to link up. ports into central asia and iran also serves as india's only link to afghanistan. place that has plenty of mineral resources india is keen to get its hands on and a place the united states should want a friend to easily get to know once they pull out their troops in twenty fourteen this is what buckley interests all of us to ensure that of god his son is linked to the world through the means that cannot be disrupted that. the ability to export its sources and therefore make somebody india's say isolating iran it won't work and it's time for the americans to take a step back we have. got as the americans to look at the bigger picture because. we're going to be affected but they do will be affected so i think perhaps it's a hope. that they would be. flexing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down to pressure from the west preassure either r t new delhi india house take a look at some other stories from around the world first to somalia where african government forces have captured the city off the mat our way strategic military base in the south of t

which is shifting more of its warships to the asia pacific alexi or says he is in the chinese capital. not only the diplomatic and economic ties seem to be very strong between moscow and beijing but now we have it confirmed by vladimir putin and this is something he stressed in particular that the military partnership between the two countries will also expand now it's already been very strong i mean here that russia and china have already conducted a very successful joint military exercises in the past and certainly the weapon exports from russia to china is also massive but now we understand according to put in that this cooperation will expand suddenly this is some kind of news which would hardly be very welcome in the west in the united states in particular which have been growing a very much a war with china's growing military might and the recent visit by the u.s. secretary of defense mr panetta to the asian pacific region basically confirmed all these worries with producing statements like the united states must be vigilant in the face of. china's growing military power but bei

we are giving more of our attention to the asia pacific. second, more engagement is made possible by our forces in the region being more available. engagement is how we build trust and how we prevent misperceptions that can lead to conflict. so we will strengthen our tradition relationships and develop new partnerships by expanding both the scope and scale of our interactions throughout the region. for example, with multilateral exercises, rotational deployment, continued personnel exchanges and dialogue with our counterparts. third, more quality is an evolution in our priorities. what we decide to bring to the region matters as much, perhaps more, than how much we bring. this means that as the rerebalance evolves we will make our fifth generation aircraft and the very best of our missile defense technology as we work with our partners. even more important than hardware, though, we will bring to bear our human capitalism as i mentioned. in my discussions over the last week, i have had nothing but positive feedback on this approach. the leade

for stringent there all along strengthen our presence in asia pacific part of the purpose of the republican is designed to containing all circling china and maintaining the balance of power favoring the united states and i think the current situation asia pacific. is a piece of that a lot of a bunch and some of the actions by us is a quite a negative so permit us a visit to asia said the signal to china part that makes that one. they. can eat they are continuing to contributor stability and peace but are not hand they are stranded in the blogs that by the united states that is a negative for the security situation in this region as always we're talking about the four nations we know that china and russia have a unified position on syria can we expect some kind of statement produced in that during the visit of course i think that would either solve the. great country this address this is a very hard he said. that hard penis some differences between russia china and the subways and that are again countries from china and the russians perspective the key solution lysine. the implementation and that's planned

military seeks to return to vietnam as part of its buildup in the asia pacific region let's say news of the effort to undermine china. now in canada thousands have again taken to the streets of quebec. fourteen weeks of protests and demands for tuition fee free rein didn't deter crowds from marching through montreal two days after talks between student groups and the government broke down more than two and a half thousand people have been arrested since protests started in february and it doesn't colleges and universities in the province is going to kind of course now on american influence and canadian government thinking is being blamed. the canadian province of quebec a region that prides itself on free healthcare and affordable education for its residents students here pay a fixed amount for tuition fees around twenty five hundred dollars a year for all of the colleges and universities that's the lowest rate in north america and the taxpayers pick up the rest but that model might change as their government looks south they are looking at present borders and seeing what the united s

on the region that extends from east central europe, across the black and beyond to central asia. in december of 2008, he completed nearly three decades in the u.s. foreign service. including six years as american ambassador to turkey. in washington, ambassador wilson served in various posts, including the chief of staff for deputy secretary of state, robert zolig. and principle deputy at large and specialed a virz to the secretary of state for the new independent states. and deputy executive secretary of the state department. and he also serves on the board of governors for the institute of turkish studies. ambassador wilson? [ applause ] >> good morning to all of you. and welcome to this how turkey relates fay to the middle east. what american policymakers should be thinking about as we develop our own policies in response to rapidly changing events and dynamics in that region. on behalf of the institute of turkish studies, ooem pleased to welcome you all to the annual conference, which they are pleased and proud to the cohost of the middle east institute. since the establishment

