court of arbitration in the hague ruled against china's claims in the spratly archipelago at the south china sea. but it is unlikely china will abide by their judgment. - the court struck down china's nine-dash line as a claim to any type of historical rights in the south china sea. it basically said, "you cannot claim fishing rights "or the ability to extract natural resources "on the basis of this completely (mumbles) line." the second thing that the court ruled very decisively was that all of the features in the spratly islands were legally defined as rocks and reefs, as opposed to full-fledged islands. - now importantly, the tribunal did not rule on sovereignty over these islands or rocks 'cause it doesn't have the right to. and so china can't continue to claim sovereignty over every single land feature. - i've recently been in china. the internal commentary on the decision by the court in the hague is that it's a political setup job. that's the way which it's been run domestically within the chinese media, and they point to the political nature of the jurisdiction. - so what will the do now

you mention china and the south china sea. has been building on top of islands that are disputed. secretary mattis in speaking about this said freedom of navigation and access in the south china sea will be critical to vietnam economically and in their security effort. i want to key in on him saying freedom of navigation and your legal brain on this one. he is using those words for a reason. explain. >> that's right. there are two reasons why we care about the freedom of navigation. the first is under the united nations convention on the law of the sea. unless you are within the 12-mile territorial sea of a country there is supposed to be no restraint on your ability to move from one port to another. the exception would be a u.n. embargo or economic sanctions that have a multi-lateral effect. if you're outside the 12-mile limit the territorial waters no one is supposed to be getting in your way to operate or navigate. it is also important because china as it is building up these islands in strategic locations throughout the sou

china is on the move it has a historical claim to the south china sea roughly as though the united states would claim to on the gulf of mexico. china's belief they ancient and territorial right is the result of all of those voyages and as a result they owned that water space and the hydrocarbons under it. 80% of the pacific trade passes through the south china sea. to reinforce this claim they are building artificial islands and reefs. many of them. thousands and militarizing them. each one becomes an aircraft carrier for which china seeks to operate to reinforce their claim under international law. fortunately we have allies like japan which is increasing military spending and is more inclined to operate beside us. south korea. a booming economy, new presiden president, our allies are the heart of our maritime strategy and it is good we have them because we have an enormous tactical problem they are a strategic challenge. north korea. this is kim jong who kim jong who kim jong on because he is unstable and untested and morbidly obese addicted to opioids with a bad haircut. and he is buil

the west oil spill in decades threatens to devastate marine life in the south china sea a king of operation is on the way out. radiance time that sank. turkey's president accuses the united states of trying to create that terrorist only on its borders is washington pledges to help a kurdish fighters who defeated isis in syria. and french prisons were french prison warmest strike over working conditions up to three. inches wide inmates brandishing a knife. we begin this hour with one of the west oil spills in decades a massive cleanup operation is underway in the south china sea offered iranian tanker sank. officials say old prune boards on a concerned as the senshi tanker was carrying tens of thousands of tons of crude. this bill looks set to devastate marine life had a roof has its rules. but. it's t the biggest oil spill and over twenty five years spreading over more than a hundred square kilometers off thehe coast f china. chinese rescue ships who struggled to distinguish the fire are now facaced with a major environmental disaste. mailer environmental protection is always one of our mai

strengthen china's influence in a number of areas long tried to assert control over the disputed south china sea that's home to major trading routes that raise concern and the u.s. and southeast asia across the region china is investing and several large projects in the philippines which is traditionally a u.s. ally its promise twenty four billion dollars of investment since two thousand and sixteen and of course the central geo political issue is north korea beijing is played a careful game implementing international sanctions against leader kim jong il and his government but he wants to avoid a collapse of the country which could lead to u.s. allied south korean troops on its border it's also tried to position itself as a regional deal broker and attempted to mediate disputes between pakistan and

china's neighbors simply aren't buying that argument and actually these disputes in these china sea and the south china sea are two disputes this region doesn't really need right now as if its begin to try to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula. a report released in the u.k. warns that nuclear weapon systems around the world are increasingly vulnerable to being hacked whether by states or groups chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that cyber attackers could interfere with nuclear missiles into putting them out of action or perhaps even causing them to be launched or poor calls on governments to work with the private sector to stay at the cutting edge of technological developments. now the british prime minister terri's amaze announced plans to eliminate avoidable plastic waste in the u.k. within twenty five years she also proposed a plastic free aisle in supermarkets as part of an environmental action plan millions of tons of plastics enter the oceans every year and some take hundreds of years to biodegrade a u.k. course one of bonnie b. phillip

