and north korea in 2020 north korea in 2021. i don't know if you're doing north korea in 2022. but if you were to write something now or maybe you've already about this. what do you think would be the main story if we talk about north korea in 2021. >> that's a great question and your very briefly on those i did do 2. but 2 was enough. i retired but it's a great exercise . those are wonderful. i used those before, those are very useful . that asian survey does for many countries in the region and so i enjoy doing this as kind of practice. what was important in 2019 and in 2020? those were relatively quiet years, i'm glad it didn't have to do 2017 and 2018. it was easier although by 2020 and this gets to your question, it was getting hard to figure out what to say because it was getting so quiet . and our sources of information which are again to the black box the title of our project, our sources are always course highly constrained and limited but even that limited pool was drying up. things like diplomatic community, ngo commu

, north korea in 2020, north korea in 2021, i don't know if you're doing north korea in 2022, but if you were to write something now, or maybe you've already thought about this, what do you think would be the main story, if we talked about north korea in 2021? >> thanks, victor, that's a great question. and briefly on those, i did do two. the two was enough. i retired, but it was a great exercise, those are wonderful, very-- i've used those before. they're useful. those year enders, that asian survey does for many countries in the region and so i really enjoyed doing those as kind of practice, what was important in 2019 and in 2020. and those were relatively quiet years. i'm glad i didn't have to do 2017 and 2018. it was in a way easier, although by 2020, and this gets to your question, it was getting hard to figure out what to say because it was getting so quiet and our sources of information, which are again the black box title of our project, you know, our source are are limited, but even that limited pool is drying up and the humanitarian groups who certainly i think we all ta

what can we look at that is data not produced by north korea itself? because there are so many ways in which things are controlled within the north korean space and when it comes to international relations data, every year almost always relying on the state. and then there are cases were not relying on the state to give us data but nongovernmental organizations and third-party institutions that are not active or in the most recent couple of years have been split specifically pushed out of the country or barred from reentering the country. so i think one of the things we want to look at to know whether or not there is a significant amount of regime or stability, are we starting to see and control population movement and away we had not before? movement within the country is closely restricted and regulated. if we did start to see population movement and was anticipated and in a more or less systematic way with the policy of the regime itself, then that would be a good external indicator that is not controlled by they can regime itself - - the kim regime

and especially regarding instability and stability in north korea. i have two different pieces of that. the first is how is north korean weapons proliferation affected by its stability or instability? or regime stability or insecurity? or the second, which i'm going to talk about a bit more today in depth is, how will north korean civilians respond to dramatic instability or regime insecurity in north korea if that is to occur? so specifically, what would the scale -- i'm interested in what the scale or pace and nature of human flight might be for civilians that are facing dire effects as a result of instability within north korea? so who will cross borders into china, in south korea, and under what kind of instability scenarios? so as you might all know and you probably certainly all know, answering this question is critical to, number one, understanding how conflict dynamics might unfold on the korean peninsula, anticipating them. and it's also something less paid attention to is essential for governmental and nongovernmental humanitarian security

which is north korea's historical breadbasket.intensification of extreme rainfall. this is what kim jong—un wants the world to see. a strong nuclear power, not a vulnerable population going hungry. but as temperatures rise and north korea feels the effects, it's being drawn into a much bigger global battle, and it cannot overcome this on its own. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. the england and wales cricket board has suspended yorkshire county cricket club from hosting international and major matches amid a row over racism. it comes after an investigation found spin bowler azeem rafiq had been the victim of racial harassment at the club. the ecb said that it felt it was now at the point where it need to intervene. well, it has been clear that over the last few days the situation which has emanated from what's been going on at yorkshire has become a very significant issue for the wider game. and once the situation became one which was clear there was going to be significant reputational damage for the wider game, the ecb felt compel

