we established intersect in illinois to focus on business development and to travel to asia and israel to bring more jobs to illinois and we declared a harvest emergency a small to help farmers get crops to market. [applause] the key to job creation is education and training and we have started to transform education in our state. during our time in the executive branch funding for k-12 schools has increased one point to billion dollars and that includes record levels of funding for early childhood education. we enacted historic reforms together to end one of the most inequitable funding formulas in the country. most districts it will be a welcome and long overdue infusion of new money for their programs. now, need dictate resources, not zip codes. we achieved historic parities in people funding for child schools and we have created invest in kids the state's first ever tuition tax credit scholarship program. and now with more than $45 million already contributed to the program that students in low income families have a way to attend schools that meet their needs. [applause] scholarsh

and russia should take note that israel is a country that alongside the united states who will use extremist sense as tools and that could be dangerous for central asia in the future so i think that ultimately israel is paying a price at the international level and also it's being seen as the aggressor in syria because it downs a drone allegedly flying over syria by bombing syria and it's bomb syria repeatedly and by using iran as a scapegoat is just like with apartheid south africa did with regards to the a.n.c. they blame the russians the soviet union the communists in order to subjugate africans in the west supported ok you know if we look if you try to look at the next step forward mr. this is the political reality in syria a weakened president bashar assad but with the backing from iran and syria russia is bad as you know to reverse some of the gains made by the made by the rebels the americans in for was in the region is waning so we're left with two key players inside syria iran and russia. is this going to have any kind of impact in the near future about president bashar al assad are we going to see him likely sergei more ground or no i think

d includes all the europe, israel, arge parts of east asia. and that's a real deterrent for ianybody doing this agayou realize that the justice department is going to get you. >> sreenivasan: the sanction expghtz penalties being put on these individuals, this is in the context of the administration that inn't takg >>rge-scale sanctions against russia. ight. ti really is a way for the department of j punishing russians and deterring russians from interfering in future elections. >> sreenivasan: one of the interesting characters that comes out of this is the person known as "the chef." >> yes. >> sreenivasan: who is the chef? who is the cook behind all of this? >> his history is sortf interesting. he started off as a young person, asort of a shady person imprisoned for robbery and other crimes. expheefs one of the entrepreneurs who just sort of took the opening up of the e soviet union tablish a little strawnlt. and somehow he caught the eye in st. peters burg of vladimir putin who is from st. peters burg, and who knows wherelet relationship sta

the gulf news newspaper accuses israel of, in this editorial, wipe out attempts to christian and islamic heritage. in asia, the chinese government continues its crackdown on dissent by releasing a list of words and books that are now forbidden. analyst: and even a letter of the alphabet, which i will get to in a minute. recently, they removed the two-term limit on presidential terms, basically meaning xi jinping to stay in power as long as he likes. now he is looking to ban a bunch of words that indicate some sort of dissent. "1984" willm" and no longer be allowed in china. disagree, immortality, and emigrate are banned, as well as winnie the pooh. xisident she is -- president is often compared physically to winnie the pooh. bafflingly, the letter and is out now. nobody knows why. perhaps something to do with the fact that n terms of office is now greater than two, but nobody really knows the origin of that decision. anchor: very strange. let's move on to paris fashion week, it is underway in the french capital. the global movement against sexual harassment has now crept onto those runway shows. analyst:

the rest of the world the examples he gave were in the middle east israel and and egypt but certainly the same can be said in southeast asia it's an area in which at the minorities political rate in some cases i think minorities if put together would would make up a much larger majority in their in their individual countries than the predominant ethnic majority does and you have the religious minorities as well which sometimes overlap with those ethnic minorities and what you have throughout southeast asia is likewise leaders at the national level saying saying too to me and to others look the president of the most powerful country in the world has essentially legitimize racism both within his country these are the minorities and in terms of some of the statements he has made about other countries offhand statements derogatory statements racist statements and also via his policies and denying refugees from certain countries for being able to to enter the country not to mention that those countries are also predominately muslim and so you have throughout southeast asia a situation in which you have ethnic and religious mino

