the u. s. has a military presence in taiwan. tensions between beijing and taiwan around the rise . china is a full sent a rec, hold number of war planes into the islands a defense zone. last month. china is the use largest trading partner. taiwan economy remains heavily dependent on china. and taiwan is one of the world's biggest technology producers. for example, it supplies many components for the latest smart phones the. let's bring our guests into the show. we have joining us from type brian hugh writer and founder of new blue magazine in boston in south korea, robert kelly, professor of political science and diplomacy at present national university. and in beijing, victor gout chair, professor at su chow university. welcome to all, i could stop, pass this time with victor. what message is being sent? do you think to china by the congressional visit to taiwan? well, 1st of all, this congressional visit to the, or to taiwan a by the u. s. members of congress is a serious violation of the one

s. and the u. k. a u. s. media report say the by that ministration is planning the mass deportation of thousands of haitian migrants from a border town and texas. most of the migrant sustained to make shift camp under a bridge in del rio the u. s. is facing a challenge to its influence over the rest of the americas representatives of the 33 member community of latin american at caribbean states, which excludes the u. s. a. meeting in mexico city on saturday. and they're planning to move ahead without the powerful northern neighbor. latin america editor, the c, a newman reports can use to go the community of latin american in caribbean states or lack was officially launched. it was the brainchild of brazil's former president, lucy, now to let the silver and business whalers now to see who will chavis' goal was to create a region block that excluded the united states and canada to compete against the oldest inter american alliance. the organization of american states, or only yes, which is based in washingto

the u. s. navies attempts to seize it . soil in the sea of oman, the u. s. accuses iranian forces of a dangerous maneuvers. every day, more people are suffering and dying. fear and human rights chief releases a report on ethiopian war documents and what she describes as extreme brutality. the local u. s. election results that have republican celebrating and president jo biden's, democrats, worries, and boys by major climate announcements. leaders had home from cop 20 sakes, leaving officials to negotiate the sticking points. like finance. hi, i'm side a hired at that. i'll have the latest on the atlanta braves when the old series in an epic style against the houston astros. ah, iran says it has foiled and attempts find the a snazzy to seize it. soil in the sea of oman, iran's elite revolutionary guard, says its troops ordered the ship carrying iranian oil on october 25th, saying the tanker was about to be taken by the u. s. u. s. has rejected the allegations and accused iran of staging, dangerous maneuvers at sea. well, joining me and i were in the studio

if russia were to invade ukraine, the u. s. would send more defensive material and the u. s. would fortify nato allies on the eastern flank. it also looks like the u. s. will joined the minsk agreements. these are the stalled peace accords. the u. s. has not been party to these agreements, and i think russia hadn't really wants the u. s. to join in. it would be an opportunity to revitalize these discussions. but when you read the statements, but moscow and the united states want very different things that the point that jumps out me to me the most is that moscow is, is saying they're, they're engaging in what about is them? they're blaming nato, and they're blaming key of for the aggression. they're not taking responsibility. this crisis is far from being result. victor, a leverage in belgrade. i'm sure you want to respond to some of that, but i want to ask you as well. russia has said that these fears about a russian invasion are unfounded. if that's the case, what a president puts his intentions over ukraine and what's behind the, the troop build up near its border with ukr

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ah, the u. s. and russian presidents hold virtual talks to diffuse tensions amid fears at moscow plans to attack ukraine. ah, lauren taylor says al jazeera live from london, also coming up at least 38 dead after a fire breaks out the main prison in burgundy capital, while many were asleep. indonesia, as president visits villages blanketed by ash from the mount, samira volcano was the death toll rises to 34 and ancient artifacts smuggled out of iraq in the last 30 years. go display in baghdad, including one of the world's oldest surviving works of literature. ah, hello, the leaders of the u. s. and russia have held a high stakes virtual meeting as tensions rise over russia's activities on the ukrainian border. the city again president joe biden invited me fujen spoke 5 video link for more than 2 hours. attention to hi with the u. s. and its allies concerned. russia may be planning to invade its neighbor after massing tens of thousands of troops near the border. russia denies any such plans and descr

