i mean, lloyd austin is the secretary of defense. and his role is to talk about defense of lives in relationships. but that it always needs to go hand in hand with the secretary of state and other key officials of thinking. there's always a willingness for not just the united states, but as regional allies, to talk to china, to see come a standing to say really what china's vulnerabilities are. and i don't think we often hear enough of that, but there's a sense of what our child is anxieties and a degree of empathy towards them. maybe a wired in some ways deflating the scenes. the china is this kind of inevitable sort of super power that will surpass the united states, both united states and china. i have weaknesses have the vulnerable 80, and we so plenty of the american vulnerabilities that last 4 years. and as i think we understand, trying to more by focusing on it and using our rating, we understand this is a society also with a lot of anxieties and vulnerabilities. it's an interesting new approach that the us have because load o

complicate their access towards ah, the political turmoil into the president ordered the sacking of the defense and justice ministers just hours after imposing a freeze on parliament and security for his store manager, there is offices in tunis overall stop out of the building. ah, hello. hello rob. and you want to know if they were like my headquarters hearing coming up in the next 30 minutes left on the g. mccarthy skills i majority to become prime minister designate, offering hope to a country struggling under economic crisis. also the human cost of the ask and conflict view and says the record number of women and children are dying in the fighting. they call the student those who are trying to learn knowledge. they killed in a book into the program, tennessee was facing its biggest political crisis since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy to his president and now sacks the minister of defense of the acting minister of justice. after dismissing the prime minister, what earlier he prose parliament for 30 days, as soon as his biggest political crisis since the revolution of 2011 tha

and the take away defense force back to mckelly. it's a realization on the side of the federal forces that this is an unwinnable war. samuel the t p l f. last territory, not just to, if you open government forces but also to their retrans soldiers and to fighters from the horror region. so how much territory in all, did they lose? again, you know like everything and we get all kinds of negations and pops and numbers and we can never verify what's been happening unless we have access to this . some of the areas that you mentioned, you know, i was able to talk to only some cities and to gray including mccully. awesome and id got an idea of the but the rest of to guy wasn't even accessible to us or 8 organizations. so it's really, really difficult to verify what's been happening on the ground. there's no media that has been having such an access for them to make that determination. so it's speculation once again, but they did lose some. we just have to verify the information. and i don't see i have conflicting information. so i mean, i

nice the top stories, jenny is present a sack for justice and defense ministers. a nighttime curfew has been extended and gatherings have been limited on sunday. he dismissed the prime minister and put a freeze on parliament. x ray of state entity blinkin has urged the units in.

so you were the defense minister in 1996. i was the spokesperson for the defense ministry. and later on i was, i was the chief of staff for that minute stuff defense and also the spokesperson for the ministry of defense and later, and diminished up on our face in earlier indeed is essence into how they get the soviets. so they took up, she had a provision if i wanted to see the continuation of suffering of our people to see the counties which we helped to achieve. peace like tajikistan. honda son was instrumental and to in achieving that settlement between between 2 sites, integer to start and to see the develop developed and to see the opportunities which out of that for the people of afghanistan and for the region. and we cannot utilize it because of the continuation of the was it has this appointed one day more as one missed one more mr. port unity. but it takes what sites it cannot happen with the goodwill in intention of one site. that's what i was going to come towards because it takes 2 parties to reach. so you say that you have presented the options military, the mi

it's to the united states now, and when the defense department there awarded microsoft, a 10000000000 dollar cloud computing contract and 29 team, amazon cry foul company had long been the world's dominant cloud provider. and it alleged that politics had decided the fate of the much hyped jet i project. now, the pentagon has canceled the disputed contract with me today when the jet, a project was canceled on tuesday, it seemed the decision making was finally back with the pentagon itself. the secretary has secretary defense was obviously final approval of this decision that hadn't always been the case in the past 4 years. says amazon, that company has long accused former us president trump, of having played a role in denying them the contract back in 2019, out of spite, as trump was known, not to be too fond of amazon boss jeff base us. so jed, i the joint enterprise defense infrastructure cloud went to microsoft, a major player in the cloud computing field, but not consider the market leader. the pentagon didn't comment on amazon's claims that trump ever played a role in the selectio

she is present affect the justice and defense ministers. a nighttime curfew has been extended and gatherings have been limited on sunday. he dismissed the prime minister and put a freeze on parliament. he was actually se entity blinkin as urge that you needs him present to respect democracy in a phone call. he said to maintain dialogue with all sides id. joe kind of start has more from washington d.

