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u. s. backed nationalist, spotty. this made control vesee over revelations of phone calls by u. s. general mili to re ensure china of no eminent us nuclear strike. and a surprise, australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me.
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u. s. it's known the u . s. are backing belushi militants, and they're attacking some of these very areas, including your, the water port of water in pakistan. you have the militants in my and more you have the stable in there. that's another route. china needs these overland routes to bypass any potential disruption in the south china sea august. and the sort of the things that we're looking at that could take place in the future in terms of disrupting shipping lanes and so forth. so china has a very diverse strategy, and one of the main step pieces also is shing john, western china. and there was a z, a isis, the emergence of isis k is. if you look back at the history of this so called terrorists group, ok that did just re branded entices k was the course and group in 2013 or no, sorry, 20142015. this was a term coined by the u. s. intelligence. when james clapper was in charge, this is an obama administration, in my opinion, and, and probably many others who looked at this closely. it's a kind of a construct the course a
u. s. it's known the u . s. are backing belushi militants, and they're attacking some of these very areas, including your, the water port of water in pakistan. you have the militants in my and more you have the stable in there. that's another route. china needs these overland routes to bypass any potential disruption in the south china sea august. and the sort of the things that we're looking at that could take place in the future in terms of disrupting shipping lanes and so forth. so china has...
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u. s. backed nationalist party. this made control vesee of revelations of phone calls by u. s. general mili to re ensure china of new eminent u. s. nuclear strike. and the surprise australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center of china and globalization, vice president, victor gao. victor, thanks so much for coming back. that own, as i said, is the day after you have a britain's, a queen, elizabeth, the aircraft carrier coming towards your maritime borders. nato countries openly threatening your existence, ro, us as ronald reagan nurse strike, carry a force sailing towards you. bad times for china, welsh, i'm the just celebrated the 72nd national day hole and 3 hours in all of our great celebration. i was very happy, very united on the government. yes, of course. there have been lots of incursions or impulses that carry on the ocean all kinds and possibly so our eats into china and other waters around china. this is a very serious matter, and china condemns such incursions and they are not purely freedom of navigation exerci
u. s. backed nationalist party. this made control vesee of revelations of phone calls by u. s. general mili to re ensure china of new eminent u. s. nuclear strike. and the surprise australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center of china and globalization, vice president, victor gao. victor, thanks so much for coming back. that own, as i said, is the day after you have a britain's, a queen, elizabeth, the aircraft carrier coming towards your...
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u. s. backed nationalist party. this made control vesee over revelations of phone calls by us general milly to re insure china of new, eminent us nuclear strike. and a surprise, australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center of china and globalization, vice president victor gao, to thanks so much for coming back. that on, as i said this day after you have a britons, a queen, elizabeth aircraft carrier coming towards your maritime borders. nato countries openly threatening your existence, ro u. s. as ronald reagan nurse strike, carry a force sailing towards you. bad times for china, welsh, i'm the just celebrated the 72nd national day hold and 3 hours in bold of our great celebration. i was very happy, very united beyond the government. yes, of course are there have been lots of incursions or impulses there are kerry and the ocean all kinds and possibly so.
u. s. backed nationalist party. this made control vesee over revelations of phone calls by us general milly to re insure china of new, eminent us nuclear strike. and a surprise, australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center of china and globalization, vice president victor gao, to thanks so much for coming back. that on, as i said this day after you have a britons, a queen, elizabeth aircraft carrier coming towards your maritime borders....
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u. s. backed nationalist, spotty. this image controversy over revelations of phone calls by u. s. general mili to re ensure china of new, eminent us nuclear strike. and a surprise, australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center of china and globalization, vice president, victor gow, to thanks so much for coming back on. as i said, is the day after you have a britain's, a queen, elizabeth aircraft carrier coming towards your maritime borders. nato countries openly threatening your.
u. s. backed nationalist, spotty. this image controversy over revelations of phone calls by u. s. general mili to re ensure china of new, eminent us nuclear strike. and a surprise, australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center of china and globalization, vice president, victor gow, to thanks so much for coming back on. as i said, is the day after you have a britain's, a queen, elizabeth aircraft carrier coming towards your maritime borders....
