from northeast asia through southeast asia, oceania, and into the indian ocean and to do that you have to have the forces, the footprint, the agreements, the exercises with these countries so we started that, and we continued that effort in the obama administration. i think you will see some things that point to a fair bit and will continue to point to it. how we have operated with the government of singapore, in and around singapore. you will see the australia piece that we have done in terms of expanding our cooperation and ability to operate with australian forces from northern territories of australia particularly, air force and navy. you will see that we have done a fair bit in the philippines and have gotten to the point where we can have more rotational presence in the philippines on a more regular basis. i think this all links together to say that this will be important to be able to operate with our friends and allies and operate relatively seamlessly with them across and around the region. and again, i really do think a lot of people who work on europe a lot and come into asi

allies and operate relatively seamlessly with them across and around the region, not just in northeast asia. this really -- again, i really do think that -- i think a lot of people who work on europe a lot and come into asia think it's a down side, that there is no clear regional architecture like nato. i understand why they do that. i now have to spend a lot of time in europe. i have come to appreciate the nato alliance in a way i hadn't before. it's so hard not to respond. but i also think there are clear advantages to having a more flexible process whereby you don't have to get the agreement of all 28 nations if you will in europe to do anything. that is by being able to work with countries that you share similar interests and take advantage of those. then you can build on that. i think we have looked to put our posture in a context of not just being places but doing things, but in order to do things with other countries and do things around the region, we to have that posture. the big piece -- the distributed sort of network of our marines coming off of okinawa leaving obviously critica

you would say it's in northeast asia. while that might have been overly sim mris 'ti overly simplistic, it wouldn't have been wrong. this is stuff that ideas that were started across multiple administrations, but to take a look and see what we could do to do a better job of understanding that we had interests far beyond just northeast asia, that we needed to look about how we could distribute our posture and operate effectively with friends and allies from northeast asia through southeast asia and into the indian ocean. in order do thato do that, you o have the agreement, the exercises with the countries. so we started that. we continued that effort in the obama administration. i think what you have seen, we have some things that we point to a fair bit. we will continue to point to it. some longstanding ones in singapore of how we operated with the support of the government of singapore. you will see some of the australia piece that we have done in terms of expanding our cooperation and our ability to operate with austral

from northeast asia through southeast asia, oceania, and into the indian ocean and to do that you have to have the forces, the footprint, the agreements, the exercises with these countries so we started that, and we continued that effort in the obama administration. i think you will see some things that point to a fair bit and will continue to point to it. how we have operated with the government of singapore, in and around singapore. you will see the australia piece that we have done in terms of expanding our cooperation and ability to operate with australian forces from northern territories of australia particularly, air force and navy. you will see that we have done a fair bit in the philippines and have gotten to the point where we can have more rotational presence in the philippines on a more regular basis. i think this all links together to say that this will be important to be able to operate with our friends and allies and operate relatively seamlessly with them across and around the region. think an, i really do lot of people who work on europe a lot and come into asia think i

. >> we agreed during this meeting that tri lateral in northeast asia, deterring the north korean nuclear threat and the potential of nuclear. >> they agreed to jointly deal with the islamic state militants. obama held talks with china's president. for more, we go to washington, covering the talks. he joins us live. shuhe, what did the talks come up with? >> reporter: yes, the three leaders agreed to enhance security and defense ties, prime minister abe called the nuclear development a threat to the international community. >> translator: to cope with such threats, we agree to strengthen tri lateral corporation in every field, this is extremely meaningful. >> reporter: president obama said the three countries will consider taking additional measures incoming weeks or months to pressure the north. so we should closely watch what those additional measures will be. >> okay, and what about probably pok, what stance did she take? >> well, to put it simply, pressure. pok called the u.n. security council resolution harsh. she added each country live up to agreement and make the north realize it

meeting that trilateral security cooperation is essential to maintaining peace and stability in northeast asia, rring the north korean nuclear threat, and the potential of nuclear proliferation as a consequence of north korean activities. reporter: the u.s. and its is vital that sanctions are vigilantly enforce to avoid any possibility of nuclear war in the korean peninsula. they warned pyongyang could face cover sanctions and further isolation if it launches more missile test. >> what is essential going forward is to thoroughly enforce the u.n. resolution so that north korea realizes it cannot last unless it abandons its nuclear aspirations. a separate meeting, america and china: north korea to give up the nuclear stockpile and announce their own plans for annual bilateral security talks in a bid to combat the mounting threat of nuclear terrorism. tom: in other world news, lawmakers in athens are voting on new legislation which allows for migrants and refugees arriving on greek soil after march 20 to be deported. the vote has gone had an overwhelmingly they have given support to the legislati

