south asia is home to two nuclear-armed countries. it's also home to the highest concentration of u.s. designated foreign terrorist groups so we have enduring interests there. our strategy emphasizes regional cooperation to reduce the threat of terrorism, reduce the threat and possibility of nuclear conflict and to put pressure on the taliban and other parties to seek reck sills. -- reconciliation. we remain engaged with pakistan to protect americans, to protect our homeland and ensure there are no safe havens from which terrorists can plan and operate to support attacks. our strategy focuses on the region as a whole and shifts from a time-based approach to a conditions on the ground approach and promotes political settlement. regarding afghanistan, we focus on four key pillars known as the so-called four "r"s. regionizatio regionalization, realignment, reconciliation -- neutral easing potential spoilers and creating the conditions for durable political solutions. as the deputy secretary noted, i would also note we were pleased with i

shifting to a conditions based approach, the south asia strategy marked a change from the status quo. we intend to hold pakistan accountable. we also encourage restraint and pakistan's nuclear and missiles program and seek continued close are alignment of pakistan nonproliferation policies with our own. we continue to the value our relationship with pakistan and recognize the benefit of cooperation. pakistan played an important role in pushing al qaeda close tore defeat. combatting isis, securing nuclear weapons, refugees and providing access for supplies and equipment used by u.s. and afghan forces. we acknowledge the sacrifices the pakistan people made to combat terrorism. we have shared with pakistan and south asia strike that psychiatry and detail and made expectations clear to pakistan emphasizing they have to take decisive action against militant and terrorist groups based there. in january the president suspended security assistance with limited programs which will be decided on a case by case basis. we may consider lifting the suspension when we see sustained aks to address ou

>> i think just to be clear in a sense south asia would become more dangerous. in a different sense not the largescale conventional war the level of interstate conflict we saw for instance, sit 1971. thousand offices soldiers killed, hundreds of thousand loves refugees, millions out of the 1971 war. but the down side risk is much larger. it depended on what your probability estimate is that we're all going to die in a nuclear holocaust. i'm serious. if you believe that you can build strong command and and control structured that avow nuclear accidents and keep the material out of the wrong kind actors and institutionally robust enough to survive unpredictable individual leaders, and if you also believe that you can build fairly robust communications between nuclear powers to limit miscalculations and inadvertent escalation, that neverring having world war ii again seemed appealing. i you're pat would is known as proliferation yes piss -- pessimist. you worry about inned a vert ten miscalculation and we're in a much more dangerous world so a theoretical empirical

in rolling out its new south asia strategy last august, the administration underscored the united states hard-fought security gains in afghanistan and reiterated our commitment to helping establish a foundation for political resolution. ofh the recent reports shrinking government control of territory, continued high attrition of afghan forces and deadly attacks in kabul, it is foundation is a long way off. but we are encouraged i the new strategy.- by the new it is approaching the level our force to matter -- force commander requested. our nato a non-nato allies have also reinforced their troop commitments and support to afghan forces through 2020. nicholson says he has what he needs to assist afghans in achieving a sustainable outcome for the region. providespproach afghans, our allies and the taliban clear signal of american commitment as the national unity government pursues fiscal reform and self-reliance efforts. this administration has also rightly drawn a clear line with pakistan, suspending security assistance of over $1 billion as long as islamabad continues to shelter terror gr

his research focuses on violent political programs, and concentrated in south asia, and his books have received several awards and published widely in academic journals. and next to paul, is professor e cohen who received her ph.d. from the university of south carolina, and her teaching are why at the center of international politic, and she is broadly are interested in how the foreign institutions affect the foreign leaders and a leader's propensity for nuclear proliferation, and she explores the reasons that they choose to expand their nuclear programs with insight currently, and most recently named one of the seven freshest perspectives on nuclear a politics by "the bulletin." and we are excited to have our scientists with us tonight. we will start from are the far end with professor pape. the floor is yours. >> thank you, all, and dean woodward and it is so nice to have the faculty and the young i.r. faculty commenting on the effects of nuclear weapons here at the university of chicago and i'm delighted to be part of it. nuclear weapons inspire tremendous fear not just among the ek

and while asia is the biggest importer of weapons in the biggest importer of weapons in the wild, countries such as china and southecome major arms exporters. it is not easy when your neighbours are increasing their defence spending. no country wants to be left behind. you will take a brave government in asia to slow down. 0ne company that is likely to benefit from that is salas and i'm joined by their chief executive. were talking about robust growth in defence spending in asia. how has that affected your company and can we expect some announcement this week? defence spending is have started to increase almost all over the world and in particular in this region. why would it be? is that because of growing economies all territorial disputes in the region? yes. and this generates a greater needin yes. and this generates a greater need in terms of protection and safety. we have countries like china and india are doubling their spending in the last 20 years as well a south east asia. were starting to see some slow down. it is still growing but we are heartened to see a little slow down recently. are you concerned abo

