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 is essen

can you talk about, because the needs of the pacific island region are different. each place around the world are unique. what are some of the particular challenges you face when you think about reentry into some of these very small, very fragile island states? >> well, our presence in the very small islands and some of these states is what has made us so endeared, you know, in the region and i know many volunteers who have served in those very remote places and absolutely loved their time there. as you can imagine, you know, those vast distances become a challenge when there's an emergency. so if a volunteer is sick, gets hit by a car, we need to be able to medically evacuate them and get them services that we've said we as peace corps will be able to provide. so, some of those are by virtue of the geography and then others, the infrastructure that's currently in place, we are working in the interagency space to really identify what are any remaining barriers so that we can come as a whole of government and say how can we do this so the peace corps volunteers can g

as in the pacific islands i came back and told secretary yellin some of this, i saw comment projects we were financing but the countries of limited capacity had to go twice through each of us to be able to get the project out the door for two toprocurement systems, to due diligence it just requires processing but it's all part of the simplification. the last thing i want to touch upon a couple of things is private sector. i think secretary yellin has got the hammer on the rightot nail. there is not enough money in m db, and government, and philanthropy to take on the challenges our clients and our country need. we have to get the private sector where it makes sense to see a profitable system for them. so, take renewable energy in the middle income countries. if we know solar and wind are cheaper per unit than fossil fuel, why is there not investing goingot on in these countries? when it comes to five things all of us are working on. the first or policy clarity. if i had that i will be willing to invest as a private investor. the 300 million were reaching in africa, the first thing we

and get to know players who have played for the all blacks growing up in new zealand or other pacific islandshave a good understanding of what it means in the challenge that was laid down. i think it is a brilliant thing for the game, i love the theatre and i am looking forward to it on saturday. we did get confirmation today from the england coaches that the harlequin prop did leave the england camp on monday. they said that for personal reasons. the tweet was sent after then but the coach has confirmed thatjoe still has the full support of the whole england setup. darcy graham will make his first scotland appearance in over a year against fiji at murrayfield on saturday. he has been picked to play on the wing after a string of injuries that prevented him playing for the country since the world cup. andy burke is with the squad. the big question was how strong a side would he name to face fiji with toughest tests to come in the next few weeks? the answer is very strong. the match follows outside the test window so players playing outside of scotland, those players are not available, but that

but so they have been touring in auckland, south auckland, where a lot of pacific islander communitiesy, very susceptible, it was there that new zealand saw the biggest outbreak of measles in decades. so, it was no surprise really that that virus did get on to an aircraft and got its way out to samoa. mr. kennedy really has questions to answer about his relationship with the people who made that film. it was called vaxx, and mr. kennedy became the executive producer of a sequel, vaxx 2, a close colleague of the people who were -- went out to new zealand and also to australia to promote fear of vaccines. so, that's where it came from. and the catastrophic consequences that i witnessed on the island, i spent much of a week of the time i was there just simply talking to mothers about the loss of their children. and it was really awful to listen to them and i found myself at the end of it all just sitting in a cathedral and crying and crying. couldn't stop crying as the accumulation of pain from these mothers really consumed me. it was awful. >> why would somebody like rfk jr. have influen

prominent leaders in the asian american and pacific islander community will kids get on the steps of city hall this morning. the show their unity just 4 days before election day diverse group of api leaders representing both modern and progressive views to speak out in avery, they reset to a 10 and is expected to share her closing message to voters and thank her supporters throughout the campaign. well, were less than a week away from the presidential election. and one of the big issues this year is immigration. state lawmakers and latino leaders. >> got together in redwood city to oppose trump's promise of mass deportation. we've got kron four's charles clifford with the story. >> well, there are about 10 million immigrants in california. roughly a 3rd of those are people from mexico in the idea of forcing many of them to leave this country receiving a lot of pushback. >> we're gonna have the largest deportation in the history of our country. former president donald trump has said that if re-elected he would seek to deport potentially millions of immigrants living in the u.s. illega

