the, the, this is dw use life from the us president joe biden promises state funds support for this specific guidelines. united states defense rivers to japan. and to the philippines, our iron clad delete as of the way as japan and the philippines sold. the 1st find the actual summit as maritime disputes with china continued to see about aging, saves the meeting, only stokes confrontation as water levels continue to rise, more people in south russia and cause that's done, forced to leave. they hugs. it's the west funding in decades. and one of the ways

is most him for the sports task o. j. simpson passes away a celebrity mode of defendants, trial rich the nation in the ninety's and much of the world. the i've been visible and welcome the president of the united states. joe biden has bound to defend the philippines and japan, offering his storage support to his specific guidelines. is hosted the 1st try that will summit in washington. china is going military assertiveness in asia at top. the agenda of correspondent james tre for the prime minister of japan. in washington, this week, a rupture as reception for the us. as in the pacific allies, japanese prime minister mucous you to became only his country. secondly, that's a form of the address, the us congress issuing stone warnings about the threats posed by bay. james,

china is current, it's tom o stands and military actions present. i'm press the dentist and the greatest strategic challenge. keisha does remarks came and made a flurry of diplomatic activity, reclaimed, galvanizing washington's asian allies shortly off to a historic 1st of a try. last row summits between the leaders of the us, japan and the philippines. but the focus of that me thing, growing concerns in manila and so po, about maritime disputes with beijing, china in recent months, has stepped up progression against the philippine vessels in the south china sea. i got out of the summits washington's message to it's to mutual defense tracy allies . we will stand by our promises. i want to be clear, the united states, united states defense commitments to japan. and to the philippines, our iron clad or our class china has set the meeting, starts block confrontation,

as in it was being submitted and attacked. major the us depend, relationship should not harm other countries, interest not undermine regional peace and stability. fucking washington beneath the diplomatic sunset, a sense of urgency. the question marks hon over the coming us selection. and what's the victory for former president trump would mean for his country's commitments overseas? defends leader ones of washington's waning support, the ukraine, and its implications for asia. the leadership of the united states is indispensable. we have the presence of the united states. how long before the the in the pacific woods face, even hash veritas. in his address case, you, the said to wells was a historic attorney. in the face of such challenges, these really to sort to cost

a vision of unity, one that will ensure the in the pacific security for use to come with washington expanding its footprint in the in the pacific. i asked professor steve and maggie at the international question, university, tokyo, how much support they're actually using the region for a great to you waste pressed by large. what we see is that whether it's southeast asia, as a create a south korea or other parts of the in the pacific. there is a large degree of support for more us engagement within the region. at the security level, diplomatic level, at economic level. in fact, most of the partners within the region would like to see the united states return to the c t p to include them in the region, but also develop more of a diplomatic resource to the region to deal with some of the challenges that the region is facing, but it's not going to go as far as becoming an asian style nato, as some people have been calling it. i know the regions 2 veterans in used to

establish an asian style nato. and what we're seeing in view of an asian. so nato is a series of many lateral relationships. the problem solving ad hoc relationships that deal with specific issues within the reach of we've seen this with the philippines as trailer japan and, and the united states in terms of the maritime cooperative activities initiative. and we'll do a task in the south china sea. we saved off. we've also seen this with the cab david principles in south korea, japan and united states to deal with issues in the korean peninsula. it's a mini lateral approach to problem solving within the region. that's going to move forward. rather the natal is steven, is that because everyone's tip toeing around china, which is actually painting. this is provocative. well, i think most of the countries within the region to see china as a revision is power that it's a sort of in the south china sea, across the timeless trades on the east,

tennessee. but the same time their biggest trading partner is china. so how do they balance this important economic relationship that is the lifeline to the regions economy. and frankly, the global economy, which is a sort of behavior that's highly disruptive and that's the time is kasheila said in his speech to the congress. as a fundamental is it successfully? prosecuting is strategic in the interest within the region will fundamentally disrupt the regions, piece, instability. but the economically china is becoming less and less dependent on its neighbors and the rest of the world. uh and is managing to do things on its own and lead the way where, where do you see all this then leading as well at this stage time is still the center of the global production network. uh for it and uh, its biggest trading partners are within the region, just with se days. it has one trillion us dollars, a trade with japan, about $390000000000.00 of trade is the biggest trading part of south korea and