the u. s. was much more concerned with defeating iso ah at the end of 2016 after weeks of bombing, syrian government forces retook a lap of the country. second largest city had been an opposition stronghold and a symbol of hole didn't like it at the other than a food. and although less of the food, what is the theme of believe that is on the duty of the feel fellow, by the 5th of one of the whole of the money that while us had remained in power, obama's turn ended in 2070. and donald trump became us president from relative inexperience and his perceived closeness to vladimir putin, may have encouraged asset to authorize further chemical attacks in april 2018. and we begin today with a horrific attack overseas, and a forceful threat here at home. the pictures coming in a warning, they are difficult to look at. children being hosed off, treated after an alleged chemical attack. and duma president trump responding on twitter, vowing a big price will be paid, slamming syrian president bashar al ass

the u. s. may have mistakenly targeted an aid worker in the drone strike. and i've got a saw on the killed 10 people. can police and israel recapture for palestinians who escaped from a high security is rating prison on monday, i'm trying to get to know that chuck, of which closes in on the tennis talent to slam the well in the one beat alexander, bearer to reach the final of the us open and it's just one way away from record breaking. 21st major tyco ah, in the united states is marking 20 years since the west attack on its way. a commemorative will begin in the next few hours to remember nearly 3000 people who died in the 911 attacks. have a look. this is now the scene in new york where the 1st memorial will take place at the site of the world trade centers, where the twin towers, one stood. they collapsed after being hit by 2 hijacked passenger jets. there will also be further ceremonies in shanks for pennsylvania and also at the pentagon where 2 of the hijacked planes crashed. president bide

s. is meaningless criticisms. we must demand that u. s. drops is frequent hedge, a monic action was of interfering in china's internal affairs. i. okay, i want to ask victor about this because we heard obviously very strong words from the us. but we also had very strong words from china. and that is unusual. and i've heard under president she whether he is directly responsible for this or not. there is, there is an assessment of that policy being described as aggressive diplomacy that china was no longer simply going to sit back and, and take the criticism. but, but it was actually gonna essentially take the fight to those who were opposed to it, but now we're seeing this change is that are suggesting, do you think that china has been, can become concerned that that policy has over reached the mark and has brought it closer to risky confrontation with the u. s. and others. and that perhaps is why we're seeing this dialing back of rhetoric. eugene took place on the very special circumstances. ah, weatherwise, it was very cold at that tim

but he did say that the u. s. did not coordinate at all with the taliban in terms of the exact time and date that the last plains left the airport. he said the airport is now plea out of the hands of the u. s. military. and he said, when asked, i can tell you with confidence that there are no single us service members anywhere in ghana. stan right now. he said also that he believes that there are about 2000. i saw k fighters still in afghanistan. and he said that the u. s. still, of course reserves the right to act against them. should it be necessary? and he said though, in his words, he said, and these are his words. he says, i think the taliban is going to have their hands full dealing with the ice. okay. fighters. those were his words. in short here, it was an interesting briefing because it was really frank frank, in terms of he also mentioned that the last evacuees actually were taken out of afghanistan 12 hours before the us actually pulled out of the airport. he insinuated that there could have been a few

the u. s. says it won't attend the event because of what it calls, human rights atrocities and genocide. usually yvonne, diesel yonder, ga d u. s. standing opposed to athletes and sports lovers across the world. china deplores this and rejects this and has large, solemn representations and will take resolute counter measures. the u. s. should stop politicizing sports and stop disrupting the beijing winter olympics with words . otherwise, it might harm bilateral dialogue and cooperation in a series of important areas and international regional issues. she would all continue has more now on china's reaction from beijing. china's clearly furious. it says that the u. s. will pay, but it hasn't detailed what those counts measures might be. an earlier in his statement. jolly jen, the foreign ministry, spokes person accused the us of political prejudice. ideological bias, political manipulation and having sinister intentions. as we heard, beijing says that the limpid should be yours as a tool for inte

the u. s. left the deal in 2018 under then president trump, under president biden, washington wants back in, but only if tehran upholds its commitments mixed were convinced that if iran pro approaches talks in vienna, with urgency and good faith, we can quickly reach and implement an understanding on mutual return, we cannot, however, allow iran to accelerate its nuclear program and slow walk. it's nucular diplomacy, ron's ambassador blame the us. vienna talks can succeed, auntie, threw genuine political, real and good faith negotiations. engaging in blame game or flying artificial impatience is not constructive. the rhetoric in the council chamber was strong. both iran and the united states say they want to return to the deal. and the un says that's encouraging. but clearly, members of the international community are concerned that iran is closer than ever to a nuclear weapon. and time may be running out. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations, the u. s. sector state antony blinkin says

