decides where it wants to be from a to taiwan area -- taiwan. it shows the result of telling the taiwan government. the second question, i have to confrontive about that. seeuse in 15 years, we can there are more people to people connections. it will be deeper. you'll see younger generations knowing the region well. a lot better then their parents. how much does that bring taiwan a really good relation with each government? i'm not sure. say the is premature to new policy will be a failure are successful. mentioned the lack of -- in my paper, is because 15 years later, we will still be struggling to find a good way to -- a successful not. for those who really want to improve official ties with new countries, i think there will be disappointed. ar those who want to have vibrant connection between civil society and the economy relations. i think of can expect some results of that. so, and you for your patience. i'll open up before. best the floor. yourself andfy which organization you are with. i am a program associate at the -- center. we know ab

reacted angrily taiwan's foreign minister joseph who said that china was luring away taiwan's allies with promises of vast financial aid he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting believes and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president

taiwan' relationship with the united statess will continue to shine under the taiwan relations act.e, you mentioned security. what sort of defense systems are you hoping that the united states are going to be selling you in the next round of arms sales, and when will that happen? joseph: we don't comment on specific items, but taiwan and the united states continue to engage with each other, discuss with each other the security need. there is the overall defense concept between taiwan and the united states. when we try to examine every aspect of taiwan's defense to make sure taiwan has sufficient defense capabilities to deter any kind of intention to offer aggression against taiwan -- rishaad: minister -- joseph: we are focused on -- yes? rishaad: minister, are you concerned if we get this trade war going on and becoming a full-blown trade war that taiwan could end up as being upon -- a pawn or a bargaining chip that the united states would use? joseph: of course, some people worry about this aspect. but for decision-makers in taiwan, no one is worrying about this aspect. the trade c

reacted angrily taiwan's foreign minister joseph who said that china was luring away taiwan's allies with promises of vast financial aid he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting believes and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president

victory for china as el salvador becomes the latest country to drop its diplomatic recognition of taiwan. confusion in venezuela after the government introduces a new currency in an effort to stabilize the economy plus police in chechnya killed five men who targeted them in a series of attacks. the trade war between the u.s. and turkey is escalating turkey has now filed a complaint with the world trade organization over u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports well donald trump all that a doubling of tire of surly this month after turkey refused to release an american pastor who's been detained for nearly two years the turkish government retaliated with tariffs on some u.s. imports if. there's no difference between the direct attacks on our call to prayer in our flag and the attack on our economy the goal is the same the goal is to bring to heel turkey in the turkish nation to hold a captive we are nation that prefers to be shot in the name rather than to be chained at the knee. but best amani is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says it was r

ties with taiwan el salvador now joining that lengthening list on tuesday taiwan's foreign ministry reacted angrily taiwan's foreign minister joseph who said that china was luring away taiwan's allies with promises of vast financial aid he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared. to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting billie's and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china woul

the d recognition of taiwan. i hope that upon your confirmation you will both make it a high priority to emphasize how important taiwan is to the to its voice and leadership and that the relationship with taiwan matters very much to the relationship they have going forward with the united states. thank you. >> thank you all for being here. , the moreime you talk time we can ask you questions. it is up to you. you have your five minutes for opening statements. with that, i will begin with you. thank you for being here. chairman, i am honored to appear here today as president for thenext nominee ambassador to surname -- surinam

is taiwan says no way, we will not stand to your tune.mainland affairs council. at the same time we see in at least one online survey, albeit unofficial, but the taiwan peas —— taiwanese people see this as making perfect economic sense. thank you, cindy. the us vice—president says the time has come for a space force to counteract threats from russia, china, north korea and iran. setting out plans for the creation of a sixth branch of the us military, mike pence called on congress to invest $8 billion in space security systems over the next five years. 0ur correspondent in washington, chris buckler, has been following developments. donald trump really wants to see this new branch of the military setup, the first there would be for 7o setup, the first there would be for 70 years. he has been talking about the space force for a number of months now. he even seems to like the phrase itself, he uses that a lot of rallies. what vice president mike pence was doing today was setting out detail why this is needed. that is because both the presiden

