pompeo: that is not really my purview. i'll leave that to the department of homeland security and the secretary-general. bob: this year, will there be another north korea summit? and what have the prior ones accomplished? sec. pompeo: we're getting pretty close to the election. north koreans have given mixed signals. president trump fully was to engage in a summit if we believe there is sufficient likelihood we can make real progress in achieving the outcomes that were set forth in singapore now, a couple years back. we're trying to have informed discussions with the north koreans. we believe the denuclearization of the peninsula and ultimately resolution of the conflict there is important instability is incredibly important most of the you need to have a willing partner stop the north koreans have chosen at this point in time not to engage in a way that can lead to potential solution. we hope that will change their mind. we look forward to engaging them in dialogue so get to the right outcome and so do our partners in the

pompeo: this is personal for me. i've fought on the border of east germany when i was a young soldier. >> yes, i am aware of that. and your unit is coming back to the united states. sec. pompeo: i know, they had been back once before and they went back. when i was there, there was six figures. germany is no longer a front line state. as far as strategic efforts, the nato commander was in the process of helping us think this through. i saw comments at a this morning that are different than you described, that viewed the actions we have taken as threatening because we will have soldiers that are deployed closer to the russian border. yes, this was a thoughtful process. the military piece of this ran out of the pentagon department, the state department was fully involved in the strategic pieces in this. and i'm very confident that our mission to deter russia is still fully capable. the precise number about 100,000 early. conditions changed around the world and our forces need to be repositioned to confront today's chall

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of state mike pompeo: i think that's funny bob. if i traveled to new york or boston or court or state. nobody said a word. the travel, everybody always has a second there in the case why mike pompeo my travel there. i think every american in the secretary of state about a foreign policy penetrate policy. and talk to them about i am also doing it on the heels which was me in philadelphia. i'm going to announce the results of the commission and undeniable unalienable rights. i go to iowa to talk about those very rights. back to the place that understands and i want to talk about religious freedom in all of the things that you will see in this report. the the american policy in the set of understandings, our declaration of independence, our constitution pretty in the capacity to go around the world. and encourage other nations to preserve and protect freedoms with their people pretty religious freedoms of people basic rights as a result of the fact that were made in the image of god . in every human being regardless of race and nation

pompeo: let's back up. a lot of what you said suggests -- knowledge i don't think you actually have. i don't want to comment on the intelligence. the cia put out a statement. the intelligence community handled this very well. we see threats in intelligence reporting to our soldiers stationed all over the world every single day. every single day. so i can assure you that whatever reporting it is you are referring to, that we responded in precisely the correct way, with respect to making sure our forces were postured up a -- postured appropriately, aware of the level of the threat, the credibility, and that we were aware. the fact that the russians are engaged in afghanistan in a way that at versus the u.s. is -- that is adverse the u.s. is nothing new. some members of congress are suggesting they are shocked and appalled by this. they saw the same intelligence we saw. it will be interesting to ask them what they did when they saw whatever intelligence they are referring to. they would have had access to this

mike pompeo: what it would look like. and i will be able to travel to europe here just a handful of weeks. so we will certainly start into that. at a senior level. we a will outline the mission st and well and don't know exactly the shape of the day, i am confident we will set up a structure that will enhance our collective shared knowledge in our collective responses and ensuring we protectkn freedom fm every democracy in both sideserf the atlantic. >> what you expected to really kickoff and operating. mike pompeo: hopefully becomes very religious the nextt few weeks. so it's a little morest difficut because in terms of our capacities of travel, but i would expect that will have teams in place identified in the next week. and then real work will begin. it is something that is starting that we want to kickoff but i don't know that there is a endpoint. i expect this will go on for an extended period of time because of the challenge. jointly trying to solve four. is that we preserve and democracy in both sides of the atlant

