seventh fleet troll the waters of the south china sea. help the people of south vietnam defend themselves against an armed communist takeover, the united states and other countries have begun a flow of economic, technical, and financial aid. a joint civilian military effort to build a stronger nation. a small but dedicated south vietnamese navy is hard at work to deny the use of reverse on coastal waters as supply routes from the viet cong. to bring knowledge of new techniques which can increase efficiency, a u.s. military assistance command has been established. navy advisors work with the vietnamese and help in many phases of training. the united states heavy support quarters activity has been established in saigon. already in mid-1964 the american navy is in vietnam. at the end of july 1964 the united states military assistance command reports an increase in viet cong courses in -- viet cong forces in south vietnam. the navy's role in vietnam suddenly expands. ♪ on august 2, the united states navy destroyer metrics -- maddox begins to

[inaudible] >> i've written quite a bit on south china sea especially as it applies with the u.n. onventional, which if you could touch upon the u.s. -- >> i can. so get a vote on the same sheet. the south china sea, big body of water, think gulf of mexico. china claims it as a territorial sea. they say that we own the entire body of water. they show us a dashed line. we on everything inside. we own all the hydrocarbons. they are territorial seas so we will control the shipping and we will simply annexed it big it would be as note the united states simply declared the gulf of mexico where a u.s. territorial sea. it is a preposterous claim. it is gone to the international court. it's been soundly rejected. china continues to front this claim in, supported by building artificial islands and saying that's china's territory. that's chinese territory. that's chinese territory. they are playing a long game, master chief, and their hope is that over time will simply become tired of the challenge. if i were a china strategist i would do exactly the same thing, lie. because what china does

china sea for the korean peninsula nobody's talking about the south china sea any more so china has better you know more free hand to take auctions in those areas so we're pretty you can say and or limited pressure defense resources has been diverted to some extent not then toddy but from away from the south china sea and the sea toward the korean peninsula so it's really a taking heat to win in this situation which is thank you for being with us today we were discussing how the international community should handle the north korean nuclear crisis with former japanese government adviser and military scholar dr get me that's it for this edition of sophie and co i will see you next. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in the economy is built around core. washington washington post media. to me though voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . what politicians to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president

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and china's aggressive, the stance in south china sea. and from east china sea, for the first time, the passing the strait of miyako moved to the pacific ocean in a very rapid pace, the fleet has become more aggressive. so aid to a.d., this strategy, they have already demonstrated by using their own activities enable in the air farcorce. the other change is u.s., there is a change of u.s., the strategy. and so vis-a-vis aid to a.d. in order to come to that, the first of the first island chain. we will treat the u.s. forces to the east of guam. and the first island chain defense is left up to the alliance, allied countries. in using long-distance strike try to contain china. we heard that that strategy has been currently studied. if that strategy becomes reality, as mr. takei mentioned, so how we should strongly defend the first island chain. so i think over the last four years, that's what we really study from now. so with all those changes, the japan had come to the point of revising the national defense program guideline since four year

and south sea and turkey is distancing itself from all democratic norms that have gratz taking place there would be nothing worse than if we said we're stopping unilaterally all turks with turkey on joining the e.u. and we don't have any majority for that in the european union out of the twelve years that i'm glad merkel has been chancellor eight of those she has ruled as part of a coalition with the social democratic party so if martin schultz is to try and slam her legacy and policies and surely he would find himself slamming his own party and their own legacy as well so for the german people though what that means is which ever one of these two as i said it looks almost certain it will be on the local returned city office the german people almost certainly set for more of the same politically coming up over the coming years but on my colleague andrew farmer at the top of the hour the latest headline. when else seems wrong. but i'll just don't call. me. yet to see palin this day come up to. and in detroit he was betrayed. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look

there is a massive military buildup in the south china sea. gh south china sea. north korea could affect the trade flow. it could be a black swan in the coming. mark: cash holdings are still high? >> it has dropped this year from last year, but it is still high. , two thirds of their assets are in risks. they want to have a's civic allocation to cash to be protected. specific allocation to cash the protected. tok: this is relatively low ubs. is that correct? what are you doing to prove that? >> our market share is 10%. what we do is we offer multicurrency, multi-looking opportunities. we are really good at the cross divisional. increaset you doing to that percentage? >> we are where the growth is worried we have 13 locations globally. we are in hong kong, singapore, tokyo, u.k., 10 locations in europe did -- europe. we are in the united states and middle east. american and asian civic family offices -- civic offices areacific committed to growth. others have a more balanced approach. how would you account that? >> that is true. americans are mo