reacted angrily taiwan's foreign minister joseph who said that china was luring away taiwan's allies with promises of vast financial aid he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting billie's and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president

so taiwan says no way, we will not dance to your tune.ministry of mainland affairs council. at the same time we see in at least one online survey, albeit unofficial, that the taiwanese people see this as making perfect economic sense. i want to bring you some live images from california in the us because wildfires that are continuing to burn. these are images of the holy fire, in southern california, and authorities there say the fire in the cleveland national forest area has burned nearly 10,000 acres and it has displaced 20,000 people. these are some of the live images of the firefighters that are battling the firefighters that are battling the holy fire. 0ver the firefighters that are battling the holy fire. over 600 firefighters are trying to combat that fire, which is one of many mild —— wildfires ranging across the state. these wildfires are taking place over the past few days and to let you know, a 51—year—old man was arrested on tuesday on suspicion of starting the holy fire, the holy fire in southern california which has burned n

taiwan. taiwan. i just wonder from the administrations point of view, how are you going to, like -- [inaudible] and high-level visit and the routine of sales to taiwan? thank you. >> roger cummaquid. >> roger, the center for naval analogy. i have a harder question. you talk a little bit about protecting the sovereignty and independence of countries in the region, and, of course, it is china is eckstrom after that is the most threat to this. and we talked a little bit about ways to confronting the more overt things that turn has been doing. what about some of you -- the more covert things, certain countries and southeast asian or trying to leverage the chinese diaspora throughout the region to influence the policies of those countries? thank you. >> so first on the ndaa and some of the taiwan provisions, i think, first of all, we are still reviewing, the ndaa just passed not long ago, last week recently. we are still all the provisions. if it's a statement of congressional intent, we certainly

wedding to taiwan. >> stephen: --to advocate for "ant-man and the wasp" over in taiwan. >> that's rightthey were so excited and so nice. people gave us gifts. they drew little, you know, cartoons of e but it was surreal. it was a bit surreal. because, all of a sudden, you just kind of wake up and you're in taiwan. >> stephen: and you probably didn't expect, in your life, to wake up in taiwan and have people know who paul rudd was. >> i never saw that coming. no. you're absolutely right. you know what was weird? the wedding was-- the reception was at the... i think on the observatory-- >> stephen: the top floor of the-- the life tower, right? >> yes, and then the next day, i was in taiwan, and i went to dinner at taipei 101, which i think is the next tallest building. so within the span of 24 hours, i was on the observatory floor of two of the tallest buildings in the world. >> stephen: well, that's paul rudd's life now. >> that's also something i never saw coming. >> stephen: well, you're from kansas-- >> not a lot of tall buildings. >> stephen: not a lot of tall buildings there. not ev

. >> there was something about taiwan in the air. we think taiwan is an important contributor to the indo pacific free and open concepts. it certainly demonstrates the free part in terms of as we say good governance, democracy, respect for humanitarianrights, religious freedom . we think that those values, there's a role for taiwan to uphold those values through the region in particular ways. taiwan has a great record historically on humanitarian affairs through its ngos and i think it's to our benefit to think creatively given our diplomatic relationship and creatively how we can continue to partner with taiwan to promote those values . >> i'm going to demonstrate, i had one question. i'm dan blumenthal and usurped in the state department as a navalofficer. what has changed the most in your mind since you came back ? >> let's see, i left government in 2005 it's a much different china. more powerful, more capable, more assertive both from the capability sideand in the behavior side . i think that's probably the biggestdifference . i

i know there was something about taiwan in there. we think taiwan is an important contributor to the indo-pacific, free and open concepts. it certainly demonstrates the free part in terms of, as we say, internal, the good governance, democracy, the respect for humanitarian affairs, rights, religious freedom. we think that those values, that there's a role for taiwan to uphold those values throughout the region in particular ways. taiwan has a great record historically on humanitarian affairs, disaster relief, many times through its ngos. i think it's to our benefit to think creatively given our non-diplomatic relationship, think creatively how we can continue to partner with taiwan to promote those values.. dan: i'm going to just demonstrate how one question works. my name is dan blumenthal, i with aei, you served in the state department and as a naval officer, what has changed the most in your mind as you came back to serve the government? randy: well, let's see, i left government in 2005, so it's a much different china, more powerf

