it's important to know that the japan airlines, the japan fleet a & a and japan airlines fleet, subsequent to the events at the end of this past year, the uncontained failure that had occurred there, they went through the pratt & whitney prescripted inspection. and it was prior to that event, and yet they still had the uncontained failure. so the question is how do you properly inspect these fan blades? they're hollow, they're big. efe of them weighs about 30 pounds and they crack from the inside out. so what the inspections will do and what they will reveal and how they will do them differently this time in order to find any potential failures are open questions right now. >> so you have the inspection stepping up on these hollow fan blades. what does that tell you, peter, about the nature of what happened in colorado yesterday, the nature of the problem that we saw? >> well, miles has underscored it. they crack from inside. and the ntsb inspected the pratt & whitney facility in hartford, connecticut, back in 2008 and was highly critical not only of the way in which these inspections were

japan japan's at 0 rates for how many decades worth the stock market there were the stock market in europe despite the fact that the central bank there has been trying to allegedly goose it for all this time u.s. shares are abnormally high b is largely because of 5 to 7 companies if you take out microsoft and apple 'd and google equity returns 'd aren't that great over the past year or more broadly this notion that there is war or 2 sides against each other markets misunderstands what markets are markets are a combination of bulls and bears and the passions of the bulls who wildly go into a star or blunted by the pessimism of bears who at the. stocks get one downs this notion that a bunch of small investors ganged up on hedge funds on the way to some victory for the little guy is just so ridiculous and how we know it will be ridiculous she is when we see subsequent losses from the same wall street best crowd that got lucky one time in our wager when it's all over with i think one thing that caught. the 1st time for me right is that there's probably or probably was a large institutional investor wholly g.m. shares the whole time and the idea that this was just small people just isn't serious and again we'll see that the next time they try to do a turn to explain to our viewers that i'm a b.s. 3 and it is because this is an issue that people are very emotional about what is the value of these hedge funds because a lot of people say hedge funds they can generate huge incomes by dumping on companies by destroying value and that at the end of the day hedge funds don't create any value except for well how do you respond to that go ahead well i think that is basically correct i mean heads get special arrangements they've got special tax breaks believe it or not which is which is hard to believe today but at the end of the day they can create because they have so much capital but you've seen them also step down as bill ackman did trying to lay out there are a life when he felt it was our value our other companies like that so there's no or sherm's or guarantees but they are and special situations and certainly they go what meg said earlier they don't get the advantage of what janet yellen has done and created a lot of this crap that happens in these markets and hopefully somebody will step in here because i want to know myself was there true front running in these markets because certainly if you have enough power behind you know is a floor trader on the floor general or 25 out of my 43 years of trading and i've seen how the big banks and others can manipulate and front run these markets by creating a false narrative to begin. with and then well in the markets ron and the direction they're trying to get him or saying a little investor they get stuck up their ass versus a drawing and having a profitable trade because they're trying to follow along with the big lie that has much more power that will actually do the wrong thing i guess what their position was to me to get the right position not to trap the individual slaughter fest you know image you know there's a lot of coast to to look at reddit and look at these update and robin hood but i mean if we're going to look at them should we look at how. how hedge funds reform is well i mean it shouldn't be a i mean we keep talking about a level playing field here if you going to go after these people and the people that front run it apparently should we look at how all of this short selling actually works and if it doesn't really at the end of the day it make any kind of value because a lot of people they just destroys companies it destroys lives destroys jobs as it were just something we have to live with go ahead mitch i think that's an important point to make for the f.c.c. to swiss regulation i mean this is what you need to address there are existing laws and regulations as to what you can and can't do in short selling you should be able to read in papua lism you should be able. now to make an argument look i'm not really in equities and i'm a derivatives guy so what caused the run in tests in the other stock was derivative products in options and s. and c. doesn't even look at that so you have to see as look at any any of the other ancillary exchanges and the impact they have add on to say that the central banks providing hundreds of trillions in the quiddity across well as