Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us a long list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world those are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference that is kicking off this hour a World Leaders top Security Experts diplomats are all now gathering for the central meeting in southern germany on everyones mind the big global issues the war in syria where a government offensive and it live has triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis another issue concerns over the shrinking influence of the west in shaping Global Security it is even spawned a new term west lists next. And we have our chief Political Editor michelle you look at the Munich Security Conference for us where she is watching in on everything thats happening there for us jaime said and i want to ask you about that term west listener what are people there saying about this. Well many feel that it is kind of appropriate and thats exactly what the security conference always aims to do is kind o
Becoming increasingly full right now is that yeah because everything is throw. Just wait and see last season thailand produced more sugar than ever contributing to a global surplus and helping the price to plummet it has a stockpile of around 7000000. 00 tonnes over a 1000000 more than it had at the same time last year another reason there is so much excess at the moment is because historically a lot of time and indian sugar has been smuggled into china but this year chinese authorities have cracked down on their illegal process to try to protect their own sugar industry. Exports from thailand are also being affected by the strength of the thai baht which has been asias best performing currency this year its farmers who are hurting the most costs are going up while the income falls through the law. Yes im worried about the Small Farmers if the price keeps dropping im afraid that people will give up if we dont see any signs of improvement in a few years it will be bad the oversupply and
A wedding celebration by mistake well our correspondent rob mcbride has more now from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military operation saying a number of foreign taliban fighters as it describes them were killed in this attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do kno
Unprecedented repeat election and more tension over the future of syrias last rebel stronghold turkeys president says he fears a new wave of refugees from it to the province and hes repeating his threat to throw open the doors to your. I bring coffee its good to have you with us or oil prices have soared today on the back of 2 drone attacks on major Saudi Arabian Oil Facilities the weekend strikes sold the worlds crude oil output drop by 5 percent and washington has hinted at a military retaliation it is blaming iran for the strikes but who the rebels based in yemen say theyre the ones responsible. These oil tanks are exhibit a as the world tries to assess who is responsible for attacks on saudi facilities they show almost identical impact points which u. S. Officials say indicates a high degree of sophistication in the attack hoochie rebels in yemen have claimed responsibility theyve been fighting the saudis and their proxy forces for years in yemen civil war. But some analysts doubt
Sinks to a record low its Boris Johnson toughens his stand on. The december though to school one of the worlds most famous footballers is told hes rape cases being dropped police in brazil so the no longer investigating p. S. G. Strike in mame all because of a lack of evidence. Sydney Security Forces have been responding with live ammunition and tear gas as protesters again fill the streets. As protesters are voicing their anger about the killing of 5 people including 4 School Children a rally on monday facing pressure at home and abroad the head of the military join to declare the killing of peaceful students is a crime those who died on monday were shot by Security Forces trying to disperse a demonstration made up of mostly Young Students and activists. When what happened in elevators the straw that will break the military councils back we need to know who committed the massacre in the military council has to address them incentives to court if they dont then let the council and the