and then there's the president of the philippines who not long ago told president obama he could go to hell. >> i would like to congratulate president trump. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: why do these strong men seem to like donald trump? >> i would call it their capacity to provide simple answers to very complicated questions. that what we're seeing at the moment in the world today is a loss of threats and crises and uncertainty, and what these leaders are providing is simplistic answers, black and white, close the borders, no more foreigners. >> reporter: vladimir putin first came to power in 1999, delighting many russians with his promise to hunt down and kill chechen rebels in their toilets. turkey's fiery erdogan inspires fer vanity pride among working class voters while often demonizing and percent could you get his critics. and in europe several far right politicians embrace trump's tough talk on immigration and islamist extremism hoping for their own trump bump as they compete for the top job in dutch and french elections scheduled next year. but not everyone welco

about, the failure of reconciliation, because when they go as tourists to manila, the capital of the philippines, or seoul, the capital of south korea, they do not dare chat with each other on the sidewalk in japanese for fear of being physically assaulted. a year after this, at a seminar -- a break in a seminar at northwestern university, a bunch of us at lunch were talking about the difference between europe and east asia, and i mentioned this. and a lady sitting at the table proceeded to tell us about her and her husband having to rescue two young japanese women, wives of american officers stationed in south korea, rescue them from being beaten by a bunch of people in seoul because they had obviously not been warned not to talk to each other in japanese. and she and her husband had pulled off the people beating on them, pushed them into a taxicab to go elsewheres. and after this, i talked to the lady who had had this experience and told us about it about what she thought were roughly the age group of the people beating up on these women whose husbands were there to defend south korea. and it

jonathan head reports on the philippines' deadly war on drugs. the war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. even here, in the jails. many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. in cells, so packed with bodies, it's hard to breathe. it says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. there are clearly concerns about real drug problems here. the focus, as with so much of this campaign, are the people at the very bottom of the trade, not the people running it. at least here they can stay alive. but not here. the bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night in the slums of manila, killed either by the police or by shadowy hit squads. it started when this man, an outspoken crime fighting mayor was elected president in may. when he said he would kill drug dealers, he meant it. that's the lives of ten criminals really matter to me? if i am the one facing the grief, would 100 lives of this

families devastated and more lives lost. 0ne country which really got tough on drugs this year was the philippines. its hard line new president campaigned for his election by promising to kill 100,000 drug dealers and criminals in his first six months in office.

the philippines had made a complaint under international unusual, it went on for years. and then i read the tribunal ruling about who had what rights in the south china sea and what was going on. what struck me is there was so much about the environment and i , had not focused on that element. this man's name kept coming up, john mcmanus. i thought how unusual to be this scientist thrown into the midst of geopolitics. here is your name type thing. and his name came up because he had been the one to go and quantify all this environmental damage that had happened to these reefs and the south china -- in the south china sea. i thought, ok, i want to talk to this guy and see how he ended up in the middle of this geopolitical debate. carol: he is a professor of marine biology and ecology at the university of miami. talk to us about the research he did and what he saw, and why it is so important. >> it goes back a long way. he had been based in the philippines for years, and he had done this very early study of exactly what was happening in the spratly islands. why, they are h

one country which really got tough on drugs this year was the philippines. its hard line new president campaigned for his election by promising to kill 100,000 drug dealers and criminals in his first six months in office. his controversial, tough tactics, which critics say turning a blind eye to extra judicial killings, led to an unprecedented rise in the murder rate. around 2,000 people we re murder rate. around 2,000 people were killed in just murder rate. around 2,000 people were killed injust the murder rate. around 2,000 people were killed in just the first two months of the crackdown. jonathan head reports on the philippines' deadly war on drugs. the war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. even here, in the jails. many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. in cells, so packed with bodies, it's hard to breathe. it says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. there are biggest prisons around mani

