was a goal for people both on the island and the mainland tension between begging and taipei had been growing. with china stepping up military activity near the taiwan strait. frances condemned, a satellite rocket launched by iran saying it is in breach of a un security council resolution if reportedly sent 3 research devices into space. paras says it was especially regrettable because the world powers had been seeking to salvage. the 2015 nuclear deal with iran for people are missing in northern belgium. after a powerful gas explosion, blast in the town of turn, who destroyed part of a residential building day one person is recovering from the injuries in hospital will help the experts in the us a warning of what they call an only crohn blizzard. they've told americans to prepare for severe disruptions in the coming weeks. rising wave of covey 19 laid by a micron variant is threatening to overwhelm hospital schools and other key infrastructure. record numbers of children have been hospitalized and authorities are preparing to authorized visit booster shots for 12 to 15 year olds. nex

we fostered a relationship with taiwan and taipei. just a few weeks ago, the general assembly -- i had the privilege to meet survivors from concentration camps. i was horrified to hear what they had experienced. i would like to use this opportunity to call on the international community to work on ending these concentration camps of forced labor, forced organ harvesting and genocide. i would like also to emphasize my belief that truly democratic and liberal cities should not be -- to countries such as china and russia, which try to exert influence on the municipal level. currently czech republic is going through a political change. the populist government is being replaced. a new coalition is pledging to restore democratic principles. that does not mean prague will be less dedicated to the mission of the pact of free cities. on the contrary, our experience with the previous populist government is a reminder of the fragile nature of democracy. there is a lot of work ahead in order to strengthen these values in our society. prague is re

in taiwan, grounds gathered at the foot of the taipei 101 skyscraper, and celebrations also taking placen thailand, as you can see there. let's cross live to turkey now, which said goodbye to 2021 in the past few minutes. france 24 is in swan park, central ankara. jasper, in spite of covid, how is the new year being celebrated? jasper: it has been well celebrated despite covid. the park behind me is called swan park, and it is on the southern side of the city. and it was packed minutes ago. and we heard a count down in turkish and then we heard firecrackers -- a countdown in turkish and then we heard firecrackers and confetti being shot in the air, and a lot of public drinking and cheering. i am afraid to say, a lot of the people were not masked. however, turkey is doing relatively well in comparison to europe on the covid front. in france, you are on more than 200,000 new infections a day. in turkey, we are on 40,000 new infections a day. in france, you have 180 daily deaths. in turkey, we have 140 daily deaths. and these turkish figures are more impressive because turkey has a substant

same goes for taipei with a high of 21 degrees. nothing major, but what is major is that cold air in northern china starting to slumped further toward the south, impacting the northeast as well. that is thursday. let me show you saturday. we will put the colors on. the darker the purple, the over the temperature. well below average, but look at in the north. wall-to-wall sunshine -- that is a plus -- on saturday. that is your weather update. we will see you again soon. goodbye for now. >> the weather sponsored by qatar airways. >> al jazeera world takes a road trip across spain. one wom's journey seeking her heritage and uncovering new insights. >> it is a story that seems to have been airbrushed in history. >> "in search of my roots" on al jazeera. >> you are with al jazeera and these are the top stories -- u.s. health regulators have approved pfizer's pill to treat covid-19. studies show it reduces severe symptoms by nearly 90% following the approval of a murk pill in the u.k. israel, meanwhile, is welcoming a plan for a fourth d

feel about a them that's hard you 3 times a year, j way. lin trembles 300 kilometers south from taipei to the west coast. city of tai none where he grew up. oh, i found all but in his yolanda didn't go to sleep. oh, he was raised in a conservative pro chinese family. he can't help but feel a little dread before each visit. a lively, often exhausting debate with his father is sure to come. yes, i did the all are, you are already 36. yeah. i can't do anything other than they out the fact look and try to convince you hope all younger, all of the jeez, hold of cool. i don't want your life to be as difficult as mine and your mother's joke any may hold a single good. oh, great grandfather insisted. it's always a dear clear of politics you all. or mindy heightens, do you get that marked or did other traits are? china wants to establish policies in taiwan in hong kong to the ship that benefit china does not necessarily us 40. there's no room for negotiation to the questions on poppy may, instead, china puts pressure on our government and on the wealthiest to force the whole society to obey chi

