some of the members of apec will be going to malaysia for a south-east asia summit. some of what we have seen here will probably carry over. they want to move forward trade agreements and the economy in this part of the world >>> still to come find out why this village chief in south africa is using his toilet as a storeroom and he is not the only one. plus >> reporter: i'm reporting from thailand where police are in a new push to stop the humaning flow of drugs coming across the-- huge flow of drugs coming across the border from myanmar. i just had a horrible nightmare. my company's entire network went down, and i was home in bed, unaware. but that would never happen. comcast business monitors my company's network 24 hours a day and calls and e-mails me if something, like this scary storm, takes it offline. so i can rest easy. what. you don't have a desk bed? don't be left in the dark. get proactive alerts 24/7. comcast business. built for business. >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the soundbites. we're giving you a dee

the drug trafficking business in south-east asia is worth over 33 billion dollars a year according to the united nations. several nations including thailand and myanmar are coming together to form an action plan against the drug manufacturers, traffickers and dealers of the reporting from thigh land the biggest victims caught in this war are the children. >> reporter: in a dawn raid on a remote village in thigh land the-- thailand the world of a small girl was turned upside down. whoop of the targets of the raid near the border with myanmar was her stepfather who was wanted in connection with drug trafficking and killing a policeman. he wasn't there but the mother of the 10-year-old was caught with a small bag of methamphetamine pills, enough to be charged as a dealer. at the police station station in town she was able to contemplate what would amount to years in jail and years way from her daughter. >> translation: since there is no-one taking care of her now, she will need to get a job and take care of herself. >> reporter: that's exactly what this woman has had to do for the past t

>> certainly there's already a south-east asia battalion fighting in syria and iraq. he numbers are quite small. i think the government of south-east asia are worried about returnees from i.s.i.l. fighting coming back home and have gp intelligence sharing when we saw people caught in their states. i think they're taking the threat seriously and are working on it >>> the members have signed a treaty to combat human trafficking. south-east asian governments are not able to agree on how to handle the numbers of rohinga refugees that are arriving on their shores. how do you see them agreeing on tackle human trafficking groups? >> i think the agreement they signed is a reactive one given the problems this region and asian and association faced with the rohinga crisis this year. unless there is a major change, the agreement will have many concrete effect >>> the south china sea was a part of the agenda. obama urged the mens to resolve the dispute between dialogue and not through bullying and coercion, and those were his words. do you see tensions over the south china sea dis

how children are getting caught up in the war of illegal drugs in south east asia. in sport russia's world cup bosses say they have nothing to hide from police investigating corruption allegations. >> at 9:30 - "america tonight" - top investigative reporting, >>> investigative reporting, the world". >> let's take a closer look. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. >>> top stories. france has confirmed that abdel hamid abaaoud the man they believed planned the attacks in paris was killed in a raid on wednesday. the p.m. says it is not known whether it was linked to attackers. state of emergency for three months. it allows police to conduct raids without warrants and ban public gatherings. five people are dead following thure's violence in israel and occupied territories. israeli and u.s. citizen and bystander were killed. in belgium nine people have been arrested for alleged links to the paris attacks. firs conducted six raids targeting connections of the stade de fr

about the disputes between china and some individual countries in south east asia, we believe that theties directly concerned should handle and try to solve these differences through friendly consultation and negotiation. and this is exactly stipulated in the declaration of conduct to parties in the south china sea. betty: it is my understanding, mr. yang, the philippines filed their opposition to what is going on in the south china sea with the hague, and the chinese have refused to engage in that complaint. mr. yang: because the philippines signed on to it, and china made it very clear that such disputes or similar disputes should be solved by the parties concerned. we would not participate in any kind of adjudication, as you have mentioned. china made this very clear. not this year or last year. actually about 10 years ago. china made its position very clear. so i believe it would be good for everybody to keep its word and to do what they have promised. betty: when you look at the disputes in the south china sea, the chinese sending navy ships off the coast of alaska when president