an impact at ridiculous valuations the point nars is specious comment and ridiculous frankly so you know as far as the hedge fund we had. when you have a large edge on one position you're talking about peter is difficult and i think a lot of people in collins solves the bunch of equity traders hedge funds that it was from a hedge fund she said that industry and i've been involved in intricately for 40 years is going to have many different positions we've created tens of thousands of jobs by investing in real estate projects all over the world i'm i'm investing in clean energy projects projects wind farms so you know if you can't group one size fits all a hedge fund is diversify or alternative asset class investment vehicle and you yours just right instruments not just equity offset other positions and having your existing portfolio it's not a bet it's not they're not just going out you know that's damn ok you can offset your last goes down this is the risk parity trade where people trade bonds against stock markets but that trade is the pits but that trade is blown up it's a lot more complicated it's not as simple as everybody thinks the politicians don't understand how the markets more minutes it gets not to a point where this is just being politicized and people are trying to make points and they don't know what they're talking about whatsoever i mean what my point in fact is nancy oh i wish she for example she front ran the visa i.p.o. by buying shares for her own account while she was sitting on a committee that determined a policy you know setting and she knew that they were going to pass it was she made a profit on that she also holds tesla options now but race is exempt from insider trading they've made no and graham's nailer myself that is under european pres so you know you need not one rule for the and another for me you need one more on me as i am it really look let me get john here before we go to the break but isn't that really just the point john i mean that again that's kind of the top line story for a lot of people there is there are certain rules and regulations for some and there are some for others here 36. people we go to the break go ahead oh well couple things for one short soldier pero if they're willing to take the biggest risk of all the markets even the most often markets 1st work against them the idea that there's rules for hedge funds that are better than others explain then why most hedge funds fail explain why wall street markets are so rigged why most wall street had to be bailed out 2000 the markets are difficult incredibly difficult what hedge funds do is the sunshine going to jump in here we're going to watch it we're going to go to a short break and i am pretty sure break we'll continue our discussion on some headphones but hedge funds stay with r.t. . well you know things are going topsy turvy the markets are undergoing a severe inflection point and those on the periphery are now driving the center. it's whacko time but much stated let's get into it. now that i'm not going to go back to not they're not i am not out of the budget that i'm not out of the not of the money that they're letting that happen to me. this was a good time to. try to move. that up was nothing that had money not why not. why ecb tanning and the whole people we believe just. a lot of i can say they want them up with johnny who they are at the moment to tell them of the how do it all because there is a lot of money but i'm not i'm a little like a mad builder let's pull out the pimp i don't want to put out a of the most cutting on our own mother bloodletting. world is driven by. saying. we dare to ask. welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter labelle crimmins we're talking about democratizing the financial system. let's go back to john and watch them sorry i had to interrupt you before we went to the break there when the image in a cup maybe kind of give a more balanced assessment of what hedge funds do is something i used to work in equity to i guess we all and one form or another been in this line of business here i mean it hedge funds and also can caution investors about over valuations because companies are always going to talk themselves up as one of the problems i think with finance in the last 30 years that it's more about a story about a company instead of it's about valuation so i mean why does hedge funds have such a bad rap in the in the public eye. it is as as as michel louis headphones do all sorts of different things all sorts of forms of investing why do they have such a bad rap why the will companies have a bad rap there are certain industries that the media members choose to vilify who knows why this is particularly true as hedge funds because they do essential work an economy can't function without pricing 'd honesty hedge funds don't necessarily better perform up markets they don't necessarily benefit from down markets that benefit from bringing price in reality so to what lacks in terms of short sellers there's been this desire of the last week or so to say short sellers profit from destroying companies oh really does anyone still wish that blockbuster was ramsey which borders books was still rush how do net 0 in each force in the globe dot com short sellers put out to pasture businesses that are not meeting the needs of customers or shareholders alike thank goodness for them if we didn't have them the economy would be exponentially weaker. but going back to hedge