hong kong, taiwan and the philippines, all ringing in 2017 just a few moments ago. it's a beautiful celebration. fireworks, take a closer look at hong kong. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> spectacular or what? that was hong kong, manila, philippines, and taipei, taiwan where they're going into 2017 with an incredible beautiful bang. and of course, we'll bring you all the new year celebrations as they happen. all right, but first we're following two major stories. a vermont electric company says it has found malware linked to russian hackers on a company laptop. it's the same code that government officials believe was used by hackers to meddle in the u.s. elections. the vermont governor lashing out at russian president vladmir putin saying vermonters and all america should be both alarmed and outraged that one of the world's leading thugs, vladmir putin, has been attempting to hack our electric grid which we rely upon to support our quality of life, economy, health and safety. the criticism not hurting the relationship between putin and president elect donald trump. putin con

hong kong, taiwan and the philippines, all ringing in 2017 just a few

he had been based in the philippines for years, and he had done this very early study of exactly what was happening in the spratly islands. they are mostly reefs and a tolls. carol: you look at a global map, and they are like nothing. that isare tiny, and what everyone is fighting over. this was back in the 1980's and early 1990's, back in the philippines, trying to figure out where fish were coming from, how these fisheries were getting repopulated. and he did this study based on archaic methodology, looking at rrows on them,h a rose on th and he figured out the spratly islands were the source for the fisheries on the coast, and providing these replenishing pulses of fish, if you will. carol: did he call it a genetic reserve? >> yes. at the time, the spratly islands were contested already, but were not overfished. there weren't fishermen's going going out there and taking all these fish. he is a scientist, but decided to make this policy proposal. the policy proposal was we should create a marine park. theirne should freeze claims and manage this shared resource together. dismissed i

and then there's the president of philippines who not long ago told president obama he could go to hell. >> i'd like to congratulate president trump. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> really good. >> reporter: why do these strong men seem to like donald trump? >> i would call it capacity to provide simple answers to very complicated questions. but what we're seeing at the moment in the world today is a lot of threats and crisis and uncertainty. and what these leaders are providing is simplistic answers, close the borders, no fmore foreigners. >> reporter: vladimir putin first came to power in 1999, delighting those with his promise to hunt down and kill chechan rebels in their toilet. on pious working class voters were often demonizing his critics. and in europe, several far-right politics embrace trump's tough talk on immigration and islamist extremism, hoping for their bump as they compete for the top jobs in dutch and french elections scheduled next year. but not everyone welcomes this new hunger for nationalist politicians. here in the tiny eastern european country of latvia, u.s.

you can see countries like the philippines trying to become nationalistic. , nationalismacking is all over. host: why do think it's made such a resurgence? caller: people are becoming intolerant. made people want to fight back against it. you can see it with brexit. you can see it in greece. all over the world, people were becoming more this is who i am, i am greek, i am irish. people are fighting back against internationalism. that is joe from north carolina. alice, good morning to you. what is your top story? thatr: the main story is donald trump one. hillary called his voters deplorable. those were the people supporting her. there is so much bias in the media. was disgusting. what are you looking for most about a donald trump administration? america great again, especially the black community. we need help. the democrats have not done nothing for the black community here in -- community. host: that was dallas from florida. new livell begin the coverage of the presidential inauguration when it occurs on january 20. you can watch it here on c-span or listen to it for free on the c-sp

to defend us maintain the position and at the core is japan or taiwan or philippines. and those reinforcements with the expeditionary forces and then at some point there wouldn't be happy to hear that posture but anand then depending upon how you lancer this different answers about the kind of military but we have been going on with the pentagon but if we take a good hard look you get significantly different answers. >> name and affiliation. >> just last week we were talking about the stages of technology of the work force of u.s. competitors are that military. and with exponential change. >> the military establishment has a good track record of treating people -- trading civilians to keep up with changes of technology and i know about the apprenticeship programs and what they would have done differently from the past. and then to take advantage of it. and one thing that we have ignored and americans cannot fight. to win the long war. but then to win the shorts and a sharper victory. but on the and and but we could prevail in the long war. and what we at of with strate