surveillance plane in northeast asia last week. that incident two weeks after two russian jet fighters conducted flyovers of a navy destroyer in the baltic sea. days after that, a russian fighter jet conducted a barrel roll over one of our spy planes testifying before the senate yesterday, defense secretary ash carter said, it is time for those provocations to stop. >> whether it's encouraged from the top, whether it was encouraged from higher up or not, i can't say, but we do expect it to be discouraged from higher up from now on. these pilots need to get the word, hey, knock it off. >> the obama administration has not in any way retaliated other than to say the actions are repeatedly they have said this, unsafe and unprofessional. so far, vladimir putin is unmoved by the obama administration's timid response. tense moments on capitol hill today as lawmakers question the director of immigration of customs enforcement. at issue? why over a three-year period more than 86,000 criminal illegal imgrants have been released by i.c.e. int

there's a threat then that that gets out of hand and we're off to a full scale war in northeast asia.can america and its allies stop kim jong-un, they say they have to keep applying economic pressure and the u.s. needs china's help to get kim to back off on that program. even then, wolf, no guarantees that he will. >> you received a new assessment of how many nuclear weapons kim jong-un has, how many he may have in a few years? >> we did get that. whole whit who tracks this closely with former u.n. weapons inspector david all bright said they estimate they have 20 nuclear bombs. he says given the way kim has accelerated his weapons program, they'll have 50 bombs by 2020. they could produce as many as about 100. the key thing is flight testing the missiles to deliver the bombs, they're getting better at that. they have not adequately flight tested missiles to see if they can re-enter the atmosphere and not break up, but they're working hard on that. they have the bombs, they're flight testing missiles. the key is whether they can flight test those to be perfected to reach guam, united

possibly say okay, because the chinese have nuclear weapons they're kind of part of that mix in northeast asia would be true. however the south koreans have nuclear power, but that's different from nuclear weapons. when you look at this in totality, what you're doing there is abrogating the treaties we have with japan and south korea. they would in essence come out from under the u.s. nuclear umbrella, and that means they would go their own way, and that would increase the chances of nuclear proliferation which has been something that is antithetical to u.s. foreign policy over the past 50 years or so. >> gop representative over the weekend who is a kasich support ere told me on my show that he does believe that president obama, democrat is stronger on foreign policy than the republican front runner. do you think there are concerns within the party on this? >> i believe so. historically the republicans have touted their national security credentials. they have been part of a create consensus on national security issues. they have taken policies such as containment which were started under demo

sasha: the way it looks in northeast asia, these guys have been canaries in the coal mine.akers warning about the international state of demand. this guys are going to be pursuing further monetary easing , probably through currencies. i think we may have some downside for a lot of em. we have had stabilization and commodity prices and there has been a lot priced into them already. do you expect that to continue through 2016? christopher: lat amp is an interesting area. you don't think that will hold the rest of the region down? sasha: brazil is a political play right now and i would think that the market is actually pricing a little bit too high that we get an impeachment, which would then lead to a new government or at least a replacement president and a potential fiscal adjustment. brazil is readily one of the weaker spots -- probably one of the weaker spots. until we get that pickup in global demand and civilization, it is really hard to get bullish again. christopher: emerging markets isn't a single thing. it is a basket of regions of countries and so when we look at e.

from a four month rotation in southwest asia, all as 14 others were getting ready to deploy to various locations. >>> another hometown hero is honored today in northeast philadelphia a memorial was dedicated for herman drison a next nately known as chuck at jewish war veterans post that bears his name. he was a marine lieutenant when he died in the battle of iwa jima in 1945. before the war, he was a starter for the villanova basketball team from 1941 to 1943. >>> is there much more to come on "action news" tonight, a group of cyclist rode into philadelphia this afternoon with a message for the mayor and what they told him. >>> dozens of hoops in fill were all in one location today we will explain why. >>> plus jeff skversky has details on the man picked to be the sixers new president, that is in sports, when "action news" continues. through philadelphia today. team 26 group of cyclist from newtown, connecticut stopped at city hall to meet with anti violence activist here. mayor jim kenney was among those who welcomed home. the cyclist who are inspired by tragedy at the sandy hook school, are ride to go washington with the petition to keep guns, off o