australia. it's still a critical part of the readings economy and even as it tries to recalibrate and and re center, it's economy away from these economy. so it's more diversified, it's still dependent on these economies for uh, for, for consumption, for export. and i think importantly for technologies, and this is not going to change in the short term of 51020 years that the chinese government policies are successful. maybe it will be able to recalibrate this. but at this stage, i think most analysts like myself believe that the coupling by china or the company from china is really not likely or possible. so in the show 10, does china need containing i think that's an interesting question. i think what china does need to do is, is work with partners within the region and really work within the current rules based order. or if it wants to read

a go straight that rules based or work with countries through a consultative mechanism that creates new rules that are mutually agreed upon within the region. and at this stage, we haven't seen that with regards to the on costs agreement. that's the united nations clause sees in the south side of c rather than a bang. that's the agreement that china assigned. it's ignored it and it's continued to expand its presence in the south china sea, threatening the philippines and vietnam and other claimants within the region. it says consequences. the south china sea represents about $5.00 trillion us dollars of trade, any kind of genetic conflict within the region, which obviously disrupt not on the regions economy, but the global economy. this guy talking to steve and steve negatives, national question universe, they talked to you. thank you. in me and the other military junta has lost control of a strategically important town. on the time board of the army is withdrawn from the

trading hop of me, a warranty of today's, of finding ways, resistance forces, the governments troops of reportedly pulled back to a bridge, thinking the amount with time that it's the latest set back for the regime, which is facing growing opposition from level forces and to shop trump in support among the people as the tie border arrivals from me in march or up by almost 50 percent for me here are crossing over from the town of my wadi, after fighting between the military and armed groups or villages afraid of the situation. these people felt terrified so they moved to me so i want to feel scared. yes i do. there's no fighting at the moment. yes. no, didn't your what he told me. this time border check is a short ride from where me and mars military government has been pushed back by

rebel fruit. they've been clashing near, constantly since october, when the rebels got together and a union of fighters to form a larger opposition force. it's a sign of the moving over to rooting power and popularity. they're also at odds the civilians for the opposing the m. r. democratically elected government run by on some sushi using the in 2021 to be here in the holland. but as the displacement and conflict had been widespread since the drawn criticism, but it's from the un, the democratically elected a 2800000 people have now been displaced, 90 percent of them since the military takeover. many of these people require urgent access to food, shelter, and safety, the who to risk losing additional credibility for a strategic loss of my wadi, a major trading point that links myanmar to bangkok by highway rebel attacks on the

military and civilians are on the rise. and type forces to no longer rely on the home to, to secure the me and more side of the board. of course, and again, this is executive director of the me, my account ability project group working with civil society within me a month to bill criminal cases. against members of the regime joins us from london . we're hearing about more and more board of townsend mid mazda, the government, no longer controls, is the hotel losing its griffin pound is very, definitely is a need to understand what's going on. you need to go back to the 27th of october of last year when and the lives in the knowles in a large area. you get a chinese boulder to control with chinese support. no books. but certainly, china is complicity. if you like, i'm not to spread rapidly to other people, the areas near india or bangladesh. and now. busy in times where the last with me

about is a significant low because a 1000000, a 1000000000 involved with the be dollars worth of a went through. i'm from him to thailand. in addition, we've seen what makes it a tax. the president's not on the schedule, the capital just a few days ago, and there are increasing the pool. so number 2 in the jones was injured in a trailer the task. so although i think they were real problems with the confusion of the rebel, the opposition groups, because they are many i think it's very easy to say that the significance that i school, the jones a study with me will be really since last october. and you mentioned china, they could pressure from the international community on badging change. thanks. i think china is very angry with what's happened to them. you know, they had a very good relationship with themselves. sushi,

they sort of whatever reasons like sided falls, if there's a cause of stability and the 2 against the ministers in the government did not go down when emerging in the, the big things. one of the stuff here is a, china has a mega projects, highways, all sorts of in construction projects. and what we will see, i know is stability. i'm the one thing we've not seen since the 2 on the 1st of february, 2021 is stability. so yes, the chinese roll is absolutely set. so as i say, it was the child as well, which allowed this minute to action to be successful in the north. and well, one of the reasons for that is that the memo joseph was allowing to scan sentences . which staging site would be disapproved all to take coal? so yes, i think pressure on china to intervene will fall, sleep might well, but i don't see the chinese seeking to that kind of pressure as well. but certainly,

