indo-pacific. when he left government, he wrote a about book to this effect. it was called "the pivot" that was an instant classic. >> sold five copies. >> outside your immediate family. i have used it in my courses numerous times. a few years later, dr. cooper authored "shields of the republic" is a fantastic book on the history of alliances and became required text in graduate seminars. together in the pieden administration with kirk as white house coordinator and myra, the administration oversaw the consequential changes in our alliances. the quad, camp david, phillipines, partners in the blue pacific, and the list goes on. it is important to note that in a very polarized environment in d.c., they worked very hard to build firm support on both sides of the aisle for the policy and for that, you deserve a lot of credit. so i think without ex acknowledger regulates, the things we will talk about amount to some of the most important changes to the alliance structure since the end of the second worl

the indo pacific is our priority theater and strengthening our partnerships with fiji and other pacific island countries is vital to a free and open indo pacific. in our meeting today, we have discussed the security environment and fiji's role as a regional leader. we discussed how we are deepening our bilateral cooperation. this includes a new acquisition and cross servicing agreement, and i will sign that agreement with the ministry for home affairs and immigration later today. this agreement will mean closer logistics cooperation between our forces, including for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. we are also announcing the start of negotiations on a status of forces agreement, or sofa. once complete, the sofa will expand our defense collaboration through exercises in military engagements. we also covered the new security assistance that the united states is providing to fiji, including $4.9 million in foreign military financing, pending congressional approval. finally, we discussed the unique and varied security challenges in the pacific islands region. maritime security i

-japan-philippines partners in the blue pacific and the list goes on. it's important to note that in a polarized environment in d.c. they worked hard to build support on both sides of the aisle. for that you deserve a lot of credit. so i think without exaggeration we can say the things we will talk about really amount to some of the most important changes to the alliance structure since the system was createssed at the end of the second world war. it will be written about that way. thank you again for joining us today. i think i gave out the nicest introduction you can give. so we are probably done now. but for the -- since you did make the trip here both of you, let me ask you a few questions. so again we said no one has worked harder to restore trust, innovate the alliances. we have seen more change in the architecture of asia than we have seen in quite some time. for both of you, what are you most proud of in terms of what has been accomplished over the last four years and also what do you feel is left undone? like if you had more time what else woul

foreign policy as well as security issues in the indo-pacific. she previously served as a member of the policy advisory committee of the south korean ministry of unification, ministry of foreign affairs, defense, and other organizations inside south korea. and last but not least, we have dr. who is chair at southeast asia studies at brookings institution, and a senior research fellow at the university of cambridge. and previously a senior fellow for the asia pacific security studies at the international institute for strategic studies. so i'm just going to jump right into our first question and turn to ask to get started by sharing his thought on what president trump's return to the white house portends for the indo-pacific region. neither the indo-pacific nor china or korea featured very prominently in the u.s. presidential election. the focus was largely on domestic issues here at home and to the extent that foreign policy issues came up, really, it was about ukraine and the middle east and so, you know, i was wondering if you can get us starte

indo-pacific region.ng in kursk and he reiterated that russia is working with those other countries. more on the story coming up. do stay with us here on bbc news.. hello again. it's been a chilly start to the day. some of us started with some sunshine, some with some fog, and as we go through the next few days we still are looking at patchy fog developing, a lot of which will be in the west. dry for most of us, patchy light rain and drizzle at times, but there will be some sunshine and it's going to turn colder as we head into the weekend. so what we have as we head into the afternoon is hazy sunshine, still a few scattered showers in the south—east, some of them spreading a bit further west and also getting into the channel islands. and we've also got all this cloud coming in from the north—west. most of the fog will lift, but where it lingers, temperatures will be suppressed. now, into this evening and overnight, our weather front makes a bit more progress southwards. we'll see fog reform in very simil

in, as part of the blue pacific youth initiative. this is a partnership that brings together youth chiement champions for training and community development projects. in other parts of the world we're supporting opportunities for local youth through partnerships with organizations like corps africa. on a trip to the region this past august, i joined volunteers in tonga in planting man grove trees as part of our first climate resilience cohort. in fiji, i had the opportunity to hear firsthand about the blue pacific youth initiative directly from our volunteer meghan, and her counterpart who had taken place in training around project design and management. and brought that training back to her community, went through a process of identifying local needs, and soon thereafter, the women's group was busy creating an evacuation shelter. the men's group was examining the housing structures and looking at how weather events had impacted housing in their communities so that they could reinforce and development resilience from climate related

