therefore, they argue that the south china sea is a core interest for china.hey want to see it defended aggressively. >> the u.s. is deploying more military hardware to the pacific, which has upset the chinese. is it all a struggle for influence? >> not only for invalids, but also resources, as china becomes very important. although, some of the things are exaggerated in western media because china still has a long way to go. but there is tension escalating for both governments and both governments should be careful to determine which way is the right one. the asia-pacific region is so big. we should have a long-term vision to talk about cooperation, rather than engaging this arms race rather than attention, and maybe even war in that region. >> thank you for helping us understand why that this is so important. >> thank you. >> here is a story that shocked the nation and exposed growing social tensions being felt across the country. a paralyzed man in china has blown himself up in a government office following a long term dispute with government officials. at

russia over the northern islands as the japanese call them we're talking about disputes in the south china seas between china vietnam the philippines and others so something is going on very large and significant around territorial issues in in

coast we're talking about areas of the pacific off of the chinese coast we're talking about the south china sea and the east china sea these are areas right off the coast of china and the number one priority for the chinese military is to is defense of the homeland says. act and they keep security and one of the speakers at a summit in. prague like we'll be back shortly will continue to simply be through breaks out. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time any. welcome back to spotlight i am now going to love and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is my player who is an expert on energy and world security and one of the speakers at the at pax summit in the city of lot of on stark

coast we're talking about areas of the pacific off of the chinese coast we're talking about the south china sea and the east china sea these are areas right off the coast of china and the number one priority for the chinese military is to is defense of the homeland says michael clay an expert on attitude and world security and one of the speakers at the apec summit in. prague mike will be back shortly we'll continue this interview author breaks out the state . wealthy british style. that's not on my mind. like the. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. from . russia. which brightened a few. songs from feinstein question. don't talk team don't come. welcome back to spotlight i'm now going off and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is michael klare who is an expert on energy and world security and one of the speakers at the at pax summit in the city of lot of on stock and rush well michael we started to speak about about the competition t

coast we're talking about areas of the pacific off of the chinese coast we're talking about the south china sea and the east china sea these are areas right off the coast of china and the number one priority for the chinese military is to is defense of the homeland says michael clay an expert on attitude and world security and one of the speakers at the apec summit in. prague mike will be back shortly we'll continue this interview author of brave south bend down the straightaway. download the official ati application to choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's valid t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time any. motion. which brightened a few. songs from feinstein. whose phone starts on t.v. don't come. welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore and of and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is my player who is an expert on energy and world security and one of the speakers at the at pax summit in the city of lot of our stock and russia well michael we started to speak about about the competition

secretary of state clinton urged southeast asian leaders to work together towards calm in the south china sea. she wants them to resolve territorial disputes with china without intimidation or use 6 force. she met with indonesian foreign minister in jakarta. clinton says it is in the u.s. national interest to keep peace in the south china sea. >> we encourage asean and china to make meaningful progress towards finalizing a comprehensive code of conduct in order to establish rules of the road and clear procedures for peacefully addressing disagreements. >> asean members met in july, but disagreements over cambodia, vietnam and philippines unsettled the talks. they couldn't agree on a joint statement. >>> u.s. forces stationed in afghanistan are suspending local police training in order to perform background checks. the move followed a series of deadly insider attacks. our bureau in bangkok has the details. >> 1,000 new afghan police recruits are in limbo as the u.s. halts training. trainees account for only a small fraction of all of the security forces in the country, the move follows a spike

the indian ocean the strait of mt they already have an effect on the strait of malaka and the south china sea in the south china sea no more in direct the way this is going to be subcontracted to u.s. allies in so the association of the southeast asian nations now it's being more or less manipulated specially by the state department under hillary to become a sort of as vast brock's sea of u.s. interests in southeast asia this is not going toward there ten countries in. this period agendas you have for instance me m r which is a wildcard they're trying to play due west against china you have very staunch allies of the west like singapore for instance which is a kind of aircraft carrier of the us implemented right in the middle of cells and we have indonesia who wants to be independent we have the philippines of course very much attached to us but it's a mixed bag and all of them they need very good relations commercial trade relations with china blast the fact that they have a very important chinese diaspora in each of these countries and they happen to be part of the business elite in all of