and then there is the president of the philippines who not long ago told president obama he could go to hell. >> i would like to congratulate president trump. [speaking foreign language] >> reporter: why do these strong men seem to like donald trump? >> i would call it their capacity to provide simple answers to very complicated questions. that what we're seeing at the moment in the world today is a lot of threat and crisis and uncertainty. and what these leaders are providing is simplistic answers, black and white, close the borders, no more foreigners. >> vladimir putin first came to power in 1999, delighting many russians with his promise to hunt down and kill chechnyan rebels in their toilets. turkey's fiery erdogan inspires turkish pride among voters while often demonizing critics. and embracing trump's tough talk hoping for their own trump bump as they compete for the top job in dutch and french elections scheduled next year. but not everyone welcome this is new hunger for nationalist politicians. here in latvia u.s. soldiers are training alongside the latvian military, part of

amy: it's the latest claim by the philippines president to have personally committed murder. earlier this month, duterte said that while mayor of davao city he patrolled city streets on a motorcycle looking for opportunities to kill. as the philippines president duterte has launched a brutal , so-called war on drugs that has seen thousands of peopop killed by police and vigilantes since the summer. in mexico, lawmakers are weighihing whether to o legalize medical marijuana in a move that could have big implications for a drug war that's killed more than 100,000 mexicans over the last decade. on december 13, mexico's senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow the cultivation of marijuana for medical use and scientific study. the lower house of mexico's congress will now consider the measure. the debate comes in the wake of november's u.s. election, which saw voters in massachusetts, maine, nevada and california join washington and colorado in allowing the use of recreational pot. this is s mexican senator robero zuarth. >> mexico needs to move forward and soon. we

. >>> philippine president rodrigo duterte has attacked the u.s. diplomatic core. he called ambassadors from the countries spies. he held interviews with local media outlets on thursday. he said most u.s. ambassadors are spying and asserted they would try to undermine foreign governments. they referred to a story carried by a local newspaper earlier this week. it said a recent former ambassador to the philippines outlined a list of strategies to undermine duterte territory and called for his eventual ouster. the u.s. embassy in manila denied the allegation. he's been ratcheting up his opposition to the administration of obama. the obama government is critical of the bloody campaign against the illegal drug trade. >>> a nationwide cease-fire has begun in syria, the government and opposition groups agreed to the truce which went into effect on friday. the government of president bashar al assad, its ally russia, and an opposition supporter turkey announced the agreement on thursday. a leading opposition group supports the cease-fire, syria and turkey say the truce ex

i'm talking about staff who aren't hair like racquel redone the who is my best friend she is in the philippines right now. she does not get reception so she's often one right now intermittently watching but more than anyone, my staff was the ones who really gave me and i have been friends with her for a really long time the courage to be here today i feel really confident being in the room with everyone who went to harvard or whatever. >>[laughing] >>i have my own stuff to deal with but they have really been a tremendous boost for me. and then, you know, francis shea along with racquel have been there from the beginning and just a really great friend in a really wonderful person to always be available to make the office run and to be there to support you in emergencies and to just make this place feel like homehough it doesn't always feel that way. but,the communication toward the end it was just amazing to keep up with all of the stuff that we wanted to do and, you have two kids and to be a very give all of yourself to them and all the great work that you did through the city as well as been a

