activities and i think that will have an impact on russia and what it's done overseas over recent years which is trying to be more kind of freewheeling risk taking overseas adventure. and relied on the facts that other countries particularly in the west don't really have the capabilities to resist that will perhaps if there is an increased focus on what the g.r.u. is and what it's doing the west might be able to actually pulled out put out more of a difference i'm guessing rory that the russians will be taking a certain amount of succor from the fact that they've got donald trump in the white house at the moment but i'm just looking at a tweet that has come from nikki haley is a count nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. in which she says that the u.s. stands firmly together with the u.k. in holding russia accountable for what she calls its act of aggression on u.k. soil if the u.s. were to step up any kind of response to this that was so surely send

some waves of discomfort at the very least to the current kremlin. well there has been already i mean there are only a few days ago the united states came out with a fresh round of sanctions against russia because of the script poisoning now that was in advance of all the information that has been made public today perhaps some of that was shared recently with the united states by london by the met police by the british government i don't quite know that yet but certainly the u.s. establishment is very much behind the u.k. here it was the united states that kicked out the most number of russian diplomats and consular staff except for after the script file

affair happened back in march. so they have basically been supporting the united kingdom all of this way yes there is a question mark in the form of donald trump the man in the white house but if you look at the actual steps that have been taken by the united states over the past few months there is no doubt who they're backing up here their backing of london their backing of the united kingdom all right gary thanks for that very chalons our correspondent live in moscow. now to other news and al-jazeera has learned that his he delegation is delayed his departure for geneva to take part in peace talks with the internationally recognized government of yemen the rebel group says preconditions agreed to by the u.n. have not been met the talks were to be the first public meeting between the parties says twenty sixteen but i've been speaking with hussein he has a presence he journalist he says the u.n. has backtracked on a key condition that was agreed upon ahead of the two. it was

a deal of the two struck with the united nations envoy preeminently was the intern are fine. the deal was the plane that will take many delegates from moscow it will take as will some of the critically injured civilians avoided the coalition there are thousands of people a few million will need medical help outside yemen oman has offered to treat people in muster but yesterday they like the nation actually did not keep its agreements with yemeni deliberation from sanaa and they say they will still only a small you in flight to take only a mini delay gets cheaper that's why the delegates and some are has refused. because what they say that this was not what we have agreed people. meanwhile

protests as have been on the streets in the south of yemen for a third consecutive day that demonstrating against the worsening economic situation including rising prices and the collapse of the currency andrew symonds reports now from neighboring djibouti. three days of demonstrations in yemen came as a forerunner to the latest developments on the geneva peace talks the people here are calling for some help because of another enemy in this conflict yemen's crippled economy the norwegian refugee council says food prices in the collapse of yemen's currency that slumped to its lowest ever voted against the dollar on tuesday threatening to kill more people than bombs and guns but it was the deaths of children in the saudi emirates the coalition led bombing last month that killed forty children twenty nine of them on a school bus the prompted the coalition's main ally the united states to respond we can't ever see innocent. people killed under the auspices of

trying to settle a dispute since then we certainly gave our concerns to saudi arabia i will tell you that we appreciated the transparency of them saying they were going to do an investigation we were concerned but they surprised us all because they did the investigation very quickly came out and admitted fault and said they would you can't totally make it right with families but said that they would do something to try and do that and then followed up by saying they're going to try and figure out what went wrong and how they can make it right no mention there of the u.n. calls for the u.s. to stop supplying arms to saudi arabia and yemen the people have to try to move on but it's impossible when even civil servants who haven't been paid for two years are reduced to begging for food but shabby and you know i mean people are suffering from the prices heart inside the cities people cannot find enough to eat this is why they are protesting they want to send a clear message to the legitimate government. in aden political powers have been

calling for civil disobedience shops banks and exchange offices closed down as part of the protests the temporary governing council which has the backing of the united arab emirates called on citizens to demonstrate against peace talks that don't include its members another twist that doesn't bite well for the un led efforts at getting peace talks going the council issued a statement reiterating its opposition to the talks due to be held in geneva on thursday aimed at trying to reach some sort of settlement in this crisis and so the demonstrations haven't just been about humanitarian suffering but also political issues and drew simmons al jazeera djibouti this is caught in israel has approved the demolition of a school and almost an entire village in the occupied west bank in july they the judges issued

