with disputes still boiling in the south china sea, the restriction has concerned it's neighbors, including vietnam, japan and the philippines. >> the united states does not recognize that zone and does not accept it. the zone should not implemented, and china should refrain from taking similar unilateral actions i in the region particularly over the south china sea. >> we believe safety and security of the affected nations. >> the trip is kerry's fourth to the region as secretary of state. he canceled the planned visit just before typhoon haiyan. this week kerry plans to visit the area hardest hit in that storm, in the town of tacloban. typhoon haiyan hit a little over a month gone with winds gusting at 200 mph and a storm surge that swept away entire neighborhoods. since the u.s. has dispatched an aircraft area to discontribute aid. >> with significance assistance give to us by the united states after typhoon haiyan. whether by support or by generously providing relief goods and aid, your support of the filipinos was clear. >> reporter: initial aid responses approaching $300 million. tent

never announce their intentions and the south china sea. china has dispatched forty fighter jets to the area seemingly in response to a stand up earlier this month between the chinese and us warship party and has two teeth now i have to back forty of its jacket and fighter jets to the south china sea according to a chinese military paper on tuesday then it is widely perceived as an attempt to prevent additional standoff with the united states in international waters the guide states over the weekend revealed that one of its warships was approached by a tiny bbc pull off on the south china sea despite the radio warnings to us at the time he's in the soul cannot stop work in a us ship to take evasive action to four hundred and fifty meters from cobra jet they stood and to underscore the rising tensions between time and the us. following meetings in you read it clear to arizona for the north and east by the state. delta prompted washington to defend its right to steal freely in international waters and three the formal protest against right no

. >> china and south korea slammed the premier's visit, calling it a provocation. many of japan's neighbors view the shrine as a symbol of japan's past military aggression. shinzo abe is the first to visit the shrine and seven years. >> some symbolic steps in the heart of tokyo. japanese prime minister shinzo abe approaches the shrine. he said his visit was to remember his country's war dead and not aimed at hurting the ealing's of other nations. -- hurting the feelings of other nations. >> i pray for peace for the souls of all the people whose lives were taken by the war. also, i made a vow to renounce war, and it has made me more determined to make sure we live in an era where people's lives are not engulfed in pain by the misery of war. >> despite his comments, there was a swift response from countries that suffered under japanese occupation during the second world war, like south korea. >> it's not very convincing, when he says he is open to dialogue at the same time makes a visit to the shrine. we need to look at who exactly is creating obstacles to dialogue a

china's new defense zone. >> ( translated ): as of now, south korean government will allow our airplanespass the zone without notifications to china. >> ifill: chinese officials have not backed down and instead accused japan of refusing to negotiate in good faith. >> ( translated ): china proposed that china and japan should enhance communication and dialogue to properly solve the issue of flight safety in the overlapping zone. we have demonstrated our sincerity, but, the japanese side on one hand keeps saying we should talk; but when it comes to dialogue, they keep the door closed. >> ifill: all of this comes against the backdrop of china asserting its growing economic and military might. last week, the chinese sent their sole aircraft carrier into the south china sea, where other territorial and mineral rights are in dispute. vice president biden, who will visit south korea later in the week and beijing tomorrow, says he'll raise the airspace issues with china's president. so, what is behind the recent escalation, and what's at stake for the region and the u.s.? i'm joined by: kurt cam

lou: chinese aggression leads to an international incident in the south china sea. a stand up between the u.s. navy ship and chinese warships further raising tensions in the region. in the oma administration waited eight days to m.l. is the event occurred to the american people. i am lou dobbs. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. a chinese naval vessel aggressively confronting the u.s. warship in the south china sea last week causing a tense military standoff that the government has just today acknowledged. the ptagon confirms to fox news tonight that a chinese warships try to interdict and stop one of our guided missile cruisers. the u.s.s. comptons well under way in international waters. according to an unnamed defense officials th run in began while the company was conducting surveillance on the new chinese aircraft carrier. the chinese navy vessels sent a healing morning in order the u.s. ship to stop and ordered the ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser ignored leading to a chinese active aggression. a chinese tank landing ship sailed into the path and stopped ,

