and the most powerful one and coming on the heels of president obama s visit to asia. reporter: that s right. the timing certainly is interesting, john. the fact is north korea announced on state-run television saying they successfully tested the nuclear warhead and they can put that on any one of the ballistic missiles. it is impossible for the world to verify that specifically in washington and seoul and tokyo. in the past hour, there has been an intelligence briefing for lawmakers here in seoul. they have said they believe north korea s goal is to mount a nuclear warhead on a scud missile. remember 28,000 u.s. troops in south korea are here now. this is going much quicker than expected. intelligence says north korea has advanced quicker than expected. there is large interest around the world in china and japan and russia condemning the nuclear test. it shows that kim jong-un is determi
we continue along. you re watching cnn, i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. let s get to it. donald trump just detailed what he would do if he is elected commander in chief, a first run-up to his first commander in chief forum with hillary clinton tonight. unlike the upcoming debates, the first one in less than three weeks, the two won t be on the same stage but they will face the same crowd, no doubt, the presidential contenders know that absentee voting begins in one week. and many people will be sending in ballots early. many of those folks who are active duty military in his speech, speaking of, donald trump said he would boost defense spending, that he would pump up troop numbers, battalions, ships, jets, and he was there in philadelphia. he laid out his plan for rebuilding of the nation s military and in doing so, he ripped into hillary clinton, into her foreign policy. her e-mails and, oh, so much more. in a trump administration, our actions in the mid
and a presidential nominee stuns morning shows by saying what is aleppo. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. last night felt like a debate donald trump and hillary clinton went one after another. the dualing narratives were enlightning. some foreign policy experts would say how detached from the facts on the ground they were. sarah murray is in cleveland. it is hard to argue that anyone had a particularly good night last night, so hillary clinton this first thing going on the offensive. it seems that trump was set on making sure clinton did not get the last word. you re right, donald trump was in in cleveland at a charter school he could not help rehash some of the topics that came up last night. he went into a lengthy defense saying that he was an early opposer of going into war in iraq excite the evidence to the contrary and he went after hillary clinton one more time on her e-mails. last night was yet another test, and donald trump failed yet again. hillary cli
security forum, we will break down with what both candidates said. debate expectations. a majority expects hillary clinton to out perform trump. will they be the most watched presidential debates ever? from dangerous close encounters with american plains to blocking american ships, what is behind the blazen new acts. we re following breaking news in the race for the white house. her policies produce ruin and death. trump says clinton s performance showed she is unfit to be president. clinton saying the same thing about trump. calling his criticism unpatriotic. new polls show clinton leading trump in pennsylvania and ohio. the candidates are tied in florida. also following growing concern over russian and iranian apartment. the pentagon said there has been dozens of sdpents this year. including a russian fighter jet coming within ten feet of a navy plane. we re covering all of that and more this hour with our guests. and our correspondents and expert analysts are standing
london. this is cnn newsroom . after five long years of war, a chance at peace may finally be in sight for syria. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart, the foreign minister sergei lavrov, announced a cease-fire deal on friday. under the plan, a czessation of hostilities across place in syria at sundown on monday. secretary kerry says it should end the barrel bombs and end to the indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods that has left scores of people dead. the agreement comes after months of fruitless efforts to reach a cease-fire between the syrian regime and moderate syrian rebels. our nic robertson has details now from geneva. reporter: so key to the czyzration of hostilities working, secretary kerry said for the united states to put pressure on the opposition to keep good on their obligations and for russia for their part to keep assad good on his obligations. he said the united states assessment is that s what russia would do. thi