let's bring in our guests in kuala lumpur. we have far, kim bank, the founder of the strategic pan, indo-pacific arena, think tank. and he's also the former director of political and security community in the asean secretary at in london. this gareth leather senior economist at capital economics where he specializes in emerging markets and asian economies. and joining us from washington, d.c. is stan boyd, a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome to you all. i'll start with you. kim, bang were quiet. china is clearly the biggest economy in this group in what are its priorities now that this deal is signed? why is china so in favor of it? were the headlines all over the world or seems to be accurate in the believe that china will be gaining from this agreement because it's the largest agreement free trade agreement ever. it comprises 30 percent of all the g.d.p. in the world. but having sits, or china is an economy that is all saw trying to, can't fully navigate its way into the future in light of the pa

lou reporting from kuala lumpur. thank you. thousands of people have been protesting again in peru over the dismissal of former president's martin vizcarra. those protests to be going on for days and are among the largest seen in the past 3 decades. at least one person has been killed in the unrest. vickery has been banned from leaving the country just days after being impeached amid allegations of corruption . protesters say his removal is politically motivated. it's war correspondent, mariana sanchez, is in lima with more on what's behind the unrest. this is really about the legitimacy of this new interim government led by man. well, maybe no. who is technically still the congress president and who is now leading the country and who has now named a new cabinet, a very conservative cabinet. does that people feel that it does not represent them . and people feel that this group of legislators, 105 who voted for the impeachment of discover have really stolen the presidency. they say that they did not vote for this new interim go

florence, who reports on this now from kuala lumpur. after 8 years of talks, the regional comprehensive economic partnership or ourselves, is finally signed, meeting virtually because of the pandemic. leaders from 15 countries including china, japan, and 10 members of the association of southeast asian nations. the agreement in their respective countries. the conclusion of our sept negotiation, the largest free trade agreement in the world, will send a strong message that the firms leading role in supporting the multilateral trading system, creating a new trading structure in the region. it's an ambitious deal covering nearly 30 percent of global economic output and a 3rd of the world's population. the agreement aims to lower tariffs and open up trade and investment in stages. it will provide a simpler trading framework, meaning businesses won't have to navigate separate requirements to export to different countries. china is the biggest member in the trading block. its importance in the region grew even more after the u.s. led by presi

a process that could take up to 2 years, florence louis al-jazeera, kuala lumpur. people in moldova are back at the version birds for a presidential run off this sunday. the contest, divisive one between pro russian incumbent igor dordogne and the former leader, my asunder who favors closer ties with europe under finished ahead in the 1st round . placing valorise of used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in minsk. thousands of demonstrators were out there is renewed anger over the death of an activist in police custody earlier this week. there are reports more than 100 people have been arrested. of course, for months, thousands of people have been protesting every week demanding president alexander lukashenko. resign. talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of violence in libya, have been extended for a 7th day. rival factions, meeting in tennessee as capital of agreed to hold nationwide elections in december next year, and delegates are also negotiating the appointment of an interim government here is clear. harriet with more from tun

out serious florence louis joins us now live from kuala lumpur with more on this deal. just how significant is this deal for us? what sort of impact is it going to have? well, it's a very ambitious deal. this is the 1st time that we actually have a single free trade agreement where east asian rival powers, china, south korea, and japan are part of, you know, and in terms of just the sheer size of it, we're talking about a 3rd of global population, a 3rd of economic activity, it is a very big trade agreement now and what some trade unions and activists have said though that this agreement doesn't what the agreement doesn't do is that it doesn't talk about it doesn't cover environmental protections. it doesn't talk about labor standards and some academics have said that it's aim to lower tariffs by about 90 percent. as far as free trade agreements go, it's actually relatively on the bishes where you've got free trade agreements aiming to lower taxes by about 100 percent. but as i mentioned, it is the sheer size of the deal that makes it an important trade agreement. now,

a process that could take up to 2 years, florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur. now a federal judge in new york has restored deferred action for childhood arrivals, also known as dhaka and protect undocumented migrants brought to the u.s. as children. donald trump has tried to shut down duck us several times. courts have prevented that, but new applications were stopped. with this new ruling, the program is nearly fully operational again, meaning that new applicants can seek permission to stay. president elect joe biden says he plans to restore the program on his 1st day in office. he was vice president or member when barack obama started a comeback and 2012. well, earlier i spoke to leon fresco. he formerly worked in immigration at the u.s. department of justice under obama, and he says, this ruling will be helpful for president elect biden. certainly a relief for all of the hundreds of thousands of individuals that are covered by this program. because the constraints been placed on the program by child, well, the acting secretary of state secretary of homeland