nation interest to keep peace in t south china sea. >> we encourage asean and china to make meaningful progress towards finalizing a comprehensive code of conduct in order to establish rules of the road and clear procedures for peacefully addressing disagreements. >> asean members met in july, but disagreements over cambodia, vietnam and philippines unsettled the talks. members couldn't agree on a joint statement. >>> pan/ina relations are strained over territorial claims to the senkaku island in the east china sea. but a troop of chinese dancer is setting aside fraction to mark the diplomatic ties. they visited northeastern japan to perform a popular chinese dance. the troop is from the sister city. members danced in front of about 1,000 spectators. the blallet depicts a love stor in caves, a world heritage sooi site on the silk road. officials have cancelled events to mark the anniversary in japan and china. city officials say they were concerned diplomatic rouse might force them to cancel this one too. >> translator: i hope the event helps to improve japan slash china relations and

asean countries involved to draw up a legally binding code of conduct to ease tensions in the south china sea. the issue is likely to be a theme of panetta's visit to china. earlier this month, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton visited china and some asean countries. the obama administration is highlighting its policy shift, which places new emphasis on the asia-pacific region. >>> next we have news in brief. in cambodia, the release of a key figure of the former khmer rouge regime has been postponed. a tribunal established by the united nations and cambodia earlier ordered ieng thirit to be set free, saying her illness which is likely alzheimer's disease, makes her unfit to stand trial. the tribunal spokesperson says the postponement of at least a few days was caused by the prosecution filing an appeal. prosecutors say the appeal is not to wait for ieng thirit to recover, but they are requesting she is not allowed contact with the other three defendants and that her passport is confiscated. ieng thirit is being held in a prison in the capital phnom penh. >>> australia is sending asylum

vietnam is at odds with china over sovereignty of the south china sea. it needs to bolster ties with the united states to counter its giant neighbor. but many individual vietmese still feel some stility tords eric the vernnt faces a challenge to change the feelings of the past to help its modern foreign policy goals. akiko ichihara, nhk world, hanoi. >>> people in the philippines are dealing with heavy rain and high tide waters dealing with a typhoon that is strengthening. we are joined with the latest. >> the typhoon has been hovering over the philippine sea the past several day continuously bringing stormy conditions across the philippines. right now, a violent typhoon, sustained wind are at nearly 200 kilometers per hour with gusts about 285. so a very powerful typhoon. the atmospheric pressure could drop below 960 heck ta paschals. if it does so it would be the strongest typhoon of the year so far t could get close to or move through northern luzon by thursday afternoon local time as a violent storm. and then move up toward the north t could hit taiw

beijing secretary of state hillary clinton four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. we speak to a german journalist for his first hand accounts from deep inside the syrian conflict there. i. as the conflict in syria continues to unfold under the watchful gaze of the world's media there are all those that say that we aren't receiving the full picture of what's going on on the ground in the embattled middle eastern country now one of those people joins me right now manuel ox and i thank you very much for speaking to me thank you well to start off how long were you in syria and where were you what did you see i was for nine days in syria in july and i was exactly the time when the so-called bentyl of damascus was reaching and i was inside damascus all the time and i could compare every day the worldwide media coverage and with what i saw with my own eyes now what you saw while you were on the ground in syria doesn't seem to fit with what we're seeing on our t.v. screens does it well at first it is a difference everybody saw what's in damascus because the worldwide medi

clinton urged southeast asian nations to work together to resolve territorial disputes in the south china sea well we can now talk to mr chang from the center for china's it is not strategic studies at the ryman university of china thanks very much indeed sir for being here with us on the program first off the u.s. insists it's not taking any sides in the dispute in the south china sea so why is beijing still accusing washington of meddling in the region. i don't want to see the worst of must be matched by the deeds from the united states the past few months and we see the a nasty stage picking sides of it. over the disputed. land and united states also. you can be with china hold ourselves trying to seize we see a lot of deeds and we've also seen a lot worse. wars i'm not matched it be. well of course when we look at the context that is as complex as it is in the region now we need to take a look at what media are doing and of course chinese media is washington are fueling tensions between the parties in the territory dispute how do you personally view this. i think we just cannot have tosse

