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to intimidate the police and judiciary during a recent speech and official with his political part. he says he's yet to be arrested. con, lost no confidence vote in april, but his experienced a surge of support as the economy struggles. his latest rallies have drawn tens of thousands of supporters. small hydro has more from his from about m, ron kon, had a large gathering. i know the mamma rally and robert pin day. and richey criticise de ruling coy, alicia, and fall, breaking the laws in factor jester day. earlier, he had issued a statement in a speech to his support. dad, one of the advisors was arrested by the government was tortured and of god. after that, he also criticized the police and the magistrate who had overt step dad mandate saying that they were not authorized to tortured anybody. millions
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of students in the philippines returning to school after one of the world's longest covered 1900 shutdowns. they've been studying at home for over 2 years to help stop the spread of the virus. vaccination isn't necessary for students to return to classes, but the department of education says more than 90 percent of teachers have been inoculated. not all schools will have face to face lessons. some teaching will be blended mixing, remote and classroom learning. barnaby low has more from a school. in manila, some schools are doing hybrid learning, where some students are the face to face classes on sundays, and then others are still doing this and online learning. but the biggest concern is the quality of learning that has really gone down during the pandemic. in 2019 an estimated 30 percent, the filipino school kids that have reached the age of 10 could not read simple text or understand a simple story. now during the pandemic,
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international agency say that number has gone down to less than 20 percent. and so the education department is hoping that by resuming face to face classes philippine the school kids could catch up with global learning standards that it is of the u. s. the u. k. france and germany say a tax close to ukraine's zap alicia nuclear power plant need to stop ukrainian official say a city near the complex has been shelled. a large fire has started around 3000 people don't have power. keeps accused moscow of turning the facility into a military base. france says russian leader vladimir putin has agreed to allow the united nations nuclear watchdog to inspect it. a murder investigations been launched in moscow after well known political commentator, dahlia davina, was killed in a suspected car bombing. she was the daughter of alexander doogan, a close ally of russian president vladimir putin, the 2 bean vocal supporters of russia's invasion of ukraine. emergency crews in
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iraq are searching for people trapped under the rubble of collapsed shrine. it's believed a landslide calls part of the shrine. your car below to cave in at least 4 people have died. workers at one of the you case, busiest ports of walked off the job threatening major economic disruption. helix told port accounts for nearly half of the countries container freight. the head of the roman catholic church says he's concerned by rising tensions between the church and the nicaraguan government. a bishop known for his criticism that the president has been placed under house arrest at least 3 priests had been detained in recent bonds. he would have a chino company, i'm closely following with to worry and pain the situation that has developed nicaragua, which involves people and institution sworn. i would like to express my conviction . and my wish that true an open in sincere dialogue. deformed ations for respectful and peaceful coexistence can be found for uh, floods and long slides and northern and eastern india have killed at least 50
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people. over the last 3 days, every rain battered hundreds of villages triggering flash floods that have swept away homes and destroyed bridges. those are the headlines. these continues here on al jazeera in about 25 minutes time off to the bottom line. don't forget the website audra 0 dot com goodbye. ah hi, i'm steve clements and i have a question. are relations between the 2 biggest powers in the world, china, in the united states, on an unstoppable collision course. let's get to the bottom line. ah, despite their differences the u. s. in china have gotten by for decades. up until recently, american manufacturers loved moving their operations at china on human rights. questions, concerns about repression of muslim sense, and john,
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or suppression of rights and hong kong. the nations are passionately divided in washington. their fears at china is astounding. economic growth and its attainment of technological and scientific parity in many key industries of the future, threatened america's lead position in the world. and they see china is working hard to situate itself as the most powerful nation on earth. and if that's not enough of a hot mess of challenges, a bipartisan group of us senators and house verse have now followed on the trip to taiwan by how speaker nancy pelosi, who defied both the white house and china in urging her not to take that trip. china seas. taiwan is part of it, sovereign territory, but the deal has been that china won't take the island by force while the u. s. promise is not to recognize, ty, one's independence. that ambiguity has kept the regent stable for decades in protest. the policies visit china has halted numerous bilateral talks and collaboration on everything from climate change to drug trafficking, to regional security and military coordination. and president joe biden has stalled any action on lifting trade sanctions imposed by his predecessor,
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donald trump on chinese imports. but despite the downward spiral, the 2 nations are really joined at the hip doing more than $700000000000.00 a year in trade with each other. so what are they strategic partners, strategic competitors or strategic enemies? and what does it mean to you to me and the rest of the world? joining me today is china's ambassador of the united states chin gong. prior to this post, he served as the deputy minister of foreign affairs in beijing. and bastard's great to be with you today and talk to you and i really want our audience to understand the chinese dashboard when it comes to taiwan. we've seen the trip of of speaker how speaker nancy pelosi. you warned her not to go and said there would be consequences, widest high one matter. so significantly to you strategically. sankoh stay for having me. lassie. places visit to taiwan was reckless and the provocative because it upgraded
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the substantive law relations between united states and a tie one and it valleys, the u. s. commitments in the 3 joint communiques of china and the united states that there is only one china and the government of the people's republic of china is the so legal government representing the whole and the same tyna and united states will not develop an official links with taiwan and nancy pelosi visit to taiwan and we have her and we have seeing what she did and what he said is not at all fish of it. he said, very clarity. you know,
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her statement a power rival in taiwan that her visit is official at. she herself is not a person in the strait his number 3 in the u. s. government. and she carries great political sensitivities. so by going to taiwan, declaring that the united states size with this high winds authority, who, which low put the taiwan independence on with political agenda in the parties. the parties of democratic a progressive party's constitution is a show of the united states,
