Have british manager, welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back into the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying
In afghanistan, military readiness, and the importance of emerging defense technologies. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It is a sincere pleasure for me to welcome our featured an honored guest today, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley, United States army. Since becoming the 20 the chairman of the joint chiefs in 2019 general milley has worked to realize the u. S. National Defense Strategy which prioritizes competition with china and russia, and American Defense plenty. Chairman milley has worked tirelessly with civilian and uniformed leadership towards developing the u. S. Armed forces into a truly modern armed force, capable of deterring and heading off the threats of all types that we may be facing today including those emanating from nearpeer competitors that have now really pronounced once again the idea of Great Power Competition. He has kept a close and careful eye on the perennial defense issues associated with iran and north korea, v
Global threat. The bidenharris transition and the Foreign Policy environment theyll inherit. Tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. Our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. He needs no introduction but let me go through it. Former director of c. I. A. , former director of former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and Homeland Security in the white house to president obama, former director of the National Counterterrorism center, career c. I. A. Officer, arabic speaker and author of the bestselling and i would add having read it myself, very interesting book undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, he is someone who sits at the nexus of intelligence, Foreign Policy, at the white house, abroad and at langley, also knows a Little Something about northeast asia, the pride of hudso
Theyll inherit. Tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. Our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. He needs no introduction but let me go through it. Former director of c. I. A. , former director of former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and Homeland Security in the white house to president obama, former director of the National Counterterrorism center, career c. I. A. Officer, arabic speaker and author of the bestselling and i would add having read it myself, very interesting book undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, he is someone who sits at the nexus of intelligence, Foreign Policy, at the white house, abroad and at langley, also knows a Little Something about northeast asia, the pride of hudson county, i should also add he holds a masters degree from the university of
Community. And is life changing exam during a life altering pandemic thousands of South Koreans to mistake the National University entrance exams under the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. Im british manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us for the 1st time in 1000 yeahs the taliban and the Afghan Government have come to a written agreement just 3 pages long it is a document that lays out the rules of procedures for negotiations between the 2 sides aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war the Development Ends and impasse after nearly 3 months of talks in doha nato is one of a number of organizations to welcome the move saying theres no alternative to such talks. Im not underestimating the difficulties on the risks for setbacks on disappointments onstream move forward but im absolutely certain that the only way its on going into afghan negotiations and therefore we support them and knowing that it will be difficult from john but that is the only option for all of those who wa