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u. s. had backed later post 911. they were responsible and known throughout afghanistan for committing grave atrocities. and so when they were, when the taliban came to power, even by the women of, of afghanistan were seen as a lesser of 2 evils. so it wasn't as black and white because the afghan war is portrayed as a women's rights issue. in the west. i mean, that was the sort of overriding narrative right through everything justified that that intervention and that's how it played out anyway in terms of the liberal press and so forth with the reality is much more complicated. and the point marcus was making about the u. s. strategic interests, so the question is, what are those strategic interests and yes, you have the tapi, the turkmenistan afghan pakistan india pipeline. that's definitely a western interest. why is that a western interest? because that's in direct competition with the c pack of chinese pakistan energy corridor, which is part of the mountain road initiative. so these are competing supply lines . i
u. s. had backed later post 911. they were responsible and known throughout afghanistan for committing grave atrocities. and so when they were, when the taliban came to power, even by the women of, of afghanistan were seen as a lesser of 2 evils. so it wasn't as black and white because the afghan war is portrayed as a women's rights issue. in the west. i mean, that was the sort of overriding narrative right through everything justified that that intervention and that's how it played out anyway...
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u. s. back plot to overthrow his government. official say it was almost 12 hours before a damaged pipeline was investigated. after oil seeped into waters of southern california, the trying to find out of the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. here. a total of more than $700000.00 people of no died in the united states from covered 19 the washington national cathedral told its well $700.00 times to mark the fatalities. the number of deaths this year has already surpassed 2020. only 330000 children were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the french catholic church over 70 years. as the finding of an independent commission, which also says the church showed cruel indifference to the victims. there was the headlines. we'll be back in half an hour. good bye. how many nukes is too many new comerica has in many ways driven the arms race for parties are much more like the british, poised out to them their us, you will regulations to own a tiger than there are its own as on how can this be happen
u. s. back plot to overthrow his government. official say it was almost 12 hours before a damaged pipeline was investigated. after oil seeped into waters of southern california, the trying to find out of the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. here. a total of more than $700000.00 people of no died in the united states from covered 19 the washington national cathedral told its well $700.00 times to mark the fatalities. the number of deaths this year has already surpassed 2020. only 330000...
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u. s and the european nations who are part of the iran deal. so the u. k. france and germany discussing that deal and trying to see if there's a way to get the u. s. back into that deal. iran has not returned so far to the talks in a stalled in vienna, but says it will go back to the negotiating table before the end of november. and james were watching live pictures now of some of the leaders and representatives of various to 20 nations arrive at the venue, being welcomed by the italian prime minister, the merrier drug. he will be expecting a lot more of them to arrive in the coming hour and a half or so ahead of the the 1st gathering of the day as we've been saying, dreams s g 20 is also taking place in the run up to that climate conference in glasgow, so presumably what's being said here, amongst the leaders that we see will release at the tone for discussions there. what is not the only thing that's being discussed as i just mention, but i think it's the most important thing that's going on behind the scenes all the time. here at the summit, it's deliberately time to have g 20 summit just days before comp. in fact, the leader is going to be flying,
u. s and the european nations who are part of the iran deal. so the u. k. france and germany discussing that deal and trying to see if there's a way to get the u. s. back into that deal. iran has not returned so far to the talks in a stalled in vienna, but says it will go back to the negotiating table before the end of november. and james were watching live pictures now of some of the leaders and representatives of various to 20 nations arrive at the venue, being welcomed by the italian prime...
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u. s. alex saab was arrested in cub bird last year. he's now been sent to the united states to face money laundering charges. talks between venezuela's government and the u. s. backed opposition was set to resume on sunday and mexico venezuela. i live at al mando. when his rule is alerting to walter to life of alex harbs endanger, it's in the hands of for judicial sister that has directed her harming venezuela and to demand his immediate release by the american government. staying in venezuela, the recalls for an inquiry into the death of a former defense minister, turned critic of the government authority say that raoul butter bradwell died in prison from a cove at 19 related heart attack. but his family say that he was murdered. daniel schwabl reports name is russell inquiry of the death of raoul bud. well, he is growing from venezuelan opposition parties from the u. s. state department from the organization of american states and the you in high commission of the human rights, but most loudly from his family get. oh nathan, i'm being i want to reiterate that we will not rest until there is justice because god and the world know that my father was murdered. i wan
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u. s. backed plot to overthrow his government investigated. say a pipeline that laid hundreds of thousands of lasers of oil into the water of southern california was not initially investigated for almost 12 hours. the coast guard says he didn't have enough evidence and was hindered by darkness. and a lack of technology. anti one's president sy, in when has warned of catastrophic consequences. if the island fell to china in an article published on tuesday, she's found to do whatever it takes to guard against threats. it comes after a record number of chinese aircraft entered. ty, one's a defense on the islands. defense ministry says $148.00 chinese wall plains had breached the zone since friday. those are the headlines. cindy's continues here on al jazeera after inside story, and i'll be back at the top of the hour. ah no facebook instagram or whatsapp for 6 hours facebook blaine's a technical glitch for its worst global outage in years. are we to reliant on social media to communicate and do business and has facebook become too powerful? this
u. s. backed plot to overthrow his government investigated. say a pipeline that laid hundreds of thousands of lasers of oil into the water of southern california was not initially investigated for almost 12 hours. the coast guard says he didn't have enough evidence and was hindered by darkness. and a lack of technology. anti one's president sy, in when has warned of catastrophic consequences. if the island fell to china in an article published on tuesday, she's found to do whatever it takes to...
