and explore how and why man still plays unimportant regional role today. ah, ah, the president changing things as the era of china being bullied by foreign balls is over as the lead celebrations marking the 100000 of s 3 of the communist party. ah rahman is there like my headquarters here in also coming up. donald rumsfeld's dies at the age of $88.00. the 2 time defense that katrina ever saw, the us invasion of iraq. i'd have gone to the phone at least 15 people, including a journalist and an activist, are killed in the shooting rampage and hate his capital. also stuff. com board for

months. cases of theater is abandoned on ships because of cave at 19 pandemic. over the record high. ah, welcome to the program, chinese president cheating pings, says the era of china being bullied and abused by other nations is gone forever. as the country marks a santini of the communist party, she addressed the nation from gentlemen square were hundreds of thousands gathered for a ceremony to celebrate the occasion. the president praise the government, success and abolishing extreme poverty across the nation and stress of socialism is the only way to rejuvenate china. don't go on 10 by the communist party in chinese, people have showed the world. the chinese people have stood up the time in which the chinese nation can be bullied and abused is gone forever. the party showed the

world that chinese people not only capable of dismantling the old world, but can build a new one. only socialism can save china, only socialism with chinese characteristics can develop china. oh katrina. you are correspondent, joseph ly, from beijing katrina. the president himself gave a methodical and retrospective speech and was perhaps of hope and progress for the system that china has worked her full for 100 years. but has it well, whether it's worked or not depends on the metric, according to the communist party. it has so one of the main things that she didn't being said was that the communist party made a goal 100 years ago. and that goal was to turn china into a moderately well off society. and according to that goal, president gigi paying says the communist party has achieved that, that it has alleviated extreme poverty and turn china not only into a well of society but the 2nd largest economy in the world. and therefore president,

the shooting ping was saying that the communist party has proved its legitimacy as the rightful group to lead china, not only now but into the future as well. so it was a very powerful speech full of communist ideology. unsurprisingly, and i think from listening to it, i heard really 2 main messages. the 1st was to the domestic audience to the chinese people. and that was, as you alluded to, that the communist party saved china essentially saved it from being a weak backward country, vulnerable to foreign forces and transformed it into what it is now a strong country able to stand up. that was a lot of the language that president achieved and ping was using and therefore the chinese people need the communist party in order to continue to succeed. and that under president, she didn't ping, it will continue to go forward on the right path. so that was one message. the

other message i think was to a foreign audience and with the latter half of the speech. and he used quite strong words and basically the message from prison achievement ping was, don't mess with us. and this was to other countries. he didn't mention it by name, but certainly the u. s. one of the, the targets no doubt, don't mess with china. don't mess with the communist party because you're going to regret it. and one of the key sound, but it's all phrases that he had in his speech, received a very raucous response was this, and he said china will never allow a foreign force to bully or subjugate us. any one who does will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel forged by 1400000000 people who also talked about how china will continue to save, got its territory, including hong kong and ty one. so we see that under president, she didn't pick, not only does the communist party want china to stand up or to become strong,

it seems that president, she didn't pay once to take cut china and turn it into a country that can really stand total with the united states, for example. so let's take a quick look more at what makes president she didn't pains leadership of trying to stand out from other leaders who have come before him. president party secretary, the people leader and to some just papa she she didn't, king is called many things and as the communist party celebrate, it's 100 year anniversary. the 68 year old is consolidated disposition as the country's most powerful leader in decades to go and the party has unite it and then let the people in opening a great path, making great achievements. fortune, a great spirit. she has led china for 9 years, and after a bullying presidential term limits in 2018 is unlikely to step down anytime soon. he began his term with an anti corruption campaign, which the one and

a half 1000000 officials punished. it also purged the party of any opposition to his rule. she then promised to an extreme poverty nationwide a promise. he said he fulfilled last year. many said these feats have given rise to a status on par with party founder melted. don't chinese pay. people have advanced very well and they don't want to give that up and they won't. and they bill attached themselves to any leader who is able to, you know, not only promised but deliver the son of revolutionary elite. she was sent to rural ne, in china during the cultural revolution where he joined the party and rose through the ranks. china has since transformed into the 2nd largest economy, the world with technological pro west 2nd only to the us and growing global influence. his admirers say she is the ideal person to bring china into the modern era. critic say he is a dictator. african national curse for anything tenisha. however,

it maybe might be effective, maybe charismatic, beginning over time at the condition or the k simply because, you know, it does not have the kind of a diversity kind of sense about the page or policies under his watch. authorities have cracked down on home and she's young and according to human rights groups and present up to 1000000 weakest in re education caps to she, the battle to maintain power isn't just political. it's ideological during henry celebration, the official narrative being repeated again. again, that is division weekend, china, and 1400000000 people must unite behind one quality and one leader. only then can the country truly be great? analysts say this message is crucial to the parties survival but may eventually lead to it's doubtful. it's a thing as a wiser might prove a company,