and car letters and other folks but get in the spirit of holiday season i want to appreciate pacific islanders for the office of economic workforce to make the investment in downtown and providing support in some of the new businesses opening and those that are already opted i've heard great things point retailer about the sales we want to keep that going we're stepping to make sure that downtown not only is a place to spot shopping but a inviting her area and last but not least the rec and park is responsible for the union square garage please welcome kate. >> i think good morning, good morning everybody i'm kate anderson president of the commission and and the recreation department. we're here honorably in front of this beautiful fire place thank you, mayor london breed and union square area is not just a shopping, etc. on the other hand, mecca but a plaza since the 1800s a gathering place have the holiday ice ring and as well as the macy's tree and the lenore a place where my that family and thousands of families come and enjoy the pictures and so proud to see all the people. mayor london b

playfully all blacks or growing up in new zealand _ blacks or growing up in new zealand or other pacific islandss lay down — in the challenge that was lay down i_ in the challenge that was lay down. i think it is a brilliant thing — down. i think it is a brilliant thing for— down. i think it is a brilliant thing for the game, i love the theatre — thing for the game, i love the theatre and i am looking forward _ theatre and i am looking forward to it on saturday. we did net forward to it on saturday. - did get confirmation today from the england coaches are the harlequin prop did leave the england camp on monday. they said that was her personal reasons. the tweet was sent after them but the coach has confirmed that he still has the full support of the whole england setup. darcy craven will make his first scotland appearance in over a year against fiji on a saturday. he has been picked to play on the wing after a string of injuries that rendered him playing for the country since the world cup. anthony burke is with the squad. another big question was how strong he turns in two phase fiji with toug

. >> dwayne the rock johnson is genuinely proud to share his pacific islander heritage. >> and two steps there's nothing more hawaiian than the hula. dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee. >> so beautiful. >> more sway. men need two beautiful. >> three. tap. one, two. three. nice. >> from his samoan grandfather to his black father, who was canadian, dwayne has paved a stratospheric trail through their world of professional wrestling. guided by his lineage. i also love that your older daughter is following in her ancestors footsteps as well. >> yes. so my oldest daughter, simone, is a wrestler for wwe now, the son of hawaii, inviting us along for a surprise screening just a few islands away for the survivors of the maui wildfires, one of the deadliest in modern u.s. history, because they're still struggling over there. and those are our people. that's our culture. and sadly, in a way, you know, news cycles out very quickly, as you know, and then people kind of forget about maui. but we for a very long time will never. >> and we're with him taking a break from his moana duties to visit m

a pacific island nation.etings and we receive only sympathy and no real action from wealthy nations. we are not here to tell stories, she says, we are here to save our communities. we were hearing really similar things from african delegations who said they were going to oppose this. even the lead negotiator for cop29 came very briefly down and was immediately surrounded by huge gaggle of journalists, i managed to get a question to him, i said is 250 billion enough, i know it sounds like a huge amount but i said is it enough and he said it is not as ambitious as we hoped and he said we will go back to parties, that means countries, in these negotiations and continue the talks. he is kind of saying that azerbaijan doesn't think this is enough and indeed there was a statement from the uk team suggesting in a way this is the 1537 00

many of them are people of color, asian american and pacific islanders in georgia, the fastest growingority group in that state. arab american voters in dearborn, michigan, now the majority in that city and latinos in pennsylvania, whose population has boomed a challenge now for republicans after a comedian's racist comments about puerto rico at a recent trump rally. but making sure everyone exercises their right to vote in every election is the goal of the nonprofit initiative. when we all vote, beth lynk is its executive director, and she recently joined me in studio. beth lynk, so nice to have you. thanks for joining me. thank you so much for having me. so voter turnout in the u.s. is notoriously terrible. why is that? in 2024, it is harder to vote in some places than it was in 2020. and that's not a coincidence. it's voter suppression. but then there are some of the logistical barriers. i don't have a ride to the polls. i don't have a day off work. i don't have childcare. the second reason is people may feel my vote doesn't matter, or i don't know if my vote has power. and the last