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they have the south china sea. we have not yet -- lou: i think you would agree. ave to give the trump administration great credit. they are challenging china in the south china sea. and this president put three carrier strike forces off the korean peninsula. this president is make it absolutely clear what the deal is. and xi jinping in response is shooting nothing but bull. >> i think we need to start affecting the chinese economy. they only have about two weeks of oil at any given time. last time i checked we had some pretty good allies in the gulf region who could help mitigate their fuel. lou: i want to turn to what happened in london. all of us are concerned. our hearts and prayers go out to the folks in the u.k. but the london terror goes on and on and on. radical islamists have it seems a free hands in london to carry out terrorist attacks. the mayor of london said he's calm and will not give in. srnlts that just find and dandy, he will not give in. what kinds of battle cry is that? >> he's an enabler. they defeated the i.r.a. during the northern ireland thi

china, for example u is -- is seeking to dominate the south china sea with the south china seas. they will continue to to do thao matter what we do or say. trish: great to get your analysis, appreciate it. now joining me right now on thoughts of north korea, fox news strategic analyst and, author, lieutenant ralph peters. colonel, good to see you, we have been talking for days about this and it's been heating up considerably with just last night kim jong un flying a missile over japan, what stage does this leave us in now? >> well, we need to realize some basic things. trish, kim jong un is not afraid of us. despite our overwhelming military power, he doesn't believe we will use it. he believes we are tired n -- in retreat. but overall, kim jong un is convinced that even though -- china will back him and putin will back him and we won't fight. i have tremendous respect for nikki haley, she's really amazing, i think she has a great future ahead of her but she didn't talk about key economic issue which is smuggling. so much of this, the sanctions are being undercut by chinese and r

so just like the south china sea, reclamation in -- by china started but when the timing they actually created the official island in a very speedy manner. so resource and the energy could be used under the government's discretion very freely by our neighbor. so in order for japan to respond the public and private should work together to make efforts moving to the same direction. and the since the change is so rapid now needs to be maintained in a very robust manner and rather than overdepending on united states, what japan can do independently that we need to think about, if you think about maritime self-defense force, the -- we learn from the u.s. navy, we introduce new equipment and also learn from new tactics from u.s. navy but now time has changed. the maritime self-defense force together with navy we have to develop the new equipment, new tactics and we have to think together how to fight the war and i think that's what the u.s. navy wants us to do if that is a different i would like you to tell us but so the asia pacific region, the relative u.s. influence not absolute but relat

a shot at china the south china sea. liz: ambassador nicholas maduro as a socialist dictator holding up the venezuela peace collapse bringing nothing but poverty, starvation and misery to its people. the president saying venezuela's socialism destroyed democracy. listen. >> the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems. liz: cruel systems. your thoughts? >> well he is absolutely right in substantive terms, and i can tell you of years dealing with the u.n. going back to the reagan administration, if we had a shot of the audience, their mouth was have been open. he attacked socialism in the united nations. that probably had a bigger impact on many people in the general assembly hall than

china's behaving badly so look what they are doing in the south china sea. resorts as the south china sea they are building militariness haitians and a blue ocean navy so it's not the isolation of north korea acting badly. it's china as well expanding it. >> trish: so we need to do something about china. china holds the key to north korea and this is a confrontation that will have to happen at some point given what china is doing from a military perspective as you point out. >> the only thing you can do to china is put economic pain on them in some way, shape or form. >> trish: economic pain there is much much we can do. we've only sanctioned one bank. >> this is the only thing we were dealing with, the whole government, we're dealing with so many things on this front and don't think they don't know it. don't think they don't know the presidents in texas for the flood it's the most serious disaster we've had in this country. >> trish: good to see you guys thank you so much. still to come everyone the one thing to watch for in the week ahead on sunday morning