mike pompeo was born in orange. [applause] >> he attended loss amigos high school in fountain valley where he was an outstanding student and athlete. in fact, i have it on good authority that among the fans of glory days of lobo basketball, a reverent hush the sins on the crowd whenever the name pompeo is mentioned. [laughing] the secretary was first in his class at west point. he won the award as the most distinguished cadet. he won another award for the highest achievement in engineering management. he spent his active-duty years, his army years in west germany, and as he put it, patrolling the iron curtain, before the fall of the berlin wall. in 1988 -- excuse me. retiring with a rank of captain, he went on to harvard law school where he was an editor of the law review. in 1988 he returned to his mother's home state of kansas and began a stunningly successful business career. he was elected to the house of representatives from kansas in 2011 where he soon gained great respect for our reputation as one of the most

nick: pompeo is right -- he never publicly critccized yavono in fact, senior officials around pompeo tell me he privately resisted giuliani's effort for at least a few months, but didn't go public to avoid alienating presint trump. and that is the core of the criticism from former senior and current officials -- they haven't hed the public defenses of career officials at the state department that they need to hear. they also point out only two, and soono be one, of the department's senior officials is a career employee. as for the democratic staff report, the stnte department e a statement, accusing top committee democrat senator bob menendez of blockingf somee state department's nominees, and, quote, "notwithstanding senator menendez's obstruction, the trump administration has effectively delivered on its hereign policy goals for the american people, safety and economic prosperity." judy: nick, we know that just last month, president trump fired the state department's inspector general, steve linick. i understand that came up today. nick: mocratic lawmakers accuse pompeo of urging t

pompeos lived in d.c.. the other concern from democratic law make ares and senior officials that i talked is that dinners hosted by pompeo and his wife are more about collecting information om donors. a senior state department official counters that telling me that all formerieecret had dinner and former secretary hillary clinton once hosted ar dinner at home with donors to the clinton foundation who had business with the state development department. erbut the form officials i talk to say those former secretaries had dinners about policy and tenat these cu dinners are about pompeos talks. >> it sounds like its with quite a hearing with some fairly testy moments. thank you so much for followi this. >> thanks very much. >> woodruff: last economics correspondent paul solman reported on the ominous collap of the antibiotics redustry, just as bacterial infections are iing as a side-effect of the coronavirus. tonight he explains wh because much of this story was shot before the pandemic kicked in. part of ouregu

sick at terry estate mike pompeo has -- speaking in california, pompeo said the communist party's actions are now the primary challenge to the free world. let's bring in tom mackenzie in beijing. so how significant an escalation is this? tom: this was clearly an uncompromising speech by mike pompeo. he was essentially summing up previous beaches we had from senior members of the ministration including the head of the fbi christopher wray, but also the attorney general and the head of the national security council within the trump administration. pompeo took to the stage and he was not pulling his punches. he said that securing our freedom, and i am quoting, from the chinese communist party is the mission of our time. he talked about this as being an existential struggle between right and wrong. he warned against bending the knee to china. he said the free world must triumph over this new tierney. take a listen. -- new tyrrany. take a listen. >> [indiscernible] tom: pompeo did not call for regime change but he came close. he said the world should engage with the people of china and try to

i am delighted to welcome secretary pompeo back to london. we will be discussing a full range of issues today. we are going through a range of challenges in the world, fair to say, but also great opportunities, and britain and the united states are absolutely clean and focused. aboute spoken today serious concerns about the situation in hong kong, particularly in relation to the national security legislation. we talked about the u.k. office, what we are doing in extending the extradition treaty, extending the arms embargo to hong kong. we will be meeting together with will be eyes and we discussing the next at the next g7. we talked about ongoing discussions with relation to 5g and how we can diversify telecoms and 5g networks, and also learning the lessons from the coronavirus about p.p.e. and other things and what we can do to facilitate that. we also talked about the free trade negotiations. we are looking for a meeting british and american businesses shortly. we think we can be even better than that. there are every morning just under 1.5