a temporary injunction blocking demolition following criticism from the european union now this is a bedouin community and the settlement lies between israel's illegal settlements ma'ale adumim and a foreign name a few kilometers outside occupied east jerusalem within the last few years the lawyers for the villages of khan al amarah have issued a statement on the court's ruling. do you believe that. israel is now starting a new era of destroying the villages of the palestinians but to what extent should this operation under the international cover given to israel by the united states go we are not surprised at all by the supreme court's decision we have been preparing ourselves for this difficult moment in order to stand firm against this decision and the ruling in order to object to the displacement of palestinians. live to our correspondent ben is with is that she there in the village of calm. so within seven days it seems very much to say the authorities have given that the go

ahead for the demolitions to take place but what's behind this. ban it why the israeli authorities so interested in what is a tiny bedouin village with about one hundred people involved. one hundred eighty people who are in the way there in the way of israel's expansion plans israel's plans to expand to illegal settlements in the occupied west bank an expansion of which will join the settlements together there for essentially cutting off the remaining bits of east jerusalem palestinian occupied east jerusalem that's connected to the west bank and when those settlements are expanded once they have got rid of the people here in honolulu or in the way about expansion that will cut off east jerusalem from was left to. connect to the west bank battle cut off it will make the idea already the slim viability viability prospects of a contiguous palestinian state even more remote that is why this location is so

important is also the first time that israel has tried to move such a large bedouin community it's not unusual for a few small commuter few small bedouin to be moved. shacks to be moved out of the way but such a large community hundred eighty people plus this school which opened early in the hope that that would persuade the court to delay the demolition that didn't work the school serves a hundred eighty pupils from this community and surrounding bedouin communities it's going to get closed down it will certainly be demolished all right so we can just imagine the the additional hardship that this now lays upon the communities involved but any hope then of two state solution seems to be shutting down almost by the month i mean is this the contiguity of palestinian land was an essential part of of any two state solution wasn't him. yeah i mean it's one of the reasons

why this particular case garnered so much international support so much international attention of the press conference that they've just had the been representatives from european embassies from the european union i've been listening to this press conference they have been representatives from various n.g.o.s who can trying to work to stop from being demolished they're all here they're all very upset of course and very disappointed that really this is the end of the line the suggestion is that they want to protest and they will protest they'll try to have city to try and stop this going i had a visit at least a seven day window before anything's going to happen then after that is when the israeli authorities can move in technically to the letter of the law they can't evict the people who are staying in these tents in the shack so they can destroy their homes and they can evict them move them out while they do the demolition process but in the end it's the end of the line of lacma they will try and protest

to china to try and disrupt that attempt to destroy this community not seen this with live in the uk had west bank thank you. now the u.s. secretary of state is in pakistan just days after three hundred million dollars of military aid was cancelled and his first official meeting with the newly elected prime minister imran khan might compare is it good to focus on counterterrorism relations have worsened between the two countries within the past year. is our correspondent in islam about. the u.s. delegation down in islamabad for war didn't expect it to be. just before the u.s. secretary of state. said that. president . a. more dominant one is done and of

course objecting to that policy. conflict america's longest war. has already. and that. speech and of one is done now the united states is trying to that it has to do more. of the united states. harboring groups that are operating across the border and attacking u.s. forces in afghanistan. will be saying as they have said all along that nor did it sanctioning head in pakistan difficult indeed between the two sides why did they expect. this will indeed be and it said that relationship and. by have stone a new page. to syria now where warplanes have been bombing the province of idlib the last major rebel stronghold where government troops are massing for what is

expected to be an all out offensive dozens of air strikes are being carried out at least four inches day by russia killing at least seventeen people five of them children russia which supports the syrian government has warned that the army is preparing for a full scale assault on italy calling it a cradle of terrorism the united nations is warning of a potential bloodbath it labors home to three million people the u.n. estimates there could be ten thousand armed rebels stephanie decca records from the turkey syria border. this northwestern corner of syria represents the last hopes of the rebel opposition government forces have steadily recaptured region after region under so-called reconciliation deals the fighters they didn't want to live under government control here with their families a little ahmed was a fighter in the southern province of that are the most recent area taken back by government troops he shows us video of when he was involved in the war and like so