but what was going on in the south china sea couldn't be happened. what happened is china militarized the islands they built, even though they say they would hquoo and china has the biggest influence with north korea. 90% of the trade depose through china. china says they are there with us. trading with them ap complicit in allowing other companies to sl shell companies that keep kim jong-un regime. they have a hand of prig this to a close. and the trade deficit we have with china, over $350 billion and add to that the intellectual property theft. and china says we will get it under control. they had a trade deficit of over $650 billion. do you want a trading partner that is doing these things and flood our borders with illegal drugs and kill our citizens and break down our culture, do you want a trading partner at the johns? americans do you want partner that does not honor their word? you talk to other countries and they say they like doing business with america. china does not. they have har hardly to help us with north korea. when you go swoo into

submarine it is a reminder that this area remains a flash point another flash point of course is the south china sea and the philippines says it's going to be protesting to china over what it says is clear evidence of the continued military buildup in this area in particularly on an island called fiery cross reef now china is making no secret of the fact that it's been building up these islands but it says what it's doing here is simply really environmental protection measures they are not aimed at any particular country the problem is that china's neighbors simply aren't buying that argument and actually these disputes in the east china sea and the south china sea are two disputes this region doesn't really need right now as if it's begin to try to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula the german chancellor and the opposition leaders say they're a major hurdles to overcome before a new coalition government can be formed after more than fifteen hours of talks there still no agreement between angela merkel's christian democratic union party and the opposition social democrats an agreement would bre

appointed comment about the south china sea and china's ambitions there.o maintain dominance in this area and in terms of language, he used the name that indonesia recently gave the area around the islands, an area where indonesia is seeing tension between fishermen up there and has had stand—offs with chinese fishermen entering what it saysis chinese fishermen entering what it says is indonesian waters. they call it the north natuna sea and that word was used by the us defence secretary, a sign they stand behind indonesia as an ally in this region. we talked about countering china's influence in the region. what are relations like between the two countries with that in mind? they have a complex relationship and from the indonesian side, the message from the defence secretary here was very much about getting as much training and us military knowledge in return for this kind of report. indonesia still has sanctions on its special forces because of human rights abuses that they are accused of carrying out in the 1990s, in places like east timor. the message

very much a pointed comment about the south china sea and china's ambitions there.ea and also in terms of language he used the name that indonesia recently gave the area around the natu na indonesia recently gave the area around the natuna islands where indonesia is seeing tensions increase and stand—offs with chinese fishermen entering what indonesia believes is its water. indonesia calls that the mack north natuna c. that word was used by the us secretary, showing that they stand behind indonesia as an ally in this region. you talk about countering the influence of china in the region. is what is it what are the relations like? they have a complex relationship and from the indonesian side the message from the defence secretary here was very much about getting as much training and us military knowledge in return for this kind of support in the south china sea. indonesia still has sanctions on its special forces because of humid rights abuses that they are accused of carrying out in they are accused of carrying out in the 1990s in places like popular and east timor.

will challenge that china is now moving into force projection in the south china sea east china sea into the persian gulf region and particularly the red sea with its base in djibouti its new basing in lamu in kenya and the like and what are in pakistan these are of concern to the united states and quite rightly so gregory as always i appreciate your views some interesting points you made there good cop is my guest editor of defense and foreign affairs journal also president of the international strategic studies association. move on to these now drug related crimes are becoming so bad in parts of the paris metro that train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations now that's according to a letter written by a union representing the metro and bus network in the french capital artie's correspondent sheila do as he went underground to see what those fears a based on. for most parisians the metro is a staple of life with its winding tunnels and lines that stretch across the city it's often the easiest way to get from a to b. but down in the underground the gritty underbell

