u.s., obviously, followed by the independence of haiti in 1804. in the 1810s and 1820's, brazil and the entire spanish-american mainland, broke away from spain and portugal. so, everything from mexico and colombia, to chile and peru, all becoming independent, which means this half-century from 1775-1825 really was a broader age of american revolutions. it is a staggering geopolitical transformation that takes place in a relatively small swath of time. my research focuses on the second half of that 50 year window, and how the independence wars in latin america shaped the united states. i'm going to do three main things and my talk today. first i will say more about the, why. white people in the early u.s. were so excited about latin american independent. second, i'm going to talk about what this popular enthusiasm tells us about early u.s. understandings of race, and revolution, and republicanism. finally, i will talk about why this popular enthusiasm for latin american independence, starte

the u.s. and china begin their first face-to-face talks of the biden presidency. inflation gripped the markets. treasury yields touched some of the highest levels in more than a year. some european countries rolling out the astrazeneca vaccine. shery: here's a quick check of the markets. on wall street, we saw the tug-of-war between growth and value continue with u.s. stocks falling from record highs. the nasdaq 100 erased all of its gain for the year. stay-at-home winners all turning lower. financials the only sector in the green on the s&p 500 with 10 year yield treasury yields climbing above 170 for the first time in over a year. we had wti seeing its worst day since september. five days of losses taking it to its longest stretches of daily losses in more than a year. we had vaccination effort stalling and a stronger dollar. let's see how we are setting up across asia. sophie: this friday, kiwi stocks may be an outlier because futures elsewhere are signaling losses after we saw the declines

russia recalls its ambassador to the u.s. after president biden said vladimir putin would pay the price for election meddling while at the same time branding the russian head of state a killer. the e.u. considers a controversial digital covert pass to open up travel between member states. and u.k. hospitals warned they may have to take their scalpels to their own services unless they get billions of pounds and support. from you all the most important news from around the world this is r t international i'm donald quarter and welcome to the program. russia has recalled its ambassador to the u.s. to get the lowdown on the state of diplomatic ties with washington and it comes in response to a t.v. interview where prime president biden agreed when questioned that vladimir putin is a quote killer the russian foreign ministry had this to say for us the main thing is to determine ways of improving russian u.s. ties which in a difficult state washington has in fact brought those to the data and in recent years we are interested in pr

when the u.s. was engaging with china economically, the assumption was there was a lot of economic benefit from trading with them, which has been true. in the beginning, when china first joined the wg outcome of the assumption was china was not going to impose serious concerns on the u.s., which also kind of has been true. but, the problem started before former president trump came to office. during the second term of obama, the u.s. has become more aware of security concerns over the south china sea. what we have seen, including the first two months of biden is the continuation of escalation in those areas. host: we'd like to open up phone lines to hear from our listeners. if you are a democrat, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents and others, (202) 748-8002. you can pose a question by text, (202) 748-8003. before we get to calls and comments, let's listen to what antony blinken, secretary of state had to say at that alaska meeting on how the u.s. plans to engage china. [video

last year u.s. imports from russia average 538000 barrels a day in 2020 even topping the 522000 average from saudi arabia but you would never know it from watching the latest talks so joining us now to this vastly boom bust co-host fence on and christiane i christine let's start with you this reporting seems to go against the public posturing of the u.s. which has worked hard to campaign against the north stream to pipelines that would deliver natural gas from russia to europe correct. yeah the findings of the support shows that america's increasing reliance is totally at odds with their public energy diplomacy because for the last 2 years washington has been lobbying european countries to abandon or string to fearing that it would essentially do russia further leverage over u.s. allies in the e.u. the north stream too would essentially double the capacity of the existing line in germany under the baltic sea to about 110000000000 cubic meters of gas per year and it would serve about u.s. ally ukrain