many others who chose to leave he doesn't trust the government. i see the reconciliation is a big mistake because the regime will start arresting us all through a wall and put us in prisons we've already heard of a few people being killed by the regime. came to live in homs the area was besieged by government forces for almost three years and he's now joined one of the local armed groups and. we left because of the heavy bombing and the siege we were starving i didn't agree with the reconciliation regime says they will take it live let them say what they want we have dug trenches and tunnels god willing we are ready. to various rebel groups are preparing for the expected government offensive and if there is a complicated mix of armed groups on the ground here each with different allegiances and. able phon turned their guns on each other but most say they will fight together against the expected offensive it is home to almost

a million internally displaced syrians in those tents that you see crammed together behind me that's province and that's just a small snapshot of what is a major problem in the united nations is warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if there is an all out military offensive on eleven turkey's borders remain closed many opposition supporters don't want to admit what this offensive may mean but how some speaks frankly he came to the problems from southern damascus he too was an opposition fighter there. are a lot of. if the regime takes over it that means we have lost the whole revolution everything it's like if we took damascus the whole of syria would fall to us it is our damascus if they take it it's over and many predict that is only a matter of time stephanie decker al jazeera on the turkey syria border. a new book by journalist bob woodward says donald trump wanted to have syria's president

assassinated last year the u.s. defense secretary ignored his request the book is cool to fit trump in the white house and quotes the president's aides questioning is chaotic ability to lead woodward helped to uncover the scandal which led to the resignation of president richard nixon in one nine hundred seventy four as he has more from washington. some really explosive reporting coming from bob woodward the preeminent and prickly one of the more credible journalists in the entire country his book comes out and he says the president don't trump's top aides had some very disparaging things to say about their boss he says that chief of staff john kelly has called the president an idiot saying he has come often gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's ability to understand to a fifth or sixth grade level and that he reports to gary cole once the president's chief economic adviser once took paperwork trade paperwork off the president's desk

saying that he wouldn't remember and he was trying to protect the country he also reports that the president has had very nasty things to say about his top aides including attorney general jeff sessions according to woodward trump said that he was mentally retarded and he referred to him as this dumb southerner. their white house is pushing back on this releasing a statement saying that this is basically fake news and the president's come out and said that bob woodward has a credibility issue he really hasn't ever had a credibility issue and he has say today he stands by his story still the president's taking to twitter we've seen kelly matt is the transformer lawyers come out and flatly deny all of these allegations again the president saying that this is fake news bob woodward saying that he stands by his reporting. as patty mentioned president johnson tweeting he quoted some of his cabinet ministers a statement from secretary of defense james mattis said the contemptuous words about the president attributed to me in woodward's book were never uttered by me or

in my presence while i generally enjoy reading fiction this is a uniquely washington brand of literature and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility and chief of staff john kelly apparently said the idea i ever called the president an idiot is not true as i stated back in may and still firmly stand behind i've spent more time the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship. deal with al-jazeera and these other top stories within the past hour british prosecutors have charged two russian men with the attempted murder of former spy surrogate script pals and his daughter and a british policeman police say the men were travelling with russian passports under the names of alexander petro of and bruce lundvall share of the commander of britain's counterterrorism police says they flew from moscow to london two days

before the nerve agent poisoning in saul's free which happened in march while the british prime minister to resign may address parliament. i can today tell the house that based on a body of intelligence the government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police and c.p.s. offices from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the g.r.u. the g.r.u. is a highly disciplined organization with a well established chain of command so this was not a road operation it was almost certainly also approved outside the g.r.u. a senior level of the russian state. supreme court judges in israel of approves the demolition of a school and almost an entire village in the occupied west bank in july they issued a temporary injunction blocking demolition following criticism from the european union the bedouin community that lives their lives between israel's illegal

settlements of ma'ale adumim and kufa at him in a few kilometers outside occupied east jerusalem. al-jazeera has learned that he delegation has delayed his departure for geneva to take part in talks with the internationally recognized government of yemen the rebel group says preconditions agreed on by the un have not been met. warplanes have bombed the last remaining rebel stronghold in syria killing at least seventeen people the u.n. is warning of a potential humanitarian disaster in italy province where an all out offensive is expected by government forces and their russian allies. the u.s. secretary of state is in pakistan just days after a three hundred million dollars in military aid was cancelled and his first official meeting with newly elected prime minister. mike pompei is expected to talk about counterterrorism rajab today those are the latest headlines inside story is

