in two weeks, we will host the korea-japan-china trilateral summit in seoul. summitoming trilateral will be an important location to insue peace and stability north korea. i hope this trilateral summit provide an opportunity for korea obstaclesto overcome in bilateral ties-- believe was make consolidate efforts among u.s., korea, and china in dealing with north korean issues. such diverse forms of trilateral diplomacy or a new endeavor in northeast asia. these efforts will make valuable conservations to enhancing the bilateral and multilateral relations within of the region. the northeast asia peace and corporation initiative, proposed in my 2013 address to the joint pression of congress, aims to stimulate the habit of corporation and trust in northeast asia, the only region in the world that lacks mechanisms for multilateral cooperation. so far there has been notable progress. we are holding discussions on concrete measures for preparation in many fields, including nuclear safety, climate change, and disaster relief. this initiative is compatible attemptingff

she showed her eagerness for a trilateral summit with japan and china, and i was able to convey japan's enthusim for such a meeting as well. >> he told pock he hopes for a summit between them on the sidelines of the trilateral meeting, she, however, did not respond. >>> a survivor of a u.s. air strike in afghanistan shares his story. he was inside a hospital run by doctors without borders, als known as nsf, with the bombs dropped, and as reported, he's demanding answers. >> reporter: he worked as a nurse at the hospital. he described the chaos when the hour long bombing began. >> translator: there was a huge explosion, and several seconds later, another one. after that, shootings broke out outside the hospital between afghan government forces and the taliban. bullets from the fighting flew into our facility and a fire broke out. >> reporter: the hospital in the northern city was bombarded saturday. the u.s. military has been supporting afghan forces trying to retake theity from the taliban. nsf says they gave the military the hospital's location, and the bombing killed 2 2 patients and

acharya -- acharya trilateral meeting. willminister shinzo ab discuss the problem of north -- whyill bloomberg news has it taken so long for these three chicken around the table? >> there is tremendous animosity between china and south korea and japan. they see him as a closet militarist who will not take responsibility. between north korea -- south korea andjapan . >>for methe incredibly particularly with the comfort women. shoes, -- has massive massive issues, as well. and a lot of the resentment is genuine and there is a lot of suspicion. -- he has made statements whether he believes that japan was responsible for the war. and the war -- is there andment refused to meet with him and it was only last year that he had a meeting with xi. andt has taken ages four he abe to me. is it personal? >> they are coming to the realization -- they still feel threatened by the fact that they cannot control korea in the nuclear threat is growing. they are three major economies that are slowing. china -- we saw japan reach out to china.

of signaling that is going on and i think both sides, which is china on one and this particular trilateral combination, they are not in a military alliance, india, u.s. and japan are now only engaged in naval exercises. >> in the future, could there be an official alliance against china involving india and japan? >> no. there will not be an alliance as i see it, but yes, japan now becoming a permanent member will indicate that there is a greater degree of naval engagement and cooperation going on, because india has made it very clear to all interlocutors that it will not be part of any military alliance, but the current flavor is partnerships. india is engaged in a fairly robust maritime partnership with both the united states, some of the countries and with japan, it is tentative. >> i've got to ask you how china is likely to react if it perceives that there's an attempt to isolate it by these nations. >> you know, i think china's going to proceed cautiously. it's already put out somewhat you might call media signals through the newspapers that are controlled by the parties, but at the sa

think there will be economic talk and nuclear weapons plans for north korea which will be on the trilateral summit. >> these historic problems and harry fawcett was just talking about it in his report there. how do you get around those, when will it happen? >> that's actually a really good question. over the past week there's been a lot of bickering between these people, president park has long told priem abe kim i'm not sure if he's going to be able to pull a rabbit out of the pooh hat, putting territory and history to the side and focusing on nontraditional threats to scushtd, lookinconsider. it's a photoop and hopefully, think can fesomewhat more than . there's again aa lot of behind-the-scene diplomacy. i don't expect a great braiblg k through or some rabbit out of the hat and proposal that's going to meet expectations in seoul but the key thing is. in the past two years, they haven't been able to quite seal the deal. there is a possibility that things could happen but we shouldn't be overly thruct pch. >> pleasure. opposition candidate in the u upcoming myanmar attack, april he was at

