regional to try and reach regional agreements on major issues like transit trade on regional issues like narcotics trafficking and regional issues like nuclear proliferation on issues like trade this is a this is a region that. has tremendous opportunity from an economic standpoint to advance if it could just put placate some of these crises that have been going on for decades india pakistan it's one and the afghan conflict is another these are really slowing this region down it's i think it's again it's a see it's a real tragedy that we can't that the international community not just nato can come together at the diplomatic and it's a political level and try and get something but that's where i think i agree with christian that's where i believe the failure has been at the political level it's not been there have obviously been some appalling military blunders and certain aspects of the military strategy that i disagree with deeply however the broad scale i would say this is but a political failure more than anything else ok so you want to jump in there block that was a lot was said the

north east asia is a dynamic region to the global economy, regional stability and u.s. national security interests. what's more, the coming year, we'll bring a number of regional leadership transitions for north korea u south korea, china, japan and russia. as some might have forgotten, the korean war is over. it's home to one of the world's most militaristic states. in fact, although the north korean regime is willing to starve its own citizens, it maintains the world's lashlgest army. thousands of artillery systems, tanks aircraft and surface combatants. more than 70% of north korea's combat power is positioned within 90 miles of the demilitarized zone. this puts our citizens of soul, if world's forth largest city easily within the eh raddic jam's racial relation. last month, the regime would stop uranium enrichment and missile testing and allow international inspectors to return to the nuclear facility in exchange for traditional aid. but two weeks ago, north korea said they would launch in april. a clear administration. this is typical behavior shown by their regime

powerful regional organization and. by the way in the un general assembly resolution it is clearly mentioned that the as you is a key regional organization to consider security in the region in all its aspects i think i think that this quotation speaks for itself speaking about security is afghanistan's a session to the c.e.o. still on the agenda are you talking about here considering that within a day or so this question is related to what you asked. a couple of minutes ago so the western countries and the united states studying started to reassess any role of this c.e.o. and its potential and the possibility of cooperation. will be a seal strengthen itself and demonstrated its potential to be a useful. regional platform for cooperation and we welcomed this new assessment in my way we have already had contacts with the americans. on the issue of afghanistan in the year two thousand and nine. in moscow we convened a special conference on afghanistan where thirty six delegation is going to notice that the this is very go

security arrangements in the region are emerging a sieging american and zionist interest in the region forcing them to step back and eventually they will lose their dominant position as a result the us is zionist alliance concentrates on syria in an attempt to wipe out the regional resistance axis we believe the arab and islamic awakening a bit least will eventually lead to greater democracy security and stability creating prosperity in a region that will enjoy tranquility and constructive relations with the international community with no place for us zionist dominance from with us and the hard part about the women the reigning elections marked in not a victory why the conservatives has this week nothing will change in iran's domestic or foreign policy. you know on that iranian foreign policy is wise stemming from the dignity and interest of the islamic republic of iran that it works within the parameters of peace and stability in the persian gulf and plays an active role in changes enveloping the region and the world elections have shown once again the solidarity and disposition of t

mentioned that the as you keep regional organization to consider security in the region in all its aspects i think i think that this quotation speaks for itself being about security is afghanistan's session to the c.e.o. still on the agenda are you talking about here considering that within the us this question is related to what do you as. a couple of minutes ago or so the western countries and the united states starting started to reassess the role of this c.e.o. and its potential and the possibility of cooperation. as. it will be a seal strengthened that self and demonstrated its potential to be a useful. regional platform for cooperation and we welcome this new assessment in may way. we we have already had contacts with the americans on the issue of afghanistan in the year two thousand and nine. in moscow we convened a special conference on afghanistan with thirty six delegation is absolutely you know this is this is very good that you're widely of that conference because this was nearly three years ago when moscow and it was attended by the u.s. the european union you always see the g

central command region. i have submitted a written statement and request it to be accepted into the record. >> it will be. >> it's my privilege to appear today alongside an admired leader and good friend, admiral bill mccraven. no two commands work more closely together than u.s. special operations command and central command. let me begin with what i see today in the region. the arab awakening is manifesting differently in each country. while we may hope for and certainly we firmly support all efforts for more democratic governments in the region, the awakening's origins are not necessarily a rush for democracy. rather, this awakening stems from a breakdown in the social contract between governments and their people. unjust or unresponsive regimes have fallen or are in the throws throes of falling as is the case in syria. however, the transition to a democratic government is never easy, as we see in egypt. further, it is not clear what the resulting governments will look like. challenges remain, beyond the

