interest in the south china sea. this seemed to bother beijing and i think the other administration moves in asia, which continue moves that began under the second bush administration, have continued to do that. it reflects again as sort of the strategic level the post cold war search for a new balance on the part of the united states. part of that balance is the increasingly warm relationship with india as well as the post tsunami warming relationship with indonesia. again the world's largest islamic nation. >> right. taking a look at china's -- part of this opportunity -- the united states was handed this opportunity by a new assertiveness by beijing saying that south china sea belongs to us, getting into a scuffle with singapore and then most recently territorial waters dispute with japan that kind of blew up. china has advanced its interest across the region by keeping very, very quiet and low profile. what is driving the sudden assertiveness by beijing and how does that fit into the broader strategic priorities?

these countries have their problems with the chinese which are not our problems, the south china sea,a sea or china's occupation of parts of india, frankly you antagonize the packs. they are already paranoid and antiamerican. >> the theory is that you can exert influence on india and try to get india an pakistan to work together but -- >> let's go. the group gives obama and a. i think that's uniform. >> yes. >> no. >> no, i don't go along. i think it was a good trip. >> you gave an a. >> yes, i did. >> b. >> on the trip. >> i'm not talking about the trip, india. >> i'm behind the idea of multilateralism. >> diplomacy, foreign policy. >> no, look, if you have to go in and defend your national interests, you go unilaterally, multilaterally. >> don't dip your toes in foreign waters. >> foreign wars. >> issue 3, hiroshima. >> we must stand together for the right of people everywhere to live free from fear in the 21st century. as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the united states has a moral responsibility to act. we cannot succeed in this endeavor alone. we can lead i

i don't think there is concern in south korea about china somehow invading south korea. again, there is economic interdependence between the two countries. china -- it is their no. 1 trading partner. there is concern in south korea but the economic relationship that surpasses the european or u.s. relationship might translate into a lack of leverage. i'm not a big believer in that. i think it has proven so far to be effective. an active trading relationship was not created a different security environment. it is not about whether the economic relationship creates leverage. it is about what the to these countries can maintain economic dynamism -- it is about whether each of these countries can make an economic dynamism. should there be a situation where china is compelled to send forces to north korea, it is impossible to know what the terms would be or what the causes would be. it is hard to predict the future in this respect. we have been guessing that north korea would collapse for a long time and we have been wrong. the prospects are slim at the moment, but if we look a

negotiations unless asked by countries of southeast asia, the other claimants, for example, in the south china sea. i do think that china was taken aback. i think it was surprised by the united states' intervention. because i think they've come to see the united states as not particularly focused on the region. you know, busy in iraq, busy in afghanistan, and busy with our economic recession. so i think it was an important signal to china that we're not going anywhere. >> elizabeth, thank you very much for your time today. elizabeth economy, from the council on foreign relations. >>> ministers taking part in two of the asia pacific economic cooperation forum in yokohama will soon adopt an anti-protectionist stance in a joint statement to be released in the early afternoon. apec ministers are holding a plenary session, or a session where all members meet this morning. they are discussing how to promote free trade in the asia-pacific region to achieve further growth. they will soon release a joint statement. sources close to the ministers say the statement will warn that, well, the global econom

. >>> china is expressing concerns about the role of the u.s. in the growing conflict between north and south korea. china's foreign minister is criticizing a decision by the u.s. to send an aircraft carrier to the yellow sea for naval examiner sizes with the south korean forces. china is apparently worried that its rival could escalate tensions there. all this followed an attack by the north koreans on south korea. >>> and an amazing story of survival in the south pack. what three teens did to survive almost two months at sea. >>> and police had a mess am for riders. >>> and rain could be on the way this weekend. meteorologist steve paulson will tell us when it will arrive and how long it will last. >>> and there you go. you are taking a look at cold temperatures. this is a reminder just how much the needy need our help. the holiday drive is underway at this hour. >>> in san francisco, fire crews had their hands full putting out a fire during the past hour. when firefighters arrived at the apartment building, the unit on the first floor of the two-floor building was engulfed in flames. one p