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are african countries getting into a dextre with china for the king i'm not a high level the king of egypt and promises that i'm no strings attached to billions of dollars in new financing but what are the long term financial risks this is inside story. hello there welcome to the program i'm laura carle china is africa's largest trading partner and spent billions of dollars in investment and loans with the promise of much more to come from roads and railways to ports the chinese government is backing large scale projects across africa as part of its so-called belt and road and negative are leaders of around fifty african countries have been

in beijing for a two day summit china's president xi jinping offered them sixty billion dollars in new financing deals and says the investments come with no political strings attached is also promising to waive the debts of the poorest african countries as our china correspondent adrian brown. well this has been a summit which in many ways was more about symbolism than substance it lasted really less than two days but of course china has committed itself to giving africa another sixty billion dollars that's on top of the sixty billion dollars that was pledged at the last africa china forum three years ago china's media actually doesn't call this a you know loans it talks about aid that way it doesn't seem as though china is making a profit out of extending financing to africa but of course you know these are loans now president xi jinping said that you know fifteen billion dollars of that

sixty billion was going to be free of interest but of course it still means that africa will be paying interest on forty five billion dollars worth of loans now china is again has been very sensitive to criticism that it's carrying out what is known as debt diplomacy china says in fact that you know african countries are not in debt because of the money that china has been lending it's the result of money that has been lent by others and chinese officials on the sidelines of this summit have been pressing home that point again and again i've also been struck by what's been said on social media and there really is quite a bit of anger out there a number of de of messages have now been deleted from way boat that's china's equivalent of twitter you know many people in china actually don't go along with

president xi jinping international ambitions and what people are saying is you know china is a developing come a country maybe some of that money should have gone back to china this is adrian brown the inside story in beijing. ok let's bring in our poll now and joining us from beijing we have done one she's an analyst at the economist intelligence unit at last and her dad is american former minister and member of parliament and from a roby at a concert to an investment advisor rich management very good to have you with us welcome to the program mr had that if i could start with you i was very impressive isn't it to get around fifty heads of african states to be doing to the leaders will get what they want and. i think so and i it's very impressive first of all because a lot of people have been i mean go to those kinds of meets is whether it's in africa or in china and african leaders are interested in china because now it's

becoming like a major global player especially with the problems that europe has been having lately or not so the protectionism the rising protectionism in america and a trump so a lot of people a lot of africans look at china and china has been the liver and in this sense since two thousand and in terms of loans in terms of investment in terms of development aid which is becoming like bigger and i think it's very it's fair to say that that the chinese are aware of the fact that they need to be i mean like to change the model of financial help that they're providing for example if you look at the sixty billion dollars that they pledged feds were only twenty billion dollars is credit line but fifteen billion is concessional and interest free ten billion is for the elements and five billion is to help with imports and ten billion will be like for the private sector so all of that is very

important in the sense that the africans are seen that china is not only interested in making money and also in extracting like resources but they are more interested in improving if you like like he exports to china not only like i mean primary kind of exports but also like manufactured exports and that is like would like to talk about developments about sustainability so all of those kinds of things are important and i think the africans also the african leaders are very sensitive to the fact that these kinds of loans and development money comes with political strings comes from western countries so that's the interests in china but also i mean i think that china has a lot of money to spend as well and for it like africa is a. an emergent region with a lot of potential and lot of growth come in come in its way so there is there is that interest also from the chinese whether it's the chinese government and also