so the u. s. has joined with you and other countries, pushback multilaterally on the kinds of practices that we see in russia and china. it's a scary world where tyranny and slave labor become routine. it's important that the west suppose that we can do that diplomatically. we can do that through dialogue and essentially building with russia and china if they will. but if they don't, and they persist in their ways, then there's clearly going to be a cost to pay for them. the us and the west off. okay. and what does that cost the saying is china worried about the cost? no, i don't mean china is really to worry about what the americans are pushing at the moment, driving in china. it has a liza who is incredibly confident in so and in the direction of travel which that china is going when can question that and they are good grounds to question whether the direction of trouble. she picks china is the white one is the good want, but he is very concrete and he is right. so he is not so worry about the a

but the u. s. said it has no plans to send military assistance. haiti senate has nominated joseph lambert to serve as the new interim president until new elections, a set of september politicians, also bank avalon re to replace closed joseph as the prime minister. particle. he has more from washington d. c, the haitians have asked the united nations isn't and peacekeepers. they've asked the u. s. department of defense to send us troops. i was able to confirm that with the pentagon today, the department of defense said that they have received the request and it redirected me to the state department for further questions. it seems highly unlikely that the u. s. is going to want to put troops in haiti 1st of all because of the violence there, it would take a very large, true presence. it would be expensive and keep in mind, president joe biden has just told us troops out of afghanistan. haiti is not a country that has a huge constituency in the united states that would push the president politically t

but if i understand correctly that the u. s. has a policy that we talked about earlier about m, there being a one china policy policy that, that, that it agrees with the one china policy. but at the same time, president biden has said it will defend its allies. i. e, tie one to an outsider like me, that seems like a mixed message. it seems like 22 different sides of the same coin. does that counter any? and i'm understanding or undermine a possible understanding when it comes to meetings like this, because china, perhaps understandably, we say, well, you're saying one thing, but you're willing to do another and we don't exactly know where you stand on this . well, i would, i would say that u. s. policy has been consistent and longstanding since 1979. and i will also mentioned that we have domestic look legislation the taiwan relations act that governs our unofficial relationship with taiwan. so there have been no changes there whatsoever. yet again, the present yesterday reaffirm the u. s. commitment to the one china policy, the

the u. s. also applauded the woman's tennis association for suspending all tournaments and china over concerns for the safety of chinese ton of star peng. why? with the olympics coming to the u. s. in 2028. there are now questions about how china may respond both in the short and long term. katya low priscilla young al jazeera, while more now on the asian reaction with katrina, you who's in the chinese capital. they have been repeating the same kind of sentiments over the past few weeks when these 1st rumors came out that the u. s. was mulling over this move. china has accused washington of political grandstanding, political, political, manipulation of distorting the spirit of the games. and we've had chinese states media similarly express the same sentiment saying that this is the us trying to contain china and reflect a cold war mentality. so this will no doubt escalate tensions just weeks after president jor biden. and present, she didn't think, sat down to a video colon at the time the busi

s. u. k. under the you in the pacific deal study, it will find nuclear power submarines with us and u. k. technology. the us military is a bit of the drone strike in afghanistan capital last month, kill civilians instead of isis prices. 10 people, including 7 children, died of the attacking cobble top us commander, has apologized. if us media report say the bytes administration is planning the mass people taishan of thousands of haitian migrants from a border town in texas, most of the migrants are staying at a makeshift camp on the abridge in del rio, before the agents that have temporarily closed order crossing with mexico, the u. s. is threatening more sanctions against the warring sides in ethiopia to region. a new executive order opens the door to sanctioning members of the ethiopian and eritrea and governments. but to grow people's liberation front and the hot regional government. the conflict is left thousands dead. i'm just here a shad baton c reports. this is not the imposition of san

s. cultural agency unit score, it entered the u. s. in 2007. graco authorities say they're happy to have it back. now. i've been lo, this tablet is laden with deep symbolism and 2 respects its own intrinsic value and then, and what it means to retrieve it with all the efforts that have been deployed by the government in this regard. it's a message to all those who smuggled our artifacts and auctioned them. they should know that will end up retrieving what they had stolen. the rockies may appreciate the u. s. initiative to help return their last artifacts. but they also say america's invasion of iraq in 19912003, led to the biggest disasters for them. nations ancient headed to an estimated $15000.00 artifacts were looted from the baghdad museum and smuggled out of the country. iraqis save the u. s. bears full responsibility for what happened and needs to do more to help them retrieve what they lost ramadan or da 0. now, a japanese billionaire and his assistant are the latest tourists heading to the international space station. you circl

