a similar meagre—sized global alliance is needed to bring peace.war on terror was global, peace cannot be local — it has to be global too. right. but i am, indeed, referring to that letter from secretary of state tony blinken to your boss president ashraf ghani, and he — mr blinken — said that he wanted you in the government "to understand the urgency of my tone". he called for urgent leadership and he basically said "you guys need to step down. you need to agree to the creation of a transitional government which would involve sharing power with elements from the taliban." are you telling me that you will not accept that? well, if washington has a sense of urgency, we have more sense of urgency. we are in the middle of the heat. of the fire. we know who gets killed. i meet grieving families. i know who get buried. so we feel the pain, and they read about the pain. so please do not misunderstand this, but bringing peace in afghanistan based on an artificial schedule and based on abstract calculation will not happen. so what we said back to the us ad

take a closer look at this issue with saul morris he's the director of program services at the global alliance for improved nutrition joins me from oslo welcome to the program sol thanks for being here. first of all let me ask you what do experts mean when they say this hunger crisis is unlike others before is not caused by one factor or another but rather a multitude of factors all linked to the pandemic. that's absolutely right yes. if these are really difficult times people consuming wanting to buy food in markets and for companies that are trying to produce or distribute or sofi to customers for things that really come together to make things very difficult one is closer the international border. plugging of international trade so much food of course is traded between countries around the world and so when logistics slow down between different countries or all barry is a put up to international trade that inevitably has a facts on food markets mastic lee then on top of that of course many countries have had internal restrictions they restricted movement between different locations or they

take a closer look at this issue with saul morris he's the director of program services at the global alliance for improved nutrition joins me from oslo welcome to the program saul thanks for being here. first of all let me ask you what do experts mean when they say this hunger crisis unlike others before is not caused by one factor or another but rather a multitude of factors all linked to the pandemic. that's absolutely right yes. if these are really difficult times people consuming wanting to buy food in markets and for companies that are trying to produce or distribute or so food to customers for things that really come together to make things very difficult one is closer the international border. plugging of international trade so much food of course is traded between countries around the world and so when logistics slow down between different countries all barriers of put up to international trade that inevitably has a fact on food markets the mastic lee then on top of that of course many countries have had internal restrictions they've restricted movement between different locations or

travel is now set to recover slower than expected according to global alliance body i oughta claims vaccination delays government risk aversion i also predicts traffic will only reach 43 percent pre-crisis levels during 2021 that's lower than the previous forecast of 51 percent industry is now for jacked it to lose 47000000000 dollars this year. and she has a net flix have tumbled 12 percent it's after the video streaming giant missed its subscriber growth targets for the last quarter investors ignored the company's huge leap in revenue after it raised prices last year netflix blamed pandemic related production delays what it called a lighter content slate usual. now the pandemic has made doing business tricky all over the world but for entrepreneurs impossible africa has made getting a company even off the ground especially difficult getting even small amounts of credit has got harder if for example you wanted to set up a tailor's workshop in kenya you might need to borrow the equivalent of $45.00 u.s. dollars to do that you'll have to deal with some of the dozens of financial institutions aut

as partners in this and exactly what the plan is to get rid of the united nations and have a global alliance the united states claim look we have the support of the entire world as they then go work regime change her asian countries around the world so this news indeed. an undemocratic effort to create their own military alliance to get rid of the united nations which as you say because of the security council who don't control i want to mention one other thing when we were talking about the military budget it's my understanding the last couple years russia has actually cut their military gets a house if they have to deal with poverty more i wish the prime. yeah well i wish it were christmas every day to david you know i know you have a good good historical knowledge. when you think about this ever growing military alliance around the world i think you remember what happened in august $1014.00 so the entire world is going to be put at the mercy of a border dispute and then we have world war 3 i mean this is pure insanity and what it is is it is ignoring diplomacy how to resolve problems beca

