u. s. troops is on the rice, according to a new pentagon report, it's up 15 percent from last year. with the u. s. defense secretary calling of the situation troubling and a paramount challenge for his department. and it's far from the only issue america's armed forces. over the past 2 months, several officers have publicly spoken out against the military top brass over a range of issues with the most contentious claims coming from marine stewart sheller. he's calling for leaders to be held accountable for the flawed withdrawal from afghanistan and is now awaiting trial for speaking out or just kill them up and look into why the u. s. military has been thrown into such disarray. the case of lieutenant colonel stuart sheller. certainly raises a lot of questions says criticism of the military certainly happens a lot these days for officers came forward publicly. recently condemning the u. s. military over a whole host of issues including vaccine mandates as well as alleged marxist indoctrination. apparently they've lost faith in the u. s. military, and instead of obeying they are revolting. all i'm doing is

u. s defense department official, he says taiwan is responding cautiously and is willing to engage with beijing. the flights over the last 4 days have been unprecedented in terms of their size and frequency of these large stories. and stepping them up over the course of the china is national holiday. and such, large flights really indicates that this is a political warfare effort and part of a massive coercion campaign against the leadership of taiwan and the time when these people. and it's part, i think, not just of a military campaign, but an economic, diplomatic and information campaign as well. unification is a key objective for president cheating. paying. he stated as much, he stated in 2013, that this is a question that should not be left for future generations. president, tying one has played this very carefully. taiwan half responded cautiously to this recent uptick can flights they've exercise restraint. so for instance, you haven't seen reports about taiwan fighter bombers flying in to harass these flights. you haven't heard about air defense radars being used to paint or to

u. s. defense secretary dropped into ukraine on tuesday. where had this to say about his role in nato expansion. no 3rd country has, has a veto over nato's membership decisions. ukraine has, you heard me say earlier, has a right to decide its own future foreign policy. and, and we expect that they will be able to do that without any outside interference. is words come in the wake of a dramatic spike contentions between russia and nato. moscow signal that it's intent to pull the plug on its permanent mission to the block in brussels that will happen on november 1st. need those mission in the russian capital will also be close. the move is indirect response to the alliance earlier, kicking out a number of russian diplomats for alleged spying of the kremlin. meanwhile, has described any ukrainian bid to join nato as inexpensive every step too far. ukraine, this session to nato would be the worst case scenario. this is the scenario that goes beyond the red lines of russia's national interests. this is the scenario that could force russia to tak

u. s. defense department officials joins us of our skype from singapore drink 1st up. so there's been this continued chinese, their presence for more than a year, doing china's up in the ante with a, with an end game in sight. so the find some of the last 4 days had been unprecedented in terms of their size and frequency of these large sorties and stepping them up over the course of the china is national holiday. and such large flights really indicates that this is a political warfare effort. and part of a massive coercion campaign against the leadership of taiwan and the taiwanese people. and it's part, i think, not just of a military campaign, but an economic, diplomatic and information campaign as well. to think china has a real intention of one day taking taiwan. certainly they've stated that intention unification is a key objective for president shaking pang. he stated as much he stated in 2013, that this is an a question that should not be left for future generations. so he's, he's also asserted that he intends to use force to unify taiwan if it cannot be accompl

u. s. and greece assigned a deal to expand their defense partnership paving the way for the u. s. troop presence at the additional basis that includes strategic points just kilometers from the turkish border. that agreement came just a few weeks after another defense deal was signed by greece and france. it was the 1st time that to nato member states vowed to defend each other from attacks within the alliance with french president manuel macross warning that european countries can't rely on the u. s. for defense. beyond was killed in the european must still being naive when we are under pressure from powers who at times harden their stones. we need to react the u. s. is a great historical ally, but we must see that they have been focusing a lot on themselves. and they have strategic interest that a reoriented towards china and the pacific. we will be naive, or rather we will be making a terrible mistake if we did not want to draw consequences from that. we have to see this with pragmatism and lucidity for our independence, and we must of europeans take responsibility for our pho

u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin, has paid tribute to columbia. the world lost one of the greatest leaders and we have ever witnessed almost lost a great husband in the family was a tremendous form. and i lost her a tremendous personal friend and mentor. he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i can always go to m would with tough issues. he always had great break counsel we. we will certainly miss them. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart, just this morning of this just recently. straight to the white house. now. kimberly hallett. of course. our white house correspondent. hi. kimberly. what we haven't talked much about yet. sofa is ah, how will that help reasons behind colon pals, death and how the news was berg by it? well, the news was broken by his family on social media. in fact, here is i just a bit of the statement that they said he was fully vaccinated. we want to thank the medical staff at walter reed national medical center for their caring treatment. we have lost, remarkable, and loving husband, fat