s. was previously bombing the taliban. now the u. s. is complimenting the taliban . mackenzie was very complimentary. that the taliban was very helpful in the final days of securing the perimeter of the airport and helping the us to do the evacuations and ultimately leave afghanistan completely. so interesting comments for mackenzie saying a very complimentary of the role that the taliban played. he did say that the us believes there are about 2000. i saw k fighters that are still in afghanistan now. okay, many thanks for that. gabriel elizondo for us in washington dc. well, we can head to cobble now and speak to correspondent robin, but bright. so rolled president joe biden, keeping his word withdrawal from afghanistan by the 31st of august. but it's come at quite a cost, doesn't it? yeah, absolutely made. it's just a few hours now before sunrise here. enough gun it's done and people in cobble and gas comes down as a whole will start to be waking up to the new reality for the for the 1st time in 20 years. there are no us soldiers on af

the u. s. military released this photo, they say is the last us commander on the ground cobble airport boarding. the last u. s. military flight out of afghanistan. in the past 2 weeks since capital fell, the taliban, 823000 civilians, and 6000 us citizens had been evacuated, making it the largest mass documentation undertaken by the military in us history. secretary of state antony, blinking, estimated under 200 us citizens were still in afghanistan, wanted to leave, but couldn't. and called on the taliban to live up to their pledge to allow them to do so. we will hold the taliban to which pledge to let people freely, depart, afghanistan. the taliban is committed to any one with proper documents. leave the country in a safe in order to be mad. they said this privately and publicly, many times lincoln indicated to us would keep lines of communication open with the taliban. but said it would do so from doha. qatar with us would set up a diplomatic mission to cobble, or we could speak live to gabr

but because the u. s. does not recognize the taliban as the legitimate government in cobbled because of deep concerns about cia. it's a treatment of afghan women and children of its treatment of religious minorities, of its commitment to engaging in put the u. s. considers a fundamental rights the right to free expression, the right to a political engagement. the right to challenge the government saw policies. it is not going to extend that recognition, but the u. s. has an obligation to us citizens and to afghan citizens who worked alongside the u. s. government during the 20 year long war. and so this is really a way for the us to be able to meet its obligations to us citizens and their families, as well as to afghan citizens who cooperated with the u. s. military l largely as well as basically having that back door channel to communicate to the taliban on to lesson until there is some sort of political transition. one that would meet the u . s. a. standards, in which case you would then see a recognitio

but there has been some progress. china and the u. s. the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, say, vail increased cooperation deals to n d 4 station cut methane and phase out fossil fuels have also been made. but financing the transition remains a sticking point for all of those. let's bring an anderson and he's joining us from cop 26 and glasgow. so, andrew, what are we expecting to happen in the coming hours? well, collective moment in history is the way loc sharma, the cop president, described it. and with that, a, he briefed all the delegates or what was happening in the hours ahead, although no one can predict which way there will swerve or where there could be hitches or, or successes or otherwise. so basically the situation is this, we are expecting within the next hour or so a revised text document, that is the draft document for the final 7 settlement, the communique, if you will. and that will set out changes, adjustments, they could be nuances, they could be more than that. they could be big issues, issues such as fossil fuels

and they are reliance on the u. s. with purity, solar, taiwan, but in this case, against the threat of russia. and so, i think the point i want is a way to signal strength in relation with the u. s. in this, they have no motivation whether western european countries follow. i mean, there's no question that isn't so on from the europe is the leader of that is french. that is to be esteem. however, i think that, you know, we have to be careful in terms of how we look at the economical issues. when china, for example, when, when there is pressure applied to it, it actually oftentimes will boycott, for example, suitable good to register this budget, red south korea or other countries and the political pension permit. these are not good, but it's on supply chains for life on such doctors. and i think we need to be a little more specific here rather than think of things in the is very fuzzy. obstructions. ok, i think we've got about a minute left. so let me try and get in a final word from victor and victor. what's the botto