that places us in the united states in the company of china and north korea. surely a democracy founded on the belief that all people are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness has a greater respect for human life than these brutal communist regimes. tomorrow's mississippi case will test that proposition. however, there is no doubt that the reversal of roe will not end the practice of legal abortion. several states have already enacted permissive abortion laws that will remain even on roe's demise. the point here is that my effort and the effort of my colleagues and millions of other americans to defend life will continue regardless of how the supreme court rules in the coming months, including in my state of kansas. these efforts will depend on civil persuasion of our neighbors and responsive state and federal legislators. we'll need legislation that protects the unborn and assists new families in caring for their child. tomorrow the supreme court will hear the most significant

we got along great with north korea after the rough first patch but then they understood we were not playing games and we got along great. not very much.e >> sean: you once told me that you thought we were on a path towards war with north korea? >> i did and so did president obama and that would have been a nuclear war. we met in singapore and in vietnam. we had great meetings and we established a great relationship. i liked him and he liked me. we had some interesting conversations. >> sean: we got back the remains of our soldiers. >> we did. >> sean: i was at both summits. he stopped the test firing of missiles. that was a good thing. the second one that stood out to me is signing the largest tax cut in the history of the country. i am look the at it through the prism of joe biden about to spend more money than any president in history with this new green deal and socialism. >> the new green deal was nonsense conceived by aoc. i don't think she ever studied the environment in college. i thought it was hoax. they talked about cows and no windows in buildings. they modified it a litt

i think that given what north korea has done and is doing, what china has done and is doing, makes thisn opportunity in an organizing way to have both parties or the tri, meaning the united states, japan, and south korea, to now focus on what is not a theoretical threat but a reality as the recent tests just the other day by north korea has shown. that this is not theoretical given the sub test, the submarine test that was just done. that to me underscores there's a level of urgency for all parties to now find the common ground, focus on the future, focus on what binds us together, and not allow tensions of the past and disagreements to actually in any way endanger, and i do think -- endanger the relationship. i would close with one other thought. china, russia, north korea are trying to find cracks and fissures between the alliances between the united states, japan, and south korea. our job as a facilitator and to create the bounds of unity that we speak with one voice, one interest. this is one of if not the highest priority to find that unity so we can confront the attempt by china a

in that regard think about north korea and marston two and i ran and my point that i would make to you is that it seems like we have seen no change or modification behavior in a positive way by any of those entities, those countries while we are seemingly paused on our enforcement of sanctions in the me now ask a couple of questions in a have the ministration maybe there's an isolation for that but i hope that we are forceful in our efforts to change behavior in all of those instances. let me start with this in case i run out of time. i try to prioritize rated since 2014 from the central bank of china, russia and venezuela in the creation of central-bank digital currency. and as of now china, is on sweetie was doing his first cbc rated there is no question our adversaries will use digital currency to evade u.s. sanctions and regimes as separate civilian populations rated how to central-bank digital currencies allow for bad actor to accomplish their goals without protection with sensor taken for the ability part dollar and international financial systems and heavy mitigate the blatant a

and in that regard think about north korea and nord stream 2, iran. my point i would make to you is it seems like we've seen no change or modification in behavior in a positive way by any of those entities, those countries while we are seemingly paused on our enforcement of sanctions. let me now ask a couple of -- and i hope the administration -- maybe there's an explanation for that, but i hope that we are forceful in our efforts to change behavior in all those instances. let me start with this in case i run out of time. i'm trying to prioritize -- since 2014 the central banks of china, russia, iran and venezuela have all explored the creation of a central bank digital currency. as of now china is well on its way to issuing its first cbdc. there is no question our adversaries will use government issue digital currency to fund authoritarian regimes. how does the central bank allow for bad actors to accomplish their goals without protection? and how does the treasury plan to mitigate the blatant teams by these countries to surcomvent our sanctions? >>

