things are getting tense in the taiwan strait right now. jennifer griffin with the read from the pentagon. hey, jennifer. >> hi, neil. president biden just spoke at the state department about how he views the way ahead with china. >> we'll confront china's economic abuses, counter their coercive action to put back on human rights, intellectual property and global governance. we're ready to work with beijing when it's in america's interest to do so. >> earlier today, the navy's seventh fleet sent a guidance missile destroyer through the taiwan strait. it's the first transit this year and the first since president biden took office. it's bound to get beijing's attention shortly after the inauguration, china dispatched two large formations of war planes including bombers close to taiwan. taipei scrambled fighter jets. the last time u.s.-warships went through the strait was new year's eve. the u.s.s. roosevelt launched jets in a not so subtle message to china. u.s. warships transited the waterways 13 times last year. the most since 2016 during

navy described as a routine taiwan strait transit beijing says it strongly opposes the move. israel has stopped the sale of fish following all still tons of tar across the coast to southern lebanon a greek oil tanker company denies accusations that it is responsible managers of the minute helen said the vessel is in spain and has no deficiencies israel's public broadcaster reported the tanker was the suspected source of the country's nature and parcel 40 says it's one of its worst ecological disasters on record $55.00 tons of tar have been cleaned up so far jonathan aiken bar israel director for greenpeace e says authorities are close that identifying who's responsible for the oil spill. i seemed a continuity with b.s. to be scary so i mean the company can maybe try to yank sometimes but doubt so many technology co disability to do dots by ourself without also trying to see where this came from and it's really just things off easy no and once we have new elements we also release them to israel has has the resources but not the playground has to deal with such a difference so

navy described as a routine taiwan strait transit china says it strongly opposes the move. trials of johnson and johnson's one shot covert $1000.00 vaccine have shown it is highly effective against severe cases the product is also proving effective against new a variance unlike the finds of biotech and medina vaccines that need to be stored at very low temperatures this one can be kept in the standard fridge it's yet to be approved for use or biotech firm and says that u.s. regulators are testing its new covert $1000.00 vaccine against a variant prevalent in south africa at the strain is considered one of the more contagious because it evades some of the blocking action of antibodies and that means it has reduced the efficacy of the current lineup of vaccines which is considering using it as a booster or combining it with its original shot. senegal says it does not have the capacity to store all types of covert 19 vaccines a lack of cold storage facilities guaranteeing the low temperatures needed to store certain vaccines is a major stumbling block to immunization efforts i

navy described as a routine taiwan strait transit china says it strongly opposes the move no trials of johnson and johnson's one short coated 19 vaccine have shown it is highly effective against severe cases the product is also proving effective against new or variants and unlike the pfizer by and taken more than a vaccines that need to be stored a very low temperatures this one can be kept in a standard fridge it's yet to be approved for use only for them is vice president of vaccine research development at blue willow biologics and he says could be going to change or. going for one immunization is a great thing that happening because for a mass vaccination you don't want to have the trouble of bringing people back to get the 2nd vaccination so they are the only company that went for one back to the nation and look for the sickest and they showed that they would have a decent if because surely they crossed the line of the expectation of the end of their order for licensure so to end on friday we will see how the exact data looks like and probably with the advisory committee at the f.d

described as a routine taiwan strait transit china's strongly opposes the. supporters of new jersey opposition leader have clashed with police after he declared himself the winner of the presidential runoff demonstrators set up barricades and let fires in the capital near the election commission declared the winner but. a claims widespread voter fraud and insists that he's the rightful winner. a german court has sentenced a former syrian intelligence officer to 4 half years in jail for being accomplice in crimes against humanity is the world's 1st prosecution involving states odds of torture by president bashar assad's government dominick a reports now from the german capital 10 years ago a yard guard was working for the syrian intelligence services now he's starting a lengthy prison sentence in germany the prosecution sand that in 2011 he knowingly brought dozens of protesters to a notorious jail outside damascus to be tortured his defense lawyer said he feared being punished himself if he refused to carry out his orders the court in corpulence rejected tha

navy described as a routine taiwan strait transits china says it strongly opposes the move. the un human rights council is unwilling to be held to account over its international crimes and rights violations a highly critical report says tom and muslim minorities are being increasingly marginalized striker's governments accuses the council of meddling in its domestic affairs bernard smith reports. only 12 years after the end of sri lanka's civil war the pain is still roll but those who sons daughters and husbands disappeared. this was a protest earlier this month they want answers accountability and justice but aren't getting any because the united nations human rights council says the highest levels of sri lanka's government is in denial about past crimes the space for since friday and that and the media which have grown significantly is now rapidly shrinking they independence already the story the human rights commission of. the national police commission another key warning as the indignity eroded by the recently adopted prentiss constitutional amendment president got a by

