Actively denounced the u. S. For what it calls the illegal trespass of a warship off the shisha islands it doesnt stop there though china is now putting the United States on notice that its willing and capable to defend itself and then suggested that the United States should put aside its quote cold war mentality and take time instead to test and quarantine its sailors from further spread of covert 19 those are chinas words now this is a further escalation of the South China Seas controversy so let me help you visualize this ok lets do this lets go over to the map i want to show you 1st of all lets start by explaining where this ashish island is because most people look at this and theyre starting to wonder were talking about its right over here is part of the paris cell island by the way hes islands are tiny so its not like we could even show them on the map of we wanted to this ones off the coast of vietnam little furry. Theyre southeast of the Spratly Islands so these are the parasol islands or the Spratly Islands this whole area is filled with these islands and here and most of them are contested the entire area is called the South China Sea thats the point of contention china says the whole area belongs to them because they say its always belong to them and they say they have proof that its people sailed these waters thousands and thousands of years ago and then since world war 2 it has maintained control of these islands after japan was defeated but but there are 5 other countries who are now claiming the waters off of the South China Sea why because they say look maritime law says we get ownership of anything 200 miles off of our shoreline those countries are the philippines and vietnam and malaysia and brunei and taiwan and some of these countries that i just told you about have decent relationships with china but some of them dont instead some of these countries maintain Close Relationships with the United States and the United States for its part has been engaging more and more in this region militarily and that is what has china so angry so maybe the real question here is this what is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it. It contains 11000000000. 00 barrels of oil they have found 190. 00 trillion cubic feet of natural gas 10 percent of all the worlds fisheries reside right here 30 percent of the worlds shipping trade flows through these corridors 30 percent so this is why Everyone Wants it and china is doing everything it can to hold on to it so what exactly is china doing you know the expression youve heard this before right possession is 9 tenths of the law well chinas put into practice its literally taking possession of these islands and some that arent even islands or just shoals but theyre turning them into islands and theyre building them up ive got an example for you im going to give you an example of one of the one of the satellite images that were going to show you here you see that right there that is a runway and whats funny about this is this used to be just a shoulder rock some of it was underwater but theyve built it up i mean this is what a Remote Island now looks like and what they do is they use the fleets of the ships to go out they dredge the ocean floor they take out the sand they take out the rock to make these islands bigger and higher and then they build these runways and commercial and military establishments and buildings the argument that theyre using is look now we live here we own it and everything within 200 miles of it by maritime law so the u. S. Is accusing china by doing this kind of stuff of what it calls a revisionist argument and it said that its going to continue to deploy its navy the u. S. Navy into these waters for the protection of its allies china meanwhile is intensifying its threats to defend itself if the u. S. Continues to send warships there neither side wants a hot war obviously who does right but the sparring has worked. Going to explain to you in a minute is continually getting hotter this is we think this is a really important story one that we all need to keep keep our eyes on here on the news of rick sanchez where we really do believe its time to do news again. Lets go with the question so heres the list of the questions we think youre going to be asking after watching this newscast just how far will china go d to assert its dominance of the South China Sea what exactly are the u. S. Northeast governors doing with Governor Cuomo of new york and why is the u. S. Military releasing u. F. O. Videos that now have japan making its own believe it or not u. F. O. d move our focus in on that big story that we just told you about its a fascinating story the latest incident seems to have china particularly upset it happened off she shot islands as i was showing you Michelle Greenstein here shes going to join us now to drill down on whats been happening this week this is starting to get very very serious and it sounds like if china was upset before theyre even more upset now thats right well heres what happened on tuesday the u. S. S. Barry right a wartime u. S. Naval ship actually entered into the part Paracel Islands or the schilens waters right kind of then said that it actually expelled this ship because it was trespassing illegally but actually there was even more then on wednesday a nother wartime u. S. Ship the u. S. S. Bunker hill actually entered into the waters around the Spratly Islands right so china in response to these 2 back to pack operations is calling the United States a troublemaker and said that berry was actually an intrusion into chinese territorial waters and in response to what happened at bunker hill heres what the p. L. O. Said heres the statement these provocative acts by the u. S. Side have deliberately increased Regional Security risks and could easily trigger an unexpected incident. Its fascinating to see just how what a sense of possession china has been developing over time and usually because it feels militarily threatened or is it because of those billions of gallons of oil that we just talked about that are sitting underneath the sea well china would say that theyre actually responding right to u. S. Efforts to militarize this heres what the u. S. Is saying washington is basically saying that they dont recognize chinas claim to these para seller the schilens rights and then this is not chinese waters those 30 islands that are known as the shishir Paracel Islands are controlled by beijing but theyre also claimed by taiwan and vietnam right by taipei and noise in terms of the u. S. S. Bunker hill the u. S. Says that this was just a freedom of navigation operation and what that means is because these are islands that are disputed very controlled by china but also by taiwan malaysia the philippines and vietnam that the navy actually came out with this statement heres what they had to say this freedom of navigation operation was consistent with International Law and actually meant to challenge the restrictions on innocent passage imposed by china and taiwan so basically what the u. S. Is saying is that because china is posing a threat to freedom of the seas the United States hostile Response Rate and thats what they did by moving around in these waters the fear is that these things are most going to be boy is going to boil over and now with the United States or entities in the media of the United States accusing china of the worldwide pandemic it seems like everything is escalating like to try to raise your kind of melding into one absolutely tensions are rising and its bringing up the age old question right because the u. S. Is accusing china of militarizing the South China Sea china is accusing the u. S. Of the same thing in the past of course china has said that the u. S. Uses these types of legal arguments like freedom of navigation to actually barge recklessly they say into their region china of course claims this entire region you know last week my pompei you actually accused china of deploying military ships to intimidate