the cockiest adores it's sailed off to find gold but for lack of anything better they came back with slaves. all of portugal talked about the event to the point that youngest is iraq the chief chronicler of the realm travel there in person. the following day it was the eighth of august early morning because they need. a cruise began to work bed bode's unload a cup to use and take in the shoulders hold it. some at their faces down white with to is some note of the others and were brought in with grief some low to high heaven fixing their locomotives shouting and out up to it as if asking the father nature of file. others be their cheeks with their palms or threw themselves flat on the ground others made lemon taishan in a sound like manna after the custom of their own land. and

though the words of that language could not be understood bias their sorrow was understood indeed. a sorrow that increased when those in charge of dividing them came and started to spit them one from another to make even groups. to do this it became necessary to take children from parents wives from husbands brothers from sisters. for king and king grid no rule was kept each captive landed where luck would have it. sneaky satan that in the senate in the next month yet also the is awful. man decision to keep the foot in society. that a said pen but at. busk you don't punt of wa it don't play

a young. up oh yes yes at this it c.d.'s from good it will to get what all part of a near disavows. in the early fifteenth century trading human beings was common throughout the mediterranean and portugal but also in the south of france spain italy and sicily. most captives that circulated in the mediterranean came from the balkans through the ports of cyprus constantinople and aleppo. back then africans were a minority within the slave trade as caucasian still prevailed. in lisbon these proportions would soon be inverted. the first african captives forced back to portugal to be followed by thousands more.

on the street of the negroes well the names of a few alleys are the only reminders when this neighborhood the biodome. the ghetto reserved for africans. in the sea they have this war as yet specific amendment causes below what is in the blue something frequent offa them already it is more of the themes issue he is due to the ocean effect of its fall father looked at the idea is thank you didn't it but it's almost was obvious rule to the command to move but that he again don't recall display at the falcon wheels i don't was if we can say i don't see that eat it is to call it fickle disease now the food's enough to blast the cab was a fluke and. the last pretty powerful message that they haven't given us that it

was that we could not get listed here fish will of the edwards and not the lady have given to the bible fair who get pretty prevalent and buy in the city daughters that if italy got us all modern i'm reading it is appy aska. iain and then it is on the c.w. who are some of the thermal don't eat it with. this is left. because of the spider. he saw at the get a familiar look he so considerate of the moma. but for me to saw he could come on i hope he would kill before confused and done some of the funniest is clever when the clown one of the necessity on twinkie marriage i think i don't have to give us a deal exclude if one is out there north of his class fourteen fifty three. the holy war between christian dome and islam resulting in the muslims victory.

constantinople the last remnant of the byzantine empire fell into the hands of the turks. an iron curtain now separated the christian mediterranean bank from the indies blocking the movement of slaves from the balkans. for christian europe and pursuing the conquest of the atlantic was now more necessary than ever. islam. christendom clash had reached their maid and the whole area where they had been acquiring slabs for slaves. was now christianized to islamicize there was only one region to head for africa becomes associated with slavery as a result of these developments. officially islam in the catholic church condemned the enslavement of free men. but in practice

the demand for slaves did not run dry and justified continued raids. when he was he did who were also moved below what is your city phonetic that's going to express all of it and get through the salute the million with us on it is it that you can kill this bus and islam they'll do kitchen as well as come up with all the could i get uppity keep that peer links person is with the two young course it all did awad couldn't easy. to take revenge on the muslims pope nicholas the fifth gave the portuguese his moral endorsement thanks to the vatican support they could continue reading africa with complete impunity. in the national archives in lisbon the roman is pontifex bull written by the pope give the portuguese carte blanche and established

a legal framework for the enslavement of africa. we had formally by other letters of ours granted among other things free and apple faculty the aforesaid king of phones out to invade search and capture vanquished bull's eye resi ends and pagans was wherever and other enemies of christ wherever placed to reduce their persons to the patch will stay very. perpetual slavery to words decreed by the highest catholic forty two words that struck africans like a verdict two words that would justify everything in the name of god. from the very beginning as these military campaigns to africa were planned they tried to open a new privileges and recognition from the pope and this came very often in the form of the bullets there's

a whole series of blows that have granted legitimacy to claim this property over the territories that will be. discovered. these covered. throughout the along the coast of africa. with the pope's blessing the portuguese ventured further and further south of the african coast. aboard the caravels all of europe join portugal to take control of african gold and slaves and. flemish german english gentlemen is invitation all european merchants invested in the atlantic adventure. sailing from law goes the nation elvie's kind of most oh was the first european merchant to reach the coast of senate gambia.