u. s. for defense, elizabeth found less of $280.00 europeans must still being naive when we are under pressure from powers who at times harden their stance. we need to react the u. s. is a great historical ally, but we must see that they have been focusing a lot on themselves and they have strategic interests that are reoriented towards china and the pacific. we would be naive, or rather we would be making a terrible mistake if we did not want to drill consequences from that. we have to see this with pragmatism and lucidity for our independence. and we must, as europeans take responsibility for our phone protection at all possible, and the political analysts to use. if erin says that leaving on car, out of regional security agreements, damages the entire nato organization. turkey is a major driver in many of the decisions at greece. makes in the region, whether it's, it's relationship with brands or the united states allow more us forces there. whether it's the east med platform, dec reese is a part of a, any type of foreign policy that tries to exclude turkey out of regional platforms. when w

u. s. for defense, little bandwidths to yield an 80 europeans must still being naive when we are under pressure from powers who at times harden their stance. we need to react the u. s. is a great historical ally, but we must see that they have been focusing a lot on themselves and they have strategic interests that are reoriented towards china and the pacific. we will be naive, or rather we will be making a terrible mistake if we did not want to drill consequences from that. we have to see this with pragmatism and lucidity for our independence. and we must, as europeans take responsibility for our phone protection at all possible, andy, political analysts use of air him. it says leaving ankara out of the original security agreements, damages the entire nato organization. turkey is a major driver in many of the decisions at greece. meeks, in the region, whether it's, it's relationship with brands or the united states, allowing more us forces there. whether it's the east med platform day greece is a part of a, any type of foreign policy that tries to exclude turkey out of regional platforms. when

money on missile defense systems that can basically shoot down conventional what types of missiles they wouldn't work against, a hypersonic missile. and it's a big emphasis for the u. s. military defense. one of the programs that they're considering pursuing would cost an estimate, a $176000000000.00 over 10 years. but it's hypersonic missiles become commonplace. obviously they're going to have to rethink their strategy. also important to point out that other nations are working with this technology, including the united states. russia says it is as well as well as north korea. again, china says it is not working on that technology, but it has raised concerns in the you, us. the un security council has held an emergency meeting on north korea and day on to pyongyang, testified a ballistic missile from a submarine to fast on the war to test launch. in 2 years, us south korea and japan have all condemned it. on diplomatic edison james space is more from the un diplomatically, there's been no progress on north korea since 2019. that was the year of the last failed summit between president trump and kim jong on that took place in hanoi. and then they're meeting the milit

defense systems that can basically shoot down conventional cut types of missiles. they wouldn't work against a hypersonic missile. and it's a big emphasis for the u. s. military defense. one of the programs that they're considering pursuing would cost an estimate, a $176000000000.00 over 10 years. but if hypersonic missiles become commonplace, obviously they're going to have to rethink their strategy. also important to point out that other nations are working with this technology, including the united states. russia says it is as well as well as north korea. again, china says it is not working on that technology, but it has raised concerns in the us. the un security council has hailed an emergency meeting on north korea day after pyongyang confirmed it testified, a ballistic missile from a submarine. it's a 1st underwater test launch in 2 years. the u. s. south korea and japan have condemned it. still ahead on al jazeera, the world's most controversial pipeline. russia is being accused of using its nose stream to, to blackmail germany. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day. the 30 a 1000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways, voted will's bes

u. s. secretary defense now calling situation troubling and a paramount challenge for his department. and as far from the only issue facing american sources to over the past couple of months, several officers of publicly spoken out against the military's top ross of a range of issues. with the most notorious claims coming from a marine called stewart sheller, he called for leaders to be held accountable for the flawed withdraw from afghanistan. in fact, most awaiting trial for speaking out. caleb, moping in new york city, looks into why the u. s. army has been thrown into such disorder at the moment, the case of lieutenant colonel stuart sheller certainly raises a lot of questions. says criticism of the military certainly happens a lot these days for officers came forward publicly recently condemning the u. s. military over a whole host of issues including vaccine mandates as well as alleged marxist indoctrination. apparently they've lost faith in the u. s. military and instead of obeying they are revolting. all i'm doing is asking open strategic question. this is about principal, i c

