and china. blocked by russian and china -- russia and china.— russia and china. hard to _ russia and china. true, it is really hard to unify - russia and china. true, it is really hard to unify the - russia and china. true, it is i really hard to unify the world. russia and china opposed tougher language in the un security counsel last week. team members are very concerned because i think they recognise not only the human rights problem, but the fact that continued rules by this military raises serious risks of significant indivisibility that can spill over into the region. important as the international response is, chances are it's going to be what happens inside myanmar that's going to determine where the country goes.— the country goes. sorry, but does the _ the country goes. sorry, but does the world _ the country goes. sorry, but does the world sit _ the country goes. sorry, but does the world sit back - the country goes. sorry, but does the world sit back and | does the world sit back and watch more hundreds, thousands of people get killed because of a rep

the oceans that separate the united states from both russia and china at least the european part of russia from the united states so i do have some hope that some of these geo political factors and geo strategic factors. the real 'd ism will kick in at some point and i think biden at least as. he's an experienced foreign policy and but on the other hand been saying that can be a wag meyer being captive to you know all thinking and the bureaucracies and that's what he's going to have to fight trump had to fight the opposite that he was he didn't really follow any of that and sometimes he got himself into trouble by just going doing whatever he wanted so you know it's one there's advantages and disadvantages to both approach but i think the united states really needs to pay attention to that the world has changed and needs to. be rid of some of these alliances i'm pretty radical on that point i think they're outdated and you know they can drag us into wars that we don't want to be in both in east asia and in europe i absolutely do but on many times on cross talk and you and i completely agre

i'll begin with china and move russia, iran and north korean. china is a near-peer competitor pushing to revise global norms in ways that favor the chinese system. they're demonstrating their growing strength and compel regional neighbors to acquiesce in areas. it also has substantial cyber capabilities that if deployed at a minimum can cause localized temporary disruptions to critical infrastructure inside the united states. and while china poses a challenge to the u.s. role in global affairs, it's worth noting that its economic, environmental and demographic vulnerabilities all threaten to complicate the way they desire to get to that. moscow will continue to employ a variety of tactics to undermine u.s. influence and erode western alliances. russia does not want a conflict with the united states. officials have believed that washington is seeking to weaken russia and they will use a range of tools to seek their objectives. it will also employ new weapons and cyber capabilities to threaten the united states and its allies and seeks to use malig

notoriously at the nato foreign ministers meeting a few days ago and it's clearly they're targeting russia and china that's indisputable throwing them incidentally if you read or of listen to blink and address on march 24th of nato headquarters where he throws russia and china into the same category as north korea and iran and some new axis of evil if you will is that ideological no except in the sense that by your rules based their values based international order the united states and its vassals and tributaries to quote the persian ski you have developed a sort of the social cultural norm that almost serves as the equivalent of a political ideology and it's one that they want to enforce on the rest of the world of the rest of the world doesn't go along with it they're isolated in their traduced and they're you know they're all timidly confront confronted sanctioned economic warfare and ultimately they're threatening of the kinetic version there of actual warfare. we seem to be living in an era of 0 sum i mean either you submit or you will be you'll be threatened with annihilation i mean i thought

that has become a term we talk about in dealing with china and russia, and i think it's appropriate. but i've coined the term within it which is a greater power competition. and that happen is a competition between two, the united states and china. and the point that i -- the reason that i came up with that and the reason that i talk about that is you mentioned my time in congress on the intelligence committee and seeing intelligence, but when i became the director of national intelligence and i got to go on the other side of the wall or the other side of the curtain and really look at all of our intelligence for what it says, it was so clear that china and china alone presented the greatest national security threat. and that wasn't something that i had seen as a member of congress. and so that was one of the reasons that i did something that d&is typically don't do. i put out an op-ed saying they're the number-one national security threat. i was pleased to see in the unclassified report that came out and in the hearings a recognition and a discussion about that, that china poses that