we have been at the department of foreign affairs, the defense senior serve, the country, the foreign minister of the country. re treating that arbitration award. what final and binding by intern per international law, and no matter what anyone says including china. the fact is that this is already a part of the fabric of international law and in furnace to deter it this deputies all the time. and again, they try to actually solidify the philippines position on the ground, not much gains on the scar bar. so because of president a 3rd, this downplaying of the, for the legal victory, including over who should have access to precious resources in the scar marshall. but the philippines, in fairness, over the past few years, thanks to the efforts of defense minister started in zinah. in the philippine minutes, i was able to fortify its position on the ground in other dispute the areas including the island and destroy bradley. so the picture is quite mix, it's not an unmitigated disaster. but of course, the big question was, how could the philippines have done better in leveraging this lega

depending how you describe defense spending that encompasses all natural defense programs and then the defense department shared 715 billion of biden's request in the subcommittee have a smaller share because they'll have military construction so those are the dollar amounts we are talking about. one.6 percent increase over the current level. or it would be if enacted. versus on the left a 10 percent decrease they had a vote on that last year which did not go well for the liberals and to the read write people like senator inhofe who chairs the committee would like to see at least a 3 percent annual increase or three or 5 percent of what he is advocating so biden hasn't gone the way the liberals want the not quite as high as inhofe once but it would definitely be a dispute still have to figure out the total amount of discretionary spending and all the subcommittee allocations in the senate so it will be a big dispute they are that i should point out that the amount of spidey spending biden is proposing for defense is the largest amount since world war ii of inflation adjusted terms exce

missile defense is one. shipbuilding to a larger extent, every year something that they push parred. but it's amazing how bipartisan the consensus is at least on the defense panels as to where the increases should go and, in fact, where the decreases should come to pay for them. the members of the appropriations and armed services committee tend to hardware, bending metal, you see, those are the programs that have established constituencies that have people who have, you know, high-paying jobs, performing this work and so, you know, that's where you have a lot of political support and you see that in the house appropriation defense bill that we have just gotten in the last few days where they would increase biden's procurement request and make a similar decrease in research and development accounts. so overall, there's a lot of consensus of where they spend the money and i can give you a few examples if you'den like. things like medical research, every single year they add about a billion dollars for medical

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the ministry of defense. and later on, the minister of foreign affairs in earlier indeed is a sense in your heart that gives the soviets. so they took a shadow of provision. if i find that to see the continuation of suffering of our people to see the counties which we help to achieve. peace like tajikistan upon the sun was instrumental. and in achieving that settlement between, between 2 sides in touch and to see them develop, developed and to see the opportunities which are that for the people of afghanistan and for the region. and we cannot utilize it because of the continuation of the what it is. this appointed one, the more as one missed, one more mr. port unity. but it takes what sites it cannot happen with the goodwill in intention of one site. that's what i was going to come towards because it takes 2 parties to reach. so you say that you have presented the options military, the military solution is not viable, it would not be in peace. but the situation on the ground is that the taliban are making adv

it's had such a great impact on the missile-defense policy and missile-defense technology. to respond to the proliferation of the missile threat i want to say for a moment what's happened in israel has helped greatly the width of the debate on capitol hill. we used to deal with the issues of the arguments of missile-defense of work and its provocative. was israel hasas shown by the deployment of the iron dome is itom isn't. it is a defensive system and it iss the escalatory as they've used the iron dome and it's given them time and space to be able to measure the response as opposed to if they didn't have the technology what they wouldat have to do at the moment was facing people and it is cost-effective because the amount of damage and loss of life that is prevented and it works unbelievably. you say that you are going to leave both your populations and infrastructure and critical capabilities. about the d escalatory nature and how it paints a picture on the receiving end of aggression. the ability to be restrained in that way brings us to another point, the biden administ

