to day still represent about 84 percent of the global energy mix, which means that we need to do much more and much faster to replace these fossil fuels ways, renewable energy. but we also need to add that to the impacts of climate change. and this is very of an appliance part of the fight against climate change, especially in europe, where most decision makers used to think that europe's will be, oh, to say, immune to the impacts of climate change. they realize no over rebel europe is to search impacts. and the pressing need for an addition actually the usual patterns of seasons will change, which means that the reasons we will use to will change in the future. and this will ever cost remedy consequences for agriculture 1st and foremost, but also for terrific activities. for example, there is a lack of snow in ski resorts in the outs right now, and this is obviously an issue for this is going to be activity. ah.

so this is observed, these are the top stories, and us politicians have started voting for 2nd day to elected. new speaker of the house representatives, republican kevin mccarthy failed to win in the 3 votes were held on tuesday. after conserved members of his party refused to vote. for him, john hendern this morning from capitol hill. there is no sign that kevin mccarthy has lined up enough votes in order to be elected speaker for the 2nd day in a row. and that's really a test of his leadership. the democrats couldn't possibly, by marketing like this, they've been hearing these, they've been voting in unison for hakim jeffries, their choice for speaker, they don't have a majority and mccarthy's republicans do, and they can't seem to get it together in order to elect him. european union officials and meeting brussels to discuss the joint responds to a search of cave in 1900 cases in china. the german foreign minister says it should

be taken very, very seriously. paging says restrictions on its travelers are discriminatory. miss called on europe to stop politicizing. the pandemic. south korea is increasing its airport check for k for 19. that's after chinese national went missing while waiting to into a quarantine facility. the visitor had tested positive on arrival. i was sure, bob has claim responsibility for an attack in central smiley is killed at least 35 people. the 2 car bombings, targeted a police station 1st followed by the house of a somali government official in the wrong region. the cranium, foreign minister has announced patriot defense massage will soon arrive in the country. the us pledge nearly $2000000000.00 worth military a to ukraine last month. and that package includes the patriot missiles in nigeria. politicians have begun holding campaign rallies, head of a general election in february. no jury's worsening. security situation has top the

agenda. gangs continued to attack the villagers across the northwestern part of the country. like a sons government has ordered shopping mouths and markets to close early. as part of a plan to conserve energy, it says that the short around could save the country hundreds of millions of dollars, but the store owners want the decision reversed. say, in fact, it will be harmful to their businesses. all right, roadster headlines here are now desert. we've got more news coming up. news reflect author inside still ah. the philippine president further, marcos junior is in china. he wants to improve economic and political ties with

beijing. and china is hoping to woo him away from washington. so what's a stake in this trip? this is inside story. ah. hello there and welcome to the program. i'm nora. kyle, the philippines and china have had a mixed relationship over the years. the next stage of which both sides are looking to shape during present president marcus's genius visit to be. jan miller has historically been a close ally of the us, but that relationship cooled somewhat. and the last philippine president adrica, tatty, who forged closer ties with beijing, china is the philippines most important trading partner. but they have significant differences too,

such as beijing's activities in the disputed south china sea. where's the philippines has called illegal china for its part says the visit will focus on regional and international issues of common concern. present. marcus says he's looking forward to increasing economic cooperation a the next few years with all of our falling. so b r a shot with our correspondent, katrina, you in beijing. she tells us what each side as hoping to get out of this trap. macos a 3 day visit to china, the 1st of 2023 included meetings, the, china's head of the national people, congress lead done, shoot premier league chunk and chinese president. she didn't pay it out. it's been

a rocky relationship for these 2 countries over the past. few years, but board slide has said that this visit marks a new chapter in the bilateral relationship. they both lead to increased cooperation in a variety of areas including economic growth and trade technology, infrastructure, energy, culture and tourism. and so both countries much is at stake. this visit comes amid infrastructure and energy crisis for the philippines. manila, china is that top trading pond and also a major source of tourism and foreign direct investment they gene. well, manila is of huge strategic importance, which philippines is the closest country to taiwan. which bay june thieves as a rule chinese territory. the philippines also has historically very close ties to the united states and aging is wanting to work to do whatever it can to minimize washington improvement in the region. now there are 2 very major points of