no other country in the world has its own agenda item, not iran, not syria, not north korea.he human rights council is a farce for many reasons. it's where some of the world's worst human rights violators go to protect themselves from criticism. china, russia, pakistan, venezuela, cuba all our members in good standing today in the u.n. human rights council. the hypocrisy was so blatant, so we called them out, too. we could have just gotten out day one, but i didn't think that gave the situation justice. i wanted to prove a point. i wanted to reach out to other pro-human rights countries and see if we could actually fix it. i went to the council's headquarters in geneva, i made a simple proposal, i said we needed to do two things. , one we needed to vet the human rights records of countries to keep the worst abusers off of the council. and two, we needed to get rid of agenda item number seven targeting israel. without those changes, i said the u.s. would abandon its seat on the council. this fight became a story of how hopelessly biased the u.n. system is. we spoke with over 1

to identify any institutions helping north korea violate the sanctions regime? the financial institutions that have been facilitating trade with north korea and holding responsible and number of people that have taken these actions. we do appreciate the what congress has given us that will allow us in the future to do so as we find the financial institutions that violated the law and facilitate the trade and are committed to taking these actions. >> it's not just authority it is a requirement. they are mandatory sanctions on any entities anywhere in the world that are facilitating the north korean regime and so my question remains, and you can get back to me, are you familiar with the un reports that have been done where they identify the entities around the world that are helping north korea identify the sanctions regime and we've concluded. >> they are required under the act but we look forward to continuing to look for that evidence and working with you and your staff to use the mandatory sanctions that have been passed so we are able to prevent them for adva

dry and fine along with the korean peninsula might just catch your ro, shout was eastern parts of north korea, but he comes at wet weather as we go on through saturday, he comes at winfree whether as we go on through sunday, so when swinging round with northwest the direction just 8 celsius there in beijing, a fair bit of snow sliding into that northeast corner of china. and we could see some significant snowfall, disruptive snow coming across a northeast of china, along with north korea some other way, whether to on the other side of the yellow sea. fine a dry c once again. therefore, japan temperatures in tokyo, at around $800.00 celsius. but central parts are trying to see some very heavy rain heavy rain continuing to across sir, southern parts of india. not quite as wet as it has been pleased to say, but we have still got some big downpours coming through at wet weather. continuing to lurk its way across, southernmost past commonalities seeing more heavy downpours where the weather will gradually slide a little further west, which as we go on through sunday and not too bad for the norther

at the japan is extremely concerned, especially given the recent rise in missile testing from north korea into the seas, separate in the korean peninsula or from japan. so there are ramifications as well as here in the region that has rob mcbride to sir, with the latest on the japanese election. thank you. rob, yeoman's information minister says heard the rebels of kill the number of civilians and the city of maria. he says 29 people were injured or died in an air strike. as, as after saudi's state media reported the saudi led coalition had killed at least 218 hotel in murray. in the past 3 days. these began their push or to take control of the oil rich products back in september, murray, the last stronghold of the internationally recognized governments. the un chief is calling on sedans, generals to reverse the takeover of power. this is the day after hundreds of thousands of people rallied to denounce the military rule. the sudanese teaches committee is also called for a strike in all states hip morgan as more national cato. where on one of the main roads in sudan, capital hudson, centr

iran is exerting influence across the region, as is north korea. the taliban has control of afghanistan, providing safe harbor for terrorist organizations. our southern border is wide open, folks. who was providing for our national securi and how will we get that donety if we are not able to get the ndaa over the finish? i am calling on leader schumer to set aside floor time instead of doing this low level nominations. let's make sure our federal government is providing the authorities necessary for our military, our men and women in uniform, to protect our nation. >> we have an important election in virginia today. i am very hopeful that glenn young kim will win the race. what terry mcauliffe and democrats will learn tonight is the american public is fed up with the biden agenda, open borders, amnesty, our schoolteaching critical race theory, a failed afghanistan withdrawal, high gas prices, food prices, defining the police. this will be the first of many elections where the public will say we are self -- sick and public of the biden agenda. >> if