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emboldening type and independence forces. no, the consequences are very serious as we have wanted the u. s. side repeatedly. now, we are dealing with the fall out of her visit. one of the things that i have been surprised by after her visit was that while president biden did not ask her not to go the national security bureaucracy, the pentagon, various national security officials that work for president biden were very concerned about her, her visit and thought that it would be a trigger when you hardened in any way to see that divide in the government. that there were a lot of people in the u. s. government who did not support her trip. well, we only pay attention to the end result. the congress is a part of
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a u. s. government and the congress is obliged to respect and follow the american foreign policy in adding country. there's only one foreign policy. so you can say that the executive branch has of one and the congress has another one. and we are dissatisfied with what has happened already, and we don't believe that the executive branch of the united states have done enough to stop her going, what is trying to trying to achieve in the world. so 1st of all, china is working for delivering a better life to his own people. this is saw at the, the center piece of the mission of the coming to the party of china and
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the government of china. so what we are doing is to, you know, make our self a stronger and the prosperous, so that we can satisfy all our people's desire for a better life. and at the same time, you know, china can have many more to deliver for work, peace, security, and common development. and china is a force for peace and stability. but regrettably, my country is being misperceived and miscalculated. some people see china as a challenge or even a threat trying to replace united states. these are the or not, or it's not our intention. so we want to have
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a stable carpeted relations with united states because we do believe that china, united states have a massive share responsibilities and common interests. you know, we have our challenges at home. i think the 1st thing to do, but each of us to manage our own affairs well and a good relationship between china, united states, well serve the interest of our 2 countries. and we also cited meet the desire of the international community for peace security. and for joint efforts
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to tackle the common challenges in the international community is facing and saturday the status co all for china, us relations is very worrisome is going down here. this is because, as i mentioned, that china is being misperceived and calculated. and china us relations now is being driven by fear not by the common interest and by the common responsibilities of countries. you know, people forget that, you know, the bilateral trade volume annually between the 2 countries and have exceeded the, you know, $750000000000.00 us dollars. people forget that the before call it, you know, 5000000 mutual visits to,
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to not to countries. and people forget that in china, united states, on one of the most important, the trading partners to each other. and the people forget there are, there are hundreds of thousands of chinese students, you know, starting in the united states. and the more and more american young people, they truth china to study. so i think it's time to bring back common sense coming interest and common responsibility. back to the center stage of us. china relations on our differences and disagreements cannot justify confrontation, why i've heard you recently use the term threat phobia and using the escalation of rhetoric over taiwan in the united states. as part of that,
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what do you think is driving american worries and concerns about chinese behavior? from your perspective, i think there is indeed a fear or kind of phobia in the united states and it's spreading is at racism. i well, maybe you can make a judgment, but i do feel that, you know, in this country, asian hate is on the rice. and the chinese scientists, chinese students feel more and more unsafe in the country and our normal interactions, corporations in various fuse now being affected negativity by fear. i think a lot of americans look at what they see in china and taiwan and high hong kong.
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and some of what they see are say, the 0 coven policy, where many people are locked in their residence for very long period of time. and we've seen the youtube videos, et cetera, people and their frustration. or in hong kong, we saw massive protests that were, were put down and a lot of americans because they believe that that was a democracy movement, or they see taiwanese, that worry about, you know, their future autonomy and, and even some of them, if you said, want independence, there is a sort of affinity that, that many americans feel for that. and i guess i'm interested when it comes to triggering this crisis again in the future. what is your response? and they're saying, how can china either respond on those situations to alleviate americans concerns that china is trying to squelch autonomy and, you know, basically basic freedoms in human rights to have
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a more trusted relationship there. i mean, i'm just sort of interested in why taiwan is so such an exploitable situation that, that it can lead to a quick escalation like it did. and i think in part of it is because so many americans basically have empathy for freedom. well, the classroom of taiwan fundamentally speaking is not about democracy. our freedom is about china's national sovereignty. and tara, tara integrity, is about the national dignity of chinese people. the historical fact is that china has been taught taiwan has been part of china since ancient times. and in the history taiwan has been, was separated from its motherland by dark,
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colonial us and the japanese waiters. but the chinese people, we've worked so hard at the, a huge cost to get tab and back to the motherland. so people need to understand history and need to know the international law. so what is the international law one, china principal, kurt campbell, who is president biden's coordinator for indo pacific affairs. he's a long time asia hand is actually said, don't believe the chinese on this that that peaceful unification is not the agenda . they are seeking that they use. nancy pelosi is trip as a pretext to position itself better and, and to end, to take advantage of this moment a fairly straightened plane from,
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from kurt campbell. i just be interested in how you see that moment what, what, what were you doing to send the signals that this would be troublesome? i don't know. based on what this american senior official open, he said that don't believe china will practice are well work for peace for re unification. as i mentioned earlier, i know people on both sides of the taiwan suite, all our competitors, you know, and we will do our best to achieve feel free to cation, but we will not renounce to our peaceful means. this is not targeting ad chinese people in taiwan.