but the philippines, in fairness, over the past few years, think that the efforts of defense minister started in donna and to feel been military, was able to fortify its position on the ground in other dispute, the areas including the theatre island and the strategy. so the picture is quite mixed. it's not an unmitigated disaster. but of course, the big question was, how could the philippines have done better in leveraging this legal victory to get more concessions on the ground including getting access for the fisherman there in the scar or so which is just over. busy 100 not to go away for the philippine coastline. correct. what could the philippines have done better? well, many things, right. i mean, they expect ation was if we had a different president or so on, closer in terms of india, logical outlook and strategic outlook to the previous president are the lead president bidding god, you know, the philippines had many options. one option was to take this issue, this legal victory out of the unit you in general assembly, take it to the parliament to get to all the different for,

the defense and justice minister to dismissing the prime minister pro and anti government demonstrators of clashed outside of parliament and security forces storm. i'll just there is bureau in tunis, ordering all staff out of the building. ah hello rahman, you're watching. i was there like my headquarters here, endo hall, coming up in the next 30 minutes, lebanon's and g, but mccarthy's kills the majority to become prime minister, designate, offering hope to a country struggling and economic crisis. also, the human cost of the us can conflict. the you and says a record number of women and children are dying in the fighting. they tell the students who are trying to learn knowledge. they told them i welcome to the program to 0 is facing its biggest political crisis since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy on sunday night president chi saeed froze parliament and ousted the prime minister with the help of the army. here were the latest developments on monday, the president announced that he'd sank the defense and justice ministers, a name replacements that are being clashes betwe

the move was on june, a visit to manila by us defense secretary lloyd austin. he's trying to both the ties between the 2 nations, a chance stagnated. during the presidency of rodrigo, $230.00 jimmy. the allen dog has more from manila, this agreement, this restoration would actually mean that all of the activities that have been scaled down to the president, the legal office, since he decided to pay, but the china will be restored. more importantly, these are, you know, u. s. s participation in the modernization of the philippine military, 300 bilateral exercises boosting of counterterrorism. operations in the southern region of mid the now and more importantly, maritime corporations in the south trying to see involving the philippines specifically because it holds the biggest number of territory in the south china sea. now, being threatened by china's expansion in many islands and reefs in bas bradley's, group of islands, the u. s. congress. as pastor bill boosting the number of visas for local allies who worked alongside american forces in afghanistan. it's fe

are found that a former residential school and donald rumsfeld dies aged 88 me controversial to time defense, secretary orchestrated the us invasion of iraq and afghanistan. ah, hello, thanks for joining us. china ruling communist party has been celebrating the 100000 diversity of its founding, addressing crowds and gentlemen square and beijing president change him paying hail . china's irreversible course away from colonial humiliation. the, the era of china being bullied and abused by other nations have gone forever. she warned. any foreign forces that dare to oppress china will be on a collision course against the great wall of steel. forged by 1400000000 people. the president praise the party for raising income down, restoring national pride to global 10 by the communist party in chinese. people have showed the world the chinese people have stood up the time in which the chinese nation can be bullied and abused is gone forever. the party showed the world that chinese people not only capable of dismantling the old world but can build a new one. only socialism can save china and socialism

she previously of course was the undersecretary of defense for policy. likewise, if you follow you know congressman from massachusettsts sixth district a former marine who served for four combat tours and sits on the house armed services committee and is very active on the defense matters. and finally, we have the privilege of being joined by the director of the strategic capabilities office, an agency that reports to the deputy secretary defense. a technical background with an advanced degree in engineering and previously held leadership positions in the aeronautics directorate. the title of our event today is called transforming defense for a competitive era so that is what i hope to talk about, to just dive right in and talk about what the defense challenges are, competition, the nature of the current competition and the defense transformation and i can't wait to dive right in with our panelists here and i'd like to start with you. you recently wrote a piece in the june issue of the foreign affairs and for those in the audience that haven't read it i

the move was announced during a visit to manila by us defense secretary lloyd austin. he's trying to bolster ties between the 2 nations which are stagnated during the presidency over trigo deter t. jimmy le alan doug has more. for manila, it's important to look back at why this was unilaterally abrogated by.