the chinese companies and china is interested in bringing africa within that kind of perspective of the of the silk road the reinvention of the road absolutely that the chinese president together done away how interested is china really in developing a different kind of relationship or all these changes that has made the pledging of sixty billion dollars of which forty five billion quintal correspondent is still in the form of knowns that carry with it interest rates and penalties for non repayments so how interested is china really in changing the relationship. well i don't think the direction general direction of a relationship has any real changes but there are some interesting language change because previously china focused more on the poverty reduction and in line with that by this year capacity butin is mention a multiple times where such as actually china is more interested into injecting

more of the manufacturing capacity and a more even part of the china supply chain over to african countries and this is a positive change i would say and in terms of the loans china is also a bit more conservative in terms of providing concessional loans and a lot more focus is on operating up the trade links between the two continent and that's also a positive id cards that you do agree with us do you see a new era in china africa relations developing here i think there's definitely been a linguistic change i think xeon pingu for his propaganda chief i think about two weeks ago stephan it lead change the language around africa around the african story but i think you know we cannot be naive at this point in time we've seen countries take on enormous amounts of debt we've seen hugely inflated infrastructure projects many of which which are white elephants before the get go

and you don't have to look very far whether it's quiet in pakistan whether it's tom whether it's true lanka who gorged on chinese credit and then add to disgorge that bought at hand and we can see the writing on the wall and where this is headed so i think definitely seeing pink is is situationally more aware but i think you know some of these deals that were offered in the sixty billion dollars package had had collateral benefits for china take some of the debt forgiveness for indian ocean island. which he specified that's all about geopolitical reach these islands have to have have a lot of reach in terms of the sea around them so i think you know what i do find there is a rather brigade of that seems of a very well coached when they all go to china i wish they'd take some notes when

they went i didn't seize a single leader of aft of any african country taking any notes it was quite extraordinary so i think look there is there is a chorus. of people who will clap anything but at the but the bottom line is you know twenty years down the road there are definite changes that have happened countries of borrow too much money the projects they've borrowed these these funds for are not going to pay off in the foreseeable future and really the import the key factor now for the c.d.o. african relationship is how china is going to deal with the debt fallout we can see the dominos are beginning to fall and be as a classic example prime minister abby read the writing on the wall dot was standing ten percent g.d.p. rates so really i think we've got to we've got to be aware of what's going on we cannot be naïve china is not santa claus though a lot of our leaders seem to believe that and we need to negotiate now with our national interest in mind and i think these are the key things i'd like to i'd like

to see happen i'm not seeing them happen yet i'm just seeing a big cheer leading brigade great boondoggle china shook his hand and they've come back and i'm not sure what we've really got here ok that one just that that to pick up on one of the many points that are made there is china a soft benefactor when it comes to these lanes is it going to write them off as perhaps you know sort of santa clause or is it going to play hardball as i said we've seen in sri lanka where this rankin's couldn't pay back the debt for this port and china then took over the lease for it well we all know the chinese doesn't . come a chinese long doesn't come with a lot of political strength but it does. i mean china has no conditions in fact over fifty percent of china's loans to africa and latin america is backed by commodity things like energy and food and medicine very important for china to have sort some sort of back up but overall i don't think people should consider china as some sort of aid provider. the chinese entrepreneurs go over to african countries

build up factories and change the landscape of africa it is out of their self interest and not the fundamental thinking of helping african countries i still think they're valid for countries like the u.s. and europe probably take really the moral high ground in this issue but what's really has changed in the past decade in africa we have to we have to admit that the chinese is actually taking the lead here not the western countries i must say that the the big criticism of course over these projects is that many of them simply not needed by many of these countries in africa they may benefit twenty years down the line but they're certainly not benefiting anyone now and when countries can't pay back the loans to pay for them in the first place then they risk losing their sovereignty are you saying that happen some of the projects have be like very unlike what the chinese president called vanity projects and they are

carried out by some african leaders for their kind of political gains like big stadiums or big statues or big different kinds of grandiose kinds of projects but i think there is an awareness now both among. the chinese president's said that but also like among african leaders and there is some sort of convergence now that we you need to invest in it like creation of wealth creation of employment but also in sustainable kinds of projects and i think that's the kind of law. which change that i'm seeing and i'm seeing awareness on the part of the chinese like ten years before i mean like they didn't care about those kinds of things that sustainability was not on the table but also like the nature of the projects was not and on the table but now it is on the table and and if you look at the speech of the chinese