funds i think there's a desire right now to say well they're all powerful and they get special deals if that's true why is that long term capital still around white bear stearns some would argue operate in some ways hedge fund why did it need a bailout why did goldman sachs need a bailout the reality is that is a very difficult business for anyone to be and that's why there is so much money in the hedge fund billionaire as the cliche is a direct consequence of the basic truth the just about every hedge fund either fails or does so poorly that we're even talk about ok so it's a bit at the story is not complete here todd let me let me go t. i mean all the way going back to george w. bush we heard about you know getting the little guy in the market you know democratizing finance here and these reddit guys really took it to heart it seems and i can i still make a strong connection maybe you all can correct me here but then you know in looking . some of the bulletin boards of these people that were involved in this and 2008 and had a very huge impact on them and i and i'm i'm agreeing with all of you here i mean that this game stop it's more about grievance it's about revenge and targeting people that you believe that have hurt you and your friends and families and maybe you know you know own financial condition here so but i mean where where is that or dumb is there room for democracy in the financial markets here because there is the perception in correct me if i'm wrong and the reason why we're doing this program is it stacked against the small investor go ahead. they get stacked against us mob vester in general but i think i want to address them the johns the real quickly the bottom line the reason bear stearns lammers needed help is they were leveraged 4 to one using derivatives it's got hired to use that type of leverage when when you start to get a tech you've already got the banks failing then the reason we've got lots of problem this country but the rules are not always fair i mean what is it that is an investor i'm not going to get bailed out if i go broke but they're trying to bail out the big banks because they were over invested or over leverage these markets so that is one of the problems they have that appear in these markets on a regular basis is that right now you're laying the banks lend you've taken over our restrictions and they're going to have nothing but money how could we possibly have housing sales going so crazy and that just has a do with the salmon markets you make it so much cash available as something a lower rate you can create these narratives in these markets and start the forced paddick or chase markets around as the other as the beggar money sets and waits but the reason they bailed them out is because they were over leveraged and they were gambling in these markets taking her normas risks with other people's money not their own well mitch and me but has that been fixed to your satisfaction here be. you know there's this i watching i guess a c. a b. c. is the only time i watch them and years because of this story right now and it's there's such a bias it seems such an overt bias about protecting the poor hedge funds and i think john's absolutely right i mean if you want to go in that line of business and stuff and tumble if you win you win but you know there's most likely you're going to lose but you never get better narrative in this means because kind of media coverage here i mean if there's going to be regulation and they were everyone said we need light touch light touch but regulate whom go ahead you know so a couple things here that you know like the book that i wrote about the credit crisis because i was sitting at the epicenter of it when an app. and one of that as . he rolls you know that exploded we worked into it being knowledge of dozens managed. citibank we had months merger to there was general debt and so much credit much leverage i was advising you couple of the different governments and i advise that all of these insolvent scale not bail them out to big g. big to fail your big battle too big to jail is to big jim exists in my work and that's the mantra that we should be putting forth alan greenspan email asking the crisis and said there was nothing that straw on behalf of market participants that we didn't prosecute you we don't need new laws or regulations you need force of existing regular now the money printing orgy of money printing it demonstrated in japan their economies the morose for 35 years and it's flatlined the money printing around the world has ended up in too much liquidity sloshing around in crazy valuations so we have $35.00 or 40 percent of the companies or zombie companies will never make money but when you like giving another drink to an alcoholic when you give insolvent companies more money what does it do it creates more debt on z. assets real debt yes. it's explode the debt remains and this is the problem we have today you know joe and janet yellen was keeps getting promoted promoted promoted but she's and and all of the central bankers are responsible for this mask when it blows up it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when and it's going to end badly for the retail people who are going to end up catching the or end of the stick because the professional investors even on these run ups are going to make money well i'm sitting out i don't play these little little games but short selling is a market mechanism that sho