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this is to deter a hand for all for a time i in dependence someplace forces and to deter the foreign innovation so that we can best protect the prospect of peace for re unification. is there any way to get back to a healthy relationship from your perspective? ah, firstly, china doesn't believe that the coupling as in the interest of either china or united states and it will hurt both of us and it will hurt the whole work giving in the weight and the the the influence and the responsibilities of china. and the us and
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secondly, we do not wanted the couple know we want more exchanges and the more cooperation to get this relationship off of the current difficulties we need to ah, take some very important ah, principles to heart that if you know this relationship should be built on the principle of for mutual respect, mute, or trough are peaceful coexistence. and we, we incorporation as proposed by president she, i remember when ben vice president biden helped arrange the sunny land summit with
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using paying and brock obama. and i was with vice president biden. in china, when he met seizing, paying the 1st time, and there seemed to be a very good relationship, a relationship of mutual respect and vice president by now, president biden told me that he respected decision pink and thought that he was a forward thinker. do you think there's a level of trust still in that relationship and mutual respect or do you think it has been now spoiled so badly by the events that you've been concerned about? well, i'm very concerned about the level of trust between china and the us. simply because that china is being seeing as a 10 inch and simply because that china phobia is why the be spread in the us. so if you see somebody as
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a friend or partner if something. but if you see somebody as, as a threat, are a challenge? no, it's a totally different story. so how to restore trust, we need to back to the very basics. that is, to have a fair and objective of china's intention of development. and the barrier mind our common interest and common responsibility, which i believe we believe that the fall all the way are differences and disagreements. we should not let differences or disagreements, disagreements in the way all fall, the development of our relations. and there are differences and that this and the
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disagreements should not justify know, confrontation and the half the did it. how stated is ambassador years ago when then premier who gene town was visiting washington? i was seated next to a guy who was the equivalent of the director of the policy planning staff of your ministry of foreign affairs. so i said, oh, this is a great opportunity. tell me, what's china's grand strategy in the world. and his response to me kind of joking was how to keep you americans distracted in small middle eastern countries, which had a ring of truth in it, in that era. what is china's grand strategy today? felt china, the grand strategy is to save god work, peace, security and johnny hands with people of o l. a. countries for common development and shared prosperity. and we want
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to have a piece for and friendly international environment too far as to concentrate on laura domestic development, which will deliver a better lives for chinese people. nothing more, nothing else. and i want, i am as bassinger. my role is trying to distract united states from a fear of china and the from china phobia. and the word is big enough to accommodate china and united states. let me give you a story. the 1st secretary of treasury is hamilton. and there is a musical code in hamilton,
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and he had a political enemy that is elenbird. at that time he was a wise presently united states. yes. and the and the result was not happy to man. just say the lead had a deal. and at the end of the do vice president, but lamented that the word is big enough for me and the mr. help me at that. so let's look at the work today. and let's look at china us relations. i want to borrow mr. birth remarks that the word is big enough for china and united states. and we don't need to have
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the tragic incident more than 200 years to repeat yourself today. will ambassador chin gong, chinese ambassador united states. i really appreciate your candor and for you joining us today and talking us through these issues. thank you so much. thank you . so what's the bottom line today? we talked about the future of us china relations. my quick bottom line is that the 2 top global powers will always struggle for dominance. bring the ship and rivalry are really baked into this relationship forever. but the cataclysm that would come if the u. s. and trying to work harder to separate than to cooperate would probably do most all. so another way must be found to avoid a catastrophic collision. but this week were also marking the killing of one of our dearest colleagues, sharina ob, who aqua by is really forces in jeanine. last may, sharon was a phenomenal journalist and objective witness to events that she reported on so that all of us would have insights into what's happening. she was killed for doing
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her job analysis has shown that an israeli bullet ended her life and yet no one has been held accountable. impunity is incredibly dangerous and the death of sharina is a place holder for the harassment, the detention, the torture, and sometimes murder of journalists around the world. i hope you will think of her today, as we call for authorities to bring her killers the justice that she and we deserve . and that's the bottom line. ah, the welcome is coming to come in just 3 months as the main event gets close. so we hear every step of the way. hello, i'm john guys are also with updates from teams and fact across the glove themes can expect some strong support here in cuts home with the spotlight. no one, europe can france claim back to back world cup victory is all. will portugal christiano, rinaldo finally get his hands on
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