president you would see that that's a very important kind of like they have to be sustainable to have also not to be the to benefit the people and that's that's important so there is probably like i mean like some sort of shift towards like more project that will be canonically beneficial to the countries themselves rather than to regimes and to president ok barrie what is interesting is that we're hearing this change of language from the chinese side from the chinese president xi jinping but not raining necessarily hearing it from the african leaders side so what responsibility should leave as of africa bad for example why are they not apples conference taking notes while they at least giving the impression of just being a bunch of yes men i think i think the key there is there is a very important drive and also very important like need for funding and for investment a lot of the african leaders that they're dying to get those kinds of investment

projects they're not there to take notes or take any kind of lessons that they're in order to see if they could fund like the different kinds of initiatives that they have and to take them where they are regional national so i think that's the most important thing but i mean the chinese are there for that kind of like if you look for example at the needs of half it came terms of infrastructure they have been evaluated sometimes of one hundred billion dollars that's not something that will come from the u.s. or come from europe but china is there in order to fund those kinds of projects and i think that's the most important thing for for for those countries one of the things that needs to probably like make everyone worried and the world bank and i. have also have signaled that is it i mean are those confused solvable or will they be able to to bay those kinds of bets what happens if they don't pay those debts and i think the chinese are smart in lincoln some of those that to buy commodities and also having access to different kinds of resources within the within the

continent but i mean it's something that i mean we need to wait and see how much of an economic and political dependence with a lot of the countries that are not solvable in terms of that that will be to china rather than try their countries them into western countries like they have historically been ok i think on can countries afford to wait and say what sort of debt they're going to be in to china or is it already too late well i think in some cases it's too late and in some cases the dominoes are falling in zambia you've got a euro bond prices seventy cents on the dollar if you follow the markets that's telling you that basically zambia's bust its biggest lender is china so we're going to watch this situation in real time unfold in front of our eyes and there are a number of other situations which are very very similar if i can just return to the previous question in one way i think china very much better on the evil eats on the leadership of the of the african continent and what we're watching now is

a very fluid moment i'll just you know i'm sitting in nairobi just look at what's happening over the border in uganda with the situation with president was of a me and and and and bobby wine this pop star who's very popular and we're watching a generational shift from folks who fought for independence to the born free generation and when i listen to presidency in thing it was quite sophisticated he was talking about inclusive growth he was talking about africans feeling the growth on the street and i think that's increasingly an important point that seeing thing is understanding. is that you know this all in bet limit long bet on leadership at a moment when leadership is about to be up and it in many places is a very interesting moment for china to handle and i think we've got to keep an eye on that but look make no mistake and mean these projects are not delivering the

return on investment that they should be delivering that just simply not going to do it in some cases the never going to do it and the point is what's going to happen when this becomes evident to many many people and we're seeing that evidence in front of our eyes and i think that's the challenge for china i also think we conquered lose sight of the overall geopolitical situation we've got president trump rattling z. in ping's golden cage looking to bottle up china in the south china sea not keen on expansion into the indian ocean so you've got a lot of other cross currents which are at play at the moment and i think we've got to watch them all unfold but it is a fluid situation in my view and why does that not consenting china but it's going to be saddled by all of these bad loans which can never be repaid. it is certainly a concern for china has specially when domestically also faced some liquidity problem. we cannot say that infrastructure infrastructure building is necessarily

wrong in africa if i live in a village in a remote uganda do i want to erode on that connect to my village to a nearby township of course i do but as some point to this low might go sour but i wouldn't be able to see it probably the later generation children or children's children will have to repay it a little but it doesn't mean that to building this road is wrong it probably will leave a lot of people out of poverty and we cannot deny that china has gotten word it is now by its a by the so-called china model which is a data driven infrastructure spending model and that has through the chinese miracle in the past forty years and whether that model can be export it to africa and whether african countries want to adopt it it's a different question but you know the the world has no patients really this is a once in a lifetime opportunity that china is a willing to provide it is kind of liquidity and she him can consider this a lot in the road investment initiative as

