australia. new trend of premium chicken, which people crave. people crave. successful in the asia—pacific regionuggling at the moment? the moment? traditional fast food, kfc, it is closing down a bit. kfc, it is closing down a bit. and flavours, consumers just like newer things to experience. newer things to experience. what is the overall trend in the industry? the overall trend in the industry? consumers going to stores? do they just order on line? just order on line? definitely more web delivery, overtaking drive—in customers. overtaking drive—in customers. delivery, ubereats, etc, they are delivering more. it makes me hungry. a quick look at the markets. very good day for asian stocks this tuesday. tuesday. territory after us equities pulled back from record highs. back from record highs. had its biggest decline in five months. months. midmorning tuesday trade. so much for investing your time with us. so much for investing your time with us. i am rico hizon. iam rico hizon. i am rico hizon. sport today is coming up next after this. coming up next after this. before that, the main story. disa

house, which was one of those buildings, with the emphasis -- basically, the whole fair was the pacific region, but the pacific house was focused on that as well. >> well, they're wonderful. it's part of the history of treasure island. i'm glad to see that we're taking care of the murals and making sure that they're being preserved in a way that they can be viewed in the future as well. >> thank you, peter. just some few questions i have. so someone, somewhere in the world is holding on to the art form of the pacific. so i presume that tida or the city has conveyed to all the museums in the world that this piece is missing. it might show up. who knows? because that's the nature of these things. do we have such a plan, if it shows up, for people to be on the lookout for it? it would be great to know this piece is out there, we presume, right? >> through our partners at the fine arts museum and the arts commission, certainly there's an awareness that hopefully this mural is somewhere. certainly -- how would i say this? it's been such a long awareness for so long that there's probably one of two

if we look towards the pacific region look at the korean peninsula. and also as well as the u.s. activity the.

goal of something which i pioneered twenty years ago by looking at the combined indian ocean pacific region as an indivisible combined strategic theater and the u.s. is now seeing that as well it's looking at a new alliance structure in that area not just with ns us with a stranger in new zealand but also with japan and india so looking at this new quadripolar tight strategic alliance structure for the endeavor civic the u.s. is back in the in day pacific and that's its major realm and the may just routine millet and military competition will be necessary to balance china's massive upgrade certainly the u.s. cannot ignore the major advances in quality technology and performance of the russian armed forces that's a fact of life every country which is in the international arena has to take that into account so that's that's very normal but this is not a hostile defense posture towards russia or even for that matter towards china but it does serve notice that the united states will start to rebuild its capabilities in ways which it once lived in. well gregory de facto according to this new doc

if we look towards the pacific region look at the korean peninsula. and also as well as the u.s. activity the recently also the way that the u.s. has been talking about china as a rifle how do you think china will respond to this surely there will be threatened to some extent i think there is a large general mourning and in fact in the united states and they. all most actors who are peaceful. and then he said i don't. mean the pentagon that between south korea to china is very much i do sense for going on these very high fares who are designed. to kill a solution. your time on your thoughts my guest is not a political analyst on broadcast. onto other news the teenagers attacked the school in eastern siberia injuring six people including a teacher. command into the class and inflicted injuries sustained three school children and a teacher over the next a child received a blow to the face another one was struck on the back and another girl lost some friends. then you see this in the school and they were totally calm nothing like this could have been expected from that action on it

art therapy programs throughout the united states and in countries in europe, the asia south pacific region, latin america and most recently, the middle east. i just returned this week from egypt, jordan and israel. where he met with art therapists in those countries and it was a great trip. did you know, that in israel, there are 7000 art therapists? i mean, i was stunned! but i have learned more about the profession and the benefits of this unique treatment. from children with cancer, to struggling teenagers. we have a real issue with suicide with our teenagers all over the world. to grant families, people with autism, military service members. experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder. to those with eating disorders. art therapy is changing lives. and i will go as far as to say, art therapy is saving lives all over the world. [applause] and now the fun part of my talk. i will share with you some of my stories. i heard some incredible stories. like the ones i heard shortly after thanksgiving when i travel to new york city. i met with doctor irene -- who is our therapy work in new york in