here is mike pompeo again. se pompeo: united states has a huawei announcement of our own. the state department will impose visa restrictions on companies at provide material support to companies engaging in human rights violations globally. >>ll these aretories deteriorating -- demonstrating the sharp deterioration in china's relationship with the west. here is president trump welcoming president xi and his wife to mar-a-lago. as you can see, things have shifted. let's get more from beijing. >> china is fightinn so many westuntries at the moment on so many fronts. something has to give. sure, this is a big, powerful, economic juggernaut of a country, and it knowthat people have to sit up and listen when beijing speaks to them. however, you just look at th fights cna is having with the u.s., canada, australia, brain, france, the list goes on and on. the global economy is so integrated these days that tna west needs cnd china needs the west. i think everybody knows this ultimately. it's just, somehow or other, there has to be a path forward. at the moment, it is so hard to s

us secretary of state mike pompeo calls on the world to turn on china, warning of a new tyranny from beijing. researchers warn the amount of plastic ending up in the ocean could nearly triple in the next 20 years unless urgent action is taken. in the us, the department ofjustice says it will investigate the use of force by federal officers in portland, sent in as part of president trump's crackdown. from our series echos of empire, our correspondent in kenya confronts her country's colonial past. for decades, this was a detention camp. they were not allowed to interact with other communities. the colonial government termed them in evil clan. —— and —— an evil clan. the american secretary of state, mike pompeo, called on free nations to triumph over the threat of what he said was a new tyranny from china. in a speech attended by several prominent chinese dissidents, mr pompeo accused beijing of biting the international hands that were feeding it and of exploiting the freedom and openness of american society. general secretary xi jinping general secretary xijinping is a true be

"the story" hosted by martha maccallum with special guest secretary of state mike pompeo starts now. >> martha: my dog treats me like that almost every night. good evening everybody, i martha maccallum in new york and this is a fast-moving story tonight, a lot of breaking news this evening and a rapidly changing landscape for the 2020 election. the president canceled the jacksonville portion of the republican national convention when he spoke to the press today. we've got a brand-new polling numbers for you from fox polling that shows the president trails joe biden in the battleground states of michigan, minnesota, and pennsylvania as we are about 100 days out from the election. mr. trump was in a similar position we should point out back in 2016. after his very surprising victory that year, there was a lot of talk in the country about who these voters in this silent majority in america could be? watch this. >> trump voters were long-suffering, analysts say often silenced. >> a lot of people kept quiet about a lot of things. >> you don't say it to anybody else but you show up and did

so pompeo is attempting here to lay out a case for that. whether he will be successful or not, we will have to see. haslinda: the concern really is that the more aggressive the u.s. is, the more aggressive china could be as well, but we have not seen that. know, we areyou going to see some amount of retaliation come out from the chinese side in terms of this consulate closing in houston. the u.s. said that china would have to vacate the houston consulate by the end the -- of the week. china has promised to respond. there is a wide amount of options. we are going to see an escalation, as i say, in the near to immediate future. whether that would trigger additional escalations, whether the u.s. side, which we have reported, has a lot of china awks and the state department, whether the u.s. side continues to push forward remains to be seen. there are a lot of escalation opportunities ahead of us. i have got to reiterate, this is an election year in the united states. not only donald trump, but also democrat joe biden are trying to portray a ha

by this from the secretary of state mike pompeo. china treats hong kong as a single country as a sink goal system, so must we. general secretary made a choice to violate their promises to hong kong that were made in the un register treaty. he didn't have to do that, he made that choice. we have to deal with china as it is not as we wish it to be. china says its response will include sanctions on people and entities in the us — and it has now summoned its us ambassador. this is of course all part of broader us china tensions. we've had american pressure on the chinese tech firm huawei, and now for the the first time the us has said the chinese pursuit of natural resources in the south china sea is "completely unlawful". china's been building military bases on artificial islands in this area for years. but the us has never called them illegal before. china in return says the us "deliberately distorts facts and international law". and then we have mike pompeo saying this. sot on monday, for the first time, we