a one thousand year project for himself so it's very important actually for the practical business men to take advantage of this opportunity it is just that one it's there you just have to seize it ok i said we proved irresistible to many people on the african continent and i set out how that benefited people in america as chinese investment benefits of america or morocco is the solution for chinese investment but it's not as big as south africa or nigeria. or other or on goal of for example so morocco has like a diversified kind of investors from both u.s. and also europe middle east especially and china so it's not highly dependent on china or the like. very important the relationship that exists in morocco and and chinaman politically and also morocco is being seen as a platform since it has also its own investment in africa and its own interests in

west africa let me go back to the point that the previous point about regarding like the weather like the zone i mean like investments in infrastructure is very important and i agree with the fact that roads and highways and also like ports and airports are very important and they could be like structuring projects in terms that they create some sort of dynamics around them and i think the challenge is for the chinese is to go beyond the infrastructure and then work with the african governments on well for the using kind of sectors and i think i agree culture is very important and energies and energy and mining and agriculture technology and the transformation that are happening to some countries like zambia or one donut other places those are the kinds of transitions that should be accompanied by countries like china so that there could be enough wealth creation that can be

enough jobs but also there could be also enough taxes for the governments of payback i mean like those kinds of that and i think that's the question that needs to happen i mean the problem seems for exam the declaration of chinese officials and the concerns of the africans i think that they need that kind of concern about the fact that yes infrastructure is important yes that should not be like big but should be geared towards like infrastructure but i think there is a need also to to to have like more focus on sectors that develop like wealth and also i mean you look at africa and i think a lot of countries i could do was send a golf ball or one that others are probably not on board but are growing and some of them double digits and i think that is prosperity to be created to. be enhanced in those kinds of countries and i think the investment you need is geared towards that kind of prosperity and baloch how do you see china willing to make that

transition to invest in other areas of the economy and for this to become a more balanced relationship. absolutely i think they have to i mean and you know of i'm not knocking infrastructure i'm just not getting the price tag right i'm saying ina road is good if it's built to the village but if it's built at the right price if you're paying free times the price that the road costs then you've got a problem you've got a debt burden so if we can contend july's it in that sense i think look this relationship is dynamic it's going to change is going to change dramatically i think the just the linguistics of president seeing ping at this conference is signaling the that he's listening and that he's he's looking to turn and i think the question is does the does the bureaucracy turn with him do they listen to what he's saying or is it going to be more of the same which is a rather freewheeling type attitude. a lot of contracts which ultimately have gone into financing elections that you know you've got these big ticket projects for

infrastructure way money is being creamed off the top recycled into winning the election and supporting the government of the day so this is a very very obvious the question is can can presidency in being clean up shop and go is a good example because if you look back at the chinese engagement with angola there was a very freewheeling typing gauge went i think there was a very well known character out of hong kong contra members named but you've seen cd paying stamp his mark try to try to sort of own it own the engagement much more but he's going to have to take a lot more ownership of it over it because for now what we've seen is a lot of privileged people eating the chinese cake the question is the crumbs going to get down to a billion african citizens whose refrain has been throughout this twenty year expansion we can't eat g.d.p.

and i think that's what he was responding to in point of fact very interesting and that we will have to leave discuss. for today many thanks to all of you dan one. and ali khan statue. and thank you to very much for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website there's al-jazeera dot com of other discussion to go to our facebook page at facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside story and you can watch it also join the conversation on twitter or handlers at a.j. inside story from me laura kyle and the whole team here it's by phone or. it is. from the clear blue sky of the dough home. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of la. elegant welcome back to international weather forecasts where across south america there's no really not a lot here on the satellite image always from brazil down towards argentina we're

looking at mostly clear skies we are approaching spring so temperatures are coming up but we are seeing that here on our forecast map on wednesday one is that is a nice day for you at twenty degrees up towards the cincy on twenty four degrees it only gets better as we go towards thursday with those temperatures coming up actually what is out is you are going to be warmer than rio at twenty one degrees there up towards the northern part of brazil we are looking at temperatures into the high twenty's there where we did have one store on the course that we can talk about in just a moment that is gordon that went through parts of the turks and caicos bahamas and into the gulf of mexico for the rest of the tropics so really just looking at those random showers across most of the area over here toward central america showers down towards panama up towards yucatan here on wednesday getting a little bit more active as we go towards thursday but mexico city showers in your forecast with a temperature there of about twenty two degrees then very quickly up towards united states we are looking at the storm that is tropical storm gordon that is bringing