or we've got to get tremendous cost an intervention. so now in china, only one path leads to the greatest rewards, the path of loyalty to the leader. so suddenly that was a really great, extravagant spectacle, held this morning on thursday here. engaging and gentlemen square 70000 people gathering with precision like performance really sending this official message to not only the chinese people but to the world. so there's 2 ways to read this one is to take it at face value that the party has made china's stronger than ever before and that it will continue to succeed. and it's proven that this system which it refers to as socialism with chinese characteristics, has worked for china and it will work for the rest of the world. another way to read this is that this is just the surface and potentially underneath really the communist party is extremely insecure that it is extremely insecure. that at any

point it could lose grip on an increasingly educated, creative and informed group of one point. 4000000000 people and it needs huge ideological propaganda. events like this in order to help retain their loyalty, which it could lose at any time. so we'll definitely continue to watch what else comes forward from the come the party as the weeks and months come on in to continue the corresponding force in beijing. well, in the days of the news now, and he was the 1st celebrity to be tried and convicted, full sexual assault in the me to era. but now us canadian bill cosby has been released from prison after pennsylvania supreme court overturned his conviction. he returned to his philadelphia home on wednesday, just hours after his release. the 3 rolls served more than 2 years, the 10 years sentence on charges of trucking and assaulting a woman in 2004. during the trial, the judge allowed both her testimony as well as that of 5 other accuses to show

patent of abuse. but the state's highest chord says the testimony of the 5 others, tainted the trial. mammals village into hers release, drawn 2300 prisoners from the jail and the largest city of yan gone officials, the germans and activists, for amongst those freed. on wednesday, tens of thousands of prisoners were released in april. but general activists were not included. a local monitoring group says more than 5000 people have been detained since the military seized power in february from st. louis has more call of the pool in the bible, asia when news that prisoners would be released was announced relative, started gathering outside in saying prison in young going outside detention centers, and mandolin fargo and other parts of me and not hoping their loved ones would be among those released now, this is not the 1st prison amnesty, the june is granting in april at least $23000.00 prisoners to mock the young my new year celebration. this is something that others government has done now,

but the june her also announced in february that they would be releasing 23000 prisoners. this was less than 2 weeks after the qu, rights. groups at that time had expressed concern that this was to clear space in detention centers for political prisoners. and they turned out to be right because not long after that mass arrests of protest this started happening. now, we don't know why this mass release is taking place on wednesday. it could be a public relations exercise, although it's unlikely it's unlikely that opponents of the crew will feel differently about living on the military will. because of this, it could be how if an indication that the generator is not feeling more secure demonstrations, which are still taking place against the jones have but not, not on the scale that we used to see months ago. the june turn now appear to be confident that they have gained the upper hand, although they still opposition to the coo. there are attacks by militia groups

against security forces. and there are still killings of june to appointed local officials. but the military, i think, appear to be confident that they are gaining control. now, the release also comes at a time when we are not as reporting an increase in corona virus cases. so this could be an attempt as well to stop or to cut the spread of the virus. russia has sigma little oppose any efforts to expand the cross border a to syria. the current a delivery mechanism has a mandate which expires in just over a week. let's concern that russia could use its veto part of block extension. now, the un has all that failure to reauthorize, those deliveries would have devastating consequences. so millions of syrians of diplomatic editor james base explains early this month, the us ambassador to the united nations linda thomas greenfield, visited the last border crossing, bringing humanitarian aid from turkey into syria. bob al, how're is,

according to the u. n. a lifeline for 2400000 people. but it's now hangs in the balance. in 2014, the un security council authorized for border crossings, but the others didn't stay open after russia and china use their veto power to council members have now put forward a draft resolution which would again allow to crossing points. so what norion, ireland did was without looking at anything other than the needs, we proposed a renewal and an expansion of the mandate. but at a news conference, the russian ambassador made it pretty clear he'd be prepared to use his veto to stop a 2nd border point. we told him in the very beginning that what we hear from our colleagues sieboldt reopening, the close calls were the point, sees alien on starter. now we are discussing the one that is remaining. are you saying you currently do not see a need for even a single border crossing?