russia china and the united arab emirates more than 40 countries have sent ventilate his oxygen tanks protective gear and rapid tests even pakistan with which india has a tense relationship has pledged 8. earlier we spoke to our correspondent in iraq in mumbai and asked for supplies that aid were reaching the places where they are needed most because india is a very big your goofy and info structure draws wood was low distinct was has always been a challenge so risky. as oil look on trees ascending it across 40 countries are sending it across but it will take time the big cities like mumbai delhi back to hyderabad are some cities where the government have been able to make a treat but now go cases have started coming in full ruler india where there is no rule connectivity no internet no hospital and no infrastructure so how we are going to make the supplies that really moved it is the big question w.'s new year i reported from mumbai there now the relationship between the e.u. commission and us tech giants has long been a thorny one now a new chapter is likely to be added because brus

iran is moving into a new europe of cooperation 1st 4 with the china but also within russia not just on trade but on training intelligence sharing security issues joint exercises in a really a very big change taking place that we have we have made a post rex a china deal here in the u.k. either thing properly just because because this hasn't obviously been covered in the nation media at all. some people might be asking you what do you mean there's a been a massive trade deal between and the people's republic and the islamic republic. well after the talks that took place in anchorage. who which you were a call a little earlier ago when the americans and the chinese sort of exchanged. criticisms each other quite vociferously. the secretary of state was there to talk to them about their failings and shortly after that the chinese foreign minister came to karen and he signed. an a memorandum of understanding a trade deal reputedly they don't disclose again tales of the and ongoing aspect reputedly between $400600000000.00. a big really 1000000000 dollars sorry not 1000000000000000 dollars

we can absolutely deter china and russia by having strong partnerships. by having a strong enough military. what deterrence means is, china don't invade taiwan because the price you will pay is not worth it. russia, don't go into estonia, press across ukraine, the same thing. the price you pay will not be worth it. we can build our systems along that line so we can have a deterrence capacity without having to assert our dominance. the second part, even within that, even as i change that, we need to do better than we have done in the last 20 years. basically, we can reengage on the issue of technology. i think the biggest way to change this is to look at again the survivability of our systems. command and control, cyber, the redundancy of systems. how do we have a better communications technology system so we can survive better? this gets into drones. this shift is happening in the pentagon. it started under carter. there is a real focus on buying those systems along those lines. there is a laundry list of things that will make this difficult without a shad

this effort to maintain the impossible but we can deter china and russia. ong enough military, what deterrence means china, taiwan the place to play for the, russia, don't press all the way across ukraine, same thing. it's not going to be worth it. we can build our systems along the line to have adequate deterrent capacity without having to access. the second part, even within that, even as i change, we can do better than we do in the past 20 years. basically we can engage on the issue of technology and the biggest way is to look at again, the survivability of our systems. command and control, cyber, redundancy of the systems, how do we have a better communications technology system so we can survive. this shift is happening within the pentagon. there is a focus on buying comes along those lines. as a laundry list of things that make this difficult without a shadow of a doubt. the basic approach and we can get to a better affordable national strategy. >> he mentioned the minority, i think it's an interesting one, hearing from the pentagon, the ability domina

list that you secretaries they played in this madness what are we to make of his policies towards russia china and ukraine. what comes 1st for him bally's interest is he employed by of eulogy for geopolitics does he believe anything. and welcome back this is r t international now the czech republic has toned down its allegations against russia over 2 explosions that happened more than 6 years ago prague is still saying that russian agents were responsible a claim that has caused tit for tat diplomatic expulsions although it has now clarified that allegations saying it was not an act of state terror don quarter comments. expelling moscow's diplomats accusing russia of blowing up of munitions factory 6 years ago by the way over 6 years ago by the way with the same 2 people that they accused russia of sending to poison the script balls back in 2018 these are some really bold moves and all of a sudden prague is backtracking on what it was saying so let's take a listen to what the pm said after he was done pointing the finger of russia i'd like to read to read that it was not an act of state terror