all concerning action in the taiwan straits. saber rattling, real rattling going on.sman saying that the military is monitoring u.s. destroyer in the u.s. strait -- i should say in the taiwan strait and saying at the moment they oppose that move. certainly they oppose the move and its military is on high alert for action, is what we're hearing from china. eastern theater demand spokesman. but let's get back to india. let's talk about the recovery itself. sure, it gaining momentum but what kind of recovery is this because many people have talked about a k-shaped recovery which -- what we do have is a transference of wealth. an uneven one which could lead to some social scarring ultimately. >> sure. i agree. we're going to see a 10% to 11%. december of this yea [inaudible] as you said -- [audio fading in and out] enjoying the current momentum. what you're seeing currently, from the savings. [audio fading in and out] we're going to have to leave things there because you're breaking up. joining us there. >> let's get straight to the india open and we've just had about 3:3

against them the chinese threat to stability in the in the pacific region including across the taiwan straits u.s. president joe biden says his predecessor don't trump should not receive intelligence briefings speaking in an interview on american network c.b.s. he says trump simply can't be trusted to keep the information confidential. should former president trump still receive intelligence briefings. i think not. why not. because of his rabid behavior on related to the insurrection when you've called him an existential threat you've called him dangerous you called him reckless and i have who are believing what your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings. i'd rather not speculate out loud i just think of thirds no need for him to have the intelligence for what value is giving him an intelligence what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something. still ahead on al-jazeera moscow strikes back russia is expelling diplomats from several e.u. nations accusing them of supporting jailed leader alex in a valley. only 2 years older than me dar

with allies against any chinese threat to stability in the pacific region including across the taiwan strait. u.s. president joe biden moves a step closer to passage of his $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic relief plan the house of representatives approve the budget blueprint democrats want the deal completed by the end of the month is all white house correspondent can but he held his. it's a nearly 2 trillion dollar economic plan designed to rebuild the u.s. economy decimated since back in march due to the spread of coded 19 this is about people's lives biden's plan includes direct payments to struggling americans of $1400.00 unemployment benefits would be extended until september $400.00 a week the plan would provide relief to working and middle class americans particularly communities of color disproportionately harmed by the pandemic and i want to say very clearly on this speech very clear at this point it's better economics not only addresses the immediate crisis room it's better for the long term economic health of our nation and our competitiveness. still republicans and democrats are ot

with allies against any chinese threat to stability in india pacific region including across the taiwan strait. african union leaders have been meeting by video conference for their annual summit they're likely to discuss a range of shared concerns including the cove in 1900 macon the struggle to secure vaccines for the outgoing chairman cyril run a post that says the continent has been devastated by the virus and still faces a long and difficult road before the pandemic is defeated it. is following the summit from nairobi protecting the african center for disease control and also the a use vaccine task force to report to the african union to update them on progress in this summit comes at a moment where the african continent finds itself at the bottom of a lot of the grossly on equal allocation the distribution of covert 19 vaccines around the world experts estimate that the richest countries would have vaccinated most of their populations at some point later this year and that the world's poorest countries many of which are in this continent will not vaccinate the same amount of their popula

allies against any chinese threat to stability in the indo-pacific region including across the taiwan strait. and some breaking news from egypt where a colleague mahmoud abbas saying has been released after being arbitrarily detained for more than 4 years he was arrested while visiting family in december 26th but was never formally charged with a crime and there has been no trial by media networks acting director general dr mustafa swathed has released a statement regarding mahmoud hussein's release it says we are pleased mahmud will reunite with his family after being robbed of 4 years of his life and deprived of fundamental rights we hope he will be able to overcome this ordeal and start a new chapter in his distinguished career while mahmud was imprisoned he became a symbol of press freedom across the world al-jazeera calls for the freedom for all journalists who are unjustly imprisoned all around the world charlotte ballasts reports. mahmoud hussein will soon be enjoying more family moments this was one of the rare occasions he saw his loved ones during more than 4 years in prison the al

allies against any chinese threat to stability in the in the pacific region including across the taiwan straits well the u.s. state department has to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's who thiis president by that highlights of the need to find a diplomatic solution to the void given during his 1st major foreign policy speech who things were labeled terrorists by the trumpet ministration of humanitarian groups warn that this could affect crucial aid deliveries so to begum is the advocacy manager for the weekend refugee council she explains how the terrorist designation affects humanitarian work even when there are exemptions. the 1st thing to save this designation with coming at a time when yemen face is precedented threat of catastrophe so battered by 6 years of war 16000000 people are at risk of starvation that's one in 2 yemenis cope with 19 also 11. big clinton me with getting more people lost their jobs you also basically he had. food prices rising at the same time so for humanitarian organizations what we were concerned about is that even with the exemptions made by the u.s. govern