asia and africa he also served as the u.n. special envoy on right now conservation. israel has given deportation notices to thousands of african refugees and threatened any he refused to move with imprisonment refugees have been told to leave by the first in exchange for three thousand five hundred dollars on the plane ticket in one concourse not from telephone it's a common sentiment among asylum seekers here in israel who are being issued with deportation notices ready to stay in a prison mostly behind gabriel is another man who phase of his future he's twenty seven and from eritrea after a four year journey which involved prison time in egypt in israel he's now been handed a deportation noticed he says yes raids have dismissed his asylum claim out of hand and he's being held at the whole lot detention center well jazeera interviewed him they don't even mean i don't know why they given your rejection i just uploaded them that i i came to him for fiction you know i'm not going to get in search of. what you know the government called out. the government called infinite immi

shoulder with any nation that has those values, yet poland, israel, and beyond that core group of allies, there are partners. this is why the asia trip was important. you may not have the same cultural heritage, you may not technically be allies, but you are our friends and partners. there you may share not values with us, across the gamut, but interest. one of the key interests is making sure china does not rise the meantimed in exploits and intimidate its neighbors and is not tried to economic warfare to displace the western model of free markets. buts a three-tiered system in a simple sentence -- american leadership is back, and we are proud of what america has done. host: let me turn to this released memo. should the president fire rod rosenstein, in your mind? guest: i have spoken to the president recently. when ito recognize comes to these issues he has taken a very hands off approach. he may constitutionally be the chief enforcement officer, but he said let them do what they do. i am not going to insert myself on a day-to-day basis. host: but he does. guest: not on a day-to-day basis. he sends signals publicly. his though

israel we'll have the details. and over the shower as a quite subdued force across the southeastern parts of asia at the moment were some sherry weather across the southern parts of the philippines is working its way through borneo and down into java this is the region again where we're going to see the worst of the shallots as we head through the next few days meanwhile for the west generally a lot brighter and dry air for many of us here kuala lumpur and singapore both getting to around thirty one degrees and there's a good chance of having a fairly dry day before the towards the south of us some of us here there's been a lot of cloud and a lot of rain the latest system just pushing its way a little bit further towards the north but still the east coast of queensland is a little bit gray i'm ok more shower was a likely as we head through monday again it's the northern parts where we see most of that and further south is generally a low quieter we're looking at twenty six there are melbourne and sydney we all sing the winds they've drawn down from the center across adelaide so here the temperatures will be quite h

southern border with israel still ahead on al-jazeera ethiopia scrambles to replace a prime minister after his surprise resignation and celebrations begin across china and southeast asia for the lunar new year. hello and welcome back we'll look at the americas and across north america we've got cold air pushing influence west cold fronts across more southeastern areas some snow on its leading edge nurses warmer than stuff across parts of the south atlanta twenty one miami to twenty seven washington still about through much of friday some snow also across the pacific northwest there and there's a move the forecast some of the twenty four hours that cold front will go through washington so a must have dropping temperatures york and washington struggling temperature wise dallas will see some cold air moving in with a threat of some rain that across north western areas seattle is like you see some rain at times highs of nine but of weather conditions further south in los angeles a nice of twenty three down into the caribbean region the arlen's enjoying lots of sunshine at the moment all looking fine absence of sniff significant shower activity the same goes for the isthmu

asia. he says there is no daylight between the u.s. and south core retoday on north korea. mr. pence was referencing an invitation from north korea's president to visit the north. israelnched massive airstrikes on iranian and syrian targets inside syria. netanyahu speaking with russian president putin about the latest developments in the region. thanks for watching. now back to "watters world." jesse: donald trump famous for art of the deal, joe biden famous for art of the gaffe. >> confidence and to the u.s. senate as well for their trust and confidence. we have a lot of thanks to give out. >> his mom lived in long island for 10 years or so. god rest her soul -- waiting with your mom is still alive. it's your dad passed. god bless her soul. chuck games here. stand up. god love, what am i talking about. the man who will be the next president of the united states, barack america. jesse: he said this about president obama. >> i marvel at some of the things he says and does. that people didn't stand up for him and it was un-american and treasonous. he says it's tongue-in-cheek and democrats can't take a joke. well he's a joke. jesse: biden is sciewlg one else a joke. the