i will not give you any definite definitive answer at this time. i will only say that we can de new we continue consulting on the dish, germany's outgoing un ambassador who led negotiations on the issue when his country was on the security council, told out his era other countries must stand strong and we cannot allow and agreed to a solution where all of a sudden unitarian ate is cut for some russian ambition to support the regime of asset. the issue was discussed earlier this month between president putin and president biden, and has been the subject of recent talks between the russian and turkish foreign ministers. so will the last border crossing into syria close the un security council is due to vote before the 10th of july deadline. james bay's ouch is era of the united nations. well still had hail out there. one former president old trump, was back in texas for 2 of the u. s. southern boulder with mexico. that story after

the break. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello. we got more heavy rain into central parts of china. now the seas no down, pause there, continue to just not a little further north. what's now, this is the may you fronts the plum rains and they just waving a little further north. so shanghai will be seeing some wet weather, some cloudy skies. as we go through the next day or so, slightly brighter weather coming back into hong kong for a recent spell of flooding for thursday into friday. there's that rain just making his way into shanghai pulses out into the east china c q. she's seen some heavy rain from time to time, southern parts of horseshoe, or to sing some way, whether it'll be some lively showers humid there in tokyo,

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segregation, occupation discrimination injustice. this is a site in a 21st century truth and them a rock and a hard place analogy 0 ah, the the me was about watching over there with me the whole realm, the reminder volatile stories, changing things as the era of china being bullied and abused by other nations is gone forever. as the country marks and scenery the communist party. hundreds of thousands gathered full a ceremony to celebrate the occasion. yes, committee and bill coffee has been released from prison as

a pennsylvania supreme court overturned his conviction. the 83 year old served more than 2 years, the 10 year sentence on charges of trucking the salting a woman in 2000 and full amount. diligent has released from 2300 prisoners and the latest city of yang gone officials. they journalists and activists, monthly st. on wednesday, donald rumsfeld, the us defense secretary, who i was all the invasion of afghanistan, was the main architect of the iraq war, has died at the age of 88, his career and the republican party spend decades. well, let's bring in mar jacobson. he's an assistant dean at syracuse university maxwell's school and served at the pentagon during both the obama and bush administrations join me via skype from boynton beach in florida. mr. jacobson. good to have you on the program again. like many seen for paul. hey it's great to see like many season politicians and diplomats a very rich professional past peppered with success and failure and also regret i

mean, where do you begin with donald rumsfeld when thinking about him? i think most folks forget that he was secretary of defense twice, not consecutively, of course, the 1st time during the ford administration. but even before that, he had been a congressman from illinois, the us and bastard to nato. busy the chief of staff at the white house and in the wake of the nixon scandal, and then president for and placed him at the pentagon. but when he gets to 2001 i should say, then he has a story public or private sector career as well. and then he comes to the pentagon in 2001. we have $911.00 and he goes on to make some incredibly poor mistakes just for choices. big mistakes, pantano or what have you. and i think that's what the world is going to remember him for nothing that came before they're going to remember what he did after 911. that's a lovely timeline that you've painted for us. he was also a deeply pancreatic man. how would you assess his influence in terms of being quite

whole kish and that nature itself of the american government and subsequent tone reverberated across the republican party and later into the administrations of reagan, bush and trump. if we were having this conversation tenant years ago, i think to be a much different context with which to look at donald rumsfeld and again as a historian by training, i recognize a times of change. i mean, he was a deeply paid tray out of person, despite all his flaws. i have memories of him on the morning of 911 out helping with the wounded on the grass outside the pentagon. we also know that the deaths of american soldiers a troubled him very deeply despite any sort of bill of the case over the policy. but i think again his patriotism, that republican party, that's not the republican party of 2021. and i think in that people may be

a little kinder to him as they look back at what he's done. that said, if you look at social media right now, they continue to bill up by him and i have no issue with that. but at the same time, i think if we step back go, we'll understand that this is a more complicated man and someone who was simply good or simply evil. and you touched upon the fact of veterans just a moment. it seems that his legacy will be one of a war monger, but also one what he supported veterans wholeheartedly in later life. never forgetting really that his influence in government directly affected their lives, shooting that with tinge with a bit of regret. i wonder and i think the challenge is that the donald rumsfeld, we see and have seen as the donald rumsfeld, he wanted us to see he created that narrative and until we can dig more deeply into his records and have those cannon conversations, we won't know whether he was remorseful, let's say in a way that

a robert mcnamara was, even if an successfully over the vietnam war, where the rum, so went more deeply. i could even be that room so was not as contract as, as someone like mcnamara and had no regrets. and i think to some degree that that's the rumsfeld we've actually seen for the most part. but again, i think the story has yet to be told. i think this is a complicated man and again, now i'm not sure in the end how can trade, how he was, but there is no doubt that is supported the veterans. once he left the office of the secretary of defense was purposeful, was strong and in reflected his own patriotism. it will be certainly interesting to see what presidents past and present at present have to say in the coming out but for the moment. mark jacobs. and thanks very much for joining us from boynton beach in florida. thank you. my pleasure. now cases of seafarers being abandoned on