been around the world, china, philippines, venezuela. malaysia, taiwan. all over. keeping my passing going. trying to keep my inspirational going. >> let's see some of your moves. >> let's try them on abby. zoom in on these. >> i brought my nikes in this morning. >> she's more prepared. >> she's prepared to play defense. >> better recreation of what happened. >> come on guys. >> are we pulling for abby here? there we go. >> all right. >> you got to get up here. you got to guard him, you know. >> uh-oh. >> uh-oh. >> she's good. >> she's not bad. >> whoa. she's going backwards. >> there we go. >> that's pretty good defense. >> nice! >> she's so good. >> you are playing good d and she did not fall. >> no. >> that was well-done. >> let's see it. >> i got to make him go left, right? i've played a lot of defense. >> whoa. >> fadeaway. no good. >> he got me and you saw before this segment, he got it through my legs the first time. the only reason i got that one is because i saw it coming. >> you were so proud of yourself at that moment. >> and can we quit right there? he

the philippine president. we'll have more of his shocking allegations coming up here on "cnn newsroom." with the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels. plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. ♪ >>> and welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. this is "cnn newsroom" with the headlines we're following this year. u.s. president barack obama is retaliating against russia for alleged election meddling. the president ordered sanctions against six russian individuals and five russian entities, in addition 35 russian diplomats have been ordered out of the united states. russia has vowed to respond. >> the u.s. military said it is aware of movements by the leader of isis over the past few weeks. a u.s. official wouldn't say whether abu bakr al

ambassador to the philippines outlined the list of strategies to undermine duterte and cause his eventual ouster. duterte has been ratcheting up his criticism of barack obama demanding american troops leave the philippines. obama is critical of duterte's bloody campaign against the illegal drug today. >>> a nationwide cease fire has begun in syria. the government and opposition groups agreed to the truce which went into effect on friday. the government of president bashar al assad, it's ally russia and opposition supporter turkey announced the agreement on thursday. a leading opposition group supports the cease fire. syria and turkey say the truce excludes the islamic state groups and militants linked to al qaeda. russian president vladimir putin called on the syrian government and opposition groups to honor the agreement and take part in peace talks in kazakhstan. this is a third cease fire for syria this year. the previous two deals brokered in february and september by the united states and russia collapsed. >>> government forces secured a military advantage earlier this month by recap

the man who claims he killed dozens of people under orders from rodrigo duarte, now president of the philippines. >> a president who has admitted to doing the same. live from cnn headquarters in atlanta, welcome to viewers around the states and the world. i'm george howard. >> i'm natalie allen. this is "cnn newsroom." ♪

troops to operate in the philippines. when you look at the greater drug war that entered the sixth month as of today, 6,000 people killed we need to look at where it began in the davao city in the philippines where he mayor declared war on drugs and where this self-proclaimed former hitman said he was acting on orders from the man who is now president committing murders after murders, sometimes innocent people. edgar says he and filipino president duterte have something in common, they both have blood on hair hands. i want him to pay for what he did for the many killings he ordered. if he bring back the death penalty i hope he is first and then i will follow. >> reporter: he said he was a part of a group known as the devout death squad. in 2008, a u.n. investigation found the shadowy band of assassins was committing hundreds of murders targeting street children and criminals, all during duterte's decades long run as the southern city's gun-toting crime-fighting mayor beginning in '88. i personally killed around 50 people,

one claims to have been a member of a philippines death squad. the other is president of the country. rodrigo duterte. he, too claims to have personally taken several lives as part of a vigilante killings that date back several decades and have recently morphed into a national war on drugs that have left more than 6,000 people dead. and that's why this horror story becomes something else yet again. the purported hit man says that president duterte was his death squad boss. and cnn's will ripley has the exclusive interview. >> reporter: edgar says he and philippine president rodrigo duterte have something in common. they both have blood on their hands. i want him to pay for what he did, for the many killings he ordered, he says. if we bring back the death penalty, i hope duterte is the first to hang and then i will follow. dazed before the president took his bloody war on drugs nationwide, he says he was part of a group known in the philippines as the devout death squad, a 2008 u.n. investigation found the shadowy band of assassins was committing