. >>> sya is hosting leaders from japan and china for trilateral talks. it will be the first meeting in over three years. questions remain whether or not they'll overcome disputes on territorial claims and war time history. harry fawcett has more from seoul. >> reporter: every week they gather outside the japanese embassy in seoul. supporters of the comfort women, the last survivors, coercing and tricking tens of thousands of young women into sexual servitude. it's an issue between japan and tokyo was japanese prime minister shinzo abe prepares to peat south korea's prime minister for the first face to face talks. >> translation: for 25 years we have been calling for an apology. if shinzo abe has a solution, he can come to south korea, otherwise he can not. >> when the president made a statement, he upset seoul and beijing by upholding previous apologies, but without reiterating them from a personal standpoint. sfor for all the symbolism of the. japan-south korean summit. what chance of issues. >> there'll be a sincere statement from prime minister shinzo

. >> after weeks of trilateral talks concluded last september, ukraine now has a gas supply once morerom russia. it's paying about $230 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas. now, that's actually not a particularly bad deal. it's slightly less than it was paying at the beginning of 2015, before the taps were shut off in july of 2015. it's also a bit of a discount on what russia charges most of its other long term european customers. so you could say this hasn't worked out too bald fo badly foe but ukraine still doesn't have really the money to pay for this. so pretty much all of the cash that's going into russia's state covers, gasprom russia has a reputation fairly notorious for using energy exports, gases as a means to pressurize and control its neighbors in europe and other parts of the world. now what's going on in eastern ukraine at the moment? there does seem to be a notable tamping down of the conflict there. it seems as if the two sides, kiev and the pro-russian separatists, are starting to talk to each other, finding more room for agreements. there are people who predicted this. peop

agreedtion, the parties trilateral workingroup today to remove all heavy weapons with less than 100 millimeters caliber. yet another step forward. so, the situation is still fragile. there are still russian forces in eastern ukrai, but at least it is encouraging to see that ofre is an agreement removing heavy weapons, and the cease-fire is respected, and this provides the grounds, the basis for a renewed effort to , peaceful,tical lasting resolution to the crisis. vago: there was some acknowledgment thahat everyone would have to increase spending in the alliance. some members are stepping up and increasing spending. what is the alliance doing to help guide and shape that spending and what arare you doig to succeed in generating the capacity and building the alliance is looking for? >> we decided to increase defense spending, as stated, in three steps. firsrst, stop cuts. then, gradually increase spending. then, a met 2% within a decade. -- then, aim at 2% within a decade. how a bit too eatorly to say far we have come in implementing the decisions we made in ilation to the budgets, but will make

now we have to see whether this will continue in a trilateral discussion group, but if we have not approached these talks with the fundamental positive attitude, we would not be where we are today. >> president francois hollande also announced that the four ministers would meet again to review progress next month. >> our correspondent is in paris, where he has been following these talks on ukraine. >> things are moving along slowly, but at least they are moving along. that is the message that the german chancellor and french president had for a in paris on friday. the cease-fire that is holding up pretty well in ukraine gives hope it things will continue to improve. they did it knowledge that the so-called minsk process, the process that is supposed to get eastern ukraine back on track, has been delayed so many times. it won't in as planned at the end of 2015. it will spill over into 2016, and that also means that one of the most crucial points they talked about in paris, local elections in the separatist regions will probably, most likely, will not plan -- happen in 2015, but also next year.