>> maybe you can pick that up first and deal with south china sea issues/asia and that context as well? >> our relationship with china needs to be looked at in the light of the new world. not the 20th century world. i don't think this is a 0 sum game between us and the chinese. they are a rising power. they are getting stronger. they have had enormous economic success and they have enormous political problems. all kinds of problems. as you look at the issues around the world. the general issues that preoccupy us, we and the chinese are not fundamentally at loggerheads on any of them. this is a relationship where we didn't use to see the chinese anywhere. when nixon went to china in 1972 we had no contact except in korea, no contact with them at all. that developed only gradually and now we run into them in all kinds of different areas and we have very different ideas. different histories, different cultures, different methods of thinking. very different people. i don't see the irreconcilable bloody when we look at rising powers like germany in the late nineteenth century or japan befor

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national interest to keep peace in the south china sea. >> we encourage asean and china to make meaningful progress towards finalizing a comprehensive code of conduct in order to establish rules of the road and clear procedures for peacefully addressing disagreements. >>> japanese electronics firm signed a deal with a french fir in smart grid cooperation. toshiba produces advance storage batteries while it has know-how solutions that if help to sell products to utilities worldwide and boost their global standing in the energy business. the next generation power delivery system uses storage batteries and computer based remote control. smart grid management is expected to make renewable energy more viable. power generated through solar panels and wind turbines is subject to the weather. smart grid can store their output more effectively. eu leaders called an extraordinary summit for november. aiming to solve a trillion euro question. the amount for the median term budget. the budget will cover the seven-year period from 2014. leaders have failed to agree on how to spend the money. their stan

last one hundred years or so so you're going to get a lot of attention and be too clearly in the south china sea where the u.s. says it's neutral but has hoarded a number of the small countries that are currently in conflict with china over resources you talk about going on they can trust that the u.s. has with china but of course china is also very dependent on the u.s. is it not it is and that's why i don't i don't really for see that tensions would lead to something more serious although you could never tell you know the problem with tensions is that right now there's a build up the military forces on both sides and. anytime that exists there's always the potential for someone to make a dumb mistake and that i think is is my concern right now but the fact is that china and the u.s. are absolute dependent upon you know you talked about a quarter welcome from the chinese authorities that's a quarter from the media but what about the fact the chinese vice president was expected to meet in re clinton then for some unexplained reason the meeting was called off was that a snob or how could that be

russia over the northern islands as the japanese call them we're talking about disputes in the south china seas between china vietnam the philippines and others so something is going on very large and significant around territorial issues in in the asia pacific and i'm going to come back to talk about why this is and why now but secondly we're talking about the. the rise of nationalism as a response to these issues nationalism that's driven by competing territorial claims yes but is also driven by historical memory issues centering on war and colonialism this is why the issues are so fraught in both trying to argue i could jump in here and i said earlier if i could have brian a piece and i go to brian it sounds like china has a lot of problems with its neighbors if we just going to consider what mark just said go ahead. oh yes china has problems with its neighbors it also has problems with the united states which just went to japan and to announce the creation of a second missile defense shield that china interprets to be a threat to china as it should interpret it i think what we see here in t

soldiers and police are taking part in a drill around takeshima islands in the south china sea. the japanese government claims sovereignty over the islands. south korean military personnel and maritime police are involved in the exercise. the drill is aimed at preventing anyone from trespassing on the islands. south korea staged a similar exercise about twice a year. the last one was in february. the current drill is on a smaller scale than originally planned. marines canceled a landing exercise at the last minute, and the maritime police are playing a leading role instead of the military. south korean officials have also reduced the number of vessels taking part. they say the exercise is not intended to prepare for a fight with a friendly nation. >>> japan has launched a protest against south korea's military drill. a japanese embassy official in seoul visited friday. the south korean foreign ministry. he said the maneuvers near japan's territory violate its sovereignty and called them unacceptable. the south korean official reportedly brushed aside the protest. the two diplomat

secretary of state hillary clinton urged the four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. so they have minds here in our next hour a special report on illegal immigration on the u.s. mexican border that shines a light on human trafficking first world poverty and right wing politics. and the immigration bill goes down in the senate that is the subject of the seedings talking points memo. critics of arizona's newly signed immigration bill say it allows police to stop anyone on the street based purely on the person's appearance governor brewer's response when asked by a reporter what illegal immigrant looks like. i do not know i do not know what legal immigrant that's like but the sticking point is what to do with the millions of people who are in this country in this country illegally that the u.s. government will have no idea who they are and where they are in this very dangerous time that is a very dangerous thing as we. ran from an other country. when i ran round and round the america of the big. one but the people in mexico that need help oh yeah i call those people my