the group led by the asian american pacific islander coalition and the bay area council wrote a letter to the governor. in addition to today's stabbing the group also cites other attacks at bart stations, including one from july when a 74 year-old woman which pushed in front of a train that happened at the powell street station. we've reached out to the governor's office for a comment and are waiting to hear back. >> another big story we're following in san francisco. nima, mo, many, the man accused of killing cash app founder bob lee has taken the stand in his murder trial crown for his lezla gooden is outside the courtroom to bring us up to date on where things stand now. let's look. >> yes, today was arguably the most important day of this trial. we saw many take the stand and what he talked about where the moments leading up to lee's death. and also during cross-examination, it became very combative. take a look at these sketches from the courtroom today. now, it was an intense day in court with the defense putting the memo many on the stand. he tells the court about the nightly wa

the group that's led by the asian american pacific islander coalition and the bay area council wrote a letter. the governor, in addition to today's stabbing the group also cites other attacks at bart stations, including an attack from a back in july when a 74 year-old woman was pushed in front of a train that happened at the powell street station in the city and that we have reached out to the governor's office for comment and are waiting to hear back. >> happening now, oakland school board leaders are meeting discussing merging 10 schools into 5 shared campuses as the district faces in nearly 100 million dollar budget deficit for next year. officials say the shortfalls due to declining enrollment and the end of covid relief money. the mergers mostly affect elementary school. sport leaders will not actually vote on the decision %% until next month. all right. time to talk weather as we get a live look outside couple showers earlier in the day. but then the sun popped out. but what's ahead for tonight? and tomorrow only lawrence knows. yeah, cold. that's for sure. going to see some ch

this in a city that statistics show hasn't asian and pacific island islander population of some 70%. yeah. kennedy bill to on releasing a statement on the latest vandalism reading in part throughout my always maintained positivity, but this incident is appalling and disheartening. hate crimes are not acceptable anywhere, especially in milpitas in any shape or form the milpitas police department has been informed that we did reach out to milpitas police for an update. but as of this report, we have not heard back that one of the biggest issues in this year's presidential election is immigration and former president trump is promising that if he's re-elected, he's going to try to deport millions of immigrants in the u.s. illegally hoping to get ahead of the issues. some california elected officials are already opposing that plan. >> the words mass deportation are words that strike fear. they strike terror. they strike her. >> we will not let this happen again. we can not let this happen again. >> state senator josh becker, they're joining latino community leaders this morning in redwoo

interests of all countries must be taken into consideration no on all to come and complain from pacific islanders is when a western military basis stationed on their territory, the waters soon become polluted until one seems to care. next we turned attention to the stunning party on the islands to chronicle. where's that and all the problems to around thing. all right, i had here the um lien. uh not a uh unique. we love i live in paradise. the largest and southern most island in the marianas archipelago, han is dotted with blush, palm trees, and miles and miles of soft white and surrounded by turquoise squatters of the pacific ocean. but our paradise has the toxic legacies. well, i'm sure is the history of contamination with many us and overseas. military base communities is common knowledge that the us military use is highly toxic substances and we are experiencing contamination of our land and waters when the agent orange . p. fast pcp is petroleum fuels heavy metals, fonts, high organic compounds, all the military war time cocktails. so you can imagine from being carpet bomb during world war 2

really a large population of not only our blue-collar, but latinos, excuse me, asian american, pacific islandersvibe lant black community, native american, they are listening to what are the issues, who is bringing the solutions, who has the solutions to address the affordable housing issue. that is kamala harris. who has the issues to address how we lower health care costs and keep them low for all americans, kamala harris. who has the idea about how we protect affordable care act and not repeal it. that is kamala harris. so those conversations matter to my voters in nevada and that is what is relevant at the end of day. and how we're going to make this happen. >> and your state also about-l be key to watch. do you have abortion on the the ballot even though it is legal in your state. there is talk about enshrining it in the constitution based on what happens on tuesday. we'll be following that and what happens with your party. senator, we have to leave it there for time. thank you. we'll be back with more "face the nation" so stay with us. awesome. -ty (man) nice. (woman) you can get it when y

