is projected that the american economy is poised to grow at a faster rate than china. the chinese economy for the 1st time in 45 years, says 976. and our relationship with our allies, including, i'm proud to say the republic of korea are closer than they've ever been, nor people are growing even closer as we speak. our business are blazing new trails together and it all goes to my core belief. something i've said for a long time, it's never a good bet to bet against the united states of america, where a nation that is all about one thing, possibilities, endless possibilities. and that optimism is a commitment and commitment to innovation. or breaking barriers is something that koreans and americans share. yesterday the president visited a factory where a korean american innovation are working in tandem to produce the most advanced

semiconductors in the world. and i welcome to billions of dollars of investment to create companies like samsung are making in the united states. investment sell, bring our 2 countries even closer together, cooperating even more closely. we're already do, and help strengthen our supply chains. secure them again, shocks and give our economies a competitive edge today, president you and, and i discussed the broad range of issues as he mentioned today. i apologize for treating them both regional and global terms. the cooperation between the public and korea and united states is vital to our stared strategic progress. least we both believe that from fighting this pandemic to strengthening global health security health systems, so that we can better be prepared for the next major global health event. and there will be others from increasing our climate ambitions to accelerating climate

solutions like developmental electric vehicles, from standing up to our share for our share democratic values and defending a role based international order against stretch and stability. our lives is making important contributions to shape the future for our children and korea strong and it's dynamic economy is a power for example, of that for the rest of the world. i also want to thank people career for their strong support for the people of ukraine. pose war against ukraine isn't just a matter for your it's an attack on democracy in the core international principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. and the public of korea in the united states are standing together, part of a global response with our allies and partners around the world, to condemn russia's flagrant violations of international law,

and the whole russell russia accountable, and to support the people of ukraine. tomorrow, the president and i will be visiting with the korean american troops were still serving side by side even today, decades after our troops, 1st fought valiantly together to preserve the freedom of republic. her crew, it's emblematic of our strength and our continuing strength and of the door ability of. busy our alliance and our readiness to take on all threads together. and today present unit i committed to strengthen in our close engagement and work together to take on challenges of regional security. including addressing the threat posed by the democratic people's republic of korea. by further strengthening our deterrence posture and working toward a complete di nuclear ization of the prince of the qu, cramped peninsula as

a present already spoken to promote a stability across the taiwan straits as well. insurance, freedom of navigation, including in the south china sea and beyond. so thank you again mister president for your warm welcome for your commitment to strengthening our alliance and for explaining, expanding our global partnership with florida. yours to come leave west. the 1st question. yeah. how? when she said that she didn't have a history that couldn't day young getting up to thought city i, he said it's, it's up to move it as you can. the cleanser is then for the will take conduct. it don't get that before time. and they would like to have question from one to tennessee. it's human digital hometown with i, and i'm going to 40 minutes to ask a question to come down. bull 1st to play on ebay. thought about the the concept

over economic security stuff coming down. i think many people are not familiar with the all angles convey. so when you talk about the security of the economy, security, what sort of benefits the south of year will have all your credit? when will tell me and what sort of a, you know, benefit the in the people of south korea will. um, cuz i don't get, oh, experience, soon job at sea. and that you also talked about the common wood who are all on one day, all the nations seater, and the value raggedy. i'm young people taught on coming up kind of, if there are any concrete stairs south korea isn't us, is unable to have those values with her. could you elaborate on that, john? john von rando, bonnie or louisiana toys or com? could you probably look, it's have unheard of foot economic security from media?

we came in the shower dinner, bonnen at from you on our people's lives channel chosen to learn an important landon in the shadow. hm. you know the moon challenge i am under under throw on and on pullin stead with the needs of all businesses. so says sir, my address is tamika semiconductor. and also we had an old crisis lately or channels from santa pedo. hm. and anything require any materials among require will john, full of, you know, the supply chain will come j g children and rejected them. now you, any of these are directly associate with people's lives like when you dance on january. that's why it is very important that we, we will put them at the same depot level as a military, as security of your from child or all the potential you agree or q. so do you juggle you son and there, and previously on our the wall worse ah,

many's in your eyes, you improve your pied on what and now the economy and the water, his hosting's danger, our pre core of it. i don't go on tomorrow. and yamaha war, however, we think why that what the impact it's during the corbin had deming infinite. i one so it is important to us stabilize that i did them. our south korea is a country that and john the shock value of years that the country that things come here who and will the importance of supply chain antonio and the importance of economy security. i'm down to preserve and she's on her. so therefore, he will, is a mom in aides. the relevant department is there to watch and on. and the teams come jam bushwinger cool, be closure leeway king with her counterpart in the states and to work on the stand