sailing thus we reached the mouth of another large river which appeared to be no small matter in the senate gallery of. and we saw all this fine river and the beautiful country we cost and debated whether we should send a short on the fine temperatures to reach of a ship's an eagle on top which is on board brought from portugal you had been sold by the knowledge of sending down to the first portuguese to discover this land of the blacks. he was instructed to ascertain the conditions of the country to him it was subject and where the gold and other objects of use to us were to be obtained. accordingly when he had landed on the boat when drawn a short distance he suddenly counted the great number of negroes. what he said to them we did not know but they began furiously to strike at him with a short morris laws and quickly put him to test. they were left stupefied

realizing that they must be very cruel on this account we set saile still holding our seventy cause within sight of the shore. so some of the last so said the african. i want to get him out of. the levy lies rick perry promising does indeed elements on captivity. affleck and dispose eat do little things while i.v. in the capacity. it midcourse you discard to live tell them would be it up or have it limited. to secretly. and. in good would read to take with. us economic donati

suitable to give all to help and i think. fourteen seventy one. the portuguese took possession of an island off the african coast uninhabited virgin and fertile south told me it was a perfect anchorage a safe harbor at one hundred fifty nautical miles from the coast this lookout post enabled them to keep the region's most powerful state in sight the kingdom of congo for. the islands off the coast of atlantic africa will be a very important and points of support for navigation mainly ports up whole the islands also have that advantage the advantage of being able to settle without entering into many of these beauts with african. attendees at sea from south told me it was the kingdom of congo a territory twice as large as portugal it was

a powerful and organized country with whom the muslims had not been in contact. and in the. congo is an interesting case of african history very different from everywhere else when the portuguese got there they discovered that there was a king there was a what they called the kingdom. not only that it was an area where there was no islamic influence at all portuguese entered into relations with the the king of kong on virtually an equal basis and since there were muslims there was not they were was no hostility on the basis of religion. and then

for reasons i don't think we fully understand they the the king of kong of congo decided that he was going to convert to christianity. became all forms of the first and he welcomed the missionaries from portugal. the portuguese were the only ones to propose products from the mediterranean to king alfonso the first. for the first time it established a monopoly on an african territory. leap up to get even a dozen society yosh easy we were no blip or fail to. a preschool is or to be year of a can illegal asking a pass it is owed to the course of these all the people you dukes it it don't go levity of up to game of a troops issues new very good comedy a bit. more fun at least look i see it you can go and se the truth it don't go now

the stock market limb ass some thought i just tossed for me is it was for me if it the. the drawings of the first missionaries who arrived in congo bear witness to this new bartering system. but gold fever encouraged the portuguese to continue their conquest they learned that the icons gold mines were in elmina for them the only way to get their hands on the precious or was to offer the arkan's what they needed most slaves to descend into the mines they just became the kingdom slave traders to. the. good production which had been going on in west africa for centuries include in the area of guinea mali and in a process of senegal but i just had moved more congo fields in gaza and i've tried

to because gold you know. was born out and. it was a measure a wild elmina means the mine and they were after the gold of the what they call the gold coast because a lot of the gold does come from the interior right there. between south tommy the our khan mines in the congo kingdom the first triangular trading system in history was launched. european goods for slaves in congo slaves for gold in elmina. thanks to this bartering system the portuguese created an autonomous commercial zone. law even people to game shows are taught that mulla done. in connection with you take the.

lead over the a good luck go to dubai you'll go. in feel good let's you'll get it i thought. it was a really good. day not them oh don't say it. it is here at the foot of this portuguese cross marking the end excision of a territory that a new chapter in the history of slavery would begin. this here in south told me that the portuguese would create the first platform for the mass deportation of captives. and it is here that the portuguese would also evolve from a simple slave trade to the invention of an extremely profitable production system . the sugar plantation. i learn. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking story and this happened was in the truck didn't happen the boy

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in kind just follow a complaint to the world trade organization jim brown has more from beijing. the tariffs that are in effect at the moment really only affect a fraction of what china exports to the united states what we have to watch out for is what could happen a few weeks from now because the united states trade representative office is currently hearing arguments for and against about imposing tariffs on some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports now if that happens it would affect a whole range of consumer items and from things like candles to parts room bicycles bridal grounds that would start to affect the u.s. consumer australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull says he will propose a vote on his leadership on friday if a majority of his m.p. and ask him to do so in a formal letter turnbull says of the motions passed to treated as a vote of no confidence he says he wouldn't run in any ensuing leadership contest.

