Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Nada i am nada tawfik in new york, and this is bbc world news america. A new wave of violence in afghanistan risks reversing the progress made in peace talks. Violence in afghanistan is an everyday kind of violence afghans being killed as they leave their schools and go to work, as they are sitting in their homes. Nada police in the United States have arrested mexicos former defense minister for helping one of the worlds most notorious drug cartels laundering money and narcotics. With just 18 days until the u. S. Election can we take a look at a topic that has been largely missing from the president ial campaign and find out where the candidates stand on foreign affairs. Nada welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. The United Nations in afghanistan has warned th
Mexicos former defense minister has been arrested in the u. S. Now new details about the charges against him will be live in mexico city. Lets start in thailand where police and antigovernment protesters a force in the center of the capital water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 3rd day in a row thousands of people defied the government ban on gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy scott hide the reports. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protestors and thai police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd day thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before. As promised in an announcement just after the violence began taia 30 began using everything at their disposal to stop the protests including water cannon with burning agent laced with water the protesters are demandin
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Nada i am nada tawfik in new york, and this is bbc world news america. A new wave of violence in afghanistan risks reversing the progress made in peace talks. Violence in afghanistan is an everyday kind of violence afghans being killed as they leave their schools and go to work, as they are sitting in their homes. Nada police in the United States have arrested mexicos former defense minister for helping one of the worlds most notorious drug cartels laundering money and narcotics. With just 18 days until the u. S. Election can we take a look at a topic that has been largely missing from the president ial campaignnd find out where the candidates stand on foreign affairs. Nada welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. The United Nations in afghanistan has warned that
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v
Asian theyll talk about sanctions how do you even have any ports that function in iran given the International Sanctions against your country well at the beginning of the sanctions they put the. Mikes in on pressure on the shipping sector including try turning off the International Shipping companies especially the container liner carriers to seize their. Trade with iran and to to have. Call to indian ports the classification societies were issued deceptive because for the ships and those who are members of iraqs which is the International Society association they also stopped their coverage of iranian ship Insurance Companies internationally into Insurance Companies even insured and again a collapse but fortunately due to the capacities of ukrainian maritime sector coding. Shipping companies you know our shipping line Islamic Republic of iran shipping line which is mainly a non tank air fleet. At the moment from capacity point of view its rank is 14th. And our National Tanker company.