u. s. r. defense contractor. just showing what we're talking about here. hypersonic, mac 5 and above. so we've mentioned that before, 5 times the speed of sound, 1.6 kilometers every 2nd and flying very high and controlled. so it can potentially be a some sort of game changer when it comes to missiles. we're going to go to beijing now and talk to andy mark, who's a fellow at the center for china and globalization. thank you for your time. on this evening or sunday evening. first of all, what do we know about this actually happening? this could have happened to believe back in august, and it's now been revealed now. well, thank you for having me come all. no indeed. i think that the phrase that use that you use was that this could be a game changer that i think indeed it can be. so the public release of information on this hypersonic wide. this is very important from a number of perspectives. first of all, it apparently caught us intelligence by surprise. so i think that's an interesting point to note here. but i think 2nd, perhaps most importantly is the geopolitical implications in t

u. s. relations to u. s. must several diplomatic relations and aggregate. it's mutual defense treaty with taiwan. and us forces must be true from the island, i assume in the tree joint communication, the u. s. declared that it would and cultural commercial and under official relations with the people of taiwan ha. d u. s. site should pay attention to the high level sensitivity and importance of the issue. they're going to stop selling arms to taiwan, you and cut your official ties. otherwise, it would to mine peace and stability in de straightened his anger. japan's new prime minister from york a shade has promised to focus on leading the country out of the crisis created by the pandemic. in his 1st policy speech, he called for cash payouts to companies and people who've been hit hard by the outbreak. scott: high plasma. it is 1st policy address. it's taking office japanese prime minister for me o key should up said that he's focused on leading his country out of the coven. 19 crisis with it. the government majestically enhanced the capability for its caves. 19 crisis response to strengthening the

u. s. relations to us must sever diplomatic relations and aggregate. it's mutual defense treaty with taiwan. and us forces must withdraw from the island. i don't mean in a tree joint common casing. the u. s. declared that it would, and cultural commercial and under official relations with the people of taiwan ha. d u. s. site should pay attention to the high level sensitivity and importance of the issue. they're gonna stop selling arms to taiwan, you and cut your official ties. otherwise, it would undermine piece to built into straightened a single lenses. you a secretary of state antony blinkin is in mexico to discuss rising drug related violence. mister blinkin and the mexican government are working to form a new joint security plan. it's aimed at reducing cross border crime. manuel, repulse reports now from mexico city. more than 300000 people have been killed in mexico since the start of the us led war on drugs in 2006. and today, mexico continues to make headlines as one of the most dangerous countries in latin america. since 2006 to to these days, most of the violen

u. s. for our defense and dumb it doesn't go well within nato at all. that's for sure. i know a, one of the things that i find really disturbing in the 21st century with the return of china and the scene in a very big way here is that the u. s. continues to rely upon military solutions. it's always the military, you know, more project, you know, the pentagon loves it. ok. but you know, when i look at china and, and i try to be objective here. i mean, china is a, is a massive business trading partner, you know, a belt road initiative. and things like this, which the americans are terrified of because they don't have the wherewithal to do that. but china is okay, creating prosperity, jobs, trade, all of these things that the world needs here. and it's because the u. s. is unwilling or unable to do that. i mean, you can't even fix its own infrastructure. good for goodness sake. ok. i mean that in the default position is need more missiles. okay. oh, and taiwan, all of a sudden taiwan is a big issue here. no, it's no coincidence. you know, that it's suddenly, these are put

u. s. are trying to get their dispute over turkey's purchase of russian s 400 air defense systems, and therefore turkey banishment of the u. s. f. 35 cell fighter programs behind them. and what they've been discussing is maybe turkey will want to and then be permitted by the u. s. congress to buy more of the us fighter jets that already has which are f. 16. but on the other side, there's a grouping at the so called your asian is in turkish foreign policy establishment. and in the, you know, the advisors posed to him, who believe it may be turkey's proper place in the world is not so much rooted in nato, but in eurasia, meaning, looking toward j. e, looking toward not just russia, but central asia, turkey countries and even half canister and beyond. so i think that that dispute is being played out with this announcement by, by president eric one without him yet following through. it may be sort of a balancing. all right, so, so we think it's unlikely, but let's just suppose for above it, he does go through with it and expels these ambassadors. what will the implications be, particularly concernin

