the for the rest of the world, us say of the also rise starts january 18th on dw, the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. a powerful earthquake strikes to batch along the ton and a pole border. china says the 7 point one magnitude quite killed at least 95 people is left many others trump while after shop. shake the region also coming out of south korean court has re issued an arrest warrant for impeach president you and so you'll, fussy, remains, hold up in his residence, surrounded by his loyal presidential golf work. and on a farewell trip to japan, us secretary of state anthony, blinking said ties between the 2 countries were strong despite the decision by present joe biden, to block a multi $1000000000.00 to take over of us deal by

a japanese company, the little m terry martin. thanks for joining us. a powerful earthquake has killed at least 95 people into that many others are trapped as dozens of aftershocks show the region in the west of china and across the border in the poll. officials in the regions said a 130 people have been injured and rescue workers are searching for people in the rubble. the quakes epicenter was about 75 kilometers ne of mount everest, which straddles the china nepal border close to the tibetan buddhist holy city of chic dotsie. the us geological survey measured the earthquake of magnitude $7.00 at a relatively shallow depth of about 10 kilometers. tremors were felt as far away as

india and nepal. a little short while ago i spoke with bob dra sharma about this. he's report or in cat monday in depaul. he told us about his experience of the earthquake. it was only in the morning. i was sleeping all of us on the ground. so going, i can do note is this is dog queen because it's been going to come on in the mountains age and leaving. so for income, the queen, for many years i'm the latest one was in 2015. that way. and when i noticed these are great, and then i could do it on out of my mom. and when i came out to do with accordion to other people, it also assembled outside that way. and you have, do you want to of these gaming they were getting the credit cards going that way. and we just spent a few minutes there and of the saw. so it is still there,

i'm ron, was seeking, you know, of the software is taking the grounds. batteries and there are no, these are many casualties in the bottom, but do we get to know many people have dying? every china talk to us about the 2 bed region, that is where the in that region was where the up the central was apparently, what more can you tell us about the situation there? what i have a knowing is that the, it's extremely cool. dear. so let's go, sorry, starting to read. so the money to go for the and they've been using the drawn to send the mid deals, dunaway thousands of people being mobilized to the objectivity areas. and just do that when you're struggling to figure out the teen sign. these 2, the videos and the, all the posts are, you know,

put in place just to make the risk. you keep you saying i'm time the human side is bring it in, student being has requested some student courses to read sound up into the a. and that's what it is so hard up. there is screw up, the sense are underway, but that being allows you to do because of extreme gord. now you mentioned earlier the 2015 earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people. how well are people in the region prepared for earthquakes, or if you don't care about the city as people are, uh, people are a big oh, way about that citizen. because they know that building cords and they want to build the super houses for drawing. you talked about and believe it is people that are still not with the bill that way, they mean you still building the house is made of mazda any stones and they've been

not calling the building goes that way. are you solid because of the or you can on me going to send you as well. and we have my experience a similar kind of last week and we started and bought another one. so, and it's of people that died just a few years back. the other way, and it's still something at the end of the 2015, so it's great, but the people are not no fully up biting the building codes and they have to do so many things to make their houses are good as len. unfortunately, we've been experience experiencing this sort of a week and above the time and again, so far of the goods or more focusing we started above, but this time again, they said they started to fall and send the boat. that's my new that was that it's only remind you of the 2015 to do busted you not to clean for many of these bodies

. thank you very much for talking with us today. that was barbara sharma, a reporter in come into are now to south korea, where a court has re issued a warrant to arrest, impeach president, you. and so you'll, that's according to the country's corruption investigation agency, investigator seeking to question, you know, on allegations of insurrection have so far, struggled to execute a warrant for his arrest. his lawyers filed an injunction request was sold for to notify the warrant, but the court struck that down on sunday. i asked journalist probably and crushed about insole about south korea's political crisis and the newer best warrant for present year. us. yeah, the district in the west and so has issued another warrant. uh it is presumably valid for another week. so that gives the n t corruption agency who was leading investigations against you and another week to prepare another arrest. i mean,

so far they have failed and actually the situation has remained the same use. so if y'all has been barricading himself in his, the residence, he's shielded by his presidential security guard, which is almost like a military unit who is loyal, committed it to the president. and he's also shielded by bob, why and by hundreds of them demonstrate us of the human supporters who basically act as a human shield into one to prevent interest. and that was also the reason why. and in the past, it has failed the investigators they arrived on the scene, they wanted to get into the presidential residents. but then that was stop by the presidential gods. and basically out of security concerns out of safety concern. sorry, they had to stop to arrest you and, and now it is presumed that maybe the n t corruption agency by try to arrest the presidential security guard as well. but that is only speculation. i

