policy asia-pacific region. speaking at georgetown university, she also talked about negotiations with iran over its nuclear program. this is 45 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you so much, professor growth. all of yourr exceptional work to advance american policy towards asia. staffour time on the nsc to your current contributions as director of the asia studies program at the school of foreign service. let me just begin by apologizing a little bit. if i sound a little bit hoarse best toi will do my sustain my voice through the course of what is not a short speech, and with luck i will get there. but forgive me in advance. i also want to thank the president and my former colleague, dean caster, for their contributions, along with professor shaw and professional or -- and professor growth, to make it possible for me to speak here today. the most important, for georgetown's unrivaled success in preparing america's future leaders, particularly some any of our policymakers. is deeplyobama com

pacific command moved into action. we put hundreds of marines from okinawa on the ground and talk labahn almost immediately to help with the search and rescue. within days the uss george washington strike group arrived with helicopters, small ships, water purification capacity, medical services and equipment to clear roads and ferry aid to outlying areas. over the weekend joining with unicef, we were able to help the philippine government bring talk labahn's municipal water purification and production system back on line. it is now providing clean drinking water to more than 275 thousand people. we are co-operating seamlessly with our allies in the region particularly japan and australia who have stepped up to help a neighbor in need. together we are working around-the-clock to manage the immediate crisis and help the filipino people begin with holding their country. recovery will be a long process but the united states will stand beside the philippines every step of the way. getting people back to work, rebuilding hom

after a supertyphoon battered the tiny pacific islands on friday. and now, the secretary of defense chuck hagel ordering the u.s. military pacific command to help with the search and rescue efforts there. hundreds are confirmed dead. the death toll expected to rise into the thousands. david piper following developments, streaming live from bangkok, thailand. david? >> reporter: hi, greg. yes. as was feared, the death toll is mounting in the philippines. filipino officials have said they fear that as many as 10,000 people may have died in just one area. now, typhoon haiyan struck the philippines friday. it tore through the central part of the country, leaving death and destruction in its wake. this is one of the worst storms to make landfall in recorded history. packing winds of nearly 200 miles per hour. as many as 4 million people have

and a new system has reached the pacific northwest once again to british columbia pacific northwest with teeth and heavy rain across the coastal areas up to sixty four millimeters is likely in the seattle area and fifty centimeters when the coast mountains into the next twenty four hours temperatures are on the furniture is ours follows the only ate the crease for and in vancouver with the rainy weather one for you in clickbank and a drop thing to me a good reason to come with us about five degrees the bureau what we saw yesterday. across the europe the band leader sees them is a picture once again for many parts of the europe very unstable conditions for the british isles the southern part of the scandinavian peninsula north of central parts of the year at the little dry air crews italy and the western balkan peninsula and temperatures are mild and the thumping beat in the trees breaking them on during their stay the conductors eccentric. i

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max hastings writes well about the pacific. if you look on my website, liberation trilogy.com, you will see a short essay on suggested reading and there's reading they are about the global war beyond the war in europe. >> host: rick atkinson, we spent three hours 50 mid-may when "the guns at last light: the war in western europe 1944-1945" came out. we has to then, are you working on a specific trilogy? >> guest: peter, i'm not. i decided some time ago that i wasn't going to do the pacific. 15 years is long enough on world war ii. and so i've begun working on another trilogy, but it on the american revolution. it has had my -- it's captured my imagination since i was a boy as it has for many of us. i've been added in earnest for about three and i've got a long way to go. it's a whole different set of archives among other things. a different century needless to say. idc presents this. the beginning of the army have read about in world war ii, i see parallels between washington and eisenhower that are very surprising to me someti

have been exposed to, and what it means to you and your eating habits as radiation pours into the pacific ocean. determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesn't contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted towards you specifically, they may not consider it abuse. they may consider it offensive. and in that case they just recommend that you block that person. >> i don't want to minimise this, because i mean, there's some really horrible things that are on line, and it's not - it's not just twitter, what has happened through social media and the anonymity of the net is that you see websites, hate-filled websites targetting all sorts of groups, popping up. there has been a huge number of those that exist as well. >> every day, events sweep across our country. and with them, a storm of views. how can you fully understand the impact unless you've heard angles you hadn't considered? consider this... antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenge

have been exposed to, and what it means to you and your eating habits as radiation pours into the pacific ocean. >> [ speaking japanese ] >> welcome back, and we're talking about fukushima, and it's fall out nearly three years after the tsunami, and the meltdown. >> soon we won't be able to eat fish caught off of the west coast because the radioactive waste is making its way to us in the west. and anybody eating seafood will have the same problems. this is an ecological disaster. 400 tons of radiated water in the ocean, and starfish with drying, and chernobyl is the living proof that the pacific is being poisoned. >> there are reports that fish like tuna and salmon are being contaminated by fukushima and is that the case? do people need to be concerned about what they're eating in. >> what happens is that 400 tons of radioactive water have poured into the pacific every day since the accident. and the pacific is a huge body of water, but people need to know that the biological food chain reconcentrates the radioactive elements. the algae, and the crustations that eat the algae and more in