that i also commune, shall i to young, where the financial markets, the irish daniel duncan go, yon doesn't live there when it leaves us, you know or hard hit by the for him. oh, crazy ramble up and get him eligible video or do some wired link to the military security. oh gosh, june j one as well. and it also has a vision of, i mean it's not correlations with amboy exports. hanover door. hm. go to prison, his daughter under on our little history. so it is important to you. we um, have standards and as to policed. they start working on them down. we'll get the mean boon. young will get you up to the, the people in the business from the boss, countries for indian run attention going on when we're also will i, john, john,

i've been allowed to have our actions to be fed by the people in the countries. are you in 101? and when you are one in portland, i true. only raji unknown, forgot i had, i had all she get from my knowledge, foreigners, or even if the countries you don't share the common values. ginger had, should i one and, you know, over for their democratic, so actually their homelands are, are you still hall? my expectations of them to mirror again to day one, get her. can i have con cents on that home and be will kids are bad legal? so we will be able to and you know, have some empathy around that never honey. thank you. and 1st of all, a president noon on your joint statement mentions on

a number of initiatives that you'll be taking on the security front. but it doesn't mention whether you ask the president for nuclear bombers, submarines or aircraft carriers are those of interest to you and, and do you expect the president will be deploying them and, and for you, president biden. and there is no mention of the joint statement about whether there would be any preconditions for you, meeting with a north korea's kim or are providing vaccines to north korea. and. and so i wanted to see if there are any preconditions for that and, and then ahead of your meetings in tokyo, i understand that they will be asking for you to consider rejoining the t p. p. that was associated by president obama. could you talk a little bit about your thinking about whether this into a pacific economic framework could lead to a bigger trade deal in the region? thank you. you agree to go 1st?

the answer with regard to what i need, i would i provide vaccines for north korea. what i prepare to meet it is yes, we've offered vaccines not only to north korea but to china as well. and we're prepared to do that immediately. we've got no response with regard to whether i would meet with the leader of north korea or be depend on whether he was sincere and whether a serious or was the other question you asked me that there is room for a broader trade deal to come out of the indo pacific economic framework, we understand that japan and others. what would like you to, to consider, reconsider joining? well, i think what you're going to see is what we're talking about in terms of this, this of arrangement we're discussing now is quite significant. and what we're talking about is, as was pointed out,

an economic strategy that for the end in the entire pacific region, and it's working in on, in critical areas in the supply chain, not just the semiconductors, but all range of other products as well. ah semiconductors, which is we've already discussed a little bit infrastructure and making sure we make available the capacity to provide modern infrastructure. too many of the countries in the region who may not have the capacity. 3, the, a digital economy daily with the cyber security standards and sharing major standards of data to access based on the boundaries within trust. and that week that needs be done in our view, as well as a clean and renewable environment, clean energy technologies, global minimum tax on the tax side of the equation, just like we did. the recently negotiated and deal with establishing form for duck

practices act is affected internationally. all that's quite broad and it is a separate from and also some inclusive of what was t p p was about. so this is the objective that i have in mind. we have in mind at the front end here ago we will design you meant job, joe london in linds, alta sanction all i'm looking at a question i had one of these. i love career's increasing risk action. got can learn threats. adam adon, issue order, you know, was, once we thing we are, we have agree to player ties this over. we were by linda. anything else? she jogan ronald, m a she african heritage or president joe. all to perform is to provide

practical attack. she misses sherman on our food owner and also argue we run from the wreckage l. our military alliance trainings as on a truck. she pardon is going to be also provided in hinesville between south korea and us. and we will be closely monitoring on that. as i boy them don't tribal, you're going to be that you young, i had, and then there's the stiver, a threat from north korea at ga, ga, future. women need to be tackle as well. publisher and julia, i don't have we will all so soon as to believe on john, i had a building earlier. my son, the senior level working group i resume to his santa maria. i'm not sure whether i have fully answer your questions and so he, he, their handbook is,