about defense cuts and you know leon panetta of course said that this new strategy of refocusing to asia isn't going to be affected but lindsey graham by john mccain those people want to keep reminding him that if sequestration goes through then it really will hit the fan and i mean it what's your take here if we want to talk about the need for say. if secretary is close if sequestration goes through it will probably have to hit all three services equally which will be a strategic disaster for the united states i think that most honest i want to say analysts would agree that you could cut the u.s. defense budget substantially even by sequestration levels if you also cut the strategic commitments of the united states. but sequestration isn't about cutting strategic commitments it's about across the board. that you know doesn't involve some sort of fundamental reevaluation of american foreign policy priorities and so even people who think that it's ok to cut the defense budget should be a little bit wary about how exactly sequestration is going to go through because it's going to be a mess

stop the russian revolution during world war two it for most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam the united states is for many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people of the continent of amazing is also boosting its military spending how do you think that is going to play out. well it's only natural that china will seek to especially in its own neighborhood especially in the in the asia pacific region particularly in the yellows in the solve china sea where the united states is working with other partners undermine china's claims to certain disputed territories china is seeking to defend itself it does not have a global ambitions with its military unlike the united states which has a thousand military bases located in one hundred thirty countries china is basically concerned with its own economic development of course as a major power but they see the united states plans their pivot towards asia is something very threatening. brian becker from answer coalition live with us on the line from washington

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through the movie to many it's seen as part of the u.s. is bigger shift towards asia one that its defense secretary leon panetta is now touring the region to actively engage in a january report issued by the american government of china is listed along with iran as one of the us is biggest adversaries the report also specifically singled out india as the main country washington would pursue as a strategic partner in the region the united states has already been thinking better of the amount of energy strengthening military ties with india it just told them time military transport planes for four point four billion dollars india also conduct the most military at their sizes with the united states than any other country many analysts say that it could be a way for washington to use new delhi to counterbalance its new enemy china. what it says that. if i. may get competition for this includes and china is they want to get laid down that it can influence in asia while india is happy to have partners to advance their arsenals many observers are watching the american intere

stop the russian revolution during world war two it's what most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam the united states is for many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people of the continent china is seeking to defend itself it does not have a global ambitions with its military unlike the united states which has a thousand military bases located in one hundred thirty countries china is basically concerned with its own economic development of course as a major power but they see the united states' plans their pivot towards asia is something very threatening. still ahead for you on our t.v. later this hour a deadly wedding tragedy a fresh nato air strike kills more than a dozen afghans at a marriage ceremony a look at the huge toll the u.s. led war is taking its ability. but first the attention of wiki leaks supporters has now shifted to an american military court where a series of preach while hearings have started for u.s. army private bradley manning he's accused of the biggest leak of government documents

plans to move most of its navy fleet to asia pacific as the pentagon strategically shift towards this region they said on you tube why we always have to focus on a region of the world the last thirty ish has been in the middle east and what now the d.o.d. wants the next thirty to be on east asia imperialism is never a good route to take in world affairs. i mean i think it's pretty obvious why we're switching gears to focus on the asia pacific region it's china but yeah you bring up a very good point why do we need to keep covering the entire globe with our military would be so nice if there was some honesty in this whole thing right call a spade a spade panetta try to claim that moving our fleet was not meant to intimidate china i call b.s. but if we can't even get him to acknowledge that i think it's going to be a long time before any government officials publicly use the word empire ron paul probably the exception to that and finally it seemed like everyone had an opinion on our cat of a copyright story and get that we did it employ people said on you tube hey bloomberg canada is ca

we continue to have turmoil in the middle east. we see the rising powers in asia that represent a challenge in terms of stability in that region as well, and there are growing concerns about cyber-intrusions and cyber-attacks. we have to meet all of these challenges and at the same time, meet our responsibility to some of the most serious problems that face us, we have to rebalance our global posture and presence to emphasize the asia pacific region and the middle east. those are the two areas where we confront the most serious challenges. third, we have to build for the rest of the world that we deal with, we have to build innovative partnerships and strengthen key alliances and partnerships elsewhere in the world. so that we maintain a presence in latin america, in africa, in europe, and elsewhere. fourth, we have to ensure that we have a force that can confront and defeat aggression from any adversary any time, anywhere. lastly, this can't just be about cutting the budget. it also has to be about investments. investments in new technology and new capabilities a

towards a journalist on capitol hill then robert farley is going to join us to talk about leon panetta as nine day trip through asia and the secretary defense may claim that our shifting strategy is meant to intimidate china but many people really believe him and how big of a role are arm sales going to play on these visits are going to all of that morphy tonight including it does of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media decided to make. well tomorrow is going to be a big day when it comes to elections as voters will decide if they will or will not recall governor scott walker just hours away from that historic recall election in wisconsin the recall caps a bitter fight between public sector unions and walker that wage for over a year one hundred fifty four days until election day and it's a dead heat in the race for the white house both campaigns looking at all the economic data and plotting strategy for how to convince voters that they can fix the economy the president remains more likable than mitt romney in the latest polls and today his reelection team doubling down its attacks on romn