semolina oakland, livermore, caster valley, 74 saratoga, pacific dahly city and it looks cooler into friday and warmer on sunday and we cloud up on monday. >> you just heard steve a moment ago in the philippines and thousands of people are evacuating and a powerful typhoon is is headed their way. wind gusts are reaching 155 miles per hour and this could be one of the most powerful typhoons this year. it will hit an area that was just devastated last month by an earthquake. >>> jack dorsi is apparently reportedly talking about going public and he started square and he is talking to morgan stanley about the device. square could have its own ipo next year and the timing could change as he is ceo and founder of square. >> it starts at $15 and it is down 4-point 5%. it triggered the nazdaq circuit breaker and shares are still falling this morning and some of the losses are due to profit taking. let's check in on our numbers, as you can see yesterday, the dow jones industrial average having a good showing there and i am keeping an eye on the european markets after they cut their interest r

i think in the pacific so why. did you know that part of your taxes go to that island. have you ever heard of pitcairn. if you've never heard of pitcairn and you're an e.u. citizen it might be well worth knowing for that's where part of your taxes are go a. bit as one of britain's overseas territories a small island in the south pacific with a total population of about fifty people now locals don't pay taxes and the island's main source of income include tourism and postage stamps but it's still heavily reliant on british and e.u. eight well let's break down the numbers here in the ninth european development fund or e.t.f. received two million euros in aid allocated for infrastructure building in the tempi v.f.p. it can receive two point four million that's a total of four point four million in thirteen years about six thousand eight hundred euros per person per year but that's not all earlier this year it emerged that the u.k. had sent about ten million pounds over four years proponents of development aid the importance of maintaining quote solidarity and peace in deve

. >> the senate foreign relations committee on east asia and the pacific affairs heard today about the u.s. response to the typhoon in the philippines, a storm that killed thousands and displaced 4 million people. this is an hour. >>> good morning. let me welcome you all to the m subcommittee on east asia and h the pacific for the senate subcm foreign relations committee. let me thank chairman menendez m for allowing us to conduct this subcommittee hearing on such short notice. senator rubio, thank you very much for your help and your hel staff's help in arranging this hearing in record time. when they say the senate can'tt act quickly, we did act quickly on putting this hearing together.d acthis h and i very much appreciate that, all the people who worked to ope make this possible. to the ambassador, it's nice tot see you again. we were together yesterday, andr billy, i'll refer to that a little bit but the filipino he ambassador to the united states is a friend, and has been mb extremely helpful to us.en shortly after the typhoon, we e had a chance to talk, and at that time i express

i am executive director of pacific primary. pacific primary is a nonprofit full day year round school that is at grove and baker since 1974. in 2008 we opened a brand-new school so that we have a total of 155 children and we did that only to keep families in the city and to offer the type of education that we give children two and a half to six, and we very much appreciate the supervisor's attention with this request and i hope that we can get your support. >> okay. thank you very much. colleagues any questions? okay. similarly we don't have a budget analyst report so we will move to public comment. seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward with recommendation and do that without opposition as well. madam clerk can you call item seven. >> item seven is retroactively approving the modification between the city and guardsmark to provide security services for the human services agency to extend the term by one month for period of december 1, 2008, through december 31, 2013 in the mod

international atomic energy agency says the rainy an official said the move by the inspectors to visit the pacific tea co is to build nuclear weapons kiara nonsense you accept feel that the agreement comes days after an intense cold deal to cut the run steam team development program. he tells of a planned inspection at the start of the agency's board meeting in vienna. he says. authorities in camera will get the respect as access to a hefty want to react to in the central city of basra. this is on to the local market if they match the needy and ukrainian officials nailed down any at this time. but the seventies still under construction expats say it could one day yield enough plutonium to produce new camera pans. it is an important step for much much more needs to be done. i continue to be around to reading them and you see that the agreement and is out of the ancients. i also lose practice of not being able to visit heavy want to be active for more than two years. and that your camera has also voiced concern that north korean authorities and firing up that disabled people can react to. i being an

has come into the light we q it says released documents showing how the trans-pacific partnership would affect the u.s. and other negotiating nations for medicine internet freedom or on that coming up. and there are growing calls for the guantanamo bay detention camp to be close to president obama's promise to close the facility years ago hasn't been kept but what might a new debate brewing on capitol hill over the national defense authorization act mean forget about it that's later in the show. it's wednesday november thirteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam saxon you're watching our t.v. . and we begin with this a nine percent approval rating and no that's not toronto's crack smoking mayor rob ford's approval rating that's the united states congress's approval rating today according to a new gallup poll nine percent that's the lowest rating ever recorded in gallup's thirty nine year history of asking americans if they approve the way congress is handling its job just two months ago in september it looked like congress was making a comeback its approval rating was ten points high

