and with the repeated tests by north korea, many countries in north—east asia are beefing up their ballisticile asia is the biggest importer of weapons in the biggest importer of weapons in the wild, countries such as china and south korea are starting to become major arms exporters. it is not easy when your neighbours are increasing their defence spending. no country wants to be left behind. you will take a brave government in asia to slow down. 0ne company that is likely to benefit from that is salas and i'm joined by their chief executive. were talking about robust growth in defence spending in asia. how has that affected your company and can we expect some announcement this week? defence spending is have started to increase almost all over the world and in particular in this region. why would it be? is that because of growing economies all territorial disputes in the region? yes. and this generates a greater needin yes. and this generates a greater need in terms of protection and safety. we have countries like china and india are doubling their spending in the last 20 years as well a sou

mirroring the falls in south—east asia as well. falls in south—east asia as well. the sell—off in the united states overnight. in the united states overnight. me they are not sure where this volatility will go. volatility will go. direction we have been seeing for the better part of this week? the better part of this week? they feel there are problems in asia itself. itself. problems in china, or problems in japan. japan. rises at a faster pace than most people had anticipated. people had anticipated. they are worried about the outflow of foreign cash. of foreign cash. interest rates were low in the united states. united states. valuations in stock markets all over the region. emerging market valuations. valuations. there is concern that many will disappear. disappear. that is the reason why so many are concerned. many are concerned. problem is or was at the top of peoples minds. peoples minds. something people have not been thinking about. thank you very much indeed. on cutting air pollution. they are being told — clean up — or pay up! let's show you the details.

things that need to be taken into consideration are the fact this is one of the biggest routes in east asia. you have lots of traffic coming in and out of taiwan. also, flights going and and out to from the proper island to the outlying islands and back-and-forth to southeast asia. so this represents a very dangerous move just from a public safety perspective. but to understand the reasons why beijing has made these moves. you need to look at the last time there was a major negotiation on these routes. there were initially discussions -- both leading organizations and another important office is going to be an charge of taiwan's work. it will have a new leadership. so there is essentially turnover and some key leaders within the ccp that are responsible for taking policy for taiwan. perhaps that we've entered a new year, it should not surprise us that much that we see a more stern, former hand being taken with more aggressive action to roll back taiwanese relations the the vatican and continuation of the sort of rolling back. another action is to restrict and essentially take away taiwanese

to understand whether we are serious about maintaining our commitments anywhere in the world in east asia or elsewhere. the us defense budget is going up, not going up as much as many people believe it needs do, if united states will fill all of its various obligations to its own interest into its alliances and partnerships. as i heard at home this morning when i picked this tie on, this time may have more ships on it in the u.s. navy and that is a problem. [laughter] cyber subversion, economic coercion, territorial bowling, subversive influence are all challenges that china is posing to the united states in two taiwan into the whole region. in all of those areas taiwan has been a testing ground and a frontline and that should help us understand why this connection that we have with taiwan is important but as i said we should keep in mind that these challenges go far beyond taiwan and affect the whole question of whether we can have an orderly state system. >> thank you, doug. well, we have heard three excellent presentations and let's turn the mic over to the floor and if there are quest

but let me start with east asia. north korea

at the brookings institution's center for east asia policy studies. let's review what has happened here. south korean president moon postponed military exercises with the u.s. and then kim responded by sending athletes, they marched under a unified flag. now the proposed meeting of the two korean leaders is out there. and all of this amidst korean testing of its most powerful nuclear device ever, which begs the question is president trump's bad cop routine to the south korean good cop routine if you buy my analogy, is it actually working? >> i don't know about the good cop/bad cop routine. i don't think it was orchestrated in that way. if you judge by the national security strategy, it is north korea and the rest of the world. so i think the trump administration's preference is for the moon administration to be very cautious in moving forward with north korea. this is a big deal. north korea under kim jong-un who came to power in december 2011 has been fortress to north korea. so this invitation is a big deal especially since kim has yet to meet a for