u.s. president joe biden is facing a may 1st deadline to withdraw all american troops from afghanistan has agreed by donald trump's administration the white house is now scrambling to have a peace agreement in place between the afghan government and taliban before it fully withdraws its troops concerns have been mounting that without one of ghana's down could plunge into another civil war. if there will be no peace we are obligated to have america here until there is security. the violence is increasing multiple bombings and assassinations the target civilians especially in kabul have become a daily occurrence but it's not only the war that makes the future here look bleak the uncertainty over afghanistan's future is exacerbated by your money tarrier prices all afghans are struggling to survive and poverty is on the rise but a business same time before an $800.00 trees were lied on for 20 years is also being reduced analysts some politicians have expressed fears the afghan government could

the u.s. government is still committed to the nuclear station a pretty robust form of it at that world opinion i think broadly is on the side of that to the south korean president went to europe for years on trying to get the europeans or budge on sanctions they didn't the japanese won't budge on either even the chinese have voted for the sanctions u.n. security council even if they don't really force them as well they might you know maybe the north koreans conserve like i don't know signal what they're going to want a little bit or something like that but i think i think just too many countries in the world too many people in the world a too scared of north korea having an unchecked nuclear program and so i think sanctions are going to be used to sort of a check to get the north koreans to behave better nuclear weapons all right we've run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation and thanks so much to our guests young robert kelly and todrick route. and thank you too for watc

senior u.s. officials, including the secretary of state, have reaffirmed washington's commitment to its alliance with japan, while also blasting china for using what it calls coercion and aggression. let's cross to our chief asia correspondent in hong kong. it does seem like antony blinken is setting the tone for the meeting in alaska. >> a pretty combative tone. on one hand, antony blinken and lloyd austin, the defense secretary in tokyo, and seoul today, creating a unified front in the face of what they are saying, increased coercion and aggression from china on numerous fronts. they have been mentioning in hong kong, shane john, taiwan, even australia. they say kurt campbell came out a day or so ago, the national security council asia coordinator saying the u.s.-china relationship will not improve until china stops its economic coercion of australia. the ministry of foreign affairs in beijing has shot back, saying australia's wrong words and deeds are responsible for the deteriorating relation

a u.s. judge rejected an attempt to postpone the murder trial for police officer charged with the death of george floyd. last week, minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to his family. lawyers for derek chauvin argued the highly publicized settlement jeopardized his chance of a fair trial. it has been a difficult year for most, but a report on the happiest countries suggest the pandemic hasn't crushed people's spirits. finland has topped the list for the fourth year in a row, followed by eight other european countries and new zealand. the report ranks 149 nations. we will have more news at the top of the hour right here on al jazeera. for now, it is inside story. ♪ >> the united states and china attempt to mend ties, but talks get off to a fiery start. each accusing the other of grandstanding and hypocrisy. what can the meeting in alaska achieve? how will it affect the friends and foes of the superpowers? this is "inside story." >> hello and welcome to the program. alaska is often known as

the u.s. should treat china in an objective and rational manner and stop interfering in its internal affairs. now its costs live now to benjamin chow professor at paris school of business thank you very much for joining us on the program benjamin now let's just start with this concept of vaccine diplomacy washington's basically accusing china of using its vaccine as a political tool what do you what do you make of the vaccine diplomacy even exist. well i think china's ability to supply the scenes to others look like a subtle grade to the u.s. and. the u.s. accusations through the big question given that a lot of this ls in countries including the united states came to power by wars and exploitation more than china has largely been a peace love and is rising to policies on economic you've come up with what at the motivation of helping other countries to fact yes hundreds of millions of people are going to be saved by chinese but since but not by from voice well the out ahead even the of motivat

among them the u.s. senate majority leader chuck schumer who reiterated today in washington that he believes that it is time for andrew cuomo to step down. wolf? >> all right, ryan, thank you very much. ryan nobles in albany for us. joining us debra katz, the attorney for charlotte bennett, one of the women accusing governor cuomo of harassment. thank you so much for joining us. you said that your client charlotte bennett met with investigators for more than four hoursier, so describe the nature of the questions they asked. were they in line with what we heard from charlotte ben net her tv interview, or were investigators pushing for more specific details? >> the investigators are very skilled. they know what to do here. they took their time to ask very detailed questions. they understood the evidence, and they were very sensitive to the issues, but they are -- they are very experienced and know just what they are looking at. >> i was going to say did they get new information, more than show tell everyon

