with alliance tomorrow, the leaders will be joined by the president of the philippines. 3 leaders who agreed that the future of the in the pacific can not and must not be written by a rising china. so what are they planning to do about it? well, that's a question made less for a president or a prime minister, perhaps even more so for the general. i'm for golf in berlin. this is the day the you and i the trusted with protective and advancing the monumental alliance between our 2 great democracy and used to back the cooperation between our countries bound together by common values and commitments as become a global one. the alliance between japan or the 9 states is the cornerstone of peace security prosperity. the development of the

japan us relationship is the fruits of the historical cooperation between the 2 countries. and that partnership between us is also coming up a nother whistle blower and boeing more safety questions sending trust in the dreamliner even further on the downward spot. as we get when we take delivery of all of our boeing aircraft, we inspect the aircraft on delivery. it doesn't go straight into service, we occasionally find a spine or under a floor boards, things like that, that shouldn't be happening and there were assign all that boeing needs to prove is quality control, which our viewers watching on tv, as in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin today with the challenge from china and a partnership that could possibly contain it. as president joe biden,

this hosting japan's prime minister from you because she different talked in washington with defense ties, top of the agenda, closer cooperation between former folks to head off a new threat from beijing of the clock is ticking to get things done in to make it stick china is increasingly flexing its muscles and the dispute itself trying to see elections are looming in the united states, which could see donald trump returning to the white house by the called the partnership between washington in tokyo today, quote, unbreakable, the 2 leaders announced the new enhanced military partnership and that means greater integration of their military's and closer cooperation on arms production on thursday by the name because she did will be joined by the president of the philippines. furden in marcos. junior, the philippines have had a number of maritime run ends with the chinese is badging attempts to a certain control over the south china sea or east asia corresponded. james trader

takes a look now at once at stake in the south china sea. this week show a force from the us and it's in the pacific allies, the us, japan, and the philippines alongside australia, in the 1st of the joint naval exercises designed to uphold freedom of navigation in the contested waters. the drills a probably to another 1st those days historic summit between the leaders of the us, japan and the philippine spots. the 2 countries with which washington has mutual defense treaties bringing these nations together, what some japanese officials called the most complex security environment since world war 2. including a more belligerent north korea, but mainly a more search of china under president shooting paint, post manila and tokyo have maritime to speak with aging friction in the south china sea, especially when china has recently fired was cannons philippine vessels as race phase . the us could be drawn into direct conflicts with badging,

but there are even deeper concerns over the fate of taiwan the self, rhode island which china claims its own and his file to take by force if necessary . if ranging words take taiwan, they would radically shift agents balance of power in favor of china. and for japan and the philippines which rely on smooth the trade flows through the taiwan straits . they would have national security implications to you and you have to look at to map to understand why move over to silence. the northern most points of the philippines is just 140 kilometers from ty ones, mainland, the nearest shopping. these islands you want to get any, is even close to around 110 kilometers away. japan recently deployed new military units that both are much closer to taipei, the neither manila or tokyo, the increasingly japan and the philippines of working together in tools now for deal that would allow then, minute trees to be stationed on each other's territory. let's say that as well as

the us, they summit all parts of us efforts to bring their lives in the region closer together. the more you criss crossing lines you have over the region, the more complex the strategic decisions decision paying the china would be. um, it should it decide to escalate tensions, for example of taiwan despite tactic conflicts in europe and the middle east, washington maintains asia is a long time foreign policy focus, the summit between the us and 2 of its most important to regional allies. the latest sign of the shifting cards in the, in the pacific security picture of a more i'm joined now by kelly because he's a senior fellow at the simpson center in washington. and the other things are work . it looks at us security policy in the, in the pacific this week. so it's good to have you with this. um president, by today he was a, fuse it in his praise of japan and the strength of the alliance. let me get your tag, gives it as strong as he says it is. first of all,