. ♪ ♪ lou: the navy guided missile destroyer, the uss mccain, as pass9 through the taiwan strait todayugh the water since president biden took office. and nine members of congress have nominated the hong kong demonstrators and protesters for a nobel peace prize. china says those lawmakers should stop using hong kong to interfere with the regime's domestic affairs. by that they mean they should not be suppressing freedom and destroying the human rights of the people of hong kong. those people being the communist chinese headquartered in beijing, i believe. well, joining us now is gordon chang. columnist, author, senior fellow at the gatestone the institute. gordon, good to have you with us. what do you think of the idea of nominating the demonstrators in hong kong, the protesters, and none of their leaders are still publicly at least available, are they? >> no, they're not. and, clearly, this is a great idea, lou, because the hong kong demonstrators, they stood for freedom, they stood for can democracy, they stood against communist china. they were an inspiration to us all. and as we sa

we flew down in the taiwan straits, a period of time when the nationalists would supply the islands. i served as air controller with the 7th infantry, and returning to the states i elected to go to reserve status and i was looking for jobs. there was an opportunity to move into flight test with a b-52 aircraft. i became a flight test engineer on the b-52. but it was a flying test bed that basically in the bombay, they had trapeze and all kinds of equipment they could lower such things as a jd-5 jet enbegin and we had the quail missile in there. we did separation studies from various equipment they would stall in the forward bombay. we did acoustic studies. it was truly a great program and enjoyable. it lasted about 30 months. and at the completion of the program i had the opportunity to move to edwards with the four to learn about rockets, but i saw an advertisement in "aviation week" that was sort of challenging. it said they're looking for qualified engineers to determine the feasibility of putting an american in space. i thought, gee, this sounds like a pretty cool job. so i sent

the biden administration coming in now we know this week uchlths navy sent a warship through taiwan straitsll you? do you expect china to try to acquire taiwan, will u.s. support taiwan? >> maria we only listen to words of chinese communist party leader general secretary shoou we have a policy recognizes only one china we have a deep commitment legal commitment to support, the people of taiwan, are administerings did that offered for sale billions of dollars of weapons to help defend themselves the right approach the right approach every time with respect to the to taiwan is appeasement cowardize allowing chinese communist party to think they can bully us or bully taiwanese people into something that allows the chinese communist party to do to them what they did to people hong kong. that would be unacceptable. >> just what is happening in hong kong should be enough to spur the biden administration to say something get involved, they have acquired hong kong i mean it, it seems then u.s. has said it is deeply disturbed by the reports of systemic race section y'all torture of uighur woman entr

i'm glad president biden sent uss john mccain into the taiwan strait. uggests we have to defend freedom of navigation and not recognize taiwan's illegal occupation of territory in the south china sea but -- elizabeth: taiwan is the u.s.'s ninth trading partner. it is an important relationship. the trump administration did bolster its relationship, the u.s. relationship with taiwan. china just stepped up its military activities. flu 15 flew 15 warplanes into taiwan's no-fly zone including eight bombers capable of carrying. we'll knock out of our constitution any thought of unification with china. what do you say? >> the president elected in 2016, she consistently sad the rip with china has changed. the ambiguity, we're one country, two systems. she moved away from that. i don't know whether the taiwan east government will agree what you just said. there is a possibility. but i will say the willingness of the taiwanese leaders to accept this ambiguous relationship, don't want to say they're independent, that is drifting away, because the people of taiwan a

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john mccain sailed through the taiwan strait in a rejection of china's claim of sovereignty over thes forward toward us. how do you think the biden administration is handling that. only a couple of weeks and already were they emboldened to go against trump's policies? >> the chinese, absolutely. the chinese are using this as their testing period. what they're doing is already trying to pit members of the biden administration against each other. you pointed out the commerce secretary, we don't want to have a problem with trade with china and huawei with is a spy front. john kerry talked about the need to cooperate with china over climate change and paris accord. national security having a tougher stance. the president is looking at the competing interests and say this is where i'm coming down and this is the administration line. i expect you all to stand with me on this or get out of my administration. the problem that a lot of people have with joe biden, myself included. he has always been soft on china. he never stood up to china when it would have been easy 20 years ago. now he is

we flew down on the taiwan straits, took cover during a period of time when the nationalists would resupply the islands at kimoia gnatsui, i served as an air krofler with the seventh infantry, and returning to to the state, i elected to go to return reserve status, and looking for the jobs that were around there, and there was an opportunity to move into flight test with the b-52 aircraft. and it became a flight test engineer, on the b-52, 56-695 was one of the models but it was a fine test bed, that basically in bombay, they had trapeze, and all kinds of equipment in there, they could lower such things as jd-5, jet engine, which we did a lot of development work, we did air starts on it, we had the quail missile in there, we did separation studies from various equipments, they would install on the floor in bombay, we did tough studies, we did acoustic studies, so it was traely a great program and very enjoyable and program, i had the opportunity to move to edwards with the four oracle up to general dynamics and learn about rockets, but i saw an advertisement in "aviation week," that sort of