the u.s. government spending, plus all the spending that is done by american companies, american tech firms, american construction firms, state governments. that is how he measures that. of course, what we will judge him on is not only a -- only whether the u.s. is ahead of china when he leaves office any fears, but whether china has made any substantial gains on us in terms of wealth and military might. haidi: president biden also saying that in order to pursue this intention he wants to invite this alliance of democracies to the white house. is this the same kind of strategy of blinken and jake sullivan visiting seoul before their china meeting? >> president biden has shown he is much more interested in multilateral action than regards . the u.s. issued sanctions earlier this week in response for alleged atrocities. in xinjian province. they were done with the eu and canada and the u.k.. this is a different approach than the u.s. took under donald trump. he is trying to put together a coalit

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and the u.s. secretary of state reasserted america's leadership role i have to tell you what i'm hearing is very different from what you describe. i'm hearing deep satisfaction that the united states is back there were reengage with our allies and partners i'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking but with the mutually agreed diplomatic protocol scrafton china's foreign affairs chief deflected criticism of its own human rights record by pointing back at the u.s. world. in regard to human rights to what we hope the u.s. can do a little better in this aspect i mean it was us as human rights issues are deeply rooted it didn't just exist during the past 10 years slaughter of african-americans has always been a problem. it's all. with a chilly start to the new normal for relations between china and the u.s. the rest of the world is watching closely to understand where they fit in in this new balance between global powers. let's bring in u.s. policy analyst and th

the u.s. is always of in for the people in the world people pay attention to what people here now does it is very good to bring the news to the world. the u.s. and china take aim at each other during high level talks in alaska with accusations of grandstanding and a cold war mentality. hello i'm rob matheson this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up european countries resume use of astra zeneca as covert 1000 vaccine after a vote of confidence from the e.u.'s drug watchdog. challenging times for the military is helping to reinforce a lockdown after a surge in covert 19 cases. and tanzania swears in its 1st female leader. takes power after the death of john i go fully. there is trying to talk to wrap up with a closing session in the coming hours after a fiery starts on thursday sitting across the table from each other in the u.s. state of alaska the 2 sides traded barbs in a point to display of how tense relations remain diplomatic editor james bays reports from anchorage. this is a mee

under the direct threat of u.s. sanctions austria's topsoil and got companies is standing by its word on the retreat pipeline and telling washington to stop threatening and print. the rest of the world series and place in the federal reserve ready to embrace it saying it's ok it's right now is on getting americans back to work we have a lot to get to solicit started. tesla is back in the spotlight as china moves to restrict the use of the company's electric cars by military and state employees but while you're on musk has been quick to deny allegations that tussles cars are used to spy for the u.s. government this conversation has raised the question of just how much data smart cars have the power to collect in the 1st place chinese officials are questioning how much is being documented by tussles cabin camera which is meant to record the driver in the moments leading up to a crash or what happens to all about location data saved by the vehicle and it's not just tesla any car with a build an internet connection has

u.s. vaccine trial. we are hearing from them that the phase three trial met the primary efficacy endpoint. 70% efficacy at preventing symptomatic -- i assume that means infections. i am not getting the full sentence, but astrazeneca is ebony percent vaccine i efficacy -- is evan t percent vaccine -- 70 percent vaccine efficacy. adding to the data set of astrazeneca. we have plenty of real-life trial data now, certainly in older populations when it comes to where the u.k. is vaccinating more than half of the population for the adults, many of those with the astrazeneca vaccine. this is a result of the u.s. trial, something seen as critical by u.s. regulators in terms of getting to a point where they could approve that vaccine. we will see what u.s. regulators make of that. let me just get to some other news coming through, and that is around deliveroo. the ipo consists of 384.6 million shares. they are also talking about the state of the business. delivery in january and february, gross tra

