the, the, the taiwan is the chalk, bice, from this f quake in 25 years, holding buildings to collapse 9 people that reported data more than 800 injured q. ron and syria added to the u. s. of complacency, to ease ready will primes fall on a deadly supply company in writing and contradicted in damascus. washington refuses to acknowledge any responsibility on the matter. we do not yet have confirmation of the status of the building that was struck in damascus previously. well, thank you. if it was your invitation consulate in the regional tanks, would you react in the same way? casual rules are based on an always to evidence. and on that day for 2 years ago, the 1st ever space flight by an indian citizen at the bottom of rocky strom on ventured

into the cost both on a soviet expedition. we'll look back at the table to live in the that we're continuing our coverage of the latest trends cheap in the world right now. this is our to international. i have my book, watch it. now we start with taiwan. at least 9 people have been reported killed and more than 800 others injured as the strongest. s greek and the quarter of a century, a hit the island, eastern coast, of the magnitude 7.7 creek and related. trembles, cost massive lawn slides and buildings of collapse of the aftershocks. i've expected to continue in the coming days. i made concerns about possible to non the activity that they have been rolling blackouts in the affected region. and their fears got people have been trapped in the rubble of the last as quake of a. some of the magnitude in time wine was recorded in september 1999 and it cost to

have 2400 debts in june. about 100000 people and destroyed thousands of buildings and if prompted authorities to drastically improve construction standards. now we spoke with asia, joe political experts rose, find gold who personally witnessed the card s. greg and he said that the severity of the impact was immediately clear. some earthquakes uh they started out small and they got stronger over the succeeding seconds. this earthquake just started out strong and got stronger. and anyone with experience with earthquakes or who lives in a 3rd grade. so we'd know immediately that the earthquake was, was a very big one. very, very serious. so we're seeing reports building collapses breaks or tiles falling off the sides of buildings, land slides, keeping in mind that the center center of taiwan pretty much from the top to the bottom of the island is, is very mountainous area. so a lot of images of

a very large land slides are coming across. i was actually in my flat at the side and the window frame started to shake the curtains or shades started to shake violently. even in my flight, i have several things, fell off shelves onto the floor and i, i immediately ran to the doorway because experts say it safer to be in a doorway because things like light fixtures or things on higher shelves. my fault apps and similar to literally the local news is reporting images of, of the school children for example, being quickly ushered outside of the building into the athletics. you know, to, again, she's to try and mitigate the risk that things would fall down and heard that it's now about 3 hours since the earthquake here. but we've had a lot of after shops over the past 3 hours. and some of the aftershocks are very, very strong as well. a leading semi conductor manufacturing company, s m c,

whose primary facilities are based in taiwan, was compelled to seize operations and relocate employees to say. so they ask whigs impacts of still being on the lies. in addition to endangering the lives in half of individuals, it may have resulted in effects to a large batch of items currently being processed report the lead that may amount to about around to $60000000.00. and as paging sadie was ready to provide relief efforts on other assessments to tie one after the s great local authorities that they did not need aid from the mainland. however, despite its on easy relations with taiwan, china as popularity in the broad south east asia, the region is on the rise. in a notable shift in sentiments, china has experienced a surge in popularity among respondents from southeast asia climbing from 38.9 percent last year to 50.5 percent this year. edging ahead to become the preferred

alignment choice in the region. it's the straight thing when you put in the walk, but don't get the results. so shed a tear for washington, which is part of the last 12 months building up the china book. human need to find base things don't scary and off to send its neighbors running because its neighbors are real. a smoke volume to logs like those who store the car, doors of the capital. so they see the us ramping up on supplies to taiwan. they see delegation off the delegation flying in, and they had president bite and promising the tune of american peace. so unlike ukraine to be clear, sir, us forces us men and women would defend taiwan in the event of a chinese invasion. yes, they know the blog post that would inevitably follow. they also know that china is options, largest trading partner, beijing's investments in the region a growing year on. yes. but every single one of them is a beneficiary of the vote and vote initiative. so china's economic health is that

