welcome to news asia that you could join us the united states and japan say they are committed to opposing china s cult coersion and destabilizing behavior towards countries in the in the pacific region the commitment comes after a joint meeting between u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin with their japanese counterparts in tokyo lincoln and austin other 1st members of president joe biden s cabinet to travel up to asia to shore up alliances in the region at a time of growing chinese assertiveness. the decades long friendship between the u.s. and japan was rattled by donald trump s turbulent america 1st policy but now after a high level visit by america s top diplomats and its defense chief things are back on track sectarian austin and i are the 1st members for president biden s cabinet to make an overseas trip and for that trip we come to japan because for more than 60 years our lives has been a cornerstone of peace security and prosperit
countries struggles with its deadliest phase of the pandemic. and police charge a white gunman with killing 8 people in atlanta georgia 6 among them were women of asian descent. so tanzania s president john mica foley has died at the age of 61 he hadn t been seen in public since february and there was speculation about his ill health the vice president saw me out so who is his son announced his death on television a short time ago hamas critical market were citizens today on this date march 17th 2021 that 6 in the evening we lost our leader president of the republic of tanzania the only able to join palm bay. he parted this life from heart complications in hospital in dar es salaam. foley was one of africa s most prominent covert 19 deniers and said last year tanzania had eradicated the disease through national prayer. looks back at his life. soon after taking office in 2015 president john palmer mughal fully made a name for himself across tanzania as a leader committed to fu
president biden tells migrants not to come as republicans accuse him of fueling this in unaccompanied children crossing the border. and despite curfew rights in a child benefit scandal exit polls put the dutch prime minister mark worser on course for a 4th term. i m german ashworth sport an independent review has found the english football association did not do enough to protect children from sexual abuse and new zealand retain its tailings america s cup the oldest trophy an international sports. bar we begin the news hour with breaking news from tanzania where the vice president has announced the death of president john magaw foody at the age of 61 he hadn t been seen in public for more than 2 weeks and speculation was rife that he was seriously ill with the coronavirus it was a vocal skeptic of covert 19 me and criticize for doing little to protect his people from the virus al-jazeera is catherine soy looks back at his life. soon after taking office in 2015 president john
death of a doctor who was reprimanded for raising the alarm of the coronavirus. turkey deploys troops and tanks to syria s last rebel stronghold as pro-rebel forces claim a crucial town. brazil s government moves to cut back its key anti-poverty program, leaving some family struggling to survive. anchor: now, the ukraine ex-pat who testified the donald trump s actions were improper has been ousted from his job two days after the president is acquitted in the impeachment trial. alexander vend and told the u.s. house that trump put pressure on his ukrainian counterpart to investigate joe biden. calling his removal enact of revenge by the president. trump said he wanted vindman. president trump: i m not happy with it. think i am supposed to be happy with it? they will make a decision. anchor: the top democratic senator chuck schumer was quick to respond on twitter. he said the pentagon assured me that patriots and whistleblowers would be protected. any reprisal against him or
find out why that s got some scientists war eat. the corona virus outbreak shows no sign of slowing as authorities in china work to bring the epidemic under control isn t busy in china has now confirmed the death of a citizen and a cornered city of all hard meanwhile hong kong a start of the 2 week orange chain for people arriving from mainland china to try to stop the spread of the virus across china at least 724 people have now died debbie h.s. representative in china says there are signs of progress but it s too soon to try to predict when this outbreak might be contained. i would understanding is growing impossible to predict where it is going but i can tell you. at least where we are watching the we are seeing the positive signs and with the adduction and the last couple of days and we are watching carefully the epidemic in other provinces in china the epidemic is far from over we see good signs and we see signs of control but we are at this point the best thing rather t