for more u.s. states have joined a lawsuit filed in texas against google that alleges the search giant broke laws to enhance its advertising business earlier this week texas attorney general ken paxton said alaska florida montana nevada and puerto rico joined the lawsuit bringing the total number of plaintiffs in the suit to 15 states and territories for more on this let's bring in sara staffordshire she's an associate attorney with levon papen tonio rafferty sarah thank you so much for joining us today. thank you for having me on i want to start with this lawsuit tech giants face so many of these suits lately what is this one actually specifically about. well states are finally pushing back against tech giants like facebook and google here we have google wrapped up in a scheme to monopolize our private information so what google is doing is pushing out 3rd party vendors and businesses that are used to track information that we use for advertising so in theory that sounds good it might sound like g

u.s. intelligence community report revealing critical new evidence of russia's attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election here in the united states. the intel community assessing that russian operations were aimed at denigrating joe biden's candidacy and that moscow hoped to help then-president donald trump win reelection, just as it tried to help him win the election in 2016. the report also details extensive efforts by iran to undermine confidence in the american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let's go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who's been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia's election interference? >> reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, i

u.s. president joe biden has appointed carla harris to manage the steady arrival of refugees and migrants at the southern border the vice president will lead u.s. efforts with mexico and central american countries to stem the flow of migration members of congress have been visiting facilities that have been reopened recently shared the reports from texas. president biden said no one was better qualified to take charge of the influx of unaccompanied migrant children than his vice president and he pointed out that this was the role 'd he took under president obama when he was vice president and one of the ways we learned is that. if you deal with the problems in the country and. come to harris laid out several areas of focus and i look forward to doing gauging independency with a government that kind of sex their civil society and the leaders in each in el salvador. and honduras and to strengthen democracy but the mere fact that once again a vice president is being tasked with this role is r

u.s. official still label the abuse of china's muslims as genocide, still condemn the crackdown in hong kong, still reject china's claims in the south china sea. huawei is still on the u.s. medications chopping block. biden met in the first quad meeting with heads of government from india, australia and japan, but not china. this week he sent his two top officials. the carrot and the stick to visit several countries in asia, but again, not china. there will be a meeting with chinese officials later in alaska, but the message is clear. biden is building a grand contain china coalition. how is china taking this all in? today we are talking to deborah, involved in the inception with china in the wto, one of the china's -- founders of china strategic economic dialogue. today she is a ceo here in washington, she is also executive director of the paulson institute. and randy who served in the trump administration for indo pacific security affairs, the cofounder and chairman of the project 2049 i

the u.s. response to chinese provocation on the eve of the presidential election in taiwan. as an alaskan commissioner of natural resources and energy, he traveled twice to china with the goal of seeking to cultivate their interest in alaska's energy and natural resources. but it did not end there. he also worked at the white house at the national security council during the george w. bush administration. i also had great privilege of working with them at the state department when he served as the assistant secretary of state for international, economic and business affairs. in those capacities, the economic, trade business, he also had a great deal of involvement with the u.s.-china relationship. so, i have to say again, we are so grateful, senator sullivan, that you could join us. today's discussion comes as u.s.-china relations remains tense. china is the foremost geopolitical competitor to the united states since the soviet union. it presents a challenge across the domain of trade, technol

more than 82 million u.s. residents have received at least one dose of vaccine -- about one in four people nationwide. the head of the world health organization is calling on vaccine makers to license their technologies to other manufacturers, calling growing vaccine inequity a moral outrage. who director-general tedros adhanom ghebreyesus called it shocking that some countries are racing to vaccinate their entire populations -- including healthy younger people at lower risk of covid-19 -- while healthca workers, older people, and others at high risk go unvaccinated in poorer nations. >> the gap between the number of vaccines administered in rich countries and the number of vaccines administered through covax is growing every single day. and becoming more grotesque every day. amy: saudi arabia has proposed a ceasefire to end its six-year war yemen, t houthiebels have rected the al saying the saudis must first fully lift its devastating blockade which has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis. shortly be