influence in a number of the important areas beijing as long tried to assert control over this to the south china sea home to major trade routes this is provoke concern in the u.s. and southeast asia across the region china is investing in infrastructure projects to boost influence and the philippines traditionally a u.s. ally promised twenty four billion dollars of investment since two thousand and sixteen the central geo political issue of course is north korea has played a careful game and for meaning international sanctions against leader kim jong un and his government but it wants to avoid a collapse of the country that could lead to u.s. allied south korean troops on the border it's also tried to position itself as a regional deal brokered attempted to mediate border disputes between afghanistan and pakistan government pride joins us now from beijing so this this event rob just how huge how impressive was it how is it actually being treated in china. and you can tell we're having a few technical issues there with rob we will try to reconnect with them shortly and in the meantime a spokesman for

has been always the chinese buffer zone geo politically speaking and also in the south china sea and also in the west like pakistan border between china. and to the south the chinese china india border and so in this sense the very calm and the very call could be really alarming to. china and to china's neighbors. china has been encircled ever since the one nine hundred fifty s. ever since the cold war and now with the cold war and we seem to see a second rise of this very encircled and the china with the activities going on with the actions going around china and china need to respond and the chinese military has always been an armed a kind of a military arm of the c.p.c. and in this sense the military is spawns presidency's response was in very much a condom a coordinated in a coordination of this very response towards a incoming crisis situation lasted just briefly lastly and briefly if we can at this time you say of heightened tensions the month of thing in decades what do you think it's going to take as we enter a new year to actually calm that now. well i think china has been re

submarine it is a reminder that this area remains a flashpoint another flashpoint of course is the south china sea and the philippines says it's going to be protesting to china over what it says is clear evidence of the continued military buildup in this area in particularly on an island called fiery cross reef now china is making no secret of the fact that it's been building up these islands but it says what it's doing here is simply really environmental protection measures they are not aimed at any particular country the problem is that china's neighbors simply aren't buying that argument and actually these disputes in the east china sea and the south china sea of two disputes this region doesn't really need right now as if it's begin to try to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula and the supreme court has ordered an investigation into reports that homeless people are being turned away from shelters because of a lack of i.d. the charity says forty four people died from the cold on the streets of the capital new delhi just this week and two hundred fifty people died in december every indian ci

with whom china has territorial disputes and as you mentioned there are also neighbors in the south china sea with whom or china has disputes in that stretch of water and in directly beyond that of course with the united states it does send a signal in that direction china's biggest concern right now is the could we're in the peninsula and as we move into the new year the fear that tensions will continue to escalate there there is still a very real fear of some sort of conflict well this is i think a timely reminder that regardless of what happens china increasingly does have military options of its own if it has to call on them to show. thank you. iran's u.n. envoy is accusing the u.s. of protests clay inciting anti-government protests in a letter to the u.n. secretary general complaining about president trump's tweets in support of the demonstrations on wednesday the head of iran's revolutionary guard an ounce what he called the end of sedition as tens of thousands rallied in support of the government twenty two people have been killed since saturday as matheson reports. on a rainy and stat

rudiger detector is adopting a pro china stance undermining philippine claims in the neighbor south china sea as well. reports. in two thousand and twelve the united nations confirmed that the bene rise is part of the philippines there are tree it's an undersea plateau located on the country's eastern coast it's at the center of the planet's marine by a diversity and its resources are untapped with more than thirteen million hectares believed to be rich in minerals and gas. which travelled to ben rise a few months ago back then the philippine military boasted of a long term plan to improve its patrols of the area the agriculture ministry also planned to build a reserve that will be a refuge for filipino fishermen the behnam rise was seen as a possible solution to the country's split shortages but that appears to have changed now president would be good at their decision china may now lead exploration in the area he's government says the research is purely scientific but mark time experts say the terror does a parent can. to china is alarming we can see that this is all part of. this had been

a lot of asian countries want india to play an active role, given what is happening on the south china sea a lot feeling that india could up their game and that could help maintain peace. whether they will sign any concrete deals or any kind of statement is unknown but they will be discussing that during the summit. thank you for that update. thank you so much for investing your time. sport today is coming up next. the top stories this hour: america's disgraced olympic gymnastics team doctor, larry nassar has been jailed for 175 years for molesting young gymnasts. a veteran us diplomat has quit his role advising myanmar on the rohingya crisis, accusing aung san suu kyi of lacking moral leadership. a jury's been told that a man accused of carrying out the finsbury park terror attack last june kept smiling and even blew a kiss at the gathering crowd after ploughing a van into muslim worshippers. darren osborne from cardiff denies murder and attempted murder after the attack in north london which left one man dead. an imam who was one of the first on the scene told the court how he stopped th

