My name is andrew hunter. Im a senior fellow here at the center for strategic and International Studies and the International Security program and director of our Defense Industrial initiatives group that focuses on defense acquisition and increasingly on what i call defense trade or the cooperation of defense acquisition that we do with our allies and partners. Im going to introduce our panel, and maybe kick off the question and answer session with this group when were ready for that. Our panel is divided into two folks who are presenting and two discussants who will speak to the presentations and other issues under this topic. And our topic for this panel is finding opportunities to facilitate republic of korea u. S. Defense r d cooperation. I think we have a really strong panel to present to you on this topic. To my left is mr. Steve wellby, who recently completed service or at least within the last several months, completed service as the assistant secretary of defense for research
Are at isctrilat d. C. So my name is Alexander Evans and of the your master for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins sais. Perhaps more important for todays event i am an alum of the 63rd japanamerican student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of ways it was bad experience that really continued to motivate me to study japan put you on the path that i am in the creek of that experience. Particularly given that it was right after the march 11 triple disaster, an opportunity when japan was not open to many students to be able to go in and have persontoperson exchange with something that i would say it may sound corny but i changed my life. And so before we get started today will have a couple introductory marks so i would first like to introduce ms. Linda butcher, secular director of isc. Prior to this role she served as a director of Media Relations and Public Affairs at the current Eco
Processed foods could increase your chances of getting cancer. A team of french reserbsearchs have been looking at what they call ultra processed foods. What are they, how dangerous are they . We will find out in the next hour. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. We will bejoined we will be joined by we tv presenterjeff brazier, whose sons lost their mum, big brother starjade goody from Cervical Cancer after she put off going for a smear test. She part of a cam main to get people stop ignoring Health Symptoms and urging people to seek help earlier. Talking to him just after 10. 30. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live, and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today at least 17 people have been shot dead by a gunman at a high school in florida. Several other people are in hospital with serious injuries, after the attack at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School
We take a look at their global ambition. This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Rishaad looking positive out there, just seeing whats going on. It does seem as though chinese equity markets could be in for a positive year. The first trading date for the chinese new year, its positive. It leads to a positive year to follow. Look out for that one. Haidi astrology might be as good as any other indicator, technical or otherwise, to engage sentiment. The dollar off to a good start. We are 30 minutes out from the market start. Not much of a lead from wall street, just finishing in positive territory for the benchmark there. But the selloff suggesting we are when it comes to sentiment on higher inflation. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia just coming online. Asian stocks set to end the week on a positive note as investors debate the impact of rising bond yields and direction of inflation. Stephen mnuchin offering more comments. Did a highlight this morning was japans latest inflation reads. It posted
Without advance notice, and was a provocative action that raised regional tensions. South koreas military said the missile was launched towards the east, from sunan near the north korean capital pyongyang. It flew 3700 kilometres over the island of hokkaido and crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 2000 kilometres east of cape erimo. The Un Security Council is to meet in emergency session later on friday to discuss the crisis. This is the First Response from south north korea since the latest round of sanctions. The south Korean Military has estimated that it travelled 3700 kilometres across japan and into the Pacific Ocean. Here in seoul the national Security Council is meeting as we speak and there has again been global condemnation of north korea. Certainly in this part of the world. For example, the japanese Prime Minister has said that his country will never tolerate these types of provocations. The us secretary of state has said that this will further increase north koreas isolati