other countries from starting oil and gas projects there so its a lot of he said she said china of course. This just deliberate provocation this is really a crazy blasting point when we really need to take a good look at michelle good stuff thanks for bringing us the micro side of that story as we explain the macro side of that story and now as usual lets do the analysis George Galloway former u. K. M. P. Joining us now to take this apart for us your impressions george over the top of this sudden incident that seems to be blowing up there in the South China Sea what is it. Well its eerily similar to our recent discussion about the parish and golf and again the clue is in the name whoever has a claim on these islands it certainly isnt the United States of america which is a very long way indeed from the South China Sea neither was the United States navy acting on behalf of vietnam i dont need to remind you that this was the day in 1975 when the vietnamese people chased the american ambasador off the roof of his embassy and neither is the us acting on behalf of malaysia or on behalf for the philippines it may or may not be acting on behalf of taiwan but Richard Nixon made a strategic decision a very long time ago that the United States relations were with china and that there was only one china straw this is a very dangerous point that weve reached because china frankly is getting tired of being insulted and pushed around it and the danger is that they will take Decisive Action rick its interesting that you would say that im going to just push back a little bit what if the United States were hold to the argument of look those islands were all controlled by the japanese prior to world war 2 certainly prior to the end of world war 2 after we the United States beat the japanese those islands really should belong to us right they could make that argument for some reason theyre not making it but china saying no it belong to the japanese they lost them we claim them because weve adam historically who wins that argument george. Well china lost 20000000 people in the 2nd world war at the hands of the japanese 20000000 2nd only to russia in casualties in the 2nd world war that wont wash because chinas control of the South China Sea has been accepted for hundreds of years in International Law and International Practice so its too late to be resurrecting that and it looks like a pretext and it is a pretext drug trade war with china theres a propaganda war against china and now weve got the warships on the sea yeah and its getting worse and thats why were on it especially with these 2 incidents that michelle just brought to us a little while ago George Galloway always a pleasure thank you for taking us through that and we appreciate the expert commentary from that point of view this is the news with rick sanchez youre watching the news as it develops were going to have it all for you right here stay with us dont go away we welcome you no matter how you are watching us right here especially those of you were checking in on portable t. 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Hey welcome back im rick sanchez new yorks governor is announcing the formation of a new regional coronavirus hob its going to include all nearby states it will seem to work almost independent of the rest of the u. S. And creating a testing protocol for all residents who live in the region this is the u. S. Struggles to find both testing and measuring equipment to better assess who has the virus and who doesnt have the right the virus who has add the virus in the past and who has not had the virus in the past and these are extremely important questions moving forward as youll find out here now with the latest from new york as our t. Correspondent trinity charges. As new york continues to come down the curve there are still hundreds of people dying from coal the 19 every day. New york city the epicenter of the outbreak struggling to keep up with the mounting coronavirus death toll one funeral home in brooklyn so overwhelmed it resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in an refrigerated rental trucks had to do with this for weeks right. There filling up the tractor trailer with bodies you will trucks. To let you sit on the street at least a 100 bodies were discovered by city officials after receiving complaints of odors surrounding the funeral home i just saw that the sparks be carried one. Body. This video showing the workers moving the bodies into the refrigerator trucks provided by the city but you know you just see them taking the bodies even. Just knowing whats going on. You see what its about. Makers pushing for a Bereavement Committee to ensure the proper handling of the citys dead i dont understand this case if the funeral home i heard something about a driver didnt show up or Something Like that why on earth would they not either alert the state who regulate them or go to the er and why p. D. Precinct and ask for help do something rather than leave the bodies there its unconscionable to me but while corona virus continues to grip the state Governor Cuomo says the number of new coronavirus hospitalizations continues to decrease falling below 1000. 933 but still unacceptable and as new york continues to work its way down the curve one month after docking in new york harbor the hospital Navy Ship Comfort is charting back home to its base in virginia the vessel was originally brought in to treat patients for overwhelmed hospitals but a plan changed when the need for covert beds was more pressing the hospital ship treated 182 patients while in new york meantime some good news on the treatment front Health Experts say the a bowl a drug test of a year could shorten kuvin 1000. 00 Recovery Time a promising step for whats to come its the 1st step in what we project will be better and better drugs coming along alone or in combination drugs of this type and drugs addressing all the targets of the virus so its good news but i was very serious when i said this is not the total answer by any means but its a very important 1st step meantime back here stateside officials are working out ramping up testing throughout the state currently conducting about 30000 test a day but just yesterday over 4600 people tested positive for that 19 a strong reminder that this is far from being over but the governor says well testing is important here so is Contact Tracing its extremely important to identify those people who are coming into contact with someone who has the virus. He asked me to take 30 hostile tracers for every 100000 people oh reporting from any your true nature others are to point turn a job just a fantastic work force following things there for some new york which really has been i mean the hot zone of news on all of this and theres a story this week the United States military in really a surprising move released videos of u. F. O. s yes they did this and or as it seems to imply strange unexplainable objects videos of strange from explainable objects moving and dodging and ways that no one seems to be able to understand here heres one of the video. Of. This little commentary from a pair. Of. Of. Thats a pilot describing something going 120 miles into the wind heres another one lets pick another one up diane are very. Casual. Visitor to. The. City are going to vary but. Another Something Else just today this morning japan announced that it is developing a plan for its pilots in case they come in contact with us japan the country is saying its coming up with a plan to share with its pilots both commercial and military in case they ever have some kind of issues with u. F. O. s whats going on right joining us now by phone is high. Mark weiss who has spent years of flying commercially for American Airlines hes a captain captain why sir thank you so much for joining us were so glad youre there what do you make of this and you ever seen anything like this. Were accent so much you know its an interesting phenomena and i think a lot of people have very s