regimes secretary of state hillary clinton urged four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. and that's an r.t. will bring you our special report stay with us clegg. we had to earn it i mean we have to earn it every single day of our lives we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the laws i figure spoken like the great granddaughters when they were there they go yeah i know yes mike well we're all immigrants we're all immigrants as well that we all occasion somewhere else and there's a tolerance level where there's only so much that the united states can accept without severe economic consequence. i'm not afraid and never have been i'm not hiding that flag has been up here for a year and a half and i will stand i will die keeping that flag up there believe me thirty five feet from the mexican border and the most treacherous part of our border i'm here and will stay here. the migrants that came from europe they were mi

japan controls the islands in the south china sea. tokyo governor ordered the inspection. he wants the metropolitan government to buy three uninhabited islands from a japanese family. the japanese government prohibited the 25-member team from landing. so they surveyed the area from their ships. some team members switched to smaller boats to study the waters and shore around the largest island. >> translator: we will use the data for the purchase and good use of the islands. >> sakamachi said they need to land to properly measure the island's size and inspect the ecosystem. the governor says he'll return next month. he's demanding the central government allow them to land. >>> a bomb exploded on sunday at a military facility in central damascus. syria's anti-government forces claim responsibility. they declared they will continue attacking government nerve centers. the bomb exploded at a building area for seniors guarding officials. free syrian army says that collaborators within the military guided them inside the facility. >> state-run tv says four people sustained light

expressed concern over china's creation of a new administrative area covering disputed island in the south china sea in july and its strengthening military presence in the area. >>> the long wait is finally over for apple fans around the world. the company launched its newest smart phone, iphone 5. people in japan were some of the first on the planet to get their hand on the deep vices. >> reporter: apple fans dent seem to mind waiting in line. >> i have been here since 7:00 tuesday. >> i updated my facebook status, i finally got the new iphone. >> reporter: their goal among the first to use a new apple product. most would agree it is always worth the wait. for apple fans the day is look new year's, out with the old in with the new. they'll replace early versions of the iphone. with the 5. the scene is playing out all day across japan and in eight other countries or regions. they call it their thinnest, lightest and fastest model. >> translator: the moment i touched it i was wowed. the design doesn't lack too different. but the graphics are amazing. >> translator: it its just so slim and light. it f

china is moving into the south china seas. i have always been assured prior to this time in a legal way in terms of legal solutions. hopefully that can still be put forward. one of the things they tried to do is establish a record relationship with china. there is no reason for us to be anything other than allies. we really need to look to develop that very much. saying he will declare somebody a currency manipulator on your first day in office does not make much sense to me. >> i actually do think there are differences. part of it has to do with the rhetoric. i did say when i was secretary of state that i had all my partisan instincts removed. the have all grown back. -- they have all grown back. [laughter] [applause] basically, i do think that the romney people are living in a different century. just the flat out statement to say that russia is our biggest geopolitical problem is a 20th century concepts. we are living in the 21st century. that makes it a very different story. i do think that there is a one or two dimensional

leaders it is in everyone's interest to agree on conduct on managing territorial disputes in the south china sea. several countries claim sovereignty to the same islands and the adjacent waters. the egyptian president has held a meeting of the arab league and said time has come for immediate change in syria. he says bashar al-assad must learn from recent history and step down before it is too late. he would like to have a court comprised of several countries to deal with the issues in syria. there is a memorial to mark the andage-taking in the 1970's during the munich olympics where some israeli athletes were killed. now, whether greece an deserves the next package of bailout money. the ax is likely to fall hardest on pensions. our correspondent reports on the impact of austerity. >> keeping agile to confront the challenges ahead, for years they have put aside money for comfortable old age. but with plans for another cut the pensions to raise 4.5 billion euros, the elderly are being stretched beyond their means. coffee time used to be a chance to relax. now all the talk is of financial concerns.