can we defend the first island chain which i would say at the core is japan, taiwan and the philippines. do we intend to do it with forward defense, with reinforcements as the admiral says? with expeditionary forces? do we intend to fight the way we did in world war ii which is mobilization. we lose the first island chain but take it back at some point? i don't think our allies would be too happy to hear that. some talk about an offshore strategy which essentially is blockade. but that risks giving up the first island chain to get it back. depending how you answer this and what military postures you want to pursue, you get different answers about the kind of military that you need to have. and we haven't done the hard up front thinking about this that we need to do. we've been sort of going on what's the pentagon calls program momentum. if it's in there, we should be building it. but i think if we took a good, hard look along the lines i've described we could end up getting significantly different answers. >> now for questions. one down here in the front. give us your name and also affi

operate here, essentially changing the whole geopolitical dynamic as the killings continue here in the philippines. >> will ripley, thank you so much. that's it for "the lead." turning it over to jim sciutto who is in for wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> president obama hits back at russia for its meddling in the presidential election. but will anything rein in russia's leader? >>> get on with our lives. president-elect trump dismisses concerns about russian interference in the u.s. election. >>> and eyes on isis. u.s. officials tell cnn they're aware of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi's recent movements. after years of hunting, is the military getting close to permanently removing him from the battlefield? >>> wolf blitzer is off. i am jim sciutto, and you are in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> and tonight we are following the breaking news. president obama ordering a sweeping array of u.s. actions to retaliate for russian's cyberattacks and meddling in the presidential election. an executive order slapping sanctions on russia's top two intelligence ag

the philippines is being shaken by a one man revolution. either you will kill me, or i'll kill you iditos. he's a tough talking former mayor, who's vowed to wipe out drug dealers. his war on drugs has unleashed assassins, like maria. when i got near this person, who owed a lot to my boss, i went up close and then shot him. every day, the bodies of suspected dealers are discovered. more than 3000 have been killed in three months. it's really tiring and scary, hiding all the time. you don't know if the person right in front of you will inform on you, or if he might be your killer. the police are raiding prisons and being forced to purge their own ranks. the war on drugs is really bloody, and messy. everyone knows that. this war is being fought in some of the poorest communities in the country. over the past two decades, the philippines has been swamped by the cheap and highly addictive drug, crystal meth. known here as shabu. it destroys lives, breaks families and feeds a powerful criminal underworld. filipinos are among the world's highest u

a cnn exclusive who claims the philippines president ran a death squad. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our world lead. a russian novelist once wrote of crime and punishment. today president obama did as well, handing out punishments for alleged cyber crimes for alleged hacking of the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign chairman during the 2016 race and sharing information gleaned from those accounts to allegedly influence the election and undermine confidence in the american electoral system. and for our campaign of harassing u.s. documents in moscow. we learned this afternoon that the obama administration identified 35 russians with diplomat status in the u.s. whom they believe to be intelligence officers or spies, declaring them persona nongrata, giving them and their families 72 hours to get out. the u.s. is also shutting down two russian compounds in maryland and new york and imposing sanctions on those inside russia believed to be behind the cyber attacks. they're naming names of individuals and agencies, includ

at least 32 people in the philippines recovering fromst 3 injuries after two bombs t exploded during a boxing boxin match.h. according to authoritieshoti investigators found a mortar cartridge an mobile phone usedod to detonate the homemade homemad bombs. we're told philippine forcesce on high alert for signs of o terrorism. >>> united states investigating several top vene>>> igzuela officials afterf allegations emerged of money laundering from food contractsna through the u.s. if this system.em much of the country on the t brink of starvation. >> convicted charleston church shooter dill ran roof appeared n in court wednesday.ou wednesd roof who is acting as his own ho attorney told the judge heud he doesn't plan to call anyll a witnesses or present anys evid jury to spare his life. to spar a jury foundhi him guiltyuilty earlier this month in the the shooting that left nine black ba church members dead. the jury will determine ifdeterf roof should serve life inuld se prison or getli the death penalty. penalty. >>> newly released police dashcam video appears to show a fort worth texas