let me welcome you all to the subcommittee on east asia and the pacific for the senate foreign relations committee. let me thank chairman menendez for allowing us to conduct this subcommittee hearing on such short notice. senator rubio, thank you very much for your help and your staff's help in arranging this hearing in record time. when we say the senate can't act quickly, we did act quickly on putting this hearing together, and i very much appreciate that, all the people who worked to make this possible. nice to see you again, we were together yesterday, billy, referred to that, but the filipino ambassador to the united states is a friend and has been extremely helpful to us. shortly after the typhoon, we had a chance to talk, and at that time i expressed our deep condolence on the loss of life as a result of the typhoon, and america's interest to exercise leadership internationally in assisting the filipinos in the recovery, saving lives, and dealing with the restorations that are going to be necessary for the people of the philippines. the tragic typhoon, yolanda, was horrible, tragi

that the queue forming one show one that is it that is dealing with climate change the number of pacific states of themselves experiencing pointing to the nobles and also command output is leading the way to nome and then on he's not the second tree gentle the pacific islands forum secretariat me to treat high climate change and was a green economy. his slaves class how do you see says he believes that the testing center and it seems that the foreign was held in two thousand and six so what kind of cute things happening they eat in economic and trade cooperation between china and pacific islands countries amid its inclusive global range of development and activities going on. much of it would not be possible without the active support to new systems of china. both been in terms of the political support. in terms of the central financial assistance. and in many cases the town the technology in the mill well. whether it's very good infrastructure engineering oracle term attachment of personnel. they searched far and it's mainly focused on bringing innovation. so how significant this enviro

we look at what the pacific alliance is doing. what our partners are doing in africa, some of the leading reformers in african countries. there's a desire to make sure trade is playing a role, that investment is playing a role in investment in their development. and the u.s. stands to benefit hugely from the shift in the global economy provided we can do the things here. our biggest risk is our political risk. it's getting our fiscal house in order, comprehensive reform done, it's getting these things on trade through our congress as well. starting with trade promotion authority. every person has had since 1974. also tpp, the other things we need to do to make sure that we're at the center of this network of agreements that together with our legal system, our education system, our access to energy can make this really the driver of the whole exports. the platform that everybody wants to be in. that to me is a great potential for the united states economy and for job creation and growth here at home. >> with that, we'll close down.

not chinese naval vessels often navigate the area as they head to the pacific ocean. the loss extended to the airbase on the sea of japan coast and self defense whispers now haven't practiced an emergency scramble back doing so was prompted by the sea tragedy from chinese military planes into the sky around it now. such incidents have it's cheap and nationalize the sand islands in the east china sea. last year to nineteen dollars and china and taiwan claim them the japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of the territory in terms of history and international law i am i. police officers in china are following the trail of a series of explosions that to a communist party building. the suspect the attack is cranking on and grunge. one person was killed and eight in june by homemade bombs on wednesday in taiwan city shanxi province. some witnesses heard up to eight exclusions in three locations please not this is believed the attack was premeditated investigators at the scene reporting found that males electric circuits and small metal balls. chines

among them the pacific island nation of kiribati, east of australia. if water levels rise at the pace forecast, this spectacular island country will be one of the first to get submerged and disappear from the face of the earth. as the international community struggles to find consensus on how to deal with global warming, the islanders are taking steps to reach awareness on the issue of climate change at home. >> a new day dons as we approach the international date line over the pacific. we see a crescent-shaped sliver of an island in the vast ocean. we are headed for the island nation of kiribati. tarawa, the main atoll. but this south sea paradise is now under threat from climate change. >> it is very thin. it is low-lying. you can see that sea around the land. if the sea level rise happens, kiribati might disappear in the near future. >> the situation could get critical after 2050. this is koin etuati. her job in the regional governmental association is to manage climate projects on her native islands. while some experts claim the islands are still g

for the past 5 years i've worked at the pacific campus and at the st. luke's campus. our nurses are proud of the care we provide for appear patients think about how much more we'll be able to chaff with the new facilities with the new technology. our state and federal staff is looking forward to the completion of this project because those hospitals will create a great environment for us. it will create a level of pride in the work we do. most importantly for our patients the new hospitals will bring a more pleasant healing environment and an improved experience of care. for our patients family we'll have a great assurance that their loved ones are receiving the best care possible for for our community the new hospital represents community pride. in my current position at st. luke's it will be uplifting for the community. st. luke's has long been held the center of healing with the long history of deep roots. dr. i want to let you know we're proud to be that center of healing for the community and proud to be a member of the st. luke's. lastly to all involved in the c