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u. s, back to opposition have been holding talks, trying to resolve venezuela's, political and economic crises. they were set to resume on sunday in mexico. released rayleigh, i live at al mando when israel is alerting the world that the life of alex harbs endanger. it's in the hands of a judicial sister that has directed at harming venezuela and to demand his immediate release by the american government ceremonies are taking place in paris today to mock 60 years since the massacre of algerian protestors in a police crackdown. in fact, these are life pictures from paris now of hundreds of people attending a rally, organized by the human rights league. earlier the mayor of paris anadarko attended a ceremony and on saturday, manuel mac from behind the 1st french president to attend such a commotion. however, he did stop short of issuing a formal the precise number of victims as are known. but some historian say several 100 people were killed during demonstrations against french rule. sonya gaga has more industry 60 years on for the paris massacre and the wounds run deep. one day before th
u. s, back to opposition have been holding talks, trying to resolve venezuela's, political and economic crises. they were set to resume on sunday in mexico. released rayleigh, i live at al mando when israel is alerting the world that the life of alex harbs endanger. it's in the hands of a judicial sister that has directed at harming venezuela and to demand his immediate release by the american government ceremonies are taking place in paris today to mock 60 years since the massacre of algerian...
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u. s. back into the deal and it has said it will go back to the sol talks in the end up by the end of november, very busy day that and ryan james pays out different medic edits across all that for us. thanks so much jane. speaking of diplomacy, kuwait is now the latest gulf country to recall its lebanese ambassador, saudi arabia, and bahrain did the same on friday with re add also putting a hold to all lebanese imports. the dramatic feud comes after 11 on the information minister criticize the saudi lead coalitions war in yemen and a video circulating online webinar as prime minister that mccarthy is urging the information minister to make the right decision and fix our relations. the league is also calling on all parties to resolve the spears. while the united states is to start vaccinating children between the ages of $5.11 against coven 19 the drug regulation agency has proposed a lower authorized. i'm sorry, authorized the lower dose of the find the job for that age group. as many as 2800000
u. s. back into the deal and it has said it will go back to the sol talks in the end up by the end of november, very busy day that and ryan james pays out different medic edits across all that for us. thanks so much jane. speaking of diplomacy, kuwait is now the latest gulf country to recall its lebanese ambassador, saudi arabia, and bahrain did the same on friday with re add also putting a hold to all lebanese imports. the dramatic feud comes after 11 on the information minister criticize the...
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u. s. commitment can be an effective and pickle who point to ruination. the bottom line is that the situation appears to gotten increasingly dangerous. over the past several months, perhaps went out saying u. s. stepping back to the bank. the agreement to hold a virtual summit between the u. s. and chinese presidents by the end of the year comes off to a closed door meeting in switzerland between beijing and washington. others talks raised, hopes of a reproach, meant tough to multiple disputes, including a tower full. and we spoke with pat long or senior lecture and politics have bought the university in the u. k. he thinks the usaa ministration needs to take a more realistic view on its rivalry with china, economically and technology. equally. china is obviously on the rise. although our east military budget, east nought on is polity, but it's already the 2nd largest in the world. the us are this proportion nicely, the me 3 spending east, the largest, and i don't think china is going to catch up here for sean. however, the united states, economic and technology, technological capability. he spent tree in decline. we cannot just so say that why not us and china sit down and make peace with each other and h
u. s. commitment can be an effective and pickle who point to ruination. the bottom line is that the situation appears to gotten increasingly dangerous. over the past several months, perhaps went out saying u. s. stepping back to the bank. the agreement to hold a virtual summit between the u. s. and chinese presidents by the end of the year comes off to a closed door meeting in switzerland between beijing and washington. others talks raised, hopes of a reproach, meant tough to multiple disputes,...