thank you for having me. it's been an exciting day in washington. there are lots of us and drop in the slides all over the city to get your question. i think, you know, it's actually a more complicated question that it might seem because at a political and strategic level, the alliance is actually quite close. and there's a close alignment at terms of their view of the region, and that's find a threat. but when you sort of look under the hood, one of the things you realize is that the alliance really last a lot of the institutional mechanisms like what exist inigo. in order to actually facilitate cooperation at an operational level. if they were ever to have to fight together side by side, the u. s. as basically is played the role of a protector of japan since the, the end of the 2nd world war. considering that i want to point something that you wrote, you come off that are a recent article about the alliance between the us and japan, and e,

right. for the past 70 years, the alliance is operating with 2 separate command structures, the united states and japan ege retaining their independent chains of command. but you could want to say that in a conflict with china, this set up may no longer be fit for purpose. it could even be a disaster. why do you think that? so yeah, so i spent decades now studying military alliance isn't coalitions when they actually go in have to fight words together. and one of the things that i had originally found was that the single most important thing was actually having a unified command structure. meaning that there was a way for there to be a single overall supreme commander in charge of all allied forces to be able to help with planning and to coordinate that effort. it's hard to believe, given how long standing this alliances and giving the closest the relationship. so that kind of structure does not exist in the us. japan alliance, in part because of japan being a self defense force and the united states being a,

a military there's, that's an important distinction. but also because when the alliance was bounded, really, we thought of japan more as a staging round for conducting operations elsewhere in the region. but that's really changed today where japan grow. it really now is on the front line with competition with china and would really be important player if we actually in terms of deterring china. and certainly if we had to, um, try to defend japan or somewhere else in the region. do you think you should japan have uh, you know, i guess a little bit of every hinge and about what the united states would do if there were to be a military conflict with china based on history. and i'm thinking about the 911 attacks here in the united states, shortly thereafter made when vote article 5, offering military helped to the u. s. and the response from george w bush at the time was thanks, but no thanks. we're going to do this ourselves. is there a fear?

do you think in the, in the pacific region that the us would do that again? if there were a china attack? yes, i mean, i think this is always an idea and i make that exists within a lives is that, you know, you're afraid, particularly if you are the smaller power in an alliance that you'll be dropped into some kind of war by your larger, more powerful ally. i don't think that is as much of a q concern right now and term in terms of the relationship with the united states and japan, particularly on issues around time on japan is acutely concerned about that security issue. i also think there's quite a bit of recognition that if there were to be a conflict over taiwan, that japan would play certain kinds of rules. it would probably not be projecting power over the taiwan strait for example. but wouldn't be able to take on more security responsibilities and defense rules in terms of protecting japan's

territory and sees here in europe. there's a lot of talk at nato. busy about the future proofing of the alliance. moving forward, it may ask you how in the future approved or the agreements are biting because she to are, are making right now given the fact that the president of the united states this time, next year might be a one. and only donald trump. yes. well, the 1st 70 deals have come out of this meeting, which is extraordinary, normally, and visit like this. you might see a dozen maybe 2 dozen. so that in itself, i think, is quite noteworthy. but this idea upfront proofing alliances. i will just say that i'm a skeptic of this idea. uh, i think what we're really, what it was, what we're trying to do, i think, to try to get as much done as possible and building up these alliances and strengthening them before a possible 2nd. trump presidency on the whole,

the based on his behavior during his 1st presidency. he's not someone who cares as much about the details and wouldn't necessarily have an interest in going about doing things. so even if it'd be alliances would not, for a stronger under his presidency, there may at least be able to get to keep them at the level where they are. but of course, you know, cope is not a real strategy. yeah. yeah. let me ask before we've been out of time the summit with the president of the philippines tomorrow. and how key is that alliance? yeah, i mean, i think when you look at, you know, the us, philippines lines is very important. of course, you look at the geography of the region and you can understand why the philippines is very important. united states and japan, particularly in a taiwan scenario. the one caution that i would have is that the philippines itself is really concerned about the south china sea, not the taiwan strait. and so one thing that i think we need to be careful about is not thinking that they are leading into these relationships. the philippines is