reporter: well, basically, this has been the result of weeks of intense negotiations and wrangling, trilateral talks between russia, ukraine and european union. we have a situation where gas is flowing again. it has, as you said, stopped flowing in july after russia shot down the pipes saying they stopped paying for it. now ukraine will get its gas supply for winter. that will make life more comfortable than it would have been otherwise. ukraine is paying about $230 per a cubic meter of gas. it's less than it was paying at the beginning of 2015 before the taps were shut off and it's also a little less than russia charges most of its other european long-term customers. you can't say this has worked out okay for ukraine, but ukraine still is a very poor country. it does not have the money to pay for this. so most of the money, if not all of the money that it is spending on this gas giving to the russian state coffers is coming from international financial institutions in the form of a bailout. >> does it have any implication for the war in the east of the ukraine? >> i mean, russia is notorious

they are expected to hold talks on the sidelines of a trilateral summit with china. that neating is schedule to take place in seoul november 1st. >>> historical documents created friction between russia and japan. russia has protested uneco's listing of the materials, and now they want moscow to see its side of the issue. russian's foreign ministry said japan's selection of the materials was based on biassed perception of wartime history. the statement expresses doubts that japan is sincerely remor remorseful for what they call belligerent actions during world war ii. the secretary cabinet denies this was politically motivated, indicating the governments will try to gain russia's understanding for its position. >> translator: japan's national commission for unesco recommended the support after gaining hold of the city in russia's far east, a sister city in the prefecture. >> adding city officials briefed russian officials on the application through the russian consulate. >>> japanese officials disclosed rules for a major free trade deal reached by 12 pacific rim coun

the finance ministers and central bank chiefs from japan, china, and south korea then held trilateral talks reserve after these sessions the three nations released a joint statement including a call for strengthening cooperation in finance, including providing funds in financial crises. the statement also suggests promoting structural reforms to boost economic growth. >>> the u.s. central bank has released the minutes of the federal open market committee meeting on september 16th and 17th. now the minutes show policymakers held off on a rate hike last month out of what they call prudence. federal reserve minutes show most members thought conditions for tightening are being met but they were concerned about the effects of china's slow-down on the global economy. market expectations what risen before the meeting. it was thought the fed would start raising the key interest rates after keeping it near zero for nearly seven years. the minutes say many participants agreed labor market conditions have improved considerably but concerns over the impact of china's slow-down on u.s. exports and

the upcoming trilateral summit will be an important occasion to pursue peace and stability in northeast asia and to improve korea japan relations. i hope this summit will provide an opportunity for korea and japan to clear away for bilateral ties and discussions on the way forward, furthermore i believe we must make newly consolidated efforts in korea, the u.s. and china in dealing with north korean issues, such divers forums of trilateral diplomacy are a new endeavor in northeast asia as these efforts will make valuable contributions to enhancing the bilateral of multilateral relations, northeast asia peace cooperation initiative which i proposed in my 2013 address to a joint session of congress james have the cooperation and trust in northeast asia, the only region of the world that lacks mechanisms for multilateral cooperation. so far there has been notable progress. we are holding discussions on concrete measures for cooperation in many fields including nuclear safety, security, climate change, and disaster relief. this initiative is compatible with u.s. efforts in advancing regiona

president obama also recognized korea's initiative in reviving korea-japan-china trilateral talks that had been on hold for the past three and a half years. and he also expressed his high hopes for the korea-japan-china summit that will be held in two weeks' time. we also shared the recognition that such meetings may meaningfully contribute to the improvement of bilateral relations in our region. president obama affirmed that korea-u.s. relations and korea-china relations can be compatible, and supported korea's policies toward china. the recent summit meetings between korea and china, the u.s. and china, and now korea and the u.s. have served to build consensus regarding north korea and its nuclear program, and we believe that this will play a positive role in ensuring peace and stability on the korean peninsula and throughout northeast asia. in dealing with the north korean nuclear problem, we will also seek to strengthen cooperation between korea, u.s. and japan. i believe that strengthening three-way dialogue between korea, the u.s. and japan, and korea, japan and china, will enabl

the leaders of south korea, china, and japan will meet sunday for the first trilateral summit in morehan three years. the president will host the prime minister in a sign of warming relations. on monday, they will meet one-to-one for the first time. links with tokyo remain strained sex lacedse of korean in the japanese occupation and the drive to beef up japan's armed forces. have caused a choking haze across much of southeast asia and have also made indonesia the world's worst global warmer. they are exceeding those of china and the u.s. on a significant number of days. they are clearing land for farming implication. world resources institute says the fire could add 3% to global greenhouse emissions this year. leaders willal meet in paris in december to forge a deal on bonding targets to ensure global warming does not kill the planet. greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels is seen as the big problem by environmentalists. let's get the view from one of the leaders in world energy. he is the chief economist of norway's biggest oil company. he joins us now from singapore. thanks for