tensions between beijing and taipei have been growing with china stepping up military activity near thewan strait. four people are missing in northern belgium after powerful gas explosion in a town destroyed part of a residential building. one person is recovering from their injuries and hospital. france has recorded over 230,000 new coronavirus cases on new year's eve, the fourth consecutive day the country has broken the european record for infections. in his new year's address of the french president emmanuel macron warned that difficult weeks lie ahead and urged people to comply with government measures to curb the spread of covid-19. employers have been ordered to let staff work from home and wearing a mask outdoors in paris is compulsory. both experts in the u.s. are warning of what they call an omicron blizzard. they have told americans to prepare for severe disruptions in the coming weeks. the rising wave of covid-19 led by the omicron variant is threatening to overwhelm hospitals, schools, and other key infrastructure. record numbers of children have been hospitalized, and auth

he joins us live at via skype from taipei, hello, the j, michael. as we heard in kimberly's package, the summons guest least has raised eyebrows. took us for the significance of taiwan seam buys. well, it certainly makes a lot of sense for a vibrant democracy like taiwan, population of 23500000 people. in recent years, i've made it very clear that despite its often exclusion from international institutions, it has tremendous. it can make tremendous contributions to increasingly complex world. and certainly during the quarter, in 1900 pandemic, we have seen taiwan shine on the international stage with its ability not only to respond to the pen demik, but also to strike a, an appropriate balance between the uses of technology uses of artificial intelligence. and at the same time, making sure that human rights individual rights are protected. how tie one's invite to this democracy summit be received by china. certainly china does not, is not please that any event, any invitation that gives the, the impression if you will, that taiwan is a, is a soverei

this according to data from the ministry of national defense in taipei. the transport industry bracing for another roller coaster year of supply chain pain. the international road transport union says around 1/5 of all professional truck driving jobs are unfit, despite many employers offering increased wages. southeast asia markets are opening up, let's look at how we are doing. playing catch up to yesterday's u.s. a session. malaysia up 2/10 of a percent. indonesia up about 4/10 of a percent. the philippines up 1/10 of a percent. here's a look at singapore. plenty more ahead on bloomberg. ♪ david: this is my kitchen table and also my filing system. over much of the past three decades, i've been an investor. the highest calling of mankind, i've often thought, was private equity. [laughter] and then i started interviewing. i watched your interviews so i know how to do some interviewing. [laughter] i've learned in doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. jeff: i asked how much he wanted. he said $250,000. i said fine. i didn't negotiate and i did

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s embassy in taipei, for example. but on the other hand, they sort of want china to leave taiwan alone, and the u. s. has suggested they would defend taiwan militarily in certain circumstances. are reported. united states is me cleared to china. it would defend taiwan on its own. twenty's attack is unprovoked and on the flip side is made clear to taiwan that it will not come to taiwan. deed um, if the trying to type is provoked. so that's the big picture. if things spin out of control, we could potentially be talking about a war between the us and china. it means that when things are tense around taiwan, it's a big deal. and things have been getting tons under president donald trump. the you got a lot cozier with taiwan than previous presidents and biden's administration has effectively continued in the same direction. ah, over in taiwan, the political climate shifted in 2016 when president sign when took over from a pro beijing president. she's been pretty outspoken against beijing, and the question of taiwan status