for two thousand and thirteen according to china's ministry of edward cullen for the survey in south china seas nine shot area covered the largest ever including a juried the second most said what the research team has also discovered the hypertension fashions on the knee area of marine species information has been collected for the fishery development. and also chinese researchers have found tremendous reserves of natural gas hydrate under the program which would ease the country's energy shortage knackered as hard as our natural gas and water frozen together into a solid substance. well the discovery shows about one hundred fifty billion cubic meters of high treason in area fifty five square kilometers under the pearl river. next the guys have is also called flammable our eyes which ana started conducting research in act against tie this back in nineteen nineteen the line but becomes eclectic its first temple in the south china sea in two thousand and two thomas the fourth country to confirm such findings at the us japan and india stunning the rising cost of health care while also mainta

beijing has indicated it may set up another air defense identification zone in the south china sea, a focus of territorial disputes with countries such as the philippines and vietnam. japanese prime minister shinzo abe wants to win backing from asean nations in challenging the legitimacy of china's policy, but officials are still struggling over the exact wording of the drafts. for some countries with strong ties with china, taking a strong position may be difficult. others fear china's expanding reach and may react accordingly. members of the summit are racing to reach a final agreement, but the political stances of each country against china are different. a communique should be issued as early as friday night. officials are working around the clock to come up with a deal. mitsiko nishikawa, nhk world, tokyo. >>> engineers at the crippled fukushima daiichi plant have identified why the number 3 reactor experienced a meltdown after the 2011 disaster. they say the accident likely resulted from the early breakdown of the cooling system and failed attempts to inject water. the plant's n

one indicator, obviously, was that the chinese aircraft carrier, when it moved to the south china seachose to travel within the taiwan straight, rather than to move near the disputed islands area. and china probably will delay trying to establish any similar song in the south china sea area. >> thank you very much. that's joseph cheng from city university in hong kong. thank you. >>> now, anti-government protesters marched towards the royal thai headquarters in bangkok, despite a truce with authorities, handing the police a letter, calling for an investigation into the death v four protesters. the thai capital saw huge protests for the past 11 days. meanwhile a clean-up operation is under way in bangkok. the nation is preparing to mark the king's birthday on thursday. scott heidler has more. >> and just 24 hours it went from rows of riot police to rows of street sleepers. protesters are taking a pause. they said they would stop tuesday morning, they pulled down barricades. today, wednesday, is the day before the king's birthday. it is clean-up day. this is going to be one of the big s

us be on anti not create legally binding rules to settle to a toilet years old but i was in the south china sea. china's decision last month has shaken up of asian countries. will you china steel the now selling car the overlaps with other nations including japan eighteen has indicated it may set up an open air defense identification zone and the south china sea the focus of territorial disputes with countries such as the philippines and vietnam japanese prime minister shinzo abe and wants to win back from our nation's capital t that legitimacy of china's policy. but officials are still struggling over the exact wording of the traps. for some countries with strong ties with china taking a strong position may be difficult. this year china's expanding reach him a real aka corn. the result of its alway seem to be. i know treatments. the political stances of each country against china and different we tasted each city as early as friday night. officials are working around the clock to come up with the deal. a sellout. it's a way out cynthia engineers at the crippled to push him and i each a nuc

officials in china and south korea harshly criticized abe's visit to the shrine. >>> chinese foreign ministry spokesperson ching yang read an official statement on state-run cct. abe visited the shrine in spite of strong opposition from china. he said it's an act of glorifying japan's history of aggression. and a challenge to the international order established after world war ii. >> translator: the japanese leader has worsened bilateral relationship instead of improving it. he has aggravated historical issues and created another political hurdle. japan must take full responsibility for the consequences. >> senior foreign ministry officials lodged a stern protest with japan's ambassador masato kitera. >> translator: we urge the japanese government to correct its perception of history in which it denies the past and glorifies its earlier aggression. in order for japan to gain trust, it should face up to history and apologize to the people of neighboring countries that suffer under its military aggression and colonial rule. >> bilateral ties rapidly deteriorated last year after then pre

the chinese are out there in the south china sea convecting naval maneuvers.cquire some new ships. their up there with their aircraft carrier that they've got from russia. and the fact of the matter is, we normally would surveils something like that, as they would do on our naval operations and i am suspecting strongly that is where the ship was doing. in international waters. we have the right to observe them. they clearly -- this is all about power and control. they've really what to regain control and influence in the western pacific, something we have dominated for years, and they're going to find many ways to push back the air defense on that we have discussed in previous episodes as an indicator of that. this is another one. and these things are going to continue to occur more frequently. and i do believe this scale will also increase. lou: the scale by my understanding of what you're saying, was egest scale means even greater jeopardy because that introduces a number of variables that cannot be controlled. is that what you are implying? >> absolutely. t