president, when you came out to the region to the east asia smut to apec last year, that commitment was so important. it spoke volumes for america's continued commitment to our region, to our part of the world, to the indo-pacific. so victual the engine room of the fastest economic growth, most rapid economic growth that we've seen in our times. now, mr. president, i want to thank you as i have earlier in our meetings. i want to thank you for the very rare honor you have shown to australia by naming one of our future combat ships, the u.s.s. canberra. what a great symbol of our alliance and our shared security endeavors. what an extraordinary statement of commitment. and it's worth observing that that ship will be built by os tell in mobile, alabama. so you have an australian company with american workers working, operating in the united states building ships for the u.s. navy. what a great example of 100 years of mateship. and when you grieve, as you said, you noted at the outset, so do we. so we send our love, our prayers and our condolences to all of the victims and their families of

global leaders status for china in this foreign policy thanks very much for your analysis and the east asia program at the stimson center in washington. in watching the news hour live from london still to come why the killing of russian opposition leader bars name some three years ago is feeling diplomatic tension with the united states and german pork in cities the green light to ban diesel cars to help with appalachian and then in sport the basketball team inspired by hollywood to make that they have to sign an n.b.a. superstar. welcome back cross much of the dance and western parts of asia the weather is looking pretty unsettled moment we have to weather systems pushing through now at this particular one is or fragmenting as it moves so we still have a few showers around parts of iran but otherwise weather conditions not too bad and see that system across the east is clearing away we have got an area of low pressure moving through the eastern side of the mediterranean across turkey and as we head into thursday it's going to develop into quite an active snow situation so some very heavy s

best visible to those in east asia and northern russia.dehli, some enthusiasts set up equipment to get a better view. >> it is fantastic. >> in europe, the super moon brought a new glow to landscapes from the parthenon to st. paul's cathedral in london. the last time these country saw a super blue blood moon was in december 1982 and it will be a while until the next one, expected on january 31, 2028. anchor: i hope many of you were able to get out and see that yesterday. time for business. we are kicking off with some interesting developments about the world's largest social media firm. >> facebook has reported earnings of its most recent quarter, the company crushed expectations with $13 billion in revenue. the news comes as the company is revamping its news feed to try to give the user in more enriching experience, but that could come at the cost of user engagement. >> facebook founder mark zuckerberg is pushing users to spend less time on the social media network he created and his changes are working. released on his facebook account,

president, when you came out to the region, to the east asia summit, to apec last year, that commitment was so important. it spoke volumes, for america's continued commitment to our region, to our part of the world, to the indo-pacific, so vital. the engine room, if you like of the fastest economic growth, most fastest economic growth of our times. mr. president, i want to thank you as i have earlier in our meetings. i want to thank you for the very rare honor you have shown to as australia one of your future littoral combat ships the uss canberra. what a great symbol of our alliance and our shared security endeavors. what an extraordinary statement of commitment, and a, it's worth observing that that ship will be built by austel in mobile, alabama. so you have an australian company with american workers, working, operating in the united states, building ships for the u.s. navy. what a great example of 100 years of mateship. when you grieve, as you said, you noted at the outset, so do we. so we send our love, our prayers and our condolences to all of the victims and their families of th

the commitment you showed when you came out to the region to, the east asia summit, to apec last year. that commitment was so important. it spoke volumes for america's continued commitment to our region, to our part of the world, to the indo pacific. so far, the engine room, if you like, of the fastest economic growth, most rapid economic growth that we've seen in our times. now, mr. president, i want to thank you, as i have earlier in our meetings. i want to thank you for the very rare honor you have shown to australia by naming one of your future literal combat ships, the uss cambra. what a great symbol of our alliance and our shared security endeavors. what an extraordinary statement of commitment. and it's worth observing that that ship will be built in mobile, alabama. so you have an australian company with american workers working, operating in the united states building ships for the u.s. navy. what a great example of 100 years of mateship. and when you grieve, as you said, you noted at the outset, so do we. so we send our love, our prayers and our condolences to all of the vic