taiwan. as seen in region hours, el salvador has made the unfortunate decision to take a step backwards with its relationship here with the united states. the d recognition of taiwan. i hope that upon your confirmation you will both make it a high priority to emphasize how important taiwan is to the to its voice and leadership and that the relationship with taiwan matters very much to the relationship they have going forward with the united states. thank you. >> thank you all for being here. , the moreime you talk time we can ask you questions. it is up to you. you have your five minutes for opening statements. with that, i will begin with you. thank you for being here. chairman, i am honored to appear here today as president for thenext nominee ambassador to surname -- surinam . if confirmed by pledged to work closely with the congress to advance our nation's interest. i have had the honor to serve our country for 27 years as a foreign service officer. i was raised with strong role models to

taiwan. as a has seen in recent hours, el salvador has made the unfortunate decision to take a very significant step backwards with this relationship in regards the united states. as a result of its key recognition of taiwan. i hope that upon your confirmation, you both make it a high priority to emphasize how important taiwan is to the world . it is a responsibility, a voice, through -- and the relationship matters very much to taiwan. you're all veterans of this process so the less time you talk, the more we can ask you questions. it is up to you. your five minutes for opening statements. thank you for being here. chairman, ranking members, and distinct modes they committee, i'm are to appear today as president trump nominee to the next investor to the republic of --. i'm google to the president and secretary pompeo for the conference a place in the. pledged were i close to the congress to advance our nation's interests. had the honor to serve our country for nearly 27 years of the foreign

with regard to the humanitarian assistance, is taiwan play any role with this regard? with regard to the role -- do you think americans should join the tpp? thank you. >> so the first question, actually after third or fourth i got the first question was about -- >> maritime -- [inaudible] >> so we do have a program sucs msn security initiative that contribute to capacity building, in some cases in partnership with our state department colleagues. these are investments in actual material, things that, radars, things that support maritime domain awareness. in some cases it's the united states and some cases it's the organization assisting with how they organize an approach maritime security. so we are a partner with our state department in these efforts. i think i get our flagship program being the maritime security initiative. again, now i'm sort of forgetting the second, third follow one questions. >> i know there was something about taiwan in there. >> we think taiwan is an important contributor to the indo-pacific, free and open concepts. certainly demonstrates the f

gunship targeted the house where the rockets were apparently fired from bernard smith al jazeera taiwan says it will not bow to pressure from china or after yet another countries cut diplomatic ties president saying when criticized el salvador's decision to establish relations with beijing instead is the third nation to do so this year china's been pressuring countries and companies to recognize taiwan as part of its territory. he ended the war which is the today's china is not only a menace to cross straight relations what china is doing right now all over the world no matter if it's interfering in the end if it is of countries or destroying the order of international markets it has already caused a high degree of global instability and we need to remind the international community that this is not only related to taiwan that we will not tolerate the serious situation in a more me and miles later on sung through trees as it's up to bangladesh to repack more than seven hundred thousand ranger refugees during a lecture in singapore she said me and ma has been ready to receive the ranger

cousin when he's latest film by censors in china make no mistake all bears that created it going taiwan and disney's christopher robin is screening national. you will hear that created you go over there pretty quick you would think that she's in pain would have you know thicker skin to skin after all he does get along we don't want trump lish you thank you very much for giving us the latest on winnie the pooh. you're watching news from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news including winnie the pooh over by the day stick around for that. one organize a party it's a real policy because there's no rushing about everyone writes that the name on the room and then we parted. and you know what the great thing is you know and they. are.