so i am proud to lead the vaccine alliance to call for the vaccine to do a global public good that wean do that without political leadership we need that us leadership on global public health chelsea said it very well president george bush initiated the fight the global fight against day on - - aids. he led president obama took on the world's first ebola epidemic president biden will put the world on track to and the covid-19 pandemic in this decade that's a powerful legacy this weekend the vaccine alliance we got 175 former heads of state and nobel laureates to sign a petition with president biden to build on the generous and significant use of 20 billion to date and with strategically and to think about the future so it the president's role to put the rights for safety ahead of the commercial monopolies of the few we must shape economies and to tackle the deep inequalities that have been exposed and made worse by aids and covid-19. i think it is time for america to lead. >> i hear your call to action. as long as i have known you, you have your call to action and they have always bee

all of that harms us when it comes to our global alliances with other nations and our stands as a countrycurity. >> one thing i would like to talk about more is you have many titles, you are a very decorated woman but you talk about the vaccine at the beginning of this, let's take a listen to what the president had to say. >> after i promised to get 100 million vaccine shots into people's arms in 100 days, we will have provided over 220 million covid shots, marshaling every federal resource to get vaccines into 40,000 pharmacists and over 700 community health centers. >> wishful thinking to hope one administration can give credit to another administration, that is something we rarely see but without divided things do feel right now don't you think it would go a long way to give a little credit to the previous administration for operation warp speed and what they were able to accomplish? >> i was so hoping -- to hear that, they had numerous opportunities to credit donald trump with getting a vaccine to the marketplace into the arms of people in 9 months. after h1n1 i can tell you it is mir

in brussel, meet with nato leaders and an eu summit in an effort to restore america's global alliancestaken a concrete stance of the killing of more than a million armenians by ottoman turks more than a century ago becoming the first u.s. president to call the event a genocide. former presidents having a knowledged the mass killing but they stopped short of labelling it genocide, due to turkish objections. the distinction came on april 24th for armenian genocide remembrance day in a whose statement that reads in part, quote, each year on this day, we remember the lives of all of those who died in the ottoman era american genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. according to a senior administration officials, biden let president erdogan know of the decision before a phone conversation friday. turkly has firmly rejected the detection calation. >>> joining us now the white house reporter for the "washington post" post ann garon and msnbc contributor. good morning. thanks so much for being up with early with us. i want to start with this arm

getting their vaccines to kovacs the global alliance led by w h o and unicef and kovacs is aiming to provide a vaccines to cover 20 percent of the population in developing countries of course there are supply destructions and supply shortages at the moment which makes it difficult for 4 countries to get vaccines and that's why the world bank with we're advocating for vaccine equity we're also and the keating 4 countries that have separate sex scenes to make them available to developing countries as what you have expected wealthy nations to paps of them all by this point and for maybe this sort of financing to not have been necessary. well i think compared to what happened during h one n one previously that countries are getting the developing countries are getting access to vaccines suna. during the course of the pandemic than we've seen in the past and so that's on the plus side of course much more can be done i'm actually in favor of financing being available to countries so that they can they can purchase or co-pay for vaccines because this is a way of lubricating the market makin

getting their vaccines to kovacs the global alliance led by w h u v and unicef and kovacs is aiming to provide a vaccines to cover 20 percent of the population in developing countries of course there are supply disruptions and supply shortages at the moment which makes it difficult for countries to get vaccines and that's why the world bank with we're advocating for vaccine equity we're also advocating for countries that have separate saxon's to make them available to developing countries as which are expected wealthy nations to pass at them or by this point and for maybe this sort of financing to not have been necessary. well i think compared to what happened during h one n one previously that countries are getting the developing countries are getting access to vaccines soon up. during the course of the pandemic than we've seen in the past and so that's on the plus side of course much more can be done i'm actually in favor of financing being available to countries so that they can they can purchase or co-pay for vaccines because this is a way of lubricating the market making things an