disagreement which threatened to derail these ties. the 1st is the south china sea trying to claim much of this disputed territory. despite the fact that an international court invalidated these claims in 2016 in favor of the philippines. but despite this page and had continued to build artificial islands in the region and the philippines was also complains about chinese ships swarming and intimidating filipino fishing boats. the 2nd point of contention is military ties with the united states. in november, us vice president commer harris visited manila and asked to expand the us military presence in the country. and this issue has very much anger. katrina you out there in beijing for insights, doing well, let's take a closer look at the maritime dispute that katrina mentioned. just the china claims, nearly the hi at south china sea as its territorial waters. but 6 other countries including the philippines dispute. this in 2016, the hague,

ruled in favor of the philippines, and against paging assertion that owns the vast maritime area, manila had taken legal action against china, accusing it of unlawfully reclaiming land in waters around the sprightly islands. the area is estimated to have trillions of dollars worth of oil and gas under it. c bad. ah, that's bringing our guests now. and in beijing, andy mach, senior research fellow at the center for china and at globalization. in manila marie says, be took as to at large with the news website wrapper and author of rock solid. how the philippines, one it's maritime case against china and in columbia. east on oh, senior director of that, the singapore institute of international affairs, a very warm welcome to all of you and the let's start with you because she is just recently told, markov in beijing that china is ready to resume oil and gas talks and handle maritime issues in a, quote,

friendly and consultative manner. does that mean that for china a line has been drawn on to this issue and it's not a problem anymore? well, i think clearly as in so many complex issues, laura, the devil is in the details. that being said, i think both sides are very ready to take this bilateral relationship to the next level. as president marcos said he wants to go to a higher gear. the chinese side see this as a hopefully ushering in golden era of china, philippines relations. and of course, i think ideally any outstanding issues, any areas that need to be further clarified should be worked out as a part of that. so laurie says, how does ma course want to take the relationship to the next level? how does it want to deal with this dispute?

i think mark was just really trying to balance the relations of the philippi. i between china and the us. it was, this is up pendulum. swing the pendulum while when former president there, there was an office for the past 6 years when it comes to china now with mark what he's trying to reach out to both china and the u. s. and he already said yes. given strong statement saying that the police will not see any will not be of an inch of it's very sorry to say we did without naming china, but that was his strong message in july when he assumed the presidency. so i think he is trying to balance the relations between the 2 powers eastern. oh, how difficult a line is that from our close to tread between repelling territorial unwanted territorial claims by china in the south china sea,

but also wanting chinese investment well cars just like what was said just now. namely, mark ross was trying to balance between the united states and china is also at the same time trying to balance on the one hand is on a territorial dispute to china, on china. see on the nose with west b, c's on the one hand and on the other hand, trying to attract as my char chinese investment into the philippines and in a sense, in larger, definitely been a freight, china as possible. so indeed, it is a very delicate balance, and i think this is the same sort of dilemma which are a number of middle east asia, nations are facing nowadays. on the one hand, they are very part of this music. china. on the other hand, of course,

they're well chinese investments and trade. so andy, when, when she present, she says that he wants to handle these maritime issues and a friendly and consultative manner. what does that mean? because right now you've got a situation in the south china sea where we've got chinese boats harassing fishermen that are not chinese, others, philippines, or vietnamese. or even malaysian. we've also got chinese coast guard present, preventing the philippines bringing supplies to a ship, which i hope we'll talk about a little bit more later. so what is it suggesting that's going to change its tone talking about the south china sea? i think it exactly is the root cause that these issues are in dispute that leads to these misunderstandings and misperceptions as well or that are being exacerbated by external parties looking to drive a wedge between china,

philippine really and seaman will certainly western media, i think, is is one, i think other countries like the united states. however, i do think that the opportunity for the philippines here, i believe president marco's phrase did as friends all enemy to 9. in that it is not a narry choice. choosing between the us war china, and i think even china has repeatedly says that it does not see the world in these cold war binary manage she in terms of that it's complex, doubles in the details and ok, well, let me begin to lay details a little bit more, murray, because when andy says that the western media is one ex, tunnel factor, the looking to drive a wedge between the philippines and china. do you agree with that?