four has spread rapidly insult east asia and caused major damage in many countries there and t.r. four is far from the only destructive fungus experts have long said the days of the . cavendish are numbered and that's causing major concern in ecuador but no other country is number one export. no there's not an airport ahead this sign is warning drivers about low flying aircraft spraying banana fields in southern ecuador with fungus sides as a preventive measure they make their runs two or three times a week their target is black sea good talker a fungus that is to bananas what bubonic plague once was to humans darwin palacios owns four conventional non-organic banana plantations it's a family business and they don't know when they will actually go talk is not a disease you can eradicate you have to learn how to live with it that it will always be there. it's a fungus that thrives under these favorable human conditions all we can do is carry out regular checks to make sure there isn't an outbreak that will damage the non-accrual. and make sure that the leaves on the fruit stay heal

administration when condi rice and chris hill who was, at the time, assistant secretary of state for east asia, were with north korea. that actually was one of the carrot that was dangled north koreaive for to abandon its nuclear programs. to it.r came the united states has been reluctant to go and it's also themately something that united nations would be and should be involved until. so i'm not sure this administration would consider this, given the current situation. but at some point it's very likely that that issue will come up again. host: keith is on our republican line, from petersburg, virginia. morning. caller: good morning. the president talked about cleaning the swamp. in order to clean the swamp, he had to get in it and he stepped in it. he's like a puppet and i don't see no kind of way that he can negotiate with the president of north korea. need is somebody that convey to them that we don't war with them. we're a peaceful country. he's looking at trump like, this man crazy? you know. he don't trust us. we need someone that's able to to him. he's not into politics but he can conv

it is quite clear in the meetings we have attended, the east asia summit, aipac. the respect they have for each other, i think it is the single most important relationship between china and the united states. it is very respectful, very frank, very clear eyed. for our own part, we see china's ase as being overwhelmingly positive for the region and for the world. the critical thing, of course, is that the rule of law is maintained. there are people that want to try to paint the united states and its allies like australia as being against china in some sort of rerun of the cold war. that is not appropriate, it is not accurate. thatwe need to ensure is the rules of the road, the ruse of the -- rules of law, the rules-based system, where these countries cannot push around where you doies, not have a world where the big fish in the little fish and the --tle fish in the shrimps eat the little fish and the little fish eat the shrimps. enablesbeen what millions of people in our region, including china, to be lifted out of poverty. maintaining the rules-based order is what

for being with us thank you for having me and the first dam on the lower me kong river in south east asia may start generating electricity earlier than expected the controversial saya bori dam is in laos and the communist government there says it needs the project to improve the country's economy but many who rely on the river say not enough research has been done on the environmental impact wayne hay gained rare access to the site. this is one of the most unique places on the mekong river just before it flows from laos into cambodia it disperses becoming eleven kilometers wide and creating thousands of channels and islands the mekong was the largest inland fishery in the world but in this part of the river those who rely on it for food and income say something is changing because when it did number of fish is decreasing to each year it seems like there might be staying deeper for some reason i think there is too much noise in the reef or. something part of the answer could lie a short distance from where fish is in one of the channels a dam is being built as the lao government works towa

but let me start with east asia. north korea continues to pose an ever more increasing threat to the united states and its interests. pyongyang has repeatedly stated that it does not intend to negotiate its nuclear weapons and missiles away because the regime views nuclear weapons are critical to its security. kim also probably sees nuclear icbms as leverage to achieve his long-term strategic ambition to end seoul's alliance with washington and to eventually dominate the peninsula. in the wake of the icbm test last year, we expect to see north korea press ahead with additional missile tests this year and its foreign minister has threatened an atmospheric nuclear test over the pacific. modest improvements in north korea's conventional capabilities will continue to pose an ever greater threat to south korea, japan, as well as u.s. targets in those countries. china will seek to expand regional influence and shape events and outcomes globally. it will take a firm stance on its claims to the east china sea and south china

asia. for first the middle east news which could signal a change in the way gas flows from new fields in the eastern mediterranean sea this week an israeli energy company announced a fifteen billion dollars deal to export natural gas to egypt cyprus two said it was nearing a supply agreement so what's this all about well egypt once it become self-sufficient in gas wants to transform itself into an energy export hub on europe's doorstep a fast food giant k.f.c. was left counting its chickens on monday it was forced to close hundreds of stores in the u.k. after it ran out of poultry products the chicken crossed the road just not to our restaurants k.f.c. said on twitter carefully recently switched distributors to d.h.l. from bidvest at the end result job losses at bidvest no chicken at k.f.c. and unhappy customers of the company said the shortage will be sorted soon now twenty six of the world's leading experts in emerging technologies are warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence from cambridge in the united kingdom emma hayward reports it is the stump of science fiction or at least i