i think what we're seeing is a device international community and the security council meeting just a few days ago. russia in china, clearly the pictures against the west and delegations. i think that division is being very skillfully exploring to by the jumps of what we want to see is about on a vacation field. because with these minutes except back in the boston seals of, well, jones, a, a doing and response is ariel the tax. the number of, of, of renders the tax in our terms, stays back on state up in the know, in particular it's be, it's very lucky. and the other thing to say is that in the last few months, the johnson has been implementing a full construction policy, which i think to get is a signal of how desperate they all that literally come scripting. men suffice for for 3 years,

daltons which also admitted to doctors of this full subscription. and again, i think this is a sign of desperation. i think the international community met by china needs to step up and make clear clear political program to stabilize what's happening inside be on. and we have to point out the conscription of range of boys and men being brought it, considering that they would long denied citizenship. it would also be a violation of the conscription though, but what you're saying is it sounds like the time is now. but tell me among the rebel groups that are taking different ends in the country, is there anything that can be co grassroots democracy? christopher? it definitely is. and take an example. chin stays up to the boulder with india in the northwest. we see local democratic institutions across roads,

in much festival, there was the constitution promulgated not to be clear. these groups do not complete independence. they won't much, much, much more well, tell them. and that's important because the economy will often say we are the only institution that includes the can protect the union and store your muscle into pieces. that's not true. these other organizations like the chair, they don't want total independence. they want much grateful told me so they probably cases a constitution on this result of that with a much, much more local democracy groups were engaging not just in democratic representation, but also the delivery of services in the amount of talent service education mets and how old so that is something which i think it's important because the international community, but typically the united nations, i'm not responding to these changes, but then the whole question, if you might have 10 a, is a state to state process. and that brings the jump in,

but of course the jungle is not allowing the us have access to huge areas of the country. but typically those as a country where these local democratic institutions, ball rolling off as a vacuum of governance. and that is being filled by the local groceries democracy and the instructional system needs to respond in a way which strengthens those graphs with democratic institutions. thank you very much for the detailed picture. kristen, regardless of the me and my accounts, the project. thank you for being on dw news again. my pleasure. my pleasure. the name of the most severe sledding and almost a century is getting worse in parts of southern russia and cossacks done tens of thousands of people. i've had to evacuate the hopes, melting, snow cause that you will river to boast. it's banks. officials say the river is now top to left meters in the russian city of auburn bull with flint defenses failed local se, nope, enough was done to prevent the flats. and cossacks done with hard,

he's have declared a state of emergency in 10 out of 17 regions how well of icy water rushing towards holmes hearing cause. ucsd on tens of thousands of people have already evacuated and still more a packing up what they can to flee ahead of the record high floods stuff the 5 most of the range of the control, a symbol with this. and i hope it will and then will be safe, the use of a but the night 57 years. but it's the 1st time i've seen water coming to my home. so it's seamless. upstream in russia, the euro river has best its banks flooding parts of our and bug home to mold in half a 1000000 people of the items. the issue of the most the morning the

watermark and the water is more than 10 enough off and it does high. and if that does the highest level of a major issue we store to liberty daniels or annual spring floods have been made worse by torrential rain. and wrinkled high temperatures that have melted ice and snow. the disaster has treated public anger is effected, residents ask for better compensation and will help from russia's lead. is some residents of our in bug, say local officials could have done more to prepare the the storage ease, say the flooding here will pick soon. but in other regions in russia, they're wanting that rivers will continue to rise for the coming days or weeks. the okay, any empowerment is passed a controversial both to boost ami con scripts for its war against profit. the new badges increase payments to volunteers allow some context to serve and requirement to update. they dropped down to hit the boat. a general total make is the russian