its that it's all in the nuclear talks but this doesn't seem to be helping matters let's move on to asia all of the markets are still trading coming up to their final hours and it's still a positive to its worse a little bit of optimism remains there we know the banking stocks some of the best performers of. two tokyo and also another one we create again this helping to boost exports and panasonic get in there on the report side this hour and let's move on to the uys the performance for almost wednesday's trading session as the markets are closed right now and there was a pause at the session both of that and the nasdaq gained over two percent and this came amid reports a survey done by the federal reserve which showed that the u.s. economy is picking up but then they gave us the markets open so that we might see some pessimism there was dead. there well it sounds like a. been a roller coaster ride for investors are going up and down up and out of the. well thanks very much indeed marina for this data and looking forward to next one next hour as always well here on earth here is plenty m

to central asia and iran also serves as india's only link to afghanistan a place that has plenty of mineral resources india is keen to get its hands on and a place the united states should want to front easily get to once they pull out their troops in twenty fourteen this is the what both the interests of all of us. that of god his son is linked to the world through goldman if you can the means that cannot be disrupted that will that it has the ability to export its sources and therefore make somebody india say isolating iran it won't work and it's time for the americans to take a step back we're going to encourage the americans to look at the bigger picture because not only are we going to be affected but they too will be affected so i think perhaps and it's our hope that better sense will. be a peaceful outcome flexing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down to pressure from the west pressure either r t new delhi india. i'll take a quick look at what else is making headlines around the world first to somalia where african union and government forces have captured the city

one in which our military shares security burdens in order to advance peace in asia pacific and around the world. tomorrow i depart on a trip to southeast asia. and later this year i will visit china for the first time as secretary of defense. i'll tell all of these nations that the united states will remain a pacific power. and i'll tell them why. because of you. because during your careers, many of you will be headed to the pacific. there and across the globe, the navy and marine corps must lead a resurgence of america's incurring maritime. as graduates of the navy academy you've earned much and you've been given much. and now as navy and marine corps officers, we'll ask that you give much of yourselves to service to this country. it is about giving back something this country. that's what service is all about. as secretary of defense i could not be more proud of all of you for choosing to serve this great country. as mentioned, i'm the son of italian immigrants and as a young boy i once asked my dad why did you travel all of that distance, coming to a strange country, no language ab

instead it's going to asia. ave taken seven ships in order to go between angola and mississippi. but now it will take 12 to go out to china -- >> yeah, so on a percentage basis, how much more are we going to be exporting? >> i think we're going to be exporting a lot of gas. the real story is 2015 going on. we have about 98 lick we faction plants around the world but 19 are on the drawing board. you won't get a lot of gas coming out of australia, coming out of norway, coming out of the arctic, when you were talking about climate change. that's going to be a big change. >> what does that do in terms of your plans, capital expenditures? >> it means we're investing a lot of money. in the last year since i took over as ceo we agreed to invest $3 billion. we have a new floating production plan, a $1 billion fspo. when you see how big they are, one of our fpsos can produce 140,000 barrels of oil a day. just to put that in context, that's the entire daily production of wyoming. so, you can see just how much deep water fs

asia. and i remember along about 2004, i mentioned to beth that i was going to be traveling to central asia, and trips to koz ak stan and kyrgyzstan. she said, great, let's go together. i had never traveled with beth before. she and i were sometimes like that on human rights. and we were in kyrgyzstan, we were in beachkeck, and we at drl had funded for $750,000 a new printing press in kyrgyzstan. and the previous -- the only printing press previously had been run by the president's son-in-law. so on certain days newspapers didn't get printed in kyrgyzstan. and we were going to cut the ribbon on it that day, beth and i. and we went before that ceremony to central asia university, which is probably one of the most prestigious universities in the region. and our ambassador there said to us at the time, they're going to hammer on palestine, iraq, afghanistan, et cetera, et cetera. and we walked in the room, and we never got a question on palestine or iraq or afghanistan. all people wanted to know about was, why are you doing this. this is an ally of the u.s. you're using our air base. i walked

we continue to have turmoil in the middle east. we see the rising powers in asia that represent a challenge in terms of stability in that region as well, and there are growing concerns about cyber-intrusions and cyber-attacks. we have to meet all of these challenges and at the same time, meet our responsibility to fiscal discipline. i don't think we have to choose between our national security and our fiscal security, but at the same time, this is not an easy task. to build the force we need for the future, we develop strategic guidance that consists of five key elements, that were the elements that guided us in terms of the budget recommendations we make. first of all, we know that the military's going to be smaller and it's going to be leaner in the future, but it has to be agile, it has to be flexible, it has to be quickly deployable and it also has to be technologically advanced. second, because of the world we live in and where we confront some of the most serious problems that face us, we have to rebalance our global posture and presence to emphasize the asi