president obama is in south east asia now meeting with r rgion leaders. european union ministers met in brussels friday to discuss the next steps to take against the islamic state. the french interior mister said hicountry and the rest of europe will do whatever they can to wipe out rrorism. "the europe that we love the europe that we have built should also do what it can to combat terrorism, it is its duty to it's citizens, it is duty to the humanist values inspired the fououding fatherssof europe. " at the meeting, the e-u ministers promised to to ming in. u-s environmental regulators say volkswagen lied on more pollution tests than originaly thought. earlier this month, the environmental protection agency accused v-w ofofputting software on about 10 thoosand 20-14 tt 20-16 vehicles. but this week, volkswagen told the epa that the same software is on vehicles going back to 2009. the epa says it will investigate an take appropriate action. volkswagen denies the software allows the cars to cheat on emissions tests. the man who landed a small helicopter on

orangutans are often smuggled throughout south-east asia and sold to private zoos as bets. >> all the news aljazeera.com, plenty of comment and analysis. aljazeera.com. fails too many college students who end up unemployment and whroamed by loans. overwhelmed by loans. >>> the promise of a higher education is the return on investment a student earns after receiving a college degree. part of that of course is knowledge. but for most people return on investment is the are higher earnings that they receive over a lifetime, compared to someone with only a high school education. that return, however, is not materializing for a growing number of college grads running up debt to pay for a degree. now i'll explain why in a diplomat. but first let's understand why all debt is not created equal. the average college student running up $80,000 in debt to pay for a four-year degree will recoup those costs through the jobs they get after graduation, by the time they turn 40. after that, the same data show that college grads earn $800,000 more, than workers with only a high school diploma. by the ti

help trade commerce and workforce flow more freely between the borders of these ten nations in south east asia. it was envisioned about eight years ago. it is kind of beginning its fruition if you will. it will go into effect attended at the end of this year, but it's just the first step down a long process because you have so many different nations with so many economic systems that for there to be full integration it will take some time, but at least now this is the beginning of the process that they have been working on for the last eight years >>> thank you. still to come the fight against i.s.i.l. in northern iraq leaves orphaned children with an uncertain future plus. >> reporter: i'm in kenya. keep watching. wait until you see what all this is going to be turned into. >>> the tops stories again. russia has stepped up its bombing campaign in syria in what activists are saying the heaviest since the targets began. crimea has declared a state of emergency after its main power lines from the ukraine were blown up. the state energy company says the damage was caused by either shelling or exp

orangutans are often smuggled throughout south-east asia and sold to private zoos as bets. >> all the news aljazeera.com, plenty of comment and analysis. aljazeera.com. fails too many college students who end up unemployment and whroamed by loans. overwhelmed by loans. >>> the promise of a higher education is the return on investment a student earns after receiving a college degree. part of that of course is knowledge. but for most people return on investment is the are higher earnings that they receive over a lifetime, compared to someone with only a high school education.

y years, americans allies in asia have wanted washington to challenge beijg's claiaims to the south and east asia sees. they have converted tiny islands into magnet military bases. bebeijing says these islands all clmed by other nations and the waters around them are sovereign territory. the region noticed and enraged china threatened war. said america will continue to operate freely in the region. he flew aboard the carrier teddy roosevelt and ththe south china sea run by malaysia's defense minister. the region is relieved america is standing up to china, a country so conceited by economic and military growth, it thinks it can get away with anything. china must realize bullying and threats won't work and that i depends on the world for its economic survival. washington must send crystal-clear messages and think far ahead to counter china's future moves. thank you for watching. visit us at defensenews.cneom. [music] >> dr. charles stanley: listen, it's the will of god to set you free of anything and everything that hinders his will and purpose and plan for your life. he's willing to dig as d

, but so far she has refused to speak out in support of them >>> more on this, to new york, a south-east asia political risk analyst. thank you for joining us. first of all, from what you've seen and heard, what do you make of theys elections and are you worried about - these elections, do you have any concerns about the impending result and do you describe it will be respected. >> -- do you think it will be respected. >> sure. i think that the signals thus far suggest that the election was broadly conducted in a free and fair manner. there are, of course, a great number of irregularities across the country. many of these are related to the logistical challenge of bringing 35 million people to vote for the first time in some number of years. so i think that while there are challenges that took place, the important thing is that there wasn't coordinated malfeasance or an effort to tip the scales in favor of one party depends the other. we're likely to see the results accepted both inside the country >>> obviously, there are dozens of parties up for the election, but this very much been seen as

state army which is believed to be one off if not the largest producer and trafficker of drugs in south-east asia. the people living in poor villages along the border, the drug barons have a ready supply of workers wanting to make money from trafficking and dealing. >> translation: after each arrest we investigate the syndicates. we have people working in each other. we seize the assets of those key drug traffickers. last year we dismantled some big networks. >> reporter: but in this case another child is left behind as another parent is taken away. another casualty of a growing illicit border trade. wayne hay al jazeera, thailand >>> protests in haiti against the results of last months presidential election has turned violent. police used tear gas to dispurse protesters. they allege voter fraud. they're accusing the current president to manipulate result to give the ruling candidate the lead. over ten million people in south africa have to access to proper sanitation. with water in short supply, few innovations like a urine diversion toilet has made its way into villages. these term of imprisonm