that blows overhead, not just here along the track but that flow coming in from the west out of south china sea, even manila, you could be seeing some localized flooding. these urban areas with poor drainage, especially in the low-lying areas. want to watch this closely into the coming day, even towards indochina and thailand and over towards vietnam. that mon soona flow continues to kick up here, bringing some heavy rain showers. farther towards the north, we have the stationary front here moving out of eastern china over towards south korea. this already brings some rain showers and thunderstorm activity across the korean peninsula today. well now into friday, slowly going to work its way towards the east. and this is playing a big toll on samba, causing it to move off towards the north. but also this could be dropping about 80 millimeters of rainfall in western japan alone, despite the fact that approaching typhoon from the south. as far as temperatures, though, we're looking rather warm across most of the tropics, bangkok with a high of 34 here, chongqing at 30, and all the way up to, l ula

the knees as well as to retire of the spills i know and some southeast asian countries in the south china sea name need the so-called spread peace is. the concern of china's rar east and be concerned with china's assertiveness indies territorial disputes have encouraged japan and. countries like the philippines and vietnam to pursue a hedging strategy meaning seeking closer. closer security ties and then unite to space which has been exploiting is kind of minturn to be full is come back to asia so to speak now as you are alluding to a moment ago china emphasizing its prior ownership rights over these islands that are certainly in the middle of the territorial dispute talks about a possible important solve regional dialogue as we talk about that we're now getting reports here at r.t. of three chinese ships entering the waters around the disputed islands is this perhaps a show of force or perhaps something more sinister. it is basically a show that you ought to zone and criticism against the weakness of the chinese government you know ides of these procter stirs in handling. this. bowl certainl

too much until quite recently and we've seen of course china's growing naval presence in the south china sea and in the east china sea where these islands are located and that's really started the process of having this sort of diplomatic scuffle over this and that has really boiled over in recent weeks especially when japan nationalized the islands by buying them from their private owner while i've been doing some digging up today it seems that this is quite diverse you have the audience that may not just go back decades and make about hundreds of years apparently due to some ancient maps even japanese maps suggesting these islands do actually belong to the chinese and that's going back a few centuries and one question is though it we have this dispute ongoing china's marine surveillance fleet now announcing that it will increase patrols at lorton foresman in the region they have over two hundred vessels nine enforcement airplanes is it possible do you think that that both sides could a consider a dialogue to calm their response because not all which way you look at it the aggression and th

clinton urged southeast asian nations to work together to resolve territorial disputes in the south china sea. from there reminiscent of china says washington's involvement is only fueling tensions in the past few months and we see it's even nasty so it's taken sides are going to trip over the disputed that have. you noticed that is also. you can be with trying to hold ourselves trying to say yes we've also seen the worst. of wars i'm not mad it be. i think inside of us a matter of just a few pictures on the bridge repair and. just against the chinese sets over to complain i think if you noticed that he is trying to shift the scope. of our number reason it's going to just don't want to go to my teachers or the boss the growing economy. that he's on why it's not only he's a shame but also the world or the mass they want to come fag and also balance against chinese increase in regions. all right all right a pre-wash in a war of words between republicans and democrats in the u.s. is heating up had a bit of a and worse presidential vote barack obama's party is convening to formally nominate him a

for the time being, lit pull the moisture out of the south china sea and drop it across portions of luzon. in some areas, you could be seeing 150 millimeters in the next 48 hours alone. flooding and landslides will be a risk as that moisture continues to pull onshore. temperatures across the tropics remaining hot. bangkok with those rain showers, 34 for your high. lan ba tour, the only one in the teen weather 15 on your wednesday. over towards the americas, i want to start off here just off the east coast of canada here. see that cloud cover pushing off towards the northeast? that is our tropical storm that we've been talking about for some time now. tropical storm leslie. now moving over newfoundland here, has already brought some very gusty winds, upwards of 123 kilometer per hour winds reported near the coastline. in the city of st. john's, we've seen widespread power outages as the storm blows overhead. still tropical storm warnings in place. then going on wednesday and thursday, look at this continuing to track off towards the north, becoming extratropical so it won't be a tropical s