he made history as both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. and he did the bidding of 4 republican presidents in 1983 president ronald reagan sent rumsfeld to baghdad to try to broker closer ties with saddam hussein. but 2 decades later, it was defense secretary rumsfeld, who argued saddam had to go in rejecting the president's ultimatum. the iraqi regime has chosen war over peaceful design. and a us led war was the way to make that happen. he and other bush administration officials accused a rock of helping to plan the september 11th attacks, which it did not rumsfeld, also accused rock as possessing weapons of mass destruction, which it did not. he was wrong, but rumsfeld refused to say so. we believe the intelligence was correct, it turns out that it was not completely correct. at 1st rumsfeld embraced the neo conservative idiology of exporting us style democracy a nation building. but it is 2013 memoir rumsfeld changed his tune. i did not think resolving other countries, internal political disputes, paving roads erecting power lines, polic

taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's defense minister by the me said the forces were obliged to defend that country from irregular groups added the human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated. the. ready news at ty, phone, his 8th in china, flooding homes, businesses installing one of the busiest transport ah, hello, i am emily anguish. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. busy weather is also disrupting the taco lympics, where the top athletes are already feeling desperate for how we may migrants from me and my who flayed the military crack down. but now facing corona virus, han ship and growing grave phone, a remote to see big island, the battles to contain that club at 19 ah. a typhoon has he had heavily populated areas in east, in china, with thousands of people already displaced from severe flooding. infer made landfall in the coastal province of g g young, and it's already having an impact on the commercial hub of shanghai. sarah k rugs has this report. it's been a difficult week for people in ma

now the vehicle was attacked on saturday in the olive bob area, and the defense ministry says turkish forces immediately fired back turkey. last a cross border operation in 2016 to drive at iso and curtis y. p g fighters. not turkey continues to maintain a heavy military presence in northwest syria. let's get more on this with russell said the in stumble. russell, just bring us up to speed on what we know about these deaths of the 2 military personnel and the exact circumstances of the attack. well, say linda did the tag just replaced yesterday during the evening time. and the minister of defense is the 2 soldiers being killed and to seriously injure their bodies had been taken into the hospitals in turkey. today, as you just said, in the city of john type a military ceremony to place later to be their buddies are green to be taken to the cities of order. and thompson, which are a black sea region, cities to the and the unit of for the soldiers will take place index. it is later today that area that that tax to place above region has been completed by turkish army in 2016 during its 1

they're linked to a $2000000000.00 deal with a french defense. when he was deputy president on july, the 7 zuba handed himself into police to serve a 15 month prison sentence on a separate case. his arrest spark days of violence and looting. bennett says has more front side the court in piece of merits book. this case goes back to 1999. when jacob zoom was deputy president, an indication of how long the former president's trials and tribulations have dominated the political scene. here in south africa, it concerns allegations of fraud over the sale and purchase, a fighter jets of military hardware from 5 european companies. the one in this case is policy jacob zoom. it denies any rolling corruption, sodas, toddlers. now the trial only got going in may after many, many, germans over the years. and then a couple of weeks ago, zoom was jailed for refusing to give evidence to a government corruption. inquiry that sparked the violence that swept these countries to most popular populace provinces in the last week. and there were concerns that with the