president obama also recognized korea's initiative in reviving korea-japan-china trilateral talks that had been on hold for the past three and a half years. and he also expressed his high hopes for the korea-japan-china summit that will be held in two weeks' time. we also shared the recognition that such meetings may meaningfully contribute to the improvement of bilateral relations in our region. president obama affirmed that korea-u.s. relations and korea-china relations can be compatible, and supported korea's policies toward china. the recent summit meetings between korea and china, the u.s. and china, and now korea and the u.s. have served to build consensus regarding north korea and its nuclear program, and we believe that this will play a positive role in ensuring peace and stability on the korean peninsula and throughout northeast asia. in dealing with the north korean nuclear problem, we will also seek to strengthen cooperation between korea, u.s. and japan. i believe that strengthening three-way dialogue between korea, the u.s. and japan, and korea, japan and china, will enabl

. >> after weeks of trilateral negotiations concluded in september, ukraine has a gas supply once more from russia. it's paying about $230 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas. that's actually not a particularly bad deal. it's slightly less than it was paying at the beginning of 2015 before the taps were shut off in july of 2015. it's also a bit of a discount on what russia charges most of its other long term european customers, so you could say this hasn't worked out too badly for ukraine, but ukraine still does not have really the money to pay for this, so pretty much all of the cash that is going into russia's state coffers, pretty much all of that money is coming from international financial institutions in the form of bailouts to kiev. the political implications of this are obviously russia has a reputation, is fairly notorious for using energy exports, for using gas as a means to pressurize and control its customers, its neighbors in europe and other parts of the world. now, what's going on in eastern ukraine at the moment, there does seem to be a notable tamping down of the conflict th

. >> i know that there's a trilateral meeting that happens every year with the chinese, japanese, and koreans. there is worried this year that prime minister shinzo abe will not me. that would be a big development. what can you tell us about the south korean president has done so far? i know she met with secretary kerry yesterday. former sense she got into town yesterday. it is an important relationship. also meeting with a number of -- foreign-policy officials around town. it is an extensive visit caps off with this visit with president obama and his national security team. he had lastit and year to south korea but similar in the dynamic of how things are playing out going forward. this will be capped off in the news conference today and it will be traditional and you will wo questions from each side. a lot of questions from each side going to be coming out. >> it was scheduled to start at 1:40 p.m., we will forget you live, you are the pictures of the east room in the white house. let's get to the bloomberg first word news. >> thank you. first, the u.s. ambassador to says enronnatio

president obama also recognized korea's initiative in reviving korea, japan, china trilateral talks that for the past 3 1/2 years and he also expressed his high hopes for the summit that will be held in two weeks' time. we also shared the recognition that such meetings may meaningfully contribute to the improvement of bilateral relation this is our region. president obama affirmed that korea/u.s. relations and korea/china relations can be compatible and supported korea's policies towards china. the recent summit meetings between korea and china, the u.s. and china, and now korea and the u.s. have served to build consensus regarding north korea and its nuclear program and we believe that this will play a positive role in ensuring peace and stability on the korean peninsula and throughout northeast asia. in dealing with the north korean nuclear problem, we will seek to strengthen cooperation between korea, the u.s., and japan. i believe that strengthening three-way dialogue between korea, the u.s., and japan, korea, japan and china will enable us to open new channels for stronger regional