the region there has been an arms race for many years that means that japan south korea modernizing spending a lot more money china double digit increases in their military budget but further south as well singapore vietnam indonesia philippines all embarked on major arms purchases and this i think is a major concern the united states of course would like there to be more burden sharing out to art if it's so-called strategic rebalancing so that is i'm afraid the negative consequence of this shoulder burden sharing and that is all the countries in the in the region basically butting up against one another through their increased military purchases and they're more aggressive military policy is all in arms companies in the united states martin really probably like this arms race here but what about the american taxpayer payer i mean you know you look what's happened in the middle east over the last decade or so americans are really tired of it and if you look at what happened just in the last few days detroit's in bankruptcy i mean again you know i mean what is it really. worth it for the united states because john

the chinese aircraft carrier is on its way to the south china sea and afghanistan signed an agreementeration with iran, but not with the united states. general tom mcinerney joins us next to a possessed the success or failure of the obama foreign policy. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: where does the united states get most of its energy? is it africa? the middle east? canada? or the u.? the answer is... the u.s. ♪ most of america's energy comes from right here at home. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. mm. mm-hmm. [ enne revs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] oh what fun it is to ride. get the mercedes-benz your wish list at the winter event going on now -- but hurry, the offers end december 31st. [ sant] ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] lease the 2014 glk350 f $419 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. lou: two days of talks to work out the details of implementing last months and around nuclear deals and specifically the two sides need to settle the start date of iran's promise of a six-month nuclear freeze and how it will be monitored and when sanctions against ira

think japan needs to express strong concerns if china sets up a similar zone a similar zone in the south china sea. >> on sunday, they will inspect eight activities by japan's self defense forces on leyte island, hit hard by a typhoon last month. >>> south africans are taking to the streets to pay tribute to their late leader, nelson mandela. crowds of people gathered from early saturday morning in mandela square in johannesburg, the nation's largest city. they offered flowers in front of a statue of mandela. people attached messages, expressing thanks to the anti apartheid leader, and praising his achievements. mourners from different ethnic groups formed long lines to sign the book of condolence. >> thankful that he's gone, but also celebrating his life, celebrating what he has done for us as his people. so just want to thank him. >> the country's leaders plan to hold a national memorial service for mandela on tuesday in johannesburg. there will be a state funeral next sunday in the eastern village of cue knew, where mandela grew up. >>> six men suspected of stealing a truck carrying a load

it turns to say that trying to change the status quo to the east and south china seas can restrict freedom of plans for us to action and intimidation i mean to say that the well known empty in a policy of hostility toward specific states will keep the door open that done on. he also called for morning then spent an airline price between japan and era. chinese state as the saying good bye to breakneck economic wealth has unveiled plans to teach extension that sustainable style at. comments on team doesn't need to spend four days discussing their economic plans for next tn this tea crushing one easy to see says he agreed to maintain stability in their policies and consider but the cold appropriate. they become the current s comes china's environment and increase the gap between debates and the club the incumbents and bills and debts by funding projects to keep the economy growing he's engaging see them get his stats under control. they look welcoming go to target to see and to centerpoint by the senate. the good outcome on target for all that remains to be seen. peel and weapons inspection a

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the region there has been an arms race for many years that means that japan south korea modernizing spending a lot more money china double digit increases in their military budget but further south as well singapore vietnam indonesia philippines all embarked on major arms purchases and this i think is a major concern the united states of course would like there to be more burden sharing at the heart of its so-called strategic rebalancing so that is i'm afraid the negative consequence of this shoulder burden sharing and that is all the countries in the in the region basically butting up against one another through their increased military purchases and they're more aggressive military policy is all in arms companies in the united states martin really probably like this arms race here but what about the american taxpayer payer i mean you know you look what's happened in the middle east over the last decade or so americans are really . tired of that. if you look at what happened just in the last few days detroit's in bankruptcy i mean again you know i mean what is it really worth it for the united states because john