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law. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after slave your roots for all the gold in the world stage and that's a water bottle. this is the story of a world whose territories and borders were drawn by the slave trade a world birth violence subjugation and profit imposed their roots. this criminal system shaped our history and founded the world's greatest empires as a people are given at the. eighteen the first piece this is opium. and i thought also being released that the project should. sit up.

with thousands of captives disembarking on its beaches sell tony became an island exclusively dedicated to sugar production. need this cash formerly all new in brought us here. or now to this is. one hour. after i leave this year on his bus clear the juice box of a dead if. it don't pull up. and walk in couldn't so he discovers his didn't know national tree was already do madela system global insult to me time seems to stand still sugar cane was replaced by coffee. then

coffee by cocoa. when they landed on the island the first captives brought with them the knowledge of working the soil in the tropics. despite the skill subtle may remains today one of the poorest countries in the world. and farm workers continue to live in the slaves old huts. when portuguese navigators arrived in south ptomaine the fifteenth century many observed with curiosity the practices that were developing on this island at the end of the world . only two thirds of the island have been cleared of trees so far and devoted to the cultivation of sugar. when a number of much ns that lead the fact of the king is empowered to let them buy land cheaply as much of it as he things they will be able to cultivate these people

by a number of negroes and negresses and set them to work on plantations. a master does not give his legs and if he. know does he trouble himself to get them clothes or food or provide them with shelter for they attend to all these things and. you don't really need a survival population to grow sugar. but to grow it on the scale they were doing you know you did what you needed slaves because what you did during the harvest period was you made him work fourteen hours a day or you know right into the night one of any night there were there was a moon you know that you just kept cutting all night long. again with fatigue the risk of injury increases so it was very risky. it was extremely hard work.

something may use a lab in various ways it is the first big spend meant with sugar cane and tropics and that's what the law was later on the transfer of the sugarcane production into brasil and later into the caribbean. after christopher columbus his journey to america pedro coverall hired by the king of portugal opened a new sea route to the west the portuguese were still obsessed with the search for gold but now they knew that if they failed sugarcane could eventually replace this precious metal on april twenty third fifteen hundred his ship docked in unknown territory. after our departure from bellamy as your majesty knows we reached the canary islands and then the cape verde we followed a sail heading west across the sea. that same day and the al of vespers we sighted land that is to say first

a very random mountain and then other low ranges of hills to the south of it on a plain covered with lots trees. just reach brazil on the american coast no gold deposits could be found to be profitable this immense land would have to be cultivated to the slave trade between europe and africa a new trade route to brazil would soon be added. to that buys. us who record. i am afraid your i mean yes. there's a evoke a muscle that i mean nobody's even though is it did you vote it until i made the decision to merivale you more no different doing this clever bit of the.

fifteen sixteen. from sao tome a continuance of captive started being shipped to brazil in the caribbean. between the kingdom of congo south ptomaine brazil and portugal the first roots of the transatlantic slave trade were stablished. in europe hundreds of captives arrived each year by portuguese ships. in lisbon black and white aristocracies lived on an equal footing they shared the same language the same interest all grew rich from both the slave and sugar trades . in economic social police and it became optional this is what it was he would associate african it on base move up cement that could ogle a couple today said. it when the number of today or what it was off opel to ghana

let's be fair does it you the queen pagani of the pottery is no one to claim what is it a dividend is it it put a piece. on the african coast the riches that portugal devoured seem inexhaustible. in the bedlam district the building of the here or nimitz monastery was financed by the slave sugar and spice trade. the splendor of its architecture reminds us of the era when lisbon dominated the world and flooded other european capitals with its goods. let threads of navy yard made life bali to anything else that was and couldn't walk if you could discover africa not that they could any it possible source for the whole of new. to get. this it had to be to you as well not only touch so closely

with the little man. no busk little fuzzy. but the arrival of europeans in africa the history of slavery entered a whole new dimension. for the first time the trade focused exclusively on equitorial africa. and with considerable means the number of deportations reached unparalleled levels. in lisbon the history of african slaves who arrived in europe sank into oblivion. traces of their presence were destroyed during the seven hundred fifty five earthquake. pieces of its memory were scattered when the city was rebuilt. in this hunting lodge a few miles from the capital. a painting by a flemish artist the king's fountain the pixel has been in fifteen eighty. portrays a neighborhood that no longer exists where blacks and whites dance together.