in 2000 after the creation of the global alliance for vaccine immunization, we saw a steady 20 increase in vaccinations for children because of people coming together public and private, corporate and public health, to figure out how we make sure every child is fully immunized. we did this during the ebola crisis when we recognized that addressing the pandemic crisis in its hotspot come in that case in west africa, would protect the rest of the planet and so the world made the right investments to do just that. this is our moment to make sure we grab a hold of covid-19, see it as what it is, which is that we're all in this together, and make this sort of massive one time but absolutely necessary investment in both manufacturing and distribution so we can achieve herd immunity target in every community on the planet. it is achievable. it's incredibly affordable and where we spent trillions of dollars deal with the consequences of the pandemic, and effective seal the way to protect even our very own societies in the united states or other oecd countries that seem to be on a a more robust

well i don't think we can be ambitious and nothing as we see as the global changes weather patterns straught alliance global sea level rise we have to be in addition is but you're at your rate and asking the question one's aspirations don't always meet the reality and as chancellor merkel has said what we're really talking about is economic transformation and reorientation and i think all global leaders vali aspire to do really difficult things this is a herculean task that's unclear whether developed countries are willing to alter their economies so significantly to meet these ambitious targets and there's also the developing countries we heard today china's president xi jinping made a pledge on reducing the burning of coal brazil's president diable so narrow made a pledge today about preserving rain forests are these promises that are going to be kept. that's exactly the question i think you really do you have to hold the chinese leadership accountable they are significant player in helping to determine whether we can keep global temperatures to 1.5 degrees centigrade but they have to stop building

well i don't think we can be ambitious and nothing as we see as the global changes weather patterns straught alliance global sea level rise we have to be any guesses but you're at your rate and asking the question one's aspirations don't always meet the reality and as chancellor merkel has said what we're really talking about is economic transformation and reorientation and i think all global leaders folly aspire to do really difficult things this is a herculean task that's unclear whether developed countries are willing to alter their economies so significantly to meet these ambitious targets and there's also the developing countries we heard today trying is president xi jinping made a pledge on reducing the burning of coal brazil's president joe you're both so narrow made a pledge today about preserving rain forests are these promises going to be kept. that's exactly the question i think you really do you have to hold the chinese leadership accountable they are significant player in helping to determine whether we can keep global temperatures to 1.5 degrees centigrade or they have to stop building

inoculations iraq has received our part of 16000000 those is it has been allocated under kovacs the global vaccine alliance to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines but a world health organization. nation's top official in iraq says delivering on those commitments has been a challenge as producing countries prioritize their own needs the kovacs facility have have had some delays because the manufacturers did not produce as much vaccines to honor. the estimated doses to be distributed well both the scenes are pending delivery you covered $1000.00 cases are hovering above $5000.00 daily as the country experiences its highest levels of infection since the onset of the pandemic scene one of 14 al-jazeera bucket that greece is accusing turkey of provocation by pushing migrant boats into its waters it says the turkish coast guard has been seen as courting boats packed with refugees and migrants several times in the past 2 days the turkish government has not responded to the allegations yet. it is beyond doubt that these migrant departed that the shore and given the fact they were supported by katy were not a

my name is jennifer chung and on behalf of global alliance for preserving the history of world war ii in asia, ga in short, i want to vis our strong support on the resolution denouncing the article contracting for sacks in the pacific ward written by jay mark from harvard law school when reunites the history of sexual i am placement of hundreds of thousands of women in the japan imperial army during the pacific war. in spite of testimony official court records and japanese documents proofing the comfort women's system was conceive, organized in demonstrated by the japan imperial army and the girls and women from china, korea, japan, the philippines and the dutch indes were deceived, coerced and forced to work at that place. professor played a shameful road in japanese governments game of denialism. this is not surprising in the view of the fact that professor is a professor of japanese legal study at harvard law school. and he was the major japanese defense contracting during world war ii. they urged san francisco board of it uphold the 200,000 plus victims of the system and denounced

