we, as asean, allow that to disrupt the world of asean as a grouping.to find a way to manage this situation. first thing is first, we want to make sure sue chee and her party members are not harmed, and there'll be no outbreak of protests and casualties on the streets of myanmar. haslinda: the u.s. is considering re-imposing sanctions. could asean join the west in imposing sanctions against military leaders? ong: i don't think so. because if you do that, myanmar would isolate themselves. don't forget, they have been doing an isolationist policy for many decades. they believe they can survive on their own. from asean, we have to continue our engagement. myanmar by itself doesn't care about what the rest of the world thinks. don't forget, there are many other bigger countries in the region who are prepared to do business and deal with myanmar under a military government. so if we just follow what we call a knee-jerk reaction and try to do things like isolate me and mark, it will not -- isolate myanmar, it will not cause a positive outcome. so we make sure

we have asked for asean to expel myanmar out of asean.or asean leaders. this is very embarrassing. but that is the reality we live in. and also i think at this time civil society in all countries has to put pressure on a government in order to tell our government you can not accept this happening in myanmar. rule or port at length on the soul of the republican party in the us. from those who want to stay close to donald trump or break away from. part of that store has been playing out today. she has encouraged other foss conspiracy theories on a range of issues from the september 11 terror attacks to school shootings which she says may be in the past have been staged and also justice ruth wade was replaced by a body double before her death. she has also claimed the 2018 california law fires were ignited byjewish space lasers. this was her earlier defending herself on the house floor. —— ruth gaeta been spurred. these were words of the past. these things do not represent me. they do not represent my district. they do not represent my distr

asean is no exception.uch more stronger partnerships between automotive makers and the government to promote and enhance the infrastructure that are necessary to boost the sales of the electric vehicle. rishaad: with that amount of optimism and the government has been very, very much needed in order to set up a framework that is needed to support ev's. which part of asean is lacking most and what needs to be done? isao: well, i believe, again, there's a combination of clear policy, starting with the incentives and infrastructures. i believe in this region, governments are leading the way to try to implement the policies that allow buyers to have more of buying ev, but as well as it is important to have the incentives that allow consumers to take the benefits out of ow ning electric vehicle. rishaad: ok, then there's another point here, as well, and many countries do ponder this. you get an electric vehicle, it doesn't pollute the streets. but where the power source is to charge these ev's, how much of a net

it doesn't even think above asean. indonesia is the natural lead are of asean given size and location but leaves behind at best. indonesians have no sense of the strategic cloud circumstance rating around them in this u.s.-china competition and other elements. just totally internally preoccupied . the indonesian arm forces, the united states cut them off for human rights abuses in east timor. again, mandated by congressional legislation but it alienated a generation of indonesian officers who are retiring and there's a new generation getting to the top of the rankses and the u.s. military assistance program to the -- to indonesia is very broad and very deach. i go into it in the book. so i don't want to bee labor this question but you put your finger an key issue. a., it's the two countries, thailand, indonesia and the role of the military in each, and if the united states -- i'm not going to say we shouldn't -- 0 congressional legislation is what it is and it's passed for reasons. and it has to be enforced when there'

but also countries from asean but the eu, uk, the us and so on but what is even more important at thisery, very much in need right now. and those sanctions need to tighten, increase and have a collective punch by co—ordinating them one to the other, to make absolutely certain that this is not going to be tolerated by the international community. [30 to be tolerated by the international community. do you reall see international community. do you really see china _ international community. do you really see china taking _ international community. do you really see china taking part - international community. do you really see china taking part in i really see china taking part in those kind of sanctions? well, no, i those kind of sanctions? well, no. i don't. — those kind of sanctions? well, no, i don't, to _ those kind of sanctions? well, no, i don't, to be _ those kind of sanctions? well, no, i don't, to be perfectly - no, i don't, to be perfectly honest with you. china, as you know, as we all know, has been a protector of the generals and at the security council they have provided the