venezuela is struggling to secure vaccines for its people there are only a fraction of doses from russia and china available as infections are reaching levels not seen since its 1st wave last year the government says u.s. sanctions are preventing it from buying more to risible reports. every day we say you have to face is the difficult task of filling oxygen tanks to help his father one survive covert 1000. 179 years old and he's struggling with coronavirus at home but when i remember north i don't trust in the government and how it's treating people in hospitals clinics are so expensive that we can't afford it the cheapest clinic we found wanted to charges that he mitchell payment of $3000.00 and then $1500.00 a day and that's something we can't pay. finding oxygen is not easy he says father has been at home for more than 2 weeks and needs for oxygen tanks a day at a cost of $70.00 per tank we say it has opened an account in go fund me to get financial help. this is the 3rd day of the go fund me campaign but we can't withdraw the money until the 14th we've been able to get some money but there ar

acknowledgement that we need to work together on evolving new challenges whether they be from china russia new technologies democratic backsliding climate change again the challenges we face are different in this relationship needs to adapt to meet them and we know that president biden has not budged at all in his opposition to the nord stream to natural gas pipeline connecting russia and germany germany remains committed to this pipeline do we have a problem there this is certainly a different difficult issue for the administration for european partners to deal with president biden has me clear that he opposes the plane fly and secretary of state lincoln has said that this is a bad deal and the administration also and this is significant pressure from congress to impose further sanctions i'm here peon entities to stop the construction of the pipeline which is almost done i think moving forward this is going to be an issue for the u.s. and europe also because the united states used this as a geo political challenge to play blabbered circumvent pretty pretty created a difficult position and

russia and china are expanding the size of their arsenals. new start put in tomorrow, if russia decided to pull out. so we need to think about that. having icbms does give us that hedge, it would allow us to increase the size of our arsenal if we wanted to, and achieve our objectives. the primary purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. the enemy gets a vote. if russia or china decided to he attack, we would want to achieve our objectives, and icbms helps us to do that, helps us to limit damage. cutting clearicbms, cutting the number of icbms means that god e forbid, in the event of a liliar war, millions of americanss s would die, whereas we kept those icbms, they wouldt survive. >> if i can just real quick, forhe those watching, when we talk bu about modernizing the entire 6, 7% r triad, it's about of the entire national defense budget. the t foricbm leg is a tiny frat of that, incredibly reasonable amount for what we're getting. so you should reject the argument that it's simply not affordable. >> thanks, rebecca.uch i wanted to follow up --

gn russia, china and south -- saudi arabia.— russia, china and south -- saudi arabia. minister to advance their own interests, even when those interests are at odds with the interests of the british people to he has used very strong words today but while he is rightly pressing ahead with sanctions, he is either turning a blind eye to the real power relationships in government or he is being played. we deserve to know which it is. he he is being played. we deserve to know which it is.— to know which it is. he has mentioned _ to know which it is. he has mentioned russia. - to know which it is. he has mentioned russia. it- to know which it is. he has| mentioned russia. it would to know which it is. he has- mentioned russia. it would be good _ mentioned russia. it would be good to— mentioned russia. it would be good to hear him talk about those — good to hear him talk about those close to the putin route regime — those close to the putin route regime. directly assisting president vladimir putin in hiding _ president vladimir putin in hiding hundreds of billions of pounds —

acknowledgement that we need to work together on evolving new challenges whether they be from china russia new technologies democratic backsliding climate change again the challenges we face are different in this relationship needs to adopt to meet and we know that president biden has not budged at all in his opposition to the nordstrom to natural gas pipeline connecting russia and germany germany remains committed to this pipeline do we have a problem there this is certainly a different difficult issue for the administration for european partners to deal with and president biden has me clear that he opposes the plate line and secretary of state lincoln has said that this is a bad deal and the administration also this is significant pressure from congress to impose further sanctions i'm hearing paean entities to stop the construction of the pipeline which is almost done i think moving forward this is going to be an issue for the u.s. and europe also because the united states used this as a shield political challenge to play blabbered circumvent pretty pretty created a difficult position an