shipped in 2022 of the country is still slated to receive 54000000 doses under that kovacs global vaccine alliance scheme. still ahead here on out there are thousands displaced by armed groups in southern africa regional leaders trying to find a solution. and the u.s. commits to a meeting remaining forces from iraq that questions remain as to when. it's time for the perfect general. sponsored plan qatar airways. sides of somali whether pushing into western parts of europe northwest impossible in particular because through the next couple of days it's not going to last the go with the would swing around some of the westerly direction so should we say less copacetic cold enough to snow many areas this little area of low pressure him running up towards scandinavia will introduce some more snow into norway sweden eventually pushing across into finland this we go through the next so when she whether they are still just around belarus western russia eastern down for ukraine maybe down into rumania as well as seen some significant snow fall over the high ground of northern greece that's never the process

inoculations iraq has received our part of 16000000 those is it has been allocated under kovacs the global vaccine alliance to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines but a world health. top official in iraq says delivering on those commitments has been a challenge as producing countries prioritize their own needs kovacs facility have have had some delays because the manufacturers did not produce as much vaccines to honor. the estimated doses to be distributed well both the scenes are pending delivery you covered $1000.00 cases are hovering above $5000.00 daily as the country experiences its highest levels of infection since the onset of the pandemic seen one of 14 al-jazeera back at that. philip. helping autistic children need a happy life a campaign to change attitude to one of europe's largest somali community. a changing climate delivers south korea cherry blossom record for the 2nd year running. for the perfect janet. sponsored point qatar airways we've got some rather weather on the way for to pat it's been a lovely week here but cloud and rain has been spilling out of eastern parts of china little

occupations iraq has received are part of 16000000 those is it has been allocated under kovacs the global vaccine alliance to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines but a world health organization stop official in iraq says delivering on those commitments has been a challenge as producing countries prioritize their own needs. facility have have had some delays because the manufacturers did not produce as much vaccines to honor. the estimated doses to be distributed well both the scenes are pending delivery you covered $1000.00 cases are hovering above $5000.00 daily as the country experiences its highest levels of infection since the onset of the pandemic scene one of 14 al-jazeera. moving on now and at least 5 more people have been killed in me along in the latest crackdown on protesters there the threats of violence and arrests have done little to deter demonstrators well in 2 months after the military coup tony chang reports oh i wanted man with a serious head injury was carried away from the barricades in money about 136 kilometers northwest of mandalay this was just one of the towns where proteste

with me is ceo of the star alliance jeffrey goh, the , largest global airline alliance consisting ofer airlines. part of our work shifting conversation. thank you for joining us. do you think a vaccine passport or digital house passes which is a totally unproven concept by the way, do you think these will become the standard? jeffrey: thank you. good evening. thank you for having me on your show. if you will indulge me for 30 seconds for background context. it is worth reiterating the industry has been through the deepest and darkest crisis it has ever experienced, and perhaps beyond the industry too. we have had the virus, we had the crisis for a year now. from the beginning of the crisis, we thought this was a temporary thing, was going to blow over. then it became clear it was , going to be more than temporary, and we introduced testing. then, when it became clear we have got to learn to live with the virus, we had vaccines. in that sense, we have come a long way in the past year, to begin to talk about a vaccine passport or a vaccine pass. i think it is understandable that there

well i don't think we can be ambitious and not as we see and the global changes weather patterns straught alliance global sea level rise we have to be any guesses but you're at your rated asking the question one's aspirations don't always meet the reality and as chancellor americal has said what we're really talking about is economic transformation and reorientation and i think all global leaders folly aspire to do you really difficult things this is a herculean task and it's unclear whether developed countries are willing to alter their economies so significantly to meet these ambitious targets and there's also the developing countries we heard today china's president xi jinping made a pledge on reducing the burning of coal brazil's president joe you're both so narrow made a pledge today about preserving rain forests are these promises going to be kept. that's exactly the question i think you really do you have to hold the chinese leadership accountable they are significant player in helping to determine whether we can keep global temperatures to 1.5 degrees centigrade that they have to stop buil

