u k. a kwan for which is very much of an anti chinese grouping. l can be seen, is that a chinese grouping and is also august a u. k, u s. the australian. what is it a u, a u k u s alliance, which, which also can be seen very much as an anti chinese grouping. certainly the chinese see it that way. and so i would say that since the bomb administration, the sense the confrontation has deepened and that, and it was a little blurry while during the above administration. but it's now quite sharply defined. are getting, getting more sharply defined. right. and what about donald when it is when it comes to the issue of the after we were mentioning russia moments ago, and specifically the war and ukraine? because what we found recently was that vietnam did not vote when it comes to you. and general assembly resolutions, vietnam did not vote with the west condemning russia's invasion of ukraine. so what do you think of that? i mean, there must be growing pressure on vietnam from the west, and particularly from the united states. aside with them on the ukrainian issue, are you surprised that vietnam is playing a balancing act here? no, i wouldn't be surpris

u. s. does it appear that the u. k. has sort of relinquished its sovereignty of jurisdiction due to decades old extradition treaties with the u. s, and that julian is a victim of that, among other things. well from the beginning for those of us who have followed the case closely. this has been judicial farce. there are all sorts of legal anomalies that should have invalidated this case. a long time ago we can begin with a fact that julian has not committed a crime. he didn't do anything different from what the new york times the guardian dare spiegel. and l p. s. did when they published the iraq war logs. remember, that's what he's being charged with under the espionage at 17 counts. so it's 170 years if he's convicted on all counts on another 5 years for hacking into a government computer, although he didn't hack into a government computer. chelsea manning who leaked the documents did not need to hack into the computer or chelsea manning had done all of the passwords security clearance to get into the computer to, to pa

u. just just behind, almost a tide with denmark. so a lower senior poverty rate in france when you compare it to germany, the u. k, the u. s, it's a system, it's quite effective on the question is, what do you, what do you do to, to stabilize it in the long term? the government has said, this is the only route to do it. all are different. people disagree, the other options are, you know, should be explored. and so life isn't that bad in france, which was the point i was trying to make. but obviously these protests are going to go on for some time. but we heard i, we heard the, the odds that they're up against their, from coal stangler in my say, thank you very much for bringing us up to date. and for the analysis again on the situation in france. ah, the war in ukraine has brought far reaching changes to europe's security infrastructure, including a much longer border for nato with russia. it's now double in length with finland, joining members no way estonia, latvia, lithuania and poland. share a 1200 kilometer border with russia and its enclave. colleen and grad. finland's border with roster is more than 1300 kilometers

its previous membership of the e. u. the australia deal was the 1st trade agreement negotiated by the u. k. since breaks it, the u. s. is a significant trading partner accounting for at least 16 percent of total u. k. trade. but a free trade deal between the 2 nations has told. well, johnny is now from london, is vicki price, who is the chief economic advisor at the center for economics and business research? vicki, welcome. by its own reckoning, the u. k. government estimates this will increase economic outputs by less than 0 point one percent. so really just how significant is this? i think the significance is mainly not highlighting the fact that the u. k wants to be a global player rather than necessarily the implant you may have on g d p, and hopes that that will lead to maybe more tre deals with more countries. possibly even joining. there's thought to ship them their suggestion, the south korea maybe china might do so as well. that of course, you know, expand the reach if you like. but the u. k. has been trying to find new areas to trade with the realities that of those 11 countries right now in this partnershi

u. s a u. k, but it would appear that when you look at any random country, the u. s. asked for anybody for any reason that country almost always acquiesces, but it's not true the other way around. yeah, that's exactly right. and we should also be clear that in the case of julian, as i mentioned before, he's not a us citizen. and he did not commit a crime. so the hypocrisy is not limited to this case. there are numerous cases, including the case of hoss on the stuff of some a nasir in milan, which i can go into if you want in 2003. the u. s. has one set of rules for others. another set of rules for themselves are more to come with chris hedges . don't go anywhere. chris. coming up next. the united states keeps extradition numbers under wraps. the mystery around just how many people the u. s. government brings from a broad and forces to stand trial or unknown. we'll discuss it when we return said type the m. o will be right back a ah ah, ah ah ah, ah, a ah with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race