. >>> president obama landed in south east asia day for a string of summits with asia leaders.countries are gathering in manilla for asian pacific economic cooperation summit. goal, to focus on trade, business, economic issues but in the a a aftermath have of the terror attacks in paris on friday, terrorism is also suspected. >>> patty labelle is used to driving people wild with her voice on stage, right? >> but now she's sending people in the frenzy with her sweet potato pies. wal-mart says they are just about out, guess how many they will need to replenish their stock. >>> plus a local mall responding to backlash over the cost to see santa, how now they are backtracking. >>> we're going to track some songs for you this morning, some songs that you like, within of which is this song by katrina and the waves, right. >> yes you liked this song from 1938. >> walking on sunshine. >> so here's the thing the onus is on lauren to find other songs of yours that don't have that bad word. >> help me out on twitter. >>> patty. >> ♪ >> so yesterday we showed you singing sensation that had

can names in the region will be gathered in bangkok to talk about growth in opportunities in south east asiaamong the participants are the finance ministers of southeast asia and the philippines. ipoing $670 million in its making its trading debut on thursday. they hope the extra capital will help it compete with bigger international rivals. hong kong ipo fund rising is heading for a 20 year high in 2015. of thesees the start first-ever ever africa china summit on the african continent. resident xi jinping -- president's xi jinping will focus on security investment. let's take a look at some of the economic data that may be moving markets in the week ahead. joining us is paul, chief australian-new zealand economist at capital economics. us, itou for joining looks like u.s. dollar strength is really driving the aussie dollar and u.n. dollar to weakness -- dollar and new zealand new zealand -- dollar and the new zealand dollar weakness. rba deal is athe done deal. the future is a different matter. reason the rba will hold iis week is because -- suspect that will be shown in the gdp data in the

coalition as european countries, arab , countries as far-flung as australia and countries in south east asia that a part of the coalition. russia right now is the , iran andof two russia, supporting assad. russia's military capabilities and given the influence they have on th the a ssad regime, then cooperating would be enormously helpful in bringing about a resolution of the civil war in syria and allow us all to refocus our attention .n isil i think it is important to remember that you have got the global coalition organized. russia is the outlier. we hope that they refocus their attention on what is the most substantial threat and that they serve as a constructive partner. if and when they do, it will make it easier for us to go after isil and daesh. i think it is important to recognize that the types of airstrikes there carried not, just like the ones we are carrying out, in and of themselves and not sufficient. the work that we do to bolster the local fighting forces, the cutting off of supply lines, il, reducing the flow of foreign fighters, the intelligent work that needs to be done,

especially in already-fragile regions such as africa, the middle east, and south asia.compromised access to food and water greatly increases the prospect for famine and deadly epidemics. finally, the rapid advance of information technology has given rise to an entirely new and wide-open domain for human interaction and progress. the cyberrealm. as an intelligence officer, much of my job involves dealing with the unintended consequences of the cyberrevolution. for as much as it brings the world together, it also serves the purpose of those who wish us harm. the greatest concern, the cyber realm gives small groups and even individuals the potential to inflict damage on a scale previously restricted to nationstates. while states are largely rational actors subject to deterrence, the same does not apply to terrorists and criminals. both governments and individuals are under constant attacks. the department of homeland security reports that more than 640,000 cyber-related incidents affected federal agencies in fiscal year 2014. the massive and prolonged hacking of employee r

my focus is south asia and east asia. you talked about pakistan and peace process. is somehow a little long-term perspective of pakis arabia ands th saudi iran's involvement in afghanistan. if you recall, we have two mos ques now. both of these countries are influential in terms of bringing peace and stability in afghanistan, especially saudi arabia. during hisouhani, -- itmonths of office happened so many times. in previous government, also the same thing because they are influential in pakistan and can help the process. looking at the long-term perspective of the involvement with afghanistan building a stronger nation, and also one thing that differentiates iraq the conflicttan is of war was not a long the line of dictatorship. if you look at the long-term involvement between the two in the middle east, how do you see that dynamic playing in afghanistan long-term? or daudzai: that rivalry competition between saudi arabia and iran is not limited to afghanistan. it is wider. we don't have any problem. problemremember an shia in afghanistan that we have ever had. how