the defense ministry says, forces immediately find the us deputy secretary of state, wendy sherman is heading to china. she'll be the highest ranking by the ministration official to visit the country. on the eve of her visit, china's foreign minister had this warning for washington to j. u. s. has been using its strength to put pressure on other countries. i'm thinking it's superior to others. we need to tell the us, clearly there's no country in the world, but it's superior to others, and there shouldn't be one. china will never accept any country that claims to be superior to others. if the u. s. has not learned to treat other countries equally. china and the international community have the responsibility help us learn this lesson properly. graham on web is a research fellow at the institute for defense and strategic studies at 9 young technological university in singapore. he says there are areas where washington and beijing could improve ties. miss sherman is up for an uphill battle coming into check engine to day to, to meet her chinese culture partner to try and set the tone of

i think they do because they're playing very defensive strategy because instead of the us which is always on the offensive and trying to either loving sanctions or levy, terrorists or other things like that, china is very defensive. and the way it does that is it wants to, it wants all the tech companies to actually be prioritized 1st in china, everything they want to be made, manufactured in china and for tech. it's the same thing. they want the i p to be dependent, and for the i p to actually stay and be maintained in china. so as such, every single strategy that they're going to be is going to be looking and worth trying to strengthen its defense. rather than going out offensively, now, christie, when it comes to this crackdown, we saw the chinese ride helen company dd so sword 40 percent in pre market training on thursday over report, claiming it may go private to appease beijing. now didi has since denied the claims . but is this a real fear and how would it have an impact on tech companies going public here in the us? yeah, the market got really excited when there was speculation. i

and they also said that they were self defense. so we have to understand really what is happening. how can we, italy, is it, is a cause of where it's very difficult to, again, 475 and you have to pass a lot of the questions from, from the police. but of course is different to home again and to use a guess if that's the case of the b team out for believe in the get some problem with the police. and for believe the team had some problem also with the justice. and i think that so we need, don't want to defend him, is for edition, because he should probably didn't want to, to fix dining, especially in mother. the thing is that legal, he's a political party that the start and in favor of the defend your has to be proportional to the office you to see. if i for you, you can shoot me back, but it has to be a real, an actual credit for you or other people due to my actions. anybody you can own and use a gun. but the gun in your pocket doesn't make you more safe for a person and public safety. you need police to perform a thing. you need an efficient system, the objective, and you need the

more defense cooperation, and has maritime secured security training. and although lastly, the read it, this actually comes as a surprise to many majority of the people who are here in the philippines filipinos to fight the defense establishment has always been pro america in terms of their leaning and of always race concerns behind closed doors about the abrogation of the visiting forces agreement, which is critical as many believe in deterring the expansion of china in reclamation, in areas in the chinese, the particularly in the spread this group of islands, which the philippines have control of several areas. thank you so much for that. update from an along bringing some breaking news out of hong kong and we're hearing the 1st person to be tried under hong kong. national security law has now been sentenced to a total of 9 years in prison. tony on kit was convicted on tuesday on charges of inciting secession and terrorism. he was arrested last year for writing a motor by into a group of police officers, as you can see in that video right there. while

taken from their homes and executed under pressure, venezuela's, defense minister by the me to the armed forces were obliged to defend that country from irregular groups that added the human rights needed to be respected. and that the events at the border would be investigated. the news the soon as he is president, thanks the defense and justice ministers to dismissing the prime minister pro and anti government demonstrators of clashed outside parliament and security forces storm out. is there a bureau in tunis or real stuff out of the building? ah, how many watching i was they were like my headquarters here in the hall also coming up levels that not, gee, but mac countries, the kills of majority to become prime minister designate, offering hope to a country struggling and economic crisis. also the human cost of the african conflict, the un says a record number of women and children are dying and fighting. ah, welcome to the program to 0 is facing its biggest political crisis since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy on sunday night president chi saeed froze parliament. and as

this is not a defense mechanism. it's more for it's more formal offense perspective, but we understand how to understand that lifetimes with the union buckets on are really, really tiny, tiny, even cross let alone, let alone for a horror, hypertonic miss. and so there's always going to be on edge in this regard, the more they get to militarized metals in cash we have not told mentioned, i mean the recession off autonomy of kashmir was the most significant position of autonomy. so all of that and the loss of which it also was on me and that creative so situ situation in the balkans. and while that's not going to necessarily be how it felt in south asia, it is something of that magnitude between us. keep in mind and be funny. i mean, the real destabilizing factor is perhaps maybe that, yes, both of them have very awful often for systems, but even developing its own ballistic missile defenses. so it's going though, often defense equilibrium itself is being thrown off king, you know, where, and that is adding more strate