are you looking at home that i don't know how when the day are we taking tony's between korean and that american journalist, thank you for your time. i will. and it will take a question from korean journalist, just one question per journalist, please let another year to william in december. i mean children generally added on to me now going in and then i think he was previously asked, but i will not give dr. young into the till to do i've been and yoga here like of years in order to and then i'll to handle all the increasing threat from the rear. hardy on it. some flenar will get you on to them as a to promote you promise to show the maximizing by putting up the to the will to tell them a thought action plan san bernardino. during this i mean his all saying other by the exact on the, if i know and i like to know whether you had consent on those topics, entering your m conversation. i left john of john the increase

sing. if you, you don't want or hang up to how we some people who are my young people. so when we talk about the um ireland really increasing sanctions tours north korea, enjoying to get out and g. and beside are we on includes missiles and jets chalk, sheree john, get an answer and also they prom hecker actions towards those situations, jungle and as she gonna and, and as to see between the 2 countries have either a little hand will all so ours work on the details action plans, we will, i'm jeremiah sham. we will just have a junior this happened with her. and as i just answer to the questions from the american journalist, you'll get an ab. mm hm. and we'll get,

you're not fooling your school there and you will charge on the training between the 2 countries. the military trainings are toys. this, on both koreans threat as is necessary. and then the strength via phone to registry on you by to mock you when you look like this would be the last question is how to move them from the american journalist. just one questions please. so my washington post give us a president and you are here in the region to promote the united states economic cooperation with south korea and japan. but the 2 countries have been locked in a trade dispute on top of their bilateral relationship, deteriorating for a number of reasons or in recent years. so what kind of a rule with the united states play here in resolving those and other disputes so that your administration can further your goal of bolstering your economic alliance with the region? and then i have a question for president. you only get one huh. protecting

the answer is that we discussed that in generic terms. fact is that i'll be going from here to tokyo and discuss this as well. make it critically important that we have a very close tried level of relationship, including economically as well as, as militarily. and i think you'll see that there are ways to deal with some of the trade barriers that replaced some of which are, by the way we're placed by my predecessor, which we're, we're looking at very closely right now. so i think there's a lot of room to, to move in addition to that. if you know, i think you covered the fact that i spent a lot of time in the icing on nations as well as the cortez. there's like, there's a whole range of things have changed. there is a sense among the democracies in the pacific that there is

a need to cooperate much more closely. not test militarily, but in terms of economically and politically. and so we talked in a some length about the need for us to make this larger than just the united states . japan and, and korea, but the entire pacific and the south pacific in the and endo pacific. and i think this is an opportunity, you know, you've heard me say it a 100 times. i'm sorry, the american press to repeat it. but i really do think written inflection point a world history. things are changing so rapidly. i think you're seeing that we're going to see more of this can be a competition between democracy in a talker says, and i mean that sincerely and unfortunate, i think i'm being proven to be correct. not just here but around the world. and again, we talked at length about this is a, not only just regional, but it's also a global wise and effect of how we're going to respond. and i don't mean

a formal written alliance. but for example, you notice korea and japan have both stepped up and support ukraine. you find that in the, in the, the quality supporting ukraine a so there's a whole range of things that affect whether not democracies can be sustained in the midst of this incredible change is taking place. we both agreed that it could and should be. and that together we can play a major part in having that done. thank you. appreciate it. on hold on alan bonnasoli that is out of can don't to go with your cabinet. nominees are overwhelmingly male. south korea consistently ranked low among developed countries, unprofessional abandonment. all right, we'll let leave that to press briefing their us president joe biden, along with his south korean counterpart to president union. so carol, speaking after their meeting at which they agreed to step up measures to turn north

korea and expand co operation on a range of measures from cyber security and nuclear energy to regional security. and supply chains, al jazeera is florence louis was listening in to that. she's also and so what did you make of it, florence? well, i thought it was very interesting. i mean, he talked about how this alliance really has been the bedrock for peace in the region. he talked about how this 70 year alliance with south korea has been able to counter north korean aggression and then going on expanding about how they, how this, how that, how these 2 countries want to meet north korean aggression want to deter north korean aggression. rather, they won't do they, they're going to be looking at expanding their existing military poor peroration expanding the sort of military training exercises the looking at. and the not just looking at military threats. they're also looking at cybersecurity, cyber threats coming from north korea. so these are the things that they're going

to be looking at. they haven't ruled out talks with north korea, but it really is a matter of north korea agreeing to d nuclear eyes agreeing to stop its development of nuclear arms before they can agreed to come together for talks. this is with regards to north korea. now we also know there's another issue coming. there's another issue in north korea, and that is the issue of coven 19 north korea is experiencing a very severe outbreak. both leaders agree that they were all ready to do something . they are ready to commit to giving vaccines what north korea needs to tackle the current car virus crisis there. but they haven't been any responses from north korea, but they say they are ready to commit to helping north korea on that front. now there was also talk about peace insecurity, not just on the korean peninsula, but also in the wider region in the indoor pacific region. and president biden talk specifically about stability in the taiwan strait. and he talked about how the u. s