u.s. president joe biden is facing a may 1st deadline to withdraw all american troops from afghanistan has agreed by donald trump's administration the white house is now scrambling to have a peace agreement in place between the afghan government and taliban before it fully withdraws its troops concerns have been mounting that without one of ghana's down could plunge into another civil war. if there will be no peace we are obligated to have america until there is security the violence is increasing multiple bombings and assassinations the target civilians especially in kabul have become a daily occurrence but it's not only the war that makes the future here look bleak be uncertainty over afghanistan's future is exacerbated by crisis all afghans are struggling to survive and poverty. before and. where light on for 20 years is also being reduced analysts some politicians have expressed fears the afghan government could collapse without the financial support of the international community on t

the u.s. capitol. this photo that we showed on friday night's show is the badge of d.c. metropolitan police officer michael fanone who was injured in the capitol attack. his badge was recovered by the fbi after it was dug up out of a man's backyard in buffalo, new york. according to prosecutors, thomas sibick participated in the attack on the capitol and specifically participated in a trump supporter mob attack against officer fanone. in that attack, the officer was dragged into the mob, he was beaten severely, the mob tried to grab his pistol and screamed that they would kill him with his own gun. the police officer described hearing the mob shout that at him. there is corroborating evidence that has also been cited by prosecutors of that. the mob did not end up shooting the officer with his own gun but they did end up tasing him multiple times in the neck from close range. the officer was rendered unconscious, he suffered a heart attack, he was hospitalized. prosecutors say in the midst of t

appeal but on top of that u.s. diplomacy i'm yemen hasn't really shifted they're still the framework of of politically and diplomatically supporting the saudi war goals even if they're not directly participating militarily and it wasn't the goal simply to get the u.s. government to wash its hands the goal is to end the war you could hardly think though unless he does in the next number of days a better time for joe biden to actually make his point as regards the crying prince he accuse trump many times of not being tough enough on the saudis and 29 he said he's going to make the saudis into the pariah state that they are now you've got the u.s. intelligence coming out and saying that the crime prince what happened the killing christology without his implicit thumbs up so how is he any tougher is he a hypocrite in this case. well. sure i mean i guess i'm jaded enough the context of u.s. politics the charge of apocrypha the weak one see it all the time he's definitely behaving differently from what he promised not 10

data from the u.s. customs and border protection shows that there has been indeed a 28 per cent increase in immigrants arrested on the southern border including unaccompanied minors but it is important to stress that this is not a search that can be attributed exclusively to the by an administration and to his politics and the current increase in people being arrested on the border sits in a predictable pattern of seasonal changes in undocumented immigration the war it gets the more people there to make that dangerous journey to north america and it has always been like that also under the terms of ministration but now many of the immigrants have also heard the president biden spoke about having and planning to have a more humane immigration policy and that has of course also motivated them as well to make this journey let me show you what i mean we went to the south and border and we reported from both sides that means also from the mexican side and there we visited a shelter and that is fully packed o

the documents prepared by the u.s. intelligence community is another set of groundless accusations against our country of interfering in american internal political processes washington continues to practice megaphone diplomacy with the main goal to maintain a negative image of russia so again the question is what's next what the reaction from the quantum level is going to be we're definitely waiting for that and also we are looking at potential sanctions because from several sources in the white house it's been reported that they're saying that a new round of punishment against russia could be on the way the department of commerce is committed to prevent in russia from accessing sensitive u.s. technology that might be diverted to its mind chemical weapons activities by deploying illegal nor agence against dissidents both inside and outside its borders the russian government has acted in flagrant violation of his commitments under the chemical weapons convention and has directly put its own citizens and those of other