korean regime to our allies in the republic of korea, to our friend and partners in the asia pacific region, to u.s. and south korean interests, and even potentially to the u.s. homeland. the over 23,000 u.s. personnel serving in south korea provide the strongest possible evidence of u.s. commitment to the security of our korean allies in these unsettled times. while much of the focus of current attention has been on recent provocations, the commitment of the u.s. alliance with the republic of korea is deep and sustained. and is focused both on addressing today's concerns and the long term needs of the alliance. one of the strongest ways to continue to strengthen our sustained partnership is through the pursuit of common goals in technology development and through bilateral rmp and development cooperation -- research and development cooperation. today's defense landscape is shaped by the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated military capabilities, by the convergence of leading-edge technologies driving new commercial capabilities with those driving emerging defense applications, and b

look at itself but to look at the rest the world and how what it does has huge impact across the pacific region and the rest of the world and i think this is a very welcome moment. in terms of this of this meeting in having china being invited if you like to to step forward and plea a constructive role is possible that can benefit everyone and one area where we can particularly see this is africa i know we've got france warning china not to make the same mistakes it did on that continent during colonial times is this a message that china here's and will respond to. well it i don't know how they'll officially respond to it but having a willing partner on both sides is very very important china obviously has the money they have a vision for the belton road initiative and france is very connected to its former colonial empire and it wants to maintain those ties but it doesn't necessarily have the wherewithal to put in the kind of infrastructure and investment that is needed so forming a partnership seems very very logical it's a win win situation it's not the zero sum game that you have in trump's

all, but most trade barriers among the united states, japan, and 10 other countries in the asia pacific region, including some quite low wage economies like vietnam. - it's not just a pure lowering of trade barriers, it's a sort of negotiated withdrawal from our protectionist perspective. and it makes great politics to argue that trade agreements like that are gonna hurt american workers. they're also gonna benefit american consumers. - who will benefit from tpp? we've done calculations and simulated the effect and what we find for instance is that for the united states in the aggregate our incomes would rise by something like a half of percent of gdp, that's half the percent of income, 131 billion dollars by the year 2030. - there was sort of a million different small provisions about it will have a huge impact on copyright law and intellectual property and is meant to boost us services exports. we think about exports as being mostly about manufacturing, but the us sells lots of services overseas. so it's economic on the one hand, but a lot of what tpp is looking to do is to build relations w

the company's stores in europe and the asia pacific region did tick particularly well. so did the shares. they were up 8% to $108.99 viacom's chairwoman is reportedly pushing for a board shakeup at cbs. the "wall street journa says redstone wants to bring on new director as she renews discussiont a potential merger between the two companies. the added that cbs has reservatio a tie up. viacom's shares were up, shares of cbs were up almost 1%. k corp. reported earnings that rose and beat expectationse nation's largest bank said the majority of the savings from the new tax law will be returned to shareholders in the form of dividends and stock buy backs. the rest will be put into investments in technolog and higher entry lev wages. shares closed down more than 1%. >>> sharls schwab posted profits in line with expectations saying earnings took an immediate hit from the new tax changes. revenue topped forecasts. schwab shares, up 1%. the drug maker sell gene reportedly in talks to buy the bio tech juneau therapeuticics. it could help strengthen sell gene's portfolio of blood

press release says the proposal includes 19 potential sales off the coast of alaska, seven in the pacific region, 12 in the gulf of mexico, and nine in the atlantic region. congressman richard hudson, who represents north carolina's eighth district, tweeted -- and senator maria cantwell of washington state, the ranking member on the senate energy committee, sent the message -- >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. a 1979, c-span was created as public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> steve bannon and michael fury"s new book "fire and once again dominated the white house briefing with press secretary sarah sanders. this is about 20 minutes. ms. sanders: good afternoon. pleased to see the dow jones industrial average broke through 25,000 for the first time ever today. the president's economic agenda of lower taxes, less regulation, and economic opportunity for all is already paying off, and american family and workers are the big winners. with that in mind, we have a message from a special guess i would like to sh

they estimate there are 11 billion items of plastic waste on reefs in the asia—pacific region, and coralct with plastic is 20 times more likely to develop disease. controllers of a european rocket which suffered a problem shortly after launch say it has deployed the two satellites it was carrying. contact with the ariane 5 was lost several minutes after lift—off from french guiana. the rocket has reputation for reliability, recording more than 80 flights without incident. president trump has again threatened to withdraw american aid from the palestinians unless they return to peace talks with israel. he sparked anger recently among palestinians and beyond by recognising jerusalem as the capital of israel, and palestinians refused to meet vice president mike pence on his recent tour of the region. mr trump spoke at a news conference in davos alongside the israeli prime minister. when they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars of aid and support, tremendous numbers, numbers that nobody understands, t