carried a statement by a foreign ministry spokesperson on wednesday that blamed south korea for the artillery exchanges. china has called on north and south korea to exercise restraint and to hold talks as soon as possible to prevent further hostilities. chinese foreign spokesman hong lei made the appeal in a statement on wednesday. the statement says china strongly urges both north and south korea to exercise calm and restraint and engauge in dialogue as quickly as possible. the statement also says china will make efforts with relevant nations to ease tensions on the korean peninsula. >>> south korea is unofficially consulting u.n. security council members about north korea's attack. the issue has not yet been placed on the official agenda on the security council. u.n. officials said south korea's u.n. ambassador, park in kook met britain's deputy ambassador to the united nations, philip parham, on wednesday morning. britain holds the rotating security council presidency this month. park and parham coordinated views with an eye on the security council taking up tuesday's attack. some diplomats say the south

and it looks like there's going to be more rain, more moisture being produced from the south china seaening the area with more flooding and landslide risks. the philippines too looking very unstable, a little bit windy toward the north and along the malay peninsula too, looking quite wet as well throughout your wednesday. southern india looking at widespread rain due to a low pressure system moving on through, although the system itself is weakening. it will continue to produce ample amounts of moisture. hong kong is going to be 24 degrees today. 17 in chongqing. cloudy skies and quite mild up in beijing. 13 degrees with sunshine. let's take a look at north america, then. well, we do have lots of wet weather in store for the eastern side of the u.s. today the system carrying lots of moisture, bringing torrential rains to a wide area throughout your wednesday. and accompanied by strong winds as well. now, during the overnight hours, especially around the mid-atlantic states looking at severe conditions. so watch out for things like damaging winds as well as tornados. and then out toward

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chinese fishing boat crashed into a couple of jap coast guard cutters near disputed items in the south china sea. after that dispute and a territorial dispute japan has with russian the president said the u.s. military presence here is increasingly important. >> thank you from japan. and now in capitol hill. nancy pelosi has the leadership, the minority leader position locked up and it is interesting. she spoke to npr about her interpretation of exactly what the election meant and her role in the losses of seats for democrats. >> we did not lose the election because of me. the reason they had to try to take me down is because i have been effective in meeting special interests in washington, dc. i'm also the most significant attractor of support for the democrats so i'm not looking back on this. they asked me to run. i'm running. and, again, our members understand they made me a target because i'm effective. >> she is in part correct. republicans ran massive ads with her face plastered all over but no one raises more money than democrats. she is a money making machine for democrats. to get ri

that was written in 1969, south china sea.oday, i am honored to introduce one of the veterans of the memorial represents -- a woman who joined the army as a student nurse in 1969, and his brother's life was as brief as the setting sun. he had been killed in vietnam in 1966. three years later, she received her orders to study nursing at walter reed mont -- walter reed army medical center. she graduated in 1973, at which time she was commissioned into the army nurse corps, and went on to serve for 23 years. currently an employee of the health care organization, she is dedicated to the quality care and safety of patients, just as she had been in her career as an army nurse. today, she lives in the montana, and works for the joint commission as a nurse serve there. please welcome lieutenant colonel connie schultz. [applause] >> general barry mccaffrey, air vice marshal kym osley, honored guests, friends, and most importantly, veterans, although i have visited this memorial many times in the past, my attention is normally to the na

an american envoy on the issue has arrived in china, which expressed concern about the exchange of firing between north and south korea. >> china's foreign ministry spokesman says the parties will contribute their share to peace and stability. after emergency meetings south korea warned the north it would sternly retaliate for further provocations saying the shelling was a clear armed provocation. the south korean military is on its highest alert and today as financial markets in the region reflect the worry and new stability, diplomatic efforts are focusing on how to prevent further escalation. >> we are monitoring what south korean state television is saying about this. when we see some of the latest pictures we will dip into and out of that. we will flip open our switches and they flip open their pictures. we have to control over what they show but we want to show you the latest pictures. we will stay with that particular broadcast and at the same time talk to our seoul correspondent. john, when did this kick off? >> it began this afternoon. the shelling went on for an hour or so ending just before 5:00 local