u.s.? guest: we do have a pro risk bias and that is a tilt toward more cyclical markets, whether that is europe, japan, and even u.s. small-cap where it has the twin benefit of u.s. fiscal stimulus as well as the reopening environment that we are going to be in. but why other markets, i think you are right, i think composition is a key ingredient. that cyclical gearing in europe and japan supports those markets. what i would say is this is not a view against the u.s. large-cap market. it is a view on the rest of the world improving as the global economy improves. i know you have been focusing on the downdraft. we have seen it in technology. we see cyclical reasons to catch up in these other markets. from a secular basis, we still see robust earnings in technology. it is not a theme today that we think will be driving that upside for markets. anna: thanks very much for your time this monday morning. thushka maharaj, jp morgan asset management global multi-asset strategist. coming up, we spea

not why the u.s. college we're still waiting for the u.s. trade representative to get confirmed trade is not at the top of the agenda and that is the administration is looking at their assessment of china policy we have not heard that trade is going to play a major role there is no discussion at the moment about the u.s. joining or rejoining as it may be. and it's really a shame and if we're going to wait to do all of this through that we're going to be waiting a long time because the i think all would agree needs a major reform so where do you how do you respond to that because part of playing a full deck if you will is the security dimension we seem to have siloed these off saying well we can play the security card in some levels but not play the economic or the trade one is that smart. it's a problem and i think the trumpet ministration one of my criticisms even though i served in it was coming out of the gates strong on the military were going to raise defense budgets and one of the 1st actions pulling out a t p p and even worse we did a

both the u.s. and europe, they have slapped new sanctions on the military, its leadership, as well as military-owned conglomerates. but the military junta has its friends including russia. russia's deputy defense minister was attending the military parade saturday. myanmar's military leader called russia "a true friend." >> are myanmar's armed ethnic factions getting involved here? we've seen a number of reports. how is this potentially changing the dynamic of this crackdown on the protest movement? >> up to now, as you know, the protests have been largely peaceful. but now what we're seeing is this new armed resistance rising with the participation of these armed ethnic groups. the military has responded and retaliated with air strikes. aid groups today reporting three people have died as a result. this presents a very challenging and deeply worrying new front in this ongoing crisis. the face of the protest movement is changing and now includes armed students and these armed ethnic factions. also

the u.s. is imposing sanctions on 2 children of men was military leader men online over violence against anti protesters washington has frozen their assets on blacklisted 6 companies they control sanctions have already been imposed online and other top military figures the u.n. says at least $67.00 people have been killed since the military seized power last month after days of wrangling the un security council's condemned the military crackdown diplomats have told our jazeera the key parts of the text including references to a coup were removed because of opposition from china russia india and vietnam the un chief says he hopes the military will now recognize it's time to step aside i hope that we days statement. will be any increasing conscious in the military in myanmar that it is absolutely essential to release all prisoners it is absolutely essential to respect the result of the elections and to a low for a situation in reach we move back to a democratic transition. imus international say

u.s. will send a combined four million doses of astrazeneca's covid vaccine to mexico and canada. the biden administration has stockpiled doses, pending the vaccine's approval here. last week, the white house said president biden was not ready to share the supply, but that changed today. >> our first priority remains ccinating the u.s. population, the reality is, but the reality is that border knows no, the the pandemic knows no borders and ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission critical step, is mission critical to ending the pandemic. >> woodruff: meanwhile, mexico announced travel curbs along its southern border, to contain covid. growing numbers of central american migrants have been heading north, toward the u.s. the european union's drug regulatory agency said today the astrazeneca vaccine does not pose a significant threat of blood clots. a number of european states had suspended use of the vaccine, pending the findings. the fight over wearing face masks sparked f

the u.s., which has a small stockpile of astrazeneca vaccines -- it's not offering to give any of its supplies away either. all in all, that accepted major e.u. countries being significantly behind on vaccinations compared to israel, the u.k., or the u.s., at a time when the coronavirus case rates are creeping up again, so it's a worry. shery: you mentioned the u.s. we heard from president biden saying he wants all american adults to be eligible for the vaccine by may 1. is a reluctance to take the vaccine going to be an issue though? >> it's very interesting. and you know, the vaccine -- the whole response to coronavirus in the u.s., as you know, has been highly politicized. on almost any measure you could look at, you know, is coronavirus real? should i take the vaccine? the difference between democrats and republicans is very stark. in some states, you know, whether it's wyoming or mississippi, sery heavily republican states, it can really have an impact on how quickly or whether you reach