ships because of the 19th pandemic college record, high something stuck on board for months as they wait for borders. to reopen, drew ambrose reports the more than 90 percent of global trade is moved by sea. filipino nadine perino is one of the 1600000 seafaring help transport goods around the world on merchant ships. really to keep the really cool. that's our job. when the pandemic, his hundreds of thousands of se farris were left stranded on their ships, some were abandoned altogether left a month without pay or provisions. that's what happened to the 19 crew members of the law. a bolt carrier that's been docked in a poor in kuwait for a year and a half way back and everything's done. mother mind would have been handled in 2020 the ship's own off one trading and contracting said

it had no funds to support the vessel. and cut contact with the crew. some of them have been unable to leave the ship for more than 2 years. getting diesel. this is barbara hugh for emergency because i think this is our thing called a washing dental. this is not a fool with no wages most have been forced to borrow money to support their families back home. i promise the money and i got that going thing in the i've got all the international transport work is federation has more than 150 inspected boarding ships worldwide. matthew purcell is from it's a stray and brass, he says, shipping is one of the world's worst regulated industries. we still have an

incredible man of them. scale. dougherty going on. holly sees those c fairs still stranded, have no choice, but to wait for the day. when they can, once again step on dry land, drew ambrose out to 0. a janice next to the starbucks 15 people killed in a space of shootings in haiti's capital. awarding that the story contains graphic images and that some viewers may find disturbing tweets by reports. for week now, violence in haiti's capital has been out of control. gangs are now said to be in charge of the entire areas of poor print. on tuesday, at least 15 civilians were killed when the police had allegedly responded to an attack that had left an officer dead. local residents shock. i heard this terrible news. i told my mom, i'll go see if any relative died in the massacre. i was shocked to see my cousin died for nothing. i asked myself where this country's going. among the dead were

journalist v. o shop and activists, and one had to claire many theories, fellow activities, while francois says they were executed for speaking out against the government. she was an activist and she was very, she had a very strong message against the government about the whole situation actually. so we believe that was targeted and me personally, i believe like the whole all other people that were, you know, killed with that was a plan to cover the target assets. assassination for months, thousands of haitians had been taken to the streets to protest against the government of presidential and who has ruled by decree. for the past 18 months. he has failed to call for legislative elections and wants to reform the constitution. critic say it's an effort to strengthen his group on power separately. gaggs are

claiming they're in control of the island nation, and the government appears to be unable or unwilling to do anything about the security situation. last week, former police officer turned gang leaders. he said, he see says he was launching a revolution against the countries. really not what i'm telling people to keep looking for what the launch is, your money, which is in bank stores and supermarkets. so go and guess what is rightfully yours . many people have a youth, members of his cabinet, of colluding with a gang members in the united states. some members of congress are trying to push president joe biden to hold us to port for my ease and listen more to the haitian people. something many in haiti i calling for, we just part of all the political game where we are not human. you just transaction stop bushings your worries. when you know, even for your country, you would not think the guy as a person would do something for you. still why you continue to support,

but well it should actively say that those who dare speak up about the situation in the country, faith intimidation, and even death. the government for its parts seems unable to come up with any solution that will improve people's life. that is, i will defeat for me you as president, donald trump has visited the board with mexico touring part of the in for this bottle. he repeated false claims of widespread fraud and last year's election rentals reports from the border in the state of texas. former president donald trump's tour of the border wall came amid reports that his family's business organization will face charges of criminal corruption. within days, trump was invited to texas by republican governor greg abbott, who was running for reelection next year. after a briefing on border security, trump attract democrats for reversing some of his immigration policies. trump

repeated false assertions that the 2020 election was marred by fraud. he also claimed criminals began pouring in to the u. s. after he lost and they let him all of their murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and human traffickers out. and they're coming into the united states of america at a level like we've never seen. they weren't coming in with us. local democratic party officials dismissed trumps visit. it's a stop. yes, it's 100 percent done. he is a bottom self is about causing divisiveness. hey truth. he's a liar and he continues to push racist. anti immigrant rhetoric and building the border wall. we're major themes of trumps, single term, and office. trump managed to build about 725 kilometers of new or refurbished

border barrier using money diverted from the military. he also promised that mexico would pay for the wall. it didn't. prison and joe biden halted border wall construction. shortly after he took office. abbot announced last week he would divert $250000000.00 of texas taxpayer money to contain you building the wall, the people of texas. they've been pleading for us to be able to step up and help restore safety and security in their lives. in fact, legal experts say abbott has no legal authority to build border barriers. before trump and texas officials visited the wall. a very different group of people were boarding a bus at the nearby church of our lady of guadalupe. they are migrants who are legally permitted to stay in the us until their claims of asylum or decide.