iran is exerting influence across the region as is north korea in their region. the taliban now has control of afghanistan providing safe harbor for terrorist organizations and our southern border is wide open, folks. who is providing for our national security? how will we get that done if we are not able to get the nda over the finish line? i am calling on leader schumer to set aside for time instead of doing all of these low-level nominations, let's make sure our federal government is providing the authority necessary for our military, our men and women in uniform to attacked our nation. >> today we have an important election in virginia. i am very hopeful when youngkin race. what they are going to merge my is american republicans are fed up with the biden agenda. set up with open borders, set up with amnesty, fed up with school teaching critical race theory, built afghanistan withdrawal, fed up with high gas prices and food prices, defendant police. i think this will be the first of many elections for the american public will say we are sick and tired of the b

among those other countries are china and north korea. not exactly the kind of company you want to be keeping when it comes to defending human rights. 47 out of 50 european countries, 47 out of 50, mr. president, either require women to have a specific reason for seeking an abortion or limit elective abortion to 15 weeks or earlier. 32 european countries, including france, denmark, switzerland, norway, and many others limit elective abortion to at or before 12 weeks gestation. now, let's consider that for just a minute, mr. president. a substantial majority of european countries limit abortions to at or before 12 weeks. in other words, mississippi's 15-week abortion law is not on the radical fringe when it comes to abortion. it is squarely in the mainstream for western democracies, and it is, in fact, more permissive than the abortion laws of a majority of european countries. and yet the abortion lobby would have us believe that mississippi's pushing some kind of extreme abortion legislation. mr. president, let's talk about unborn babies

every movie they are allowed to watch in north korea and its really terrified me, the only concept of dying is for the states, the highest honor is for the state. we are seeing right now, people thought it's a radical concept, rebel begun talking point and it's not. we are seeing america being radically transformed into a communist country, that's what's happening right now. people need to wake up and we can't say enough to what's happening quickly and how they've done it, they had an existential crisis. covid-19's that never ending existential crisis and what we have to take everything you own, shut down your businesses, this is why you can't earn a living while we pay trillions for ourselves. we are here to help. no, we are not, we're here to take over every aspect of your lives and welcome you to a socialist revelry. >> tucker: it feels like the cost of this is getting really high. if you can feel underneath, there's a lot of signs without being too specific, you can feel the society going sideways underneath. you can see actual unrest and that's the last thing anybody wants. do yo

got to work on the challenges here at home but if we ignore what china is doing in russia or iran north korea are going to wake up at five or six years -- one boxed thing. there's a book about the japanese surprise attack at pearl harbor, at dawn, we split. it talks about the warning signs that we should have seen. we don't need that book now. china is very outspoken, we know exactly what they're up to. they not only tell us, they do it. we need to basically wake up deal with this threat realistically get more bang for the buck in the department of defense. >> you lay out a number of striking or alarming facts in your work on this and one that i found be compelling was the fact that you say when combining the cost of active duty military, guard and reserve, civilians and contractors, dod sets 70% of its budget on personnel over 77 base personnel in fy 16 and i think that doesn't tail with a lot of the problem i hope we can get into a little bit later that dod has had and turning out technologies and making sure the development of new technologies don't take years and years and a huge amount o

radio free asia claim there are literal fashion police roaming north korea. enforcement in the country is going after companies making imitation coats as well as anyone they spot wearing one in public >>> and the national dog show crowned its winner yesterday, and she might look familiar. last year's champ, clair, a scottish deerhound did it again, crowned best in show for the second year in a row this is the first time in national dog show history that the same dog won best in show two years running. clair beat out almost 200 breed rt nonr no. angela loyd, the handler told nbc she was more sure of herself this year after growing into her body. >>> and 70 seconds left on a race to the finish tonight president biden restricting travel from south africa, this after the w.h.o. identified a new covid variant ofconcern there. it's called omicron. scientists are reviewing whether it can evade vaccines. that data not expected for another few weeks. >>> millions of americans shopping for black friday, crowds packing shopping districts coast to coast mastercard report