tpp, the trans-pacific partnership.it's a trade agreement the united states is negotiating with australia, canada, japan and eight other countries in the pacific region. if you don't know about the tpp, and few do, it's because the powerful people behind it, including president obama, don't want you to know. the negotiations are shrouded in secrecy, and once they are completed, obama wants to rush the agreement through congress, fast-tracking, they call it, with our elected representatives given the choice only of voting it up or down. last year, over 130 members of congress asked the white house for more transparency about what's being negotiated and were essentially told to go fly a kite. you can be sure of this, however. a select group of corporate partners, companies like generax electric, goldman sachs, and pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, are not likely to be in the dark. players like these stand to be the real beneficiaries of the agreement, because like other so-called "free trade" agreements, tpp actually will

boycotting the ttp that's what protesters in salt lake city and washington d c are saying about the trans pacific partnership that revealed that shrouded in secrecy we'll tell you more about what's in this global path ahead. again bitten by the cooling today the senate learn all about this virtual currency and how to change the landscape of digital finance law makers wanna know could this digital catch the use for illegal activity and beaten down in san francisco one man was detained and held down and my police officers all for illegally riding a bicycle now he's accusing police of using excessive for us. we'll tell you this story later shell. in november nineteen ninety and washington d c i carried a bit and you are watching our team the negotiators from all countries were taking part in a trans pacific partnership began meeting today in salt lake city utah. refresh your memory the chance the civil partnership or tp peak is a new trade deal being negotiated. that would open up markets between nations along the pacific and ran now it's also one free deal that has by and large remained a secret fr

wallach from public citizen fred watson joins me live in here to discuss the controversial trans-pacific partnership agreement say that three times fast you won't want to miss it and it all starts right now. kicking off your boom bust headlines the volcker rule it faces new hurdles today as top regulators argue that the law is too soft on banks now officials from the security and exchange commission along with you see have to see are threatening to further delay its implementation the ruling was slated. to go into effect at the end of this year now the newly installed democratic commissioner of the s.c.c. chorus john has raised a number of concerns about the current version of the law stein believes the rules allows banks to sidestep its intended purpose now these new objections are creating a frantic scramble by regulators to complete the rule which is intended to curb risk taking and ban banks from trading on their own games. now elsewhere when the us was threatening to default on its debts last month big banks wasted no time coming up with a plan b. now it was reported by reuters that

wallach from public citizen fred watson joins me live in vietnam discuss the controversial trans-pacific partnership agreement say that three times fast you won't want to miss it and it all starts right now. kicking off your boom bust headlines the volcker rule it faces new hurdles today as top regulators argue that the law is too soft on banks now officials from the security and exchange commission along with you see have t.c. are threatening to further delay its implementation the ruling was slated to go into effect at the end of this year now the newly installed democratic commissioner of the s.c.c. corus john has raised a number of concerns about the current version of the law all star believes the rules allows banks to sidestep its intended purpose now these new objections are creating a frantic scramble by regulators to complete the rule which is intended to curb risk taking and ban banks from trading on their own games now elsewhere when the u.s. was threatening to default on its debt last month big banks wasted no time coming up with a plan b. now it was reported by reuters that

are saying about the trans-pacific partnership a trade deal that shrouded in secrecy we'll tell you more about what's in this global path ahead and congress is getting bit by the bitcoin today the senate learned all about this virtual currency and how it could change the landscape with digital finance the lawmakers want to know could this digital cash be used for illegal activity. and even down in san francisco one man was detained held down and beat by police officers all three illegally driving a bicycle now he's accusing police of using excessive force we'll tell you his story later in the show. it's tuesday november nineteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm in you're a david and you're watching our team. lead negotiators from twelve countries who are taking part in the trans-pacific partnership began meeting today in salt lake city utah now to refresh your memory the trans-pacific partnership or t p p is a new trade deal being negotiated that would open up markets between nations along the pacific rim now it's also a trade deal that has by and large remained a secret from the public

and more than half the fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster. but step by step, they're moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead" right here on "newsline." >>> japanese fishermen have started hauling in one of winter's prize catches, snow crabs. crabs are a seasonal delicacy, showing up in everything from sushi to hot pot soups. the sea of japan is a key hunting ground. they are trolling 40 kilometers off the coast of fukui. they put down their nets at the stroke of midnight. not long after they were pulling in the first catch of the season. some of the shells measured 20 centimeters across. >> translator: i'm glad to see these crabs. we will work hard. >> the first auction takes place later on wednesday. if the season goes well, the boats will be hauling in snow crabs until late march. >>> we're seeing beautiful blue skies here in tokyo, but there are two storms over the seas in asia affecting the region. for the latest, here's our meteor