don't know it's going to be a very destabilizing effect on the really our independent journalist james corbett of joining us live here on the program from osaka many thanks indeed it's good to see you think you are. right sir now here we are at odds here an independent u.n. panel has confirmed that the violence in syria is being fueled by foreign elements including jihad of course some of these forces are growing anti government groups while others are carrying out attacks independently after his four day visit to the country of the new international envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi admitted he still has no concrete plan for how to end the war. also in the r t world updater suicide car bomber struck near baghdad's heavily guarded green zone killing at least seven and wounding many others including a member of parliament of the area also known as the international zone houses government offices and foreign embassies just earlier this month insurgents launched a string of attacks across the country killing nine hundred two with al qaeda claiming responsibility and promising quote black days ahead.

after japan bought them from private investors sparking outrage in china investigative journalist james corbett thinks washington will do its best to fan the flames of a dispute. a sense of believe this is about the potential boiling gas reserves that have been estimated to be in that area but i think we have to understand this entire dispute not in terms of the islands themselves this is being played up as a as a nationalist sentiment nationalist fervor it has the potential to to get bigger and we'll see if it does broaden out into the region we see the u.s. starting its egypt as if it pivot so i think it actually has an interest in increasing tensions between japan and china because that makes japan ever more eager to accept an american military presence which up until now there's been quite strong protests against but now we see them renewing military joint military exercises in guam etc so so it is increasing the japanese reliance on the american security blanket says that as it were and i think that's that plays into american interest that china comes up again and other stories on our webs

editor of the corbett report website from japan thank you james for joining us today that's also why is there so much deep rooted interest in these tiny uninhabited islands. well stenson believe this is about the potential oil and gas reserves that have been estimated to be in that area so this is what the what the geo political calculus is about but i think we have to understand this entire dispute not in terms of the islands themselves which most average japanese and average chinese people i think don't don't really care about i think this is being played up as a as a nationalist sentiment nationalist fervor and there's a couple of reasons for this i think one of them is the political calculus that both countries are making right now in fact china is going through its once every ten years leadership change so we'll see who jintao replaced by xi jinping later this year and japan was also going through an election cycle of sorts here with the ruling democratic party of japan having an internal leadership election and i think both sides of that dispute just like in any election cycle

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eye on the relatives that increases its military activity in the region investigative journalist james corbett things washington will ultimately do its best to fan the flames of dispute. i think we have to understand this entire dispute not in terms of the islands themselves which most average japanese and average chinese people i think don't don't really care about i think this is being played up as a as a nationalist sentiment nationalist fervor it has the potential to get bigger and right now australia is being proposed as a third party to arbitrate in a trilateral security talk between canberra beijing and tokyo over this dispute so we'll see if it does broaden out into the region we see the us starting its asia pacific pivot so i think it actually has an interest in increasing tensions between japan and china because that makes japan ever more eager to accept an american military presence which up until now there's been quite strong protests against but now we see them renewing military joint military exercises in guam it cetera so so it is increasing the japanese reliance on the american

missile defense radar in japan claiming it will be focusing on deterring north korean aggression but james corbett editor of the colbert report he lives in japan he thinks the whole system will be deployed for all the wrong reasons i there is going to have to be some sort of dialogue and one certainly hopes that it will come quicker because the demonstrations are starting to get out of the into china and so some real damage is being done of course not only to to japanese interests but even to owners of japanese restaurants and people who drive japanese cars in china are now being attacked in these protests and as a result we're starting to see the mirror opposite here in japan and obviously not rioting or anything of that sort but there is that an increase in the rate we nationalist riving around with their loudspeakers with their empty chinese slogans that cetera so it's definitely creating increased tensions and the only way out of this is for some sort of diplomatic breakthrough and it doesn't look like the two parties are really willing to come to the table at this point to the idea that this

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