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created the greatest player and accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that time this is the journey back into the history of 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 routes starts march 9th on d. w. . this is. coming up. diplomacy in the. u.s. president donald trump arrives in india. but beyond the. driving ties between the 2 nations. to follow forgiveness we need to lift a we don't do body type of attacks to reconciling with the man.
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but. 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 from is on his 1st official visit to india and has both come from from minister narendra modi has been huge colorful and noisy thousands lined the streets to welcome both the does of does and lead to dunst part of that welcome was also a sober visit to the summit about the off from india's goods at outstate indian independence the demat mug on the move for more than a decade. the trumps tried their hand at
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a traditional china cup all spinning mean that gun people in their eyes it symbolized self-sufficiency during india's independence movement next it was a raucous welcome of the world's biggest cricket stadium where from and more the address the thousands of cheering attendees at the potential for india is absolutely incredible india's rise as a prosperous and independent nation is an example to every nation 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 'd 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
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and there is all the difference in the world between a nation that seeks power through coercion intimidation and aggression and a nation that rises by setting its people free and unleashing them to chase their dreams and that is india india. are all. added. on. and i'm going to be. easy. to. oh not only but it's a relationship that seen its share of stress but to kill a little austria let's begin with trade the u.s. is india's 2nd biggest trading partner but retaliate for titles 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
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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 that had been in the works for some time for more on the relations between both countries i'm joined now by ambassador rockish who is a distinguished fellow of the observer mission in delhi ambassadors who has served as india's ambassador to france there bottom of ghana sun and he's 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.
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the 2nd is the fact that it is a post. in vitro the geopolitical center of gravity is moving towards a sharp pacific or the pacific and deterred is the coming into being of the 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 visitor in march 2000 followed by president george bush who introduced. omitted to removing the nuclear hurdle from that relationship and we saw the civil nuclear deal right and then this of president obama coming in they 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
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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 there has also been the growth in the defense relationship after all we only started buying defense equipment from the u.s. 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 let'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 will 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
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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 european countries where that it is japan south korea these are all alliance junior allies are not equals the only other relationship that the u.s. had for any was its rivalry with the soviet union during the cold war india is obviously not going to be an ally or a junior partner 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 are into the cold war and the east west of light we are looking at a more crowded geopolitical space and that is why india is also strengthening its
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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 a ball game invitation 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 while 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
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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 form a extremists and victims of attacks many 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 was
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still alive was gone for a long time she was consumed with hatred for her husband's careless failing i said that if i could i would like to shoot them myself. visits a memorial to the victims she will 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 be the reason. that many of them. was wanted. to connect with him and
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tell them stronghold that i didn't blame them. who all but we are all human beings who. don't wish each other harm. no matter what people very close to a. new brother. for years ali followers he 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 neil little. fish which. each bringing something the other desires an apology and redemption. i wish i could erase everything i've ever known about bottoms.
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so i sakit i mean i was literally sick. by forgiving i feel better. to people brought together by a violent ideology but united by a shared humanity. that's a from our door to a website. to do the show online i'm full of the story from the. best of the words the images of all the problems the visit to india research taught before.
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my 1st vice was the sewing machine. where i come from women are bones by this. and then something as simple as learning home to write them by saying isn't. since i was in the girl i want to have a bicycle off my head it took me years to going to. finally gave up and went to buy
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me on my side but returns because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more apropos into form goes than writing a. novel i want to reach our shores when back home for bones by then and social norms and inform them basic rights my name is the amount of people and they were. 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 un cle said it has powerful steps to stem the crisis. italian says dive an outbreak of the coronavirus sees towns under lockdown major events called off in
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europe worried about the economic impact. and massive crowds welcome the u.s. president to india but popping up donald trump one in short an incredible trade deal . let's do 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. the queue goes 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
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detected. elsewhere public places like this market in seoul are being urgently disinfected a spike in cases over the past week has.

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