here a black man and shoes and braces a white woman with bare feet. musicians play for a couple of lovers. a knight of the order of christ. in chains or in ceremonial dress africans offer their wealth to europe smallest kingdom. they're oppressed image of an era when the marriage of africa and portugal made lisbon the most important economic capital of europe. in his team good eyes and he meets us all you did yet people still ended up with us in that he's been keeping us from what did he disallow say he said the put him in schieffer. but i got. today in southern europe in portugal italy spain or even provide an estimated fifty to sixty percent of the population could have african ancestry.

into the last stunnel to define a lot of those internal to the but yeah tim's into last i'm sad excuse not to films and see of course no secret of illicit involvement and. seen a case for law like a good leadership shift the place was level. and we didn't want to see couldn't of it in walk at all yet i don't use what i. know he did did without. the ball name is on display. and did you get that under the new year zero does in the me you something to me dummy defense despite what he said a class is all had last met her she never told the news story. today of and also. that. just too often yanis always talking. about metal novel.

merchants want to round up the slaves in the border regions of the congo came down everywhere braids multiplied. the want to became one of the crossroads of transatlantic trade in congo the relationship of equality between africans and portuguese collapsed. solo under became from then on from fifty nine is on became the most important single port single place in africa from where africans left for the americas twenty three percent something like that out of all africans a lot from lawanda going heavily to brazil. which of course is the biggest area

where africans go in the americas by far almost half of all africans end up in brazil. lawanda was the. was really an outpost of brazil many ways indeed the media can muscle development toward real the whole of the of the whole scene of the queen tosser did that to describe some you don't know anybody else could you talk on a clear moment not look it was a crisp picture that if. only she would disappoint a midi. account by her look this club let them in additional public p.s. down the. the piss poor if not his clubs that if you notice loud and sentence that you know that's not the knowledge. the middle daughter ability to produce your this is glove. all of us are good. let their year do see is it. about could be your you in the congo it is pretty easy to see but

a joy you can go. up with them about live to comment so this club not good enough ok you said to us and i said all diesel is its own is not the lakes that here good for mot lee cannot be surly is not a good nice mikey perv but met with good the draw don't do is that your lieber desideria the suit over best poorly done it is order is clever. in sao tome ing empires jewel the sugar edifice began to crack. gallon was impossible to control in the heart of the forest groups of fugitive slave set up more combos places of sanctuary where they organize themselves into armed communities. guns i know all about it and driving over areas common justice is in this island of santorini and so forth make known to your excellency's how it is true and well

known that i'm a combo with a large population exists in the forest they do what damage they can killing and bombing men and destroying plantations all of which brings loss and damage to the people of this island and its act as a disservice to the king of our north a much loss to his treasury and his revenues. we have armed men ready to go against the said escape blacks and the fortified macomber but we do not have any money to give them every day the forest is filling up with escape blacks are all terrified waiting for the day when the said macam when its people will do some evil which is contrary to the will of god. the distance between lisbon sarto may hinder the portuguese crown the people of congo do not want to intervene in the islands affairs. the portuguese lack are men on site to defend their interest so to solve the problem they decided to manufacture them.

for them in times of the year neither can love it i thought it could be a sound of more lots of metal so much kill the ass zizou you want to be as with to us crocodile cool zada. ranks course near this season and better food model up we'll see how much the set up was. proper stage for two years they have got some opal sell in macau the people of brazil solution five but on course. the gangster is meeting the law of for two years this and yes. lot of. groups you see out capacity india was in three s. is due to for two years. to me only close. to the nor could they have you know us secret press office on when it is we should have your list wants you to hop on to do business you want to make place club.