term threat to regional stability. and then i'm skipping here. again, i thought interesting perspective. maybe we missed in all the timult in the region. there is only one state in our aor actively seeking to destabilize the region and that is iran. i think that helps us put things in context. let me go back to something that senator mccain touched on. i want to ask you to go into it in a little more detail which is this is about syria. can you describe in more detail what is the extent of both iranian and russian assistance to the military assistance to the outside government at this time? >> senator, the russians provided very advanced integrated air defense capabilities. missiles, radars, that sort of thing that would make impositions of any no fly zone challenging. if we were to go that direction. in terms of iran, they're working earnestly to keep assad in power. they have flown in experts. they're flying if weapons. it is a full throated effort by iran to keep assad there and oppressing his own people. >> so the

a mber of cities could claim toe cad near the center of the thriving asian region.n the end, hewlett-packard chose the tiny island statsingap. soin: one of the main reasons we are in singapore is because of the infrastructure. singapore is very centrally located in asia. in addition, we have very good air, sea, rail and port facilities that allow us to bring things in and take things out very quickly and very efficiently. narrator: singapore has the largest container-handling seaport in the world-- number one in sheer tonnage moved and second only to hong kong in container traffic. singapore's location on the strait of malacca puts it on one of the most important transport routes in the world. woman: singapore sits right at the tip of the peninsula of malaysia. it's kind of in between the south china sea as well as the indian ocean. a lot of ships that want to go from the pacific ocean to the indian ocean, they all have to come down through singapore and then cross over the other... to the other side. in that sense, its location is favorable. but it also has a natur

it's immediating up with the four agencies, regional -- it's meeting up with the four agencies, regional agencies. now implementing, trying to figure out how we can implement the bay plan that was just approved by vcdc to figure out how we can implement the plan. in addition to that they are looking at climate change and disaster preparedness too. we do have some regional activity that's taking place in addition to that work. >> there is something to be said in bringing together resilience. economic resilience, climate change resilience. it's really all about being resilient. i think if we can put those into one conversation we can be stronger. >> i want to thank all very much for doing a great job as our moderator and for the entire panel, i had the opportunity to work with barbara garcia for 16 years at the health department and heard her very compelling story about the response to loma prieta. so really happy that you were here and each and every one of you were able to provide very unique perspectives that began to give us the whole picture of what a full community response looks lik

"interface region" means... okay, means we have...licon valley is a socioeconomic space, and china is another one. okay, and taiwan just overlapped these two regions. narrator: in this triangular space connecting silicon valley, taiwan and china lies the prospect of a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas and know-how. and taiwanese firms are uniquely qualified to facilitate that exchange. hsu: we have a long experience of business transaction with silicon valley, and we know the lure of the market, lure about how to run a high-tech business. we learned from silicon valley. and we have so dense social network in the technical community between these two regions, silicon valley and taiwan. we know china's market much better than those western companies. so i think, for taiwan, the way we can play is to play as an agent between the silicon valley firm technology and the china market-- try to connect these two together. narrator: with their silicon valley backgrounds and chinese culture, taiwanese firms have a unique opportuni to play a

his area of study is the northeast industrial region.here are over 1,000 factories in the tiexi industrial zone, which spreads along the west side of shenyang. many state-owned enterprises have factories here. they are typical of those that made up the backboneof. speaking chinese ) translator: one of the problems faciat the present timerial zone is the aging of its plants and equipment. quite a lot of it is old and is still in use after more than 20 years. actually, some of this equipment has been used for more than 30 years. the second problem ithat most of the factories in the region make everything they need in-house. this inefficient use of resources has resulted in many factories operating in the red. narrator: the shenyang number one machine tool works in tiexi is one such operation. its long history goes back to 1935, when manchuria was occupied by japan. the japanese established the region as a base of manufacturing for export to japan. they built a railroad and factories. the shenyang number one machine tool works began as the