and when president obama visited china in the joint communique, there was a reference to south asia. a lot of my asian friends feel very, very angry, how can the two country, america and china, get together and discuss issues related to south asia? and a communique from nixon making making exactly the same points. so the reference point has changed. and so i'm not sure how much the rhetoric has changed or is it the perception of the power and the power itself, obviously, have changed. and i think this was a new reality, t a new reality that both sides -- it's a new reality that both sides have to come to some sort of a consensus about how to deal with. it is, it is tough. >> it is. we're virtually out of time, but i want to give tarun, and i want to give dambisa a chance for a very quick final comment in case we said some things that you think need to be responded to. why don't we start with you. >> yes, coming your way. >> i just want to underscore the fact that everything has to be on the table. i don't think we can outright dismiss certain things because we have, it's an emotional

american congressional commission has expressed concern that china's ballistic missiles can now reach all five u.s. air force bases in japan and south korea. the u.s./china economic and security review commission released an annual report on wednesday. the report says china has substantially upgraded its ballistic and cruise missile capability. it says the missiles can now strike kadena base in okinawa prefecture, 650 kilometers from china, and yokota base in tokyo, 1,100 kilometers away. the report urges the u.s. military to reinforce its capacity to withstand a chinese air and missile assault on its regional bases. it says a missile defense system should be deployed to intercept ballistic missiles in cooperation with japan and south korea. >> over the past decade the chinese air force has acquired both foreign and indigenously produced advanced aircraft, weapons and equipment. >> the same u.s. congressional panel we just mentioned has also urged the government to label china as currency manipulator. the u.s.-china economic and security review commission made the proposal in its annual report released on wednesday. the panel said c

there are territorial disputes over islands in the south china sea that japan believes is theirs, china believes is theirs. add to that the rising nuclear power of noefrk and their refusal to go along with the six-party talks. japan very anxious. the president has bilateral meetings with the president there when he gets up this morning. >> thank you for the update. >>> lawmakers on capitol hill are lining up, fighting back against proposals to slash the national debt by raising the social security age. slices and dices pork projects. check out where things stand with the national debt. $13.7 trillion dollars and counting. the numbers rolling so fast you can barely keep track. the committee came up with ideas that offend leaders in both parties. a few lawmakers are defending at least the work. mark udall is one of them. he is is a colorado senator. senator udall, good to see you. i got an e-mail from your office praising the work the panel has accomplished. there are a lot of controversial ideas. how do you move forward on these ideas that might end up being politically unpopular. >> con

south korea's foreign minister, kim sung hwan, invited the ambassadors of japan, china, and russia to a briefing on the exchange of fire. kim stressed that the attack was a clear violation of the armistice. >>> u.n. envoys are continuing unofficial discussions on how to address the north's attack on south korea. some are hoping that the security council will take up the issue. japanese ambassador to the u.n.tsuneo nishida said on tuesday that japan strongly condemns the attack and stands by south korea. the british armts, the current president of the council, said no official request had been made for a meeting on matters concerning the korean peninsula. the chinese ambassador told nhk that it's necessary to obtain detailed information from the two koreas. south south korea's calling for international cooperation and is considering taking the issue to the security council. but china and russia, which both have close ties with north korea, are cautious about taking a tough stance toward the north. meanwhile, north korea's deputy ambassador to the united nations, pak tok hun, stressed t