do you feel hopeful that something will change for to blue and it's pacific island neighbors? i do hope so. um, as you know, the declaration came out of brazil and in the next call, brazil will be the host. so i hope that there could be more discussions and more action on the action on the things that i would say between the leaders could do because they've got, they need to. um, you know, be great leaders and have more power and have more action on the things that they've mentioned. and the g 20 declaration grace. thank you very much. that was grace. melia climate activists from the highland country, up to berlin. del to south africa, where a stand off continues at a disused mine shopped in the northwest province. police are blocking supply lines of food and water to for south hundreds of illegal miners searching for leftover gold court has ordered the police to let them leave. the government has launched the rescue effort, but the wait for relatives is agonizing as the that'd be used on hucker reports. 2 kilometers down. this whole hundreds of mine would cause a believe to b

have now won seven successive games since their dramatic world cup semi—final defeat by the pacific islandersthe match england broke another record: their largest score margin since they beat russia 72—0 in the 2008 world cup. katie boulter will break into the world's top 25 for the first time tomorrow after reaching the final of the hong kong 0pen. the british number one, who's also the second seed in this tournament, beat china's sixth seed yue yuan, in three sets, in 2 and a half hours. she'll face russia's diana shnaider, who beat defending champion leylah fernandez, in tomorrow's final. boulter is hoping to claim her third tour title of the season, after victories in nottingham and san diego earlier this year. staying with tennis — the wta finals are underway. it has drawn controversy due to the tournament being held in saudi arabia, with critics accusing the oil—rich kingdom of using its wealth to invest in sports in a bid to improve its image — known as �*sportswashing'. laura scott is there for us. i'm here in riyadh. this is the year end final described as a crown jewel of the women'

now at all too often complained from pacific islanders is when a western military base is stationed on their territory, the waters become polluted and no one seems to care next. and we turn attention to the beautiful moriello islands to chronicle word thoughts, and indeed other on land problems as well, or nothing else. stay here with our t international, the, the, the, [000:00:00;00] the, the, the, um lien. uh e, a. g. we love when i was a little girl, as young as 5 years old. my mom took me to all of our families protests to fight for the return of our land called are to be in. and today it's proposed to be used as a buffer zone for a us marine life fire training range complex. it's being built above our islands primary water source that provides our community with 80 to 90 percent of our drinking water. so buffer zone is an area that catches be straightforward, said marcus, shafter, at the firing range, usually look on the cliff side on top of the class. that square firing range complex will be located or is proposed to be located. we're still trying to fight it. so trying to put a

no on all to come and complain from pacific islanders is when a western military bases stationed on their territory, the waters soon become polluted until one seems to care. next we turned attention to the stomach already on the islands to chronicle words that and all the problems to around thing. all right, ahead here the.

joining forces with the coalition of american pacific islander groups.y cite an attack earlier this month where an asian american woman was stabbed. it followed an attack in july where another asian american woman was pushed into a moving train and killed. we reached out to mr. newsom's office, which said in part, the state is not responsible for managing or governing bart's operations or budget. however, the state has committed nearly $550 million to support bart this year and over 400 million to fight hate crimes since the governor took office, they added. the bart police department is responsible for safety on bart. we suggest you reach out to them on their efforts while they are working to ease the burden on 911 operators, santa clara county has introduced what's called the nurse navigator program. it's a pilot program where dispatchers can now redirect callers to a nurse navigator for calls that don't require a first responder on site. the nurse navigator has some medical experience who can then walk people through emergency situations that are non

well, that's all too often. complaints from pacific islanders now is when a western military base is stationed on their territory, the waters get polluted and no one seems to care. next we turn attention to the beautiful marianna islands to chronicle where that's an online problems to around pick up the the, the uh, the lien. uh, not the uh the, the theme uh far as pacific people.

corporation and based on our indo-pacific strategies we agreed to extend cooperation with the asian and pacific island nations. and a new areas of cooperation such as aukus portmac we've agreed to create synergy. the meeting today we assess is a cornerstone for developing the rok-u.s. alliance into global conference of alliance and we will closely cooperate for peace and security of prosperity korean peninsula and in the region. we go together. thank you. >> thank you very much. questions for the full view. you discussed me for beijing to do more to rein in north korea's aggression but so far china has been largely silent on north korea's deployment of troops of russia's war efforts. what do you make of the silence? what do you want to see? what specific steps would you like to see happen next? and is now the time for south korea to supply a sense of arms to ukraine and then over to them at least if i may, secretary austin, secretary blinken. do you see lebanon ceasefire to come together? is that on the horizon? in gaza, the u.s. has been pushing israel for answers on that devastating strike to no ava