we still have options in the region. by and large we see a tension. the trajectory of events forcing hamas and others to be more defiant at least in the access that use to be less -- the arab spraining, iran's influence and message receive ability, this has not changed iran's military capabilities or its military options or any of these issues, but it has allowed some of the arab leaders to counter hamas's influence in a more for giving way with public opinion. talk about finding a similar lining in this cloud, i would say right now hamas's influence is reduced and easier from counter-intelligence terrorism point of view to counter some of hamas's effects in the region. i go back to where i started. i'll conclude with this. this is a snapshot. a very fluid situation. if things remain the way they are today, yes, iran's influence is use, better way of managing ideological -- many things could change this outcome. what happened in syria is essential. if the regime survives we will see a possibility of resurgence of this iranian capability to influence.

state this is important in the region we underestimate the importance of status in the region the reason saddam hussein for example is that did not deny the existence of the is because it was in his in his interest not to do so so i think you have to be realistic the present policy is a failed a present policy is a heightening tensions what we want is now to pull back from any chance of military conflict and take a fresh look at the situation and adopt a fresh approach which i think should include an implicit recognition or at least the offer of an oppressive recognition of iran's status as a regional superpower iran's preemption of that oil embargo and the sanctions does that mean they have backfired some are britain and france i'm not sure that backfired you don't impose sanctions unless you know that you can see it through i think what they do show there is is that iran is absolutely intent on her nuclear program and her bringing these sanctions or the deadlines forward i think is a clear example of that you know i think i think we've got to be very clear. sanctions saber rattling fai

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mob violence twice as likely to occur in mina as other regions. religion-related terrorism happened in nearly every country to some extent. religion-related war affects half of countries in mina compared with 13% of countries worldwide and violence was used to enforce religions in two-thirds of the countries, in the mina region. again, this -- this body of information is providing the context within which these revolutions happen. not saying that restrictions in religion or these hostilities involving religion triggered these events directly but it's a part of the overall package of you could say grievances or restrictions and sensitivities that are happening within the region. so the last point i'll conclude with, and i can't say that anything that i'm providing helps explain why violent -- why the uprisings happened, but there is one particular type of restriction that's very common in the middle east and north africa that occurs in nine out of ten countries in the region, and that's the governments restrict individuals right to convert. the con

it has formulated a comprehensive plan for the entire capital region.order to provide a congenial living environment, delhi cannot be planned in isolation, individually. it has to be planned in the context of a much larger area, which is the national capital region. narrator: the plan will work to extend the capital region to 20 times the current size of metropolitan delhi. within the new capital region, it is hoped that newly created satellite cities might help delhi's overburdened infrastructure. new arrivals could settle in these cities rather than add to the squatter camps on delhi's outskirts. these satellite cities are supposed to be connected by an expanded rail and highway system, but so far there's been little progress. daniere: most places in the world have been extremely unsuccessful at diverting growth from the main urban centers because they don't accompany or are not able to accompany those attempts with the same kinds of opportunities-- both economically but also politically and culturally, and education, in terms of education opportuniti

then it was in this broad region called the ohio country. it was where washington in the summer of 1754 established a simple crude fort in a meadow. there was a large meadow there. and that has been preserved to today amidst a great forest of endless miles. and washington thought i'll establish a defensive position here. there had already been at that time the first skirmishes between the virginians and the french. now, what happened is that the french who were several hundred at ft. duquesne and who had even more native allies in the area, came to contest washington, and they were stronger and forced him to surrender in july 1754. and so this first military action of washington's in the war is a failure. he and the virginians are defeated. however, they're able to surrender on honorable terms and permitted to return to virginia. so, yet the french have sent the message that british colonials will not have an easy time if they pass into the ohio country. they will be contested by the french and the french, of course, will rely on native alli

the first is to focus on the region of georgia. we've been very generous to the republic of georgia. a region in georgia with a large ethnic armenian population. the embassy of georgia is now in support of the idea of the united states focusing a good portion of its aid for georgia to the region. this would bind them to the republic of georgia and would help achieve our goals in the caucuses. last time you were here mentioned voice of america broadcasting in the sendi language. this committee adopted unanimously to direct the voice of america to spend a $1.5 million broadcasting in the language. i'm not sure become law but does show the wisdom of the city. there are elements in the government in islamabad that wee want to impose the urdu language on the whole country. imposing on what was east bengal created as much as anything the independent republic of bangladesh. i would hope that in deciding whether to broadcast in the sendi language we would hope not to broadcast extreme elements of islamabad. because right now we're broadcas