crossing white men with black women. insult to maim the portuguese mulattoes were a separate group called the sons of the land. defending the crowns interest these sons of the land became leading agents of the slave system. feels that their lives are far to be. the positional dollar be. evil just about do sir. yes. or no invisibility memphis said the doctor gave. mississauga most of his off to be with the explosion of demand these new trade elites started kidnapping citizens of the kingdom of congo despite the religious diplomatic and cultural

links between portugal and the king of congo the sons of the lands greed devastated everything in a letter to the king of portugal king alfonso the first informed him of his dismay . your highness should know how our kingdom is being lost. the margins are allowed to by your offices to come to this kingdom to set up shops with goods which have been prohibited bias. the mansion much inside taking every day our native sons of the land on the sons of our no woman and fashionables in operatives. they grab them and sell them so great sighs the corruption i licentiousness that our country has been completely to populate that is why we beg your highness to help and i sisters in this matter it is our will that in these conditions they should not be any traitors

slaves nor outlet for them. a false. class a book oh present in iraq only the last one of his aunts relates to the what they could recall of the of our own off. a super g. did you do the people to god and sheer no the only zero zero on met the god the of us who also have a new duty for to god mcclave e.t.c. and you don't good. or bad those souls on. every year center man's reenact this first marriage between africa and europe. to exercise its violence incarnate all the roles and where all the costumes. but then some which victims and persecutors live side by side the sons of

a same family. this procession is cultural only which supposedly comes from the word tragedy. as tough as a minute this is it the chest is all. monkley don't you do you work in soup. is a vineyard love feast on denim of our good name for the sun to make one. gets a good quote sorry go to this old girl i met a lovely thoughts are going to court an appeal process. can kill a good glaze and geocoding a nail gets into minutemen less than it was implemented souvenir density needs a last week or. it would. all come.

in fifteen ninety five south tommy flared up. commodore a captive born on the island took the lead of a slave uprising. the sons of the land could not contain it. the central man experience had just revealed its limits but that did not matter the union between african slaves and sugarcane had been consecrated. from then on the portuguese knew that they could export their invention everywhere one by one they

disassemble the males the ovens and the sugar factories and rebuild them in brazil . the key which changes the direction of the slave trade is the transfer of sugar as you mentioned earlier from one side of the atlantic to the other. and that then makes the hop to the part of the americas closest to europe which is a car be it. a year after the riots a majority leader of the rebellion was executed in public. the result of a large scale experiment between portugal and africa south home a despite the violence in which it was born has shaped its own history a history founded on the heroic struggle of the first slaves. i know that god might do if. he discuses. is not

it got him i see it as a stash and my favorite was. on sunday with a my do a micro my bill looked at my feet a not bare look back to. yes i still want. to ensure the survival of their economic model the portuguese took their slaves and there are other cultural knowledge with them to brazil. by demonstrating that the model could be exported to america incited all of europe to do the same. in sixteen twenty the portuguese were the uncontested masters of the slave trade. twenty five years after the revolt headed by amador did already deported three hundred thousand captives to brazil and central america. soon it would be the other

european powers turn to go conquer the new world with them the slave trade tentacles spread all across the atlantic and reached a new territory the caribbean. slave system created the greatest accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that moment in time. there's no way to separate fact kind tears of. heard from the labor on the plantation from the profits that may be produced. so there's.

nothing intrinsically linked to the slave trade where you can sustain and insurance companies there's no way to separate and that kind of terror from the labor on the plantation from the profits that move to produced. that ass in europe industrialized slavery and amassed its great wealth resistance began to take full. from show that to rebellion episode two of slavery when it's on al-jazeera i think one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where two worlds meet we can get to washington d.c.

in two hours we can get so on jurists in the rest of central america about the same time but more importantly is where those two cultures north and south america meet us to teach you it's a very important place for all to do it's a big china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east business spark the wrong turn blind of china to secure its resources for the future sub-saharan region as a whole balance expect to grow we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. however we still have plenty of sunshine across the middle east tells of one of two showers yes over towards the basin sort of the region just around the himalayas much can't wanted to showers over towards is back to stand a chance of one of two showers just around the black sea around the caspian sea as well want to try for the most part the let's concentrate on the settle in sunny weather by road looking lovely over the next couple of days thirty one celsius here

getting up into the forty's once you get into baghdad and into kuwait as we go on into friday they will change in conditions the thirty two therefore couple thirty one thirty two for by rooted also fortune to slim come further south in the game largely fine and dry as one would expect forty five celsius here in doha on thursday a little more cloud heading towards mecca you'll notice a little more cloud two for a tie around southern parts of asia but even that should clear away across southern areas of yemen and on into amman tad colder for doha if we can say cooler it'll actually feel a little stay here a little closer as we go on into friday because the humidity will start to ramp up this weekend certainly one to watch out for meanwhile the first southern africa is generally fine and dry chance of wanted to showers around the eastern cape for a time these will clear through by friday afternoon.

