[Lu Stout:] A sources tells CNN, reports that Rex Tillerson might be replaced as U.S. Secretary of State are aimed at publicly shaming him. And expressing President Trump's displeasure, we'll have the latest. Well, reports say Kim Jong-un's half brother was carrying the antidote to the poison which killed him at the airport when he died. And what happens in the Arctic will affect the whole world. We'll take you to one of Greenland's fastest moving glaciers and the huge chunks of ice into the sea, much quicker than anyone expected. And we begin with another possible shakeup at the White House. Reports emerged yesterday that Rex Tillerson's job as Secretary of State is on the chopping block. Now a source tells CNN that those reports were a White House effort to publicly shame Tillerson into quitting. So he could be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Tillerson has been on thin ice with President Donald Trump for months, but especially sense he never actually denied that he once president a quote, moron. This is what the White House had to say about Tillerson on Thursday.
[Sarah Sanders, White House Press Secretary:] When the president loses confidence in someone, they will no longer serve in the capacity that they're in. The president was here today with the secretary of state. They engaged in a foreign leader visit and are continuing to work together to close out what we have seen to be an incredible year.
[Unidentified Female:] Do you have Rex Tillerson on the job, Mr. President?
[Donald Trump, President Of The United States:] He's here. Rex is here. Thank you very much, everybody.
[Lu Stout:] All this should make for a pretty interesting conversation later today when President Trump has lunch with Rex Tillerson as well as his defense chief James Mattis. Now the impact of replacing America's top diplomat would go far beyond Washington. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is in London with more on the story. Nick, again, Tillerson is expected to be on his way out, Pompeo, on his way in. What could be the geopolitical impact of this?
[Nick Paton Walsh, Cnn Correspondent:] First of all, I mean the timing of this significant change probably the most prominent and powerful diplomat in the world, having his exit imposed upon him and signaled through the U.S. Media. Just pause and think about that in terms of a strategy. Like a bizarre reality TV show. But also, too, all that does to everything that Rex Tillerson touches now going forward until he leaves that job. He's a marked man, a lame duck and clearly not somebody who speaks in the authority of the White House. So look at the meetings ahead of him. Particularly, meeting foreign ministers, things like that and pretty much consider the U.S. contribution there to be useless. But the standing it does to U.S. diplomacy is quite staggering as well because it shows a division at the highest possible level at the same time when there are an insane number of challenges facing the U.S. administration. Namely above all, we have the North Korea fired in the direction of Japan an intercontinental ballistic missile. So these are the things that it does to U.S. opposition globally. But then the broader question is, well, when Rex Tillerson is gone, this has not necessarily been something that was anticipated at some point in the future. If Mike Pompeo, the CIA Director comes in, what does that mean for U.S. Foreign Policy. Well, I have to say with all things at Trump White House, it's very hard to really know. He said himself, the only person his opinion matters is quote, him. So if Mike Pompeo will come there with a series of differing potential ideas, he is known to be a much more hawkish figure when it comes to North Korea, having discussed regime change, roll back a little bit at those comments. And North Korea is an impractical idea in the first place, frankly, it would have sparked some sort of war, but also, much more hawkish when it comes to the nuclear deal over Iraq's nuclear power and weapons I'm sorry, Iran's nuclear power and weapons program. He called that disaster and say he wanted to dismantle it, talked about the needs to compile intelligence to prove the case that Iran is in violation of it. And I think fortunately unfortunately then you will see that President Trump is surrounded by an increasingly hawkish number of voices on Iran. Jim Mattis, then Secretary of Defense, a relatively sane voice is still pretty hawkish with Iran, so as John Kelly, his chief of staff, Mike Pompeo is very hawkish, there is a suggestion that he will replace Pompeo at the CIA, [Inaudible], he is pretty hawkish, too, so that makes for a very troubling series of opinions that surround Donald Trump. He's not known himself to have a big background at all in foreign policy. Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] Yes, hawkish voices and very loyal lieutenants are surrounding President Trump, pretty soon, as we anticipate the end of Rex Tillerson. Nick Paton Walsh reporting live for us, thank you. Now meanwhile, President Trump's posting of those anti-Muslim videos from a far right British group is drawing condemnation still at home and abroad. It is fuelling fears and fact about safety at U.S. embassies around the world. Here's Jake Tapper.
[Jake Tapper, Correspondent:] Officials at the U.S. State Department were so concerned about the anti-Muslim videos that President Trump retweeted yesterday. They told the White House, they were actually worried that the president's actions might spark a reprise of violent protests at U.S. embassies in the Middle East. They're already on high security alert. Quote, it didn't manifest in anything actionable, but it was a big concern. One State Department official told CNN reporters, Elise Labott and Abby Phillip. Just think about that for a second. President Trump's State Department worried about the safety and security of Americans abroad, and why because the president recklessly pushed out videos of questionable veracity from an extremist far right wing Britain first group. The resulting security concerns are just another example of how far reaching and deeply felt the president's words can be. Still, this is the White House response just minute ago.
[Sanders:] What he's done is elevate the conversations to talk about a real issue and a real threat, and that's extreme violence and extreme terrorism. Something that we know to be very real and something the president feels strongly about, talking about, and bringing up, and making sure there's an issue every single day, but we are looking at the best ways to protect Americans. John.
[Unidentified Male:] On that point, Sarah, did the president when he retweeted Jayda Fransen know who she was?
[Sanders:] No, I don't believe so but again, I think he knew what the issues are.