but let me start with east asia. north korea continues to pose an evermore increasing threat to the united states and its interests. pyongyang has repeatedly stated it does not intend to negotiate its nuclear weapons and missiles away because the regime views nuclear weapons are critical to its security. kim also probably sees nuclear icbms as leverage to achieve his long-term stroo teategic ambiti end seoul's alliance with washington and eventually dominate the peninsula. in the wake of its icbm tests it last year, we expect to see north korea press ahead with additional missile tests this year, and its foreign minister has threatened an atmospheric nuclear test over the pacific. pyongyang is committed to fielding a long-range nuclear armed missile capable of posing a direct threat to the united states. and modest improvements in north korea's conventional capabilities will continue to pose an ever greater threat to south korea, japan, as well as u.s. targets in those countries. china will increasingly seek to expan

notwithstanding the slowdown in china, south east asia is looking remarkably upbeat.this part of the world are looking really good. all right, thank you so much for your update on the asian markets. japan, korea, australia, all in positive territory. the pictures had just come into us from the taiwanese earthquake. they show rescue efforts which are ongoing. i can tell you that the 6.4 magnitude earthquake which hit hualien in, it in taiwan that, three dead, two injured, and several buildings have been partially collapsed, all tilting. local media are reporting that there may be seven tilting is injured. the live pictures are at the moment, it can see, it is morning in taiwan right now and those rescue efforts continue, even though police have said that people, there are no reports of people being trapped and they have rescued 149 people so far from that marshall h, which was the building that was collapsed earlier, that you heard oui’ collapsed earlier, that you heard our correspondent talk about. 149 people rescued from that hotel. —— marshall hotel. us vice preside

from east asia we head to south asia.ghanistan, kabul continues to bear the brunt of the taliban-led insurgency as demonstrated by recent attacks in the city. afghan national security forces face unsteady performance but with coalition support probably will maintain control of most major population centers. complicating the afghanistan situation, however, is our assessment that pakistan-based militant groups continue to take advantage of their safe haven to conduct attacks in india, in afghanistan, including u.s. interests there. pakistani military leaders continue to walk a delicate line ongoing pakistani military operations against the taliban and associated groups probably reflect the desire to appear more proactive and responsive to our requests for more actions against these groups. however, the actions taken thus far do not reflect a significant escalation of pressure against these groups and are unlikely to have a lasting effect. in the last month the administration has designed -- designated eight militants affili

a military clash in the disputed waters of the south china sea is one that all nations in south—east asiaecided the relation of conduct of sea and they are now planning 12 covered disputes. we asked the singaporean defence minister whether he was worried about the risk of confrontation in the south china sea? the situation in the south china sea is generally calm but you asked the question because we just concluded around table on the south china sea. it was conducted under chatham house rules but i think there was consensus. it was notjust a simple issue of who owns what. there are a number of claimant states within the area and if truth be told, all of them have built on disputed features. it is just that china built to go. that will continue to be an irritant. an issue. it will continue to be an issue. it will continue to be an issue but despite that i would say that compared to previous years, the fa ct that compared to previous years, the fact that we are talking about the area and focusing on confidence building measures between asean and china including an agreement that we wa nted