a sign that they're signing up for potentially being involved in the taiwan straits scenario. i think that remains very unlikely. ok, kelly, we go with these dips, the vendor in washington is because always good to see you. excellent analysis. we appreciate your time. thank you. thank of the muslims, around the world or marquis the end of the holy month of ramadan and traditionally observed with 3 days and celebration this year. sensitivities are overshadowed by the israel home us war in gauze, or we're palestinians are facing critical shortages and nearly everything including food, water in met us, praying alongside the ruins. the white minarette is all that's left from this mosque in rafa. the rest of the building was destroyed during and is really offensive in february. last year i was surrounded by my children. i'm looking at

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sustained entry to gaza. the needs are massive and every day that passes and go on, we see the more deeds that are growing. you and experts say 1100000 people, half the population are experiencing catastrophic food and security with the humanitarian crisis. getting worse, israel's closest allies are voicing more criticism by the day. us president joe biden told us spanish language broadcast network univision, that is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, whose approach was a quote mistake. i don't agree with his readers to excuse to not provide for the medical and the food needs of those people they should be done. now israel said it aloud, a record number of a trucks into gaza since the war began on the eve of the holiday. a globe,

but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu recently insisted no force in the world. what stop is really troops for mentoring? for alpha? that's where most cousins have gone to avoid the fighting. but israel's military also insist, garza southern most city is harboring the remaining battalions of homos, whose october 7th air attacks in israel started at the war. boeing's 787 dream. why does it become more of a potential nightmare each time the aircraft takes off? well, that is just one of the worry, some questions swirling around an airplane that was designed to keep boeing's market position and profits flying high for years to come. it was, a blower has come forward, claiming boeing cut corners with its triple $7.78 dreamliner jets, sam seller for an engineer at the company for more than

a decade. warren's that these walls could prove catastrophic as the airplanes age. on tuesday, he told reporters about unacceptably large gaps that he solved between fuselage panels. he said this is the quote. boeing hid the problem by pushing the pieces together with force to make it appear like the gap didn't exist. i literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the airplane to get them to a line. that's not how you build a plane. but this all comes at a tribute of time for boeing just 2 weeks ago, the company c o dave calhoun and other senior executive said that they are stepping down after questions were raised about the safety of their airports. and you may remember a door panel blew off in alaska airlines 737 max in mid air. calhoun said that the incident was a watershed moment for boeing. a little more i'm doing now by just why is it the

agent or listen host of the deep dive image 370 podcast is good to have you with this. let me just ask you um, a watershed moment for boeing. what exactly does that mean? well, i mean its one of a bunch of water, said mama really. i mean, sure, i'll remember the 201-820-1977, max crashes that killed over 300 people. that was really, i think the, the, the penny dropped moment when a lot of people realize they may, maybe something's not so good with these plans. and then yeah, there's been, i mean, things aren't quite a doubt. someone. i mean, i think the people have the, those 2 awful incidents are sort of receding into people's memories. my next door plug thing happened over oregon and that's kind of just really reawakened people to their concerns. and now we, we have this latest whistle blower from a boeing it, it has claims that the dreamliner is basically made of parts that don't fit together properly and the plane could possibly break apart in mid flight as it ages

. mean, have you ever heard a former industry inside or good public, but such a damning indictment before as yeah, unfortunately, we've heard it a lot actually. we've heard it for years. uh, what's the lawyers have been coming forward about the 787 production line in particular? in fact, just last month, the whistle blower killed himself in a parking lot. uh, as he was in the midst of, of undergoing deposition for a lawsuit. so this is part of a, you know, frustrating, really long series of reports and claims and they have substance. i mean, after whistle blowers came forward about that production line, they say a look into it and found it. yes. uh there were, there were really grounds for concern and they actually stopped production at this