clinton urged southeast asian nations to work together to resolve territorial disputes in the south china sea. there rehman university of china says washington's involvement is only fueling tensions. in the past few months when we see the nasty states picking sides are going to trip over the disputed. united states also. and appear to be if you can be with trying to hold ourselves to our nazis we've also seen the worst. of wars i'm not imagine it be a stinker. but to consign it to some out of just a few depends on the bridge repair and the and i. just think it's against the chinese sets over to complain i think if you noticed that he is trying to shift these to. our number reason she can i just don't want to go to my teachers or the boss the growing economy in. the cities and why it's not only he's a shame but also the work you nasty long to come fag and the surface a valid search against chinese to increase. regions. and while hillary clinton is looking after the us interests in beijing her fellow democrats are getting ready to thankfully declare barack obama their presidential candidate fir

clinton urged southeast asian nations to work together to resolve territorial disputes in the south china sea or from the university of china says u.s. involvement is only sporting tensions. in the past few months when we see it even as these it's taken sides are going to trip over the disputed. land and you know as these assholes are still core and in the air with trying to hold ourselves down nazis we've also seen a lot worse than learning of wars are not matched it d. s. think of these but you can sign it as a matter of just a few. and the rich repaired and. against the chinese search plane i think if you notice he is trying to ship these to. you should pursue our number reasons you can ask him wanted to go to monte to resolve the past growing economy. is and why it's not only in east asia. but were nasty long to come fag and serve us a balance against chinese in greece influence regions. and while hillary clinton is looking after the us interests in beijing her fellow democrats are getting ready to officially declare barack obama as their presidential candidate first lady michelle obama a

moving asia's biggest power players more on this week's developments in the south china sea after a short break. good runs deep to the russian so it is prudent to ensure a. for songs and poems and as the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the vocal dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the revel like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar. the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it's stocked fish swimming up river to their spawning grounds. within a year al

not very much i don't think so they are on the sidelines they also lay claim to lance in the south china sea these probably the pirates sil's it which are claimed by china which i think is the part of some of the spratleys i want to much about it so it really i just mentioned he says that there is some other part people but really i don't think they can exercise much pressure here at the parties or china on one side but of course the us. over these disputes all that said yeah the u.s. assistant secretary of state said these islands fall under an american defense pact with japan what kind of message is that sending out to beijing well. that means that the two really old but at the said the secretary of defense that he fears that their. dispute could be a war between your partner china he also expressed that the united states is going to support your plan so that means that if you come to blows let's hope that let's say china would set the table a force to try to apply the laws that would serve each force and the exchange fire . of course china tries to follow their measures like try to locate

countries including asia's biggest power players with more on this week's developments in the south china sea after a short break. and. flying north with me in this old soviet work also the helicopter is doctors london near brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow we will this is a boy here suffering and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not warm but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread learner doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and degrees to go that's. the usual practice with those who live in atlanta they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native new units reindeer herders out in the

the middle east, the south china sea, africa.ulling back has allowed people, the bad actors to step forward and fill the vacuum with what we're seeing on television right now. >> it's also, look at iraq and also reduced our leverage on players that are inclined to help us. there was news, again, just this week of overflights from iran to syria and the iraqi government basically can't do anything about it because we don't have a u.s. presence there anymore. >> and joe biden asked the president of iraq to please stop these flights and he's been rebuffed. and some say we may have to withdraw the aid if you don't stop the flight. but they don't have-- >> leverage. >> we have a lot less leverage with them. should mitt romney make foreign policy more after issue in the campaign? >> i think that obama is actually vulnerable on foreign policy. there's an image that obama got usama there for-- and dan points out, a very bad position, increasingly aggressive enough on the part of the east and iran rushing towards a nuclear weapon. >> paul:

hillary clinton southeast asian nations to work together to resolve territorial disputes in the south china sea from the remnant university of china says u.s. involvement is only fueling tensions in the past few months and we see as you nasties it's picking sides are going to trip over the disputed that have you know you want and you know cities are also those who are still. in there or just be with china hold ourselves kind of say yes we've also seen the worst. of wars and not matched it d. s. think. but you can sign it as a matter of just a few depends on the average pair and. just against the chinese search plane i think if you notice he is trying to ship these to. you should pursuit be our number one reason it's going to get wanted to go to monte to some of the past growing economy in. the included cities and why it's not only east asian but also across the world are you nasty long to come fag and out of balance search against chinese in east. regions. and all hillary clinton is are looking after the u.s. interest in beijing fellow democrats are getting ready to officially declare barack ob