well, countries like australia, new zealand, korea, japan and so _ australia, new zealand, korea, japan and so on. _ australia, new zealand, korea, japan to hold _ and so on, japan is proposing to hold the — and so on, japan is proposing to hold the olympics and so on, we should _ hold the olympics and so on, we should go— hold the olympics and so on, we should go back to some sort of normality. _ should go back to some sort of normality, not complete normality and no _ normality, not complete normality and no one — normality, not complete normality and no one knows how long these countries — and no one knows how long these countries will take to come back to complete _ countries will take to come back to complete normality. but to come back to some _ complete normality. but to come back to some sort _ complete normality. but to come back to some sort of normality — i agree that we _ to some sort of normality — i agree that we cannot always live in a deepfreeze, but the question is, if you come — deepfreeze, but the question is, if you come suddenly out of the deepfreeze, what do you do to yourself? _ deepfreeze, what do you do to your

japan outside japan even from big sponsors of the olympics all this led to his it is a connection and in the press conference held after. mr modi announced his resignation we learned that. an election committee would be set it would consist of about 10 members half of them would be females and males also men and women and they're going to oversee the election process which is going which would take place around next week many journalists during the press conference they challenged. almost all the director of the. organizing committee about the date that he certainly expressed that they understand that this is very important. for them for the committee to take to gain their trust not only of the ship and its people but also of the world with their ability to all the olympics in just one time and in a successful way thank you fatty may keep us up to date from japan today thousands of venezuelans and migrants from other latin american countries have been entering chile through a remote desert passage border in bolivia and that is causing tension among the communities living there and latin america editor of a senior member ports from the border town of culture in telapak a region. chani is in the at that have my desert at nearly 4000 meters above sea level the llamas outnumber the locals the majority indigenous a modest who sell their wool and meat. here there are no basic services not even sewerage or electricity. so when more than 6000 undocumented migrants suddenly began arriving from across the border with bolivia 6 weeks ago residents say they felt invaded. the me that's some all of it was that they entered my house and stole my things they're human beings who are cold and hungry but this is the government's responsibility not. this i met a woman silver spoon faces upwards as a sign of anger when they see again more just the number of migran

during japan's occupation of the korean peninsula she says japan and south korea should have the united nation's highest court decide on an issue that continues to divide them that is whether japan should do more to acknowledge and compensate for the system of enslaving and abusing thousands of women who were sent to military brothels. japan insists all wartime compensation issues have been settled and 1965 treaty that normalized relations with south korea also extended compensation. but victim anguish and activism persisted a settlement in 2015 with japan said to be final and irreversible provided $9000000.00 to a victim's fund but many victims criticized the language and the current south korean government dissolved that deal to take the issue to the international court of justice in the hague both countries would have to agree and it might be the south korean government saying no to the idea considering the possibility of losing or at least not gaining an overwhelming legal victory. the matter has long put a wedge between japan and south korea and a recent court ruling in seoul lit another flame in the dispute. it says japan must pay about $90000.00 to each of 12 women who fi

i was teaching courses about japan and in those days the united states that was all the rage talk about the coming war with japan and japan as the rising new superpower and of course we saw that never happened and i had i made fun of the idea in my classes at the time because i said you know japan had a major economic bubble japan did not have military aspirations to rival the united states and so forth but of course in terms of driving the budget at the pentagon it was it was something that was worth focusing on for the propaganda. well you and i think china has much the same role today as you said china is not a military threat to the united states today the united states of the overwhelming c. in air power it's likely to remain that way for at least a generation as 2050 it's hard to tell and it would partly depend on whether china feels they need military force but what's very clear is china's very successful in business globally and so i think it's the business rivalry that actually matters is the real substance behind the arguments about national security it's a fact that chinese telephone service and internet servic