just know that the c i o, that's the name of the end to corruption agency, is very determined to try again and try to arrest use of your so you look at a few other stories making headlines around the world today. uh, beginning with another development on the korean peninsula, south korea's transport minister parks on what was said. he intends to resign to take responsibility for the judge. you error crash that left 179. people did the exact calls that the december 29th crash is still unknown. rival political parties will set up a joint task force to investigate what is south korea's worst air crush. fritz is commemorating the victims of the deadly assault on the charley upto satirical magazine, 10 years ago to mast all kinds of link gunmen with russell rifles, storm charlie, of those paris news room and killed 12. people attacked again a space of business military attacks on the country. the 1st international flights

of landed at syria is main airport in damascus. since you have a through long time president bush on the last on 2 flights from damascus international airport to part in for the united air, emory, it's in the morning and the 1st incoming flight was from content of going us secretary of state antony blinking has emphasized the strength of ties with japan um during a trip to tokyo, just days after present, joe biden blocked a multi $1000000000.00 takeover of us deal by a japanese company 5 and halted new pond steals bit sizing. security concerns prompting the phone to retaliate with the law ser, attention risk damaging, critical economic and diplomatic relations between the us and his biggest for an investor. i just went blank and skirted the issue during his address and tokyo saying that you had in the us of quote, a friendship that has grown stronger than it's ever been a lot of issues worked on regional issues. and with more of this,

i'm joined them by william chu, he's deputy director of hudson institute japan chair and focuses on us japan relations. william help us out here because on the face of it, it's a bit confusing. we've got the us secretary state in japan praising strong ties between washington and tokyo. meanwhile, president biden is blocking a friendly takeover of the us deal maker by japanese one calling into national security risk. how does this fit together as well? i think this really highlights the split people within dividing this ration of certainly blinking along with the secretary of defense, austin and the secretary of your treasury. you'll in support of the deal. all 3 understand how important to us repent. relationship is over biting is much more motivated, bike constructing his legacy is the most pro union president after a discipline politically disappointing, 2024, in which he was kicked off the democratic ticket. so the irony to, unfortunately, by blocking the steel, the irony is that his legacy will actually be destroying 11000 union seal,

worker jobs and other state their communities. what impact william is by this decision to block the deal having on the relationship between the us and japan. and i mean, these are too close allies supposedly because it certainly uh, i think of what he has done has made very little sense diplomatically. this decision is unpopular in tokyo of the the japanese government certainly has protested. however, the japanese government is also more focused on working with the incoming trump and ministration on areas of shared interest, such as energy, investments and defense. and that's what they're permanently focus their energy on, instead of uh, wasting more political capital with the outgoing by the administration. so is there any chance that donald trump might somehow reverse this decision? is that possible still as well? i think it's certainly it's hard to say uh, however i will note that trump has previously voice is opposition to this deal. but

he's also made it clear that don't want strong us manufacturer in high paul, the jobs. and so the point steel and us deals aggressive $2700000000.00 investment to revitalize the us steel industry is a, a gift wrapped opportunity for trump to re negotiate the deal. and so one that will serve you as manufacturing and workers. so it's really up to him just to make that decision. now the pa, steel is standing firm on the us steel take over its still challenging that it wants to go ahead with it is filed a legal challenge against by this decision calling it quotes illegal interference up. can you follow this reasoning about illegal interference? sure. well, certainly look, the deal was supposed to be reviewed on national security grounds. legally had all passed all the hurdles, but it was under a national security review review. however, the binding ministration has intervened in it and to make it not actually about national security because it actually has been, you know, it's under the guise of national security. but it was really more about biden's determination to secure his historical legacy as

a pro union president. it's also involved in political interference from the u. s. w, and keeping close the arrival on bitter to monopolize us blast furnace. steel production, as well as by the advisors like us trade representative. catherine type a claim that they are protecting the us steel industry. while all they're doing is actually stifling the ability to grow and compete and increasing costs, i'll economic environments. so would you say then that a takeover would actually be good for the us economy in its workforce as well? i wouldn't call it a take over. i would say that the a, the new a new fonts deal us still merger will be a benefit to the, the american economy as a whole. right. it's a $2700000000.00 investment to address aging equipment that you will see of facilities, $500000000.00 annually of new points deals, r and d, to provide cutting, edge steel making technology and those. so this, what this means is actually a more competitive american steel industry in the face of chinese excess deal capacity dumping, securing 11000 units silver for jobs and prevents

a monopoly of last for to steal by a single sold manufacturer. cleveland close in the united states, which will affect obviously american consumers and american businesses are here just very briefly. how does this put into the us, japan, south korea, cooperation on security issues because biden's just projected this as a security risk just in a few words. yeah, of course. so i think this action was unnecessary strain on us to japan and korean relations at a time when we need to focus on what finding ways to work. walker typically in the face of challenging circumstances in, in, in the pacific, darnell structural reasons why this should really form our cooperation, but it's a very unwelcome in a necessary distraction. williams, thank you very much for your analysis. that was william to the hudson hudson institute. great, thank you. thank you very much. i as you're watching dw news from berlin up next

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