in kuala lumpur, we have the founder of the strategic pa n-indo-pacific think tank.london, senior economist at capital economics where he specializes in emerging markets and asian economies. joining us from washington, d.c., resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome to you all. china is clearly the biggest economy in this grouping. why is china so in favor of that? >> the headlines all over the world seems to be echoing the belief that china will be benefiting from this agreement because it is the largest free-trade agreement ever. it comprises 30% of all the gdp in the world. having said so, china is an economy that is also trying to carefully navigate its way into the future in light of the pandemic. in spite of what we have seen in pfizer and moderna, where the vaccine has an efficiency rate of more than 92%-94%. so, china is actually very secure and safe in its own cocoon. however, china is a country that relies on globalization, to benefit from all the benefits of free trade, if i may put it that way. china could gain from it. whether china'

minus 14 degrees for the -- will be the high for kuala lumpur.the south, most of the rain will increase in manila. there is the possibility of flooding and landslides. now we're looking at the remnants of this storm in india. that made landfall in the southeastern portions of the country on thursday, leading to torrential rainfall. it's expected to weaken further on friday. winds and rain will be going down over the weekend, but another storm system could develop over the bay of bengal next week. that may affect and produce more heavy rainfall yet again in southeast india. floods and landslides will continue to be concerns. some stormy weather will persist on friday, but you will see improvements as we go into sunday and saturday. but once again, we can expect more heavy rainfall in the earlier part of next week. that's all for now. stay safe. >>> that concludes this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo, and from all of us at nhk world-japan, thanks for watching. ♪ >>> welcome to "newsline in depth." i'm yanaka marie. thank you fo

a process that could take up to 2 years, florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur.nother powerful storm has pummeled vietnam, the latest in a series which have killed at least 250 people there in the past few weeks. storm vanco made landfall there on sunday damaging buildings not words and trees. the authorities are warning of deadly landslides, triggered by heavy rain storm lashed the philippines earlier this week, killing at least 67 people. and central america is bracing for its 2nd hearkened in the space of less than 2 weeks is expected to make landfall in honduras, nicaragua, in the next few hours, many of already fled their homes in honduras, while evacuations have been ordered in neighboring nicaragua, and guatemala, with authorities warning of life threatening flooding. thousands are still in shelters after dark and need to hit 12 days ago. more than 200 people were killed. the turkish president says the only future for cyprus is to be split into 2 states . do one was speaking during a controversial visit to the abandoned cypriot resort of varosha, which has

louis has more from kuala lumpur and what it hopes to achieve it wants to progressively lower tariffs within the coming years. it also aims to set one just one set of rules that will make it easier for member states to trade with each other and to invest in each other. now this where this agreement fails though, if it doesn't go far enough, it doesn't mention environmental protection and labor standards. and that's where the criticism of this deal comes in. thousands of people are back on the streets of peru, protesting the dismissal of former president martin, discover at least 2 people have been killed in the latest on rest. he's carol has been banned from leaving the country. last week he was impeached amid allegations of corruption. protesters say his removal is politically motivated. thousands of supporters of u.s. president donald trump have been protesting in washington d.c. . many echo drums claims of fraud securing last week's election. multiple news outlets have to clear joe biden as the projected winner, but the president hasn't conceded ethnic armenians have been destroyin

france louis reports from kuala lumpur. after 8 years of talks, the regional comprehensive economic partnership or ourselves, is finally time and meeting virtually because of the pandemic. leaders from 15 countries including china, japan and 10 members of the association of southeast asian nations, into the agreement in their respective countries. the conclusion of viruses, the largest free trade agreement in the world, will send a strong message that affirms as the leading role in supporting to multilateral trading system, creating a new trading structure in the region. it's an ambitious deal covering nearly 30 percent of global economic output and a 3rd of the world's population. the agreement aims to lower tariffs and open up trade and investment in stages. it will provide a simpler trading framework, meaning businesses won't have to navigate separate requirements to export to different countries. china is the biggest member in the trading block. its importance in the region grew even more after the u.s. led by president

a process that could take up to 2 years, florence italy al-jazeera kuala lumpur. now people in moldova, back at the ballot box for a presidential runoff, after no candidate won a majority in the 1st round. a contest pits pro russian incumbent, hugo dirt on against former leader. my son do you think is closer ties with europe found you finished ahead in the 1st round. well that's not going to sign a guy who is in moldova capital cushion now for us. so it does feel like today is very, it's a bit of a choice for vs really between east and west where that will be absolutely right. it's how this election really has been pitched and how moldova really sees its future, uncertain the near future and how it wants to progress from that almost hand. you have the incumbent ego to dawn, who has really sort of cleave quite strongly, to remaining on to russia's sphere of influence. he has also encouraged this whole ethos of being part of that sphere. and also in that sort of populist kind of way has or has raised some of those issues as well. while on the opposite you have my so