this is what has characterized south asia. stability essentially if there is a nuclear war under most scenarios there be a enormous loss of life. this induces extraordinary caution there's a feeling hopefully with no miscalculation which no conflict is likely to go. policymakers are well aware of the challenges of the nuclear use. that's good news. the bad news is at the same time the stability has allowed for sustained instability with interstate competition. so we've seen in last 20 years a proxy war and terrorist attack on it and to on instability. leads to enervated escalations that could unsettled the higher level. there's many scholarly arguments. it's reasonable to suggest that pakistani support for different groups have continued despite the nuclear weapons. indeed steeply constrained for attacks like the 2008 mumbai attack or the parliament 2001. there's a ceiling on what you can do what is led to is an ongoing proxy war and it creates a grim and sporadic but intense crisis. on one hand it's quite stable over time. fr

mirroring the falls in south—east asia as well. falls in south—east asia as well. the sell—off in the united states overnight. in the united states overnight. me they are not sure where this volatility will go. volatility will go. direction we have been seeing for the better part of this week? the better part of this week? they feel there are problems in asia itself. itself. problems in china, or problems in japan. japan. rises at a faster pace than most people had anticipated. people had anticipated. they are worried about the outflow of foreign cash. of foreign cash. interest rates were low in the united states. united states. valuations in stock markets all over the region. emerging market valuations. valuations. there is concern that many will disappear. disappear. that is the reason why so many are concerned. many are concerned. problem is or was at the top of peoples minds. peoples minds. something people have not been thinking about. thank you very much indeed. on cutting air pollution. they are being told — clean up — or pay up! let's show you the details.

disappointing the great chinese foreign policy initiative of building infrastructure across asia and south asiae is not backing that. they are also going to be viewing it quite negatively. japan's fuji film is taking over xerox in a $6.1 billion deal. xerox has been struggling for eight say ——8 years with falling sales as offers go paperless. joining us now is leisha sa ntorelli. offers go paperless. joining us now is leisha santorelli. they expect cost savings of nearly $2 billion. this came around because of a joint venture called fuji xerox but fujifilm has announced they will be restructuring and laying off 10,000 workers, 20% of the workforce. let's talk about the joint—venture. in asia, xerox is owned by fujifilm. this joint—ventu re asia, xerox is owned by fujifilm. this joint—venture makes asia, xerox is owned by fujifilm. this joint—ventu re makes about asia, xerox is owned by fujifilm. this joint—venture makes about $10 billion in annual sales. investors in america, most notably with —— most notably this man. as advised to be terminated altogether. analysts are questioning the deal. x

in persisting energy deficits in south asia that's the idea behind a new pipeline delivering natural gas from turkmenistan into afghanistan pakistan and india the project has been planned for more than twenty years but conflict and political instability in the region proved hurdles to development now construction has started in the afghan section and even the islamist taliban has signaled support. much is riding on the transit ghana's than pipeline natural gas from turkmenistan is supposed to help alleviate afghanistan's chronic energy shortage and provide a measure of economic stability for the conflict ridden country at the groundbreaking ceremony afghan president struck a hopeful tone. deaf in my get mad at them and this program will result in the creation of hundreds of millions of dollars such the bush this program will bring us electricity. gas bring us jobs this program will bring us life by a net cost that met at carter. for its part turkmenistan is hoping new customers for its gas would help it reduce its dependency on its meaning buyer china state company turkmen gas will o

of the south asia center. he is a true rocket scientist. he managed the program in arms control disarmament in international security at the university of illinois at champagne overu saw developing projects on south asian security issue ors. he's also worked with cornell university and he is a true rocket scientist. he had ph.d. with a specialization numerical accusics i don't know what that is. buts that's brought and then we have a terrific panel. the go to men in washington on all things missiles mike senior fellow for missile self-defense at the international for study and wi rks and dos area iran ballistic missile capabilities assessment, long bio you have it here. he's the go to guy and then we have persuaded melissa dalton senior fellow and deputy director of the international security program at the center for strategic and international studies. to come and provide perspective on particularly on the gcc point of view, melissa has long worked on these issue. she's also served in government and we're luc

days temperatures getting up to around twenty nine or thirty degrees celsius not too wet across south asia chance of want to see showers just sneaking their way towards flanker over the next day or two you could see a little bit of wet weather just crawling in here temps in colombo at around thirty one celsius perhaps a little more widespread as we go through sunday but further north it is largely fine and dry still the cool side in new delhi with a top temperature of twenty one. the weather sponsored by cateye weighs. more than seven decades ago a country was split into we began with dick cheney and now. being myopic all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. you want you are just here a reminder of our top stories this hour us congress has released a memo that alleges the f.b.i. and the department of justice abused their power w