the u. s . does not recognize the taliban government springs from news we're getting out of washington d. c. now the 1st confirmation about the timing of that much anticipated virtual summit between president joe biden and chinese lead it. she ging ping. whoa. and now hearing that this meeting will happen on monday, being officially confirmed, let's go to our fisheries live for us at the white house. this comes against the backdrop of warnings from china, about a cold war between the 2 countries. a lot for the 2 leaders to get through. right. alan, exactly, and of course some it's still happened unless there is an outcome agreed in advance, and that's we're expecting to see joe biden would love to meet judging, paying in person, but that's not happening. the chinese president simply not leaving the country and hasn't done it since march last year. so this will all be done virtually will be done here at the white house. on monday, the will talk about a number of things that they have in common. f

s. and the u. s. was good to it's wooded left on the 31st, but just after midnight into this day, tuesday and would started to spread on social media that the, the, the wheels up on the last at craft taking off from how many cars i entered national airport. we started to get some email traffic from the taliban saying they were taking over control confirming that the last of the american aircraft had left. then we started interestingly to have something of an eerie silence. we for days now been here we go. all sorts of aircraft noise is a patrolling warplanes overhead. earlier on monday we saw a b 52 bomber passover cobble. and then there's been this thundering background noise of these aircraft big lumbering, c 17. taking off transport planes, taking off from the airport as they see vacuum ition has continued and quite quickly within about 10 minutes or so as we started to get confirmation that the last of the americans had gone. this noise started to drift away. there was some given every silence and

in particular for the u. s. those north eastern states saw the arrival of tropical storm on re, as it made land for in rhode island. but we've also seen historic flooding in tennis. see, this was the scene there, the rain has stopped, but we saw some record rain fall to the west of nashville. in humphreys county, we had $430.00 millimeters for in 24 hours. and that led to very severe flooding. now it's keeping dry for much of tuesday, they're the wet weather can be found in the florida. panhandle and northeastern states of the u. s. are continuing to see the heavy falls on from on re, as it works its way from most massachusetts out to see it could impact eastern areas of canada. now we are also seeing severe storms roll across the midwest. by the time we get into wednesday, it will be the great lakes that see some of the wet weather. now was he looked to the west, it is looking a lot dryer. we have got some strong winds that fueling wild fires in northern california. it's looking dryer in the south for the wet w

the u. s. has warn russia of consequences if it invades ukraine. the, to our virtual call between joe biden and vladimir putin ended with no break through the talks follow a massive russian troop build up at the border. that has western nations worried that moscow will invade its neighbor. i white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it has the story with a massive build up of russian troops, new ukraine, shared border, and u. s. intelligence indicating an invasion of ukraine could happen early next year. u. s. president biden met virtually with russian president vladimir poo. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours potent denies russia intends to invade ukraine, calling it fear monitoring. but the u. s. president made clear today that if russia did tough economic sanctions would follow. i will look in the eye and tell you as president biden looked, president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014. we are prepared to do now. that reference is to the russi

s. military now should be in a fundamental interest of the u. s. and he felt that that was not necessarily the case in afghanistan for many years. he also mentioned 2 countries by name china and russia. he said those 2 countries pose in the view of a joe biden, a bigger threats in many ways to the united states. moving forward then afghan stan is or was and he said the u. s. needs to focus on china and russia and other things by mention cyber cyber threats as well. he said, there is nothing more that china and russia would want than to see the united states bog down and africana stand for another 10 or 20 years. the big picture here is this. joe biden has always felt that he wanted to know that the u. s. should get out of afghanistan completely, when he was vice president to brock obama. he actually advised then president obama to do just that. there was one problem. joe biden then was not the president. he was the vice president and brock obama took different advice. he decided to stay in afghanistan. joe biden has always said that he would when,

the u. s. doesn't recognize it's on a bond government at least 15 people have been injured after a bomb was set off and assume the mosque enough kind of samsung ha province. in a space of similar attacks on a, she almost almost all of been claims like ice well enough kind of 9200 nations are considering a draft agreement on the final day of the un climate. some it's in glasgow. the core aim is to keep the parents agreement to live the camp global warming at 1.5 degrees. volunteers in the house and demanding more access to the border with valerie for refugees and migrants are trapped about 2000 people. living in dia, freezing conditions as governments trade, accusations, and threats about the crisis. that is to be submitted to us to what's available for those since mid october. we've been approached by over 3000 people that being trapped since the beginning of november. we've been asked by at least 900 people of undertaken 131 humanitarian intervention to help those stranded polish government ne