relationship between japan and china has been fractious to say the least and recent events in the south china sea have not helped that. but economically the two are much more closely linked than many would expect and need each other more than either side would care to admit. >>reporter: a curious duet is playing out between the world's second and third-largest economies... an apparently nationalist-motivated incident at sea spiralled into a geopolitical crisis, and briefly erupted into economic warfare...but while chinese sailors were being arrested at disputed islands in the southchina sea......on this island, the chinese are seen as the saviours, of japan's hard-pressed retailand tourism industry... >>craft: chinese tourists are not like visitors from other countries, the us or europe... they tend to pass up the temples and the geishas and the other cultural sights and head straight for the shopping mall... now the traditional shopping venue in japan is the ginza but now chinese are surging into this manmade island in central tokyo called odaiba. the surge in chinese tourism and shopping co

that's what the chinese are doing in the south china sea they are having serious exercises, saying weng to have much more of a presence around the world than we've had in the past. it's a relationship to manage. >> greta: why done they help us more and north korea if they want to be such a huge influence? one of the view countries, seeming -- >> they do periodic. within the last year or so for a period of time they will shut off the energy and let the north koreans know they have that capacity. they could do it tomorrow, they could take the lights out. they don't do it for a couple of reasons. one, they will say, the policy of noninterfere . the chinese have always had that. we use that term noninterfere they say when we are there getting them to do things, you are interfering with local politics. north korea is a problem to the west, to japan. china and japan have friendly relations but there's a lot of tension particularly in the east china sea a lot of territorial disputes. china recently cut off some of the rare minerals to japan just to let 'em know. but, korea is a problem to ja

i don't think there is concern in south korea about china somehow invading south korea. again, there is economic interdependence between the two countries. china -- it is their no. 1 trading partner. there is concern in south korea but the economic relationship that surpasses the european or u.s. relationship might translate into a lack of leverage. i'm not a big believer in that. i think it has proven so far to be effective. an active trading relationship was not created a different security environment. it is not about whether the economic relationship creates leverage. it is about what the to these countries can maintain economic dynamism -- it is about whether each of these countries can make an economic dynamism. should there be a situation where china is compelled to send forces to north korea, it is impossible to know what the terms would be or what the causes would be. it is hard to predict the future in this respect. we have been guessing that north korea would collapse for a long time and we have been wrong. the prospects are slim at the moment, but if we look a

aggressively-- as one indian cabinet minister put it to me-- begun to assert its claims to the whole south china sea, basically. both control over sea lanes and mineral deposits and oil reserves there. and china's done that in a way that's involved intercepting vietnamese fishing boats. it's done in the ways of... we know one of the chinese officials boats approached an area what where japan thought it controlled. japan arrested the captain, china then went and banned the export of all these critical materials to japan in retaliation until japan gave it up. so what's basically happened in asia over the last six months is that china has really been flexing its muscles. after years, charlie, in which people said, "oh, china has so outfox it had americans, it's been so smart about its soft power and what not." the result of this is basically all of the southeast asian nations have suddenly looked at the united states and said "would you guys mind coming out for a visit? secretary clinton, president obama, please stop here." and that's really the context, the strategic context now. i think a lot of

are underway to address tensions between north and south korea. chinaosting a top north korean official for talks and japan also plans to send an envoy to china. the u.s., south korea and japan have all agreed to talk next week in washington about the north's nuclear weapons and its attack that killed four south koreans last week. the u.s. and south korea are holding joint military drills off the korean peninsula despite a warning from north korea that it could spark war. >>> repealing the don't ask, don't tell policy might cause some disruption at first but will not create a long lasting problems. that's a result of a pentagon report out today which found 70% of troops believe repealing the 17 year law will have mixed positive or no effect. opposition appears to be strongest among combat troops at about 40%. numbers climbs up to 46% among the marine corps. 92% of -- had a positive experience. >>> in the wake of deadly e. coli and salmonella outbreaks senate has passed a food safety bill emphasizing prevention. it potentially gives the government the po