abortions beyond that point, it's not the company you want to be in when you talk about china and north korea. we can do better, we must do better. i hope this court through the arguments that they'll hear tomorrow, the deliberations that they'll enter into and the decision that they come to will once and for all correct this wrong and allow these decisions to be made by the elected representatives of the people in the states across the country. >> thank you, john. before senator hyde-smith and i came to the united states congress, each of us served in the state senate in mississippi. during the time i was there and during the time that she served after i did, the legislature and with the help of pro life governors and pro life officials, made some strides. we began in the 80s with a clinic regulation bill. the next year or two, we passed the 24-hour waiting period for those moms that came in and needed more time to make a decision about making this very, very momentous decision. i want to say how proud i am and join senator hyde-smith and saying how proud we are of the state of mississippi f

. >>> north korea, state media now urging people to eat black swans. us and has medicinal value. it appears they're breeding the birds to try to help with the nation's very severe food shortage but the experts warn the situation likely will not improve as long as north korea remains uninternational sanctions. something to chew on on this trip round the world on cnbc >>> and an infern orr breaks out inside a deli. employees barely escape being burned alive after a suspect attacks the shop with a molotov cocktail how it all went down caught on tape. >>> remember the sightings of a flying jet pack. jet pack man around the airport. we may be getting so the bottom of this one. a new viral video offers clues abou ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ want last minute brand design help? get top tier fiverr freelance creatives at your fingertips, fast, with secure payments and 24/7 support. head to fiverr.com today and get something started. this is called momentum. and there's no off-season. just work that builds on itself over and over and over again... becuase the o

we ignore what china is doing, if we ignore what russia is doing, if we ignore whether iran and north koreae they are going to do -- we are going to wake up in five or six years -- and one last thing, i know i've gone on. there's a book about japanese surprise attack on pearl harbor. it talks about all the warning signs that we should have seen. we don't need that book now. china is very outspoken, we know exactly where they are up to. they not only tell us, they do it. so we need to basically wake up and deal with this threat, realistically. and get more bang for our buck in the department of defense. >> general, you lay out a number of, as i say, a number of alarming facts in your work on this. and one of them i found to be compelling is that you say that with combining the cost of active duty military, combined with civilians and contractors, d.o.d. spends 70% of its budget on personnel, spent 77% on base personnel in fy 16. and i think that gets to a lot of the trouble that d.o.d. has had in turning out new technologies, and making sure the development of those technologies doesn't take

it is believed he fled prison so he would not be sent back to north korea, where he likely faces hard torture. ♪ ros: we are here in the bbc newsroom. the world health renewing its call to get jobs lower income countries to counter a new variant of covid. well boris johnson's conservatives have been on the back foot in recent weeks, the opposition labour party has been gaining some ground. labor today sets out to seize the initiative, while at the same time, it leaves her sense about reshuffling its top team. thinking those two things was a challenge. the labour party chose this week to announce its plan to cleanup politics. it's deputy leader would deliver the plan in a speech. but here is the times telling us here starmer does a reshuffle. starmer mate sheikh -- seek to get angela rayner on board before making changes. early on this year, angelina -- angela rayner refused to be moved in a reshuffle. she was asked about this on intense radios fist show. >> i have not been consulted, so i do not think there is any focus on that. ros: there it was not a particular focus on it yet. >> e

we are seeing a north korea on the march, iran on the march, russia on the march, nations around the world testing america. at precisely this moment, we need to make sure that we are unified, we need to ensure that as a nation we are working together to fight, to preserve our freedoms, to fight to preserve those ideals. and at this moment when it matters most, we are also confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before. a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic, aided by political leaders who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man. just last night, former president trump was invited by house republican leaders to be the keynote speaker at our annual large fundraising dinner. at the dinner, he reportedly said once again that the insurrection was on november 3, and that the events of january 6, when a violent mob invaded the capitol in an effort to overturn the will of the american people and stop the constitutional process of the counting of electoral votes, that those events were a