the u. s. u k are continuing to airlift people out, but several other countries have stopped their evacuations early. a headache for social media giants will be college and embrace is twitter. while the former us president is bad. ah, it's just gone past 2300 hours gmc, that's 3 30 am in the afternoon capital that witness to explosions on thursday. the west president is threatening to strike back in response to the attacks outside cobbles, international airport. as many as 60 people, including 12 american military personnel have been killed. now the armed group, i so has claimed responsibility for the attacks. joe biden called the u. s. service personnel killed and he attacked heroes. and vowed to make those responsible pay bite and said his os, his military commanders, to draw plans to strike back at the group we will not be deterred by cherished will not let them stop our mission. we will continue the evacuation of also or to my commander, develop operational plans. a strike case is k assets,

the u. s. national security advisor reiterated ukraine can associate with whoever it wants. when analyst believes joining nato is unrealistic, it ought to be clear to them that we're not coming to the rescue. so you'd have to live in nest russia without a u. s. security guarantee. there were also questions about the controversial nord stream to pipeline which runs from germany to russia and whether it could be used as leverage and discussions over ukraine. the white house says it will pressure the german government to stop it. if russia invades the biden administration, will continue to work with it's european partners, promising a coordinated response. should russia ignore their warnings? precedent by then, we'll also speak with ukraine's president lensky on thursday. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house? let's get some more analysis. now from steve clemens, he's the host of al jazeera is the bottom line and editor at large for the hill. he joins us live from washington via skype. hell

the u. s. government can accumulate. it's been sent at $28.00 trillion dollars in early august. analysts say the debt ceiling is important because if the u. s. defaulted, it would damage the countries, credit rating, could also plunge the wider global financial system into turmoil. the bill to temporarily raise the us debt ceiling, now needs to be passed by the house of representatives before being signed off by president biden. mike, hannah has more from washington d. c. well, a desire to li, crucial. if the u. s. had defaulted on its debt, the economy would have been in chaos. it would have been unprecedented. most experts believe that everybody was going to bow at the last moments, but it's still a tense situation. and this only came about in terms of extending the debt or, or putting a little bit of money in to allow it to run through to december. that took a lot of shenanigans in terms of what's been happening in recent weeks. in the end . the republicans or some republicans, came to deal with the democrats, that th

a gymnastics, and u. s. u. s o p c u s a lip, they can paralympic committees. the questions that we keep hearing from the survivors as why, why did they all seem to conclude to cover this up f b, i initially, in not doing anything once they 1st heard about the allegations in 2015, not interviewing the survivors, not even telling local local officials in the states that larry nasa was alleged to be molesting children and young women in the meantime. as you heard, many more women were left and what was going on, why was there this cover up when it comes to the f b? i rather, it's not just how they mishandled the investigation, but bennett is cover up. it is when the inspector general was investigating the f b, i conduct the agent in charge light to the inspector general, which then leads to the question of accountability. normally, when someone lives to the f, b i or the inspector general than you expect criminal proceedings, none of that has happened to the, the agents who are being held responsible for not doing anything for so long about about these allegation

the u. s. can do about this, the concern for the u. s. is they've had a lot of emphasis on a lot of money on a missile defense shield. and if there's, by one effort that they'd like to do over the next 10 years, they could spend as much as a $176000000000.00 on it. that doesn't work for hypersonic weapons. so that's the big concern in the u. s. that said, china, if this is true, which again, china says it's not, would not be the only country working in this field. the u. s. is working on this technology, russia, north korea. so china would just be the latest you join into this new arms race. if in fact they are doing it, but again, that something that china denies. on joining us law from fort lauderdale, florida, is hon or clinic. he's a former director of army international affairs at the pentagon 100. this happened in august, so either the us didn't know about it all. they did know about it. they didn't want to turn it into a diplomatic issue, which is it. thank you very much for having me. i

s. u k. a u. s. media report say the bytes administration is planning the most people taishan of thousands of haitian migrants from a border town. and texas. most of the migrant sustained a makeshift camp under a bridge in the u. s. a starting more sanctions against the warring sides in ethiopia is to grow region. a new executive order opens the door to sanctioning members of the ethiopian and era trans governments. the 2 great people's liberation front and the hot regional government. the conflicts has left thousands dead. she had returns reports, this is not the imposition of sanctions, but another threats of sanctions. president biden's executive order empowers the state department of treasury to be able to sanction those seen in the future to be standing in the way of a negotiated piece in the future. on all sides, but no deadline has been announced. if the government of ethiopia and the to great people's liberation front, take meaningful steps to enter into talks with out preconditions and al