and that it's a bit more dangerous to do so the lines are drawn with both russia and china but biden is still holding out hope of cooperating with them on some issues as part of his message number 3 america is green one of his 1st acts as president biden signing an order to rejoin the paris agreement on climate change biden has even claimed a leadership role in this hosting a virtual summit with russia and china present and announcing plans to cut u.s. emissions who commitments is perhaps the biggest reversal of all from the denial of the trump era but is it really enough of us with the historical climate that the earth the rest of the world to clear those countries are just. that it would have to have far greater emissions cuts than what's currently being put on the table so after $100.00 days what can we say america is greener but not as green as it could be america's projecting toughness but we don't know whether it's going to lead america maybe back for some but not so much for others but however all of this shakes out it's certainly a change from america 1st. there was w.'s chie

control over the rest of the world and if in the early days it was obviously against russia and china those communist states and particularly russia i mean i was brought up in africa and i saw the money coming in from russia and coming in from america he who bribed most basically both the politicians and the politicians just pocketed a lot it's an extension of that game it's still continuing today and i just don't see that the security system and the defense industry in america has ever wanted to adapt from those days it is still continuing to pursue those sorts of objectives and this is sad i mean the fact is that america is now losing its head hegemonic status around the world and america doesn't like it i mean certainly the intelligence services don't like it but it is a fact i mean already we've got the european union which is drifting away from america now that britain is out this. you know having a hell of a scrap over this north stream pipeline as you bypassing the ukraine and ukrainians are going to be losing on you know not getting the transit fees and all the rest of it the

true, it is really hard _ blocked by russia and china. really hard to unify _ blocked by russia and china. true, it is really hard to unify the - it is really hard to unify the world. you mention russian and china impose trucker language in the un security council last week. seems also to be divided although king not asking members are concerned because they recognise not only the human rights problem, but the fact that continued rules by this military raises serious risk of significant instability that can spill over into the region. but important as the international response is, chances are that it's going to be what happens inside myanmar and it's going to determine what happened dominant —— where the country go. {iii dominant —— where the country go. of the world sit back and watch more thousands of people get killed because of a repressive state by the military, or does the world actually concentrate on the $30 billion plus of jade sold most years, concentrate on the $30 billion plus ofjade sold most years, a lot concentrate on the $

here is the big key between britain, europe, and russia and china, russia and china don't have any alliances don't have many friends. europe, nato, united states, we work together. our strength is our alliances. we want to make sure we have battle winning capabilities and we have to make sure we are prepared for the type of battle that will come tomorrow, not fighting yesterday's war. >> china is investing in technology and it is increasing its conventional forces. it is expanding its navy significantly. >> we are increasing our frigates and destroyers. we will have more by the middle of this decade than we have now. at the same time, by ung technology, we will have them available for longer days at a. the other part of having defense capability is we want our capability to be forward and used operational and the russians know that. that is why they are offering at a rate of readiness integrator forward presence. i can have lots of ships tied up alongside, but that is not going to deter anyone or change anything. we nd to make sure we have a force that is ready and deployable, a force capabl

limit that you secretaries they play into this madness what are we to make of his policies towards russia china and ukraine. what comes 1st for him about the use interest is he employed by abiola g geopolitics as he believe in anything. eleanor hall the man. this is a said he was suicidal taken to the hospital in a mall and there i mean if he really wanted to commit suicide there's nothing i could do about it but i was going to make it easy this all started off with a bad relationship and some tests and stress in grad school and now i am a totally dysfunctional highly suicidal individual and the only thing that's happened between then and now is i've been exposed to a series of very strong psychiatric medications right now medicines are given like a basis for seeing doctors for 5 minutes and they're given the pill it's my belief that the many of the medications that doctors are giving to patients today are more harmful than helpful to those patients they want that pill that they hope will take care of their problem thoroughly and rapidly and most of these medications will actually do that very

of his policies towards russia china and ukraine. comes 1st for him. interest in. politics believe anything. it is good to have you with us today so at the end of castro ruling cuba or all castro who of course led the country as communist party for the last 10 years office succeeding his brother fidel and alice his resignation on friday that was the same day that de classified documents revealed he had been the target of a cia assassination attempt let's get some details with. raul castro reveals he's stepping down what better time to disclose your country meal the idea of assassinating him this is the perfect metaphor of cuba u.s. relations as the cia has published once top secret cables describing how in 1960 the agency offered $10000.00 to a pilot flying roll castro from prague to have to arrange an unlucky accident the plot can be added to what some say were the hundreds of assassination attempts on rolls brother legendary el commandante fidel providing a glimpse into just how big a thorn in america's side cuba was and even remains to this day clearly the castr