the u.s. president says a move by him to states to ease coronavirus restrictions is a big mistake the governors of texas and mississippi are dropping nearly all measures from next week despite warnings from health officials my kind of has this report now from washington d.c. . businesses in texas preparing to reopen fully the governor's decision greeted with a mixture of joy and trepidation it was wonderful to hear you know money is going to let us open our 100 percent i'm a little bird. they mentioned the total taking off the total mask so i have a portion of my customers that long what we're doing over here and this message from houston's police chief making it clear that private businesses have a right to insist on a continual wearing off masks a right some say they will exercise we're still going to encourage our customers to wear a mask because i think it is probably safe for our staff are still going to wear masks were still in our sanitizer we're still going to practice the safest thing

officers the u.s. homeland security secretary and a contingent of senators toured a border patrol facility holding children friday media were barred from entering officials said due to covert concerns but we are safely processing the children who do come to our border we strongly urging the message is clear not to do so now under the trump administration thousands of migrant children who arrived at the u.s. border had been expelled to mexico without seeing an immigration judge president joe biden ended the practice calling it inhumane good night america but now immigration officials report more than 9000 unaccompanied children entering the u.s. in february and since then it's been an average of 500 more a day children presenting at our border who are fleeing violence or fleeing prosecution who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis. in an effort to expedite moving the miners to better conditions the biden administration has deployed fema the government agency that handles disasters to turn the

and the u.s. state bound for its use of the death penalty becomes the latest to abolish capital punishment. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways we've got more of that when few whether lurking around southeast in parts of europe are the sort of the black sea see these areas of cloud here more snow coming in across parts of turkey easing up towards southern areas of you cry through a remain erupt towards the northwest is a little more spring like we got some rather sharp showers rolling in tightening i suppose increasing wind as we go on through the next couple of days and cold air coming in behind that cold front that's our weather for the weekend it will sweep through in 20 increase the wet across into western parts of scotland northern areas of england as we go on through thursday back down towards the southeast there we go with us no other side of the black sea things quietly down but still there nevertheless and temperatures really struggling barely getting into d

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the u.s. and canada also approved penalties so much and will be used this to china you know we were only in unite the chinese people and the basic response i heard is that the are the shoes if you all nod to be sentient by. the u.s. you or other countries because they have successfully safeguard national sovereignty curious about me interest. the un says it least 1000000 weaker muslims are detained in camps with reports of forced labor torture and sterilization beijing denies the claims and says the camps provide folk a tional training and help in fighting extremism. experts are questioning whether this coordinated pressure campaign goes far enough to cause a real impact on china. or more now i'm joined by julie millsap she's with the campaign for we go as a group promoting and advocating human rights and democratic freedoms for we students good to have you on the program before we discuss today's sanctions i'd like to talk about your story you used to live in china and i understand you witnes

reporter: the u.s. president, for one, but the other leaders have identified ongoing threats and concerns they can work on collaboratively, an that is the foundation of u.s. foreign policy under the joe biden administration, so identifying threats, like climate change. they talked about how they can make sure that all nations are living up to commitments under the paris climate accord, as well as the announcement at this event that there would be a unique partnership among the quad, where they would set the goal of getting one billion vaccines by 2022, through u.s. supplying the vaccines manufactured in india. the financing by the u.s. and japan, then australian support. this goal was identified as something achievable because of that partnership, but security is one of the major issues that confronts not just these four, but by banding together, they can confront this. the national security advisor stopped by the press briefing to talk about why this is important , particular when it comes to china. an