really delighted to welcome secretary pompeo back to london. we have been discussing the full range of issues today. we are going through a whole range of challenges in the world, so to say, but also great opportunities in britain and the united states are absolutely keen on focused on making sure we grasp them. we‘ve spoken today about our serious concerns about the situation in hong kong, particularly in relation to the national security legislation we talked a bit about the uk offer and what you‘re doing and suspending the extradition treaty, the arms embargo to hong kong and mike gave me have prospective owners as well. you can order that you are coordinating and you have discussed next steps that g7 level. we also spoke about on view —— my ongoing discussions in relation to 5g and how we can diversify our supply chains, and also more broadly learning some lessons of coronavirus, around ppe and other things, the work we can do together in order to facilitate that. that brought us on to talk about the free trade negotiations, we are

mike pompeo. let‘s get some of the day‘s other news. several passengers on an iranian plane have been injured after the pilot changed altitude to avoid collision with a us fighterjet. the american military has said its f—is was at a safe distance during the incident, which happened over syria. video footage from inside the plane shows passengers in life jackets and oxygen masks. a group of military police in italy have been arrested and their station closed after investigators uncovered a raft of alleged crimes taking place in the barracks. the unit, known as the carabinieri, in the northern city of piacenza are suspected of drug trafficking, blackmail and torture. a usjudge has once again ordered michael cohen to be released from prison. president donald trump‘s former lawyer was sent home in may because of the coronavirus pandemic but he was returned to prison injuly after he questioned an agreement that barred him from publishing a book, engaging with news organisations, and posting on social media. britain and america have accus

and with secretary of state pompeo, very ideological. he sees everything as black—and—white, anti—communist and democracy, whatever. the world is much more sophisticated. when china keeps a low profile, they say china keeps a low profile, they say china needs to take more responsibility. when china takes more spots ability, they become more aggressive. that's the perspective ofa aggressive. that's the perspective of a approaching the microprobe ageing supporter. the washington correspondent from the washington chinese servicejoins us correspondent from the washington chinese service joins us live now. does china see itself as being disproportionately targeted, or does it understand why the uk and the us are taking these measures against it? it's a little bit of both. china certainly sees itself as being u nfa i rly certainly sees itself as being unfairly targeted and even believed. the uk and the us are bashing china in its view because they're so powerful economically, and technologically, as well, that the west now feels threaten

us secretary of state mike pompeo calls on the world to turn on china, warning of a "new tyranny" from beijing. drowning in plastic — a major study predicts over a billion tonnes will be dumped into the environment, over the next 20 years. and the world should've been marking the start of the tokyo olympics — so what now for the would—be participants after its postponement? hello and welcome. president trump has announced that he's cancelling the main gathering of the republican national convention in florida in august following a spike in coronavirus cases there. speaking at a white house press briefing, mr trump said he would give a speech ahead of us elections as planned, the timing for this event is not right, it's just not right with what's happened recently, the flare up in florida. to have a big convention, it's not the right time. it's really something that for me i have to protect the american people, that's what i've always done, that's what i've always done, that's what i always will do. that's what i'm about. joining us now on this is our north america correspondent d

us secretary of state mike pompeo calls on the world to turn on china, warning of a new tyranny from beijing. researchers warn the amount of plastic ending up in the ocean could nearly triple in the next 20 years unless urgent action is taken. and they were postponed by the pandemic. the tokyo olympics were supposed to start today, but should the games go ahead at all? president trump has announced that he is cancelling the main gathering of the republican national convention in florida in august following a spike in coronavirus cases there. speaking at a white house press briefing, mr trump said he would give a speech ahead of us elections as planned, but in a different form. have a listen. the timing for this event is not right. it's just not right, with what's happened recently, the flareup in florida, to have a big convention. it's not the right time. it's really something that, for me, i have to protect the american people. that's what i have always done. that's what i always will do. that's what i am about. susan macmanus is emeritus political science professor from the univers