dagen: and at least 32 people in a boxing match today and the philippines. two bombs exploded during the match in the central philippines part of a roman catholic holiday festival. a police spokeswoman from the province has said they recovered an 81-millimeter mortar cartridge is so as a cell phone use to detonate the homemade bomb. no one as of now has claimed responsibility for the attack. philippine forces have been placed on alert amid long-standing offenses again muslim militants in the region. lauren: a tough couple stories. global american action overnight. the news remains tough. most of that aspiration is pitching a composite down two tenths of 1%. you can't depend on 1.3%. the currency strengthening there. the hang seng in hong kong both up about a 10, but at the ore than 1%. dagen: me of losses across the board in europe. they are all headed nowhere. the biggest loser at the moment being the dax in germany of 131%. dagen: lauren: we have today and tomorrow and it's proving to be very difficult. data features on 14 points. yesterday 111 points. s&p

duterte has been waging a bloody war on drugs in the philippines. more than 6,000 people have reportedly been killed since he took office on june 30th. >>> the german federal prosecutor's office says they have detained a 40-year-old tunisian man in connection with last week's deadly truck attack in berlin. officials say the unidentified man may be a possible accomplice. prosecutor's office adds they're determining whether they have grounds to press criminal charges. the man was detained after his number was found saved in the suspect's phone. a. >>> let's go back to the standoff over israel's settlements. president-elect trump's comments siding with israel seem to conflict with comments he made to joe and mika earlier this year. here's his exchange with a voter at a town hall in charleston, south carolina, when he said he hoped to be a neutral broker in peace negotiations. >> what specific steps would you take to establish an agreement between both sides? >> okay. i think it's probably the toughest agreement of any kind to make. it has been going on

it has not clarified the philippine holdings in the south china eas are necessarily covered by seas are necessarily covered by that. there is no treaty, of ourse. is well-known that mulled over nd other countries are outside f any article five. how do these issues affect the deterrence calculus and what is he role of verdict ability and the role of verdict ability and unpredictability for good or for ill in establishing deterrence against powers? you can leave aside surprise phone calls to taiwan if you like, which was an unpredictable move. >> i will leave behind the call. i really like harry's three words. it really has to do with signaling and resolved n a way russia and china believe in our resolve and ambiguity is very helpful in some places, not helpful in others. it goes to managing strategic competition, knowing the competitor you are trying to deter and understand the ignals and how you demonstrate signals and how you demonstrate resolve. within the context of the third offset, we will reveal apabilities for deterrence. we want chinese military planning -- planner's wondering w

we are concerned about governance issues in the philippines and the directions of these areo all hot spots that need to be watched. we still have geopolitical tensions in the south china sea, so this adds an additional risk and a headwind to growth for the region that we will be watching closely and 2017. india, narendra modi swimming along nicely and tell the monetization program he put into place. how do you see that working out? it was unexpected, i and uncertainty. it is likely to have a short term impact on growth. we have shaved a half point off of india's gdp growth, but still at 6.9 percent, still the fastest country in terms of growth in the region. over the longer term, this will pass and the point of this was to bring in revenue for the government by bringing in the informal economy into the official tax net. we are skeptical it will work the way it was designed, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt, and it has not changed our medium out term for india. rishaad: thank you. have a fantastic new year. coming up, investors welcoming reports that kate spade may be goin

it has not clarified the philippine holdings in the south china seas are necessarily covered by that. there is no treaty, of course. is well-known that mulled over and other countries are outside of any article five. how do these issues affect the deterrence calculus and what is the role of verdict ability and unpredictability for good or for ill in establishing deterrence against powers? you can leave aside surprise phone calls to taiwan if you like, which was an unpredictable move. >> i will leave behind the call. i really like harry's three words. it really has to do with signaling and resolved in a way russia and china believe in our resolve and ambiguity is very helpful in some places, not helpful in others. it goes to managing strategic competition, knowing the competitor you are trying to deter and understand the signals and how you demonstrate resolve. within the context of the third offset, we will reveal capabilities for deterrence. we want chinese military planning -- planner's wondering what kind of military keep abilities the u.s. could bring to bear if, god for bid, we g