the uk would be the first member not to border the pacific ocean or the south china sea. or pickpockets. the article says a new metro line has been fitted with cameras covering every inch of carriages in ultra—hd. those are the top story is of key publications around the world. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? she took her son to court after he refused to pay for several years. the son argued it was wrong to demand a financial return for raising a child, but the court ruled the contract valid. more on that on our website. with the new year well under way, we look ahead to 2018 and what will be the most pressing health stories to watch out for. 0ur health correspondent tulip mazumdar has more. these are the top global health stories you are likely to hear lots more about in 2018. the well‘s first ever vaccine for malaria is due to be rolled out in kenya, mullally, and done in the summer. malaria killed almost half a million people in 2016, the pilot scheme will involve around 750,000 children in those countries. the new vaccine does have limitations. it ne

submarine it is a reminder that this area remains a flashpoint another flashpoint of course is the south china sea and the philippines says it's going to be protesting to china over what it says is clear evidence of the continued military buildup in this area in particularly on an island called fiery cross reef now china is making no secret of the fact that it's been building up these islands but it says what it's doing here is simply really environmental protection measures they are not aimed at any particular country the problem is that china's neighbors simply aren't buying that argument and actually these disputes in the east china sea and the south china sea are two disputes this region doesn't really need right now as efforts begin to try to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula. rights groups are concerned that cambodia's general election later this year will not be free and fair the government has dissolved the main opposition party and restricted non-governmental organizations as part of our series looking ahead to the major stories of twenty eighteen rough mcbride reports from. twenty

the uk would be the first member not to border the pacific ocean or the south china sea. a warning for pickpockets. the metroline has cameras fitted over every inch in ultrahigh definition. and a family feud is sparking discussions online. what a way to start the new year. trending right now is a rather unusual story from taiwan, where a mother is suing her son for almost a million dollars. it's after the pair signed a contract in 1997 that she would pay for his dentistry training, as long as he gave her 60% of his earnings when he qualified. she took her son to court after he refused to pay for several years. the son argued it was wrong to demand a financial return for raising a child, but the court ruled the contract valid. you can read much more about that story on our website. i would just airof the story on our website. i would just air of the agreement so that we could have a harmonious family. —— —— tear up that agreement. with the new year well under way, we look ahead to 2018 and what will be the most pressing health stories to watch out for. our health correspon

the kind of strategic advantages we need to be developing in relation to our activities in the south china sea and other contested areas. in the south china sea you might think about patrol boats. you might think about sensors both above water and under water that are sleepily produced and mass deployed and easy to maintain. and you might think about less sophisticated literally defense capabilities in some of the areas that we might profitably focus on not so much for the development of our own military capabilities but to ensure that our partners in that region are able to mount more effective defenses against potential adversary action in that's areas. that's are thoughts how i think we should be operationalizing research and development to support strategic. i think there is a tremendous amount of promise in the relationship to do just that. thank you. >> thank you. and before i turn to audience questions, which i will do shortly, so get your questions ready. scribble it down if you want. i want to give our two presenters a chance to respond to some of the comments made by the discuss ants

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rises, america and its allies are going to start to bristle as to whether it is in trade, the south china sea, there are lots of potential flashpoints. china's systemic structural rise creates preconditions for conflicts in a number of areas. laura: you also talk about accidental risk, how this retreat by america could lead to things happening, and you particularly talk about north korea. what are you worried about there? cliff: in north korea, things we routine, mundane, like kim jong-un shooting a missile over japan. nothing's happened. well, the japanese could react badly to that, and it could escalate. also in north korea, a simple fact that is often overlooked, there is a lot of hardware, north korea, south korea, american, in very close proximity to each other. they could start shooting at each other and miscalculate, escalate. laura: when you talk about that risk of something happening inadvertently, you also highlight the risk of u.s.-iran relations, and you look at syria. what is it that you think could go wrong there? cliff: syria's problem is the one i worry about the most, because