they estimate that there are 11 billion items of plastic waste on reefs in the asia—pacific region, and into contact with plastic is 20 times more likely to develop diseases. contact has been lost with a european rocket carrying two satellites, after it suffered a problem during its latest launch. the ariane 5 couldn't be reached nine minutes into the flight from french guiana. the rocket has flown more than 80 times without incident, it regularly takes satellites into orbit. the oscar—winning actor, casey affleck, has pulled out of this year's oscars ceremony, where he was expected to present the award for best actress. the star won, despite having been accused of sexual harassment by two female crew members on an earlier film, claims he denies. for more on this story, i'm joined live from los angeles by entertainment journalist, kj matthews. what do you make of this?” what do you make of this? i will be honest, many people in hollywood we re honest, many people in hollywood were not surprised that casey affleck did not want to do this. in the last two months we have had all of these i

to fourteen years in prison daniel bust out is the head of reporters our borders for the asia pacific region he says me and mars government is using this case to scare off journalists covering the rangar crisis. the way the schemes are conducted is totally unacceptable. gridley the two journalists were handled some secret documents by two policemen in a restaurant. the government announced that two that two policemen and police officers and been arrested under the same official secrets act but the fact that the two. boys never. come down are not the same who and all the documents so it clearly shows that no one on and us who are just gay groups to shut down the mouth of korea's journalists we have to take an image into account is durai jack presence. where at the ministry doesn't want jollies to report on sensitive issues especially the rodger crisis. should be reminded that the north african state is a place where journalists are not allowed to go. and of course they cannot monitor what is happening there. as a reminder you. mention some possible elements of genocide considering the situati

they estimate there are 11 billion items of plastic waste on reefs in the asia—pacific region, and coralplastic is 20 times more likely to develop disease. controllers of the european rocket suffered a problem shortly after launch lead has deplored the two satellites it was carrying. contact was lost several minutes after liftoff from french guiana. the rocket has a reputation for reliability, it has recorded more than 80 flights without incident. the oscar—winning actor casey affleck has pulled out of this year's ceremony where he was expected to present the academy award for best actress. he won best actor last year, for manchester by the sea, crew members on his mock documentary, i'm still here. he has always denied the claims. and now for more on that story, i'm joined live from los angeles by tim gray, awards editor at variety magazine. how significant do you think his decision is? i think it is a sign of the times, i think it was a very smart decision to pull out because the focus should be on the winner and a woman who is winning and her performance and if he had presented it, the

we have been living with a nuclear north korea that could strike her since in the asian-pacific region that threat has become more acute as korea has systematically advance the technology. we have to stop thinking as a provocation as a systematic and successful development of those technologies. there would be a significant benefit with a reduction of tensions to forgo any testing. but there is not a long time to capture the benefits. more likely than not it will require direct talks with the north koreans on the path to negotiation if there is an opening for such talks is not clear some believe the new year's day claim of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles have already been proven to open the door to a freeze on nuclear and long-range missile test we need to find a way to probe them on that point to exploit that if there is one. it is also imperative to focus on those steps of miscalculation including the risk of nuclear use but devastating forces on both sides of the 38th parallel. or iran where it made sense to keep those negotiations confined to the nuclear program and with pe

if you are in the mountain or pacific regions, you can call (202) 748-8001.nd if you or a family member or an amateur or collegiate athlete, there is a special line for you, (202) 748-8002. you can also reach us on social media come on twitter @cspanwj and on facebook at facebook.com/cspan. at theake a look headline from you today about those efforts in congress. imposes is going to regulation that requires new requirements on amateur sports organizations, something that would coincide with increased public pressure to address a scandal within the olympic community. enduredese women have too much, which is why we must do more to protect our amateur athletes so that this never happens again. joining us on the phone today is the author of that story, niel.sl' good morning. about what congress is doing in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal. guest: sure. this is one of the situations where the national attention has been pulled from the horrifying situation, which has got to the attention from congress. in addition to the legislation that should be moving to th

