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slavery. i think will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routs starts march 9th on d w. this is. coming up. diplomacy indian style u.s. president donald trump arrives in india to a grand. but beyond the really driving ties between the 2 nations. plus. forgiveness. a we don't buy the 2000 to $10.00 out attacks reconciling with the man. which killed but.
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i've finished well. it's good to have you with us when the leaders of the world's 2 largest democracies meet everything about that meeting becomes a big. u.s. president donald trump is on his 1st official visit to india and has both come from prime minister narendra modi has been huge colorful and noisy thousands lined the streets to welcome both new does does and later dunst part of that welcome was also a sober visit to the sabah about the os from in india's goods about state indian independence the demat mug on the lived for more than a decade. the trumps tried their hand at a traditional chinese all spinning read that gun people for their eyes it symbolized self-sufficiency during india's independence movement next it was a raucous welcome of the world's biggest cricket stadium went from and more the
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address the thousands of charity attendees and the potential for india is absolutely incredible india is rise as a prosperous and independent nation is an example to every day should all over the world and one of the most outstanding achievements of our century it is all the more inspiring because you have done it as a democratic country you have done it as a peaceful country you have done it as a tolerant country and you have done it as a great free country are and there is all the difference in the world between a nation that seeks power through coercion intimidation and aggression and
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a nation that rises by setting its people free and unleashing them to chase their dreams and that is india india. are all. jeff. and i'm not i'm not of the. eat. oh not only but it's a relationship that seen its share of stress but tickler last year let's begin with trade the u.s. is india's 2nd biggest trading partner but the italian between both countries have overshadowed this mission should president trump has announced progress on a big trade deal but so far that hasn't been a breakthrough then there's the issue of security the 2 countries have increased their military cooperation in recent years and at monday's event and would rather trump announced a $3000000000.00 agreement with india to send it military helicopters something
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that had been in the works for some time for more on the relations between both countries i'm joined now by ambassador rockish suid a distinguished fellow of the observer mission in delhi ambassadors who has served as india's ambassador to france they bought in afghanistan and is an expert on india u.s. relations and best to suit thank you so much for making the time would you say that a military relationship between india and us is becoming the cornerstone of ties between both countries. no i think i would make it much more broad based what is becoming the cornerstone is actually 3 factors one is the opening up of the indian economy which began in the 1990 s. the 2nd is the fact that it is of course toward waterworld in-vitro the geopolitical center of gravity is moving towards a sharp pacific with the indo-pacific and deterred is the coming into being of the
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indian diaspora which is now playing an increasingly important political role in u.s. domestic politics so actually the have seen that relationship in this new of a dot in this new incarnation begin that president clinton is visit in march 2000 followed by president george bush who introduced l o omitted to removing the nuclear heard from that relationship and he saw the civil nuclear deal right and then they saw president obama coming in he were indorsed india's game go up woman and seat on the un security council and he followed it up with a joint vision on the indo-pacific which was a very clear recognition that rising india a strong india was a source of stability in the region now we will have to wait and see and trawled this that has also been the growth in the defense relationship after all we only
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started buying defense equipment from the us in 2007 right and since 2007 i think we have accumulated purchases of something like $20000000000.00 which is not an insignificant amount let's just look at the 3 factors that you mentioned that's handle them individually let's look at the 4th quarter was it sure pacific as has been referred to in the past now in this in the pacific how short is the united states that india would really play an important role and is there somewhere to hope that india would actually be the counterweight it promises to be to china. well i think that 1st of all it is a growing realisation that india is a potential partner i think for both india and us we have try to develop an understanding of how to deal with each other u.s. says been used to dealing with countries as junior allies you know whether it is
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european countries where that it is japan south korea these are all alliance junior allies or they're not equals the only other relationship that the u.s. had for any with was its rivalry with the soviet union during the cold war india is obviously not going to be an ally or a junior part so it has to be more coming to terms with each other as to how we deal with these issues in a different geopolitical setting which is not your approach because europe into the cold water in the east list of light we are looking at a more crowded geopolitical space and that is why india is also strengthening its partnerships with countries like japan with countries like australia with countries like france which has an independent presence in the indian ocean region and so on so this is a different kind of
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a ball game in which there are new rules of engagement so we can't look after the orderly in the context of alliances because even the u.s. does not have the same by the u.s. considers china to be a strategic rival but it is not as if u.s. is not engaged with china this is very different from the u.s. was not engaged economically but this over june and during the cold war but today. china is us is biggest trading partner. imagine for a moment losing a loved one now imagine your loss was the work of. your emotions rage so just for vengeance but they're also part of a vicious cycle one group is trying to break that cycle alliance for a peaceful indonesia brings together forma extremists and victims of attacks many
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of them from the 2002 bali bombings and other terrorist attacks indonesia has endured in the case of one widow who once wanted to pull the trigger herself on her husband's killers the results have been startling. 2 decades on and. still glows with affection as she shows her son pictures of the father he never knew on october 12th 2002. was walking the bar when jihadists detonated a car bomb outside. recalls the mayhem of that dark night watching emergency services remove the dead and the crushing realisation that followed. in that moment all my belief that my husband would still alive was gone for a long time she was consumed with hatred for her husband's callous fairly
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i said that if i could i would like to shoot them myself. visits a memorial to the victims she would never forget but she may yet forgive. max boon 2 lives with the scars of terrorism in 2009 he suffered life changing injuries when islamists bombed the jakarta marriott hotel the dutchman has spent the intervening years trying to connect former extremists or their loved ones with the victims of their crimes. will the reason bellbird me. was that i wanted. to connect with them and tell them stronghold that i didn't blame them and who all but we're all human beings who. don't wish each other harm. no matter what people very close to
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a. new brother. for years. did wish to do harm a one time chief bomb maker for the al qaeda affiliate jemaah islamiya he told the man who killed neil lose husband somewhere along the way instead of making bombs he started making amends agreeing to rican silo with his victims like me little. fish which have. each bringing something the other desires an apology and redemption. i wish i could erase everything i've ever known about bottoms. so i sakit that i was literally sick. by forgiving me i feel that are. 2 people
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into more towards the genius of. those who don't make it into the fun metropolis. live in poverty. in pyongyang starts february 28th on w. . investors week to safety is the corona virus spreads outside of china a spike in cases in south korea says the country under red alert allowing for unprecedented powerful steps to stem the crisis. italian says dive an outbreak of the corona virus seized towns under lockdown major events called off in europe worried about the economic impact. and massive crowds welcome the u.s. president to india but bumping up donald trump one in short an incredible trade deal
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. i've been physical and let's see business hundreds of further cases over the weekend have seen south korea open up as a key front in the battle against corona virus more than 800 people there have now caught the disease the most in any country outside of china with a booming cases the impact for south koreans and for south korean businesses is just getting started. to cue case as far as the eye can see south koreans have been waiting patiently in their hundreds outside of supermarkets like this one to get their hands on protective masks it's particularly important here in the city of daegu where the vast majority of south korea's instances of corona virus have been detected.
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