. >>> china is continuing to build up its military presence in asia and the united states is seeking to adjust the balance of power in the region. the u.s. is pledging closer ties in defense support to india, vietnam and other asian countries. we have the details from our bangkok bureau. >> reporter: india has been called a vital partner by the u.s. which is making moves to strengthen that partnership. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta kicked off a visit to india on tuesday. it appears that u.s. hopes to bolster ties with the country in the face of a more assertive china. during a two-day visit, panetta is expected to discuss deepening defense cooperation with india and the nato war effort in afghanistan. focusing on washington's strategic shift towards asia. panetta has also pledged u.s. defense support for vietnam and other southeast asian countries. the u.s. secretary of defense met with his vietnamese counterpart during a visit to hanoi on monday. the two agreed to an increased presence of the u.s. navy in the country and other measures. >> the most destabilizing situation would

i chi china is committed to achieving air superiority aircraft as part of its pivot to asia. that is to say, the united states air force is not thinking of turning to european or asian suppliers to supply its number one strike aircraft. developing leadership is the highest national security. and china is not thinking of it in their comparative advantage. i say that because it has to inform, then, our own response to china. and i want to emphasize, not just china. i remember in february of 2009 i was invited to a white house meeting to discuss the future of green technology in the obama administration. and there was a debate between those who in the administration who wanted to become proactive with various kinds of incentives to promote green energy and other market -- traditionally, market-oriented officials who argue that we don't want winners and lose hers, that we should rely on the market. and the point i made in that discussion was, are you kidding me? i look around the world and i see germany has a huge program subsidizing solar technology, denmark has a big program sub

over in russia plans closer ties with china while america promises to move most of its warships to the asia pacific in the coming years again a report to come. and protest peacefully or pay a fortune russian lawmakers passed a bill that sparked some of the most heated debate and said that new parliamentary record to. this is r.t. it's seven pm now here in moscow welcome review watching around the world my name's kevin zero in on our top story for you the eurozone debt crisis is getting dangerously close to the monetary unions powerhouse germany moody's cut the ratings of several german banks including the country's second biggest lender austria is also affected here's our europe correspondent test for ourselves. granted that there's a lot of skepticism surrounding the moves or the motivations of ratings agencies what has just happened does confirm already existing skepticism on the health of the whole banking economy the whole economy at large of the euro zone and nations that fragility and the vulnerability of certain countries even economic powerhouses such as germany to what happens in t

to the asia pacific in the coming days. protest peacefully. rushmore makers possibile sparked some of the most wanted day and also set a new parliamentary record to boot. next join james brown if you can stay with us for the next thirty minutes or so he's on his latest russian adventure and he's touring the chelyabinsk reach it. reason is one of those places that offers something for everyone sitting just east of the your rules the country's border between europe and asia this is an ethnically diverse area of more than three million people there's a bustling capital city to enjoy for the nature lovers some of russia's most stunning countryside it is right on your doorstep. as well as being very beautiful this is also a very significant part of the screen because over there it marks the start of the european ural mountains and also we're on top of one of russia's most significant treasures. just a few meters away is the entrance to the igniter of sky cave and it's supposed to contain some of the best preserved ancient artwork in the country. def

its ultimate goal is to make dawei the largest industrial area in southeast asia. >> it's the center of the pacific ocean and indian ocean. >> reporter: but development is not proceeding as smoothly as the government wishes. two years ago, the previous military regime granted development rights to a general contractor in neighboring thailand. but the current government is having trouble securing the budget, which is set to exceed $50 billion. another issue is ethnic tensions involving minority groups. last year, an armed group of people exchanged fire with government troops in an area of dawei under development. groups have been fighting with government forces for decades. the national union reached a cease-fire agreement with the government this january. but their distrust of the government is so deeply rooted that they say it would not approve the development of dawei unless it helped improve their livelihoods. >> translator: we will support the development only if benefits will be distributed to all ethnic minority groups. but if the development is likely to ruin our lives and depr

dollar as an intermediary curan see it is believed to benefit the two asia's largest economies due to more convenience in the business and considerable reduction off risks caused by fixation of the dollar as exchange rates on the world market. by not having to go through a third country's currency and by reducing transaction costs and lower settlement risks between financial institutions the decision will bring benefits because i believe this will enhance the convenience of both currencies and revitalize tokyo markets moreover the train will save the two countries some three billion dollars in transaction fees annually used to be paid to the u.s. central bank the move marks china is a mission to challenge the green bags dominance japan is hoping to make the yen and more widely accepted currency in global trade and investment it may not be the end of the dollar hegemony established by the bretton woods agreement in one thousand nine hundred forty four and which contributed to the united states decides if role in shaping global markets rules and institutions but even despite the fact th