that mike pompeo speech coming up that. that mike pompeo speech coming up in that. that mike pompeo speech coming upina that. that mike pompeo speech coming up in a couple of hours. it's notjust the us that's been clashing with china recently — british and chinese relations are also strained. the latest issue is passports. many people in hong kong hold uk issued british overseas national passports. the chinese government says it is considering not recognising them as legitimate travel documents anymore. the move comes in reaction to uk's own plan to allow those in hong kong with these bno passports to apply for special visas to live in britain and eventually even become uk citizens. here's foreign ministry spokesperson waang wunbin again. translation: the uk has neglected china's serious argument and has politically manipulated the bno issue. it has broken its promised and violated international it has broken its promise and violated international law and basic norms. the uk has intervened in both hong kong and china's domestic affairs. the uk broke its promise fi

secretary of state pompeo challenging other nations to change their, the form of their engagement with china. secretary pompeo says that if they don't, the free world as we know it may be lost. >> it demands exertion, energy from democracies, those in europe, those in africa, those in south america and especially those in the indo-pacific region. if we bend a knee now, our children's children may be at the mercy of the chinese communist party whose actions are the primary challenge today in the free world. lou: joining us now, congressman jim banks, member of the house armed services committee. congressman, good to have you with us. the secretary of state sounds like a secretary who is keenly aware that the united states is now in a cold war with the people's republic of china. your thoughts. >> lou, this speech that secretary pompeo gave at the nixon library, ironically, is the best and most important speech the secretary has given as secretary of state. and it tells you everything you need to know about this administration. you have to go back to 2017 when president trump first becam

not only did the staffer have to walk pompeo's dog, they also had to walk trump's dog. it didn't take long for trump to get asked about firing the i.g. and here's what he said: >> i don't know him at all. i never even heard of him. but, i was asked to, by the state department, by mike. so, i don't know him, never heard of him, but they asked me to terminate him. i have the absolute right as president to terminate. i don't know what's going on other than that. but you'd have to ask mike pompeo. >> stephen: i'm not sure that sounds as exonerating as donald trump thinks. ( as trump ) "don't look at me! i have no idea what's going on. they just prop me up here in front of the cameras and i do the things that they tell me. oh, that reminds me, hand me the nuclear football. i've heard a lot of negative phone calls about china." now, in addition to using state department officials to walk his dog, the i.g. was investigating pompeo for one other thing-- might not be important-- not cooperating with their probe into an $8 billion arms deal to saudi arabia. guess which one trump

secretary of state mike pompeo now calling for change in the communist party. and don't miss our exclusive interview later with australia's second largest gold minor. -- gold miner. theoins us to discuss runaway prices in precious metals. ♪ karina: the coronavirus marches on in the race to find a vaccine. u.s. cases topping 4 million, while deaths in california and florida set unwelcome new highs. the world health organization now says china seems ready to allow a study of the pandemic origins with investigators expected to travel to beijing soon. meanwhile, infections continue to rise in asia with hong kong reporting four plus infections for a second day. social distancing rules are being tightened, but the government says a new lockdown is not eminent. tokyo set a new record with 360 new cases as the country enters a long weekend. cases are increasing among 40-year-olds and 50-year-olds. the coronavirus pandemic is likely to see india missing budget estimates as government finances come under pressure. spending targets may not be achievable. the current fis

mike pompeo secretary of state mike pompeo and borisjohnson. mike pompeo hasjust tweeted that it has been a constructive visit, saying our true country's long—standing bilateral relationship has laid the foundation for the discussions today, on issues ranging from 56, china, and he says moving on to our negotiations for a us-uk moving on to our negotiations for a us — uk free—trade agreement. that is then in the rose garden in downing street a short time ago. they have spoken about huawei, and the decision not to allow huawei to participate in the sg infrastructure in the uk. we don't know if they have spoken about russia, which is something we are concentrating on following the report released today. mps who have been investigating russian interference in british politics have concluded that it's impossible to say whether hackers linked to moscow affected the brexit referendum because no—one in the british government wanted to touch the issue "with a ten—foot pole." the intelligence and security committee said russia had both the cyb