view of taiwan?think what they are viewing is the need to get taiwan back and they see the united states with a military and diplomatic agreement to help protect taiwan. we sold them since tell -- 2010, military hardware, that is a pretty $1.6 billion sale of technology. and build a hardware. and the 2019 national defense authorization act has a whole section and it that talks about bolstering the defenses. so here is the diplomatic tension that this sets up. if taiwan were to fall under chinese pressure, to rejoin china or if china were to militarily force them to do so, if united states did nothing, united states were in a diplomatic model, is null and void. i mean there will be hell to pay. arthel: well, that happened in russia with crimea. nothing was done. what is the united states play here?where is this heading in the long term? >> the chinese realize we have defensive agreements with taiwan. we did not have defense agreements with the ukraine. what we did though have a something that was thro

chris, thanks. >> i'm long taiwan semis and the thing i like particularly about taiwan semi is they have new innovator chip and i like it not just because of the crypto demand, but the other players and even if i'm wrong on one of those levels then i'll be perhaps right some place else. there is a lot of demand for new product and for me the place is taiwan semi. >>> all right. coming up, it's a cruel, cruel summer for bitcoin has plummeted. the whole is worth less than $2 $200 billion and the former ceo of paypal has been pounding the table calling it a scam saying it is headed straight to zero. the crypto and turmoil coverage is coming up next. much more fast right after this. makes it fast & easy to get to your golf destination. with just a few clicks or a phone call we'll pick up and deliver your clubs on-time, guaranteed, for as low as $39.99. shipsticks.com saves you time and money. make it simple. make it ship sticks. your digestive system has billions of bacteria, but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself, with align probiotic. and try new align gummies, with prebiot

in taiwan no longer exists for another country el salvador dropped its diplomatic recognition that it sides a deal with china. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast where we are watching a little tropical disturbance right here just in the south china sea this is not going to develop into anything big but we do have a little bit of circulation just to the east of hong kong what that is going to do is over the next few days make its way over here towards taiwan and we could be seeing some heavy rain showers in the forecast as we go towards thursday so some heavy rain in the forecast for showers as well and for hong kong we do expect to see attempt a few entering the day on thursday of thirty five degrees well here across india we are watching what is happening across india very carefully because of the very heavy monsoon rain that we had seen across parts of carolina people are now getting out as those waters are beginning to recede getting some much needed supplies and relief across the region but the big problem we're watching that could potentially develop

china has been pressuring countries and companies to recognize taiwan as part of its territory. hinted at the will which is the today's china is not only a menace to cross straight relations what china is doing right now all over the world no matter if it's interfering in the end if it is of countries or destroying the order of international markets it has already caused a high degree of global instability we need to remind the international community that this is not only related to taiwan that we will not tolerate the serious situation in a more. sort of. the hit film crazy rich premiers to. singapore but it's not a reception. and it's being billed as the world's biggest. competition but it's not the front off the details coming up. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. the new hit film crazy rich asians has permeated in singapore where the highly anticipated romantic comedy is set but somebody's bowl unhappy with how the city's state has been portrayed with critics saying

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that was josh smith reporting from seoul south korea a fire at a hospital in taiwan has killed at least nine people another thirty are injured an investigation has been lonesome to the cause of the blaze the fire broke out on the seven feel of the building which was used as a hospice for tell mentally ill patients. this was a ward for critically ill patients many who are bedridden they couldn't move when the blaze broke out hospital staff tried to remove them but for some help came too late being from sanford where you see hospital officials say the victims included not just patients but also nurses and caregivers first responders raced against the clock to save those injured in the blaze nearly twenty remain in critical condition . the fire started early in the morning on the seventh floor of a public hospital in the taiwanese capital firefighters were able to contain and extinguish the place within an hour but its effects were devastating. sounds as though it wasn't on the monday to me it was unfortunate that the ward stalled was open when the fire broke out. as a result the smoke cam

is the beginning of the plan to liberate taiwan, which they said it was. eisenhower was pretty clear, so you're waffling and the second one. any attack on taiwan will be to the use of nuclear weapons against targets in china. he said as clear as it could have been set in public. it had an effect already. it could be the chinese on both of those occasions to halt from further provocations. but it's a sign of how dangerous the cold war was in asia in the 1950s and also a sign of how a different president could act quite differently. unlike the case in indochina, the congress backed the president. they passed a resolution to so you better take on china. go ahead. not so with indochina. that's a great question that the china taiwan case is terribly brought in explosive in this. it eisenhower hinted above, but it was a high-stakes game. >> last question. a hand right here in the back in the middle of this road. great bear, yes. >> sarah snyder from american university. thanks for a great talk. sounds like a really amazing book. i have two questions. attacked at

