The News with Rick Sanchez - May 08, 2019 (20:00 ET)

Satellite image: China building ultimate aircraft carrier

Satellite footage published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies reveal that China has begun construction of a monstrous aircraft carrier. If completed, it will be the largest of China’s three aircraft carriers and could significantly alter the balance of power in the region. Meanwhile, Monday saw the deployment of two US warships to the South China Sea, to which China responded by sending a destroyer. Rick Sanchez reports.

Image courtesy of CSIS: https://bit.ly/2H7jUop

China challenges US hegemony in Asia

Sourabh Gupta of the China-America Policy Institute joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the increased tensions in the Pacific regarding the Spratlys– disputed artificial islands being built by China and a cause of extreme diplomatic controversy. 

Netanyahu can’t be trusted – Dan Kovalik

Human rights professor Daniel Kovalik joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the sanctions against Iran and Tehran’s vow to resume the enrichment of uranium unless the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“Iran Nuclear Deal”) can be renegotiated. Kovalik argues that Iran doesn’t seek war and is a threat to neither Israel nor the US.