and his family also have holdings or projects in argentina, brazil, georgia, india, ireland, japan, philippines, and turkey. trump's businesses also owe hundreds of millioions of dollas to foreign banks, including ubs, bank of chinina, and deutsche bank. earlier this month, protesters gathered this month in front of trump hotel in washington, d.c., to express c concerns about trump's alleged conflicts of interests. this is paul ryan of common cacause. >> we're here today because president-elect trump owns or has a controlling interest in more than 500 businesses, both foreign and domestic. we don't even know the nature of his financial holdings. we do not have a clear picture do to a lack of transparency of exactly what business is he owns. what we do know is these businesses pose a massive conflict of interest also exhibit a, the trump hotel. this is a building owned by the federal government. on the day that president e elet trump is s sworn in, he will be serving as the landlord and tenant in federally owned property. amy: last month donald trump said he would be holdiding a mar news commerc

the massive storm hit the philippines over the weekend and killed six people. this is the strongest typhoon to make landfall in the northern pacific this late this year. q: series of earthquakes shook the area around lake tahoe this morning. the u.s. geological survey says two could be felt as far away as san francisco and las vegas. longest no report of damage. or injuries. michelle: so we are talking rain. the question is how much. doug: half inch. it will fall at 3:00, 4:00 in the morning or 11:30 to noon tomorrow. short period of time. 51 in the district. the temperatures are similar around the rest of the area. hang on to the clear skies for a while. later tonight the clouds will increase. increasing ahead of a frontal system to move in overnight. the rain as the blue ridge. then it will continue to spread by 7:30 it's a wash. up and down the i-95 corridor. our rain will end by 7:00, 7:30 but the low pressure will move north to bring us moisture. coastal sections of the new england will get the rain. interior they will get the snow and fair amount of it wh

it's just before dawn on the philippine island of palawan. even at this hour it's hot, but there's no sign here of the trouble brewing a few hundred miles out to sea. i'm about to take off on a trip the chinese government has tried to stop. just 140 nautical miles from the philippine coast we spot new land. this place is called mischief reef. until a year ago there was nothing here, just a submerged atoll. now look at it. millions of tons of material have been dredged up to build this huge new island. then as we close to 12 nautical miles, this. down below we can see a pair of chinese navy ships. our pilots are nervous. they want to turn away. we're a civilian aircraft flying over international waters and yet we're being repeatedly threatened. so what we're getting is the chinese sending out that message, foreign military aircraft, unidentified military aircraft, leave the area immediately. in chinese and english, our captain replied saying we are a civilian aircraft, not a military aircraft, but it didn't make any difference, they repeated t

and those are treaties with japan, korea, thailand, australia and the philippines. they should not be concerned about our resolve in meeting our treaty obligations. i think the president clearly signaled, for example, he clearly signaled where we stand as a nation with regard to our treaty with japan over the issue of secaucus and the fact that secaucus fall under the provisions of the security agreement with japan. i think that was a clear signaling to china and had a deterrent effect. with regard to freedom of navigation operations and the like, and each of deterrence and provocations. freedom of navigation operations are not designed to deter anybody from doing anything. freedom of navigation operations are simply designed to do just that. they are designed to exercise our nations freedom of navigation in international water or over it, in international airspace. and so if you don't exercise your freedom of navigation, then under international law you might lose that freedom of navigation over whatever issue it is the secretary of defense has been very clear that

think about the philippine president who tilted towards china. there's more of that going on now. i don't think rex tillerson as secretary of state as one person is going to be able to get rid of those concerns. >> we talk about the markets. we had five weeks of records at this point. how long before this sort of geopolitical recession, as you described it, starts impacting the markets? >> the geopolitical recession is impacting the markets. the fact there's massive amounts of instability in this region in the middle east and it's hitting europe. if you're the united states, it's great to have canada, mexico and two great big bodies of water. this geopolitical recession is not one washing up on everyone's shores. when 2008 hit, the entire g20, all those world large economies got together around a circular table and said if we don't fix this, we're all in trouble. if you look at six years of war in syria, aleppo falling, war crimes occurring, the average american is saying not my problem. there's no economic backlash to the u.s. markets for not doing a damn thing to help the syrian

