Mr. Obrien thank you for having me, and thank you to the Atlantic Council for hosting again. Always great to be back with such a Distinct Group of policymakers and academics and public intellectuals. It is nice to be here with you, and especially with you, a former colleague. Look, what we have seen with china over many years now, something i have been writing about for well over a decade, is an increasing assertiveness and aggressiveness in the world. Some of it is very malign. You talk about the South China Sea. China has made the decision with a ninedash lie to annex a vast swath of the western Pacific Ocean and claim as chinese territorial waters, almost like it was talking like lake tahoe being there, internal waterways or something. It is ridiculous. It has been rejected by all major countries, seafaring countries. And now china is engaged in military exercises in these waters that they consider domestic, which no stretch of the imagination or domestic. The United States reserves
To depths of the Eastern Mediterranean turkey and greece are up along the heads of a volatile area of both countries claimed rights to Energy Resources that could this dispute escalates and what will it take to diffuse it this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im adrian for the concerns are growing that there could be a conflict between turkey and greece in the Eastern Mediterranean for weeks now the 2 countries have been disputing maritime boundaries and offshore Energy Rights on tuesday they sent warships to the waters at a show of force turkeys vessel the aura greece is conducting research and greece says that its above its Continental Shelf anchor disputes athens exclusive rights in the region theyve both announced military exercises within a broader area between crease and cyprus but theyve also signaled readiness for dialogue as germany tries to b. D. A. Between the nato allies aljazeera field reports now from istanbul. Turkey and greek warships on alert tensions are
Better or worse antigovernment anger is building even in the president s traditional heartland. And in sports the Milwaukee Bucks and boycotted their n. B. A. Playoff game the team ready to face the Orlando Magic by didnt show up as part of the a protest against Racial Injustice. Could be the most powerful storm to hit the u. S. This year is just hours away from making landfall Hurrican Laura is already a category 4 storm and Officials Say it could be catastrophic its power grew by nearly 70 percent in just 24 hours this is what it looks like from space as it crackles with lightning and races towards texas and louisiana 2 states that are also grappling with coronavirus authorities have warned a storm that could churn flood waters as high as 6 meters making it unsurvivable around 620000 people have been told to leave their homes with hurricane Warnings Issued to those living as far as 322 kilometers inland. And again it is live for us from miami and it is strong seems to be strengthenin
It wrong from the beginning and then he got it wrong again and again. Well President Trump will officially accept the republican partys nomination in around an hour and a half hell address supporters at the white house meanwhile hundreds of protesters are gathering outside the white house these are live pictures coming to us here from outside the white house. Federal and regional troops are patrolling the u. S. City of kenosha after several nights of violent protests bought by the shooting of a black man not to us appreciate the charges against the officer who shot jake the blade. The head of nato and potence Prime Minister have urged russia not to meddle in the crisis in belarus it comes out of bed amid putin sent his clearest signal yet but hes ready to use force to support the russian president voyage child knishes from the Massachusetts Institute of technology and is originally from belarus she says that russian involvement could take several forms. In the wrecked help from russia
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