japan. japan is not going to be outdone. among thieves there is no honor. japanill have a non-aggression in april, 1941 with russia. that will allow russia to take its troops back again and notice the timing. it couldn't have come at a worse time for hitler. it's indicative at these men don't trust any of them, any one of the other. and they are not at all integrated as we'll see as the case with england and the united states. so in germany's way of thinking, everything has turned out well. the german people didn't sign up for all of this. they signed up because they bought the propaganda that they had never lost world war i. they surrendered 70 miles here into belgium and parts of france. they were stabbed in the back by communists and jews, or so hitler and the fascists and nazi party told them, and they were treated very poorly at versailles. it's a very bad idea to be harsh in word and then soft in deed. that's what the versailles treaty did. it humiliated the germans without affecting their ability to come back or make war. they were not occupied. the german

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president biden has called world leaders from canada, mexico, u.k., india, france, germany, japan, japanea, but not israel. why hasn't he called netanyahu? >> reporter: the israeli prime minister, netanyahu, you'll recall went around to address both houses in the u.s. capitol to object to the very painstakingly negotiated jcpoa, the nuclear deal with iran. that angered the obama administration of which joe biden was a part. when biden visited here, benjamin netanyahu announced a building of a vast number of israeli settlements on the west bank. in the beginning of this year, they announced israel's plans for another 3,000 homes on the west bank, homes built in what the international community calls international territory. biden says the members of his administration, the national security adviser, defense secretary and secretary of state have all been in touch with their counterparts, they just haven't made the main call to the main man, and i think that's part of the biden administration's efforts to reset the relationship with israel, which certainly, as far as they're concerned, it w

japan is, but if you're not paying attention at home, japan, despite terrible demographics, no growth, four or five recessions in the last 20 years or so, has just broken above 30,000 on the nikkei since 1939, the year i graduated from high school, hay lee shah, are you a believer, are you a buyer, are you big in japan >> japan is amazing. it has been 29 years, and yeah, let's not talk about years, brian, but look, asia is breaking out everywhere. it's not just japan. actually, china broke out the first time since 2007. so equities everywhere in asia are very very strong, and in part, it's based on the cyclical recovery, so as the u.s. recovers, as other countries recover, manufacturing is stronger, and asia really benefits from that, including the weaker dollar. so yes, we'd be buyers of asia right here, including japan. the charts tend to tell you where markets are going, and so, you know, the demographics are not great in japan, however, they just had a blow out of 4th quarter gdp, up 12%. so the fundamentals are getting better for the long-term, probably there are structural issues but we like asia, we like europe, and we like europe for some of the reasons we're talking about. europe does not have tech. it has value in cyclicals, and those cyclicals are what's supporting markets right now. >> y

japan town. someone spraypainted red graffiti overnight on the pioneer stone. it's a 11,000 pound granite stone from japan. the japan town community congress tells our media partner the mercury news they do not believe the vandalism was racially motivated. >>> a man has been charged in a string of assaults against seniors in oakland's china town. the police chief made a promise to the community today. here is leslie brinkly. >> after three brutal attacks on seniors in oakland's china town last week, including the horrifying video of a 91-year-old man being pushed to the pavement, there was a dramatic announcement as the newly sworn in oakland chief of police stood alongsidal meeta county's district attorney. >> i now am announcing that we have filed charges against an individual identified as yaya muslim. we have charged him with three counts of assault. >> muslim is also facing charges of inflicting great bodily injury and committing a crime against an elderly person. the da says he has two prior felony assault convictions. the police officers who tracked down the suspect were applauded. >> some come to china town

madara military affiliated enterprises 2nd i think countries like china and india and japan mostly japan. could set something stronger and to meet and countries like south korea that has been investing heavily. in this country in memoir and i am really surprised that. these countries have not come up with a strong statement yet what about from within the country can the people of myanmar do anything to resist what has happened i mean we heard today about doctors coming together to strike essentially people banging pots and pans is a much more they can do other than that. i really am not sure there is any much more they can do because you know we are the world is now under pandemic coronavirus pandemic and this can be used as an excuse for the military to come in with harsher crackdown on the people but the telecommunication that's been cut down on the. military meo are the military media upgrading it's really difficult for the people of myanmar to receive actually accurate information and to act to gather and to congregate there is a big challenge as current moment yankee leave very good