is poised to take up the south china sea issue as the upcoming east asia summit in malaysia. no matter what steps are taken to avoid discussing the matter, the political maneuvering between the u.s. and china will continue and needs close watching. >>> japan's chief cabinet secretary yoshihide suga says his nation has no plans to join u.s. military patrols in the south china sea. a u.s. naval vessel last month sailed near an island built by china in disputed waters. >> translator: the japan self-defense forces have no plans to take part in the u.s. freedom of navigation operations. currently, sdf personnel are not engaged in sustained patrol and surveillance activities in the south china sea, nor do they have such plans. >> the leaders of japan and the united states discussed the south china sea issue on thursday. president obama suggested that such patrols will become a routine mission. prime minister shinzo abe indicated that his government will closely watch developments in the area and their impact on japan's security and consider possible activities by the self-defense f

. >>> ongoing claims in the south china sea were a key issue in east asia summit. a closing statement released tuesday affirms the importance of cooperation in maritime safety. the cooperation between the countries may be hard to come by. a senior commentator has analysis on the issue. he spoke with thomas berger, an expert on international relations at boston university. >> hello. the u.s. and japan brought up the south china sea issue. how was that received at the summit, do you think? >> overall i think that the reception in southeast asia was quite positive with some exception. obviously china was not that happy with the issue being raised. china has been insisting that this is an issue that needs to be resolved by china and different countries which have a dispute with china. on a bilateral, country to country basis. and the reason china wants to do this, we think, is because it would like to pursue what is known as a divide and conquer strategy by negotiating with individual countries separately. it is in a stronger position, a dominant party. and hopes to be

>> obviously, there is a lot of tradition with prevention promise in the middle east and south asia. saudi arabia is leading that. ithink they would classify as an active government highly ideological program. what's they try to do is, with a lots of money and effort to m, which is notts that far away. dohing of what they could work in the western country. what they do have, is a very strong sense of what is necessary in the practical dimension. toting financial support marry. getting financial support to move out. they finance the families to come in and meet them in prison. the practical dimension is very good and there is no weston country that would put so much resources in to that kind of work. there is no de-radicalization program on that planet that 100% success rate. some programs are different. they say they have a 95% excess rate. a year ago, they arrested a person in saudi arabia. there were a number of terrorist plots led by graduates from the program. the only information that comes out are from people who run it. they say, 95% success rate. i am very critical and skepti

that time, a group that started just in iraq and syria, expanding to africa, europe, the middle east, south asia remarkable expansion in a short amount of time. >> very chilling information. all right, jim sciutto, thanks very much. >>> now to the rising fears about airport security right here in the united states after an apparent blunder in miami that ended with armed officers searching an american airlines flight. aviation correspondent rene marsh has more on what happened and the fallout. rene, the timing of this incident seems especially bad for the tsa. >> reporter: well, wolf, we know that the ts weinke fora was for in the fbi to search for a man authorities believed may have brought a suspicious package on to a flight. it caused delays for hundreds of passengers. officers were walking through one of the nation's busiest airports with guns in hand. and now tonight, officials with the tsa are left having to explain themselves about what went wrong. >> everybody out. everybody out. to the front. >> reporter: police rushed on board this american airlines flight monday in search of a man with

. >> because of the chaos throughout middle east, north africa, south asia. you work ted white house, david axelrod. it wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? >> this hasn't been a smooth line from the beginning. we've had a tumultuous situation from the time that we arrived there. obviously, emergence of isis was not what was anticipated. it is going to be an issue in the election. on gloria's point, all of the democratic candidate hes held t the notion that we should still accept refugees. i think this will be a flare point with candidates. even before paris, ted cruz was going after marco rubio on immigration because he said it was opening the door to terrorist to come into the country. i think it's a -- a false argument, but -- or an overblown argument. but it's one that's going to be resonant, more resonant after paris. >> let me bring patty into this. patty, on thursday, the president gave an interview to george stephanopoulos of abc news in which he said isis has been contained in iraq and syria. they're not gaining any more ground. they've actually