they like the south asia strategy. they're glad that they have at least that. it's not much more than a speech and five bullet points, but they say it's more than perhaps the guys in syria know they're fighting for. so they have a little bit of direction and they're ready to go. >> check out kevin's article in "defense one," "meet the believers, u.s. commanders ready for a reboot." it's a fascinating read. kevin, great work with that, hans nichols, thank you to you as well. >>> we're minutes away from the opening bell on wall street. dow futures are down once again. could it be deja vu all over again? >>> first, we're less than 48 hours away from the opening ceremony of the olympics on nbc, in case you forgot. earlier today, 229-member all female cheering section from north korea arrived in south korea for the games. the delegation is led by kim jong un's younger sister, the first time any members of the kim dynasty has visited the country just to their south. we'll be right back. at ally, we offer low-cost trades and high-yield savings. but if that's not enoug

was in my opinion not necessarily a gun problem but more of a mental health problem let's head to south asia now where a quarterback is than has hounded for death sentences to a man convicted of raping and murdering a six year old girl and then a bizarre his body was found in a rubbish dump after she'd been strangled to death sparked protests across the country as people accuse the government and police of incompetence in just a reports. captured on security cameras walking hand in hand with the man who would kill her these are the last known moments of little zaineb and sari's life her body would later be found on a rubber stamp in cars sure the town where she lived with her family near the eastern city of lahore investigators say she was raped and strangled twenty four year old in run ali was convicted of her kidnap rape and murder and antiterrorism court handed him four separate death sentences and are biased on the law crimes that are considered to have spread terror in society can be charged as acts of terrorism the opportunity that this case was sent to or better child protection or a

will it play a role in connecting central and south asia reaping some of the benefits of ups this is a this is a fundamental choice and there are very high hopes for the project because as well as providing energy leaders and saying that they hope will lead to development of road you know rail communications communications networks the taleban have said that they support the pipeline it doesn't go through taliban territory as we've mentioned is that surprising. absolutely not and while it is absolutely correct that this pipeline holds immense opportunity for afghanistan it also highlights the challenges of dealing in a situation of conflict there is something we call the the war economy the taleban have stated that they they welcome this project as a national and vestment but the taliban have also developed a system of taxation of economic activity inside the country the taliban does not primarily depend upon those are some secret donations from foreign governments or of jihadi organizations or on their operations they depend upon taxing both legal and illegal economic activity insid

the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price and these are the higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained it's indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken and three title beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is if they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated more still to come here on the program on r.t. international the russian athletes are suspected of doping the winter olympics in south korea more on that after the break. when you don't. was. that looked what they did equipped to do. what they did not through only ten. let alone killing sai

well, i think they can pick it up from their neighbours in south asia.d heavily and we have seen the dramatic results of positive side and we have seen the rise in the tiger numbers. that's the net result of investment. and here in thailand, they've also done the same thing as india, russia and nepal and they've also invested in the protection of the tigers. yes, they have done that, and i think there is also an example for other southeast asian countries to pick it up from there. they should be doing the similar way and taking tiger conservation into the lead. what are we doing right and what can india to boost the numbers further? these are the numbers we have found out and seen. these countries where the tigers have gone up, they have been consistently investing, professionalizing the project management. that needs to be an example... nepal. the last three years, they did not have any other fatalities of any other wild animals, especially like rhinos, that's an example for other countries. the director lewis gilbert has died at the age of 97. he direc

. - [narrator] afghanistan sits at the crossroads of the middle east, russia, and south asia. for centuries it has been a focal point of both trade and war. - afghans are very proud people, and because of our strategic location, we have been resisting the super powers. we have fought ghengis khan, tamerlane, alexander the great, the british, the soviet union. so really the idea of accepting the dominance of another country, is not in the gene of the afghans. - afghanistan has been referred to as the graveyard of empires because it's a very rugged, dry generally, typography. neither the russians, nor the british, nor the americans, have been able to, for a significant period of time, subdue afghanistan. and, it's not that you can't do it, it's what costs are you willing to incur. - [narrator] the costs were too high for the soviet union when various ethnic groups united as the mujahideen to drive them out of afghanistan in the 1980's. - the mujahideen, during the afghan war, were generally engaged in a war of liberation against the soviet union. it was a war of liberation that

