ahead of russia's hosting of the asia pacific summit in volleyball stuck peter lavelle asks his panel of guests what we can expect to come out of the meeting that some crosstalk took away. play. live. and if you. listen to. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle forward to blot of our stock on the eve of the meeting of the asia pacific economic cooperation regional growth to what degree is the global economy now center in the east and so are we living in the pacific century and if we are but is it really me. live. and. started. to cross out the apec group i'm joined by and lee in new york she's an adjunct professor at new york university and author of what the u.s. can learn from china in cambridge we have william overhauled he is a senior research fellow with the ashe center for democratic governance and innovation at harvard's kennedy school and here in the studio with me is the of on aziz he's a professor of economics at cornell university right cross talk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and only one of us stock in the end why should people kno

talking about the asia pacific economic cooperation. ok good and i'd like to go back to you in new york we looked we've talked about interdependence here and i think we all agree with that but there's a lot of conflicts within apec itself a lot of the countries you know can we look at china we look at japan korea philippines exception ok how are they going to work this out or can apec help. well this is definitely a tricky situation because these countries have historically lots of tensions from past wars colonial behavior. has caused deep resentment and these countries need to figure out how to put that aside and realize need to move forward the way that the european countries were able to put aside their differences and join and create the eurozone this is obviously a challenging matter as many diplomats will understand but with deeper economic ties that's certainly one way to begin conversations and and then they need to understand that they would be much stronger and they would all benefit if they can hang together as opposed to han

cambridge are we going into the pacific century you know these are right countries represented. well you know. we we've been in. the half century asian dynamism. for the last half century and clearly. japan and. china. in an asia become much more important during this period and they they do join they were. the ruling class as it were. i think it's i think it's important to distinguish that from the idea that that power is shifting completely across the pacific we we actually don't know whether that's going to happen but when i was starting my career. americans were paranoid about japan taking over in the world and. now japan is one of the biggest problems in the world economy china may continue its minimalism or it may become another japan. may. decline because it doesn't invest in infrastructure and education or it may continue to be the center of innovation and economic dynamism so it's a pacific century it's not clear at all clear what the weighting across the pacific will be ok then what do you think the weighting will be i mean is it is it going to be as a lot of people sa

world war ii in the pacific was all about oil. the united states had embargoed oil shipments to japan as a way of protesting and hoping to modify japanese action in china and elsewhere. it got down point where the clock was run, with the geostrategic clock and japan had something like 18 months of oil reserves after which they would be unable to conduct operations. the decision was made, we go now and occupy the -- [inaudible] with the petroleum and try to hold the line there after. >> 71 years and i finally heard that. >> did you say that the other reason the dutch went along with that is the embargo -- [inaudible] japan would have been fine. they would along with roosevelt and em bar dwoad also. >> read what's going at the moment. and here we are. when you think about the cost of the courtship thing that happened. incredible 100 years almost, you know, within two months of the titanic. >> the same issues are involved. personal heroism, were there enough lifeboats. -- [inaudible] [laughter] and there's a very interesting new book

we gather tonight in celebration of asian-pacific heritage month.take a moment to reflect upon our past, to understand the heroic struggles, obstacles, hardships that so many people, including this evening's tremendous honor read, had to overcome. this is a very special place. norm gave me the good fortune of putting my feet to the marble in the halls of congress. we will give the opportunity to 20 interns this summer so that they can partake in the greatest democracy that has ever resided on this planet. this is also a tremendous significance as congressmen alluded to. this is the home were people left when i came to this country, when they had to leave the fields of california from farming. that applies to the filipinos and two others. they set foot in san francisco. a generation upon generation, of residence of san francisco had to endure the struggles and have made this city a very special place. i am very excited about the leadership that presides over san francisco today. mayor lee, supervisor chiu, mar, chu, and we had the treasurer. this oug