>> obviously, there is a lot of tradition with prevention promise in the middle east and south asia. saudi arabia is leading that. ithink they would classify as an active government highly ideological program. what's they try to do is, with a lots of money and effort to m, which is notts that far away. dohing of what they could work in the western country. what they do have, is a very strong sense of what is necessary in the practical dimension. toting financial support marry. getting financial support to move out. they finance the families to come in and meet them in prison. the practical dimension is very good and there is no weston country that would put so much resources in to that kind of work. there is no de-radicalization program on that planet that 100% success rate. some programs are different. they say they have a 95% excess rate. a year ago, they arrested a person in saudi arabia. there were a number of terrorist plots led by graduates from the program. the only information that comes out are from people who run it. they say, 95% success rate. i am very critical and skepti

obviously there is a long tradition of deradicalization intervention programs in the middle east and south asia and saudi arabia is leading that. i think they were classified as an active government, highly ideological program. what they try to do with a lot of money and with a lot of effort to replace jihadism with wabism. nothing of what they do could work in the western country to be clear. what they do is they have very strong sense of what is necessary in a practical dimension of deradicalization. getting financial support for moving out and getting a home and they buy these people a car and they finance the families to come in and meet them in prison so the practical dimension is very good and i think there's no western country who would put so much resources into that kind of work. in terms of evaluating it, there's no deradicalization program on that planet who would not claim 100% success rate or at least a high success rate. the saudi program is no different. they say they have a 95% success rate. it was just a year or two years ago where they arrested an 88-person al qaeda cell in sa

with devastating effect, especially in already fragile regions such as africa, the middle east, and south asia the rapid advance of information technology has given rise to an entirely new and wide open domain for human interaction and progress, the cyber realm. as an intelligence officer, much of my job involves dealing with unintended consequences of the cyber revolution. for as much as it brings the world together, it also serves the purpose of those who wish us harm. of greatest concern is cyber realm gives small groups and individuals the potential to inflict damage on a scale previously restricted to nation states. while states are largely rational actors subject to deterrence, the same does not apply to terrorists. the department of homeland security reports that more than 640,000 cyber-related incidents affected federal agencies in fiscal year 2014. the massive and prolonged hacking of employee records held by the office of personnel management underscores the intensity of assaults on government i.t. systems. i am personally all too familiar with the ease hackers can use social enginee

. >> north africa throughout the middle east into south asia.ack whatever it was on this russian airliner. >> i think there is a possibility that there was a bomb on board and we're taking that very seriously. you know, we know that the procedures we have here in the united states are different than some of the procedures that existed for inbound flights there and we're going to spend a lot of time just making sure that our own investigators and our own intelligence community figures out exactly what is going on before we make any definitive pronouncements, but it is certainly possible that there was a bomb on board. >> certainly possible there is a bomb. >> possible but we have let them reach their conclusions. >> as far as you know is the british government and u.s. government on the same page as far as the downing of this plane. >> the united kingdom part of the partnership where we share a lot of intelligence. i wouldn't say elected officials and always work. very closely. >> senator stand by, much more to talk about. much more information w

i want to bring in a former fbi agent and also founder of the south asia middle east consultants. thank you for being here. i want your take on what we have learned that these attacks were according to someone who knew some of the attackers very well. ready to go and that they were going to target schools, transportation, jewish sites. i was in paris outside of a jewish school french military with assault rifles. they wouldn't let us film the school. this is a huge concern. >> they are behaving like most terrorists do. it was the al qaeda or the new isis. they like to do multiple attacks and have their traditional targets that they like to go after. religious organizations have been always high on their list. something new that we're seeing are the schools. this has come back in the last few years with the kenya university attack. so the schools are somewhat new. they had the old attack, but the schools they feel like they can do more hit the heart of the community by attacking the children. >> when you look at this eighth atta attacker still on the lam, which is pretty incredible

south face off over on the one of the must borders on earth. >> we are often talking about thejf middle east, but a lot is happening in asia. to note that the north and south koreas are still at war. i didn't realize we maintained wartime control. tell us what that means for america in that part of the world? >> that is true every since the arm tis was signed 60 years ago. we have a military command there and that military command would take control of any war that takes place of all forces. koreans and south koreans, and that is all kind. ground and maratime and air forces and those exercises are practiced on a routine basis with the u.s. commanders on charge and integrated with the south korea staff to assist. we arejfÑ in command and contro >> that was supposed to transition to be a part of south korea in 2012 or see. it hasn't happen? >> it may happen sometime in the future. we have pulled our forces and we have 28000. and we pulled our forces back from the dmz. and now just the south koreans are there. and that is the next evolutionary step. we have enhanced capability. and it is reluctance to give it up. the initial f

