Small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Record breaking amounts of methamphetamines are being seized the cost asia. Massive calls of killings and crystal meth are flooding the region. Some of it reaching as far north as japan and as far south as a stray lead in new zealand. Where does it all come from me in mar the biggest meth producer in the world. Little. Old world has lost before it can struggle. One the one east travels to the borders winds of mean mark twain best to keep whats driving asian meth through and why authorities are powerless to stop it. This is the socalled golden trying a border region known for its beauty and the tories for drugs. Behind these mountains is myanmar were standing in thailand and over there is a highway making it really easy for traffickers to bring drugs over the border and straight to the cities of thailand its a perfec
Lost before it can struggle. One on one east travels to the borderlands of me in my arms to investigate whats driving asians method and why authorities are powerless to stop. This socalled golden trying a border region known for its beauty and the tories for drugs. Behind these mountains is myanmar were standing in thailand and over there is a highway making it really easy for traffickers to bring drugs over the border and straight to the cities of thailand its a perfect combination of geography infrastructure supply and demand. Were on the frontline of the drug war joining a military patrol trying to stop the massive flow. Coming across the border. Colonel. Is the leader. Hes overseen some of thailands biggest violent busts. There. Covers more than 30 kilometers of the border. Many encounters and gun fights. Killed 5 traffickers doing the bust but there are always more willing to take their chances. Traffickers with backpacks full of meth can run across the border. Minutes. Depends on
Of people including myself to think about Something Like the opium war as maybe an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about it that way but great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer high, like a lot of the work done at the Washington Institute forces me to see the world ina totally new way. This book has forced me and i think it forces all readers to really focus on the eternal and incredibly expensive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who are often on a form of drugs, some form of psychoactive substance. It extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials for drugs. It extends to wars for markets and outlets for drugs and of course we are all familiar with warsagainst drugs but as peter argues so effectively , this phenomenon, this interaction between psychoactive substances and conflicts is leased throughout history and up to th
The old fated league of nations began its work well look at whether history is repeating itself for its success at the u. N. And to cease fire as one in libya and the other in syria and noun affect both what brokered by russia and turkey the libyan truce was initially in down because warlord who for have to was refusing to hold his offensive on the capital tripoli however he eventually changed his mind to making the announcement through a spokesman. The general command of the Libyan Arab Armed forces announces a cease fire in the west inside of libya the cease fire starts from one minute past midnight on the 12th of january 2020 the other party should stop any type of military operation at the same time we will respond harshly to any violation of this cease fire the. World leaders meanwhile are working on putting together a libya peace summit in berlin germanys chancellor Angela Merkel offered to host it while meeting Russias Vladimir Putin as a syria in the hours leading up to the cea
Corcoran going to be so in the words Law Enforcement agency described as africas 1st norco states join us next as we follow an unseen or cortical prediction inside the Capital International airports. Thank you very much for joining us a Senior Commander with irans revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian airliner that killed all 176 people on board commander im iraq. Says it was brought down by accident by a short range missile soon after takeoff from tehran on wednesday it was the same night iran launch missiles at iraqi bases housing u. S. Troops. As a lot of. Those in our Aviation Services who were denying responsibility they were saying this based on their findings and i repeat they are not to blame it is us who are to blame the plane was on its way it did not have any error or mistake everyone worked very well efficiently it was us who made a mistake and we are responsible we should accept responsibility and accountability this was a very