destroyers, uss fitzgerald near japan and uss john mccain in the south china sea struck commercial ships killing 17 u.s. sailors. it was a gps attack? >> navy says that's not the case. nothing to do with that. has to do with training and awareness and tech officers not on top of their game. maybe. i'm not convinced. >> navy ships don't just crash into supply ships; right. >> that's a big thing to go wrong. >> they agreed. if the gps system goes down touchdown alabama a major attack -- due to a major attack, we're all in big trouble. >> the day after the gps goes blank, it's a bleak one and we're all anxiously working to avoid that. >> atms and credit cards useless, planes grounded, power grid disrupted. >> nine out of ten smart phone users use gfs so if it -- gps. so if it goes out, you'll have to go back to paper maps. good luck. >> no mechanism to sink up financial experts and wall street could unravel. >>s it a single point of failure. >> he headed the panel. >> no holistic backup system. >> infrastructure protection in the department of security under president obama. china and russi

this is shot in an area that is pretty, you can see the south china sea.e in front of us a student pilot alearning paragliding. this guy inflates his wing and suddenly takes to the air. this is his second flight of the day. the dude starts cutting lines along the ridge. he has two hours logged in the air and that inexperience is what causes the trouble in this case. the first light of the day the sun has been on in that case the air was warmer and creates an upslo wind. the sun is no longer on the ridge. the air is cooler, and the thing is, now he's doing exactly what he did in the morning, but things aren't going according to plan. instead of an upslope, there is now a downslope wind. every time elshe's going back f another go it's not working. he's realizing he's not going to get back up to the top of this ridge. he needs to find somewhere to

with countries like vietnam standing with the southeast asian countries in the standoff over the south china sea in issues like that but it doesn't see india as a threat to the degree that india sees china is there a way that these two countries can still benefit each other that it can get something useful out of the other. yes i mean they have an enormous trading relationship they have a history of peaceful coexistence of going back millennia in terms of cultural exchange they both also have. similar interests as rising developing countries that both seek a more multipolar world order i guess where the tension is that india sees china's increasing dominance in asia as an unknown quantity and there's also political imperatives in both countries to be seen as tough against the other so in that sense it would require some strategic diplomacy and long term thinking in order to overcome these obstacles. thank you very much joining us from london. judges in brazil have our former president. lula to silva from leaving the country the order follows the loss of his appeal against convictions for corrupt

and so we see some of those tensions happening now in the south china sea which is of course a huge conduit for middle east oil flowing to china; south korea; japan and other customers as well. - [kaplan] the best way to start a discussion with energy is about china; not the middle east. china has a malacca dilemma. despite all the improvements in technology over hundreds and hundreds of years, the strait of malacca is no wider now than it was in antiquity. so china has been involved, in one way or another, in port building projects all along the indian ocean. in sri lanka; in myanmar; in bangladesh; in djibouti; in pakistan; in tanzania. and what this is all about is getting oil and gas, from the greater middle east, and transporting it to china via the indian ocean, north through pipelines into china, in order to avoid the strait of malacca. - china will be tempted to pay more attention to the persian gulf region, and possibly start deploy military assets into that area if the united states draws down and pulls out. and there's a lot of speculation going on right now that the united state

this is shot in an area that is pretty, you can see the south china sea. this dude in front of us a student pilot alearning paragliding. this guy inflates his wing and suddenly takes to the air. this is his second flight of the day. the dude starts cutting lines along the ridge. he has two hours logged in the air and that inexperience is what causes the trouble in this case. the first light of the day the sun has been on the ridge. in that case the air was warmer and creates an upslo wind. the sun is no longer on the ridge. the air is cooler, and the thing is, now he's doing exactly what he did in the morning, but things aren't going according to plan. instead of an upslope, there is now a downslope wind. every time elshe's going back f another go it's not working. he's realizing he's not going to get back up to the top of this ridge. he needs to find somewhere to land. pulls his left-hander, starts turning toward the beach, hopefully heading towards what could be a soft landing, maybe on the sand, doesn't matter, because he's not gonna make it that far. i

it is about chain's efforts to build up these artificial islands in the south china sea.e creating forward-based military platforms, potential places for them to put large weapons, air strips. it put them in range of u.s. military allies and u.s. military themselves should there be some sort of large peer-to-peer, china versus the united states or china versus an ally. he started working on it before we have been paying attention to north korea and china. >> "crash back" sounds fascinating. a thin line has to be washed. will civilians will be able to absorb what he's writing and talking about? >> it is less about the military and more about the foreign policy piece of it. crash back refers to when a ship has to stop dead in the water to avoid collision. but that is sort of the only real military piece, that and talking about the chinese military assets. mike is a really good writer who knows how to talk to a general audience from his years of covering the military. >> that is a terrific recommendation. "crashback" definitely goes on my list. thanks to my wonderful panel t