and ambitious health system reform that paid off i mean you wish ultimately we may build ten million of our ninety six million citizens to receive health care without paying insurance premiums or even. the extraordinary story of turkey's monumental health care transformation and the people at the heart of things the people's house on al-jazeera. billions of dollars in new tariffs are slapped on cars and factory machinery as the u.s. and china go to the next level of their trade war. so robin you're watching al jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also ahead ready

to tell old all trans long time lawyer says he's got information that may help the special prosecutor's investigation also. ugandans pray for a pop star turned opposition leader as he heads for a military court. and venezuelan families in search of a better future why brazil is moving them out of a border state. of the threat of sixteen billion dollars of new u.s. terrorists have come into force on chinese goods as the trade war between the two economic giants goes to the next level now they came into force a few hours ago china responding with similar taxes is also an al states filing a complaint with the world trade organization each has imposed twenty five percent

taxes on billing. dollars' worth of other products. u.s. is targeting chinese chemical electronic and industrial goods fifty billion dollars worth of goods on each side have had tariffs added on them since july adrian brown is live for us in beijing watching events unfold there the chinese not taking sort of the implementation of u.s. tire of sitting down. that's right so as advertised china has retaliated putting a twenty five percent levy on sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. goods that means things like chemicals and plastics will be twenty five percent more expensive of course a few minutes before that the united states announced it was imposing tariffs on sixteen billion dollars worth of chinese exports in total now so we have something like one hundred billion dollars worth of goods on both sides now subject to levies and remember at the moment the u.s.

trade representative's office is currently considering arguments for and against whether to impose a further two hundred tariffs on a further two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods if that happens that would take place sometime in september and that would actually begin to hurt not just china but also the u.s. consumer because it would affect things like you know bridal gowns you know parts for bicycles candles this sort of stuff every day stuff that the people in the united states buy those items will become twenty five percent more expensive so yes we're reaching i think a critical point in this trade war it's almost two months old and so far there appears to be no sign of it ending anytime soon and in fact you sense there's now this growing realisation that perhaps these tariffs on both sides could remain in place for weeks months if not years at the moment there appears to be no side of

either side backing down i think if there was to be any sort of breakthrough china would have to make some sort of concession china has offered to make concessions actually on the deficit but on the call by donald trump for china to basically change the whole way its economy works china says we're not going to back down and by that you know the united states is saying china gives too many subsidies to. it's big industries that are involved in developing technologies of the future and the u.s. says that means it's very difficult for u.s. companies to compete against all of that and of course you know the global audience is watching a verbal tit for tat across the pacific and they're seeing a tax tit for tat across the pacific but there's also been talks running parallel to these trade towers trying to find sort of an amicable solution possibly to end the impasse i mean what do we read into this well so these talks we shouldn't get too carried away these talks involve essentially

underlings from china's finance ministry and from the u.s. treasury department they began on wednesday their due to continue on thursday and it's possible they're simply having talks about talks to see if there's any area where they could reach agreement also they might be touching on these rumors that perhaps president donald trump and president xi jinping might meet on the sidelines of the g twenty summit in argentina in september but you know president trump has not actually spoken very favorably about these talks he doesn't think they're going to go anywhere as for the mood here in china so there is no i have to say any sense of panic that i've discerned there's no sort of you know slowing queues of shoppers outside stores worried that they're not going to get enough food but i think on the horizon yes there are certainly a number of red flags and one of them is is china's debt mountain and that debt actually is getting a lot bigger at the moment because the chinese government is doing what it always

does when its economy is in trouble and that's turning on the credit tab which is the what happens certainly in the coming hours of the moment adrian thank you. well ali the shechinah his american wine with fifteen percent tyrus not seen many want to put on hold while brunell's reports from california's wine country. like a cascade of green and gold and jewels right solving blank grapes fall into a press at the hoenig family winery in california's napa valley it's one of many steps toward creating premium wines that sell for as much as one hundred dollars a bottle here in the heart of california's wine country growers have to contend with the weather fluctuating markets taste trends and now a trade war. we feel when you walk through and see all of this. fear here wonder yoder michael who is afraid that relationships he spent