no, i don't think so. because in the in 28 been going to 16. robert philip, me for ready warn that international or we tried, you know, it was very clear that the case when decided by the international fed, you know, the try to see a trying us 9 dash line claim has no historical nor legal basis. so i think that's the starting point, but which china refuses to recognize and then repeat the said they will not pick up nice this international decision. in the meantime, philippines and china, during the barrett this year roar have arrived a certain verbal agreement. so allow filipinos who fish in spar brochure, which is actually part of the philippines exclusive economic zone and also not to

build oraclean on. i'm occupied either steps. there are some agreement for red has been made. i think the big best for mark was really in the oil and gas exploration because that's where the philippines will face crises, energy crisis in the next 3 to 5 years. and the philippines will need to survey and, and drill rather for oil and gas in read back. just confessed that area of the philippines cannot, don't but try nice, disputing it. ok, so yes, i know that is a key issue in this energy crisis. the whole. busy world is facing, do you think the philippines is going to be able to dig to explore for new oil and gas in this contested area? typically in service asian countries or we talk about explorations all power and gas typically. ready we do it in conjunction with a number of very establish and guess, conglomerates in the world,

the shelves are knock on the lips and so on. so when i, when other countries try to do so, for example, malaysia, vietnam tried to do so. china cause was not very happy and typically they would in here. so it remains to be seen to what extent is this it by macros, junior, who china, you interfere with philippines or i guess, exploration all, on the other hand, some sort of deal be made between china and the philippines. such that you will be the chinese conglomerates, i guess a rom rates, which would do those collaboration with the filipino counterparts in the exploring the wine. guess i will be very interested to see whether such a precedent would be made with the philippines except that the chinese conglomerate

. i'm needing the way know that there had been, it was she shuns for many years and they reached at the end. because according to the philippine constitution, it's the philippines partners with a chinese state own enterprise or a chinese company. this chinese company will have the knowledge philippines, suffering right over read back the oil and gas resources there. and so these to reach a dead end because when be the last year of their, this was the china refused to sign the proposed oil and gas development me to philip we because of that recite position revision were in was knowledge philippine sovereign right over the area. so that's a bad end, so i don't know how marcos will proceed. i don't know if there is a new way but militia denisia were able to drill in contest that area us

using even the militia fan militia, rupert's rama sense it's maybe i think a postcard saying with indonesia in as soon as i land malaysian indonesia are able to do this without trying not to partner. so do you think that she is ready to also allow the philippines to do this without china as a partner? i think we have to see, so this, at its heart is a diplomatic dilemma that can only be solved with diplomatic, awe, ingenuity, and creativity. so we've seen this kind of our ingenuity and creativity before. look at the corner stone of the china u. s. relationship where there was a disagreement on taiwan yet a formulation was found are to let the relationship move forward. so again,

we can see it as a are a dilemma. ah, but hopefully a creative breakthrough are, can be achieved, letting both sides are derived benefit from this situation. and i am interested to know why it is that since the 2016 ruling by the u and back tribunal in the hague time has not changed. it's behavior in the south china sea. the u. n. batt ruling declared that china's interest there were invalid, and yet it continues to build on islands. it continues to paste that ships. there's a why they're not respect this ruling. well or i think ah, we all know that, ah, countries have various reasons for dis, ah, agreeing or not accepting. ah, these multilateral rulings, the w t o is, is a great example of that. so i think again,

the devil's in the details are we have to see what will happen from here. but of course i think it's clear that our, for china ah, has its reasons for saying that. look, we don't think our, this is an appropriate ruling that we're not ready to abide by. now. i don't know what the future will hold. ah, but again, i think the most practical solution is a diplomatic one. late as he wrote a book. thank how the philippines, one, it's maritime case against china. and yet it hasn't been able to move forward. hasn't been able to take action with that when, why not? the philippines was able to, well, during the last of the day, he did not use the victory of the philippines to sell leverage to negotiate with china. so he sort of set it aside. in fact, he called it like