as well as for a pleasant but a winter the real cold is for the north in china south of this and again through the south china sea and beyond to peninsula malaysia and as far south as singapore this massive cloud has brought over four hundred images right to the coast of malaysia the east coast there is flooding in the area the culmination of the weather is like to be cheering sunday and you can see the circulation that would suggest that by monday it's dispersed having left behind i would suggest quite a lot of flooding it briefly touched singapore the money in touch kuala lumpur but it'll be around the site there's a bit of a gap before you pick up the next lot of roche's through indonesia including catching jakarta. nothing much moving means the air it's all layers throughout india so the north indian plane in particular we've still got cold nights persistent fog and poor quality is better to the south. the weather sponsored by qatar and greece. education with a different. interpretation of his law is absolutely different from mine as a muslim woman a taliban school for girls in afghanistan reveals a way of li

talk about the things that are important to us like predatory trade practices, cyber attacks, south china sea. that goes way by the boards because we're talking about north korea. short term, beijing finds this to be a very good dynamic for them, so, of course, they're going to continue to fuel this. what trump should be doing is countering it. he's not with tweets like this. >> gordon chang, stay with us. joining the conversation, democratic member of the house intelligence committee, congressman jim himes of connecticut. congressman himes, you obviously now heard of this tweet. what do you make of the president's language? >> you know, anderson, we're two days into the new year and freudians all over the world have already had the best year ever. and, you know, i guess apart from that, you know, three thoughts on this, you know, need for the president to demonstrate that his is bigger and stronger than anybody else's. number one, why would you want to goad this unpredictable leader of north korea to maybe demonstrate his capabilities? that could get real very quickly. number two, you know,

it will be in the next presidency that we'll pay costs for that when we see challenges in the south china sea and the effects of a long-term american abdication in leadership on human rights and democracy, global economic openness and green energy so i would look to the effects of that not now but in a few years. >> when it comes to north korea, it's like whiplash at the moment. you've got this issue of leadership. you have president trump talking tough military game and comparing sizes of nuclear buttons and this and that and on the other hand saying he'd be willing to engage with north korea under the correct conditions. do we know where the policy is headed on north korea. >> no. the problem is he talks about not allowing north korea to keep its nuclear weapons and it's so far along in its program, dispersed in so many places around the country that it would be hard to take it out militarily and the cost of a war would be so devastating for that part of asia, for the united states, for some of our alliances that the military operation so what do you do? you try to figure out a policy that

fitzgerald and south china sea both struck commercial ships, killing 17 u.s. sailors. was it a gps attack? >> that is not the case, and it has nothing to do with that, but it has something to do with training, awareness, and deck officers that were not on top of their game. maybe. i'm not convinced. >> reporter: navy ships just don't crash into supply ships, right? >> reporter: they air their concerns at a recent meeting of the space foundation in san francisco. >> that's a big thing to get wrong. spoofed and jammed. >> reporter: if the gps system goes down due to a major attack, we are all in a heap of trouble. >> it will be a bad day. the day after tomorrow, if the gps goes blank, that is one we are all working anxiously to avoid. >> reporter: 911 won't work. atms and credit cards will be useless. planes will be grounded. the power grid disrupted. nine out of ten smartphone users say they use gps. so if it goes out, you'll have to go back to paper maps. good luck with that. if the attack is prolonged there, will be no mechanism and wall street could unravel. >> at th

lot of questions about china's strategic intentions especially with the protracted issue of the south china sea dispute which is still still ongoing even though it's a slow burn issue and with with france in the picture it's actually a very welcome despite because france is lifting the conversation up you know holding china to account if you like in a sense saying that there are certain rules of the game that one ought to abide by and you would be more respected for it and this is part of an ongoing approach which i think is extremely constructive about socializing and in gauging china at a time when we have you know the current u.s. administration of the previous u.s. administration containing china which is extremely unhelpful you know we haven't heard from president see as of monday evening when recording this program during this visit from macron but i know do you think we're going to see him giving some indications that china will be open and transparent and show its intentions that it's going to react well to any french pressure on this matter. well quite frankly the days when colonial po

