by former president sarkozy's a little so a lot of. the suspicions that they have on the region or other people think that we believe france is backing them francis said that it's kind of days of military involvement there are kind of pretty much over and is in is not backing these this coalition of armed groups to i guess what's at stake for whoever does control the country or the government or the various parts of the country is mineral resources significant gold and diamond wealth there's also uranium. and i think that's one of the things you've got to consider that's what the essence of this conflict is probably about is not i guess that i think the people that live there are very much victims you know in a fight between bigger powers possibly powers from outside whether that's russia and france or child or whoever whoever it may be involved but it's a competition intra troll alley and access to that is not true of the us isn't it that this is what people are called up in the middle of. yeah i think i think you know michael you're

a parliamentary election has been held in neighboring kazakhstan president sarkozy in germany have spotty is projected to have won a landslide victory taking 72 percent of the votes but most opposition parties boycotted is saying that the political system is rigged chinese state media has fiercely criticized the u.s. for ending decades of restrictions on official contact with taiwan it's angered beijing because it considers taiwan to be part of china they are holding reports china china china china china donald trump has taken a tough line on china since the start of his presidency he's called the corona virus the china virus and its pledge to bring jobs outsourced to china back to the united states and in his final days in office his administration has announced it's easing restrictions on official u.s. contact with taiwan in an online statement the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei ago said taiwan is a vibrant democracy and reliable partner of the united states and yet for several decades the state department has created complex internal restrictions in an attempt to appease the commu

forces came in sarkozy went over and played the grand pew pubah and established peace and they went back. i talked to peace keepers and they said their trying to tight bit by bit, inch by inch, creech by creep, like in eastern ukraine. so, what i'm suggesting is that we happen to see that those lion are held firmly and there's no question but it and that statement has to be made by all of the parties concerned. and my fear is it may not be but so far it's worked. here we are. putin has not manage ted really take over georgia or take over a substantial part of the world. >> the next is weedy from jeffrey. >> hello, jeff. >> what signal if any do you see in biden's choice of vickie newland for undersecretary of political affairs of state. perhaps intensified putin's determination to up the ante. no? well, by gones by bygones. >> irthink boygones will be bygones. europe is there to -- ukraine certainly has appeared to give biden a very much free pass for quite a while and that includes all of his -- the people he wants to see running the place. think in terms of the situations like that, th