thus we must work with the partners in europe and goufl gulf region and south east asia all along they asking the hard questions whether they're actions are serving our unified purpose. the bottom line is that isis must be destroyed, but it cannot be defeated by the united states alone. a new and affective coalition must be formed with the muslim nations ledding the effort on the ground while the united states and other mayor forces provide the support they need. let me conclude by once again thanking all of you for being here today. all across this country there is a significant alien nation from the political process. people look to washington and throw their hands up and say what in god's name is going on there? why aren't our senators and congressmen on there? why aren't our senators and congressmen paying attention to our needs? why aren't we developing a rational foreign policy rather than talking again about getting involved in a quack meyer in the middle east which could lead to perpetual warfare? let me conclude just by saying this. the problems that we face as a nation are v

careert most of his specializing in the near east and south asia for directing counterterrorism analysis in the early 1990's. in that you 94 and 1995, he was the agency intelligence briefer for president bill clinton. he led a multiagency effort to establish what would become the national counterterrorism center. after retiring from the cia in 2005, he worked in the private sector for three years. please join me in welcoming the director of the central intelligence agency, the honorable john brennan. [applause] brennan: thank you very much, robert. good morning everyone. i appreciate this invitation to have an opportunity this morning to talk to all of you because of the importance that i attach certainly to osac. that partnership between the private sector and the u.s. government and particularly here at the department of the state is so important and i do want to take a moment to express my great appreciation, gratitude, and aberration for the diplomatic security here and original security officers and assistant rso's around the world who do a tremendous role in job andeeping u.s. dipl

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. >> i'm harry faucet from south korea's first ever chop stick festival designed to prevent links in east asia providing more than a hint of competition. ♪ we begin this news hour in iraq where kurdish forces say they are in full control of the northern town of sinja and they have been backed by a u.s. led air campaign, it's a symbolic victory for the kurds and the u.s. and sinja was captured by i.s.i.l. last year where the group killed and enslaved thousands of minority yazitis and the town sits across highway 47 which links two of i.s.i.l.'s strongholds and a major supply route from mosul and i.s.i.l.'s self declared raqqa and we are in northern iraq along one of the supplies for the sinja and clearly this is a pretty significant move here emran. >> that is absolutely right, the kurdish peshmerga forces seemingly walked in without facing much resistance at all and went into the building and a governor took over and from there they control the whole of the town and did come in through the north and the north they took of the mountain in december when an operation was mounted there and opened

obviously there is a long tradition of de-radicalization intervention programs int3+ñf middle east and south asiaand saudi arabia is leading that. i think they were classified as an active government, highly ideological program. what they try to do with a lot of money and with a lot of effort to replace jihadism with wahhabism. nothing of what they do could work in the western country to be clear. what they do is they have very strong sense of what is necessary in a practical dimension of de-radicalization. getting financial support for moving out and getting a home and they buy these people a car and they finance the families to come in and meet them in prison so the practical dimension is very good and i think there's no western country who would put so much resources into that kind of work. in terms of evaluating it, there's no de-radicalization program on that planet who would not claim 100% success rate or at least a high success rate. the saudi program is no different. they say they have a 95% success rate. it was just a year or two years ago where they arrested an 88-person al qaeda cell i

iraqis and assyrian lands and to setting up local franchise and other countries of the middle east, south asiaisil has developed an external operations agenda that is no now implementg come is admitting with lethal effect. i'm sure we'll talk more about isil in the question and intercession but let me note that the great threat posed to the phenomenon of isil makes it absolutely imperative that the international community urgently commit to achieving an even greater an unprecedented level of cooperation, collaboration, information sharing and joint action in intelligence, law enforcement, military operations at the diplomatic channels. the isil threat demands it. at sea at eight we were close with foreign intelligence security services around the globe to advance our shared counterterrorism goals. over the course of many years we have forged broad and deep partnerships with our closest allies in europe such as great britain, france, and many, many others. the strategic relationships have been instrumental in helping to put together a transnational architecture that allows counterterrorism offi