u. s. military have denounced allegations with maria on the story. he is elsie's daniel armstrong, russia, the defense ministry, has summoned the u. s. military, a tasha after a u. s. war ship attempting to cross russian maritime borders in the russian far east. now that happened when the u. s. s. chafie attempted to cross the russian board is the pizza, the great war ship had been operating according to sources in the sea of japan. up until that time. now, the sea of japan is important because right there at the moment, russian and chinese forces undertaking military training. the maritime interactions 2021 taking place and that includes the use of live artillery. now the u. s. s. chafie attempt it's across the board is and instead of taking heed of warnings, raised his colored flags that indicates a helicopter. taking off from it deck, he also makes it impossible to change its speed on its course. it was eventually persuaded to turn back by the russian anti submarine vessel. the admiral 3 boots. now, the russian defense ministry has called base a grave violation of international rules. whereas the w

u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin, has paid his tributes to come into the world, lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed, almost lost a great husband in the family was a tremendous father and i lost her a tremendous personal friend and mentor. he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i could always go to him what, what tough issues he always had great break counsel we. we will certainly miss him . i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just this morning of this just recently. in other news, a special session of the u. k. parliament is underway to pay tribute to sir david amos following the conservative emp, his death on friday. members of parliament began with a minute's silence for they colleague said david was stabbed to death while meeting members of the public in his constituency. east of london, they said, 5 people have now, di, did you to floods in landslides triggered by heavy diamond, southern india. thousands of people had to be relocated as well. china's economic growth is flowing as its post. pandemic recovery lose

u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin, also praised pow, saying his last a friend and mentor. the world lost one of the greatest leaders and we have ever witnessed all my lost a great husband in the family, lost a tremendous father. and i lost to a tremendous personal friend and mentor. and he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i could always go to him with, with tough issues. he always had great break counsel we. we will certainly miss him . i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just this morning of this just recently, last spring in. kimberly, how can our white house correspondent, not live from washed in? kimberly lots of reactions and tribute to con pow, bring us up to speed with the latest at the latest coming from the u. s. president joe biden, who is remembering his friend, general colin powell as a man who embodied what biden is calling the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat. but most of all friend, in fact, he said that he will miss being able to call on his friends wisdom. someone who was a trusted confidant in good time

u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin has also praised powell saying he's lost a friend and mentor. the world lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed, almost lost a great huffman in the family, lost the tremendous father. and i lost to a tremendous personal friend and mentor. and he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i could always go to him with what tough issues he always had. great, great counsel we. we will certainly miss him. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just this morning of this just recently. now bringing our white house correspondent kimberly hawk live in washington. kimberly lots of reactions and tribute to con. pow president biden has just released the statement. yes, he has and well, it is a lengthy statement. i think it's important to note that he is once again underscoring what we heard from the defense secretary lloyd austin. that in fact, a general, powell embodied what the president called the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat. noting his groundbreaking efforts to break racial barriers by t

u. s. oppose as the attempt because anchor a purchased russian missile defense systems. meanwhile, u. s. secretary of state antony blinking told china's foreign minister one ye to stop it's aggressive actions towards ty, $11.00 accused the u. s. of supporting pro independence forces into one. well, our white house correspondent, kimberly hacket joins us now from rome. she is across all of this forest at kimberly, i'll get to the g 20 communicate just a moment. but one of the most anticipated meetings there was on the sidelines between biden and other one things have been pretty intensively did their bilateral actually managed to smooth anything over well, according to the white house read out, this was a meeting that was productive. it was also candid, but there were a constructive progress on a number of issues that have been sort of festering between the united states and turkey for some time. the 1st issue that really has been a problem for the to has been over the issue of defense and security in the united states. not too happy that turkey recent years purchased a missile defense

u. s. relations have been strained since turkey's acquisition of a russian air defense system. also, the u. s secretary state sat down with his chinese counterparts. disputes between beijing and washington range from trade to security and taiwan. then there's boris johnson and emanuel mack home. they've agreed to work towards de escalating a post breakfast. fishing dispute between france and the u. k. we have our diplomatic editor james bay's covering all of those. he's joining us from room. so james, plenty obviously happening on the sidelines. but what's the take away message when it comes to that all important topic of climate change leaders had to call 26 summit in glasgow next ordering earlier on, some of the leaders went to the center of rome to one the best known places, the chevy fountain where you know, the tradition is you make a wish as you throw a coin into the fountain, i am sure many of them wished for greener environment, vironment for the prosperity of the planet. but campaigners say it's not about wishing, and it's not about wishful thinking. it's about action a