it cannot make health the us targeting this lifeline by sloppy on terrorists restricting access to might put chips and judging allies to sign onto the china. take down. no, quite the winning strategy. and it's really not reassuring when the ideologues to show what level they'll go to, to can off the competition. this is one of the interesting ideas, it's unplugged, floated out there for deterrence is just being very clear to the chinese that if you invade taiwan, we're going to blow up the fmc. just throw that out, not because that's necessarily the strategy for the exam and then, and then it's out of course the highest that i want to use really don't like this idea, right? calling up system, see if you do that, you have a to trillion dollar economic impact on the global economy within the 1st year, and you'd put manufacturing around the world at a standstill. i mean, this would be, this is

a terrible idea. i'm not promoting the idea. i'm not promoting the idea michelle saying more, that's what i'm saying is these are some of the things that are actually actively being debated amongst us. yeah. months us policy makers, american foreign policy, is also failing to win out in a region with a large muslim population, which is horrified by washington's by king of israel to the last palestinian plus is 0 sob mentality. one that's on roster. will china sales to hit the mark among nations who are traditionally neutral, have ties, including military ones that extend way box decades and still believe in diplomacy . the passion member states, including the ceasing and fall,

want to maintain good relations with both the us engaging. don't make our strokes. we will refuse pictures. i don't work for beijing, i don't work for washington, dc. i work for the philippines. so i'm on the side of the philippines and the 310 slates into a very simple statement of foreign policy, which is, and i promote the national interest, but peace is not a classic investment for the us military base. thought yes. well, in fact, while china has built bridges and railways, washington spent 2023 splashing the cache on yet more basis throughout the asked the on reach and it's funny, isn't it? how rocking off in a neighborhood, far, far away freshening to stop was to grow up the global economy and why daniel? things are heading up one to 4 and 9, eventually lose as you some good. well, to russia,

iran and syria. have john lee can down the deadly is ready as blank on the iranian consulate in damascus at the present, at the conclusion to the un security castle ross. as envoy accused, the western powers are trying to cover up the potential these ready war crimes. i'd be attacked on the diplomatic compound, provoke heated pensions during the un session, as the representative of the united states and united kingdom. once again, it's right to deny its responsibility for the current situation in syria. broad, the region by fall, see blaming your on your, on the strong, the rejects these allegations you are on is never speaking to contribute to the spillover of the conflict in the region, nor does it to escalate or a spread the tension to the entire region. despite expressing concern over this feel over the updated tension in the region, the united states tries to misuse the situation to destabilize, syria and the region. look to them on the israeli occupation. authorities would not

have committed this aggression against a protected diplomatic headquarters. protected under international law, had it not been for the blind support of the united states to you and my country syria holds the war criminals of the israeli occupation government and their partners in the united states administration. fully responsible for these attacks and their repercussions on regional and international peace and security shop and the meeting took place in the un security council chamber of the 15 member body leads. the united nations convened to discuss the recent attack carried out by israel that resulted in the death of 7 iranian officials, including a top general. now, b u. n. meeting indicate as clear differences as the united states and its allies. we would not condemn israel to action is now russia was pretty harsh and it's words showing that what israel did was

a flagrant violation of international law. however, the united states that it couldn't confirm where the attack took place and that prompted a rather interesting exchange between the united states and russia. here's some of what we heard on the floor of the un security council meeting. i want to be clear. we do not yet have confirmation of the status of the building that was struck in damascus or any confirmed attack on property that was, in fact a diplomatic facility would be of concern to the united states. but as you see, as soon as we listened attentively to the speeches of all western colleagues come well once again struck by this, say, this is a mind double standards choose from the available balancing act. so it was difficult to understand why we're here until the representative for from say anything except for what if condemnation, the brand know that is ready, violation of international law, kona east. if it was your embassy of consulate in the regional tanks, would you react to the same weight as your rules based on an old is evidence. the