problem i don't think there is a issue with regional powers are reacting because within asia japan is japan is trying to outmaneuver china they are going to take the side against the military china's not going to take sides against military thailand's going to support the military and bangladesh can't really do much it's been trying to do things but it doesn't have any kind of it can't force the issue so i don't expect you'll have a lot of regional change i think it'll make the situation in myanmar more worse in terms of a giraffe a government relations talking there about ethnic minorities the treatment of ethnic minorities paul dano it's well consents do you have about the the erosion of human rights and freedom of speech show of protecting potential ethnic violence in the country now that the mediterranean is is fully in paul 5 and says it will be for the next year. yeah gravely concerned. the conflict will increase. there is concern that the military will take control of communication channels a they already did that right after the that coup cutting off communication mobile networks in

second i think countries like china and japan mostly japan. could start something stronger and interview and countries like south korea that has been investing heavily. in this country in myanmar and i'm really surprised that. these countries have not come up with a strong statement yet. inspectors from the world health organization have visited a the role of g institute in the chinese city of work where the coronavirus was 1st identified the team is investigating the origins of covert 19 since arriving last month there conducted interviews with people from research institutes hospitals and a seafood market linked to the initial outbreak let's go to katrina hughes life for us in beijing so the team team is now visited this lab in what more can you tell us about their visit. but they spent quite a few hours inside this lab in the slab of course has been the focal point of much controversy the trump administration when it was in power allege that covert 1000 leaked from this lab now we haven't had any evidence of this but it is true that the war

reckon well as living hand to china and japan and warren buffett just made a huge plane japan bought the big big big portions of 5 big industrial companies in japan and of course you are a banker in japan for many heirs so is what is the bear market japan over as a star what's all that going on in japan mats i don't know that the bear market so rude you can but if you had 35 years of economic malaise and this is the model that the west has developed in taken on board is 35 years of economic disaster and curve control i mean look this is the definition albert einstein's textbook definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting to achieve a different result unfortunately the people are being bamboozled about a lot of things they need to question everything that's happening to them and you need to look i mean look our president now our new president has he executed almost 60 executive orders the more than all total 7 presidents the last totals the total sum of the past 7 presidents in the time he's been in office people don't really have a choice he think they have a choice but they don't have a choice he's on very bad max

japan and south korea. it's turned to sophie for what to watch. sophie: plenty of earnings to wade through in japan. japanits forecast for a full year. reporting 19% rise in third-quarter profit. we will keep her eye on suzuki motors after suspending its operating operation in myanmar. keeping an eye after a jumped monday on announcing it is developing a covid test that can identify several variants. the korean company saying it will make those globally available. this after tesla's price target was raised to $1200 and elon musk calling for more battery sales during his appearance. it will remain open to the public, but months for those waiting for an invitation. haidi: jp morgan joins us. his team is out with a big call that the reddit hoard is unlikely just are a big market drop. as sophie was previewing, week at the start of trading in tokyo and seoul coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: "daybreak asia welcome to "daybreak asia." i am -- welcome to "daybreak asia." i am shery ahn. haidi: asia's markets have just open for trade. asian stocks have gains after the best rally in weeks. strategists s

during japan's occupation of the korean peninsula she says japan and south korea should have the united nation's highest court decide on an issue that continues to divide them that is whether japan should do more to acknowledge and compensate for the system of enslaving and abusing thousands of women who were sent to military brothels. japan insists all wartime compensation issues have been settled in 1965 treaty that normalized relations with south korea also extended compensation. but victim anguish and activism persisted a settlement in 2015 with japan said to be final and irreversible provided $9000000.00 to a victim's fund but many victims criticized the language and the current south korean government dissolved that deal to take the issue to the international court of justice in the hague both countries would have to agree and it might be the south korean government saying no to the idea considering the possibility of losing or at least not gaining an overwhelming legal victory. the matter has long put a wedge between japan and south korea and a recent court ruling in seoul lit another flame in the dispute. it says japan must pay about $90000.00 to each of 12 women who fil