and get indian warships in the south china sea. secondly, china is starting to make a lot of enemies in places like africa. you know, because of the way it does things, the way, you know, china has this idea you build these big mining operations and hydrocarbon extraction facility can you build roads and boats to them, what hasn't quite figured out is when you do all that you become invested in that countries politics. you just our, become vulnerable to those countries politics, and you become, just like america became, just like big burger king style military bases and the united states and japan and germany and turkey, became kind of focal point of local media is in all those countries in negative ways. the same is starting to happen for a lot of chinese facilities in africa and in other places, and a little less in west central asia and burma. india less though because india is not at this care with china. in terms of power. india is to a great regional power more than it is a great power. [inaudible] >> be careful what you wish

china could except south korea taking over. tonight, the u.s. secretary of state and warned of aggressive steps to punish those who stole the information. >> there is nothing laudable about endangering and -- innocent people, and there is nothing brave about sabotaging peace for relations between nations upon which our common security depends. >> it might be little more than diplomatic gossip, but some of it could be quite damaging. an insight into the daily secret traffic for over 270 u.s. embassies and consulates dated from 1966 to february this year and ranging to unflattering portraits of other leaders. the russian president is described as plain robin to somebody else's batman. minister ise dismissed as vain and ineffective as a modern european leader. >> i can tell you at least one of my counterparts, don't worry about it. this is well understood in the diplomatic community as part of the give and take. >> obama's white house might have suffered a battering, but they will all be wondering if they are next in line to be humiliated. >> we wi

foreign investors, and that would be following suit with what we're seeing from thailand, taiwan, south africa, china, all these countries trying to keep their currency lower so they can continue being export-led, if you will, in their recovery. >> you know what they say, charity begins at home. >> it does indeed. we'll have a lot more on the world business report coming up. >> thank you. a series of attacks on christian areas in baghdad has killed at least three people, and a militant islamist group has warned it considers all christians in the country to be legitimate targets. five separate areas where the last christian population was hit. more than 50 people died after they were taken hostage at a catholic cathedral. >> the whole rash of bombs, in fact, six different parts of baghdad by them, areas which are absolutely known to be areas of christian concentration. obviously no area is completely homage us in in terms of its population, so among the three people killed, 24 or so we believe to have been wounded, we're not clear at this moment exactly how many of them may be christians. but what is

and a storm has struck parts of southern south korea china and japan so all those covered in a layer of yellow sand swept there from mongolia doctors have recommended that people with respiratory problems keep indoors the storm is only the fifth of its kind in the region over the last hundred years. a diverse metropolis like moscow is home to many cultures let's take you closer now to some of them as host martin spends time in the russian capitals jewish war is coming your way. home. again and in a new. oh i walked into the moscow jewish community center for years and this complex has been in the social background for over a hundred and twenty five thousand people from russians to ex-pats people come here to worship enjoy jewish perceive it's payments a religious education complex is also celebrated and anniversary this year. for centuries the jewish communities gets much recent sets in motion but then she'd be sars governments sporadically encourage jewish immigration making to me the machine is traditional country eighty nineteen twenty. times has now changed ever since the fall of

and south korea should stand up and say, enough is enough. >> reporter: he monitor korean news for the latest updates, and hopes china and the united states help south korea make a serious military show of force. he says war is not the answer. >> no, there shouldn't be any war, because i've gone through that myself, and during the korean war, i lost my entire family. i don't want that to happen to anybody. >> reporter: he says he has half sister in north korea he has not seen or heard from in more than half a century. john lee says he knows what is at stake here. live this evening in oakland. abc-7 news. >> alan: there are new developments in the case of a somali born teenager accused of trying to bomb the annual tier-lighting ceremony in portland, oregon. a fire this morning in the mosque where the suspect worshiped may be arson. parts of the build wrging were destroyed. the 19-year-old suspect is in federal custody after fbi agents say they gave him fake explosives and convinced him to bomb a crowded holiday gathering. he is set to appear in court tomorrow. >>> here in the bay area, police are investigating the att