a global vaccines alliance and key partner in covax, at the heart of the response to covid-19.hted to be joined by the ceo. welcome. thank you so much for joining us. explain how covax helps lower middle income countries get access to covid-19 vaccines. >> thank you so much for the question. covax was set up to try and accelerate the development and access of vaccines for every country in the world. but of course, the main thing we are focusing on is the work we did to reach lower middle income countries. we created the gavi advance market commitment to serve countries, and bring a very large portfolio of vaccines to them. that was necessary, because we knew there was going to be intense competition for vaccines, and we had to make sure those vaccines would be available. we have now delivered more than 30 million doses to 60 countries. although it took us 43 days for the first vaccine to be used, that is much better than in the previous pandemic of swine food, which occurred now about a decade ago. as you know, your country received its first doses of the vaccine on the 12th of

advantages, including our economic power, dynamism, democratic values, military capabilities and global alliances. thank you to the members of committee for your continued support and i look forward to discussing the topics further and the rest of the hearing, thank you. >> thank you. general mckinzie. >> chairman smith, ranking member rogers, distinguished members of the house armed forms ready i appear before you probably representing the 70000 men and women of the united states and shall command. it's great pleasure to be with you here today and it's my duty to testify of course but i have to say it's a privilege to address this body and all the greater honor to do so sitting beside the acting secretary of defense ms. dori and the commander of u.s. africa command general state townsend. since my last us money the region's continued to evolve and remains as dynamic as ever. with the president's announcement last week we are focused on working closely with the afghan government and our nato allies to responsibly conclude operation resolute support in afghanistan. this is my main efforts at prese

advantages i object colluding our economic power, democratic values, military capabilities and global alliances. thank you to the members of the committee for your continued support and i look forward to discussing the topics further in the rest of the hearing. thank you. >> thank you. general mckenzie? >> ranking member rogers members of the house armed services committee. i appear before you representing the men and women of central command. it's a great pleasure to be here with you today. i have to say it's a privet tloej address this body and all the greater honor to do so sitting beside the commander of africa command. since my last testimony, the region has continued to evolve and remains as dynamic as ever. with the president's announcement, we are focused on working closely with the afghan government and nato allies to responsibly con clood operation resolute support in afghanistan. this is my main effort. but it's not my only responsibility. my prepared statement addressing our oh missions in detail. the united states and our nato allies sent forces to afghanistan nearly 20 years ago a

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which is where they are now analogy of the current administration basically trying to form alliances globally with india, european union, japan, australia, south korea, et cetera, to encircle china, trying to use every plate in the playbook including according to one of the leading pentagon officials, including, buckley your seatbelts, war. -- in other words, this underestimation of nations is that something that is peculiar to the 16th century. that's been my long-winded response to your very intelligent and simple question so i will pause and let you post another intelligent question. >> marian, you have a whole list of questions that you prepared. >> i did but i'm worried -- and you guys should be all right rightness? >> began. >> i can't. >> okay good. so i i did see you in that interview on you to with jarrett bell, and you talked about the year 1619 as emphasized by the "new york times." you just reiterated how spain had beat england to the punch by their people had run off in the area where we call south carolina in the 1520s and is africans had run off with the indigenous population.

my name is jennifer chung and on behalf of global alliance for preserving the history of world war ii in asia, ga in short, i want to vis our strong support on the resolution denouncing the article contracting for sacks in the pacific ward written by jay mark from harvard law school when reunites the history of sexual i am placement of hundreds of thousands of women in the japan imperial army during the pacific war. in spite of testimony official court records and japanese documents proofing the comfort women's system was conceive, organized in demonstrated by the japan imperial army and the girls and women from china, korea, japan, the philippines and the dutch indes were deceived, coerced and forced to work at that place. professor played a shameful road in japanese governments game of denialism. this is not surprising in the view of the fact that professor is a professor of japanese legal study at harvard law school. and he was the major japanese defense contracting during world war ii. they urged san francisco board of it uphold the 200,000 plus victims of the system and denounced