suspect it could have been triggered by an electrical fault there had the nine hospital fires in taiwan in the past decade claiming thirty seven lives right now an investigation continues into the blaze and many patients who were already gravely sick are now fighting for their lives. well across europe a debate is taking place over the wearing of the headscarf by some muslim women critics say it is a sign of oppression by men supporters say in a democracy people should be allowed to dress as they please well the debate is coming to a head in the german state of north rhine-westphalia the local government there is considering banning the headscarf for girls under the age of fourteen. and shine three classmates three muslim girls so he that has been wearing a headscarf since she was ten it bothers her that some politicians want to forbid girls from doing so. well on our screens this time only twelve minutes they say you have to leave you headscarf i say no it's my choice you can't tell me what to do you know my parents you don't have custody of me and if you can't make my decisions for me

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well in a few moments we'll have the weather with kevin has more on the rain flooding in taiwan still ahead on the news our signs of trouble in saudi arabia as that haunted me as it tries to murder away from dependence on oil exports. how activists are helping to mark the under porter the death of those who try to make it to the united states and new zealand's rugby team aims to maintain one of the sport's the longest unbeaten record of course here with that story. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. from the central pacific with hurricane lane to the western pacific here with these other storms we have some storms up to the north we have tropical storm cimarron as well as we're not going to talk about those right now because they are moving away from land still a lot of rain with those but i want to take you down towards taiwan we're talking not a typhoon not a tropical storm we're talking a tropical depression in this area that has provided some incredible amounts of rain over the last twenty four hours actually eight hundred forty millimet

taiwan says it will not bow to pressure from china after another country cut diplomatic ties president saying when criticized el salvador's decision to establish relations with beijing instead but their nation to do so the share china has been pressuring countries and companies to recognize taiwan is part of its territory. the number of deaths from a new ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo continues to rise fifty five people have died of the virus with dozens infected since the outbreak was confirmed in kivu province charla bellus reports was on. an alert for ebola rings out of the streets of binny in the northeastern democratic republic of congo the death toll is rising for three weeks the community has been on alert and in this conflict ridden corner of the do ya see it's hard to control the virus . right i have. this disease called a bowl is already close to us so customers are not wearing helmets we were told that it can spread through the sweat helmets shared by customers so what other customers not to wear them. in the last two weeks nearly thirteen hundred people

right time to take a look at the weather is over to now and there's flooding in taiwan yeah that's right martin we've had the tropical system of course which is now moved through is turned all the way but there's still a legacy of showers take a look at the satellite picture you can see the still a fair amount of cloud across the southern half of taiwan and we still drawing in the south westerly winds a southwest monsoon of course and that's been continue to bring in the really heavy downpours and this is why we have the flooding martin hundred fifty four millimeters of rain in twenty four hours never the past eight days overhaul for me to of rainfall has for all and now this is what it looks like when you see that kind of level of rainfall there is widespread flooding then across the southern half of the country thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as a result of that and there really will be some time before these waters do gradually begin to recede we are still seeing a few showers that west of weather still driven him across the southern half of the country then a

and announced it will establish relations with china instead it's the third diplomatic ally that taiwan has lost this year of salvador's president salvador sanchez got in made the announcement during a televised speech the development means only seventeen countries currently have diplomatic ties with taiwan police in the russian republic of chechnya have shot and killed five men who targeted them the attackers tried to run over two police officers attempts to stab another and failed to set off a suicide bomb while i celestron responsibility for the assault but chechen authorities say the group doesn't have any support in the region. look it up with their criminals tried to destabilize the situation but they failed thanks to the accurate and orchestrated efforts of law enforcement and security agencies their plan was foretold the situation in the territory of our republic is under control there are no reasons to worry there have been no losses among police personnel roy hallums is following developments from moscow. well there are two notable things about this series of attacks the first