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you know an anchor in east asia and i think they do feel that china is rising and you know just like when saddam invaded kuwait that was a way to stay in saudi arabia for a long time and so i think these types of conflicts are useful in a certain sense for the has your mind to stay and whatever region they want to stay in you know earl if we if we look at the south korean peninsula look at that let's look at the region we've got japan. we've got south korea we've got north korea we've got china we've got russia those countries can solve this tension on the peninsula all by themselves but the us will not let that happen the us will not allow south korea full sovereignty over its defense planning and this is the real problem here i think it could be solved with regional players go ahead. i would agree in fact i just made a made a comment on our blog recently they were talking about there was some type of conference in vancouver that canada was hosting of course the us was there and and other players but two players to discuss the resolution what direction to go forward on korea and of

and also this draws the attention, we have had some exceptionally cold weather across north—east asiar air is the weather front comes into the colderair injapan, is the weather front comes into the colder air injapan, we are expecting some significant snow. and for the olympics because the korean peninsula, yes, temperatures in seoul may be above freezing but it isa seoul may be above freezing but it is a temporary warming. the cold air returns next week. notjust is a temporary warming. the cold air returns next week. not just across career but china. not necessarily for tokyo. some shelter here and some sunshine but for bajan it stays cold and it will stay cold because the commune macro “— cold and it will stay cold because the commune macro —— korean peninsula. it was high 30s for adelaide and melbourne earlier but that will end with thunderstorms. we have some heat building in the interior. we could see some nasty storms for western australia and northern territory ‘s. in the south and east, temperatures are baiting a little bit. very wet indeed. wet and windy with some tropical ai

president, when you came out to the east asia summit last year, that commitment was so important. it spoke volumes for america's continued commitment to our region, to our part of the world, to the indo pacific. so vital. of engine room, if you like, the most rapid economic growth we have seen in our times. mr. president, i want to thank you for the very rare honor you have shown to australia by naming one of your future literal conduct ships. -- combat ships. what a great symbol of our alliance and our shared security endeavors. extraordinary statement .f commitment built in will be mobile, alabama. ships for the u.s. navy. what a great example of in mobile, alabama. you have an australian company with american workers operating in the united states, building 100 years of mateship. when you grieve, so do we. we send our love, prayers, and condolences to all of the families of the shocking school shooting in florida. we are mates. we stand by each other. and when we are hurt, we are hurt as well. mr. president, thank you for your warm welcome. mateship, we celebrate on july 4. and

become they're talking about something in russia which also happens in india in pakistan throughout east asia you can buy where people on twitter or facebook comment on your posts like your posts interact probably the things you're talking about and it's all perfectly legal it's so perfectly legal to use a pseudonym online. and adams it adam before we go to the break our viewers have to take this on board how many other countries around the world in organisations that exactly what that troll farm did ok how many i bet you we could stay here for hours and name people that bought but that's never mentioned what about saudi arabia what about qatar what about turkey what about israel there it's not mentioned no they weren't meddling they meddle in our elections all the time gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on fake news media. that's true we all were americans were smooth enough but what that's not us americans are crude ruthless huckster golf playing sharks that's who we are and that's who john travolta

to finally approve a resolution in new york what about the implementation of it on the ground in east asia and beyond of course i think the implementation is going to be very difficult and there is illusion has two main doubts the first has got to do with the timing when does it actually start to take effect from and the wording of it that russia agreed to simply say without delays now without delays is too broad and can be interpreted anywhere usually those resolutions will say from midnight four o'clock in the morning give a particular time for it to start to become an effective the second which i think is more problematic is that it excludes certain organizations including affiliates . and so on and that can be interpreted and will be i think interpreted by the syrian government as an excuse for them to continue some kind of pushing on to the east to go to now is establish military strategy isn't it when you are facing the imposition of a cease fire that you try for as much military advantage on the ground before it comes into force what do you think the endgame is for the syrian milita

crisis and it all started with the collapse of thailand's currency the bart and then it spread across east asia and one of the contributing factors was high public debt in the affected countries which included laos now there are similar warnings about governments in the region borrowing too much money wayne hey reports from the laotian capital the n.t.n. . the coffee industry in laos is one of the fastest growing in asia its output is still small compared with regional leaders like vietnam and indonesia but fuelled by increasing demand from neighboring china production grew by more than eight percent last year bro is say laos has a real opportunity to take the industry to the next level through improved infrastructure like better processing facilities reverse her financing but despite it being one of the few lao export products is no sign the government is willing to help. on projects on hard on mining on tory right no small r. not enough supporters. indeed the government has big plans to shake off the tag of one of asia's poorest countries it wants to graduate from the united nations least dev