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Taiwans military readiness. Are we all sat . Set . Okay. Good morning. I am Linda Feldman Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Shes been a politician serving four terms in the legislature and as the director of the Democratic Progressive Party International Affairs department. She moved to new jersey where she went to high school and then on to college in ohio and then from there she came back east to Columbia University where she earned a masters degree in political science...

Institution for a decade. One of our finest and most objective i think in scholarly think tanks in washington so im glad to be here. Glad to be with ryan and patricia will have a conversation and i will not bore you with a long speech. They have asked me to give a few introductory comments. I wanted to do that to set the stage of where i think we are in u. S. China relations. Ive just come back four days ago from beijing and its been a very active period in a relationship with the china and was ...

what he said about reports the u.s. spied on south korean officials, rising nuclear tensions and relations with china the slow-moving disaster the severe flooding threat as snow melts much of yosemite park closed, as some areas along the mississippi are already under water. what doctors are calling one of the worst allergy seasons in decades why so many adults are suffering for the first time. and the remarkable life of an american original, singer, actor and civil rights activis...

thursday admitting his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. international community reacting this horror that this could be at the center of fighting. hello and welcome, it is friday, august 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where a federal judge has released a few new documents related to the search of donald trumps mar-a-lago home and the details they contain on the potential offenses sharpen the focus on the former president. the same judge signe...

greiner pled guilty to bring in vape cartridges to moscow. she gave an emotional apology saying shes made an honest mistake. >> i want to apologize to my teammates, my club. its my mistake and embarrassment. i never meant to hurt anybody or to put in jeopardy the rest of the population. i never meant to break any laws here. >> russia is backing china as it launches its largest military drills ever near taiwan. firing missiles just off of the coast of the island. general jack keane will...

with conservative members. the two of them have faced off tonight in wales. and a hosepipe ban for gardeners in parts of southern england. but how are the farmers coping with the lack of rain? well be live in essex to find out. tonight with the context, the former adviser to hillary clinton, amanda renteria, and former senior adviser to george w bush, ron christie. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. she was there less than 2a hours, but the fallout from nancy pelosis visit to taiw...

During the holy month of ramadan for muslims, the breakthefast dinner, as i understand it, yes, well, it is an evening when relatives and friends gather, and it was very warm, by the way, i am the commander of the 48th, lina ruslyama said that they had a very fruitful conversation with the president already off camera, off the frame, and everything was very sincere, and the award was given, and probably someone has already seen it video where the president awarded 19 people there with his decree...

Pouring with rain. You can probably hear the thunder just outside the studio. It is 10 00 eastern, straight to the money, the markets very interesting, nasdaq has lost its 200 point lead, now it is up only 85 points, the dow industrials down 200 points, only four down stocks for the dow 30, 6 of them, the dow 30 in the green, the rest are in the red. 10 year treasury yield going up 4. 46 , price of oil below 80 a barrel, bitcoin at 679. Just received the latest read the the number on new homes. ...

War, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering. Tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, ...

Territory. Two returned back safely but the one carrying the president and Foreign Minister crashed in mountainous territory in heavy fog. All contact was lost. Our correspondent Caroline Hawley reports. You can see how bad conditions were in the area, as the Rescue Operation was under way. A fleet of ambulances on standby. The army is reported to have ordered all resources needed to be thrown at the search. Members of irans red crescent scoured the rugged landscape on foot for any sign of the m...