forces. sometimes out number keeps troops by 10 to one on the east and from another part of your principal, or if it is aimed at helping ukrainians who are trying to flee russian occupation. but there's only one way to return to their homeland, just which makes the journey, especially difficult. with the border between you kind of brush over at close the check point between corner to laska on the russian side and holcroft in northeast ukraine is the only crossing that remains open dw, calling up with some new arrivals in the nearby city of sunni victoria. i have to send his wife ahead for help as they made the way to the ukrainian border after leaving the occupied lu. hans region. most of the. i'm here for good sawyer with me, but if i would not leave unless that was the case or some nice because it is so hard to leave is the so called graves on a to columbus,

a road between the russian border crossing a colored leaf and ukrainian village up across a volunteer helps him complete this jenny, once across, arrivals driven so humanitarian sent to ensue. new city and northeast and ukraine to push everyone crossed, but i was a little slower. but i had no other way, but through cult leave, comfortable, i could have gone through europe, but it was too expensive. and too long for me personally. i mean, at least, you know, a lot of the people, those who passed through the last remaining border crossing from russia have usually carried all the worldly possessions with them. hence the need for volunteers. when they get the child like they come with everything, they are the last things they have left because they bring many suitcases with them . it's difficult for them to carry so much fits in columbus is movies and so many

of them are elderly people and women rush cuz that's why we go outside the system of that. but of us to get it. so lease news in the ones that the sensor in senior difference of viewed by law enforcement agencies, social services, registered them and help with paperwork me. hi. lo left his occupied village in the cockpit region fighting batteries on gunning his house was hit by shrapnel. but he did not leave for a long time because his wife was ill off to she died inbox from a 3 day journey to the border crossing. now he hopes to be re united with his daughter who has not seen for 2 years that you have to be so yeah, when i left my village, my so we can do a little bit when i shut a chair and saying, glory to you, right. as i to marketing came here in the is a scroll saw in march 2023 was catalina sets up fluids on this volunteer center in sydney for people returning to ukraine from the occupation

. since then 21000 people have passed through it, the body. let me use the numbers. what is the most important message that we want to convey to all people who come to us is that they are not met here by some random volunteer organization, but by the state, a few cream and then mixed with chick all here. and there will come and will be help split team to for more. so this is contrary to the propaganda. they haven't been hearing all these years behind do with some have been living in the occupied territories for years. so if not that authority lip, it's controlled in the sense that continues to operate despite shedding and assume your region with around 40 arrivals per day. so many people living and occupied territories itself is the only way to feel at home. again, the american football style tends to liberty mode, a defendant o j. simpson is dead at the age of $76.00. his family says it was concept. he died without having pay most of the money he owed the families of his date,

ex wife and male friend. the public is now likely to get a closer look into the finances of the so called bill you. there is a look at his rise to stardom and doubtful. o j. simpson gained fame and fortune as a football player and actor but it was a double murder case that made him infamous. simpson was charged with killing his ex wife, nicole brown simpson. mother of his 2 children and her friend ron goldman, in 1994 and she tried to flee the car chase with police and california was broadcast, live across the us. as were the court proceedings, it was called the trial of the century. millions to didn't around the world,

public opinion was divided. the police were accused of racism and botching the investigation of not comfortable. simpson was found not guilty that somebody is not over on file. james simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder and violation of penal code section one that he was found liable for their depth in a civil suit in order to pay more than $33000000.00 to the victims. families date of october 9th. more than a decade later, she was convicted of armed robbery and spent 9 years in prison. news of simpson's death brought mixed reactions. at the time, he was a symbol for the american court system and the due process. so a lot of african american people wanted him to be the case. they want it to believe that he didn't do it simply because he was almost like a matter of size for

a but now living as an adult. i do think that unfortunately, he may have gotten away with it. sorry past but too bad. he didn't. um, you know, at some point confess, cuz i think he did it personally. i hope he asked for forgiveness at the end. i really do, since family says he died surrounded by his children and grandchildren. as a quick reminder of the top stories, the sour on dw us president revised and has promised to defend the philippines and japan aids the plagues during that 1st try natural summited, washington. china is growing military a. so if this in the south trying to see the agenda at the most severe funding it almost a century is getting worse and concepts of the process and context on tens of thousands of people have pets and leave their homes to say, nope, enough was done by of tardies to prevent the fun updates for to run dates as a,

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