u. k. issued an official extradition request form extradition imbalance. not only between the u. s. a u. k, but it almost always acquiesces, but it's not true. the other, as i mentioned before, is not a us citizen. and he did not commit a crime, including the case of hoss on the stuff of some nasir in for others. another set of rules for themselves are more to come with the mystery around just how many people the u. s. government brings from, ah ah welcome back to the ammo i'm manila chance. so chris, continuing our conversation here more broadly, but these aren't necessarily bilateral agreements. what's the trends for need military assistance intelligence u. s. uses it's preponderance of military and he says that you can tell us about, well, i think the most egregious occurred and right out of pinochet's, chile was statute an extraordinary ren, my in italy. accommodating the convictions and absent, accomplices, ah, and doe, we actually, ah, requests, i'll put in prison, egypt and very badly. ah, ah, commits a crime in another country. the crime has documented it. good. none of them face justice o

u. k. the u. s. it's a system, it's quite effective on the question is, what do you, what do you do to, to stabilize it in the long term? the government has said this is the only route to do it all out of front people disagreed. i think other options are, you know, should be explored. and so life isn't that bad in france, which was the point i was trying to make. but obviously these protests are going to go on for some time. but we heard i, we heard the, the odds that they're up against their, from coal stangler in my say, thank you very much for bringing us up to date. and for the analysis again on the situation in france. ah, the war in ukraine has brought far reaching changes to europe's security infrastructure, including a much longer border for nato with russia. it's now double in length with finland, joining members no way estonia, latvia, lithuania and poland. share a 1200 kilometer border with russia and its enclave. colleen and grad. finland's border with ross or is more than 1300 kilometers long

it's here in the u. k. whether it's in the u. s. other places in europe push back against putting these, these, these are industrial scale. power facility is putting these in places and i think this is one reason why it has to be offshore wind. i mean, why in the head of the fees gas and renewables division was saying, you know, offshore, wind is it has to go up. there just isn't enough land for it. but i mean, there are still going to be constituencies and tradeoffs to balance out there. whether it's fishing industries, whether it's environmental, and i think how politicians navigate that balance and how they find a way to move ahead with these projects in a way that, you know, time is money and, and if they aren't, move, moved forward in a way that preserves that rate of return for companies. it's not going to work. and i think the same thing can be just said about industrial capacity. building in the north sea is difficult when you're industry has been doing it for years. but we've also seen that when everybody tries to do the sa

it clear that there needs to be some solution of these problems. if the u. k is going to get into a trade agreement or further trade provisions with the u. s. well, that's it, i mean the u. s. has been central to, to the whole piece agreement that the whole piece process in the north of ireland. and a lot of that has been the fact that it brings significant economic muscle to the table. a lot of the investments that we're seeing in there are coming from, from the u. s. you know, we're seeing microsoft, you know, a lot of the spill over even from the boom and the south is going to the north, largely being driven by u. s. pressure, they've made it clear that if they don't, if the u. k allows brakes it to get in the way of the peace deal that there won't be a trade deal, which the u. k needs post breakfast. so biden's really and he's really pushing his irish routes. so i think it's going to be central to how this plays out. all right, my colleague quit for kuhn and thank you very much. let's go now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. tesla will build a new factor in shanghai to produce large scale batteries. the rough

it is happening right now. the u. s has acts soul to encourage them on electronics and as k hi likes to hold back from boosting sales to china. it bands my quote from selling under an ongoing investigation south korea's president unit is now in washington for a visit. so this is the key moment for south korea to set its foreign policy direction. some commentators believe that south korea has officially joy the new cold war between the us, china and russia, in order to protect itself from the possible nuclear attack of north korea. ok, so some han in taipei for us. thank you very much. we have done now oil workers strikes in iran are spreading. they've been going on for months with employees from several industries protesting against inadequate wages. the strikes come at a time of spiraling inflation with complaints over deteriorating living conditions and a widening gap between household income and expenses. for suggest the industrial action is also spreading to other sectors beyond oil, oil workers have been offered. wage increases around 25 percent. that's well below the 79 percent that they're calling for more on th

u. k. biden made it very clear that the u. s. government wasn't going to approach something along those lines. and remember, there is bipartisan support between the public and the democrats in american politics for this. so he wasn't going to support a free trade idea, which might shaft or undermine aren't in any way. so he has been someone who kept is this close to his heart, he got someone who's kept his eye on the situation very closely. and he's always made it clear, even if you look at his visit last night with him coming in to northern ireland and traveling south today, that you get the strong sense that this is a man who, you know, he wasn't going to london. he was coming into items and he wants to stay and i didn't pay a lot of time. he pays it out of. it gives a lot of time and a lot of energy to this in a way that not all us presidents would do. yeah, that's it. interesting point that you make and i heard today that he had made, made a point that he didn't want to to metal in the current stalemate that we're seeing rig