she noted similar patterns by the us military across the pacific. i remember i remember the day that this is a friday 18 and 30 was our head of our board of water supply and he's been fighting this fight for a very long time. he came on the news and basically said that they are shutting down the wells that are tapped into this. i prefer a top of and that she didn't go through it or returned it back. god about it might not ever come back online again. i don't want it this way. he said that when we all, everybody was work. we're all talking about it. we're all having the safety. i should like to make a tough to leave that, that just happened like how that happened and and you know, she has so many others have been fighting this for a long time and really never get that off of her back. it might and may never come back on my and so the threat is that she has devastated national security has never been about us. it's national security is about securing american in for us and keeping the business lanes open. it's if this was about the security we'd have

we love as pacific peoples, we have a deep and secret connection to water. yet all around the pacific communities are on the ground organizing to protect this life, giving source in a fight for our lives. i spent the last year on a journey through the mariana islands and so i who hawaii documenting incision is resistance against us imperialism and protection of water in their homelands. i spoke with protectors who remind us not only of the deep importance of water for our very survival, but shared the ways that water is embedded in our language and by fluids. so i'm about to get on the flight to side pan and meet with some of the activism community members to see how they feel about the ways that the most or expansion is impacting the region. it's important to note that military expansion that's currently happening. you can see so much of those realities here in guam, but it's not just quantum being impacted. there are just under a 1000000 square, not a couple miles of ocean that are being used for training exercises by the us military . when i arrived in stipend, connected with membe

to increase their rates or is ation of the pacific. and definitely it's going to affect it may not be tomorrow that up to tomorrow, but now the generations and as was, should not be happening. we have to protect the future generation. some of that. we don't know when we don't want any. anybody coming out of the ocean with mashes or cancer is the stores or whatever do do the country our united states practicing on their, their weapons out there in the ocean where we go out and we, they've been in there or as there's a traditionally defended on the ocean for their lives because they have the my, they have the and the, the name and don't send everything online, but then they get their protein. most of the proteins from the ocean. we don't want any testified fish that we're going to have taken to or by the system to make us to mature accounts all for need of tomorrow announcement president, brianna have schneider and partnered with them about the importance of water to tomorrow. life ways and language for advocacy work stems from leaving t

s. navy pacific command overseeing the red hills. a feeling efforts also walked over to our group at the co, uh, an exchange orange county who had the opportunity to remind the military that the water protectors are always watching. giving them an update you know how to best want. otherwise. me think that today i appreciate ever going yeah, yeah, always watch star. we while we were doing our, our, our pool in our prayer, you know, initially the the cheapest staff for the navy at pacific blue command. um jeff miller came out. um, someone that we've had discussions within the past. so you know, at the moment was one of those senior members in charge of the dispute in a red hill you know, came out to kind of check in and what we were doing. and then kind of give a side comment that is basically monitoring your online presence and what we're up to, and that is something as an activist that isn't funny. and that we understand, we're continually putting yourself out on the line and, you know, fully expose as, as civilian. but after that in

. >> but also what it means in the indo pacific. we see that a security between the indo pacific and they atlantic community are joined. the relationship between russia and north korea is a two-way street. but we also are looking at tentative the bash attentively at what russia is and may be doing for north korea including potentially this -- boosting missile and nuclear capacity. so this was a shared concern among all the g7 partners. but in our support for ukraine we are also finalizing getting out the door the $50 billion secured on the basis of russian cyber assets that are frozen. last week the united states unveiled its latest nations on russia's financial sector including -- bank and we anticipate further action by g7 countries as well. g7 and partner countries have committed more than $2 billion to the energy sector in ukraine since russia escalated its attacks on that sector. we app g7 plus donors supporting among other things damaged power plants to restore over two gigawatts of generation capacity , the delivery of over 1

foreign policy as well as security issues in the indo-pacific. she previously served as a member of the policy advisory committee of the south korean ministry of unification, ministry of foreign affairs, defense, and other organizations inside south korea. and last but not least, we have dr. who is chair at southeast asia studies at brookings institution, and a senior research fellow at the university of cambridge. and previously a senior fellow for the asia pacific security studies at the international institute for strategic studies. so i'm just going to jump right into our first question and turn to ask to get started by sharing his thought on what president trump's return to the white house portends for the indo-pacific region. neither the indo-pacific nor china or korea featured very prominently in the u.s. presidential election. the focus was largely on domestic issues here at home and to the extent that foreign policy issues came up, really, it was about ukraine and the middle east and so, you know, i was wondering if you can get us starte