just hours after the shooting there one man was shot and killed in japan town. the japan town business association tells us that the person renting the space was only there for two weeks. >> it is a pretty quiet and safe part of town. these things are happening so close to home, right underground. >> reporter: a man shot on tuesday at the cafe paradise died today, turning it into yet another murder investigation. and this evening our cameras caught customers indoors. >> these shootings have occurred indoors where people should not be gathering. >> reporter: according to santa clara county, agave has more than $35,000 in fines and several complaints for violating public health orders, and now this. some wonder what good are the restrictions especially if i do understand people's frustration. they call 911 and expect a police response. we are doing everything we can with the resources we have. >> reporter: a city attorney is working with police to figure out if they can take any legal steps against problem business owners. and the sergeant says that unfortunately, it takes

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japan has a -- does japan have a path to victory? no. but they refused to surrender. i think the atomic bombs were a very important ingredient in bringing world war ii to a halt. world war ii didn't end in victory for the allies because of one or two or four things. a lot of things came together to bring world war ii to a successful end, and abrupt conclusion. years of conventional defeats inflicted on the japanese. there are strategic bombing -- the strategic bombing of japan. the blockade of japan which brought japan to the brink of starvation. if we hadn't used atomic bombs, world war ii would have continued on. i don't know how long, but it would have continued. what was important? one was the use of atomic bombs as an important ingredient in bringing an end to the war. as history would show, japanese soldiers had no problem dying for their country. but what if you didn't get a chance to fight for your country? this was a weapon that did not give you the opportunity. the soviet union entered the war against japan. the soviet union had a nonaggression pact, but the soviet union recognized imperial japan was about to become complete history. this was not some cheap, late-war landgrab in asia by the soviet union. we wanted soviet -- we wanted the soviet union involved in the war and we asked them to joining the war against the japanese so the war would end more quickly and precisely. three months after the collapse of germany, remember which day fighting s

airlines in he three countries operate aircraft with the affected engine, the u.s., south korea and japan and japan grounded its fleet of boeing 777's for safety inspections. todd: it's an understatement to say we have lots of questions. hopefully some of them answered. jillian: today, the house budget committee will hold a markup of president biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, teaing it up for -- teeing it up for a floor vote by the end of the week. todd: mark meredith is live for us in washington, d.c. with why republicans are fighting hard against it. >> reporter: republicans claim so much of the bill is meant to boost democratic priorities and not address the pandemic. democrats control the house and they're ready to go it alone to get it done. it will fund covid testing and boost spending on food assistance programs. the president says spending so much is necessary if they're going to address the crisis at hand, he's urging lawmakers not look at the price tag. he says we need more than just a medical miracle to come out of the pandemic, we need to pull out a manufacturing and logis

japan. if you think about tensions in japan, they could not have been higher, the only nation in the world that is that on the receiving end of a nuclear weapon. so it was inherently, the situation and i think we have fundamentally moved in a better direction north korea, though there is more work to do. china was the biggest and most living threat, a predator at every level. militarily, they have to medically expand their budget past decades, gatefold -- 8-fold, building an oppressive military and their navy is now larger than ours. they are aggressive in the south china she -- sea, and east china -- east china sea. and diplomatically you have seen their influence in dubya hon other organizations. diplomatic -- influence in who. they subsidize their industries and compete unfairly. if you want to do business in china you have to take on a chinese partner. you have to transfer your technology to them. those are not the types of rules we need to have a market-based economy. china has to change the behavior. host: domestically you work behind an effort to ring interlake soccer to tennessee. -- an