some credence, the u. s. of course, does support taiwan military in terms of hardware, the latest air jet, jet fighters, and so on. it has for a number of years that is always an good china, if these reports are true, of having a pretty much a permanent, a presence military presence on the island of tra foot, a very boots on the ground as it were, that would a give a china further cause or to be angry, and they haven't been a u. s. military presence permanently on the island of ty, once it's 1979, and a u. s. could argue that these troops, if they have been there for nearly a year, are merely taking part in an ongoing training exercise. but it does have an air of permanence about it for so a break here now to 0. when we come back, early voting starts in iraq for parliamentary election demanded by mass protests. and the superheroes in super villains who bounded together at one of the biggest pop culture conventions in the us more than ah, the remains of the psycho sheehan are visible only in the form of funds

and what the u. s . has described is tried, is increasing aggression over that disputed territory as well as china is activity increasing activity in the taiwan straits now trying to seize taiwan as part of china. but at the same time, we've seen the biden administration making various very friendly, moved towards the taiwanese leader sighing when and that has really infuriated beijing. i think the bottom line is, china does want to find some common ground amid these see of differences. and 2 things to note, i think is that's a job. but, and she jumping, have known each other for years now. they were working together as far back as the obama administration. and secondly, she didn't ping is domestically an extremely strong position. just last week we had this top level leaders meeting in beijing where she's in pain, consolidated his power as the president of china next year. he will begin this unprecedented 3rd term in office and he could potentially rule china for life. so no doubt that will play a pot a

u. s. president and his ukranian counterpart vladimir zalinski. any information about that? well, what we're hearing is that the call took place about an hour later than originally scheduled, getting started really in about the last 40 minutes or so. so we're watching very carefully to see a read out of that call and. and what it's clear is if it's still ongoing, or if it has, in fact wrapped up, the white house hasn't said, but what it has said is what the u. s. president intends to convey in that conversation. it is a message that he will also be delivering to the what's known as the bucharest 9. that is the sort of the countries that make up the eastern flag of the nato alliance. the us president, we have a call with those officials as well. and the message that the u. s. president was to send the united states is committed to transatlantic security. even as we know, the latimer potent is still deliberating over whether not an invasion of ukraine is something that russia might do. there

whereas the u. s. the sank, of course we all committed, of course we'll. but we are reserving the right to walk away if there is clear evidence of any kind of violation. also the us says to iraq, we want you to comply with the terms of this agreement. before we start listing any sanctions, so there is still some pastry going on, even though we have the state. you know, we've heard from the secretary state anthony blinking in the last few days. he was doing the rounds on the morning talk shows the weekend. he was asked all about this and he said, and he said my quotes that we are also looking at other options now. read into those words, whatever you want. lauren, but the fact of the matter is that there is an acceptance or a concern that runs nuclear ambitions could lead to conflict in the middle east, particularly israel. nobody's saying the words military strikes, but enough hence have been dropped, that people are concerned. and of course we have the timing of the release of this video on the iranian side. yeah. and what a pentagon officials said about t

s. military evacuation. with tuesdays deadline approaching the u. s. and 97 other countries say the taliban has committed to keep providing safe passage out of afghanistan to foreign nationals as well as afghans with travel authorization. we've rally dozens of countries from around the world to stand with us in saying that the taliban, that if they do not follow through on those commitments, there will be significant consequences. and with a new government taking charge, official say the us will continue to strike at groups and individuals it deems to be threats in country after country, including places like like yemen, like somalia, large parts of syria. lydia places. we don't have boots on the ground on any kind of ongoing basis. we have the capacity to go after people who are trying to do us harm will retain that capacity and f canister. us national security advisor jake sullivan says that groups like ice will k operating in afghanistan, do not have the capabilities to carry out attacks in other countries. at least not yet. rob reynolds al jazeera