that's not how things are decided at this present moment and tell us briefly if you could regarding an asean supply as you said how much does your of need just pipeline it needs the russian gas is the distinction 40 percent of the gas that europe uses roughly comes from russia it will take a long time to get away from this geo strategic dependence we could discuss that sometime the question is will it continue to come through the pipelines that already exist there are huge could be you know more could be sent through ukraine and the rows and poland as well or will it all be transferred into these pipelines directly to germany germany will become the hub for distribution of this russian gas in europe will become you know the sub player from from moscow ok in the book and this is this is the question is how you receive it through which place when ukraine doesn't have that transit what do you think more mr putin might do against ukraine why does he want it out of there so badly he's afraid the pipeline will get blown up if he continues his were there times at all strange him and again and inter

bring in our guests in bangkok debbie stothard founder and coordinator of obscene burma a network of asean organizations working to support human rights and democracy in myanmar in london ronan li visiting scholar at queen mary university of london and author of memoirs for him genocide in the cab illinois therapy associate professor at the department of world languages and cultures at northern illinois university a warm welcome to you all debbie let me start with you today now that curan has cut ties with al that's the conglomerate with ties to me and mars' military do we expect that more companies or at least more foreign companies are going to be doing the same i think any company that so understanding its obligations for human rights due diligence should cut its ties with any military owned companies the military these military companies are notorious for some of the worst human rights violations including wide scale then grabbing in the country and it's time that the rick perry didn't make human rights violations a profitable business run and could you tell us a little bit more about

strengthen the regional reaction to what's still ongoing inside the country well the original reaction in asean we are seeing a group of countries is quite muted now challenge of course. half a dozen years ago and it now has a government that reflects the military will in a very constrained constitution countries like me. for it in states so critical now again and the other as you know in countries history noninterference in the end they were well into the starts that policy of noninterference or not really having a stance when it comes to regional neighbors and what's going on inside their own borders can you fast forward this for us professor do you get the sense is it your feeling that the country is heading towards being almost completely self isolating here. i don't think you know what the stop loss the way things are not in a way that it was not showing that it could work in 62. way the links to china very strong links to russia very strong and willing to tolerate and have been improving over many years and dollars relations will continue of course in the relationship with the united stat

urge the own countries not to recognise the queue government if they do recognise that the dignity of asean will be eroded ossie and is reported to be planning to send officials to monitor a new being more election promised by the general but the protesters are urging arceo to recognize the november polling that put their deposed leaders including on santucci in office. one group earlier organized a protest at the bangkok indonesian embassy calling an aussie on to get more involved we asked. to decide between the military 100 wish oppressed people right now. people were just trying to protest as they can to. lead. we will be. again this is not the 1st time that has reached out to thailand since the coup about a week after the takeover myanmar's military leader min on length sent a letter to the thai prime minister asking for help on the democratic process and. a former military chief also rose to power overthrowing a democratically elected government in 2014 he stayed in office after 2001000. years to engage with the crisis al-jazeera bangkok. joe biden is expected to speak to saudi arabia'

we see flows increasing in asean . more important is the increase in wealth in southeast asia.population is young and well educated. i think there's some very positive trends we aspire to. we have to develop additional capability to attract this group of people. we will be putting in more wealth offerings unto our mobile platform. this group, they want something convenient, you know? for the higher end, we will be looking at our own offerings, to make sure we get a trend. a lot of them are also moving u.s. dollars, so how can we help them and other currencies? if you notice, it is not only returns we are looking at. i think emg is very much on the horizon at the top of everybody's head. rishaad: wealth is your business imperative and what you are concentrating on. you mentioned it in the earnings call. how do you propose to build up that wealth product that you do have, those wealth products? is it a sense of you being nickeled away by some of those digital rivals there in singapore and elsewhere, and at the same time you have to beef up your digital offerings? how do you do th