same goes for taipei with the hiv $21.00 degrees. nothing major. but what is major is that cold air in northern china as starting to sun further toward the south impact the northeast is wall. that's on thursday. let me show you saturday. we'll put the colors on the dark of the purple, the lower the temperature sol, just high of minus 60 degrees, so well below average. but look at in the north harbor minus 20 beijing minus 4 degrees with wall to wall sunshine. that's the plus on saturday. that sure weather update, we'll see again soon. bye for now. oh, the weather sponsored by katara always al jazeera world takes a road trip across space. spanish, people love to tell you the arm and way they come from. and i am no exception. one woman's journey seeking her heritage, covering new insights into christian spans listen them origin. it's a story that seems to have been her brush from history. in search of my groups on al jazeera oh ah, without 0 and these are the top stories, u. s. health regulators of approved phases pill to trade cove at 19 studies sho

but we can dramatically, we're still seeing the heavy downpours affecting taipei and it is gonna remain rather wet here for the rest of the week. but further north is lots of fine and dry weather to be found across mainland china. we've got a cold wind blowing down that's going to knock the temperature down dramatically in patient places like beijing and in the north east. if we have a look at the 3 day, the temperature is going to be touching minus 4. by the time we get into friday and it will be rather cloudy and cold, but we're still seeing a lot of sunshine and warmth in places like shanghai. and so, what's the sunshine across the korean peninsula is looking rather wintry and wet across northern areas of japan. however, with heavy snow in kato now to south asia, and we're also seeing a cold spell sweep across the north that when to wave is going to stretch further south and to the east in the days to come all the way down to o. deja. we will see some fog, however, remain in the northwest, but the further south we go, the dryer it is with a few showers, sprinkling into sher lanka and

the taipei drive to say it is somehow value judgment. one thing about me to community. even thinking about what it means, the school choice conversation. that as a whole another ratio. so, i think that that reaction usually comes from a place of people being very curious. i think that shame is predominant. but i see a little bit of shame. you can see it in some other things, you know, in the past year, especially. people have been awakening to athese conversations. could i do that? could i go that far to make that decision for my family? that is something that i honestly feel uncomfortable when i see people go through that. you would be uncomfortable sending your kids to a school -- >> writes. they say that's not what i meant. but that is what they mean. >> yes. it is very deep. interesting because in addition to the competition, and sort of the achievement is also this way in which i feel like white parents, privilege parents, you know, treat our kids like these incredibly fragile people. you know, there is this sort of sensitivity in which we parent. on the one hand,

issue for about a them that's hard you 3 times a year, j way. lin trembles 300 kilometers south from taipei to the west coast. city of tai none where he grew up. oh and all. but she need yolanda to go to sleep. he was raised in a conservative pro chinese family. he can't help but feel a little dread before each visit. a lively, often exhausting debate with his father is sure to come. yes, answered yoletta, you are already 36 eat. i can't do anything other than lay out the facts and try to convince you hope all younger. all of the g hold of cool. i don't want your life to be as difficult as mine, and your mother's joke any may hold a single good. oh great grandfather insisted. it's always a dear clear of politics you all. or mindy heightens, do you get that marked or did over to? it's are, china wants to establish policies in taiwan in hong kong to the ship that benefit china, but not necessarily us 40. there's no room for negotiation to the appointment on poppy may. instead, china puts pressure on our government and on the wealthiest to force the whole society to obey and gun censure, yada

a lot of the dividend taipeiing stocks already had correction in my opinion.dustrial sector, look even xli, sector spdr for industrials that thing has been, been building a base for like eight months. so technically it looks very good. and the dividends just add a little bit of a buffer on a stock that is already cheap. one that i think is really cheap right now is hoosier-based company from my own state, cummins engine. people think of them as just diesel engines for trucks but they're also heavily involved in the electric side and the fuel cells and developing technology for that but the stock's already down 20% from its 52-week high and their forward p-e is only 12. so you're getting a very good stock with dividend yield of 2.6% right now. they have raised it every year for 15 years. street target on the stock is like 275. i think you could easily see that happen next year and not get swept down in any kind of correction the way some of the high-flyers and the dow or the s&p 500 really been driven by a lot of the lower dividend-paying stocks with a high p-e