." >>> meanwhile action south korea is hosting leaders from japan and china for trilateral talks aimed at boosting economic and diplomatic tie did. it will be the first meeting of the countries' leaders in more than three years. the questions remain as to whether they willt they will be able to overcome disputes. harry faw setdset has more from seoul. >> every week, they gather outside the japanese embassy in seoul. supporters of so-called comfort women, the last survivors of the col on y'all program coercing or tricking young women into servitude. it's an issue at the heart of strained relationships as shin szo abe prepares to meet for their first face to face talks. >> for 25 years in front of the em beattys, we have been shotting for japan to officially apologize and legally compensate. if abe has solutions, he can come to south korea. otherwise, he cannot. >> when japan's prime minister made his statement marking 70 years since defeat in world war ii, he upset both seoul and beijing by upholding previous prime ministerial conduct but without reiterating them. for all of the symboli

but look at the kind of questions which the african leadership is truly asking in the trilateral trade initiatives. they've basically are asking how do we prepare to link up with the rest of the world? which is developing in ways which are very difficult for us to actually manage otherwise. and when you combine with all this, the increasing investment in to developing countries, and from developing countries, you have a -- the incentive system for moving towards some kind of landing zone where everyone is included in the system. rather than a situation where number of nations will say, hey, i contribute to your prosperity. and you're going to keep me out. that is the situation which will really stimulate both those who are not thinking about this today, in the context of tpp or ttip, and those who are outside it looking at it with some apprehension. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right before i open the floor for questions from the audience, maybe throw out two questions, and if there are any takers of these. a number of harsha certainly touched been this in terms of -- actually all of

also reviving trilateral talks that were on hold for the past three and a half years. and he also expressed his high hopes for the korea, japan summit that will be held. we also shared the recognition that such meetings may contribute to bilateral relations in our region. president obama affirmed that korea-u.s. relations can be compatible and supported korea's policies toward china. the recent summit meetings between korea and china, the u.s. and china and now korea and the u.s. have started to build consensus regarding north korea and its nuclear program and we believe that this will play a positive role in ensuring peace and stability in the peninsula and throughout northeast asia. in dealing with the north korea nuclear program, we will also seek to strengthen cooperation between korea, u.s. and japan. i believe that strengthening dialogue between korea, the u.s. and japan, korea, japan and china will open new channels for cooperation. regional peace and stability becomes stronger when countries build closer ties of economic dependency. in this regard, i would like

what we consider to be a very historical events, we have had the leaders and the staff from the trilateral meeting in north america defense ministers, so that is our defense minister in the united states, the canadian defense minister in the threat assessment that collates all of the threats that are facing north america as a continent. and so we are already moving closer to recognizing a shared response ability and collective security. we are working with mexico and development of an externally focused security capability in the part or capacity development network. i'm very pleased to say that from the perspective, we have an unprecedented level of security collaboration with mexico and it continues to increase annually in the four main areas that are necessary for the interoperability training exercises and engagement and equipment into this began a number of years ago with the decision to begin fighting transnational criminal organizations and it has evolved holistically since then and that is as we interact in the leadership of mexico's army and marine force, their leadership is placi

>> [speaking in korean] >> [speaking in korean] president park [interpreter]: the trilateral summit meetingmong korea, japan, and china will be held in early november, and being held for the first time in three years under the initiative of the korean government. the reason the korean government endeavored to bring that about was not only to serve the cause of peace, and because we had expectation that such a gathering would redound to improve relations as well. i feel i can have such a meeting with prime minister abe. >> [speaking in korean] president park [interpreter]: in order for such a meeting to be really significant, it is important that the two countries be able to move towards a more future-oriented change in our relationship if that meeting is to have real significance. >> [speaking in korean] president park [interpreter]: the korean people are keenly following this upcoming meeting, and for instance would note the issue of the comfort women victims, an important issue. most of these comfort women victims are now in their 90's, in this year alone we have seen nine comfort women v

that feeling but look at the kind of questions with the african leadership is really asking in the trilateral trade initiatives. they basically are asking how do we prepare to link up with the rest of the world which is developing in ways which are very difficult for us to manage otherwise? when you combine with all of this, increasing investment into developing countries and from developing countries you have an incentive system for moving towards some kind of landing zone where everyone is included in the system, rather than a situation where a number of nations say, hey, i contribute to your prosperity and you are going to keep me out. that is the situation which will really stimulate both those not thinking about this today in the context of tpp or ttip and those who are outside it looking at it with some apprehension. thank you. [applause] >> before i open the floor for questions from the audience, let me throw out two questions. if there are any takers of these. a number of, they touched upon this in terms of, actually all of you did in terms of non-participants accepting certain terms,