u. k. canada and the u. s. with sing calling, it's an attack on the seat community on seas. runjun sharma has more basically the book as well as spreading difficulty, actions within the same range as the legit recent pentagon league show. washington had won't care about possibly circumvent of his troops in the city suggesting a withdrawal to avoid high casualties, thoughts each other to the citizens, but with some wagner fights, as they don't on the use doesn't. and it's on a day, during our business troops to the war zone, we have repeatedly heard gratitude from civilians to the russian fighters for the migration from our 10 most once in the city, of course, grasped the fighters of the wagner private military group to tell us what measures they took in such difficult conditions to save the lives of civilians. and okay, i got both of them. then let's say there is a contact in this building. we found out that there civilians that an already heavy artillery does not work there in any way. only by storming it. we knock out the enemy, we

u. k. canada and the u. s. the thing calling it's an attack on the seat community office runjun sharma. x of the story. people sing the broad carlos sunny separatist has finally been arrested by that one job police. this after weeks of man hunt 36 days to be precise. he surrendered himself in a district called morgan, the state of one job. and moreover, basically the boat. please. alls, as the protocol, a sunny separatist to amber terrorist cord jar. now seeing been doing one also the significance of where this man surrendered, and some secretly got arrested. it was on the 18th of march when, when job released launched a crack down on i'm a policy in his members of his outreach call wireless from job the armrest ball thing has been labeled down to as a color sunny agent by the indian government. her a color, sony basically is a person who seeks indian on job a to be a separate come see. and now this man also has several cases registered against him including attempt to murder as well as spreading disharmony. remember the father, the

u. k. canada and the u. s. is sing calling its attack on the seat community. no rose to fame after calling for the creation of a separatist seek states known as a holly stun. lease have accused him of participation in armed assault of a police station. in february of the attack, the leader allegedly escaped on a motorbike. nearly a 100 of his followers were subsequently detained. ah, all russian troops have reportedly gained defaults hold. that's as wagner fights as our leading assaults in the western parts are miniature vehicles, as all routes to black moods on our reports, to live within russian artillery range. that's as recent pentagon league state that washington had won't care about possibly circumvent. uh, his troops in the city suggesting a retreat due to high courtesy rates are through child to back modes and spoke with some of august forces they don't on 2000 and it's on a day during our business troops to the war zone. we have repeatedly heard gratitude from civilians to the russian fighters where they were creation from work almost once in the city

u. s. pressure. they've made it clear that if they don't, if the u. k allows brakes it to get in the way of the peace deal that there won't be a trade deal, which the u. k needs post breakfast. so biden's really and he's really pushing his irish routes. so i think it's going to be central to how this plays out. all right, my colleague, clifford coon and thank you very much. let's go now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. tesla will build a new factor in shanghai to produce large scale batteries. the roughly the size of a shipping container and can power $3600.00 homes for an hour when demand from a local power grid is high or during a blackout. ilan mosque has pledge to expand the energy storage business to be on par with the company's car operations. german employers association has rejected a trade union demand for a 4 day work week with the same pay for employees in the german steel sector. bosses say it would be to exorbitant cost increases. they said would also make german steel companies uncompetitive and could endanger

if it is the only way to compliance the u. s. and the u. k. it launched a 4 day bombing campaign against iraq and december of 1998. after that, then you as president bill clinton accused saddam hussein at breaching commitments to the un developing weapons of mass destruction and not withdrawing his forces from kuwait. as many as 1400 or rocky soldiers were killed and strikes on around a 100 military facilities. political commentator anthony webber believes that tony blair should face legal action, says he blatantly light to the u. k. parliament and the british people. if we look at what happened in a way, we had the situation where the u. k. parliament was offensively lied, said andre does. i'll tell you. but i was, as always said, he's a christian and he got, she does break the 9th commandment which is without shall not bear false. witness a definitely false witness, which the courage to the u. k. paulman county public. i think it is a blatant a sample of double standards. ready i think all countries in the world should abide by the same stand

its senses over the war. and ukraine. under the u. s. government defends its k all. take a rush to exit from afghanistan. ah, welcome to the program, our top story, this. our explosions has been hugged in gossip as israel's military announces it started as strikes on the strip. and this comes just als off to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that his country would hit it's anna these and that they would pay a price for aggression. so these are some live shots coming from gauze or at the moment where explosions have been heard a media, they're suggesting that there have been several strikes in the territory. and so this is just an idea of what is happening there now. but of course, netanyahu's warning followed. largest burrage of rockets being fired into israel from lebanon. tis the 2006 war. israel's military says 30 full rockets were fired and about $25.00 intercepted. 3 people were reported injured. several buildings were damaged. spokesman blamed palestinian factions in lebanon for this rockets will also fide from garza during the night. but really this all comes after is ready police