pompeo said china bullies its neighbors and pushes illegitimate maritime claims. the u.s. has already pledged help for nations who want to fight unlawful claims to offshore resources in the south china sea. with tensions rising in the region, the head of the the indo pacific command says he wants to deploy to guam the missile defense system. admiral phillip davidson said on tuesday that he believes adversaries o of the uniteted ss will have made enough technological advances by 2026 to s surpass the current u.s. missile defense systems. the comment suggests concern over china's missile technology. davidson added he has asked for $5.2 billion from the fiscal year starting in october to deploy aegis ashore in guam. >>> the u.s. secretary of state sat down with a hong kong pro-democracy leader in london. nathan law fled to the uk in the wake of china's new national security law for his home city. pompeo told reporters ahead of the meeting he expected to have eye-opening discussions with the 27-year-old activist and politician. law left hong kong on july 3rd over safety concer

the us secretary of state mike pompeo here in the uk yesterday and comments he made about how the who was in thrall to china it really looks like this escalation is not going to go away. jessica, you mention might pullan pao. christopher, iwill jessica, you mention might pullan pao. christopher, i will bring jessica, you mention might pullan pao. christopher, iwill bring new and now he is quoted in this article saying in his visit to denmark that the chinese communist party was a reading everywhere and that china's ip theft because hundreds of thousands of jobs in ip theft because hundreds of thousands ofjobs in europe and america. —— you mentioned mike pompeo. that is tough talk not surprising given he works for the president trump but what is your ta ke president trump but what is your take on that? he is touring europe of course and he met with tory mps and gave their head of the who are a familiar target donald trump. he certainly is marching in lockstep with president. the state department has a foggy bottom in america, not somewhere where you have straight talking and is off

todd: mike pompeo vowing to make china pay for covering up the pandemic as tensions rise between the us and the communist nation over new restrictions and sanctions. the chinese government thousand get even. >> reporter: mike pompeo said the china will absolutely have to pay a price for their early handling of the covid-19 outbreak. in an interview with the hell mike pompeo added foreign minister's around the world agreed china made mistakes, the chinese are accused of covering of the early outbreak numbers of coronavirus and withholding elimination, pompeo met with his counterpart to engage in talks, tensions have been steadily rising between washington and beijing, yesterday pompeo impose these restrictions on chinese tech firms describing them as trojan horses for intelligence. more sanctions are being considered including travel bans on chinese communist party members. the specific reason for these and strict restrictions was linked to the trump administration's view that the chinese are engaging human rights abuses, china has been criticized for controversial security laws in ho

whether it is movements in the south china sea, which secretary of state pompeo said was unlawful, and their treatment of and thethnic minorities shanking province, that has been -- shenzhen province. that has been going on a wild the administration has used this moment to take some retaliatory efforts against them, and the administration when i talked to officials about china and what we've seen in the past few weeks, they said a lot of their actions have been a long time coming, and they've been months and months in the making, but it is all coming to a head right now. jesse: do we expect any high-level conversations between united states officials and chinese officials to bring the tensions back down? meridith: at this point, i do not see that happening in the near future, and the president himself has said he has no interest in talking to chinese president xi jinping. we will have to see how things go in the coming weeks but it doesn't seem like right now, we are going to see any of those conversations happening in the immediate future. jesse: is there any political advantage for d