once again a magnitude 7.6 has occurred in the pacific office at 1245 utc on friday. the pacific warning center initially estimated the magnitude at 7.9, but later downgraded it to 7.6. the center has issued a tsunami warning for the following regions, indonesia, the philippines and palau. a tsunami watch is also in effect for japan. people staying in coastal areas in the region are advised to move to higher ground as soon as possible. tsunami waves are more powerful, sometimes the first wave is not necessarily the largest. in some cases the sea suddenly draws back. it struck east of the island of sumar in the philippine. the focus of the earthquake is estimated as a depth of 334 kilometer. the. >>> station abs/cbn delivered the latest on the earthquake and its tsunami. >> we have some breaking news. a magnitude stuck off samar, epicenter about 112 kilometers. aftershocks are expected. a tsunami has always been issued for countries around the pacific ocean, including the philippines. we'll give you more details as soon as they bum available. >>> and we will also keep

some of them hurt me why they thought they had to vote the united states in the pacific. to you have -- what's the reason for it? >> i remember in mid-1990, 91 operation desert storm one of the correspondence actually said was the first time anybody had gone to war overall which is pretty amazing statement it was all about oil and the united states had embargoed the wheel shipments as a way of protesting and hoping to modify japanese actions in china and elsewhere and it got down to the point the clock was running. the geostrategic clock and japan had something like 18 months of the reserves after which they would begin to conduct operations and the decision was made in dhaka by the wealth and try to hold it after. >> 79 years and i finally learned that. >> the embargo japan would have been fine but they went with roosevelt and embargoed also. >> really when you think about the cost of the cruise ship that happened, incredible. 100 years. within two months and the same issues are involved. were there enough lifeboats? [laughter] there's a very interesting book out, i'm no

you know and i know that our mothers say that every day is asian pacific american day.ant to recognize all of the milestones the api has made in the state of california and in the entire country. the caucus has a record of 42 members in the asian caucus in congress. one of their very first things we want to say is it was a young man who was the first member -- we want to make note of that. the reestablishment of the white house initiative by president obama was another accomplishment. president obama's cabinets has dr. steven chu. the very first asian-american -- as ambassador to the republic of china. we have a lot of accomplishments. it was not that accident, my friends. everyone of you know that you work hard. all these things are done on purpose. i want to let you know that we also can boast twice as many asian-americans on federal benches. those of us to understand the impact of the supreme court and what it can do or on june, we know that having asian-americans on the federal bench is a line up for appointments to the supreme court. thank you very much for this op

address and he was addressing the asia pacific summit in russia's far eastern city. a stark on the points that russian president made was that the asia pacific countries can find solutions to the global crisis put it also said that russia is aiming to expand economic influence in the region and called for the liberation of economy and an end to protectionism now we can actually go back to the apec summit and listen and more what's happening there. people of it was possible but even if we compare this region eastern part of russia or other parts of the pacific region of the infrastructure is a less developed. industry is underdeveloped as well but the question is. to you as a president of russia what do you think. what measures could be taken to develop in the future so. so that when russia has the right to host this summit once again on the territory of russia and it will happen earlier than in ten or fifteen years. what would you do so you go with the russian businessmen could see when they visit us again that trash is the most advanced country with the most develop

breakers are not reliable. >> this is a federal pacific breaker?does it fail? watch closely. we had a federal pacific circuit breaker tested at this lab in berkeley. >> we started -- >> it's a 60 amp breaker. the same as you find in many homes. we doubled the current rated the handle, that means it should trip in less than two minutes. >> we're at 1:10 now, and there's smoke coming out of the breaker. there's definite smoke coming out. >> the lab cutaway some of the plastic siding so you can have a closer look. the change will not alter the functionality of the breaker. >> we're almost four minutes in, it's smoking and it hasn't tripped. why not? >> because the mechanical mechanism that is supposed to be tripping the breaker is stuck. >> it raises many questions. how can a circuit breaker pass federal inspections and receive this ul stamp of approval. and how did a known defective product get into millions of homes. >> they were cheating on the testing and applying the label to a product that was defective and did not meet the requirements. >> an a

of the billion in power the pacific. the russian apec summit on our team. and.