filipino american performing arts space in soma at 262 7th street the new home of the asian pacific islanderand [indiscernible] will renovate the building to house a 120 seat theater, a visual arts gallery for dance rehearsals, community events and workshops and office space. the arts commission was thrilled to have been able to help support this effort with administrating grant support through the soma 0n culta on october 10, i joined mayor london breed and other ci officials for hehistory month celebration at city hall. this year marked the 20 anniversary of the celebrated every october and [indiscernible] october 15, i attended 4 sites black gold story untold preview which brings together over 15 artists to share untold stories of black citizens in octobecelebration in indian basin waterfront park. commissioner collins and staff in at california lawyers for the arts 50th anniversary and attended the historical society annual fall gala union, lead by former president of it arts commission. october 23, i was honored to join president collins on a pa■l at the world economic forum ban transfo

japanese attacked pearl harbor, america leaders realized that knew very little about many of the pacific islands that they were their troops were going to spend so much time fighting on. the situation was so that at that point they put out a call to americans to send in their guidebooks holiday stamps in the hope that then they'd know a little bit more the marshall islands and they did however the funds of knowledge was really the neutral public which had a collection of hundred thousand maps which were now put to very good use in the war effort. the library of congress had point 4 million, but unfortunately non-american left maps hadn't been cataloged. so actually getting find anything was very and the army service set up cartography courses 57 different colleges around america and during the course of the war they turned out something like 500 million maps for the various that they had to fight. map in the center is to make another point and that is the importance map making in europe as a as an incitement to war famously. woodrow wilson when he became the first president in office travel outs

that extends from chile two australia to taiwan to japan and includes more than a dozen of the pacific island countries in the middle. if you think about the full tech ecosystem, when we are talking about cybersecurity, kind of inked into what we are saying is that the architecture is fundamentally trustworthy if not secure. this is a project to lay more than 25,000 kilometers of undersea cable that has the wonderful benefit of connecting our populations that are otherwise not connected to the 21st century and global internet and also generates geopolitical strength in the region for united states and allies. brad: i would assume as you put this new info structure in, you are not dealing with old, contested environments. amb. fick: there are not a ton of places in the world where you have the advantage of that opportunity and this is one. brad: a tremendous amount of industry here, and i talked to a lot of my colleagues and our partners and there's a lot of interest in engaging with partners and allies to help. any suggestions in terms of -- the u.s. through our industrial base have invested

the threat of china with the us island chains south pacific china and china sea. is there a great threat there? should world war three happen? just. i recently threw my. my other job in the army. i've been in the military now for over 21 years. we recently went and spent some time in many of these small pacific island countries. um, the federated states of micronesia, the marshall islands and others. there is a very real competition go on. the risk i see is that people are about going to war with china, though it is some matter. there is a very you talk to and i've talked and had conversation with some of our highest ranking military leaders who both privately and publicly say if if we go to war with china, the of casualties that we will see of americans will be unlike anything we have seen since world war two. that the number of american troops that we lost in the entire generation of service members and wars and conflicts is minuscule in comparison to the loss that we will see in a few short weeks of that war. the economic costs on our country is something i hav

indicated that african american men, gen zers are not showing up, latino, same with asian american pacific islanderse projections so far for those who have participated indicate something totally different. so i believe that infrastructure, ground game, and direct voter content makes a difference in these cases, and that's why i think vice president harris' campaign is in a strong position to maintain the majority of those boats. >> jon: mehek, donald trump got a huge boost tonight when joe rogan endorsed him. joe rogan, kind of a hero to young males in this country especially. that can't hurt. can he win that gen z vote he's trying to pull off? >> there is no that joe rogan has been a spear in this campaign, because he has independent voters in mostly 80% of his 18 million viewers are young males. in history, young males have -- and young voters have predominantly been democrat since about 2008. over 58% of young voters trending towards democrats. that broke into a 23 and it was less than 50%. when you ask yourself why, young male voters dropped by over 13% of the democrat party and switched to rep