monday and tuesday, from haiku into hong kong and eventually into the taipei region. look at the forecast accumulation. this area being spared the heaviest of rainfall, as well, which continues to be on the east-northeasterly quadrant of the storm. will bring in some showers into hong kong, again, for the middle of the workweek. let me bring into malaysia. they've had rough weather lately with some flooding across this region. enhanced by this tropical activity. in fact, we had a depression move at just 4 degrees north latitude, very rare for this time of year. this wasn't even a named storm and produced rainfall totals in ku kuala lumpur, higher amounts to the north of there. interesting weather taking place over the western pacific today. >> absolutely. thanks for that look at the storm, derek van dam. proo really appreciate it. >>> still to come, cnn heads to michigan where the military was deployed to help a hospital inundated with patients. >>> and the vice president is under scrutiny over what she said regarding the omicron variant. what she said and how the whi

carter officially normalized relations with chinese leader deng xioping, and broke relations with taipeied the taiwan relations act that says, “the united states will make available to taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable taiwan to maintain a sufficient self- defense capability capacity.” the act is ambiguous about the u.s. military responding to a chinese invasion. in an october cnn town hall, president biden seemed to end that ambiguity. >> are you saying the united states would come to taiwan's defense if... >> yes >> ...china attacked? >> yes, we have a commitment to do that. >> schifrin: but white house press secretary jen psaki immediately walked that back. >> well, there has been no shift. the president was not announcing any change in our policy nor has he made a decision to change our policy. >> schifrin: so should the united states be more clear about whether or not it would defend taiwan, should the u.s. even come to taiwan's defense? for that, we get three views. richard haass is the president of the council on forei

margaret lewis joining us out of taipei. sorry, it is yours.e: i thought you were taking a break. rishaad: we are. yvonne: coming up, alex gorsky tells us about the impact omicron will have not the coming days. david: this is bloomberg. ♪ rishaad: all ride, we are back, just seeing this rise of covid-19 cases in several countries, including the u.s., staring at a possible crisis over the holiday season. the u.s. cbc recommending 16 and 17-year-olds get vaccinated -- the u.s. cdc recommending. it does seem this variant is something like four times more transmissible than the delta variant but it seems like symptoms are less severe. what do we know? >> i think we are going to have to see what happens in other countries out of south africa to get a better sense. one thing we -- one thing we really do know for sure is the effects of the vaccine, it is the most immune invasive variant so far, but it does not totally destroy the effect. it does lower or reduce the effect. you really need to get that third booster shot to get back that sufficient leve

after the delegation i led to taipei, it was followed on by a bipartisan coalition mainly from members of the house, and i think it's absolutely critical that that spirit of bipartisanship and the reality of bipartisanship continue to exist when it comes to the threat posed by the people's republic of china and the chinese communist party. so i appreciate colleagues on both sides of the aisle who have championed the provisions i've mentioned and those who may have other ideas about how we can deter acts of aggression, not only against taiwan but against other countries in the region, when it comes to disputed islands and other territory. i want to thank chairman reed, ranking member inhofe and our colleagues on the armed services committee for all the work they've put into this bill so far. one of our most solemn responsibilities is to provide for the common defense, and this is the best way to ensure that our national defense is prepared to meet the challenges on the horizon. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. cotton: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas.

beijing is peeling off remaining governments that do recognize taipei.aiwan's rescue, if a war between china and a taiwan breaks out, a possibility that is increasingly likely, we know that. this is the latest threat to attack the united states during any standoff between china and taiwan issued thursday in the global times which is of course the official mouthpiece of the ccp, jonathan. so you've got all of this provocation going on around taiwan and the bad behavior continuing from the ccp and american companies looking at the 1.4 billion person population and looking at dollar signs, not recognizing the national security risks. apple's ceo tim cook making a secret deal with china back in 2016, worth $275 billion to improve business in the country. according to internal documents obtained by the information we've been reporting this this week that the 2016 deal reportedly included apple's agreement that it would build new retail stores in china and it would work more schoas closeh chinese companies and buy components and parts from chinese suppliers, j