immediately take to take action and the peoples are expecting the international community because the asean countries and european union and u.s. and u.k. and peoples have people having great hope on the international community and we urge them to stand up with the people of burma at this time. in other world news a team of experts investigating the origins of the covert 1000 pandemic in china has dismissive theory it was engineered the world health organization researchers have been in the city of wine after months of delay to find out how the virus spread to humans and what cost it in terms of understanding what happened in the early days in december 2019 did we did we change dramatically the picture we had before hand i don't think so did we improve our understanding did we add details to that story absolutely we did not. find evidence of large outbreaks of that could be related to cases of covert 19 prior to december 19 in one or elsewhere. there is our clock has more from hong kong. well these are the much anticipated preliminary findings by the w.h.o. china joint commission that spent

round of condemnation from throughout the world including from china who issued a very strong from asean is to respond with action and targeted economic sanctions and an arms embargo are very much in need right now. those sanctions need to tighten, increase and have a collective punch by co—ordinating them, one to the other, to make sure that this is not going to be tolerated by the international community. do you really see china taking part in these kind of sanctions? to be honest, i do not. as we all know, china has always been a protector. they have provided the generals with weapons and trade. but statements coming from china have been unusual in that they call for the release of political prisoners standing down of the military in this coup. that is an unusual public statement so we are hoping that behind—the—scenes china as being very clear with myanmar that they do not want a conflagration over their border, instability over their border. so we hope that the voices of the people that they listen to, from china to major businesses that they seek to do business with, that they will

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immediately did to take action and the peoples are expecting the international community because the asean countries are european union and u.s. and u.k. and people have people having great hold on the international community and we urge them to stand up with the people of burma at this time. but the stage is set for former u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial in about an hour's time the senate will begin proceedings which will decide whether trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection he's accused of urging his supporters to march on the capitol building last month and that's where congress was meeting to confirm joe biden's victory in the presidential election what trump insists was stolen from him the riots ended in the deaths of 5 people all trump as the only former president to face trial and his lawyers argue that makes the proceedings unconstitutional well if convicted he could be barred from ever running for office later on tuesday senators will vote on whether the trial should go ahead when approved both sides will make their case over the coming days let's go live to h

asean human eye latin america editor in santiago there let's get more now on those cherry exports where the road rager yang as well as chile is vital minister of trade and he joins us via zome here in doha thank you very much mr young us for being with us so terry's a 1600000000 dollar export industry for chile let me ask ask you 1st if you were surprised that the chinese government did very little to face down these almost why do you think that is well actually the governments at the local level made statements to clarify the situation and the public officials from the health sector in china gave interviews explaining to the people there that consumption of cherries and fruit were generally and food was safe so we have been in contact permanently with the chinese authorities we've got their support in terms of disseminating the proper information the proper news they issue is that this is a huge market and this year we're expecting to sell over $2000000000.00 us dollars in cherry's so the report will said we were working round the clock to change the wave against these the fake news ar

, china, who issued a very strong statement, relatively speaking to china, but also countries from aseanrgeted economic sanctions and an arms embargo are very, very much in need right now. and those sanctions need to tighten, increase and have a collective punch by co—ordinating them one to the other, to make absolutely certain that this is not going to be tolerated by the international community. do you really see china taking part in those kind of sanctions? well, no, i don't, to be perfectly honest with you. china, as you know, as we all know, has been a protector of the generals and of the security council, they have provided the generals with their weapons and trade but the statement coming from china have been unusual in that they have been calling for the release of political prisoners, the standing down of the military and this coup. that's an unusual public statement and so we hoping behind the scenes, china is being very clear with myanmar that they do not want a of instability over the border so we're hoping that the voices of the people that they listen to, from china to majo

