second is china's belton road initiative, which mr.adley has often said is the grandest of grand strategies on the part of china. it meshes a global need, which is extraordinary, with china's status as an exporter of capital. the u.s. and western europe -- our importers and china is an exporter. and china's ambitions. these factors are meshed together in what on the part of china is an extremely astute program. keeping us out of the projects makes sense. we see this happening with countries vying for infrastructure attention from china and those new linkages mean new relations and potentially upending of existing relationships or at least having 254 relationships we once thought were pretty secure. the result is u.s. interests are impacted from national security, economic security to more granular things like the development of standards in the technology space and so on. last, this goes out, this happens whether we are there or not. for the u.s., it is necessary to maintain leadership, to maintain our position in the world, and if we

but it's up to the country, perhaps lead by biting now, which is initiative to try and count the belton road program. and france, in particular, under my call to drive business into africa, the european germany, united kingdom. what japan says here, the to be hesitant, always citing math correctly. so the law, but they need to actually come to africa to do this. i think done very success. she think europe and the u. s. can compete without road or they left it too late. no, they haven't left it too late because the infrastructure deficit within africa isn't meant. it's a matter of how your struck to those projects. so that the business side project, the non government project, primarily because that gets away from the areas where they will be lack of transparency. if the west is prepared to try and go that they can of course, become a major player in africa today. they'd like to do one term again. thank you so much for joining us on to to be business. thank. now the you has just introduced a new digital vaccine passport with the name of making travel within the block. easier. the pass ta

and of course you got china coming on very, very strongly, particularly with its belton road initiative. now we're already beginning to see some e u countries looking to the, the belt and road like italy. this, the southern tier countries of the e u. and that could be problematic for the future of the you, for that matter if the economies don't improve. so they're, they're looking to china because it's economy is beginning to blossom much, but i think that's interesting about that. you know, right now you see by and the reason that you brought merkel here in germany is probably the most advanced of all the countries in relationships with both russia and china. 2 countries that obviously are having a little little stand off right now years in various ways. so do you feel like this is more like sort of a red rover game that bite is playing this week with having her here? like look, she's still friends with us to basically using her the diplomatic tool to get to rush to get to china. and it is going to be successful or the chinese in the russian is going to listen to what she says in regar

the manner in which they're using this belton road initiative to entangible developing countries through debt relationships should be very, very troubling, not just from the morale value point of view but from the problems that the u.s. faces. we try not be corrupt. we try to have higher standards than the ones the chinese are promoting. so this is a very real competition. one reason i ran for kong in 2018 is i believe the most important determinant of whether we win that contest is whether we are strong, whether we are setting a good example. that's a big part of the premise for the biden presidency. i think it's important that -- that in our alliance systems around the world that we emphasize above all alliances with democracies with countrys that try to live up to the values that we are trying to live up to that's why i mentioned tunisia being so important. i think it's strategically more important than its size would normally suggest. but at the same time, and this is where we get into trouble, you know, once we get our example right and our alliances right, we are expected to be tha

the early years great in belton great barrington massachusetts basically was born there he was born to his mother and father, his father alfred left the family not long after he left .'s grandfather alexander was of haitian background spent some time in sentiment of angle and ran a store in great barrington. one day goes to school and kids are passing out cards like greeting cards and they are exchanging with each other and this one girl wouldn't accept his card. if you're african-american or perhaps spanish or some other ethnic minority you most like to remember the first time you had racism, my brother and i were walking someone was driving a pickup truck i smell i remember just as it were yesterday is generally people make racial up to stay always going with him you never coming towards you. he early recognize that he recognized very early. he excelled in school his mother told the story of once he had german textbook he didn't have the money to buy it he works in little stores in the morning was somewhat mentally challenged with the password. yet the difficulty learning but they be

its own economic strength and growth but also for resiliency against the efforts of china on its belton road initiative which is trying to infiltrate these countries and convert their way -- economy to more of the chinese system. and the three c's initiative is an effort to have their own independent way of attracting capital. the united states is participating in the three c's. we're not a member but we are participating and providing resources for the fund that's being developed that would be leveraged for these type of investments. but while we were in bulgaria, we had a chance to have bilateral meetings. there were 12 heads of state there. so we had bilateral meetings with poll lad, the president of poland, bulgaria, lafia, and romania. we had discussions about what is happening in their country. we raised helsinki issues with all of these countries. senator wicker already talked about how we were welcomed by the bulgarian leadership in regards to the imposition of magnitsky sanctions. we were heroes. they feel like they now have a second chance to try to develop the type of antirup

we were inside here earlier, it is a - were inside here earlier, it is a huge bakery in belton and theywith the england shirt. and if i people. with the england shirt. fific if i remember people. with the england shirt. elilr. if i remember rightly, the baps are specifically done with a football, they are done specially for the occasion. apologies, ben's picture just disappeared. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm victoria hollins. police have named two young teenagers both stabbed to death within hours of each other on monday. officers found 15—year—old tamim habimana suffering from a single stab wound on woolwich new road in the early evening. hours later, i6—year—old keane flynn—harling was found stabbed in 0val place in vauxhall. so far this year 21 teenagers have died in homicides in london. councils across the country are set to make savings with cuts in london expected to be the deepest. on average, councils here are planning to reduce spending byjust over £40 per person. it comes after a difficult year for local authoriti

through the belton road initiative, the chinese communist party has sunk its teeth into some of the most valuable tourist destinations on the face of the earth. on trade routes and strategic outposts, they've sold this program as an economic development initiative, but in reality this debt-track diplomacy is really just an extortion scheme. once these countries fall into the trap, it is almost impossible to escape. even before the pandemic forced the u.s. into lockdown, i and several other of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle were ringing alarm bells about our supply chain security. china is the most dominant global source of rare earth minerals, technology infrastructure, and many active pharmaceutical ingredients. long story short, there's a lot on the line for the people of the united states. madam president, the cards are stacked against us. it would be really easy to protect that valuable status quo by ignoring human rights violations and extortion schemes and other overt attempts to make the world a little less free. but as much as we would like it to be, freedom is not huma