for example, in the way that africa ha have started to think about its own trilateral agreement, whichasically mega regional. there's an enormous untapped potential for trade growth to regional integration in developing countries. compare that with east asia, 50%, compared with eu it is 65%. there's an enormous untapped potential and the reason why is that many barriers that exist between african country. basically conductivity -- connectivity. if the field is again change going on through mega regional, thereby seeking closer, this is a good thing for africa produces, good thing for african consumers and is a good thing for african general development. so one mitigation strategy coming from a global picture would surely be to accelerate efforts elsewhere. another one which has to do with the wto is a factor is a growing gap between the level of bishop within regional trade agreement and what we managed. the solution to that is not to put people on regional trade agreements but to start seriously discussing how to raise the level of ambition in the wto. from our point of the want of th

and what we consider to be a very historical event, we've had the leaders and the staff from a trilateral meeting of north america defense ministers, so that's our defense minister and attorney, the canadian defense minister, mexico's defense ministers, i all got together and acknowledged fishermen at the same threats and they've been actively developing with the term the content of threat assessment. and that collates all of the common shared threats that are facing north america as a continent. so we are already moving closer to recognizing a shared responsibility and collective security. and we're working with mexico in the development of an externally focused security capability in our partner capacity develop and work that we are doing with them. and so right now i'm very pleased to say that from our perspective we have an unprecedented level of security cooperation with mexico, and he continued to increase annually. and kind of the four main areas that are necessary for interoperability, training and exercise engagement and equipment. and this really began a number of years ago with

that will be a strong trilateral exercise in the region. and we're looking at other ways particularly in maritime domain awareness to strengthen what we do with the indians because we have very strong common interests. >> well, thank you, mr. secretary. just a further point, senator ayotte, if he is ready, i'd be happy to yield. >> that would be great. you want to finish your question? >> no, no. thank you, let me on behalf of chairman mccain, recognize senator ayotte. >> i want to thank the ranking member, appreciate it. first of all, admiral harris, i want to thank you for following through and visiting the portsmouth naval shipyard. i know roinle at the shipyard was very appreciative for you taking the time to see the incredible work being done there on our attack submarine fleet. thank you. we're grateful. i wanted to ask and follow-up on some of the questions that you have been asked, admiral. and just so -- i think i understand from the testimony you've given, but i want to make sure that we're clear. because i know that you've been a

and what we consider to be a very historical event, we've had the leaders in the staffs from the trilateral meeting of north american defense ministers, that's our defense minister in the united states, the canadian defense minister, mexico's defense minister, they all got together in a meeting and they acknowledged that they share many of the same threats and they've been actively developing what's being termed the continental threat assessment. and that correlates all of the common, shared threats that are facing north america as a continent and so we're already moving closer to recognizing a shared responsibility and collective security and we're working with mexico in the development of an externally focused security cooperative capability in our partner capacity development work that we're doing with them. and so right now i'm very pleased to say that from northcom's perspective, we have an unprecedented level of security cooperation with mexico and it continues to increase annually in kind of the four main areas that are necessary for interoperability, training, exercises, engagement

and what we consider to be a very historical event, we've had the leaders in the staffs from the trilateral meeting of north american defense ministers, that's our defense minister in the united states, the canadian defense minister, mexico's defense minister, they all got together in a meeting and they acknowledged that they share many of the same threats and they've been actively developing what's being termed the continental threat assessment. and that correlates all of the common, shared threats that are facing north america as a continent and so we're already moving closer to recognizing a shared responsibility and collective security and we're working with mexico in the development of an externally focused security cooperative capability in our partner capacity development work that we're doing with them. and so right now i'm very pleased to say that from northcom's perspective, we have an unprecedented level of security cooperation with mexico and it continues to increase annually in kind of the four main areas that are necessary for interoperability, training, exercises, engagement