another story to bring you before we go to break rushes, defense ministry has summoned the u. s. military attack after navy forces blocked on a legend attend by an american worship to violate russian territorial waters. in this sea of japan, explaining more in this ortiz daniel armstrong, russia, the defense ministry, has summoned the u. s. military, a. tashay, after a u. s. war ship attempting to cross russian maritime borders in the russian far east. now that happened when the u. s. s. chafie attempted to cross the russian board is the pizza, the great fe war ship had been operating according to sources in the sea of japan. up until the attack on the sea of japan is important because right there at the moment, russian and chinese forces undertaking military training. the maritime interactions 2020 want to taking place, and that includes the use of live artillery. now the u. s. s. chafie attempted across the board is and instead of taking heed of warnings, raised is colored flags that indicates a helicopter taking off from its deck. he also makes it impossible to change its spe

the hype, this on a weapon launched into orbit, has the potential to evade america missile defenses. the u. s. is working on its own hypersonic technology bumped is behind both china and russia. estella had here on al jazeera and olive branch at francis agrees to visit canada following the scandal involving form of schools run by the catholic church in class. how gangs and hazy are crippling the countries health care system. ah, how i was seen some very heavy rain recently across the endo china, lots of cloud, ryan, paling through harold tropical depression to produce them particularly big downpours into southern parts of vietnam, 170 millimeters of rain in the space. it is 24 hours there where the weather is now making its way a little further westward. sliding across cambodia, and on the ensue thailand, ye shall rash as showers. meanwhile, across sir, malaysia started to see it had increased the wet across indonesia repeat performance of that. as we go on through sat, stay, some more lively showers. there ensue were java sliding all the way across towards still away. see we see some rather

u. s. oppose is that because anchor purchased russian missile defense systems. and you, a secretary of state antony blinkin, told china's foreign minister one year to stop its aggressive actions towards taiwan. wang accused, the u. s. meanwhile, of supporting pro independence forces in taiwan while at south b to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. she is across all of this forest in rome, and kimberly, obviously the g. 20 is now wrapping up as those cop climate talks, kick off and glasgow. and as you've been saying, the communique includes this desire to limit warming to $1.00 degrees celsius. but as he is rather empty ambition, given the lack of concrete timelines. yeah, that is what is the reflection of so many that had hoped this was really going to be more robust in terms of a communique and set the tone for glasgow and to sort of inject it with a new sort of burst of enthusiasm. but that has not been the case, as you point out, that final communique saying that in fact, the leaders have committed to ensuring that global warming is limited to 1.5

michael is a former senior, a security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense in the u. s. and you are very welcome. was this just hypothetical thinking, michael by the us defense secretary, those are marks or is there something more concrete at play here? wouldn't nato make that live? well, i think this is all part of a concerted action by the united states once again to to wrap it up, pressure on, on moscow, basically to contain russia in its own sphere of influence. it's clear that lloyd austin, the us defense secretary, hasn't learned anything from the lessons, going back to 2008 when us was trying to push most georgia and ukraine into into nato. but it was, it was, it was the membership itself, of, of nato, which decided against such a move because of the concerns of moscow reaction. and, and for, for moscow it's clear that such accession of border states would be a red line for moscow of nato. and it's all, and it comes at a very interesting time with under secretary of state for political affairs, victoria newland, and her visit. most recent visit to moscow in which

u. s. secret secretary of defense lloyd austin, has paid tribute to pow saying his last a friend and mental the world lost. one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed almost lost the great huffman and the family was a tremendous form. and i lost her a tremendous personal friend and mentor. he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i can always go to him with, with tough issues. he always had great re council we. we will certainly motion. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart. just this morning of this just recently when i speak to our white house correspondent, kimberly how kato's life from the white house kimberly collin power set out. i drove cove in 19 related complications, even though he was double vaccinated. what as a family said yeah, the family made that a very prominent aspect of their announcement on social media saying he was fully vaccinated. but going on to talk about the last than the grief that they are feeling saying we have lost, remarkable, and loving husband, father ground, father and great american. so certainly it is painf

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u. s. army counter intelligence assessment branch, department of defense. you read through this document. it lays out everything that's happened. i from 2010, but we will get a song by smearing him. i had to spread, observing him by destroying trust and will be late ah, and good from here. wrong investigative journalism. all this times are not the words serious and best journalism is our number. well this is a show trial i. i've actually sat in on shorter char and this is a short trial. i to some of the headlines for your embry, her one on t violent classes in pakistan between security forces and is limited protesters of lead to the deaths of 2 policemen. under injured several demonstrators, thousands gathered in the eastern city of the whole demanding the release of the leader of that outlawed party. around 2000, the polish coal miners have travelled across europe to look some bug to rally at the european court of justice over the proposed closure of a major mine. a demonstrators who carried banners and flesh were met with a heavy police pressies either to