and they all claim that this is just defense. there's been just show misleading. as the aerial bombardment continued in the past few days, what do you think went through joe biden's mind, appearing not to call explicitly for a sci fi and appearing to block the un security council resolution back way old members of the un security council proposed by the rotating president, china has the mind, the bench back to the 3 ramp and to the usual problem that we heard from american administration as ministration. cedric, i live as an all day like between us and this is trying to read and security is sacrosanct. so this is the old language now, and they, us, that is a new language. and i think this mainstream, older generation that attracts or you know, doesn't have understood that to and then public opinion that is a change. and we can talk about that great direction if you want the feeble realty to stand up to and to call things by the name comparison is my thing of being a bit nice to him because of course he announced the selling of more weapons and bunker buster weapon

s. response under a neutral defense treaty repeated warning comes of hundreds of activists in manila rallied on the 5th anniversary. the ruling against china's claims the territory in the south china sea. thousands of people have gathered in both their hurts the governor to commemorate the 995 shrub. it's a massacre and buried $900.00 newly identified victims of genocide. more than $8000.00 mostly muslim men and boys were killed around shaneesa during the buck and walk. a former police officer turns notorious gang leaders asking his supporters to join protests in haiti, missionaries years accusing opposition. party of plotting 7 or more of murder review at defense delegation to have a system investigation into the destination. if you have beaten england to win football european championship for the 1st time since 968, the final london finish and 11 more time, it was italy who held in to try him in the penalty shootout and billionaire richard branson has flown to the edge of space, so filling a lifelong dream and taking a great leap towards making space tourism a reality relief virgin

so heads on al jazeera, the us secretary of defense, was on his 2nd trip to all things described as his priority region. why he's raleigh or no asian partners for rescuers scar, devastated parts of western india for survivors after heavy rain caused deadly flooding. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored my cattle airways, in fact, has not finished his potential damage yet. he's no longer a ty, food, nor really a tropical storm. i put it on here just to show you where it is. and the smaller one, the 5 pack is almost still naming as a tropical storm. it's winds about $85.00. can miss brown again? it is cause it's increase in wind and rain in tokyo, but most of the damage potential is further north as well in hom shape. so china, 1st i think is where we'll see the worst of it. so though in far so my stop being identified as the storm, the rain which you see is this orange band, is a long way north and east, and it's falling to some degree overland this already on there already started. so they'll be more off the same for the south, it's dry picture. things are slowly improv

the move for the 9th, during the visit to manila, buying us defense secretary lloyd austin. yes, president joe 5 has a nice list of incenses and restrictions to try to get more americans vaccinated against corporate. 19 federal employees who want to not kill agents, will need to masks regular tests. and other 27 coven infections have been confirmed until cues. and then pick the village and the highest daily number since officials began. and i, and cases among people specifically linked to the game, to athletes are among those and fax it the u. s. congress has passed a bill, increasing the number of visas for african allies in face taliban retaliation. its allies, an additional $8000.00 visas and $500000000.00 for emergency transportation and hi isn't a $2000000000.00 emergency funding bill was passed unanimously by the senate. it also includes legislation loosening some visa requirements for african allies. well, the 1st group of afghans who helps international forces archie arrive in the united states, but thousands of others still haven't been approved to leave under a wai

says he's fallen trinity is constitution, but he's being accused of a qu, said has also removed the defense minister and the acting justice minister. odyssey it is bureau, and tunis has been rated by security forces, and his journalists have been borrowed from the officers, the speaker of the parliament, as well as the deputy speaker and other leaders attempted to hold a meeting, but the army has stopped them getting into the parliament building, i said, stepped in after a day of violent protests, overton, easy as economic crisis, and the handling of corona virus. laura burton, money reports the to new jersey as parliament is suspended for a month. demonstrators, rival camps from different sides of the political divide have been protesting outside the mangas spilling over into violence. once again, the country is in turmoil. on sunday, people took the streets and several cities in mass, and the government protest less than 24 hours later, president case said, made a bold decision. he froze parliament and ousted prime minister, which i'm a teaching adoption. i find it surprising how some peo