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u. s. did not strike back. so i mean that that was a really, to me, one of the biggest, besides, you couldn't entrance into the steering war in october 2015. this moved by iran as a retaliation of the assassination of general awesome sumani and iraqi jones and us that was triggered. i think it's slow a major realignment in terms of west asian geo politics. i think it's irreversible because the u. s. is power is also based on it's a cone inability to fear them or to respect them. and iran basically called their bluff and look what's happened, nothing has happened to ron. there's been a lot of stable routing. israel is assassinating you, nuclear scientists, etc. that's going on the fringes. but geopolitically, iraq is also changing their orientation. again, you know, antique more anti u. s. and the clock is ticking. the us will eventually have to leave iraq. i don't know how long they'll be able to keep going. and now iraqi kurdistan is now basically under threat as well by some of the same forces. but it's inter
u. s. did not strike back. so i mean that that was a really, to me, one of the biggest, besides, you couldn't entrance into the steering war in october 2015. this moved by iran as a retaliation of the assassination of general awesome sumani and iraqi jones and us that was triggered. i think it's slow a major realignment in terms of west asian geo politics. i think it's irreversible because the u. s. is power is also based on it's a cone inability to fear them or to respect them. and iran...
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u. s. president, back home. and so that does present a serious challenge to american leadership, the one that he says that he believes the united states to place a role. right. and it's interesting because he was asked about declining poll ratings and president responded by saying that they tend to be volatile and unpredictable. and, and prior to swings bought on the supply chain crisis. how serious a domestic challenge is. this present item, particularly in light of these increasingly this increasingly strained relationship with china. it's an enormous problem and that's why we saw the secretary of state addressing this issue with the, the counterpart, the chinese counterpart of the sidelines of the g 20. sure, this is an issue that has been a challenge for both of these nations for some time. and it started with coping 19 . but the problem is, is that it hasn't gotten better. what we're seeing in the united states are not just high energy prices, but high food prices, high cost of basic household goods like ca
u. s. president, back home. and so that does present a serious challenge to american leadership, the one that he says that he believes the united states to place a role. right. and it's interesting because he was asked about declining poll ratings and president responded by saying that they tend to be volatile and unpredictable. and, and prior to swings bought on the supply chain crisis. how serious a domestic challenge is. this present item, particularly in light of these increasingly this...
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u. s. commitment can be an effective in pickle, who point to ruination. the bottom line is that the situation appears to be increasingly dangerous over the past several months, perhaps went out saying, u. s. stepping back from the brink. well, the agreement to hold a virtual summit between the u. s. and chinese presidents, by the end of the year, comes after a closed door meeting in switzerland between beijing and washington. those talks are raised, hopes of our approach went off to multiple to spirits, including a tariff wall. and we spoke with a pack long, long senior lecturer and politics at bath university and the u. k. u think the u. s . administration needs to take a more realistic view on its rivalry with china, economically and technology equally. china is obviously on the rise. although our east military protect east north on is polity, but it's already the 2nd largest in the world. the u. s. peace proportion, mostly the me 3, spending east largest, and i don't think china is going to catch up for sure. however far the united states, economic and technology, 10 or logical capability, he spent tree in decline. we cannot just say that why not us and china sit down and make peace with each other
u. s. commitment can be an effective in pickle, who point to ruination. the bottom line is that the situation appears to be increasingly dangerous over the past several months, perhaps went out saying, u. s. stepping back from the brink. well, the agreement to hold a virtual summit between the u. s. and chinese presidents, by the end of the year, comes after a closed door meeting in switzerland between beijing and washington. those talks are raised, hopes of our approach went off to multiple to...
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u. s. military had and the u. s. a. back to afghan army, that was as we spend tens of billions, i think over $80000000000.00 pro training that just evaporated. so it is astounding that the american public doesn't say what are we doing, and why are we throwing so much money into this military? that doesn't even when was and isn't this a time to really cut the pentagon budget, which is something that our organization is really involved along with david groups when without warrants or, i mean, we are trying to push for a real grass roots up rising to say why are you throwing more money at this military and the depth and destruction that's here it talks about is not just the military, it's through the economic warfare that is now one of the major ways that the u. s. wages these wars with sanctions that are so cruel and barbaric that they're designed to star people so that people will rise up against these governments. so yes, there is a lot that needs to be exposed to bad. b u. s. policy on receives but more importantly we need
u. s. military had and the u. s. a. back to afghan army, that was as we spend tens of billions, i think over $80000000000.00 pro training that just evaporated. so it is astounding that the american public doesn't say what are we doing, and why are we throwing so much money into this military? that doesn't even when was and isn't this a time to really cut the pentagon budget, which is something that our organization is really involved along with david groups when without warrants or, i mean, we...