also had electrical equipment problems with feder pacific.it reads, there have been two instances of failures with the old federal pacific electric secondary distribution panels. and it goes on to say, failure of this old equipment has caused delays to b.a.r.t. train service, and created a potentially unsafe conditions. b.a.r.t. replaced the federal pacific equipment. >> so we take all the breakers out of it. run the wires out of here. new breakers. that's the story. >> reporter: and the home owner daniel schmidt decided to remove federal pacific from his home, removing the risk from his east bay home. >> i know it will be safer. it is a panel that has quite a reputation. >> so this breaker is so hot that it is smoking. it will not trip. >> you cannot run the risk of having breakers that might malfunction. >> the consumer product safety commission tested the federal pacific breaker back in the '80s and legal challenges followed. the cpse never force ad recall and neversome believe they did not have the budget for that legal fight. now we spok

we'll also be taking a closer look at russia's asia-pacific strategy. nhk world's kaori nagao spoke to us earlier from vladivostok. >> reporter: hello, gene. the meeting happening here on russky island. what you see behind me is the bridge that spans the eastern bosphorous strait and connects here and also central vladivostok. apec foreign and trade ministers have started talks on wednesday. they discussed how to stabilize the food supply in the face of a global surge in grain prices. they agree to refrain from export controls and other protectionist measures. the ministers talked about apec's plan to lower tariffs on fast growing environmental related products to less than 5% by 2015. however, they couldn't agree on which products should get tariffs cuts. they'll continue that discussion on thursday. russian leaders began pushing to hold the summit here in vladivostok after joining the group in 1998. the city is the country's main gateway to markets in the asia-pacific region. and i had a look around vladivostok to see how it changed in leading up to t

extremely integrated it's really impossible to isolate them at this point and in regards to the asia pacific you may call the china club but frankly it's the asia club because all these countries have companies that have such enormous investments in each other's countries that the. asian go but there are countries in the western hemisphere that also but you're saying they're not going to play much a role absolutely this is why i'm saying that the world is very integrated to try to isolate them and say well is it's just the asia pacific region or european region or the americas it's really not quite fair because china has joined this small group of nations that has interest throughout the world and therefore. it is like the united states in that way where it you know cannot say that they can ignore other parts of the world well i mean i'm ignoring you know i want to really point out something to bill i mean russia is looking more to the east now because of the problems in the european union. i think the importance of this apec meeting is that it's. russia's pivot to asia which we're trying li

so the book traces this curriculum that the navy faces in the south pacific. the japanese in the early days in the role that master and teacher. and the first figure comes to the four inches the american fleet how to fight in the context of service. heat a small cruiser group that was patrolling away from where the fighting was taking place on august 9. you have a competent knife fighting squadron, cruiser squadron. norman scott was quickly seen as the guy who is the man at the moment to make that happen. and their job was to intercept the japanese but tokyo express from the japanese launch in, running the resupply, the chain of islands better here. they would go at night because the americans had their field and guadalcanal. they have a massive forward air base here. it really wasn't ready for action for a few weeks, but by august 20 from the uss long island comes in from nice couple squadron of the learning life bombers, they're ready for action. and by day, aviators have a radius control, a parameter that reaches really all the way up the slot. japanese shi

welcome to cross talk about the role of oil is it merely a squabble over a bunch of rocks in the pacific or beijing's projection of power the growing competition for sovereign control over a number of pacific islands highlights the growing instability among them working trading partners what is driving this competition nationalism at home or all important geopolitical interests. to cross-talk this island dispute i'm joined by bruce clinger in washington he's a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation also in washington we have brian becker he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition and if we cross the mark selden he is a senior research associate in the east asia program at cornell university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump anytime you want to market how would you characterize what's going on between china and its neighbors and all of these disputes in particular the one that's going on in the pacific right now well i'd like to begin by locating it within a series of territorial disputes in the asia pacific seeds this means we're

