your sect of state antony blinken verge china to use its tremendous influence on north korea to abandon its nuclear program and the u.s. defense secretary have been meeting leaders in south korea robin wright has more. this mission to north east asia ended as it had begun with the u.s. directly accusing china of aggressive behavior in the region but the u.s. and south korea also confirmed beijing's importance in the denuclearization of north korea but china has a real interest in helping to deal with this house has an obligation under the you want security council resolutions the u.s. and try to open a dialogue with north korea ahead of this trip but without success north korea has officially confirmed it had received those requests but didn't respond it's 1st vice foreign minister. saying there can be no dialogue until the u.s. stops what she called its hostile behavior making it clear pyongyang is waiting to see what the new policy of the biden and ministration to war date will look like this mission is intended to help formulate that strategy it's also aimed at restoring and repairin

their 1st foray into key asian nations and already aware reality is being kept on north korea sect of state anthony blinken that and secretary of defense lloyd austin are now in high level meetings in japan and meeting japan's foreign minister blinken underlined the common bonds between the 2 powers. only. more. human history and leaders are. probably. going to. work with. the u.n. secretary general has condemned the escalating military crackdown in me and. called on the international community to help stop the killings meanwhile funerals have been held for at least 50 protesters who were killed on sunday the worst day of violence since the military overthrew the elected government in february. brazil is getting its 4th health minister since the start of the pandemic. will take over as infection and death rates climb rapidly in the world's 2nd worst affected country. thailand's prime minister proud to know china has become one of the 1st people there to be given the astra zeneca vaccine thailand briefly joined a growing list of countries that halted its use citing concerns about a few cases

sect of state anthony blinken non-secular of the fans lloyd austin the holding high level meetings in japan head of their rival north korea warned the u.s. administration to quote not do anything and soon a. u.n. secretary general has called on the international community to help stop even to crack down in you know arsenals have been held for these 50 protesters were killed on sunday the bloodiest day since the coup in 7. and brazil is getting its 4th health minister since the start of time to make myself look at all that will take over as infection and death rates climb rapidly in the world's 2nd worst affected country. now u.k. politicians are debating a proposed law that would give police more power to crackdown on protests it's an assault on freedom of expression police officers in london i face in criticism over the handling of a vigil for 33 year old woman who was last seen alive as she walked home alone and was later killed. the right to peaceful protest to demonstrate one's views to be heard. potentially under threat in proposed legislation containing a range of new powers for

interventions but with president biden strongly supporting nato bombing of yugoslavia in the ninety's and sect of state blinken advocating to supply ukraine with weapons we ask whether the new slogan is likely to translate into a real policy shift we will incentivize democratic behavior. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow off regimes by force. we've tried these tactics in the past however well intentioned they haven't worked quite an interesting use of words but the pattern from the united states of intervening in the affairs of other countries destabilizing and overthrowing governments around the world is quite well known one looks at the history of iraq of libya afghanistan one looks throughout south and central america one can see many examples of the united states intervening in other countries affairs destabilizing and overthrowing governments and in fact in recent years we've heard many calls from u.s. leaders for governments around the world to be overthrown and for leaders to step down assad needs to go we will continue to work

sect of state has sent a letter to the afghan president outlining outlining for the 1st time the biden administration's strategy for the country several proposals have been made including a revised plan for a 90 day reduction in violence at least 18 people have been killed in to land bomb explosions in the central syrian province of hama dozens more were injured in the blasts the syrian observatory for human rights says the victims were farmers explosives left in fields along roads and in buildings have killed hundreds of civilians in syria's decade long conflict and pope francis has celebrated mass with thousands of worshipers an arab ill in iraq scottish region earlier he met with members of the christian community in kind of course which was one of the towns once held by eisold those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after a statement thanks so much. frank assessments the world is on the brink. is that a fair assessment catastrophic. white. informed opinion should we be calling ultimately it will be sovereign governments who are buying this that is the direction th

your sect of state anthony blinken has urged china to use its tremendous influence on north korea to abandon its nuclear program he and the u.s. defense secretary have been meeting leaders in south korea has more. this mission to north east asia ended as it had begun with the u.s. directly accusing china of aggressive behavior in the region but the u.s. and south korea also confirmed beijing's importance in the denuclearization of north korea but china has a real interest in helping to deal with this house has an obligation under the u.n. security council resolutions the u.s. and try to open a dialogue with north korea ahead of this trip but without success north korea has officially confirmed it had received those requests but didn't respond it's 1st vice foreign minister and he saying there can be no dialogue until the u.s. stops what she called its hostile behavior making it clear pyongyang is waiting to see what the new policy of the biden administration to wardes it will look like this mission is intended to help formulate that strategy it's also a restoring and repairing relati