if you cues as russia and china are doing including attempting to have more influence in the south china sea and in east asia so it really is a superpower that is unfortunately because of its hyper interventionism on the way on the wane in terms of influence in of course it is a very dangerous thing because a cornered animal is more likely to attack. and growing number of us republican congressman demanding the release of a top secret intelligence document they believe it reveals political bias at the highest levels of the f.b.i. and the justice department in how they handle the investigation into alleged ties between donald trump's election campaign and russia. i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. that's how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president and it is come from the scariest of places that is the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately republicans are referring to the top secret memo as a scandal worse than watergate and reactions have ra

the first member of the group that doesn't share a border with either the pacific ocean or the south china sea great hands a u.k. trade minister told the financial times there wasn't any geographical restriction on britain joining the t.p. piecing quote nothing is excluding in all of this with these kinds of a plural lateral relationships there doesn't have to be any geographical restriction however many trade experts are skeptical of britain joining the t.p. p. just last year the t p p's future appear to be in shambles when us president donald trump pulled out of the trade pact yet in november the remaining eleven members which includes all strauss mexico and japan they agreed to pursue a successor deal some argue the tepee would impact blue collar jobs while the u.k. engages in trade with p.p.p. countries that pales in comparison to its trade relationship with the e.u. members and the us for example let's take a look at japan now according to mit's observatory of economic complexity it has a largest economy and the t p p but it can account for just one point six per cent of the u.k.'s goods

in my view, i don't see them playing up and down the south china sea taking on china but i do think wed for the un a naval rapid reaction force for many years and i think this could be a lead role for britain but with commonwealth partners. but not to begin with this notion of britain rising to the challenge of global markets with a focus on the military because it seems much more important to focus on trade. i agree. we have a history of merchant trade. we have gone and opened markets in the past. you make it sound like a rudyard kipling novel. the reality is quite different. perhaps your viewers don't realise that i was in business. i have never taken a penny—piece from the government. when i left the house of commons, i left it. i was in business in the uk in textiles. in russia with steel and oil, and in america with pharmaceutical industries. i am not talking completely with no knowledge of what it takes to export. and a fair point. but i wonder if you are reading what those outside britain looking in are saying — especially key trading partners which the british government says t

if you cues as russia and china are doing including attempting to have more influence in the south china sea and in east asia so it really is a superpower that is unfortunately because of its hyper interventionism on the way on the wane in terms of influence in of course it is a very dangerous thing because according to animal is more likely to attack. a growing number of us republican congressman are demanding the release of a top secret intelligence document they believe it reveals political bias at the very highest levels of the f.b.i. and justice department in how they handled the investigation into alleged ties between the trunk campaign and rush. i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. that's how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president and it has come from the scariest of places and it's the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately. correspondent in washington d.c. samir become has more. we don't know what exactly is in the memo but republica

to certain tensions around our neighbors for example in the korean peninsula and also in the south china sea and promise of a bit of attention in the east china sea and so this is a very very timely call for a very bad and is to protect the motherland to keep peace and stability in this very region the tension that's been heightened in this specially over the past few years when in the midst of a two power to power in north korea and also the intensified kind of alliance activities in south career like there's a new military exercises out there and with the very intensify situation over north korean develop of the nuclear weapons silent responded and u.s. responded and especially u.s. and its allies responded in a very tense manner and so i think that this is a very common disappear we call for calm but reading this is a response directly to this very military tension and in fact as i conceive it this is almost a very intensive situation ever since the korean war in one since one thousand nine hundred fifty the war actually ended in one thousand fifty three in a stalemate and this time aroun

across the central and southern parts of the philippines the wetter weather will push out into the south china sea as you can see it's making its way towards india china still quite a rash across much of malaysia a good part of potential are looking very wet over the next few days. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power. how is this radical transformation. i mean. i mean if you want to be shedding light on the romanians pressing for change on the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people this time on al-jazeera. or go back time to recap our headlines there on the supreme leader. is accusing the country's enemies of fueling anti-government protests state media says nine people have been killed on monday night taking the death toll during five days of unrest to twenty three. south korea has accepted the north's offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday follows kim jong un's new year address which struck a more friendly tone towards all palestinians are condemning a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of