israel's prime minister. and the vatican's investigation into sex abuse by a paedophile priest in chile faces a setback. from brisk news and fuel. to the war in trying to this of southeast asia. however seems a rather unsettled weather developing across central and southern parts of china recently lawley winds coming in behind begin to solidly wincey areas forced to rise account go down into the ground in the seats a very heavy rain here as we go on through thursday then that wet weather will diminish somewhat as we go into friday still a few showers looking around the southern coast but this is southerly wind that will win out at this stage to twenty celsius in hong kong temperatures starting to pick up and it should turn a little drier and a little brighter but to try and bright weather into southeast asia meanwhile the usual way to the day showers brewing up of borneo probably seeing the liveliest of the showers still some big downpours on the cards there nicobar islands the out of it all is pushing over towards southern parts of the bingo chance of a little more cloud just cleaving is creeping its way towards flag but for the most part south asia looks fine and a lot of

israel. and in support the new england patriots and philadelphia eagles have the training patter counts the countdown to super bowl continues. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello there it's certainly been hot for some of us in new zealand recently for january well it turned into the hottest month on record in christchurch than eden wellington but the end of the month well it certainly wasn't plain sailing we had a huge storm that worked its way across us in the form of an old tropical cycloid here's the circulation then gradually drifting its way southwards slamming its way into new zealand for youth a very very heavy rain some places saw around fifty millimeters per hour for ling that is a phenomenal amount of rain on the ground wouldn't have been able to absorb that much more that's why we saw some flooding and also around the coast we saw a bit of inundation from the sea as well that caused a fair few problems this is what it looked like if you were around the coast big waves there and i wouldn't like to be driving along that road at all of it harry and a four by four looks like they're getting boy ok but coming the oth

shoulder with any nation that has those values, yet poland, israel, and beyond that core group of allies, there are partners. this is why the asiap was important. you may not have the same cultural heritage, you may not technically be allies, but you are our friends and partners. there you may share not values with us, across the gamut, but interest. one of the key interests is making sure china does not rise the meantimed in exploits and intimidate its neighbors and is not tried to economic warfare to displace the western model of free markets. buts a three-tiered system in a simple sentence -- american leadership is back, and we are proud of what america has done. host: let me turn to this released memo. should the president fire rod rosenstein, in your mind? guest: i have spoken to the president recently. when ito recognize comes to these issues he has taken a very hands off approach. he may constitutionally be the chief enforcement officer, but he said let them do what they do. i am not going to insert myself on a day-to-day basis. host: but he does. guest: not on a day-to-day basis. he sends signals publicly. his thoughts a

asia. that is being carried through when it comes to korean stocks. japanese equities all trading. there's in the biggest supply in 1.5 years. look at the damage report. >> the struggle israelx on mondays fight. we are seeing a move in the yen. we see the yen back below that one of nine handle. as you pointed out earlier, we had japan -- the nikkei 2.5 set to enter. this is the worst drop since august of 2015. this is a june of 2016, the local paper shows no plan in place. the hang seng, that is a fourth day of decline. plunging the most since november of 2016. that is something compared to what we saw on monday. this is a good buying opportunity. let's look at the bond space. we'll check in on what is happening. bonds are taking a breather. the losses are now down about five basis points. this is under to look forward to. see the 10 year yield fighting over 13 business points. >> getting lost in the noise. be wheres inspected to they are. let's get more about this asian. the question we have been asking him everyone, the enters have been quite different and interesting. as anything fundamentally changed? these aggressive moves for both the u.s. and asia on days when this i

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