a special thanks to secretary of state mike pompeo who has been so much of his valuable time with us this morning. the secretary has a tremendous background as most of you know he was number one at west point. he was a captain in the army, served in congress, head of the c.i.a. and now of course secretary of state. any one of these accomplishments would be a major accomplishment for any one of us but he has them all. so with that, i want to welcome you again and hand the program over to our great editor bob who is now going to interview the secretary. have a great day. thank you. thank you, mr. secretary for joining us. i want to jump into the news. recently, you said that the u.s. to make than tiktok and other chinese apps. is it going to be a decision this summer? first of all, thank you for having me. jimmy, thank you for that generous introduction. i made a comment about tiktok. we have to go back to first principles. protect national security. in this case, the information of american citizens. whether it is tiktok or any of the other chinese communications platforms, apps, infr

how are pompeo and u.k. leaders going to respond? >> reporter: well, secretary pompeo is also leaving here with a couple of policy institution think tanks that are hawkish on china. i think we can get the picture that secretary pompeo is going to come here and look for brittain to come here and step forward on removing huawei's equipment from the 5g network. trying to influence the british position to take a step forward against china. the united states sanctioning a number of chinese companies over the treatment of chinese uighurs. the british prime minister has said he does want to remain sort of engaged with china going forward. china will be a big player going forward. he wants brittain's relationship with china to be on even footing. they called chinese treatment of uighurs egregious. that's going to be a pressure point from secretary pompeo to get brittain to perhapsak a stronger position against china, but at the same time on the prime minister's side, he's going to listen. why? he wants a free trade agreement for the end of t

a lot to talk about — the us secretary of state mike pompeo is meeting borisjohnson in downing street — with china high on the agenda £35 billion - the cost of the uk response to coronavirus injune — the third biggest monthly figure on record. at thejohnny depp libel trial his ex—wife is questioned about the injuries she says were caused by him also on the programme today, we will be reporting from ashington in northumberland which said a final farewell to jack charlton. and coming up on bbc news, the men's rugby league world cup kicks off next year with holders australia against fiji in hull, and the hosts england against samoa at st james‘s park. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the long awaited report into alleged russian interference in uk politics has said moscow poses an ‘immediate and urgent threat to national security‘. parliament‘s intelligence and security committee accuses the government of not being willing to investigate whether moscow interfered in the 2016 brexit referendum — and of welcoming with ‘open arms‘ russian money. the for

here's mike pompeo again. the united states has a huawei announcement of oui’ own the united states has a huawei announcement of our own today. the state department will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of the chinese technology companies like huawei to —— that provide material support to routines engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally. hong kong, the south china sea, huawei — these are all stories demonstrating the sharp deterioration in china's relations with the west. back in 2017, president trump welcomed the president xi and his wife to his mar a lago estate. go back to 2015, here's president xi enjoying a pint in an english pub with david cameron. but things have shifted. let's get more from stephen mcdonell in beijing. china is fighting so many western countries at the moment on so many fronts, you do have to wonder when something has to give. i mean, sure, this is a big powerful economic juggernaut of the country and it knows that people have to sit up and listen w

secretary of state mike pompeo was asked whether he'd recommend downloading it. only if you want your private information in the hands of the chinese communist party. welcome to the programme. we have to start with jair bolsonaro, president of the country with the second highest number of covid cases in the world — and now he's part of that total. here he is telling reporters earlier. he appears without a mask but then puts one on. he tells them he's been feeling unwell since sunday, had a fever and was suffering some pain and then took a coronavirus test. now, though, he says he feels perfectly well. translation: for example, if i hadn't taken the covid—19 test, i wouldn't know the result. and it turned out to be positive. let's bear in mind this is a man who has repeatedly trivialized and downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus. there are any number of examples i could show you. this is one from march after brazil's first covid death. translation: given my history of athleticism, if i was to be infected with the virus, i would not have to worry. i wou