[Tapper:] So, to recap, the president did not know who the source was, an extremist far right group and he saw these videos that clearly seek to portray Muslims as dangerous savages, he thought that that would elevate the conversation.
[Lu Stout:] Wow. That was CNN's Jake Tapper reporting. In the last hour, Pope Francis met with a group of Rohingya refugees, the very people whose plight has been in sharp focus during his trip to Myanmar and now Bangladesh. And crucially, he also finally used the word Rohingya publicly for the first time since the beginning of his tour, a controversial move in itself and that Myanmar does not recognize them as an ethnic group. More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims had fled Rakhine State in recent months due to alleged murder, rape and destruction in their villages by the Myanmar military. Now our Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher is in Dhaka, she joins us now And, Delia, again in Myanmar, Pope Francis tiptoed around the issue, even refrained from using the word Rohingya, but he has finally said Rohingya. He's finally found his voice there in Bangladesh.
[Delia Gallagher, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, that's right, Kristie, it was a surprise, there were off the cuff comments, but the Pope has the last word on criticism that he was not naming the Rohingyas. After he met with them in spontaneous remarks, as I've said he said the presence of God today is also called Rohingya. And he asked for people to continue to work for their rights. He said, their plight was an example of the egotism of the world. So some very strong remarks from Pope Francis coming almost at the end of his trip, he leaves tomorrow and after some days of criticism, because in Myanmar, as you say, he did not mention the word Rohingya, which is not accepted by the Myanmar government and the Vatican was saying, it's a diplomatic trip. It's a political trip. And the pope was trying to work towards that angle of trying to find a long-term solution and to not upset Myanmar, get them to the table for dialogue, so that was the reason you see him there. But he certainly has spoken out about the Rohingya numerous times and, of course did so tonight at this very important symbolic moment when he actually met with some of them. Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] Yes, he's met with some of the Rohingya refugees there in Bangladesh. He finally used the term and said the presence of God today is also called Rohingya. The Pope is expected to leave for Rome on Saturday. At the end of this trip, what do you think the Pope has achieved?
[Gallagher:] Well, coming into this, the idea, as I said, was a kind of diplomatic one. Of course, the trip has been arranged before the August influx of the 600,000 Rohingya refugees, which created such international attention on the crisis. There had been some before and the Pope had spoken out about it before but he was coming here to meet with the authorities in Myanmar to try he met with the military general as well and, of course, Aung San Suu Kyi. So he was trying to work behind a diplomatic angle. But people any papal trip and this one in particular draws attention to a certain situation. And what I have heard from people on the ground here, from leaders and from the people, is that they are happy to have attention. Not only on the refugee situation in Bangladesh, but also on Bangladesh's situation. This is one of the most vulnerable countries that climate change, for example the focus also been speaking quite a lot about that, about poverty and those other things that Pope Francis focused here. And that he thinks the world's attention should be drawn to. He said it tonight, the Rohingya are an example the egotism of the world. Those are themes for the Pope that he continues to repeat and I think probably coming here was able to get the world's attention on this place. Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] Absolutely, Delia Gallagher reporting live from Dhaka as Pope Francis wraps up his visit trip to Bangladesh and Myanmar. Delia, thank you. Now to a really peculiar new twist in the Kim Jong-nam murder mystery. The North Korean leader half brother, as you called, was killed in February in Kuala Lumpur. And now as Paula Newton reports, it appears that he was prepared to save himself.
[Paula Newton, Cnn Correspondent:] It is a prophetic twist. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother was actually carrying an antidote to the poison nerve agent that killed him within minutes. Kim Jong-nam was allegedly poisoned with a VX nerve agent at the Kuala Lumpur airport in February. This new information from Malaysian state media possibly indicates that the elder Kim knew he was a target.
[Dr. Nial Wheate, University Of Sydney:] It sounds like to me he knew what was coming and he wanted to give himself the best chance.
[Newton:] Kim was approached by the who women in the airport who smeared the odorless, colorless liquid on his face, those two women on trial now in Malaysia. One of the women's defense attorneys has said that the antidote known as atropine was found on Kim Jong-nam's carry-on bag in tablet form. But in the state media report, there was a reference to glass vials, possibly indicating the substance was in liquid form. Regardless of its form, experts caution, it was unlikely to save him.
[Wheate:] The VX or any nerve agent is very fast acting. We're talking, if you get exposed enough to it, death within a couple minutes.
[Newton:] To save him from death, atropine would have to be administered immediately into the blood stream or muscle. Here is another intriguing twist in an already baffling story, the two women charged in the murder say they are innocent and thought they were part of a reality TV prank. And a mystery still why Kim Jong-nam apparently didn't attempt to consume the substance, he instead stumbled into an airport clinic and was rushed to hospital in ambulance. He died en route. As this trial continues, suspicions may now be backed up by evidence, that Kim Jong-nam lived in fear of being assassinated by his half brother and took an educate guess on how he would be murdered. North Korea denies any involvement in his death. Paula Newton, CNN, Seoul.
[Lu Stout:] Now the Argentine Navy has official called off the mission to rescue the 44 crew members aboard at the missing submarine. While the search sub continues, some families are begging the Navy to continue the rescue operation. One said, they need to see the bodies to grief. Argentina and 11 other countries have been searching for the sub that went missing on the coast of Argentina on November 15th. You are watching News Stream. Still to come, the Arctic is thawing fast and dazzling landscapes are simply melting away. CNN team takes us to Greenland to see the effects of climate change first hand.