but the asia-pacific has become the engine of the global economy. russia can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines. russia aim to use energy as a tool to negotiate on equal footing with china, the u.s. and japan over politics and security issues as well. >> thank you hideo. the leaders of the apec members have started to arrive in vladivostok for a weekend summit. on friday president vladimir putin will give a speech at business forum. we will hear what he has to say about his policy on -- towards the asia-pacific. we also focus on china's increased economic presence in the far east. >> nhk world's karao nagao in vladivostok. >>> delegates at democratic national convention have nominated barack obama for a second term as u.s. president. the stage is now set with the showdown with republican challenger mitt romney in the november election. >> ladies and gentlemen, i have been informed that barack obama is now our party's official nominee for president of the united states of america. >> before the roll call, former u.s. president bill clinton took

russia's role in the asia pacific region. i. am. hello again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t.e. i'm on room and today my guest is michael clear one of the key speakers at the apec summit expert on energy and world security but first here's a seasonal chorus question what what's the capital of russia right now and i'm sure most of you got that question to trash and city just call the northern cap some might know that st petersburg russia is a gateway to your final question what city today claims it's the eastern cap the far far east you'll know the answer just minutes into this show. moscow and st petersburg i haven't a break these days as all the attention has been on the part of russia most remote from the capital for recency to avoid evil stalkers hosting the summit of the asia pacific economic cooperation apac russia joined the forum fourteen years ago and they see it to a with a rotating chair for the first time it's also first time russia is at the event as a w t o member which means a new level of involvement

forces around in the pacific. if we have to hire commercial ships to do that, i'm willing to do that in the meantime. but let's not wait because the strategy is too important. and what we'll do is we'll work to -- in hopes that the resources catch up with it. so, i'm hopeful, it's always a strain on lift, amphibious ships format are incorps, it's always been a strain. and it's not because we're bad people, it's just because you've got a finite amount of assets and when you start talking ships, they're very, very, very expensive. it's not like buying a single airplane. so that's the first thing. the second part on thes to prison, -- the ospreys, after passing through many countries, back in tokyo, but i was there, the ospreys were sitting there. they were almost brand-spanking new airplanes. and you know, the defense was just with the defense minister i think yesterday. they're working their way through this thing. we have been forthright with our accident in morocco. we've given them the copy of the accident inves

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a lot of reporting talks breaking down barriers between asia pacific nations as he addresses the apac summit in russia's far east forums host president putin spoke exclusively to our t.v. about global concerns. international aid for the syrian rebels the u.s. is reportedly sending teams to advise opposition fighters while france could be considering sending them have your tillery. and easy offerings leave the public this illusion that you are pm central bank is finally set to help but angry crowds in greece and spain walk out against unrelenting cuts. in the russian capital be watching r.t.l. marina joshie driving recovery amid the global economic downturn ending anomic protectionism and ensuring interview security for its partners in russia's far east president vladimir putin outlined the issues at the gathering of asia pacific nations which make up half of the world's population and economy we now talk to our correspondent. is and lot of us stop me now what are president ford and economic plans. well basically you started by praising the role of apac as both an organization which ac

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extremely integrated it's really impossible to isolate them at this point and in regards to the asia pacific you may call the china club but frankly it's the asia club because all these countries have companies that have such enormous investments in each other's countries that this is usually the you say you are an asian go but there are countries in the western hemisphere that are and also you're saying they're not going to play much a role absolutely this is why i'm saying that the world is very integrated to try to isolate them and say well is it's just the asia pacific region or the european region or the americas it's really not quite fair because china has joined this small group of nations that has interest throughout the world and therefore it is like the united states in that way where it cannot say that they can ignore

sunny and mild into the pacific northwest. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> still a chill in the air this monday morning. right now, into the 50s. later today, into the 70s, with increasing clouds. could get light rain into the metro area around midnight tonight. earlier today, out of the mountains, you'll get some rain. tomorrow, we could get some strong storms during the afternoon. some of them could produce some damaging winds and very heavy