we've also built on the g7 efforts to promote a free and open indo pacific.s i mentioned, this focus today on the presence of north korean troops in the aggression that russia is committing against ukraine, we have spent a lot of time on that, but also on china's ongoing support for russia's defense industrial base, all of which is allowing russia to continue the aggression against ukraine. both of which are reminders that european and indo pacific security are joined in one of -- and one of the hallmarks of our administration has been to build bridges between europe, the into pacific and other regions because so many issues that we have to face our shared issues, shared concerns. whether they are challenges and threats or whether they are opportunities. the g7 is increasingly aligned on our view of economic and security risks posed by the people's republic of china, policies it is pursuing. even as we recognize the need for constructive engagement. over 4 years, we have forged much greater convergence, more than ever before, a shared -- uncommon approaches t

what happens in ukraine will forecast the indo-pacific.ry about the indo-pacific even more so is that, imagine taiwan invasion and 90% of our advanced semiconductor manufacturing goes under, the tail spin that would create economically, which is why i introduced and passed the c.h.i.p.s. act. let's see a miscalculation in the philippines, where i just came back, where the chinese warships are violating philippine territorial waters, and the chinese yell at us in mandarin to go back, turn around, go home, yankee. so -- but imagine a miscalculation. we have a defense agreement with the philippines. that would escalate into, my god, the united states and the philippines are at war with china. who's going to join china? who are the allies of china? russia, iran, and north korea. against the united states, australia, uk, japan, south korea, philippines. that would be the world war iii scenario. >> we have been making progress, am i wrong? with nato getting them to engage in the pacific. >> right. and you know, the national security advisor from

what happens in ukraine will forecast the indo-pacific. why worry about the indo-pacific even more so is that, imagine taiwan invasion and 90% of our advanced semiconductor manufacturing goes under, the tail spin that would create economically, which is why i introduced and passed the c.h.i.p.s. act. let's see a miscalculation in the philippines, where i just came back, where the chinese warships are violating philippine territorial waters, and the chinese yell at us in mandarin to go back, turn around, go home, yankee. so -- but imagine a miscalculation. we have a defense agreement with the philippines. that would escalate into, my god, the united states and the philippines are at war with china. who's going to join china? who are the allies of china? russia, iran, and north korea. against the united states, australia, uk, japan, south korea, philippines. that would be the world war iii scenario. >> we have been making progress, am i wrong? with nato getting them to engage in the pacific. >> right. and you know, the national security advi

and the indo-pacific have been bipartisan. the same thing is true with respect to ukraine where there has been strong bipartisan support and votes in both the house and senate for the resources and strategy for ukraine. from our perspective, we'd like to see that continue. now, obviously we don't know what the incoming team will do and how divergent they'll be and will be decisions they'll take and not for me to comment on. all i'll say is that when it comes to investing in our alliances, the sources of strength at home, the protections of our advanced technologies, these are things we'll advocate and continue because we think they're not political issues but american issues that can serve all the people of this country. reporter: will the president raise the attacks by a chinese group when he meets with president xi and are you planning consequences for that? jake: it's a issue and i expect the f.b.i. will have an update in terms of their investigation into the hack soon. we here at the white house have stood up at the n.f.c.

and pacific allies are left wondering where they stand, the hello, i'm terry martin. good heavy with us. 6 people had been killed and more than 20 injured in russian air attacks and southern ukraine. this comes a day after both russia and ukraine launch record waves of drone attacks against each other. 5 people died in the south central city of nichol live in the early hours after the attack struck a residential area, damaging apartments and causing fires and separation in the southeast one person died. ukraine issued an air raid warning for the entire country and cut power supplies up to the air force warrant. the russian bombers had taken off on their basis and creating an official se the attack wave is now over. the dw is the message as well as following these developments from kip. i spoke to her a short while ago from terry knightley added a lot so sadly, not uncommon across ukraine. but this morning the real concern was sparked shortly before 7 am. when we heard reports of me, 31 kids taking off from russian asked me, it was like you just mentioned. now these ar