sichuan and near do as i say it's not moving far the same time with a feed of moisture in the south china sea hong kong right on the edge of potential development of thunderstorms again or at least rain showers that's three grand or right back to the border with vietnam so the drive it is becoming a little wetter whereas malaysia still frequently west is going to be joined soon by indonesia the showers are pretty widespread the wet season is showing itself with some force now as it develops. determined to live life to the. very limited sight. that i can distinguish. because. for inspiring people. as they seek to prove that seeing isn't everything at this time. headlining story so far today the kurdish regional government in iraq has rejected amman jordan. international flights for landing as of friday. yes from iraq in a referendum on monday. the u.s. defense secretary is in afghanistan told the president that america nato forces will not and. taliban. is in kabul with the. former prime minister of thailand has been sentenced to five years in prison corruption. last month the first ever femal

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we have seen over the last 24, 1:8 something we have seen over the last 2a, 48 hours over the south china seahoon just over a week ago. it brought a lot of rain on already very saturated ground. we could see some flooding issues in the next 12 hours. across southeast asia, drier air has been pushing across the north so dry across tuesday but across the south we could see some monsoons and downpours here and the risk of flooding and on and into wednesday. intense thunderstorms across parts of italy, the adriatic and into the balkans and warnings in force across parts of greece as low pressure continues to move east. the tuesday, the eastern mediterranean, gorgeous beach weather and the same for southern turkey but the north—east of greece into wards bulgaria could see violent storms and the risk of flooding. more storms pushing into the western side of italy, but italy will have some sunshine through tuesday afternoon. spain and portugal, dry, sunny and hot across the south and for the ca nary islands, pleasantly hot across the south and for the canary islands, pleasantly warm with temperature

we're very, very vulnerable >> reporter: the mayor says thankfully these waves are coming from the south so sea wall and not thin beaches taking a direct hit. >> we are not happy with what we're hearing coming up with the next hurricane, that could take a direction toward the east coast and we want to be prepared. >> reporter: to protect longport south from wave action like we are seeing from hurricane irma the city has been building up the sea wall with rocks so large you could only fit two of them sometimes per tractor trailer load. >> we are replacing, rocks that are, probably one fourth that size. >> reporter: as storms keep coming shore towns keep working to protect what they have got n longport, cleve bryan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >>> we are expect to go see a little bit of irma's impact in our area meteorologist kate bilo is in the weather center. kate what can we expect and when. >> jessica, we will feel heat and humidity starting to ramp up tapping into tropical moisture from what was once tropical storm hurricane, tropical depression irma. it is no longer tropical in nature. it is

the monsoon stretches into the south china sea into parts of the philippines as well, heavy rain here jakarta. back to the uk now, fairly decent day on the way for tuesday, some sunshine in the forecast, not a completely sunny day, sunny spells rather than wall—to—wall sunshine but pleasant enough, the bestie the week compared to the following days. a lot of sunshine around across england and scotland, may be clouding over in northern ireland, as far as the temperatures go around 18 degrees, the winds will be light so it will feel pleasant. that's a round—up of the world weather, remember the weather for the week ahead is coming up weather for the week ahead is coming upjust weather for the week ahead is coming up just before 10pm. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. president trump has had his say on many things — nato, the paris accord and now the united nations. he says the us pays too much. we must ensure that no one and no member state shoulders a disproportionate share of the burden. ahead of her expected statement on tuesday, world leaders urge aung san suu kyi to co