. wants to maintain a free and open indo pacific region, and this really is a reference to china, not a direct reference, but an indirect reference to china. china has been asserting itself militarily and also in terms of trade. and part of this visit really to asia is the, is the u. s. reasserting itself in this area. i'm trying to rebuild ties to this region because this is a region that was neglected under his predecessor donald trump. so this is what the u. s. is hoping to do with this visit. now, one way the u. s. hopes to do that is by launching a new economic framework known as the indo pacific economic framework that's going to be launched in tokyo by president biden on monday. and south korea is going to be a part of it, because this is not being viewed to favorably in china. china sees it as an attempt to excluded, to encircle china and really to clam down on china's dominance in the region. so

there's a lot, but these 2 countries have to have to phase have to tackle. and these are the things that they, they've been talking about. and these are the things that they've agreed algiers. flora's larry reporting leather from sol florence, when he thinks indeed finland says that russia has hold, had supplies of natural gas. it escalates a dispute with european nations who refuse to pay for russian gas in rubles. holland and bulgaria were cut off last month. separately. russia's ward of consequences for finland and sweden, who applied to join nato. indian emergency crews of recovered the body of a worker after a tunnel collapsed. the search goes on for 9 others that happened in the mountainous himalayan region on thursday night. a tunnel is part of a highway system that is under construction. the world health organizations held an emergency meeting on the growing spread of monkey pox. at least 80 cases have been confirmed in 11 countries. the disease was 1st identified in monkeys in central and

west africa. it typically spreads through close. excuse me, a close contact causing body source and fever. the virus is treatable. low deaths have been reported sofa almost 5 years to isolate the fetus in mosul. large parts of the city still lie, it ruins, but beneath the rubble, archeologists of honest a mosque. the dates for centuries as l. 0 as a sullivan java reports it's part of one of the city's most well known landmarks. america. the alluring mosque in most iraq 2nd largest city is isis declared. it's so called caliphate in 2014 famous for its leaning merit or al, had by his local people called it. it's been regarded as an icon for nearly 900 years leveled in the fight. soldiers and local people reject allegations by isolated the tower and must be destroyed by bombs dropped by the us led coalition.

now, piece by piece, brick by brick. iraqis are putting it back together. iraq, the authorities and unesco aimed to fully restore the monuments by next year. them in difficult things that we found at the beginning of object level. we remove that would move about 5600 tons of bubbles and also about live in these. all of them was put inside of the all difficulties was to, to restore, done, think about as much as possible from that sort of pieces and to clean it documented and attributed and saved it in a safety way. 6 meters below the surface, a prayer hole. and obliteration rooms after debris and explosives were cleared. archeologists have discovered what they believed to be the original mask built alongside the manner it. one official described it as a rary of hope from the ruins. but this is only one part of morsels destroyed old city. it will take an estimated $100000000000.00 to reconstruct then every province

is public spaces and heritage sites. but people here are still waiting for some of that money to arrive so they can restart their lives. and while they wait for promises made by donors in their government to materialize young people or reclaiming mostly public spaces. this is what the central library of mostly university looked like after i still fighters were targeted there. but students and staff risked their lives to rescue books, even pages. and now they're building is back with reminders of its recent past that are now our display sections for discussions and computers for researchers. doctor sam still wants help from academics, and international libraries are for most of the 1000000 items, including books, manuscripts, and research. papers were destroyed, secret and john looked over. his entered and as of the idea was not just to restore it, but also to make it contemporary and not just a book repository, but a minute of knowledge kind. the aim to target all sections of society while

concentrating on to youth. so everyone can benefit from the resources or semi yeah, or hopes, the big mosque and his city will soon be rebuilt. and these children who remembered the horrors of war or people will live together in peace in the future. sama driving down the 0 muscle. if you tuned and expecting to see inside story or you can see it at 11, 1st he g m t or al serra dot com, more news in just a moment on counting the cost of recent meltdown in crypto currency, worries investors can it make it come back, why did apple lose the most valuable company ground to saudi oil for romco? and how will trade protectionism affect global for security and fight? counting the cost on al jazeera with

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