of trusted underseas cam be lings a fee og if i from chili and includes more than a dos of the pacific island countries. if you think about the full tech ecosystem, when we are talking about cybersecurity, kind of baked into most of what we are saying is the underlying -- system is capable. it connects up populations that are not connected to the 21 st century. it generates geopolitical strength in the region for the unit and our allies. i would assume if you put this in, secure by design, so you are not dealing with contested environments. you can build fresh. >> that's right. there are not a ton of places where you have the advantage of a group field. this is one of testimony. >> 15th year, tremendous amount of industry both city integrator, product companies. i talked to a lot of my colleagues and our partners. there's interest in engaging with partners to help. any suggestions in terms of the u.s., through our industrial base, have invested years in cybersecurity. we have scale. we have capability. a lot of folks want to get in the fight and help. any suggestions how the industrial base c

said to mexico with more tariffs you are going to see factories move over to the side of the pacific islands american footwear maker steve madden announced just two days after the election then announced moving 46% of its production out of china that is significant. other manufacturers will follow. but of terrorists is a good idea and criminal trade practices. we've got to remember whose tariffs imposed in 2013 were remedies of the theft of u.s. intellectual property. they have continued to still u.s. ip will be doing about ip can absorb about 75 to 81% of the tariffs. i think right now and 2018. gate stone institute senior fellow gordon chang, as always thank you for joining us. take care. hurricane response to hello helene will be front and center next week the claimant workers were told to skip houses with trump sainz, congressman sam graves is leading the committee hearing he will tells coming up what he intends to expose. customize and save with liberty mutual. customize and sa— (balloon doug pops & deflates) and then i wake up. is limu with you in all your dreams? oh, yeah. only pay fo

they had been touring in auckland where there are a lot of pacific islander communities that became susceptiblee that new zealand saw the biggest outbreak of measles in decades. it was no surprise really that the virus did get onto an aircraft and got to samoa. mr. kennedy really has questions to answer about his relationship with the people that made the film. mr. kennedy became the executive producer of the sequel and was a close colleague of those that went to new zealand and australia to promote fear of vaccine. that is where it came from. the catastrophic consequences that i witnessed and i spent much of the week of the time talking to mothers about the loss of their children and it was really awful to listen to them. i found myself not being able to stop crying. the accumulation of pain consumed me. it was awful. >> why would somebody like rfk junior have influence in a place like similar as to whether or not people vaccinated their kids? why would his influence be something that perniciously accelerated the risk? >> his name opens doors. he has always known that. he is not a lot more tha

carriers and destroyers in the pacific and to try to retake back much of the territory that was captured when the japanese invaded pearl harbor, as well as other islands and landmass was in the pacific ocean. it was a terrifying time for the american public. we look and we think, well, of course we won that war in 1941. there was absolutely no guarantee that the allies going to prevail in that conflict. and all of a sudden, we have had we had hundreds of thousands of young men signing up to fight at the time when we needed to build our ability to gather intelligence and to understand what was what was going to happen in the war. and so that was a light bulb moment that went on over military commanders, diplomats had. well, if the young men are signing up to fight, who is going to build our codebreaking? who's going to build our espionage? women. let's call in these women. these who have been to to college, these women who are teaching school. let's if we can train them to be code breakers, let's see if we can train them to espionage officers. let's what the ladies can. and world war two was this we don't often think of it this way, but it was a moment

san francisco afternoon and my name is the executive director of the asian pacific islander cultural of 7 culture centers supported by the arts commission and art for over 27 years the center has been a center without a home of its own for over two decadesing within the conference of our sister culture it thank you. being our home and is the end of one dream and gip of another the goal of the to have a center dedicated to the asian pacific islander cultural center through the vision of my board and kulintang artsut the dedicated pool of piece is a reality with the purchase of this building 67 lincoln and i want to thank our adjourn supporters that was a long road. the san francisco arts commission the san stabilization trust and mayor london breed ands office of housing and community development all the supervisors that support this equity fund api council and the lawyers and community visionaries and alex the brokers. and one day we'll tell of everything that went on how we finally more importantly thank the artists and community that wait to long for 3 decades to get to this place.