u. k. canada and the u. s. we sing calling, it's an attack on the see community. aunties, runjun sharma as more seen the pro caught a sunny separatist has finally been arrested by the one job please. this after a week, the man hummed 36 days to be precise. he surrendered himself in a district called morgan. the state of fun job and more was basically the both please, or the pro sunny set protest and the terrorist court jar. now it's being been to one also the significance of where the mass rendered unself secretly got arrested. it was on the 18th of march when, when job please launched, the cracks down on i'm a policy is members of his outreach cold water is one job to say i'm rid falls thing has been labeled down to as a colostomy agent by the indian government carlos on the basically is a person who seeks indian on job to be a separate country. and man also has several cases registered against him including attempt to murder as well as fighting this. how many remember before the, the crackdown was launched in him and his members.

it's actually been a large number, leaving france last year to the u. k, then arrive from all of africa to spain. so then what's your take, your personal take on the u. k. 's new illegal migration bell. because the government for its part says that it's intended to deter people from a legally entering the u. k. but we've heard a representative from the you and hcr warning, it could lead to the collapse of the system of international protection for refugees. where i think 2 things are important. first, nobody needs to leave france. france is a safe country. so this is not a refugee issue, it is an issue of irregular migration on this. the united kingdom government is right. but secondly, why should all refugees stay in france and united kingdom should not offer as a signatory of the refugee convention any solidarity? the obvious solution to this is that france of the united, the european union offer to take back doze. every one who leaves after the 1st of may in a boat and reaches the u. k. to take them back. they are safe. but then the united kingdom to offer a legal path for well, let's say $40000.00 people a year. that would still be less than france has

u. k. come in, the u. s. the st. himself calling, it's a talk on the side on the seat community art sees runjun sharma has more on the story of seeing the broad carlos sunny separatist has finally been arrested by the punjab police. this after weeks of man hunt 36 days to be precise. he surrendered himself in a district called morgan, the state of bon job and mo, uh, basically the boat, please. alls, as the pro colostomy separatist to amber terrorist cord jar. now thing been doing one also the significance of where this man surrendered and some secretly got arrested. it was on the 18th of march when, when job released launched a crack down on i'm a policy in his members of his outreach hall, wardis fin, job fair. on red ball thing has been labeled down to as a careless donnie agent by the indian government. her a call a son, he basically is a person who seeks indian on job a to be a separate come see. and others man also has several cases registered against him including attempt to murder as well as spreading this harmony. remember the father, the crackdown was launched in him and his members, and they basical

or china has echoed the views of the dpr, k slumming, the u. s. for pushing its agenda on the korean peninsula, the expense beijing says on regional stability. in order to achieve its personal jim political interests, the us ignores regional security and insists on exploiting the peninsula issue to create tension. what the u. s. is doing is full of cold war mentality, provokes confrontation between camps, undermines the nuclear nonproliferation regime and the strategic interests of other countries activates tensions on the peninsula, undermines regionals, peace, and stability and rounds counter to the goal of dinner. clear is ation on the peninsula. china is firmly opposed to this. those remarks came in response to the side korean president, 6 day trip to the us, the 1st time in a dozen years, a leader from sole house visited washington. during his time, there are unit suki all addressed, a joint session of congress met with president biden, as well as the u. s. secretary of defense ortiz, donal quarter has been looking into the visiting leaders trip, just what h

if you are concerned about it, whether it's just double check my company or the number of private firms from major firms that said the u. s. and it's always the u. k. in france, you just google it. there are dozens of companies like that. for many years. they were to write and border side ukraine. when she's in the office, which was a lot of speculation. us bought a sudan and you said that the, the tragedy people are dying was a diploma of there are threats to diplomats major factors. we are aware of this up to date with the development of school for the service that you teach. so. so through our embassy was asked to, to provide, to please some of the un employees from the children's fund. i don't know how to do it, but very much we'll figure out what was after this press conference . well, let's look at the history of the state of sudan. she 1st and there was just one done and then so down in south sudan, we would, it's, and i'm not sure it was a medical school. we colleague, you observed these about monthly clarity of the us made it one of the foreign policy priorities to states it on into, to part with them. they also come out of us for you to