south korea, today it was that baby's turned show its strength. the command of this fleet said they were training to bury the enemy at sea. itary drills for two days now in response to the north‘s and clear test. pyongyang claims it successfully made a hydrogen bomb that can be fitted onto missiles capable of reaching america. at a onto missiles capable of reaching america. ata un onto missiles capable of reaching america. at a un conference in geneva, north korea's ambassador was defiant. the recent self-defence measures by my country, dprk, are... the us will receive more gift packages from my country, as long as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the dprk. those attempts include further squeezing north korea's economy. but some don't think that's a good idea. translation: the use of sanctions of any kind in this case is already useless and inefficient. asi is already useless and inefficient. as i told my colleagues yesterday, they will not give up this programme if they do not feel safe. south korea doesn't feel safe either and so korea doesn't feel safe either and so is setting up

linked to the monsoon, it doesn'tjust happen across south asia, it extends to southeast asia, south china seasome break in the rainstorms across borneo and jakarta. from the tropics to the uk and we have rain on the way. nothing too heavy but nonetheless some damp weather for western parts of the country into one state. by early morning, there will be some rain in the northern ireland, western parts of scotland, and thickening cloud, damp weather reaching cornwall, devon, western parts of wales on wednesday. many eastern parts of the country will stay dry and we will have sunshine and one or two shots telemachus pots with temperatures up to 21 degrees. rutherford the weekend... these are some of the main stories, in mexico, magnitude 7.1 earthquake, these are some of the early pictures, we welcome back to the story in a couple of moments. donald trump is saying he is prepared to destroy north korea... rocket man is ona destroy north korea... rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. and for his regime. all saints eg has broken her silence on the revenge of muslims crisis, but she has no

tenant is aggressive in south china sea. from east china sea for the first time, the straight of - moved to the pacific ocean and particular over the last four or five years. a very rapid space as a fleet, the activities become more aggressive. and -- this china strategy they have already demonstrated by using their own activities in naval and air force and china have become more aggressive so we do need to step up our efforts and respond to the change. and the other change is the change of the strategy. and so, in order to counter that first, the first island change, retreat us forces to the east of guam and the first island defense is left up to the alliance. and using long-distance strength tried to contain china. and we had at the strategy has been studied. at the strategy becomes reality, as adm. tomohisa takei mentioned, i think over the last four years we really can study from now with all of his changes, japan has come to the point where the national defense guidelines four years ago the situation has changed and if

from kind of a slightly different perspective is in the same way when thinking about say the south china sea or the east china sea we cannot look at those situations in a vacuum. in terms of we have to understand them in terms of china's broad, very broad and integrated maritime strategy, i think taiwan also cannot be viewed in singularity. if you look at the '95-'96 crisis, what was one of the major outcomes? it was a decision by the bureau at the time that taiwan is existential for us and we must focus like a laser beam on this problem and south china sea and the other issues go into the background, right? and we'll pay a price, but it will be a manageable one. 12 years later when they can finally look around again, they realize they paid a very big price and they've put their thumb very heavily on the balance scale to try to readdress that. one interesting thing that i find curious as an intellectual exercise is clearly at that time in '95, they decided we cannot have two fronts going on. with modernization, their own sense of their growing power, frankly, their assessment of where we're

marriott island beach resort that's down there on that boulevard, the south seas east condominium is another big one, tiger tail beach. i guess time's going to tell, to get out there just to do assessments now seems like it would be a dangerous thing. >> it is dangerous. actually, we're using social media to do assessments. just in the last five minutes, i saw a picture that one sent us of the surge coming up over the bridge. so we're using technology to try to figure out where we have the largest risks and then we're going to develop a plan to figure out what vessels or vehicles we're going to take out to start rescuing and people. shepard: david bayer, i gave him a temporary promotion, but we certainly do thank you and all the first responders who are out there helping people throughout this storm and ever day of your lives. all the best and so many thanks. david baer live with us from marco island where they don't really know the extent of the damage. there's a lot of stuff down in the streets, don't know about the bridges just yet. same thing down in the florida keys. you know, t

threats to sovereignty from the ukraine to the south china sea we must uphold respect the law respect for borders and respect for culture and the peaceful engagement these allow and just as the founders of this body intended we must work together and confront together those who threaten us with chaos turmoil and terror discords of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the united nations is based they respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries if the righteous many do not confront the wicked few then evil will triumph when decent people and nations become bystanders to history the forces of destruction only gather power and strength no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people then the depraved regime in north korea it is responsible for the starvation deaths of millions of north koreans and for the imprisonment torture killing and oppression of countless more we were all witness to the regimes deadly abuse when an innocent american college student otto w