east asia. lou: it took two years for state to send a ship in this case, the uss -- u.s. ship this went into south china sea within 12 nautical mile its took two years to do that. >> but better late than ever. i think that country is waking up to the threet fro threat from china, probably not quite as much strength as we should put in the region of the world. but remember, navy is down to 270 ships, they are spread thinly, they have 5 of 10 carriers that could be deployed today, because of maimaintenance problem and shortage of funds in the navy. tough time in the navy. lou: and army not doinge faring much better, and challenges mount, in syria, also i want to turn to the now that british have given for canceling ca commercial airliners to sharm-el-sheikh it was a terrorist bomb, responsibility claimed by the islamic state, this administration does not acknowledge yet. >> absolutely, remember benghazi in i don't think that this administration has come clean over major hasan terrorist act at fort hood. remember to acknowledge isis, is the culprit in this points out a strateg strategy failure. in sp

south korea strengthening its forces for 21st century threats. the government is recruiting student program is to shore up cyber dispensaries. our east asiaernment reporter has been tracking the story for us. tell us more about what the government is doing. well, over the last 5-6 years, south korea has come under a series of attacks that it blames on north korea. 2013articular attack in cost the country so much by paralyzing thousands of computer servers and cash machines that paralyzinglso broadcasting by some major broadcasting outlets here. so south korea is basically trying to catch up to defend against the threats by cultivating an army of young hackers. because these are the kinds of skills you can learn better when you are young. and south korea is basically funding a scholarship program that would allow very young, talented programmers to receive education in hacking. is south korea paying attention to this issue now? well, south korean officials have been finding out that north korea has been developing a unit of hackers for a long time. one estimate says that north korea began to develop a hacking unit in the early 1990's. and

south korea and china must continue. the paper writes that the summit talks which will now be hemmed every year are key to the stability of east asia. >> the okovango delta is one of africa's most treasured, world heritage sites. al jazeera'al jazeera's fadima r reports. >> the biodiverse marsh land in the world. gained international status as a world heritage site last year. the whole listing of the delta has been a wonderful opportunity to preserve and protect the delta and the communities that live in it. it gives us a huge opportunity to boost our tourism. it gives us a huge opportunity to showcase the delta. >> but to showcase the mining. >> there is a lot of interest to do mining in the delta. as a result of that you'll find there are a lot of companies explore for minerals. >> the government says existing prospecting licenses will not be renewed. >> as long as i'm in the government that's not an option. secondly it means that that jewel in our country will always remain a jewel. and it will always be something that is sustainable for the communities that live in and around it. >> reporter: still communities here find it diff

east asia summit. at the time of stepped up tensions with china over the disputed territories in the south china sea. >ed states has been committed to the security of this region for more than 70 years. we have a treaty obligation, an ironclad commitment to the defense of our ally, the philippines. you can count on the united states. >> the president's trip coming on the heels of the g-20 summit in turkey. there the president rejected any calls for sending a large number of u.s. combat troops to syria. as mike viqueira tells us, the president had very strong words for his critics. >> at the close of two days of meetings dominated by the war in syria and the fight against isil, president obama rejected calls for a dramatic military escalation. >> we have the right strategy and we're going to see it through. >> that means continued airstrikes, now in their 15t 15th month, targeting isil leaders and supply lines and already taking the fight to isil on the ground. >> once again ruled out american combat groups on the ground. >> if you do not have local populations that are committed to inclusive governance

east asia summit. he says the meetings there will focus on the global fight against isil and the despited south china sea. leaders from 19 nations are on manned, security has been increased across malaysia. the prime minister says his country plans to use social media and other tools to counter isil propaganda. >>> donald trump's shocking rhetoric on creating a national register for muslim americans. >>> freedom for convicted spy jonathan pollard. a30 years in prison, a closer look at the cost of his espionage. >>> plus, declassified. inside the cia. the secrets and lies revealed by the agency's former directors. >>> jonathan pollard is a preman tonight. he pleaded guilty to stealing documents for israel. rob reynolds as the report. >> the spy jonathan j. pollard left a federal prison in north carolina under a cover of darkness. his parole was 30 years to the day after sels a vast trove to israel. pollard later appeared in new york accompanied by his wife esther who he married while in prison. he must check in with a parole officer weekly and may not leave the u.s. for five years. his case became a cause