facility for a while. so this is not unfortunate, but you know, this late, this was a blower. he had scheduled to testify next week in washington before a congressional committee. what impact if any, would this have a passenger safety? i mean, i'm wondering what's the point that this state mean of these kinds that already been built and he's raising concerns of the plans that are already fine. yeah. right. or well, we don't know. i mean, frankly, based just on these preliminary reports, what he is saying, the extent he's not saying that these plans are gonna fall apart tomorrow with these plans are designed to fly for 50 years. and so when you're talking about a 35 year old as 40 year old, a 45 year old plant, are they going to make it to 50 or so minutes every time a plane lands and then takes off? it's called a cycle and it dresses the engineering of that play by a few bad if you've been to paper clip back and forth like after

a certain number of flexes and breaks. and that's the same as of parts and an airplane to how much stress conditioning take before it breaks. and what he's basically saying is these are not made as they had were designed to be made. and therefore, these stresses are going to cause failure earlier than expected. now, these are fairly new airplanes. and so i don't think they're anywhere near their design life span, even if they were improperly made me. so i think in this circumstance was clearly going to have to happen, and i think this will happen. so they say they will review what's done, what condition his plans are in, suggest tests suggests repairs or placements that needs to be made. and it's going to cost money, it's going to take time, but ultimately the public will be safe. let me ask you about time. i mean, this latest whistle blower, he is a former engineer at boeing. yep. you know,

he could have gone public with this information earlier years ago, but he did not. we know the dreamliner. it is a new plane, but it wasn't designed just yesterday. i mean, we were talking about years and years of engineering here. i mean, does this, but his credibility and his motivations in, in question i don't think so. for the same reason. i said earlier, we says we have heard reports like this for years and yes, she didn't come forward right away. but other people have come forward and i think it's important to recognize that it's not easy to come forward just just a month ago, killed himself. having said that bone has harassed him, i think his life is quite difficulty. realistic. yes, boeing has been in headlines recently because their plans have problems, but they remain very, very state air plants and the company remains beloved. there's many people that customers, employees who are familiar with this company are familiar with the product and they

love it. and they want it to become better, they want it to over time, this created difficulty. they want it to be the airline manufacturer that it can be if, if these accusations, if they are true, what does this mean about this oversight and regulation by the f a, the federal aviation authority meet are these safety inspectors? are they the independent actors that they're supposed to be as well, they clearly have it done in the past. but the events of this past few months has really little fire under a lot of people, including the say that as the see me, boeing is under scrutiny right now on there. nearing the end of this 3 month period, the f a gave them back in january to say like we're, you know, we're going to review your operations. we want you to come up with a plan for how you are going to fix it. so this is not the start of this saga. this

is a sort of a late breaking development in the saga. this been underway for a while now. boeing is under scrutiny, is going to have to clean up its act. let me ask before we run out of time, last week's incident, the southwest airlines is jet and engine cover breaking off has the plane was taking off? what should the flying public seat? i mean, after all, statistically flying remains the safest mode of transportation, but it doesn't feel that way. yeah. it doesn't feel that way because in the wake of these 1st 2 crashes in 2010, 2019, and then this door plug incident, we are hearing these disturbing stories. and we are sensitized to every single thing that happens becomes a new story. now that the, the paddling coming off the engine that you wouldn't, that wouldn't have been, and it was, you would never would have heard about that if it hadn't been for all these other things that are happening. so it kind of snowball,

just like wreckage reputational damage, is like a snowball, rolling down a hill, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger. and, um, you know, it's, it's just, it's a self, it's a downward spiral really. so boeing's very significant job right now is to, is to somehow reassure in the public um and get them to stop paying attention to minor problems like this. yeah, we'll see what happens evasion, journalist, jeff wise, if we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thank you. and finally, humans created artificial intelligence can a, i create art where you can be the judge that yourself and you've expedition to the also fine arts. and one did entitled the beginning showcases creations from top a i, artist, that's right. these are not human artists. the artist organizers say, they hope to break down the negative of the surrounding artificial intelligence and they want to show that a i can be part of something beautiful to the

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