while she is with us, from kuala lumpur, she sent on a research associate at the university of north sea in malaysia. many, thanks for speaking to us, brigitte, we, are you surprised to learn that joe was negotiating immunity? you know, he's the consummate deal maker. and you know, he's now the fugitive fixer, he's trying to fix the situation for himself. but i think what it shows also is that at heart, but the government at that time chose not to make a deal, which i think is important to recognize. well, they haven't managed to detain him yet. do you think they will? is it a matter of time? well, we have a new government in malaysia, and one of the things that's happened is that we don't see the same attention to some of the prosecutions compared to the past. but i do think that there are a number of warrants from multiple countries or jolo. so i think the chances of him actually remaining a fugitive and actually placing some sort of justice are still quite high on both sides. right now he's being protected and it looks like he's been protected by china and he seems to be in macau.

let‘s go to asia now, because the malaysian capital kuala lumpur is hosting a virtual summit of apecum. it was to have been addressed by us president donald trump in the last few hours, but there‘s no sign of him. our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani is following this. karishma — what‘s going on? this may well have been one of the last opportunities for president trump to attend a global summit like apec, but when his allocated slot came up he was meant to be speaking on the future of trade, just a bit ahead of that slot, we were told by apec organisers that nobody from the united states would be taking that position to address the apec dialogue and no reason was given, but they did confirm to us that it is very likely that president trump will attend the virtual leaders summit when the 21 member economies to meet virtually later this friday. the fact that he did not show up the fact that he did not show up to this ceo dialogue is significant in and of itself and the reason is that at previous apec summits he and the us administration took the opportunity to lambast the i

florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur, talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of violence in libya, have been extended for a 7th day. rival factions beating into business capital have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december next year. delegates of the grocers in the appointment of an interim government military representatives have also been meeting in such and such in libya, the discussing the implementation of a cease fire deal signed last month. turkey's president has arrived at the self declared republic of baldwin, cyprus will be meeting with newly elected leader, who opposes reconciliation with the island's greek south are expected to discuss turkey's dispute with greece over territorial rights in the eastern mediterranean. the e.u. has threatened sanctions against turkey for its oil exploration in disputed waters, people in moldova, a back of the voting booths for a presidential run off. the contest has been divisive between pro russian incumbent incumbent igor dong and former leader who favors closer ties with europe, sounded finished ahead in the 1st round of face to pro

now from kuala lumpur. she says that many see the deal as a way for china to increase its influence. trade deal has been described as a china back deal, and china did push hard for it. china, when the idea was 1st mooted in 20128 years ago, it was observer, saw the trade agreement as a way for china to counter u.s. influence and then u.s. president barack obama. now in the last 4 years, china has had very little competition in this region, especially after the us president donald trump pulled out of the trans-pacific partnership known as the t p p. and that agreement went ahead without the u.s. under different names. so now there are 2 trade deals, including this one, where the u.s. is not a part of it, and it was of a say, this allows china to solidify its broader and bishan in the region. now, china is already a main trade partner for most of the member states of this trade deal, whether it's as an export destination or a source of imports. so that this trade deal, we're allowed china to set trade rules a

let's go to the malaysian capital, kuala lumpur, now.virtual summit of the asia pacific cooperation bloc. it's been two unpredictable years since the 21 members of apec last gathered. at the time they couldn't agree on a joint trade statement because of the row between the us and china. is there any point to apec any more? our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani has more. the humble pair of bluejeans, i chronically american. levi's made them famous and globalisation make them affordable. stitching together american capitalism and asian aspirations. just a few decades ago, these genes would have cost much more. out of reach for many here in asia. but increasingly, they are manufactured all over the world, and that means lower prices — first for americans, then for the rest of us. free trade made for a perfect fit. one of the biggest champions of free trade and globalisation has been apec, a group of countries on either side of the pacific ocean established more than 30 years ago with lofty goals — to bring down trade barriers and

on to syria's foreign story is following the story from kuala lumpur. and what it hopes to achieve is it wants to progressively lower tariffs within the coming years. it also aims to set one just one set of rules that would make it easier for member states to trade with each other and to invest in each other. now this where this agreement fails though, if it doesn't go far enough, it doesn't mention environmental protection and labor standards. and that's where the criticism of this deal comes in. thousands of people are back on the streets of peru protesting the dismissal of former presidents. martin vickery least one person has been killed in the latest on rest is connor has been banned from leaving the country. last week he was impeached amid allegations of corruption . protesters say his removal is politically motivated. thousands of supporters of, u.s. presidents, donald trump, have been demonstrating in washington. d.c., many echoed trump's claims of frauds during last week's presidential election. multiple news outlets have declared joe biden as

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