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the leader said that china and south korea did not hesitate to criticize the gazette. chinese foreign minister whiny lodged a protest. sea run china central television a point that wagon called in the japanese ambassador was at that stand out when come to visit a belief in provocation. he won the chinese would fly to the finish. if the japanese continued to challenge the baseline of relations japanese embassy officials in beijing xi'an that's a big step said they did not intend to hurt the feelings of the chinese people. as set out they were trying to build family relations and helps to explain himself directly to chinese leaders. the south korean government also can stand on this visit. global total. oil traded below. we urged the japanese government to correct its perception of history in which it denies the past and glorifies its earlier aggression in order for japan to gain trust. it should face up to history and apologize to the people of neighboring countries that suffer under its military aggression and colonial rule milan as high as rapidly deteriorated last yea

dialogues with other countries and would like to directly explain how he feels to the leaders of china and south korea. >>> reaction from neighbors was swift. chinese foreign ministry spokesperson qin gang red a statement on cctv that said abe visited the shrine in spite of strong opposition from china. it denounces it as an acted to glorify the history of militarism and aggression. it's a challenge to the international order established after world war ii. >> translator: the japanese leaders has worsened the bilateral relationship instead of improving it, aggravating historical issues and created another political hurdle. japan must take full responsibility for the consequences. >> senior foreign ministry officials lodged a strong protest with japan's ambassador oovps. the south korean government also condemned abe's visit. >> translator: we urge the japanese government to correct its perception of history in which it denies the past and glorifies its earlier aggression. in order for japan to regain trust, it should face up to history and apologize to the people of neighboring countries that su

>> we are involved in a trilateral story which is korea japan, and china all have interest in the south and east china sea. the koreans and the chinese are anti-japanese. that has held them together. the koreans and the chinese have some common interests in not having threats come out of north korea. there are different interests there, the chinese have their own interest about north korea which i don't think will get in the way of this. >> one of the sad stories is that the north koreans captured an 85-year-old tourist, made him engage in this phony confession. will he get out? >> i hope so. there are those that are making an effort. i have heard that he made this phony confession and there are those that believe that the fact that they did that means it is one of the ways that he might get out. >> let me switch to iran. you have been a supporter of the interim agreement on nuclear weapons. what do you tell israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu when he says that this is a mistake? >> i think that you tell him, and i gather that secretary kerry has been working on this and other lev

>> we are involved in a trilateral story which is korea japan, and china all have interest in the south and east china sea. the koreans and the chinese are anti-japanese. that has held them together. the koreans and the chinese have some common interests in not having threats come out of north korea. there are different interests there, the chinese have their own interest about north korea which i don't think will get in the way of this. >> one of the sad stories is that the north koreans captured an 85-year-old tourist, made him engage in this phony confession. will he get out? >> i hope so. there are those that are making an effort. i have heard that he made this phony confession and there are those that believe that the fact that they did that means it is one of the ways that he might get out. >> let me switch to iran. you have been a supporter of the interim agreement on nuclear weapons. what do you tell israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu when he says that this is a mistake? >> i think that you tell him, and i gather that secretary kerry has been working on this and other lev

i mean they treat the south china sea or they want to treat the south china sea they way you and i treatake michigan. no one is going to accept that. and the product of those chinese steps, chinese missteps, where we'll get to keep marines in okinawa, we have joint exercises with the philippines, we have marines in australia, and we get the home corps u.s. naval combatants in singapore. i mean this is bad from the chinese perspective. i really don't understand why they did it. >> so how far should the obama administration go in confronting china, certainly in rejecting their claim of an air defense zone, and what is the danger of a flashpoint? >> yeah, there is a real danger of a flashpoint. but unfortunately, i think we're going to have to continue to do what we did last week, which is to put two unarmed b-52s in the chinese air defense identification zone and not reporting in to chinese air traffic controllers. >> all right. let's turn - there is a lot on the plate here, the foreign policy plate. then there is afghanistan, where afghan president hamid karzai has refused to sign a bilat

mission bay it's located on 4th street north to the south china basin to the north and then block 7 directly abutting to the east. this is the result of an agreement part of the new medical center in mission bay originally the city and master developer had don't donated 3 acres. this was land that was going to be developed. ucsf paid a non refundable purchase price. and the original dda allowed ucsf to give first priority to ucsf employees with consideration given to preference hold ers working at ucsf. so in june they basically paid and released property five million dollars and also the commission approved the agreement and amendment that allows us to have the block 7 go directly to the developer for construction of temporary housing for families going through treatment at ucsf and permitted to assign the original block which still exists to the developer for 200 units on the remaining site of block 7 and ucsf has agreed to prepay under the existing dda a. which is tied to construction of the second phase of the hospital. that won't start until otherwise would not be due until 2035 onwards