the u. s. does have a great deal of leverage over the fuel government that so far it hasn't used much success in the past has been in terms of trade. it's industrial parts occupied by mary cannot multinational benefit from this tax benefit those that introduced to decades ago. and there was a fear that would be withdrawn. but that did not happen. and there's a relief in the stuff of just why the presence in the administration of those 9 to be open to us interventions that are samantha power, u. s. id. it hasn't imposed punishing sanctions on the if you can government and the say there are multiple reasons for washington's caution. ethiopia is the u. s. s main ally, and the strategically important horn of africa and key to its projection of power across the region. ethiopia is also important of the us as war on terra and important components against osha, bob in somalia and now that us troops officially withdrawn permanence abbey, i'm. it is also deregulating and privatizing ethiopian economy. a

in the u. s. k, i can't speak too much, but on the, on the us end of it, you know, the business community has been promoting investment in china for a long time, and u. s. investment or the us business community has sort of pushed back on on hawkish voices in washington, dc. and the think tanks, you know, again, those want to take a harder line on china. now us business minute is actually softened a lot and it's not nearly as bullets in china is. or there been a lot of issues with piracy and intellectual property and things like that and china. so i don't think that you are a business community sort of deterring the hawks anymore. increase in the hawks in the us are dominating the conversation. you saw that by and then trunk, right. there's increasingly a bipartisan sort of agreement that, that china is what a strategic competitor. i suppose. i don't want to say in enemy, i don't think we're there yet. but a strategic competitor. i think most americans would agree with that is the view from ty pay

the u. s. has not been able to tackle those challenges itself. so when the u. s. president says it that he wants to lead by example, i think that many of the audience may be listening to that and wondering whether the u. s. president should cast his eyes on his own country 1st before offering advice to others. quickly, some of those examples, the u. s. president saying this is a, a defining challenge of our time in terms of all of the world, but that democracy is capable of self correction. and that, that can be done when parties sit down and work together. but we've seen division in this country that has only been exacerbated with each election. notably, of course, january 6th, when many conservatives in the united states attempted to overturn the results of the last u. s. presidential election when it comes to justice and rule of law that the u. s . president says needs to be upheld around the world. we see gross racial and equality, socio economic inequality and a widening wealth cap in this country. and when it comes to freedom of speech, the u. s. presiden

i imagine top of the agenda will be u. s. e u relations. yes you leaders arriving in bordeaux or slovenia for a dinner before a summit with western balkans. our leaders on wednesday now are on the agenda for this dinner. the main talking point will be the used position internationally in the wake offer occurs. now this is actually the 1st time that it really does are meeting together since that diplomatic grau erupted between a france in washington, strained by the fact that washington can bra and london assigned this defense deal for the indo pacific. seemingly in secret without consulting allies, without consulting france, well no doubt. the french president, emmanuel mackerel, will brief. the other 26. you leaders are over this dinner about the meeting that he had earlier today with the u. s. secretary of state, or antony blinking. my craw has made it very clear that he believes that or cause should be seen as a warning can be taken as a warning sign. a for the you. he said in the last few days that europeans should not be naive because

he said the u. s. could not achieve a military victory, but he did say that taliban wants good working relationships with all international countries. let's go back to our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit, who joins us now from washington. d. c. kimberly. so we were talking to you earlier about president biden because he's come under extreme pressure about the chaotic us withdrawal. how much political fallout is that going to be for the president? well i think the us president is going to have to make the case that the taliban can be trusted. and i think it's important to notice we just heard that spoke person speaking there from the airport. i believe it was that what we heard him say was that what he was looking for where the taliban is looking for is a sound diplomatic relationship. in other words, there is this desire, as we heard from the secretary of state and from the president of the united states to work with the international community. but tony blinking was very clear that this is

the u. s. and u. k. are continuing their evacuation flights until that august 31st deadline to withdraw all foreign troops. but germany, denmark, belgium, and canada have now ended verifications, and france says its last plane will leave on friday. charles traffic reports now from campbell. you will not be lindsey's rush through the streets to collect the wounded bodies are lifted on to stretches. the 2 attacks by suicide bombers happened close to the abbey gate entrance of cobble airport. the baron hotel. now he was a sudden explosion. we climbed out and saw that there were many people effective people were held everywhere, their brains with scattered. there were also foreign forces who were fallen. i saw at least 4 or 500 people there. the explosion was really powerful, half held into the water, others on the ground outside. we carried the wounded here on stretches and my clothes completely bloody. i know the power hotel is controlled by the u. k and they 2 forces. it is one of the places where tens of