why do china and russia and north korea and iran do this? and we could depend on space asset satellites more. >> they have astronauts. they have spaceships. they have satellites. hakeem, what is the danger to everyone including the russians with this? >> yeah, this was really irresponsible. so basically what they did, they created thousands of bullets in low earth orbit that can hit debris that can hit other debris, create even more space junk, or hit satellites that have, you know, critical function or actually have people on them like the international space station. one thing, they don't have astronauts. they have cosmonauts. >> that's right. thank you for the correction. >> cosmonauts are people too. >> cosmonauts are people too. >> they don't care about them very much apparently. >> this is what stood out to me. 1500 trackable pieces and hundreds of thousands of smaller. what type of things will you now be navigating when it comes to space travel? >> well, what we really are concerned about is our assets in space. so they track these pi

it is widely believed he fled prison so he wouldn't be sent back to north korea, where he likely faces. >> let's go to honduras where the next president could be a woman for the first time ever. castro has a commanding lead according to early results from sunday's election. arrival has not conceded and it may take days before the final result is known. >> [speaking foreign language] >> we won, castro told her jubilant supporters. words they had long to take here for 12 years. ever since the last election was taken under vias circumstances, opponents have said change is needed. the former first lady pronouncing herself as president elect, and appears to finally have achieved it. >> let's have direct mocracy. let's have participatory democracy. today, i reach out to my opponents because i have no enemies and call for dialogue. >> the vote itself was peaceable -- peaceful, but not free of problems. arguments over when polls should close occurred at some locations. but mostly, it was a day of high voter participation as people took the opportunity to make history and honduras. >> it will b

in fact, they've already begun to do so, missiles being fired by north korea once again. of course the iranian regime launching a drone strike on a u.s. base in syria. but let me say after traveling all across this country as your vice president over the last four years, however weak the current administration may be, the american people are strong, and they will stand with those who stand for freedom. [applause] so i just want to thank you. i want to thank you for your steadfast support over the past four years and your prayers. i want to thank you for all you've done to strengthen the us .s. -- the u.s.-israel alliance. we stand with israel today at a critical moment in the life of our relationship. and we stand with israel for the same reason the american people have always stood with israel. we stand with israel because her cause is our cause. her values are our values. her fight is our fight. we stand with israel because we believe in right over wrong and good over evil. and we stand with israel because we hold fast to that ancient promise that those who bless her wi

with north korea. closed quote you're overall point if i that i can correctly is recent administration have placed too much emphasis on diplomatic cooperation and too little onip clarity and forthrightness of principle have i got that right? >> yeah. i think clearly, especially when you have nuclear weapons involved, there's a need to negotiate even with authoritarian, we can't hope and aspire to quick regime change, and all of the countries that threaten us. but there was something, obviously, the way that reagan did it even as he was sitting down and speaking to other soviet leaders he had no problem publicly talking about what was at stake and the cruelty and the hollowness of what that regime represented, and that i think has been missing and this is fundamental part of the problem of europe and germany tries to deal with a russia that is heading in incredibly dangerous direction cracking down on decent at home even the kremlin has done to the organization in the last two days. sense being invited

i will do one for both of our speakers someoneso asked north korea chargedea the u.s. as the biggest hackinge empire in the world. is thatir true? no. okay. with that we can move on. if either of you have any final remarks, now wouldfi be a good time. >> go ahead, jen >> i want to say thanks so mucha cyber is a team sport and i have been incredibly encouraged by what i've seen across the federal government with our private sector i partners and tn on the hiller with the incredib leadership and partnership of ranking member katko. thanks very much for the opportunity and great to spend time with both of you. >> i i echo your sentiments ando show i am bipartisan, that is not something that is very common nowadays in washington. i have a lot of disagreements with this president but i firmly applaud him for the appointments he has made in the cyber realm with jen and english and newberger. we have a corps of seriously good talent and it's being reflected and we in homeland security are feeding off ofg that. i agree with you we have a very good team and our job is to make s