-- >> when pompeo was asked on fox if linick was fired for investigating him, pompeo said this -- >> he was investigating policies he simply didn't like. that's not the role of the inspector general so i recommended to the president he terminate steve linick. >> mr. linick is now the fifth, yes, the fifth inspector general to be fired by president trump from his or her post in the last few months. >> presidents reagan and george h.w. bush also stirred controversy when they tried to replace every inspector general at the start of their terms. president obama caught congressional ire when he removed an ig during the investigation of kevin johnson, a vocal supporter of obama. >> an agency or even a president who wants to fire an ig first has to explain why to congress first. >> but trump in some cases did not need to cite a reason for his actions, because many of his inspectors general were not presented to congress for constitutionally mandated vetting. they were, like so many trump appointees, even those in important national and homeland security positions, acting officials. >> i lik

evening, charles, secretary of state mike pompeo going to justify the u.s. closing the chinese consulate in houston because he says it was a hub of spying and intellectual property theft. preparing the remarks for the secretary 's speech he was going to give it that richard nixon presidential library, the secretary mentions president nixon's historic visit to china and says that engagement with the chinese government has failed to live up to the change that nixon had hoped to create a period of democracy's most abandoned blind engagement with china general secretary is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology. if we could no longer ignore the fundamental puddling to local and ideological differences between our countries. he floats the creation of international alliance of democracies to reduce change in china's government. yesterday the state department under the chinese government to vacate the consulate in houston and china is warning the u.s. to reverse that decision and if not, promising to retaliate. if the fbi claims china's consulate in sa

us secretary of state mike pompeo meets borisjohnson and congratulates him on banning the chinese tech firm huawei from its 56 networks. i think the united kingdom made a good decision, but i think that decision was made not because the united states said it was a good decision but because leadership here in united kingdom concluded the right thing to do was to make that decision for the people of united kingdom. uk government borrowing soared to more than £35 billion injune, about five times more than the same time last year because of the coronavirus crisis. at thejohnny depp libel trial, his ex—wife is questioned about the injuries she says were caused by him. the government has "categorically rejected" an allegation that it actively avoided investigating whether russia interfered in the 2016 brexit referendum. the accusation was made by mps presenting their long awaited report into claims of russian meddling in british politics. the intelligence and security committe says the government badly underestimated the threat, while the intelligence agencies took their eye off the ball.

. >> next, secretary of state mike pompeo talks about the future of u.s.-china relations. this event was held at the richard nixon presidential liberia in california. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable michael pompeo, the honorable pete wilson, christopher nixon cox and hugh hewitt. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪

i will ask mike pompeo about the story, many other topics around the world in just a few minutes. first, from the white house tonight, kristin fisher live on the lawn. >> good evening, this is the first time since "the new york times" wrote the story on friday. president trump talked about it on camera, he said if russia did offered bounties to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan, he would take action. >> i agree with the intelligence people. i think frankly many of the intelligence people didn't think something that would happen. if it did happen, the russians would hear about it, and anybody else would hear about it that was involved. >> today the national security advisor confirmed that the intelligence behind to the russian bounties was shared with u.s. allies. he pinned the -- on the daily pray for, a career cia officer. >> she made that decision because she didn't have confidence in the intelligence. she made that call, i think she made the right call. >> democrats disagree. that they believe intelligence of this magnitude should have made the way to the president. democratic se

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pompeo said the country has been bullying its neighbors a and pushing its claimss on maritime regions it has no lawful claim to. >>> meanwhile u.s. secretary of defense mark esper has also criticized what he calls china's aggressive behavior in the east and south china sea. >> the pla has increased the numbmber and duration of waters japan's security role is growing. >> japan controls the islands in the east china sea. china and taiwan claim them. ththe japanesee goverernment maintains the islands are inherent part of japan's territory in terms of history and international law. it says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved. >>> china is also facing criticism from taiwan which says four of its senior officials were forced to leave hong kong. taiwan's mainland affairs council told nhk the civil servants returned home earlier this month from its defacto consulate in hong kong. it says authorities would not renew their visas because they refused to sign a statement upholding the one china principle which says taiwan remains a part of china. taiwanese authorities say they will no