Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us at least 16 people are dead and thousands of homes destroyed as of monday evening local time in the philippines officials continue to assess the damage typhoon goni is one of the strongest storms to make landfall there in years bringing winds of up to 200 kilometers an hour to parts of the country it mostly missed the capital of manila but still hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate not just from the storm but from subsequent mudslides and floods. For a country hit on average 20 times each year by typhoon dhoni was the most powerful to strike the philippines this year. Rooftops were torn away debris flying everywhere as water rushed in one from the sea or downhill from mountainsides. Wind gusts reached above 300 Kilometers Per Hour and in some towns the red cross said up to 80 percent of the homes were destroyed. Goni rivaled typhoon haiyan which in 2013 killed more than 6000 people. But this time there were w
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Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us exactly one week before possibly the most consequential u. S. Election secretary of state mike pompei own defense secretary mark esper has flown to india to meet with their counterparts its almost as if theyre running against the clock rolling out as much of their age policy in case their boss President Donald Trump loses the election india has signed a military agreement with the u. S. To share sensitive satellite information and the 2 will participate in naval exercises next month those are war games along with australia and japan all members of the quad a partnership of india pacific democracies. Joining us is korea mohan of the German Marshall Fund for more agreement pump aoe and the esper are in india but this is as much about china isnt it. Absolutely so this meeting comes in the backdrop of chinese aggression at indias border region which shows no signs of abating it also comes in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic t
Impeachment proceedings because trump held up missiles that were meant for ukraine missiles that even obama had refused to send in the House Democrats could have been peach trump for enriching himself for the presidency they are a David Foster Wallace blank list of war crimes or a variety of ways hes in danger the American People or for having offspring with the mental capacity of lawn furniture but the democrats wont do that they wont impeach of or something legitimate because they either support all those things or theyre complicit they love a war crime thats me thats their passion and they listed under likes on tinder they own war crimes t. Shirts and theyve seen them live in concert like 19 times number 8 if joe biden loses blame kaamelott harris to not number one on this list but she should be on this list if biden had picked an actual progressive someone who stands for helping people then it would have gone a long way towards exciting voters instead he picked a prosecutor who hel
A break in fighting in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh as civilians flee azerbaijan agrees to meet International Mediators in its conflict with our media. Attention to a women away another 2020 nobel prize in chemistry for their work in developing a method for editing genomes emmanuelle shop plenty of france and jennifer doubt of the u. S. Are recognized for what the academy calls quote rewriting the code of life. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show we begin in the United States where republican Vice President mike pence and a democratic contender Camila Harris are preparing to battle it out in the Vice President ial debate 2 hours from now it comes after President Trump returned to the oval office into the white house for the 1st time since he was released from ha. Spittal where he was being treated for cope at 19 with his health under scrutiny tonights debate is being watched especially closely well be carrying it live for you once things get underway but 1st heres a lo