first, you know, immediately can you give us your on the south china seas in the korean peninsula and where the pla is and where the relationship can get to be. and then, looking down the road more intended as a gimmick class gets more than half full way? in terms of the provision of global public goods, looking down the road is free ceilinged communication, something for a time immemorial, the united states needs to provide or could we imagine that said just as sustainable international order, which after all is safe lyrical evolution in china and elsewhere goes in the good direction, could that be a shared global public goods sunday? >> thank you. and thanks for the question. i've got an opportunity to see the pla navy of all of from a fairly unique live since the early 90s as a result of some assignments that ipod, opportunities that i have had to visit with the pla, to spend time with my counterpart and the pla name. and what is happening in china and the pla navy, in particular, is not unusual. this has happened throughout history as the nation's economy rises and as the economy

south korea. >>> meanwhile china, who is seen as crucial in dealing with north korea is asking both sides to show maximum restraint. the u.s. is set to hold joint military exercises with south korea this weekend. >>> former house majority leader tom delay faces up to life in prison after being convicted of money laundering and conspiracy charges. prosecutors say delay illegally funneled tens of thousands of dollars in corporate donations into texas legislative races. delay plans to appeal. >>> sources tell nbc news that pentagon officials are concerned about what may be the biggest and most damaging document released yet by the whistleblower website wikileaks. officials are bracing for the publication of hundreds of thousands of internal u.s. government cables revealing private communications with foreign governments. the release could happen this weekend. >>> the drug enforcement agency is taking emergency action on synthetic pot by working toward outlawing the five chemicals used to make it. the agency says it has received an increasing number of reports of medical problems, including seizures

and he gave his own review of those closed doors he found from south korea and china. and jake tapper items us what he said. >> reporter: the president concluded the summit of the g-20 economic superpowers by trying to explain the limits of american influence. >> part of the reason that sometimes it seems that the united states is attracting some dissent is because we're initiating ideas. we're putting them forward. >> reporter: a remarkable admission for a president who won the office running against leaders who set their sights only on incremental change. >> instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles. but they're really important singles. >> reporter: strike one. the president failed to convince the south koreans to open their markets to american beef and cars. at stake, $10 billion in exports and 70,000 american jobs. >> i'm not interested in signing a trade agreement just for the sake of an announcement. >> reporter: strike two. the president failed to push chinese president hu jintao to change policies that make it cheaper to manufacture in

china has strongly urged north and south korea to maintain calm and start a dialogue as soon as possible. asked about a u.s. south korean plan to hold joint military drills in the u.s. sea. they are paying attention to media reports. >> russian foreign minister has called for restraint from north and south korea. to prevent tensions in the region from growing further. at a news conference in moscow on thursday. he denounced tuesday's shelling. he did not announce north korea by name. he said that south korea's partly responsible for the tensions. >> south korea's military drill was conducted with disregard the north's demand for the plan to be cancelled. >> the foreign minister also called for restraint from both countries. >> all necessary means should be used to avoid an escalation of fighting on the korean peninsula. >> japan plans to urge china to support south korea in discussions at the u.n. security council over the shelling by north korea. following tuesday's artillery attack. japan is holding unofficial talks at u.n. headquarters in new york. they plan to raise the issue at the

but now you have air bases in tibet where fighter jets include india and indian warships in the south chinaea. there's first that. secondly, china is making enemies in places like africa because, you know, of the way it does things, the way -- you know, china has this idea that you build big mining operations, and hydrocarbon extraction facilities and build railroads and roads to there, but they haven't figured out when you do that, you become invested in that country's politics. you just are. you become full necial to those -- vulnerable to the politics, and you become just like americans became -- just like big burger king, big war style military basis of the united states in japan and germany and turkey became focal points of local medias in those countries in a negative way. the same is happening to a lot of chinese facilities in africa and other plays, and you can include a little bit of central asia. the burmese regime is terrified of becoming a satellite of china, but doesn't know what to do about it. india because india is not at the scale that china is in terms of power. india is s