bollywood is part of the dna of people in india and south asia more widely and around the world.ide of her house in mumbai. she died there where she was attending a family wedding but we understand her bodyis family wedding but we understand her body is being flown back to india. there will be ceremonial customs in bombay. people are gathering in mum by outside of her house, the home of bollywood film to pay their tributes that. this is the sort of death the whole of india comes together, across tv channels people are talking about her death because bollywood has a huge impact and sridevi kapoor was one of the brightest stars. taking no chances, handcuffed and surrounded by heavily armed police and security guards, the man is said to bea and security guards, the man is said to be a top drugs lord and target for the united states was about to face justice there. over the for the united states was about to facejustice there. over the past decade, prosecutors say the ecuadorian national smuggled more than 250 tonnes of cocaine. the final humiliating downfall of an alleged drug smugg

organizations the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the south asia were well known to any european company so the choice c. trade made was for the highest price and. higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three title beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the ground and is also very dangerous for the work is a fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated that's a wrap up of the week's biggest stories along with today's top headlines but of course i'll be back at the top the hour with more so do stay with us. i want. to. apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about

trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the yards in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three title beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution. the groundwater there is also very dangerous for the work is they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically and then industry which is very poorly regulated so to come on the program here one ought to be a former cia agent trying to whistle blower has been released early from prison we will address the case after the break. what else will seem. like all day long just don't call. if you're going to get to see play out just to come out again. and it gets really equals

some of the worst violence was in the ancient rfrhine capital, where our south asia correspondent jonathan head reports. jonathan: these old temples are all that is left of what was once a powerful buddhi kingdom. they are a reminder to the rakhine people, now some of the poorest in myanmar, of how far they have faen. it is the sense of humiliating decline, a favorite theme of local politicians, which has stirred up dangerous fear that the rakhine are being squeezed -- on one side by the burmese state, and on the other by a massive muslim populatn. five years ago, they turned on their muslim neighbors. dozens died in this part of rakhine. many rohingycore d completelytroyed. the survivors confined by theua government to d camps. this was the start of a bitter ethnic conflict which the flight of 700,000 refugees to ngladesh last year. but their rakhine neighbors have little sympathy. they have their n complaints. they blame the government for their poverty. and they all have tales to tell of violent disputes with e muslims. n't have them here," they said. and yet they remembered living toge

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here's our south asia correspondentjustin rowlatt.tal of a himalayan region in the north of india. now, normally, you would expect a street like this to be fairly busy. now, it is winter, but there is another reason why this place is so quiet and that is that lots of people here are simply too frightened to come out, and that is because they have a really serious problem with stray dogs. at least 180 people were bitten by dogs last year. one man was mauled to death. i want to get an idea of the scale of the problem. so we're out here looking to see how it dogs we can find. and just to be on the safe side, i've brought a stick. there's obviously some dogs down here. there are estimated to be 30 million stray dogs in india. huge numbers of people are bitten. 0ne estimate is that as many as 15 million people could be bitten each year, and an indicator of just how serious that is are the world health organization's statistics on rabies — 20,000 people a year die of rabies here in india. that is a third of the world total. here, here! ther

the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three total beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated. former cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling has been released from prison he revealed cia mismanagement of a classified program to the us senate and was later sentenced under the espionage act to three and a half years sterling was freed after serving over two years of that sentence but sterling was not jailed for

first of all russia asked her to leave the region and leave this region to the point of all of our south asia that is very important point to be on the stand that the second point is that russia is whether you will of aid of the conflict. between turkey and. the united states turkey russia is happy to see the problem emerge of problems. between turkey and nato and united states as much as turkey is this. from us the position of russia is getting more so truong saw i think that russia in syria is not only. allowing could serve return to at the same time it creates problems between turkey and nato and the united states all right i've made and just wondering what turkey's response is going to be we had the prime minister saying that y.p. g. forces will pay twice as much i'm just wondering what it is that turkey will do when response and how the kurds feel considering that they basically lost an ally in russia have they. well first of all i have to say this about the day after the day everybody was speaking about after the dash defeat what was going to happen and now it is the moment of the truth

joining me now is our south asia correspondent, justin rowlatt.s through what has been going on in the last 2a hours. just talk us through what has been going on in the last 24 hours. well, we have to go further back to understand what has been happening. last week, the supreme court of the maldives ordered a group of political prisoners, people arrested under terrorism charges but members of the opposition party, be released. nine of them, including the former president, bashid. they also ordered 12 mps who switched sides, leaving the ruling party for the opposition, have positions reinstated. that would effectively end the majority the current president, abdulla yameen, has in parliament, opening the possibility that he could be impeached by parliament. he suspended the parliament. he suspended the parliament last week. there was a growing protest in the streets. the supreme court was ready to impeach the president, at which point there was this unfolding story with the judges arrested, and this former president, a member of the opposition, also

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the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions that the in south asia were well known to any european companies so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of the higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained it's indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three tidal beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is if they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated. well the former director of the cia as admitted to meddling in foreign elections will tell you how he defended the practice after the break. seemed wrong oh well just don't hold. me. to shape out just to. educate and engage equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look fo