us always has 1st hand information on any master. look how amazing it is this time . washington still has no confirmed information about the strike on the rating and comes to the general hard to believe and the speeches of the u. k. and the us that we're not hence, but direct references to the fact that a ron m, siri themselves were to blame the israel's attack on. the radian comes to that, it's difficult to imagine the grades and blast swim agents. there was no need to call on others to de escalate and label the victims office attacked as aggressive in this context. any possible escalation of the situation will be entirely on your conscience. that was russia, referring specifically to the fact that france said that the entire situation was the fault of iran, that the strike took place in the context of an escalation that france says, was iran salt making iran responsible for the incident?

it's also important to note that china spoke about how important it is not to attack diplomatic missions and consulates and china references an attack on its own diplomatic facility that took place 25 years a go. this is the representative of china. go to a minimum doc for what it's on. so the 25 years ago, the chinese embassy and you, the slot the, was hit by a us led nato air raid causing casualties and damage to personnel. we are deeply moved by the grief of the iranian government and the people, and deeply sympathized with them. according to the vienna convention on foreign relations and the recognized basic principles of international relations. the security of diplomatic institutions cannot be violated if we let this kind of act go without a bottom line and without consequences, we will all be guilty. the red line between international law and international relations has been broken again and again, the tool was, you know, it was

a chance meeting in the un security council chamber as iran, it says it plans to retaliate against israel strike that violated not only serious, territorial or integrity, but also hit an iranian diplomatic facility. now at this point, so many are looking on the meeting and seeing clear differences as the united states, france and other nato countries would not condemn this action by israel, which many are noting the hypocrisy of when we hear so much from these western leaders about a so called rules based global order of a french delegation, not the meeting after they tried to blame a rod in syria for the escalation. we'll discuss those accusations with john list donald library. and he said these roles pushing the us to join the world by instigating a great, a conflict in the middle east. there's no evidence that syria or a or

a ran had anything to do with the october 7th attack. absolutely no evidence whatsoever. in fact, it ran has tried to reduce the level of hostility, according to, to american news outlets like the new york times. and there's no interest on the part of syria or iran, i in whitening the war. uh so this is completely a red herring. thank us, has a that has 40 years of hostility towards the, towards the ran on its record. the us launch the proxy war on syria that just devastated that country you know, fences back, you know, decades in terms of economic development. the us is extremely hostile that has voted loss so therefore the is the us does not mind terribly. if israel terry's at a strike like this to western countries are very closely or allied with the israel,

they're not going to condemn is real. they're back. i think it's warns awesome. they are also hospitals who are ran and so they are full and, and as well as syria, of course, is real, has every intention of whitening the war because the war, the more assessed. so the more it was, the us into the cost, and that's what is real. so is the, uh, the idea of admitted to making a quote, grave mistake by telling 7816. if we move forward nationals in an air strike on gas a try cause no, it's carried out with the intention of homie w. c k, a g. well, cuz it was a mistake that followed me. so you didn't, if occasion, night during the war in a very complex conditions, it shouldn't have happened. this incident was a grave mistake. an independent body will investigate the incidental already.

we will have completed the next coming days. we will then from the conclusions and the implement them immediate, of the 7 victims represented, the us non profit organization. well, the central kitchen of the forwarding volunteers came from poland, canada, australia, the u. k. and the you, as well as the central kitchen, kohls, the incidents of tragedy, adding that aid workers and civilians would never be targeted. joe biden has also called for an immediate inquiry into the event emphasizing that these role is failing to protect civilians since this project is not an isolated incident. while the us national security council spokesman had a tough time either press briefing when he was grilled about the attack on february, they should have said it said that it was