right now well i'd like to begin by locating it within a series of territorial disputes in the asia pacific seeds this means we're not just talking about it china japan dispute we're also talking about a japan korea dispute over duck though we're talking about japan ongoing dispute with russia over the northern islands as the japanese call them we're talking about disputes in the south china seas between china vietnam the philippines and others so something is going on very large and significant around territorial issues in in

between china and its neighbors and all of these disputes particularly one that's going on in the pacific right now well i'd like to begin by locating it within a series of territorial disputes in the asia pacific seeds this means we're not just talking about it china japan dispute we're also talking about a japan korea dispute over don't go we're talking about japan ongoing disputes with russia over the northern islands as the japanese call them we're talking about disputes in the south china seas between china vietnam the philippines and others so something is going on very large and significant around territorial issues in in the asia pacific and i'm going to come back to talk about why this is and why now but secondly we're talking about the the rise of nationalism as a response to these issues nationalism that's driven by competing territorial claims yes but is also driven by historical memory issues centering on war and colonialism this is why the issues are so fraught in both china and i could jump in here and i said earlier if i go to brian will piece and i go to brian it sounds l

live from moscow eleven am in the russian capital boasting trade and driving economic recovery asr pacific nations making up half of the world's population and economy have converged on russia's far east to break all barriers between them before flying out to host a forum president vladimir putin talked exclusively to r.t. on divisive matters at home and abroad. as a lot of us stock for us. reviving the world economy is one of the main issues which are being covered at this event which is being held in the city of light of us talk of the ongoing crisis in the eurozone that is actually on the minds and hearts of a lot of people who are here we see hear people talking about it just in the corridors and between the sessions there is also of course the issue of pushing for freer trade ahead of the summit the organizers said that they are hoping that as a result of this summit russia will be able to boost its trade with the countries and with the united states to compose about fifty percent off its trade overall and of course among those among those major players whom russia is especially focus

breaking economic barriers in the free trade zone in asia pacific dominate discussions at the apec summit in russia with vladimir putin weighing in. the u.s. are both its presence on the border with syria with more agents reportedly training and organizing rebel militias. it could send heavy artillery to help opposition troops. and formally becomes the democrat's presidential candidate with more promises of change but his opponents say he's failed to deliver on his own original pledges from four years ago. screen international news and comment live from new center here in moscow the asia pacific economic cooperation summit is living up to its title in stock the emphasis is on working closely to ride out economic problems and ensuring greater energy security. as president of the host country has been talking about how he sees that working with the rising influence of russia and china's partnership what it dmitri medvedev is in that of a stock with more. he started by praising the role of apac as both an organization which accounts for no less than fifty percent of the world's trade g.d.p.

influence of the two asian giants but news of this alliance is already causing concern across the pacific as artie's priya sridhar explains. this is a historic trip for india as the chinese defense minister has been visited this country in nearly a decade and the top priority for the list of things to discuss on this trip are strengthening the india china border and promoting a stronger cooperation between the two countries armed forces many people believe that india and china because they have two of the fastest growing economies in the world should be rivals but a lot of analysts i've spoken with have actually said that a partnership between the neighbors actually makes more sense with forty per cent of the world's population and at a time when these two countries' economies are growing while many of the traditional western powers their economies are decreasing many people say that a partnership between india and china could actually be detrimental to a country like the united states the united states actually exports eight point four billion dollars of arms to india every year and indi

william and kate wrap up their south pacific tour in william and kate wrap up their south pacific tour in traditional island style. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with trouble on the trail. a new nbc news-wall street journal poll shows mitt romney falling behind in the presidential race, and that was before news of his secretly recorded videotape dismissing nearly half of american voters. nbc's tracie potts joins us live from washington. she has more on all of this. tracie, good morning to you. >> reporter: our polls have the latest numbers, president obama five points ahead of mitt romney. this as romney tries to bounce back from what he said on tape last spring. here is what mitt romney was secretly recorded saying last may about the 40% of americans who don't believe in taxes. >> who believe they're entitled to health care, housing, food, you name it. my job is not to worry about those people. i'll never convince them. >> reporter: w