government are in south korea on the 2nd leg of the asia tour 2nd of state anthony blinken arrived a short time ago joining sect of defense lloyd austin trip started in japan where they criticize what they called china's coercion and aggression in asia and the oldest trophy in international sport is staying in new zealand can you please can from. the scene using. team new zealand get the trophy by beating its elisa luna rossa in auckland. to enter the regatta as heavy favorites but the italians match them in the early stages of new zealanders eventually winning 73. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness thanks for watching bison. i'm. not going. to some of them going to look at some of that and. nothing also i. would like to become a full member of a good show thank you know it shout on me given to me getting out of. bed bad for you than i do. both of them thinking they are. looking for that is the way to really look we don't know which camp police will get you them but. when you say you pay for it and $1.00 fake or is weak in the name of the camp let that one should go a li

of what has happened because traditionally the sri lankan muslim sect you know an extremely peaceful community and they have never. and there were big tenants in that 30 year war between the sri lankan states and there and let some of the rebels so and even try to that there is no real history of the muslims being terrorists are meanwhile and and it has needed yes even after that ok last it is east. noise muslim a russian so it is really unfair that government should be targeting the muslims in this. rougher keim again coming back to a former minister of justice i guess if we could ask the government and we're heading towards the 2 year anniversary of the easter attacks in the run up to that time which presumably there will be more tension almost palpably in the air as people remember what happened 2 years ago i guess the government might admit we had to make the entire country feel safer that was why we brought the ban in almost 2 years ago but how does it make the country even the majority buddhist population feel safer now if they introduce this ban going forward. but the government attempts to carry on continents relentless propaganda through the. media organizations both government me

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countries right or wrong sect themselves up as the moral judges of behavior in other countries and then sanction them this is the behavior other countries do not do and the united states looks for all the world like a bully doing it and that is not good in the long run for the united states either bad i want to kind of trade this to a broader topic conversation about sex at the end what professor wolf said there really leads right into this because the bottom restoration has actually signaled that is no rush to lift the sanctions on venezuela that were heavily imposed by the trumpet ministration why wouldn't they want to lift those sanctions. well they have no interest in removing those sanctions and what makes that a little bit different is that a lot of the same sions that are against venezuela really do hurt the entire nation what makes that israel ascensions a little bit different that in this case in this case you have senior as i said senior russian officials that are being targeted but in venezuela the trump administration put crippling sanctions into place that targeted the entire oil sector oil industry in the nation of venezuela which is the primary source o

actions and would see sect i it's an important to understand that each of these other members of the board india japan and australia also have it. it was a bit of chinese media last 20 states will last only one will as usual to act and dog as if the us is the only one in the room and that the japanese or the australians are subtle and in some manner to the united states that's not true at all ok well so what you're saying is security is important for india and the mark let me ask you this then if you know you have 4 different members in the quad obviously they have diverging interests and they're going to prioritize different areas that are important to each one of them so the few things that bind them together isn't strong enough to keep this group going. i would say that this is been one of the challenges i think for the united states in trying to build a coalition against china and that clearly i would say that japan and australia are very closely aligned i would not say they have no agency but certainly in certain areas very little strategic watan we prop's the best way to put it might think with india certainly the border is is a challenge 3500 kilometers i think it's

it's, again, a gauge in the private sect and engaging the states and say what have been these barriers. been i have to say and i think the ed chairman deserves a lot of ma credit for this,ny many o of the barriers have been removed and many of the changes that have already taken place, the programs and so forth, have been very positive and have generated a lot of good projects. could but i think it's wise to keep asking ourselves what are thoseo additional changeses thatf coul be made. n, o >>ne jane, you are the north american chair of moridium one of the most respected infrastructure funds and you were on the board, in fact chairman of the board of united airlines, so you know what mu exists in terms of private frasr capacityuc to work in infrastructure. a lot of the country's infrastructure, indeed, provided by the private sector in what h aviation, for example, are we at a new place in america where pr need's been happening around the world in investment, private investment, and infrastructure, is about to be needed in the is united states and if so, what has to change? is it public attitudes? is it congress? is it a regime of laws across ti the