and japan, are on the same page with regards to challenges and opportunities they face globally, and that the alliancee very important messages. shery: especially to china, at a time when prime minister suga is being pressured to join other democracies in sanctioning beijing. could we see president biden pressuring prime minister suga on this? professor mccarthy: we will. one of the prime audiences for this meeting is china, certainly, to show the u.s. and japan are lockstep with regard to the way they are going to be working together to address a variety of challenges regarding china. haidi: what are the biggest challenges for japan when it comes to china, and what commitments could be expected from washington out of these talks, to the five support the u.s. gives regionally? professor mccarthy: japan is in a difficult situation when it comes to china, because the economic relationship, economic ties are so fundamental to japan's ability to move forward developmentally. the trade ties are so significant, so it has taken a very cautious approach, a prudent approach to how it will regard various challe

we are one of the biggest donors to covax, i think we have given 548 million pounds in the global vexing alliance, 1.6 billion pounds, much of that funding goes to distributing vaccines to the poorest, particularly on the african continent. >> thank you, i know that education seems to be your personal priority. you are cutting funding to the international planned parenthood foundation, which would lead to 7.5 million unintended pregnancies, 27 million unsafe abortions, and 22,000 deaths. you're also cutting by 60% and international rescue committee family-planning program for sierra leone adolescents girls, a country were one in 17th die in childbirth, and you have cut a project in lebanon that would have provided child protection services to 107,000 women and girls. these are just examples we know of. how does that feel when your ambition and reality are in stark contrast? p.m. johnson: no prime minister, nobody who pricked cares about any of these issues can conceivably want to make these changes and discuss. i am simply asking you and people watching to understand the particular difficulties w

my name is jennifer chung and on behalf of global alliance for preserving the history of world war ii in asia, ga in short, i want to vis our strong support on the resolution denouncing the article contracting for sacks in the pacific ward written by jay mark from harvard law school when reunites the history of sexual i am placement of hundreds of thousands of women in the japan imperial army during the pacific war. in spite of testimony official court records and japanese documents proofing the comfort women's system was conceive, organized in demonstrated by the japan imperial army and the girls and women from china, korea, japan, the philippines and the dutch indes were deceived, coerced and forced to work at that place. professor played a shameful road in japanese governments game of denialism. this is not surprising in the view of the fact that professor is a professor of japanese legal study at harvard law school. and he was the major japanese defense contracting during world war ii. they urged san francisco board of it uphold the 200,000 plus victims of the system and denounced

the world, return the united states to a position of moral and other kinds of global leadership, restore traditional alliances. that's what today is about, with prime minister suga. member, trump had questions whether the united states really needed to be on record saying it would defend japan, if it was attacked. and tried to get allies like japan to pay more money to have u.s. troops posted on their shores. biden is trying to wipe all of that, and say with a very clear eye on china, which he thinks is the main priority and the main order of business these days to say them, look, we will stand next to our traditional asian allies, link them together and make things more difficult for china in the asia pacific region than biden feels trump made it. for all of trump's tough rhetoric about tariffs and so forth involving china, the biden administration view is that trump basically let china have a free field in its own neighborhood and heir trying to put a stop to that. >> matt, i know you're in london keeping tabs on what is happening between russia and the united states and certainly the reaction there in euro

he looks for two revitalizing our alliance to address global challenges and better secure american interests. he will attend a sunday longwall june 12 june 13. we will also participate in the u.s. new summit. >> the president announced this week, was out the investments in the infrastructure proposal, can those be achieved? and is there some red with publicans to make that happen. so include legislation, the american jobs and, but there are additional legislative options, executive options are also on table and of course working with the private sector to continue to take additional steps forward. we have every intention of getting the jobs and passed and signed into law. there was a within counter proposal yesterday. we expect those to happen over the course of the next several days. reporter: is the president speaking today with president erdogan, and president erdogan said earlier this week that if president biden went forward with his pledge to recognize the armenian genocide, it would hurt u.s.-turkey ties. how much does president biden need turkish cooperation in afghanistan? sec. psak