a decade cultivating with chinese wine merchants have now been ruined he saw in about twenty five other countries outside of the u.s. and china is certainly one of the top two or three after president donald trump placed tariffs on a range of chinese imports in march beijing retaliated with tariffs on u.s. agricultural products including wine growers protested but to no avail now u.s. wines are priced out of the chinese market compared with the fruits of chilean french and australian vision your it's the world's getting smaller you see great interest in the chinese culturally they want wine they want the finest things in life they know that napa i produce some of the best wines in the world so we have this great opportunity but the government is putting this huge impediment in front of us it's not just growers here in california is wine country who are feeling the pinch all over rural america including many areas that heavily supported trump in two

thousand and sixteen farmers' livelihoods are being disrupted by his trade policies trade wars have. really detrimental effect on on farmers compared to a lot of other industries soybeans is probably most affected and then commodities like pork and sorghum colleagues winery has been in the same family for three generations without expansion into new markets like china he says its future is in doubt generational business i'm trying to create something for the future of my family the fourth or fifth generation holdings that are going to be running this business so what impact is today but it will impact us in twenty and thirty years if we don't do something now a rich harvest amid a season of uncertainty rob reynolds al-jazeera napa valley california. donald trump's full personal lawyer says he'll assist the special investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election michael pleaded guilty to

breaking campaign finance laws on choose day saying trump directed him to do so the president insists he's done nothing wrong and is accusing cohen of making up stories and to gallop reports from washington d.c. . he wants city take a bullet to donald trump now michael cohen is offering to help an investigation the president has repeatedly called a witch hunt on tuesday don't trump's long time lawyer and fix pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations cohen told the court he was directed by trump to make payments to two women he's alleged to have had affairs with cohen's lawyer says the fifty one year old is now more than happy to help special counsel robert muller's investigation into alleged collusion between the trunk campaign and russia my observation is that michael cohen knows information that would be of interest to the special counsel in my opinion where guarding both knowledge about

a conspiracy to corrupt american democracy by the russians robert manne this investigation centers on a meeting between campaign aides in a russian delegation that promised to dish political dirty. on hillary clinton cohen's lawyer has indicated his client has direct knowledge of the meeting with claims donald trump knew it was happening something the president denied of the president knew about it and there is other evidence in addition to michael cohen just basically saying it on his own then the president at this point could be one his way very fast paced to impeachment at the first press briefing since cohen's appearance in court so how could the sunda says the president has nothing to hide as the president has stated on numerous occasions he did nothing wrong there are no charges against him in the us and just because michael cohen made a plea deal doesn't mean that implicates the president on it. on the same day cohen pled guilty in new york the president's former campaign manager paul manifolds was

found guilty on a charges of tax and bank fraud both cases sprang from a list team leading one republican to say it's proof miller's investigation is anything but a witch hunt democrats say trump's legal woes a far from over to take a step back president trump's campaign manager was convicted of federal crimes president trump's personal attorney pled guilty to federal crimes president trump's first national security advisor pled guilty to federal crimes. a foreign policy adviser to his campaign pled guilty to federal crimes and more trials are coming these two cases may now be the biggest threat to donald trump's presidency cohen's lawyer says his client is now liberated to speak truth to power and there are unconfirmed reports cohen has tapes from space will remain loyal but with november's midterm elections approaching the stakes have never been higher and he gallacher al-jazeera at the white house. well donald trump says that he was aware of hush money payments to two women just before the presidential election but says

they were not illegal speaking to folks news trump said did they come out of the campaign did they come out of the campaign they came for me my first question when i heard about it was did they come out of the campaign because that could be a little dicey and they didn't come out of the campaign that's big and they weren't that's not it's not even a campaign violation. he's a former campaign advisor in the works for steve bannon he says the november midterm elections could be make or break for trump. in terms of whether or not that this whether or not this is an actual violation remember michael cohn splayed guilty to eight charges yesterday six of them involved his personal finances tax fraud bank loan fraud and and so i the another financial impropriety then he pled guilty to two separate words this issue is fine and if it's a crime it's

a crime but ultimately it goes to the political argument of whether or not the president should be impeached and i don't think that this is it in peace.