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Are unsure how to deal with this new u.s. president who likes to conduct foreign policy online. my advice, follow him on twitter, and have an answer for reporters like us. steven jiang. it was suggested that access to the south china sea be blocked. >> reporter: theyve staked a claim to thousands of acres of what were sandbars and reefs. theyve used sophisticated equipment like these ships, pumping sand through these thin tubes to create islands, constructed ports, deployed weapons thats corre...

Strongly to secretary of state nominee, rex tillerson, who is suggested a more aggressive strategy by the u.s. in the contested waters of the soult china sea. thats where china has built and militarized artificial islands. brian todd has more. >> theyve staked a claim to thousands of acres of what were b sabd bars and reefs. theyve used sophisticated equipment like these ship, pumping sand through those thin tubes to create islands, then built airfields with towering radar stations, krawieced po...

Didnt have a telephone but he had .. 22 caliber shot gun. the chief of police said he was like a ghost and we pulled out that shotgun, shot one of the two officers who stood him. the other killed amri on the spot. dna and a scientific face match led to the positive i.d. amri used at least six aliases since leaving tunisia he slide on a boat for reefs, did four years in jail, radicalized there. italy tried to deport him but tunisia would not recognize him. he went to germany and was under surveil...

Actions of the chinese are very alarming. their actions in the south china sea and also to the north with respect to the islands that are disputed between china and japan, were seeing that build, these military bases out of reefs that used to be submerged and now they have landing fields and weapons on them. weve got to be very, very concerned. so were working much more closely with our allies in the southeast asian region, whether its vietnam and philippines and australia and many other countri...

Risky, didnt like many of the settlers. berlin was not among those areas. nevertheless, that is probably going to be closely scrutinized. what do you think, senator? >> i think that germany, the very fabric of germany we drew up has changed dramatically as a result of the reefs coming in and there is an attack on good and civilized people, democracies, just people who want freedom and the able to live their lives, free or terror so there is that attack coming and we need to be diligence and i kn...

Act. will carr joins us with the latest. how did the controversy start in the first place? >> reporter: china seized the drone on thursday near the philippines and according to the pentagon the 150,000 drone was operated by contractor and simply collecting information on the ocean and they were about to pull it out of the water when the chinese swept in and took it. china built artificial reefs and anti- missile woman to those may have taken the drone out of concern that it was tracking the nucl...

Always good to see you. this is like a brazen smash and grab. do you think it was a pointed message to the president-elect? >> well, i dont know necessarily how new this was. what china has been doing for years now in the south china sea is taking small outcroppings, reefs and other tiny islands and turning them into full-blown military bases with jets, anti-ship missiles and then patrolling those seas that were previously international waters and saying no, those are now chinese waters and seiz...

Transition team and leading on trade echoes that sentiment saying for far too long the u.s. has been responding to a power of strength. well see what happens from here. and putting weapons on the artificial island, the one built in the disputed area of the south china sea, thats according to asia maritime transparency initiative, which is a think-tank that monitors the area and is respected. it reports china built the structures on a number of reefs, three of them, and four smaller reefs in th...

Buildings. and on the top of the buildings, they hold anti-missile systems. if you go to it on the computer, you can see, on top of the hexagon-shaped ones, there are what appears to analysts to be anti-aircraft weapons. the group reports each of the smaller reefs has similar structures. this is mischief reef, which is much larger. do i have that as well? its a full screen for you, this is mischief reef. the group supports the chinese saying they built more complex structures here. analysts say ...

Youre listening to the inquiry with me Helena Merriman theres a video that went round a few weeks ago it was on science website social media and once youve seen it its hard to forget imagine a large green blob. A bloke with little tentacles only over it and it says here on the bottom of a tank of water. Well that green blob is actually a piece of coral in the video shows what happens when scientists turn up the heat in the water as the water gets warm and the kernel starts to convulse violently...