tensions between the u.s. and china continue to rise as washington announces a new round of sanctions in coronation with its western allies the highly anticipated measures targeted to chinese officials and in a statement the treasury department accusing officials of being connected to serious human rights abuses against weaker minorities in china's north western region beijing has repeatedly denied those allegations and a spokesperson for china's foreign ministry argued that the u.s. and its allies aren't the ones who should be accusing anyone of human rights abuses given their own records. what they have done is a slander and an offense to the reputation and dignity of the chinese people layton interference in china's internal affairs in a series infringement on china's sovereignty and security in these countries have claimed to be judges of human rights and acted as lecturers of human rights but they actually have human rights records and they are not in any position to blame china or even scapegoating china

u.s. president has held virtual talks with his mexican counterpart immigration trade in the creative arts and become the agenda and has been well lopez obrador told joe biden that both nations are safer and stronger to get. former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption he's been sentenced to 3 years in jail although 2 years were suspended if the conviction is upheld on appeal he may serve his sentence under house arrest but as the tash but reports from paris it's made a political comeback unlikely. nicolas sarkozy arrived at caught in paris for the verdict in his trial a judge found the former french president guilty of corruption and influence peddling he was given a 3 year jail sentence with 2 years suspended he left the call to that comment but is or is later said that he would appeal so cozy was convicted of trying to influence a magistrate in 2014 to obtain information about another legal case against him during the trial he denied the accusations but the

. >> u.s. law enforcement officials are warning a militia group may be planning to attack the capitol on thursday. there is intelligence about a plan to breach the area. march 4 is seen as some extremists as the true inauguration day. the fed says the u.s. economy says businesses are optimistic about the next few months. most districts reported more unemployment. though the increase was slow. the daily count of covid cases fell to its lowest in more than four months. two months into their brexit deal, the u.k. is back negotiating with the european union. they want to take unilateral action on trade. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. haidi: let's take a look at our asian markets. what are you seeing? >> taking a look at global bond market yields. treasury futures in the red. we saw the push higher in u.s. yields. these are the past four yields. the 10 year could drop below zero. we could se

the u.s. just made on afghanistan. the reason i was saying it's so promising is because united states is calling for all of the countries in the region who've got an interest in a stable afghanistan to be meeting and mapping out the future there and figure out how they can work together to stabilize the situation and they call for cooperation from iran turkey india russia china they're talking about the regional powers that are involved there who have to have a stake in that future so as max is saying the u.s. and russia cooperating on counterterrorism no you've got to look at this even more broadly that was the initial idea behind the united nations strike on trees would get together and work together to create peace. and maybe this could be a starting point. that biden people as bad as they are the foreign policy national security team in my view you know the. sullivans and newlands and and those folks. there are one area which they were good i thought was on iran these were the people who supported the iran nuclear

u.s. will help that target be achieved. i doubt very much this will be sustainable over the longer-term forever. we have seen inflow into china over the past 6, 7 months. especially china, korea, age as a whole. at this point in time, you have to look to see any tangible change in the growth numbers. manus: we are going to dig into your overarching dollar call. before we came to air, we had a moment together and you said the yuan could go lower. where to and why if we are going to have a strong growth narrative out of china? are they not strong enough relative to the u.s.? >> it is a relative story. since covid hit, since december, you are seeing the yuan strengthening. part of that is a new administration pushing terms back to 6.5, 6.4. what i think has happened over time is basically this move has been quite rapid for exporters. one of the levers always leaned on has been the currency, to encourage growth. at this point it is unlikely we will see the authorities allow the currency to dep

and the u.s. similarly so right now there's a huge trust i don't know that china will be able to mend that but if there were a 3 party you know way of making sure that you know iran is sovereignty was respected that might help move things along but that would not be unilateral that would have to be guaranteed by all the major powers at terrorism to what extent does this deal between iran and china perhaps undercut washington's efforts to keep iran isolated. well i think that china has had a really good ride in the middle east because they've diversified their energy resources and so they they receive oil from all players in the region which is a smart strategy and they've never been asked to choose sides and as we know in the middle east it's very difficult to do that and as china intensifies its relations with iran with this deal i mean they even have technological cooperation with the with israel which may be jeopardized and you know they're trying to balance saudi interests iranian interests an