we continue to provide contract maintenance and logistics support here in cobble to maintain afghan defense capabilities, including our ation capabilities. what does all this mean for the taliban? all the us say about that, which i know mackenzie is seemingly with sending a message to the taliban in his press conference on sunday saying that the victory for the taliban, he said, was quote, not inevitable. he said that in the coming days and weeks it would become clear whether the ask and military would be able to hold its defense against the taliban . but he said that would be a difficult road. and he also voice to support saying that there would still the possibility of a political solution, even as peace talks between the 2 sides have thus far failed to reach an agreement . thank you very much for washington. heidi joe castro will be following a huge wildfire raging in northern california, which is destroyed multiple homes, often lodging with a smaller place. the dixie fire is one of more than 80 now bonding across the west in the united states and already destroyed a number of other home

sheet previously, of course was the secretary defensive policy. likewise, if you follow national security on the hill, you know congressman seth moulton. representative from massachusetts sixth district. he is a former marine. he now sits on the house armed services committee among other committees and is very active on defense matters. finally, we have the privilege of being joined, -- joined by the director of the strategic capabilities office. they report to the deputy secretary of defense. they have eight technical background. the previous he helped readership position at nasa and the aeronautics development. the topic is called transform and defense for a competitive era. that is what i hope to talk about. we will dive right in and talk about what our defense challenges are. each of our current competition. i cannot wait to dive right in with our panelist here. michelle, i would like to start with you. you wrote a piece in the june issue of foreign affairs as those -- if those in our audience who have not read it, i cannot recommend it highly

i'm curious to get your thoughts on how much americas cyber defense is, whether it, whether it comes to, you know, private enterprises or whether it comes to government institutions actually need to be beef up beefed up right now and how vulnerable as the country from cyber attack it feels like i've been beating this job for at least 20 years, and most people in the security industry feel the same way. it's we keep telling you what to do and you don't do it. and i think it's just because that, you know, of business managing somebody else's id is just not aware of, of all the dangers to them. and can say in, in the united states have a piece of software that was completely vulnerable in several researchers had pointed that out over the years, including a group in the netherlands. and those on abilities were used in a very targeted and campaign that occurred. of course, friday of a 3 day holiday in the united states. so people won't be able to react quickly enough to it. so i think that's the, yes, everyone's vulnerable, of course, is not the united states of brown's as united states i

they serve no defensive purpose just by being in a department that was renamed defense in 1947. they are force attacks on the other country. the reason that canada made by $88.00 of these monsters, despite massive protests around canada, is because it does the bidding of the us government, which does the bidding of lockheed martin where the united states to spend less each year each year on its military rather than more even the tiniest bit you would see a reversed arms race around the world. when the united states bends more than just about every other country, including all its allies and weapons, customers put together and then exclaims, we must defend ourselves from the chinese or increasing their military spending. well, when the united states decreases its military spending, so has, and so will china? well, and i understand that you actually think that the u. s. backed off that other countries like china, turkey, russia, per se, the middle east, that they would actually reduce their numbers as well. the united states could radically reduce military spending and military we

and i'm working with the secretary of defense and working with the congress as well to normalize that process about you even if we do that, we still have a problem because we'd like to label things, and then even our closest allies can't get onto our basic secret system because of the no foreign stuff that's on the system. about if you actually build a cloud and tag your data correctly, all it turns into for you, as a young soldier, with your credentials and your biometrics, you can hook in and everything you're allowed to access, you can access in the cloud. you'll be-- that will be done by who you are. so that applies to allies and partners, too, and that kind of construct which we've written t capabilities because they can bring whatever they need into the fight without having a difficult time, large, small, it doesn't matter. whatever you bring we can figure out how to put that in the fight. friends are our biggest advantage, but not being able to take full advantage of friends is just criminal and that was an overstatement. wrong is a better statement. >> how general hyten. this