a policy because of ministration to prevent arms transfers that risk facilitating otherwise contributing to violations of human rights or international humanitarian law, is following the massage of the peoples of info, not a violation of international humanitarian. as railways have already admitted that this was a mistake that they made their doing investigation, they'll get to the bottom of this, let's not get ahead of that. your your question presumes at this very early hour that it was a deliberate strike that they knew exactly what they were hating that they were hitting a workers and did it on purpose. and there's no evidence of that. i would also remind you, sir, that we continue to look at incidence as they occur. the state department has a process in place and to date, as you and i are speaking. they have not found any incidents where these rallies have violated international humanitarian law. unless you think we don't take it seriously, i can assure you that we do. we look at this in real time. are violated international

law ever in the past 5 to 6 months. a state department has looked at incidents in the past and has yet to determine that any of those incidents violate international mandatory law. now we've had some new ball of process us post button for the palestine red crescent society. and she said that these are always deliberately insisted magically pocketing aid work as in gaza. palestine from society as the masses of southern end worker, west of the world, essentially changed as soon traffic to see a workers being killed. targeted despite coordination, despite arranging the or uh, the access those, the workers when working to address the, the 100 percent and suffering of people. think of what happened to, to them as exactly when we have experience. we need to be

b or c. s. has that experience? this is right. all 3 does not respect this coordination on the delivery as, as the mountains, the targeting age workers, outage human nature young's as what happened to 15 p r c. s members who were just the way that they were on duty. and so the question as how many were aid workers should be killed before the international community. when i'll take serious steps, measures to ensure protection for the humanitarians. and these workers are human rights watch, set the process support for the government of the wanda. i missed the 1994 genocide was quote, tantamount to direct participation in the war of the activist group posted the conclusion as the release archives about efforts to a lot the international community to the atrocities and enduring lesson from the

genocide as the international communities failure to take heed of the clear signs that preparations for mass atrocities were under way, including warnings from human rights defenders who put their lives on the line to sound the alarm. despite the passage of time, victims deserve to see those responsible for genocide and other crimes, arrested and prosecuted in fair and credible trials for years could assume. so this has been that to major international actors, policy makers in the u. s. and the u. n. o understood the gravity of the one to genocide within the 1st 24 hours, even if they could not have predicted the mass of tools at the slow task would eventually take. but aside from that, there's also phones and the heat enrolled. we played in the generous lot of press advisory by the human rights watch arms project reiterates the january 1994 reports . conclusions including the francis support to the government of rwanda was tantamount to direct participation in the war and calls on french troops deployed

to rolanda, as part of an evacuation force to be replaced with neutral forces from other countries. globally, historians have spent the last few years poring over government archives, diplomatic cables and military falls. the conclusion, france was not directly complicit in the one does mass killings, but french authorities supported the violent and extreme as government. they were blind to its preparations for the mess. okay. and reacted to slowly to stop the genocide. some argue that this means paris, therefore, biz overwhelming responsibility for the tragedy. something is slats out of retreats through london. crisis ended in disaster for wanda and, and defeat for france. but as france complicit in the genocide of the tutsis, if this means a willingness to be associated with the genocidal enterprise, nothing in the archives consulted. prove that in efforts to improve relations with the one that president to manual, mcclung commissioned an investigation and opened the archives to the public. no

smoking gun was found a proving defense of villages direct involvement. the killers installed the swamps, the hills, the churches did not have the face of france. france was not going to companies, but some of those to survive the harbors of the genocide, unconvinced, and were lift, disappointed by the french findings. even the very man who lived to the rebellion, but in the small town, as rick into the accused fronts of complicity in the crimes 20 years later. the only thing you can say against the french, in their eyes, as they didn't do enough to save lives during the genocide. that's a fact. but it hides the main point, the direct role of belgium and france and the political preparation of the genocide and the participation of the letter. and it's very execution people still came from . so it's not only involved in the vin spin passivity but actually enabled genocide to read support for the who to receive before during and after the killings between $9.00 to $90.19. it is true that one that was in the state of the economy,