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u . s. is back that it's making friends again, which is what a lot of the d trends he's been about. it's about him showing that the u. s. is moving away from that isolation is the approach that the previous administration favorite and a number of ways. it allows him to also avoid these a. you retaliate 3 tariffs, remember they would you to kick it in a matter of weeks. they're going to double duty on a number of things. like, for whiskey like harley davidson motorcycles, all american products and this would not have gone down well domestically. it also allows him to show off his green credentials. we know the president biden has made tackling climate change, a real tenant of his presidency. he's going to be at the cop summit in a matter of days. this allows him to show that they're working in the us with your rep, which is known for producing what you might call clean metals, as opposed to china, which is allowed, which used as co powered furnace is. so can make cheaper metals, but not necessarily battles that are great for the environment. and also on the subject to china. it allows
u . s. is back that it's making friends again, which is what a lot of the d trends he's been about. it's about him showing that the u. s. is moving away from that isolation is the approach that the previous administration favorite and a number of ways. it allows him to also avoid these a. you retaliate 3 tariffs, remember they would you to kick it in a matter of weeks. they're going to double duty on a number of things. like, for whiskey like harley davidson motorcycles, all american products...
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u. s. is continuing the case against julian a such a earlier this year, a british judge denied washington's extradition request. ruling julian assange would be a suicide risk if put in a u. s. prison back the american authorities have a hearing is set for later this month. a sanchez lawyers will forward over the yahoo board, which may have bolstered the case against extradition on the grounds that the british judge used to block the u. s. government's request for extradition were pretty narrow. they were about the risk of suicide. that assange would face where he served time in the u. s. prison. the british court case doesn't go to these larger issues of press freedom and potential government misconduct that we laid out in the peace. now there is talk among a sondors legal team of possibly trying to broaden the parameters of that british extradition case to include some of these allegations, journalists at yahoo and have likely strengthen the case against extra writing. julian, us ashton, united states, through the reporting that they've done here the yahoo news reporting reveals that u. s. official seriously considered taking a traditional and frankly a legal action at the violence ju
u. s. is continuing the case against julian a such a earlier this year, a british judge denied washington's extradition request. ruling julian assange would be a suicide risk if put in a u. s. prison back the american authorities have a hearing is set for later this month. a sanchez lawyers will forward over the yahoo board, which may have bolstered the case against extradition on the grounds that the british judge used to block the u. s. government's request for extradition were pretty narrow....
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u. s. history and the history of the major dean. isn't this another case of a terrible blow back that isis k is actually a kind of defendant of british and u. s. policy in syria since 2011? well, i don't think so. i mean, i think what happened in to take it back to the iraq syria theater is that after brock obama withdrew american forces from iraq in 2011. because really what could go wrong? everything? everything was taken care of best when ice. this arose in western iraq and, and eastern syria. and we had to go back in to counter this new threat or more virulent form of al qaeda. so i hardly think that it was in reaction to our withdrawal that we saw isis arise. i think it was the spread of this terrorist mentality which, which was a read of course one can say that then it's still a descend u. s. u. k. policy because of the invasion of iraq. i mean i, i the, the, i way with them. i, well, maybe it all goes back to british imperialism in the 1900. everything does an ambassador. huh. no, this is more recent. oversee the 2001 war i should. i mean, before we leave afghanistan, i sh
u. s. history and the history of the major dean. isn't this another case of a terrible blow back that isis k is actually a kind of defendant of british and u. s. policy in syria since 2011? well, i don't think so. i mean, i think what happened in to take it back to the iraq syria theater is that after brock obama withdrew american forces from iraq in 2011. because really what could go wrong? everything? everything was taken care of best when ice. this arose in western iraq and, and eastern...
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u. s. is desperate to get back into afghanistan in one way or another. and in fact, over the weekend, the talks and doha were attended by u. s. government officials, including the us intelligence community, the cia is desperate to get back into the dentist and in a big way. and so aid is one way that you can work your way in work your way back in with 8 of course comes administrators and others. so it really is an attempt to regain power that's been lost now that the u. s. is less against him. and so i might even say that actually is more powerful than actual manpower on the ground. but here's the thing with this. it is going around just talking about pencils and bottles of water. there's actually a, comes in a wide variety of forms. also can come in cash can also be an option. and yet time and time again, we find daniel, that america does not put any checks and balances into where this aid is going. it just disappears. so is there actually anything that could be in place to make sure that the aid was put in the hands of people as what has been promised a
u. s. is desperate to get back into afghanistan in one way or another. and in fact, over the weekend, the talks and doha were attended by u. s. government officials, including the us intelligence community, the cia is desperate to get back into the dentist and in a big way. and so aid is one way that you can work your way in work your way back in with 8 of course comes administrators and others. so it really is an attempt to regain power that's been lost now that the u. s. is less against him....