a lot of women also taking self defense into their own hands. we've seen those illustrations, in your opinion, what can be done to push back against the erosion of women's rights. what should be done right now? i think what should be done in turkey and around the world that we should all install the data. we the women in turkey who are protesting against turkeys. we throw from the symbol convention. and we do need to talk the movement of widespread backlash against the stumble conventions that not only originated in turkey, but in other parts of the world, other countries of the council of europe. but there are bar, right, conservative groups and foresee who are interested, but not impunity for violence against women. and we should counter these narrative and meeks and stereotypes around the symbol convention, which are not true. thank you so much for joining us. tom, on the kind of id say from equality now we appreciate it. thank you. thanks a lot. here's a look at some other stories making news. german president frank felt the shine myers in i

south africa defense, forcible deploy soldiers to quell unrest. over the jailing of former president jacob's police, if it's fixed people have died in the violence routing and protest broke out in the provinces of quad to the natal. and while tang last week, that's when zoom up began serving a 15 month sentence for contempt of court. mandatory evacuations have been ordered in northern california as firefighters struggle to contain a massive blaze. the so called bet worth complex fire, doubles in size over the weekend and is now the largest in california. it is thought to have been caused by lightning more than 60000 acres hub burnt shells. the people in georgia have rallied in front of parliament, demanding the resignation of the prime minister. they are angry, over the death of the tv camera. men who was badly beaten by a mob of anti l. g b t q protesters. a man was later found dead in his home. but it's not yet clear how he died. francis trying to ramp up a slumping vaccination campaign as the highly contagious still to variant of the corona vir

all but 3 of the countries $34.00 provinces will be subject to new restrictions. us defense secretary lloyd austin says he believes the uk on government's plans to consolidate security for the major cities could help qual the taliban search. and i think the 1st thing to do is to make sure that they can slow the momentum and then, and then be able to put themselves in a position where they can re take some of the games that the taliban, that some of the ground that they've lost so i think, i think from my engagement with the afghan leadership, they are committed to that and. and so we look forward to, to them making progress, they have, they have the capabilities, i have a capacity to to make progress and to and to really began to blunt some of the taliban advances are diplomatic, added to james bathing cobble where he says the taliban has been gaining momentum. it seems more bad news for the african government. no wry district in tune or province in the east of africa. the stone appears to have fallen to the taliban. no official confirmation from the government side or the taliban. bu

former defense secretary. and the director of strategic command at the defense department. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you all for being here. i am in adjunct fellow from the hudson institute. i am joined today by a distinguished panel and let me start introducing them. she doesn't really need an introduction but nevertheless, i will offer one up. she is the co-founder of west exec founders. sheet previously, of course was the secretary defensive policy. likewise, if you follow national security on the hill, you know congressman seth moulton. representative from massachusetts sixth district. he is a former marine. he now sits on the house armed services committee among other committees and is very active on defense matters. finally, we have the privilege of being joined, -- joined by the director of the strategic capabilities office. they report to the deputy secretary of defense. they have eight technical background. the previous he helped readership position at nasa and the aeronautics development. the topic is called transform and defense for a competitive era. th

well, mary, i'm the touch minister of defense. i just confirmed to turkish soldiers had been killed and to seriously wounded. the also, the minister says that immediately after the attack they brought the y p g p, k, k c and also y p g under attacks. and that target have been successfully. she had so far, so there are several of the turkish military post crows scattered across east and north on april. and from many of these various positions, the turkish army has retaliated white peasy, possess steel. the that text continues. seems that there's, there's also going to continue to denied. and so turkey has cleared these areas in 2016 from isis, which was the 1st major turkish military incursion into syria. and since then, several times, turkish military posts had been targeted by d. k. c. it offered y p g. so these region, the region that to the y p g a test from is also on the call to last russia and the city and government. so in that sense, we can see that way p g in this position has protected by the feet in government and russi