>> it's understandable from japan's point of view because japan was caught on the back foot with the 787 dreamliner when the batteries were overheating. and japanasn't on the forefront in terms of dealing with that. so my guess is having seen what happened with the 787, and then having seen what happened with the 737 maxes when there was first one accident then another before the regulators stepped in, they're saying, well, hang on a second here, there have been several incidents over the last couple of years which have led to assume. for instance, the united airlines 777 200, it was out of honolulu san francisco route where the engine exploded in very familiar circumstances. it looks similar. then back in december. now you've got this particular incident. i think it's a stretch to try and conflate this with what happened in amsterdam today with the 747. it may be a connection, it may not be. i think that's a stretch. but what i think you can say is that a body of views is building up. and it's not the aircraft as much as the engine. the prattin whitney engine. we know that the ntsb has already warned airlines about the maintenance and the supe

£11,000 granite monument was presented to san jose as a gift from its sister city of okinawa, japan, okayama rather japan the japantown community says it stands with renewed gratitude for the perseverance and sacrifice of japanese pioneers who settled in san jose. the vandalism was discovered on monday. so far, there is no word of any arrests. city of san jose is hoping to entice people to visit downtown. there's valentine's day weekend with some new attractions. ktvu is as a smith tells us, it's all being done to try to help struggling businesses. have you lost that loving feeling in case you have several new features added to downtown san jose to get you in the valentine's day spirit. starting thursday, people can visit this valentine's day arch in there. the fairmont hotel, take selfies toe when gift cards i've just taken a couple of pictures is kind of cool. i'm going. some buildings lit up in toe light up some buildings. tombo ploy, some local artists through local color to put some brown paper love into the windows partnership with the city of san jose and the downtown association, doing all they c

japan. think about the tensions in japan that could not have been higher. the world is put on the receiving end of the nuclear weapons so is it is imperative we calm the situation and we moved in a better direction. chinath is the biggest looming threat. china is at a predatory level. militarily they have expanded their budget eightfold in terms of building. their navy is larger than ours. they are pushing everywhere in this region. diplomatically they are aggressive as well. you've seen their blessed w.h.o. and other larger annotations and economically every business person knows what a. i china has been and can be. >> on international intellectual property. you want to do business in china yet to take on the chinese business partner. those are not the rules way to have in a park in -- market taste economy. >> domestically you are behind the effort to bring major league soccer to tennessee. what drove you to do that? >> that was a labor of love. tennessee is a great environment for all types of sports. we are an entertainment-based economy. tourism is very

controversy just adds to their unpopularity in japan with opinion polls showing that if they do not go ahead that if they are actually scrapped many people in japan would not be that bothered at all. among the top stories and i'm sure there are a democrat politicians prosecuting donald trump have told us senators it takes no more than that common sense to convict the former president of inciting a mob to insurrection they spent the 2nd and final day outlining their case by painting a picture of a commander in chief whose words and actions throughout his 4 year 10 led to the deadly insurrection at the capital defense case.

in tokyo. >> i was detained and arrested when i different i departed for japan. >> they arrested him -- when i departed for japanhey arrested him. why does cpac matter that much? why are these communists so afraid of letting someone simply give a speech? >> it is very clear what we stand for and why. it includes opposing socialism everywhere we find it. >> we anticipate many more will also be arrested in the future. the situation in hong kong is -- ♪ >> protesters in hong kong are breaking the united states and specifically president trump to help them in their fight for democracy. some prominent american conservatives are meeting on semi autonomous territory. >> this hong kong movement for democracy is something every american needs to pray for, needs to try to support because the chinese regime in beijing is probably more vulnerable than we realize. >> you're looking at a face-off on one of the main roads in hong kong this sunday afternoon. on one end, protesters with umbrellas ready for the teargas and to be shot by police. >> the oppression we are seeing from the chinese communist towards these peaceful prot