we have to deal with both china and russia and we have to be concerned about challenges from countries like north korea, iran, and potentially others. we have got a bigger problem on our hands in china. secondly, you cannot compare our funding levels with china. chairman smith is a smart guy who chairs the house armed services committee. sure he appreciates this. over half of our military budget is personnel costs. guess how much the personal costs are for the chinese military? it's a very small percentage. and so it is comparing apples and oranges to try to suggest our level should be no more than the chinese. we have to deal with a combination of threats. the chinese and the russians rank about how they practice their military operations together in wargaming. so what if they combine their efforts and we under a new start have supposedly have an adequate force to deter russia. but it does not equate to a threat that would be simultaneously from both russia and china. this is one of the problems with the new start. we should have been able to somehow include china and the new start tr

of course, china and russia, they are still supporting the military generals. it is unacceptable. bad for china. it is bad for russians. it is bad for the international community. it is bad for india. it is bad for asia. this chaos created by the military generals, this is not -- nobody benefits from the military chaos and killing. russia will not benefit from this killing, this act of terrorism. no world interests of the military generals. they should come together. otherwise, they risk thfuture where they will witness the weapon that they gave has been used to kill and commit crime against humanity, atrocity, and ethnic cleansing and genocide. that will be the time when this country will be blamed. history will judge them harshly if they don't stop supporting the military generals. of course, we will be asking again the united nations council to call on a vote. if my country votes in favor of resolution, it must go to the u.n. general assembly. the u.n. general assembly has the responsibility to protect the people of myanmar in this dire situation. otherwise, it will become chao

really that you secretaries they like to dismiss this what are we to make of his policies towards russia china and ukraine. what comes 1st for him to use for interest is he employed by. geopolitics as you believe in. welcome back now the czech republic has toned down its allegations against russia over 2 explosions that happened more than 6 years ago prague is still saying that russian agents were responsible a claim that calls for top diplomatic expulsions although it's now clarified that allegation saying it was not an act of state terror while for more on this i'm now joined by our own quarter. coming i mean we've seen diplomatic spouse send some progs is something that sort of took it back but mixed messages so just talk us through what's happened how is russia responded right well after all these expulsions after accusing russia of blowing up a munitions warehouse 7 years ago by the way with the same people that europe accused russia of apparently poisoning the script back in 2018 while progress all of the sudden backtracking on its story let's take a listen to what the prime minister sai

russia china and pakistan a meeting with taliban representatives some avenge of aid is in darren's as an earlier attack could pose a threat to progress this is the biggest concern that all parties have who are engaged in these talks that the violence is going to increase in of going to stand in less than 48 hours when the deadline expires asked for the agreement between the taliban and the united states that all foreign forces will leave the united states has indicated with its new administration that the u.s. forces are going to be withdrawing gradually that they would draw will begin from a the 1st but it will not be completed at that time which has been a longstanding demand of the taliban and to discuss that special representatives and on boys from russia china the united states as well as pakistan attended this meeting with the taliban where all of these issues were discussed the taliban insisting that they need to see their prisoners being released a few 100 of them still remain in prisons they need to be delisted from a terrorist organization status by the united nations and ot

securing peace in afghanistan is at the center of talks right here in doha the united states russia china pakistan are all meeting with taliban representatives that says the u.s. begins a gradual drawdown of its remaining troops in afghanistan we can speak to his own pinch of aid he's been following those talks for us here in doha and whoever is responsible for the attack in libya province it just demonstrates how urgent the need for peace is enough and. why absolutely this is the biggest concern that all parties have who are engaged in these talks that the violence is going to increase in of going to stand in less than 48 hours when the deadline expires as per the agreement between the taliban and the united states that all foreign forces will leave the united states has indicated with its new administration that the u.s. forces are going to be withdrawing gradually there they would draw will begin from a the 1st but it will not be completed at that time which has been a longstanding demand of the taliban and to discuss that special representatives and always from russia china the united