east and transformed the russian islands into one of the leading energy suppliers of the asia-pacific region. california has taken a major place in the relations between our two countries. we have the chevron corporation working for a long time in russia, along with transnet as the operator of the caspian pipeline consortium to deliver kozak oil to the seaports. 1990's, the oil machinery of the caterpillar company supplying large construction machinery and equipment to the russian far east. thousands of employees from russia work in the flagship high-tech companies in silicon valley. cisco, microsoft, google to name a few. the russian-american pacific partnership has been active for more than 20 years. it is a unique platform for dialogue, which brings together officials and businessmen in the regions of the russian far east and the united states west coast. the state of california is among the leaders of the bilateral interregional cooperation. over the past years it has established contact with republican of kazakstan. this is mostly due to the efforts of the state's current leadership, go

we are looking in the indo pacific region, middle east, and many of the former soviet countries as wellan africa, where we have been very active. opec is open in 108 countries. we are looking worldwide, but giving it a specific emphasis on central and the western hemisphere. shery: the company's vision at one point envision closing down your agency. how much support are you know getting from the white house? -- now getting from the white house? ray: taken to that question because i am getting it all the time. the question i had to the administration is, how do you look at development agencies that are so important to our foreign policy objectives? once we had many discussions about it, president trump, his administration have given us great support, and we are very pleased with that. i was willing to accept the job. my confirmation with senate relations,gn and since that in august, we have had support. traveled with the president on his asian trip. we did a historic memoranda of understanding with the japanese equivalent, which we will get very involved in developing projects with, and

in the pacific coast region clean energy jobs have grown and this is kind of interesting to know. clean energy jobs have grown more than twice as fast as jobs in the overall economy. muckletile is home to the largest -- moses lake is home to one of the largest carbon fiber plants for electric cars. our stait home to bio fuels that have powered the boeing 787 across the oceans. it is our state's destiny because of who we are to defeat climate change. even if the white house walks away from the global effort now embraced by every single nation in the world except the united states, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we will walk forward and join this battle for the world's elth haddy future. that's who we are. [ applause ] already washington has joined with 14 other states and territories to form the united states climate alliance. and we are committed to meeting our share of the emission reduction targets outlined in the paris climate accord. this is a significant collaboration. we represent 40% of the united states' economy. and if we were our own nation, we would have

allies armed forces in the asia pacific region. under kim jong un, the nuclear and missile threat has become more acute as north korea has systematically advanced its nuclear and missile technology. we have to stop thinking about that -- those tests as provocations as opposed to a systematic and increasingly successful development of those technologies. now there would be a significant benefit to our security, the u.s. and our allies, and a reduction in regional tensions, if we can convince the north of course to pause an then perhaps forego any further testing. of weapons and long-range ballistic missiles. but there is not a long time to capture the benefits of such a pause. more likely than not, achieving that outcome will require direct talks with the north koreans on the path to negotiations. whether there is now an opening for such talks is not clear. some believe kim jong un's new year's day claim that the ballistic missiles have been close quotee full, opens the door to a freeze on , nuclear and long range ballistic missile

and it's obvious that they have the potential right now to be able to reach not only the pacific regiont obviously reach even the united states. that's a direct threat for the national security of the united states. and for that reason, it's really important that we have to develop a comprehensive strategy to deal with north korea. but the principle strategy has to be containment and deterrence. that's the strategy you have to use with north korea. and it involves both military and diplomatic efforts. on the military side, we've got to strengthen our presence in that region. we've got to work with south korea and japan and other countries in that region. we have to make sure that overtly or covertly we have the capability to take down those missiles, even when they're testing them, take them down. and in addition to that, we need diplomacy to try to push china to put pressure on north korea to come to the negotiating table. all of that is what constitutes a firm strategy in dealing with north korea. maria: have you ever seen an environment quite like this one where you don't have any co