south korea's eo to ocean research station. it's built on a submerged island one hundred forty nine km off the korean coast. china calls eo eileen celia. last month taking unilaterally declared an air defense identification zone that covers the site. now south korea has extended its air defence oh two included as well. japan's air defense own also covers the sole control brought the research station is at the center of a simmering territorial dispute we don't believe this will significantly impact our relationships with china and with that and i'm so hip and as we try to work for peace and cooperation in west asia into. so did john chinese unilateral declaration angered seoul and tokyo. both governments have refused to recognize the move. korean and japanese aircraft or ignoring these things demands to identify themselves when flying to chinese to clear defense own. the united states has sent one of its aircraft carriers the uss george washington into the region. the us state department is calling on all sides to pursue action in a responsible fashion. there is more at stake than control over your toe island the

the chinese aircft carrier is on its way to the south china sea and afghanistan signed an agreement oftion with iran, but not with the ited states. general tom mcinerney joins us nextto a possessed the success or failure of the obama foreign lou: two days of talks to work out the details of implementing last months and around nuclear deals and specifically the two sides need to settle the start date of iran's promise of a six-month nuclear freeze and how it will be monitored and when sanctions against iran will be eased. in a permanent deal is taking a number of very serious obstacles. holding talks with top government officials and the drawdown of american forces from neighboring afghanistan. today, chuck hagel warned pakistani leaders to resolve anti-drunk protest stalling nato shipments across the border of afghanistan and pakistan wants to continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in u.s. military aid. ukraine, whiching political has been gripped by more than two weeks of mass antigovernment protests and at issue, the president's decision to freeze ties with the european

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south korea has an air defense zone. its boundary is being moved, including islands and submerged reefs, one disputed by china. the latest from south korea and china. rob mcbride is in budget, and harry fawcett is in seoul. is this a tit for tat move? why have they done this? >> well, certainly it's a very direct response to what china did on november the 23rd by extending their zone into the east china sea. a lot of the attention on that surrounded the islands claimed by japan and china. the e.u. in china. as well as that, it did enroach on the existing south korean air defense zone and south korea has wanted to extend its own zone to cover two of its islands that were not included when the original zone was drawn up in 1951 by the americans, and there's a submerged reef and that falls under the new zone which extends 150km or more korean peninsula. that has south korean scientific research station and helipad on it. it's in a strategically important part of the waters and south korea's own military aircraft operate with greater ease in this area. sea trying to say that it's going this in a regularized way tha

indicate authorities in the chain maybe try to use force to change the status quo in the east and south china seas but it says they're using claims that are inconsistent with international law it says japan will work to build strategic and mutually beneficial ties with china from abroad long term perspective and in those leaders in tokyo will call for restraint from their counterparts in beijing the strategy says japan will consider reviewing its policy on arms exports currently such exports are essentially ban. the strategy also emphasizes the need to raise awareness about national security. members of prime minister of his cabinet also adopted a defense policy package because for enhanced protection of remote islands in light of china's maritime ambitions the guidelines recommended greater operational integration between japan's air ground and maritime self defense forces. they say units should be more mobile and they say japan should enhance its deterrence and response capabilities by securing necessary and sufficient power. specifically they call for the creation of an amphibious brigades

the problems in the eastern south china seas are such examples. >> a challenge for shinzo abbe and joe biden is how to play their hand as mixed signals are given out. china said japan was the target of the new zone. they said it is neither a no fly zone nor territorial air space. can joe biden discover the real reasons behind the power play. only a gambling man would lay money on what china is thinking. >> the vice president next stop will be china, and he heads to south korea. >> the 85-year-old american war veteran held in north korea is in good condition - that's according to a swedish diplomat who visited him. merrill newman was taken captive more tan a month ago as he was about to take off on his plane after a tourist visit. authorities say they are holding him to investigate war crimes. he was shown on north korean television, reading what korean officials said was an apology. the u.s. is calling for his release. >> pope francis is urging catholics to pray for those with aids. the pontiff addressed a crowd at st peter's square, which is world aids day. >> for 30 years peter has b