social and political turmoil, and that to the international community was reluctant to come to aid how it boxed. the complicity of this does not to the gate. the great responsibility of france was close populous of allowed it to profit from alms deals and strategic positioning. what happened into one that was more than a crime. it was an event. so that seemed to mandatory that we spoke with political analyst and visual ex. but how, but through that simple war, he also implicated fronds in the genocide. you cannot say that you might have d at that at that level, especially when you have everything in sight that isn't it to us on the desk. it was, it had to be some countries at that time that that really. busy started to do, to making most sound and, and ring the bell that but it was just late and at the end of the day, they never stopped it. it was done by the, by the name themselves,

but to watch we know is that those, those congress shouldn't, shouldn't position themselves as, as the traction. so of those values. secondly, is that they run the job itself, stuff the genocide has been rebuilding. i also believe that somehow, europeans and americans have some information about that the region of africa that they let it go. because after the genocide, the whole plague moved just a few meters from run by in eastern portable and it's a same landscape problem. so it's the same source not today mocks 40 years since the 1st ever space flies by an indian citizen. as violet rock, the sharma ventured into the cosmos on the soviet expedition. we look back at the pivotal event as well as to the future of india. a space, exploration,

and now rock, i saw my i participated in the joint mission of the indian space research organization and the soviet in the cost most program. he and to soviet customer that's blasted off on april the 3rd 1984, and very soon the so use the space craft dropped. i'd be saw due to the 7 space station. during these a day expedition, mister sharma conducted the experiments. he practiced yoga in space for the 1st time and performed a remote observation of, of the rock as sama was born in 1949. india is north west and put in jobs state. he joined to the indian air force in 1970. and so there's a pilot, the flying and number of combinations during the bangladesh war of 1971. and after a concluding, here's 1984 space mission. it continued to work as a test pilot onto retiring about 2 decades later in 2001 last year. we have

a chance to interview mister shaw by himself. here are some words from the space polity. a little bit 3 of us, the other to you by this of and getting out this took all of a both way had already flown into space. so there was that sense of comfort with them and can i, i think, oh no, it was a, it was already a fruitful interaction. a they did the mentoring and there was no problem whatsoever. how, what are you in space for? we went up in the saw yours, we ducked with the saw you. we transferred to the saw you sewage done, which was formed due to the coupling officer. so use of the solute and we lived in the solute, which essentially is a state of cylinder, much smaller, smaller than this. uh,

and then let's just see what they're from. so it was in that confined space. we stayed for 8 or days, but that's no great shakes because the water card is $400.00 plus it is. so. so it's a, it's a wonderful place to wizard, but a difficult place to work in. i would say everything keeps flying because there's no gravity. so all your stocks you have to do it sequentially of the experience. so being up there and looking at the plan that was quite out of the ordinary and it doesn't leave us very impactful. and then um, when you return back that way, when you look at the kind of response you'll get because uh before, uh uh, compared to today space flight was still a bit of

a novelty. uh so um, especially in india and india because we never had any activity like that. so in effect, the space gave it to the drawing rooms of, uh, our uh, indians. and that to be made quite an impact with the, the flight itself. the professional part of it somehow was not challenging enough. i would say primarily because a lot of controls are total, was done by the computers and we were be good as far left me what and if i were to buy that before right. uh, we're used to more hands on control. so in effect, it was like waiting to see what happens. so you're just a curious on rocha of during the transit. yeah, it did. did. it's something to adapt to 0 gravity that took some doing because you can't replicate the exact conditions on ground. therefore you're not

trained for that. so you'll pay the learning on the job. and we had a chance to speak to oli. i've called a russian soviet cost, but not a doctor who was on the crew with the welcomed rock as sharma decided you'd 7 space station in april, 1984. he shared his memories about working with india as fast man in space, suddenly ballistics in the i have the most positive impressions of the space mission. we knew these cosmonaut se well, and we were waiting for them with great anticipation. ra cache was a very positive person. i think you remain so even now. i remember how we came into the station with a smile after they had docked. he smiled most of the time. always had a positive attitude towards any kind of activity. even when something went wrong, when something broke or didn't work, we tried to help him and he was very grateful.