from honolulu, former member of the national security council with vast experience in the pacific regionand we welcome to our broadcast daniel dresner, professor of international politics at the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university. else the author of several books and has written about h.r. mcmaster as national security adviser. general, i'm going to start with you, because not to lessen this with this phrase, but you had a consumer experience with this staying at a resort in hawaii. take it from there. what happened and mostly what didn't happen? >> well, you know, it's sort of a shocking occurrence for all of hawaii. it was just a boneheaded error by one person with a bad system. by the way, brian, there was no backup supporting systems in place, as far as i could tell. the hotels really didn't make announcements for 40 minutes, then they weren't in japanese, so we got a problem out here. but the larger issue is, civil defense isn't the answer if the north koreans fire an icbm with a nuclear device that goes off in a low-level explosion in the city, so we've got to

deals with the tpp it's a different sort of beast it's almost aiming to be a single market in the pacific regionhe uk needs to think would it be happy signing up to something like this. >> one other question about this the idea of rolling over these agreements, and the eu having a seat at the table with that negotiation. now we have this negotiation on transition over the next few months the british side want it done by the end of march that's something michel barnier hinted at. given the deal could last up to 2020, does that change the ability for people like liam fox to make these trade deals in that time? >> that's still an open question definitely at the moment we cannot negotiate our own trade agreements, though we can scope them out during that time it's unclear and probably up for negotiations with the eu whether we can sign on the dotted line so even considering this kind of uncertainty, what really must be put in place first and foremost is ensuring we can take advantage of the agreements during this transition period that we are currently party to and then look at potential new deals t

we have maintained peace and stability and security in the pacific -- asia-pacific region. there are still major steps that we can take to furtherer strengthen u.s.-taiwan relationships. the we should allow the president of taiwan and other high-ranking officials like defense ministers to visit our nation's capital which is currently prohibited. this is our own self-imposed policy and it's outrageous. and they are carried out because of potential diplomatic retaliation from china. restricting high-level visits by taiwan officials is not only insulting but counterproductive. we should be encouraging more direct dialogue with the president of taiwan and other elected first. we let the officials from the p.r.c. and we give them the highest honors, yet we shun the taiwan cally leaders of sm the current approach to communications between the u.s. and taiwan is outdated and time for it to go and be changed. if we seriously want to promote greater democracy in the region, we should be as supportive as possible to the countries that are practicing democracy and that's what taiwan d

on skype from paris is daniel bastar he is the head of reporters without borders for the asia pacific region good to have you with us when you look at what's happened in this case other norms of justice then observed. well this is clearly a denial of justice and the rule is low. we demand the media release of one of them and kill so because no serious evidence has been produced by it by the authorities. what impact do you think the way in particular that these journalists were arrested how is that going to impact the sort of climate that the media and the price operating in the m.r. well we served today that many journalists many in march at least work and review the route to court you're going to show solidarity with one moment you'll see what it shows is that there is a deep concern it's very worrying to see that stress really i mean myanmar peace really declining. as an example in year two thousand and seventeen no less than eleven journalist and wanted me to elaborate or have been arrested for doing their work the hope is fading of a new era of press freedom after the civilian government

there is obviously a great deal of nervousness in the asia pacific region as well as here. secretary tillerson said today in the opening of this summit that we have to get north korea to de-nuclearize before we can have any progress. is that the right threshold? >> well, it's the right threshold for secretary tillerson to take. that is the position of the administration. that is the position of the u.n. security council, variety of resolutions. it's been the position of the last two, actually three u.s. administrations. so we are not even at the table, the negotiations have not even begun at this point. this is an effort to try to increase the pressure on north korea so they will come to the table and so that we can get an agreement that they will actually stick to. we have had agreements to denuclearize north korea twice now, once during the clinton administration, once during the bush administration. we couldn't keep north korea in either of them. so as a statement of the goal, that's exactly right. that's what secretary tillerson should be saying and we'll see whether th

the asia pacific region. those other countries that are allies there that may react to these very pieces of information that you're talking about and the tension itself. general barry mccaffrey there in honolulu. thank you, sir for your perspective and expertise on what has happened here. we continue to watch some of the video that just came in to us of those at the university of hawaii. this believed to be right after that emergency alert went out. that emergency alert said take cover and individuals it looks like in this particular video are doing that very -- are doing that very activity, and then 15 minutes later said, everything is okay. a false alarm. but boy, those were a scary at least 15 minutes for folks like that. now let's bring in msnbc contributor. great to have you here. you are still an intelligence officer in the u.s. naval reserve, i understand, sir, and you have the very same concern that we were just talking about with the general here. what might this give in terms of information to those