will actually, we're supposed to deal with some key mechanisms that operate in the indo-pacifi indo-pacific, including alliances, partnerships, unilateral, multilateral arrangements. but, unfortunately, the previous session talk almost all about the topics that we had to come so we are at a loss. so we tried to be imaginative, creative to get to some of the points that we might go a bit deeper to discuss. so my name is sohn yul, , i'm professor at south great university. we have four distinguish panelists here, on my left mireya solis, you all know, she's a director and senior fellow at the center for asia policy studies here with no more introduction because you know her very well. and next is sang-yoon ma, purpose of international relations at catholic university of korea, and he is currently the president of the korean association for international studies. and next is andrew yeo from brookings, and he's senior fellow and ask a korea foundation chair in korea studies, brookings follows our close friends of aei for many, many years. and the next is professor jiyoung ko, professor of polit

i wanted to follow-up on the indo pacific challenge indo pacific challenge and you talked before about the need for more robust space and there has been a lot of discussion with the army about how to do that and i want to ask specifically on the challenge of base defense army owns a lot of the systems that you need and they are very expensive and the army's budget is only so much. to anticipate the air force will have two engage in some kind of cost-sharing to achieve that mission in the sense that they want to buy another patriot battery and the air force pays for 20%. >> that's a great question. the answer to that to me this is another one were cost-sharing going into my call for extra money where do we get that but i think we also need to look beyond the very expensive patriots which are in high demand. their other systems that are under development with the army and we have been working with them on how we might ensure thah they fit our combat employment scheme and those are happening and we are doing it together. to the point of recognizance sharing in many think the air for shoul

deep in a remote part of the pacific, not a reef, but a huge single piece of coral.e. but it was found by accident. 0n maps, its location used to be marked as a shipwreck. scientist manu san felix was diving with his son off the solomon islands when he discovered the remarkable coral. well, i have behind me... speaking from his research ship, he told me he was in awe of it. look into this amazing coral, and with the biggest smile, i'm excited. i'm thinking, "wow, this is really special." this discovery has happened at the same time as the un climate talks here in azerbaijan, where small island nations have come to warn that coral reefs and their communities are now at real risk from the ocean warming caused by climate change. coral reefs is very important. our economy depends very much on marine and fisheries for its survival, and it's important for the world to know that we... it's a special place, and it needs to be protected. in shallower waters nearby, entire reefs are dying because of climate change, but this centuries—old coral has managed to survive. scientist

this is a bomb cyclone that is off the pacific northwest coast.t is not over our area, but you can clearly see that atmospheric river, the moisture plume is extending across the entire pacific heading into our area. and it's just stalled out over the north bay. we will continue to see those gusty winds. 6:00 tonight, over 40 miles an hour at 8 p.m. you're looking at 45 point reyes, even gusty inland. but the strongest winds along the coastline and over the higher elevations going into tomorrow morning. still windy near the coast. afternoon hours. the winds start to ease, but there is still going to be going. the other thing we're noticing is the storm has been generating some big waves. that's a live view from santa cruz camera right now where the waves are just crashing up along the coastline right now, 22 footers, point arena, 17, bodega bay. ■that high surf advisory until 6 a.m. friday. you can see west southwest facing beaches. we'll be seeing the largest breakers anywhere from 14 to 22ft. it is dangerous to swim or surf, so stay away if you c

in the pacific theater. the marines, of course, had all six of their separate tank battalions and pacific. so i included that it some contemporary relevance today when of course, a lot the national defense focuses on the asia pacific theater. the second volume which will be coming out in the middle of next month, covers a wider period of time, but it doesn't have that big central defining element, as in the first line with world war two. there's number of wars in there that have some. korea is by far the most important. the korean war was especially because even though the army still had a lot of tanks left over from world war two, the tank force really declined, from 1945 to 50. and so when tanks spearheaded when north korean tanks spearheaded the attack in 1950, it came as a great shock. so there was was called the 1950 tank crisis. there was a massive of tanks in the early 1950s. there was almost 20,000 tanks built in that period served two purposes. they weren't really used very much in korea because the

the 21 countries that make up the asia pacific economic cooperation group or a pick spend from giants like russia, china, and the united states, to some of the smallest, like tonight and pop when you need. the apec has been a dynamic engine, if you can on the gross, encouraging the flow of goods, services, capital, and technology. it's help turn the asia pacific into the world's most powerful trade region. yet 35 years after its inception, the multi lateral forum is inc. trouble, we've been looking to place at the moment today, the dominant economies are more worried about the own internal problems. that's distain from multilateralism and the root of long. as we're seeing, the crane and concept wants dominating is the law of the strongest. instead of a quotes that set the rules, the integration and common prosperity, the millions of people that lives in the asia pacific region could certainly benefit from greater integration. yet which in consensus among the 21 leaders of the a peck group has never been easy. and come january, it will likely become more difficult. protectionism and hi