the north korean threat and china's assertiveness in the south china sea underscore how japan still relies on the u.s. military for protection, just as it has since the end of world war ii. earlier this month, defense secretary jim mattis said the u.s. will work with japan to enhance its missile defenses, and the u.s. commitment to defend japan remains "ironclad." in tonight's signature segment, newshour weekend special correspondent amy guttman reports from the japanese island of okinawa on how u.s. bases there are a cause of concern to many residents. >> and then, on april 1 at 0530 in the morning... >> reporter: u.s. marine mark waycaster leads tours of the 1945 battle of okinawa every week. >> ...we dropped 4,500 tons of ordnance on that beach. >> reporter: okinawa was the bloodiest battle in the pacific during world war ii. 14,000 americans were killed, as were 150,000 japanese military and civilians. and u.s. troops never left. ( gunfire ) the american soldiers have been the cornerstone of the post- world war ii pact to protect a demilitarized japan. u.s. troops deployed from okinawa

the south's military fired missiles into the sea. south korea is preparing for new forms of attacks from the north by way of electromagnetic and biochemical weapons. >>> today in the russia investigation, a spokesman for former trump campaign chair paul manafort is set to testify in front of a federal grand jury. prosecutors are looking into manafort's business dealings including possibly money laundering and his actions during the presidential campaign. neither manafort nor his spokesperson are charged with a crime. >>> the white house and capitol hill are exchanging pretty mixed messages on the future of daca. >> yeah. it's causing confusion for those who have been protected from deportation under the deferred action for childhood arrives program. the discussions starting with a white house dinner on wednesday. afterward, democratic leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi said that they and the president agreed to keep the protections and work out a package on border security, excluding the wall. yesterday morning the president tweet

vietnam we are allowed to see some flooding a warm push on our winds here coming in across the south china seas over the next couple of days meanwhile it is very wet for a good part of the philippines. the coca plant has long been a pillar and believe it is traditions but its use in illegal drugs today is threatening the nation's culture memory and also dorothy's are involved because they received it back while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry me malady my mother was strangled to came and brought to me come with it was a crime who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow will be n.d.'s at this time. again the top stories here on al-jazeera the crisis on the korean peninsula shows no sign of abating korea north korea's foreign minister has delivered a response to donald trump's threats at the united nations general assembly and u.s. bombers have flown north of the demilitarized zone in korea and shows a show of force. the head of the un's refugee agency has been meeting. refugees in bangladeshi camps they've told fi

south florida has already experienced tropical force winds dangerous seas. hurricane irma has battered south florida and the keys with winds and is a catastrophic category three storm with winds of 125 miles per hour. the center is getting better organized, and will intensify as it approaches toward us. it will move across the keys tomorrow morning and grow across state on sunday. it will impact northwest florida on monday. the keys will see direct impact of the eye of the storm. there will be 18-15 inches of rain across the state, up to 25 inches in the keys. tornadoes are possible in software to this evening and introverted tomorrow. hurricane conditions will be across west coast beginning sunday morning. tropical storm conditions will continue to be felt across the warning area. millions of floridians will see impact of light burning wins tonight. this is a serious threat of siificance -- significant storm surge across the entire west coast of frida. 15 feet of impact above ground level in southwestlorida. tempo will see a surge of 5-8 th we also see an in

we must reject threats to sovereignty, from the ukraine to the south china sea. we must uphold respect for law, respect for borders, and respect for culture, and the peaceful engagement these allow. and just as the founders of this body intended, we must work together and confront together those who threaten us with chaos, turmoil, and terror. the scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the united nations is based. they respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries. if the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph. when decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength. no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people than the depraved regime in north korea. it is responsible for the starvation deaths of millions of north koreans, and for the imprisonment, torture, killing, and oppression of countless more. we were all witness to the regime'