had captured my hostages and now it is nuclear energy, human rights, environmental, north and south korea, china, iraq -- you can go down list, i said about 40 things that had to address that were still there. that is one reason i wanted to write the book. secondly, i was really surprised in reading it over and how frank and unadulterated the comments were about individuals and about things that i had to face in the future were looking back on where i think i had made mistakes. i think it would probably be the unique picture of what the esidency is from the point of view of someone holding that office. i have not been in politics very long. i was 38 years old before i ran for my first office. i served a long time in the navy ahead of time. when i got to the white house, i never had been to washington before except as a visitor. i thought it was a good thing for maybe folks to know just what a president thinks about what he -- when he is confronted with challenges and successes and happiness and sorrow sometimes. sometimes regrets, sometimes thankfulness. i wanted -- i had over 20 volumes of diar

south. and china warns against military action near its coast, as u.s. and south korean forces get set for joint naval exercises in the yellow sea. abc's alex marquardt has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, jeremy. a rare show of remorse from north korea today. they say the deaths of two civilians in tuesday's attack were regrettable. but the north blamed the south for the deaths, saying the civilians were deployed as human shields around military installations. today, the funeral of two marines killed on tuesday was broadcast live on national television. tomorrow, the u.s. and south korea begin four days of joint military exercises. around ten warships are taking part, including the carrier "george washington." they're staying away from the maritime border with north korea. south korean media says they'll be about 80 miles to the south. north korea has repeatedly blasted the exercises. today, calling them an unpardonable provocation. the question is, will they act on it? jeremy? >> our thanks to alex marquardt. >>> a new survey to be released next w

holding bilateral meetings with the leaders of south korea, china and germany. expecting consensus on how to stablize and grow global economic markets while acknowledging a u.s.-korea free trade agreement have fallen short. >> we have asked our teams to work tirelessly in the coming days and weeks to get this completed and we are confident we will do so. >> it's a blow to president obama on the trip aimed at strengthening ties. a trade pack obama calls a win-win. >> it would be a win for the united states because it would increase the exports of the united states by some $10 billion dollars supporting more than 70,000 jobs back home. >> while in south korea, president obama also took time to speak to american service members at an event honning veterans day. >> the security you have pride provided has made possible one of the great success stories of our time. >> the president also today delivered several warnings to north korea saying the north's pursuit of nuclear weapons will only increase isolation and decrease security. >> i'm kate amara, wbal-tv 11 news. s

got the korean peninsula those two countries north and south are still in a state of war there was only an armistice signed until russia and china king talked to the north to get them to back down but we also have to have the united states put pressure on president lee myung bok of south korea because he's been very warlike he unlike his predecessors who were trying to open up to the north in a policy of sunshine diplomacy cross border visits special economic zones this particular president of south korea is very aggressive very right wing and very unpopular at home and the only thing he has going for him is to boost his image by getting into a military showdown with the north. now the rights of journalists just one backing from a major european security watchdog the o.s.c. e sent a letter to the american secretary of state condemning the detention of an r.t. news team there with the is calling on the hillary clinton for an independent investigation into the case accusing american parents of going it's too far in their attempts to maintain order the r.c. crew was arrested while compering a peaceful protest against the military a

on another item today, today's "chronicle," great area -- great article on the area south of the china basin. there were a couple of things i think the public should know about that. the area is large, and there is talk of an arena that would only take up a portion of that. my calculations are only maybe 25% of the available area, so there is room for more development, still consistent with the parking needs which the giants have, which i think would be sufficient for the arena use. the second thing about the rain is is not just focused on the warriors or an nba team, which is very important, but i think that arena, that facility would get used as many as 300 days a year because it is such a good location. i have talked to a number of people in the entertainment area, and they feel it might be a site for major concerts' because people want to be in san francisco and its accessibility is terrific. i think it would be a great economic boom, not to mention other things we cannot have now because of the facility not being there. i have mentioned major political conventions and other events