the community is fairly small within the region, about 1% of the total inhabitants of the region but they are still very deliberately advocating. the situations and the conditions that enable that are ones that you see in many of the countries in the region and that's poverty rates, it's income inequality, it's the corruption that's there and it is in some of those cases, it is an anti-u.s. perspective. >> it bears watching, obviously, and hopefully lessons we learn in other parts of the world can apply. thank you for drawing our attention to this. south america has certainly had violent intervals in its history but has very little history of, of course, islamist or terrorism of any kind. it just shows this is a worldwide phenomenon that we have to be able to respond to wherever it may surface. >> senator, we are paying very close attention to this issue. we're seeing measured success. we don't see great success in their efforts along these lines. >> general jacoby, if i could turn back to you, our good friend general renuart when he relinquished command in 2010 talked about his conc

the problem is in our region and broader region the fact that a religion is translated to a political and imperial ambition. that's the point. not only by iran. that's the change. imperial ambition, it's the nature of international relations. but motivated by religion, it gives it, i would say, a more reckless and relentless and brutal style. whenever you see television you watch it. you can't see television without the combination of how religion, politics and imperial politics is transformed to unimaginable brutality. >> >> barbara calculator from islamic council. thank you for an interesting question. this is for minister sneh. when israel looks at the down sides of an attack of the iranian nuclear program, do you consider the casualties it would cause in iran in terms of bombing sites full of radioactive and other materials have they done a study to look at the numbers of people who would be killed and injured in iran if it were to mount such a strike. is that even a factor in israel's calculations? thanks. >> i have to be careful in answering the question because on the gray line

the region or can we not conclude that? >> one of the reasons -- the arab league is banding together is a force for initiating operations in libya. and concerns about damascus, this whole region is becoming aware of this sort of effort on iran's part. it had a fear the soviet union and their forces -- >> significant parallel. >> thank you for taking time to come in. senator levin referenced the after local police program and an opportunity and honored to observe as a soldier this summer and go out and visit with special forces. i see that program at work and visit villages and speak with tribal leaders and also the soldiers that were there and to me this is the program we should have implemented from day one. the value for the dollar is incredible. the amount of cooperation between the tribal leaders and people of the villages and special forces is unheard of. it never happened like it is happening now. the check and balance when one village is coming to the aid of another village when being attacked or harassed. it never h

interesting, this region of l.a. is also very latino. in fact, it's crate ld by a majority of latino districts. state assembly districts 51 to the west, 58 and 57 to the south and 48 to the east. so establishing it as a protected district and demonstrating how it could be drawn was a major achievement. growth in latino population over the past decade also prevented new opportunities for greater latino influence. one area in which advocates were exploring possibilities was in the central valley where you see on your screen, where adjacent section two and section five seals for latinos were already in place. so while advocates here were looking to protect the voting rights of growing latino communities among americans in fresno were looking to maintain the integrity of their community which you see outlined in green there. sorry, rather small. i wanted to make sure you got the big picture here. the community argued it shared much in common with the latino community, similar poverty rates, unemployment, educational attainment, language barr

we look at the countries within the region. we're focused on this region as well.ther countries in latin america as well as the community are also bringing their capacities and i see a lot of different efforts to focus your and others efforts in the united states government to coordinate those efforts, so this is a work in progress, and it is improving. maybe not as fast as i would like to see it but we are moving into taking very positive steps forward, and that needs to continue to be our focus and i get the sense from everyone i talk with that that is the key focus and we will remain engaged in that manner. yes, here with the mustache. >> [inaudible] >> if you mentioned in passing the caribbean. can you comment on puerto rico, which is rapidly increasing and drug-related violence is approaching at the level in the economic crisis is beginning to look like a collapse. islamic the trafficking organizations are looking for any opportunity. they have looking for those areas. today on an overall basis the traffic through the committee in this much less than it is in