. >>> this is the hole from the biggest drug best in the philippine's history. police seized more than 890 kilos of meth fete mean. there's a street value of about $120 million. ten people were arrested in the raids. >>> weeks before he leaves office and foreign policy is at the forefront for the u.s. president, braarack obama. and the president is facing international challenges including the latest u.n. security council vote that has israeli leaders fuming. our global correspondent has more. >> reporter: tonight israel announced plans to build hundreds of new settlement units in east jerusalem in defiance of a u.n. vote calling them illegal and sharpened attacks on the u.s. accusing the white house of orchestrating the votes. as president obama deals with the fallout, new questions about the world he's leaving. >> there are places around the world where horrible things are happening and because of my office, because i'm president of the united states, i feel responsible. >> reporter: take syria. after calling for president asaad's oust, the war wages on. presi

we also see a rally in the philippines, adding over 2%. the asx closing at a new high for 2016, adding 1% there. , closingt the cospi at .9% lower. and a second day of lowering for the shanghai composite. energy and i.t. shares have dropped. .6%, this asp health care and i.t. shares helped the index. the showdown between the tata group intensifies. looking at the nikkei, closing in the red. a little changed after a softer yen. the volume on the index was 44% below the 30 day average. toshiba, no surprise, the biggest drag on the nikkei, and original benchmark. the stock losing one third of tuesday's adding to 12% drop. and the cost to ensure toshiba's bonds ahas widened. the company will consider equity financing to offset that nuclear impairment loss. we will be checking in on ashiba as the day wears on, well as what happens tomorrow when we come back to trade. back to you. anna: thank you. we will keep watching that toshiba story this morning. by .3%., up let's turn our attention now to latin america. accountsfiscal deteriorated in novem

we are seeing shares rally in the philippines and indonesia. adding on most 1%, trading at the highest in 16 months. leading the charge. wayne on that index -- weighing on that index. shares in hong kong trading at a five-month low as developers and banks way concerns over rising costs. toshiba down in the red, as well as the likes of others. demonstrating some of the weaknesses in the domestic picture. our quick look at what is going on with toshiba, our big story for the day. chart, at the two day adding to its tuesday drop of 12%. let's cross to one of our top stories. u.s. secretary of state john kerry sent to offer his vision on middle east peace wednesday. this comes as israel steps up its response to a center from the united nations over settlements in the west bank. great to have you back on the program. this has been status quo for decades. now this major shift read what are the applications? give us a sense. isright now the implications israel has been censured. there is a change in the u.s. position. them not vetoing, not doing anyth

in the philippines, thousands are killed as president duterte ruthlessly enforces antidrug laws. goats continue to devastate communities and people's lives in various parts of the world. -- drugs continue to devastate amenities and people's lives in various parts of the world. reporter: a remote farm the myanmar. the wind blows gently over fields of poppy. farmers spray raw opium from the capsules. "we grow poppies, rice, and corn , but the income from the poppies is the best," says this local farmer. "it is in fields like this where the world's drug problems begin. opium is produced in countries around will put more than a quarter comes from here, myanmar, laos, and thailand. experts say the opium trade is worth $30 billion annually. myanmar alone produces over 600 tons of opium for a year. for local farmers, it is the only crop that pays enough to feed the family. >> i am aware that the farmers in many places want to change but they don't have enough and the failure of some of these programs in the past has been that the programs are not able to produce the income that the farm