asea suffered fromm -- asean suffered from low liquidity. we see more support on the side of liquidity and with commodities. hopefully with a vaccine rollout and time, the tourism part of it can shape up as well. shery: always great having your insight. thank you. we will be speaking to the kansas city fed president later this hour. she joins us for an exclusive interview to discuss the fallout of the retail trading frenzy, the economic recovery in the u.s. and how the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on minorities. haidi: here are your first word headlines. u.s. financial regulators say the infrastructure of stock and quantity markets were resilient during the trading spread by retail investors. releasing a timely study of the events. it follows a meeting convened by the treasury secretary janet yellen who said it is imperative to uphold the integrity of markets and protect investors. president trump is rejecting a demand by house democrats for him to testify about his conduct surrounding the storming of the capitol building in wa

we just learned south korea's asean na airlines has become the latest to halt operations of the boeingnes. they are powered by the same pratt and whitney 4000 engine under scrutiny. korea is waiting to receive recommendations before it grounds its 77 planes. >>> texans are known for the world over for the maverick spirit. when the state was hit by the ferocious winter storm last week, it's no wonder many texans turned to one another to get through the crisis. michael holmes takes a look. >>> a commitment to the community that's no sales gimmick. during the recent winter storm, a houston furniture store owner known as mattress mack turned his showroom into a shelter for residents needing a place to warmup and have a hot meal. it's an act of kindness that some will never forget. >> the coronavirus, i lost my job, my mortgage. in those pictures looking at my house, you know, it was terrible. i have to clean it up. >> reporter: stories like this of goodness and hospitality have helped melt the ice by brightening the days of texans and during hardship caused by the cold temperatures. like w

immediately took to take action now and that people are expecting the international community because the asean countries and european union and the u.s. and u.k. and people so have people having great hope on the international community and we urge them to stand up with the people of burma this time does see protest movement want to see. return as a leader there's been a lot of criticism of her outside of myanmar forced because of her lack of what is seen as a lack of action on the issue on the right in a crisis do the people of myanmar want her back in power. jordi people want her to do to lead but there are some mixed feeling now because as long as 2008 constitution exist we never have any german democracy so i think this is the key factor even on some of that you also want to try you know to to change so she she will definitely agree with this with this point and that's why everyone is asking to abolish the 2008 of this constitution to finish their military rule in burma and to have the federal government thank you very much mr cow when for speaking to us cowan is executive director of the

to urge the un countries not to recognize the q government if they do recognize it the dignity of asean will be eroded alcyone is reported to be planning to send officials to monitor a new b.n. more election promised by the general but the protesters are urging asio to recognise the november polling the put their deposed leaders including on song suchi in office. one group earlier organized a protest at the bangkok indonesian embassy calling and also want to get more involved we asked. to choose decide between the military wonder wish oppressed people right now decide out of people which is trying to protest as they can to lead to one though that we will be. committed create again this is not the 1st time the judge has reached out to thailand since the coup about a week after the takeover myanmar's military leader min on length sent a letter to the thai prime minister asking for help on the democratic process and. a former military chief also rose to power by overthrowing. a democratically elected government in 2014 he stayed in office after 82001000 election political rivals called it

as we are seeing asean's gained ground, banks are pushing the asx 200 higher by .8% but we are seeinginers under pressure in sydney. php losing ground after it was downgraded to neutral at credit suisse. jgb futures, we are seeing them knowledge lower. there might be a 30 years that option on thursday from japan. the boj expected to clear its bond buying. let's check in on what's going on with the dollar-yen, trading around 105. thanks think the dollar and u.s. yields, they might have more upside as democrats are showing willingness to pass stimulus without agreement from republicans so that may see the yen push hire about 105. u.k. futures in singapore with little change. s&p e-minis gaining some ground this morning and wti extending its gains, topping that 55 dollars per barrel mark. his silver futures, we are seeing them edge up slightly, but being below 27 as the rally stalls overnight as traders close out their positions in the silver market. shery. shery: jeff curry at goldman sachs likes the metal but not because of wall street that spared the head of commodities research told