Im melissa chan welcome to news asia tensions between china and taiwan have hit a high not seen in years most recently chinese warplanes crossed to the median line the Narrow Strait separating the 2 sides over the past week thats according to taiwans president haiyan one the United States plays a role in all this says taiwans main supporter the trumpet administration plans to sell taiwan billions of dollars in weapons from missiles to Surveillance Drones in order to shore up its defenses against any potential attack by beijing taiwan is a democracy with a separate government but president xi jinping considers it a part of his peoples republic of china. Over ousting reception for taiwans leader as she meets air force offices at one of the territories most important to military bases. President sighing when he was there to deliver a special message following a spike in tensions between time china so were going off as the commander in chief of our National Armed forces i want to assure th
He is definitely no longer this countrys president and that as a result the countrys Security Services were under no obligation to follow his orders tonight were expecting big protests here in minsk the police has closed down effectively the city lots of police and police vans on the streets ready to make arrests people being sent home early from work in the expectation that the police will need to get their streets emptied to deal with protesters and journalists have been arrested doing their jobs out in the streets of mints today so really a sense that events are accelerating here and its now in the 30 seconds that we have together is this going to galvanize demonstrators or is this really such a big blow to their efforts. I think it will defeat galvanize their efforts this is how scared this regime is how its feeling the pressure that it needs to basically do this in private without any real legitimacy or guests on hand to see whats going on so i think if anything this will bring mo
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia tensions between china and taiwan have hit a high not seen in years most recently chinese warplanes crossed to the median line the Narrow Strait separating the 2 sides over the past week thats according to taiwans president high in one the United States plays a role in all this says taiwans main supporter the trumpet administration plans to sell taiwan billions of dollars in weapons from missiles to Surveillance Drones in order to shore up its defenses against any potential attack by beijing taiwan is a democracy with a separate government but president xi jinping considers it a part of his peoples republic of china. Over ousting reception for taiwans leader as she meets air force offices at one of the territories most important to military bases. President sighing when he was there to deliver a special message following a spike in tensions between time in china so were thinking of as a commander in chief of our National Armed forces i want to assur
And this morning the growing concern about the digital divide. Some students sitting in Fast Food Restaurant parking lots just to access free wifi to do their homework. Caught on camera, fire spreading through this home while a man sits in that chair unaware of the flames. What happened next. Plus, the new video of a Navy Battleship sunk on purpose. And labor day blowout. The best deals ahead of the holiday that you can get without ever leaving home. And a good Tuesday Morning, everyone. Im will reeve in for kenneth. And im mona kosar abdi. We begin with President Trump heading to kenosha after the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Blakes shooting kicked off days of protests in several cities, some turning deadly. President trump is defending the teenager charged in the killing of two people in kenosha. This as we learn new details about the man killed in portland, oregon, this weekend. In a new interview, the president defended Police Officers who misused deadly force saying they choke
Taking to protect servicemembers and their families. Good morning to all of you and ood morning to the general and sergeant major. Our efforts on the navy side and we want to update you on the measures we are taking in the marine corps. Before i do thats correct let me give you our latest navy total of 133 positive covid19 in the United States navy. 104 active duty military, 23 civilians, 16 dependents and 19 contractors. I want to give a quick update on the teddy roosevelt. We found several more cases on board the ship. We are in the process now of testing 100 of the crew of that ship to ensure that we are able to contain whatever spread might have occurred there on the ship. But i want to emphasize that the ship is operationally capable and can do its mission sm the ship is pulling into guam and no one on the crew will be allowed to leave into guam and we are starting the process of testing 100 of the crew to ensure that we got that contained. The sailors who have been flown off the