the rear with russia. chinaoe. , ., , china is a much more formidable foe. , ., foe. government is good rather than bad foe. government is good rather than had in _ foe. government is good rather than bad in terms _ foe. government is good rather than bad in terms of _ foe. government is good rather than bad in terms of being - foe. government is good rather than bad in terms of being the l than bad in terms of being the key driver of the economy. is that now where america is? well, we are in a catastrophe like the war. so you don't really think of the private sector dealing with that. let's not forget that these vaccines which have gotten us out of the pandemic, they were not even big pharma, these were small entrepreneurial forms that had these ideas that we have been waiting years longer if we didn't have them and so, it in terms of basic research, the government to contribute. we are in a pandemic and i think of you keep pretending that the government can do everything, will be in trouble. but i think we nee

russia china and the you carry the u.s. delegation is across the road in another hotel the 2 sides won't hold direct talks only just kind of stand near each other and the europeans becoming kind of living metaphors for their true standing in the world and being used as messenger boys and girls literally running notes across the road between the 2 camps when you fancied someone at school and balancing the main sticking point is the u.s. wants this to be a step by step process to get the deal back up and running on quite reasonably you have to say things that the u.s. was the one to pull out this should be a deal which will see the fall removal of sanctions to be fair to the u.s. lifting sanctions won't be that easy washington's put in place $1600.00 of them as a lot of paperwork strange quirk of this deal is a lot of attention is put on how long it would take iran to actually build a bomb the original deal about a year the west since iran started enriching uranium after the collapse of the deal is now down to a few months bu

wouldn't that be going against china and russia and what will that meant. well china and russia obviously have concerns they expressed those concerns at the security council yesterday i and i know that they're not prepared to go forward with sanctions but because some countries are unwilling to move forward with sanctions it does not mean that other 10 countries can't and if you're willing to move in on the have the people of myanmar and treasure this regime which are using heavier weapons and now it's important that you move forward and do so in a coordinated fashion so you don't need everyone to do that and in fact using those those who are opposed to that as an excuse to not act would be a really big mistake so what kind of sanctions are you talking about what would be effective. well i think if we could sanction not just the individuals involved here but the businesses and the business conglomerates that the hunter is in control of and has a stake ship we need to cut all the revenue go into the military junta including oil and gas but of course we have t

w h o's kovacs scheme for iran the government also has supply deals of course in place with russia and china. well russia and china have been very helpful in this regard and the iranians are work cooperate with them to import vaccines from both countries but the problem is of course with the the the fact that the iranians can't use the international financial sector and therefore other vaccines are completely unavailable to iran and the iranian backed scene program has been delayed for months as a result not only that but iran is also developing its own vaccine and which will be coming out in a few weeks but the problem with that was that it was also delayed because they couldn't import the necessary equipment to develop the vaccine to mass produce the vaccine because of the sanctions so if if they were if there were no sanctions the iranian vaccine would have already been on the market we would have had millions of vaccines already imported to meet the needs of ordinary people but the americans than and the europeans have been using this as a weapon to run against iran and it's not just tha

principally russia and china and a strong nuclear force posture. in maintain that deterrence that is the key reason for our nuclear stockpile. it is to keep the peace. it's not to make war. i think sometimes people look at it and think well it is unnecessary. or we can eliminate 1 of the legs of the triad. no strategic deterrent that will replace the minimum. and i think that will be 8 terrible mistake. first will give her adversaries the impression were backing down and they could miss calculate of think they could engage a nuclear strike that would not threaten their survival but would threaten our spirits direct thank you for that i agree completely. you mention the news start treaty. we were 1 of the senators voted against the treaty printer was nearly ratified back in the end back in 2010. but in the 10 years since it entered it's really clear what putin accomplished without treaty. he mounted with his nuclear modernization program for a sec. state former secretary of state as pompeii stated only 45% of russia's arsenal is subject to american