a trash, a piece of trash. you know, it belongs to the been because he was really when china investments as a, as a city now to be repressed. that mark was, if he had said that they are betrothed ruling is one of the pillars of the philippines for in policy. so let's see if i'll far, he's willing to assert this arbitrage victory. and how far he's willing to negotiate or displease china when it comes to island gas. but that's a very sensitive area. and that's going to be the biggest best i think in relations with china. you know, all and gas is one main part of this. fight over the south china sea and other one is fishing by rich fishing ground. also a huge amount of fish shipping goes through it. how dangerous is it to navigate these waters? the middle of these contesting claims. wow,

at the moment you. ready the sub china in the center, one of the easiest, a concentration of, of shipping routes in the world. so of course, because most of those ships destine for chinese part of course, the chinese would not interfere with them. but of course, a lot of other countries, for example, the united states and so on, those ships destined for eventually the united states. and let's say that and so on . and if the united states are not a good terms, a china of cause, then they are worried about the permanent fixtures of china in china seas, india, to see whether they're in a sense in dirt shipping, which are all to let me just in the united states. as we saw,

the us vice president kind of harris visit the philippines in november. she went to an article paula, paula one which is next to the contestant. sprightly islands. how provocative was that for beijing? well i think certainly we've seen, ah, an increase in the level of provocation or escalations by the united states. so i think overall, compared to say, policies visit to taiwan or other provocations. i don't, wouldn't put it in that category, but certainly i think it does. does add to increasing tensions in the region. and of course, you know, i think the big issue is a e, d. ca, we're the extended defense cooperation agreement and what happens, which is of course related to vice president harris's visit. so are clearly,

this is a complex relationship i think are there is a lot of moving parts and are certainly this. are the u. s. are words and deeds are, are a play or an important part of this? oh, i wanted and he asked her to bring up the sierra matter at aunt van is a fascinating story of a naval said that the philippines purposely ran a ground in this area back in 1999 to lay claim to a reef. our soldiers still on it, and if it's attacked, because it's still in commission, you could theoretically call on the us to protect it. it's actually that's one of their discussion points. now, here in the philippines is when the u. s. i believe me to say you mutual defense treaty with the u. s. and the u. s. has already said that he's of ben shine in south china sea. where in the philippines is armed,

they will come to the aid of the policy that has been made clear in precedence by my enduring residence from so but the philippines, of course, once to avoid any one sleep in the west sea, which is our part of the south trying to see, that's why the philip fleeing may be convenient to resupply. share my that is why the status of the ship went been used to resupply, but china doesn't want the sand construction materials. that is one of their red lines. so the philippines is only able to supply food and water, but map construction materials. so i don't know how long this will last and what you arrange man, and mark costs come up. it is flocks. we china. there are

a number of flash points here on the east on wonder how they will play out given the new relationship. but marcos and see are hoping to, to build but a month plus family of course long running very cold, your relationship with china. i recall seeing videos of a news traffic and so on. and now a days of a lot of sub is asian countries, the philippines, and brooded and the nation. well, we are not exactly the best off economic shapes. and unfortunately the united states and many other western countries are not in a position or are willing to. ready to invest and trade more with us. in fact the united states for example, calling up on. ready so even existing investors,

so we'll see, to sort of real of a, back to the united states and that all of you know, it, it, it, it put us in very difficult position on the one hand, a number of studies asian countries, perhaps. well, some of this us freedom on navigation petros and so on, over a c, on the other hand, tells us that would have been nice. china and the united states is not investing more in the region. so this countries would need to sort of it to work in terms of trade and investment and sing relationship to keep an eye on in the thank you very much all i guess for joining us today and the more communities better and the eastern i and thank you to, for watching, you can see the program again any time by the single website that's al jazeera dot com. and for further discussion, do go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter of

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