starting anew. obviously both leaders sort of mentioned the fact that last year the two of them are seen each other, this is a reference to the fact that the two of them saw each other both in tokyo and then later in the year in cambodia and they talked about different areas of major cooperation including the president mentioning the fact that japan now has this new national security strategy which the u.s. has been largely supportive of and this joint u.s./japan military cooperation agreement. they also talked about areas of economical cooperation as well and it doesn t need to be said explicitly that so much of this has to do with trying to contain china and the two countries believe that this is where there s ample room for cooperation, that the two countries can work together with other regional partners to contain china both marilitarilys well. the meeting happening right now and of course expect them to talk about other issues like the ongoing war in ukraine, another
joining us i m eric shawn. for some other major stories were funky right now. trying to intensify the military the coast of tehran. that after house speaker nancy pelosi visited the country last week. beijing also suspending climate and military cooperation agreement with the united states. meanwhile in the middle east dozens have been killed in gaza. the bloodiest fighting between israelis and palestinians in over a year. as palestinian jihad terrorists continue to attack the jewish state, more than 600 rockets have been fired from gaza. some see behind these attacks the hidden hand of ironic. former prime minister of israel will be here on that in a few moments. cracks fox team coverage starts right now. alexander hoff with a more on the china threat. first were going to go to chad per agreement. he has on capitol hill so chad what is it looking like?
Conventional wisdom has it that the conflict in Ukraine will lead the U.S. to bolster its military presence along NATO’s boundary in Eastern Europe, with a concomitant downscaling in the Middle East. While presenting a robust front in support of NATO is of course critical, it would be a mistake to do so at the expense of the U.S. military presence in the Middle East at a time when it appears likely that Russian President Vladimir Putin has chosen the region as the venue for the next moves in his campaign to marginalize the U.S.
afghan refugees that want to get out of the country remain. we re hearing more and more reports of the taliban killing afghans that helped the united states going back on their promise of amnesty. it s causing fresh questions about whether the taliban can be trusted to keep their promise of safe passage. the white house says this is one of the reasons that the u.s. not rushing to recognize the taliban. the pentagon says there might be the need for collaboration going forward. nobody is trying to ink some sort of military cooperation agreement with the taliban. they wouldn t rule out there might be occasions when there might need to be. some informational component there with the taliban going forward. senate republicans want answers on why a majority of afghan sivs that helped the u.s. were not evacuated. they want breakdown of who has made it in to the country.