china because all danger in taiwan most of it anyway comes from china so they are watching across taiwan straits they saw the wuhan virus coming. they closed their borders earlier than any country in the world. they realized human transmission. they tried to warn the world health organization about this danger. they were ignored. the world health organization did not read their emails and did not take their phone calls. again, this is playing politics with people's lives. if the world health organization have been controlled by the health of the world, they would listen to the information and sitting on china's doorstep and watching the pandemic materialize in real time. >> tucker: a so-called help organization allowing people to die for political reasons. it is hard to think of corruption deeper than that. why would we send the money? >> why, indeed? we are getting ready to repeat the same mistakes of the past by sending $200 million $200 million for what? for failing to protect the health of the world, which is their mandate, right? they are called the world health organization. maybe they sho

is sending warships through the taiwan strait, of course, a response to china sending a whole bunch ofa's our biggest threat, our biggest challenge right now in. >> definitely the biggest challenge. probably the biggest threat as well, although i think you can attribute more civility to china an some of -- than some of the other threats that might end up spiking. certainly, the size of china, their footprint around the world and the fact that unlike most of our major identified add adversaries, china is also integrated into the global economy, into our economy. so we have to cooperate with china while at the same time confronting some of the behaviors china has that don't coincide with our strategic objectives. so it is the greatest challenge, there's no doubt about that. neil: you know, dan, i think it was "the washington post" today that got into how this administration responds to china because it's like a team of rivals' response. you have john kerry, the climate czar, who wants to work with china to help deal with the climate accords and, you know, obviously to make this a cleaner

allies against any chinese threat to stability in the indo-pacific region including across the taiwan straits. and the u.s. state department plans to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's food thiis president joe biden had highlighted the need to find a diplomatic solution to the war in yemen during his 1st major foreign policy speech the truth these were labeled terrorists by the trumpet ministration but humanitarian groups warned this could affect crucial aid deliveries so it's on a begum is the advocacy manager for the norwegian refugee council she explains how the terror list designation affects humanitarian work even when there are exemptions. the 1st thing to save that this designation was coming at a time when yemen face is unprecedented step of catastrophe so battered by 6 years of war 16000000 people at risk of starvation one in 2 yemenis cope with 19 also led to the economy with getting more people lost their jobs you also basically have. food prices rising at the same time so for humanitarian organizations what we were concerned about is that even with exemptions made by the u

it crossed through the taiwan strait yesterday as tensions with china remain very high. stories download the fox news app, scan the qr code on your screen or go to foxnews.com apps. >> bill: democrats called for punishing marjorie taylor greene for comments that were dangerous and encouraged violence. thank you for coming back to our program today. so republicans are saying it's a dangerous game you are playing. you can vote off committee members. we'll do the same thing to you possibly at some point. what is your view? >> this has never happened before. we've never seen one party kick members of another party off committees. we had a family discussion, 4 1/2 hours long in the republican conference a couple days ago and dealt with the liz cheney issue and at the same time marjorie taylor greene gave a very heartfelt apology for things she said before she was elected and i appreciate that. there is no place for crack pot conspiracy theories and disinformation in the republican party and we voted to condemn qanon at the house floor at the end of 2020. now we need to move o

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taiwan. a u.s. destroyer sailing through the strait. marco rubio will talk about this relationship going forward.rning to you. breaking news right now. we're reading it a moment ago from the pentagon. how do you see this relationship with this new administration standing up to beijing and defending perhaps taiwan ultimately? >> we have a commitment to defend taiwan. this is an administration and president when he was running for president talked about the importance of living up to our international commitments and partners and taiwan has been our partner for a very long time in a place where we have an understanding with in terms of having that core relationship. i think it's important for us to continue to keep to that commitment and that includes our presence off their coasts in their territorial waters. >> dana: i appreciate you are multi-tasking and hanging up the phone to stick with us. i want to know from your perspective how much do you think this is china trying to provoke america to see what this new administration is willing to do on a range of things with human rights abuses and espec

but it doesn't control the straits in southeast asia and doesn't control the first island happen from japan down through taiwan to the philippines. that means that china has to depend on diplomacy in order to assure itself of the access to the rest of the world that it needs in order to play a great power role and therefore china is going to give very high priority to its diplomacy in southeast asia and that's something the americans have to take into account in our own competition with china for global influence. and that is not something we instinctively understand and i think that reading your book provides a much better sense of why this is important. there's another point i'd like to make. we actually have an advantage because much of your description of china's behavior inn dealing with southeast asia is characteristic of the united states behavior in dealing with smaller countries. we both have an inclination to be arrogant to be preachy. we have the monroe doctrine because spain and motorport gal and britain and distance the netherlands had historic interests in the western hemisphere when we became an