a lot of heavy rain and the potential of flooding here across the south also a lot of heavy rain across much of the midwest up towards toronto and tensions at thirty degrees. there with sponsored by cat time race. i'm. well you know. some of the. zero. hello there i'm sure this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes it is clearly in the public interest to charge alexander petroff. off to a russian nationals. name two russians they believe were behind the nerve agent

poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. and israeli court says the government can go ahead with the a picture of a bedouin community in the occupied west bank. warplanes bombed the syrian province of killing seventeen people almost three million people are in harm's way. and. it's a case of better late than never. going to keep the us open title defense on track. the kremlin says it doesn't know the two russian men british prosecutors have charged with the attempted murder of former spies and his daughter and a policeman and the commander of britain's counter-terrorism police as alexander

petrol. probably used for possible suffice in london then returned home two days after the nerve agent attack six months ago. please save an overture poisoning of two other people three months later is connected to the script palace attack we've now linked the attack on the scribbles and the events in amesbury which affected you and charlie and now forms one investigation you know believe dawn and charlie were deliberately targeted that became victims as a result of the recklessness in which such a toxic nerve agent was disposed of we know that nova chart was applied to the scriptures from door and an area that is accessible to the public which then endangered the lives of members of the public and emergency services respond so it will correspondents following the latest developments for a challenge that in moscow with the russian reaction the first is that i have to london where lawrence is standing by and large just walk us through the timeline of

what happened today. it's six months almost to the day since the poisoning of the scribbles happened and for quite a lot of that time the british government's been under some pressure because it said repeatedly we are as sure as we can be even we know that the russians did this because they have novacek and it was not a shop that killed this cripples but there's a there's clearly a gap in that logic which says well just because there's not a chop it doesn't mean the russians did it and so they've been having to slightly fights an uphill struggle to persuade public opinion of the verity of their case and what's happened today ultimately is in a highly coordinated series of events they've tried to lay out the body of evidence that says this is beyond any any doubt whatsoever there is no other conceivable line of inquiry that you could pursue other than that which says the that it was the russians who did this and it started with the police giving a briefing early this morning in which they gave an entire timeline which their

messages over the last six months are now found to russians who they said were the prime suspects in this and they and they laid out day by day from march the second march the third march the fourth the flight they came in on from moscow to get were careful with a flight number the hotel they then stayed in london where traces of novacek apparently were subsequently discovered on the saturday was then said they went to salzburg to do a reconnaissance job came straight back to london stayed in the hotel again on the sunday they went back to salzburg c.c.t.v. footage of them in all these places including very close to this cripples as the police said at exactly the point when when the when the when the door was smeared with novacek and then in the afternoon they said it's the russians went back to london off to heathrow airport this time boarded the plane and were left for moscow at ten thirty in the evening so they they they they they have these two prime suspects and then immediately after that in the house of commons the prime minister

gave a statement in which not only. did she say that that would lay out this timeline to members of parliament but gave this absolute blockbuster which in which she revealed that this security services m i six the external security services in the u.k. had discovered she claims that these two men are agents of the russian military intelligence here's what she said i can't date on the house that based on the body of intelligence the government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police and c.p.s. offices from the russian military intelligence service. also known as the g.r.u. the g.r.u. is a highly disciplined organization with a well established chain of command so this was not a road operation it was almost certainly also approved outside the g.r.u. a senior level of the russian state so it's a big announcement being made where do we go from here. well that's that's of

that's obviously the question i think it is accepted by everybody that there is absolutely no chance of these two men ever being arrested on the assumption that they're in russia whether or not you accept the claim that they're working for the g.r.u. mushmouth or intelligence there is no extradition treatment between the u.k. and russia it's against the russian constitution to extradite its own people and even if they could given the state of relations in the u.k. and russia has absolutely zero chance of ever happening and so in that sense want to resume a was reduced to saying was if these two men ever leave russia then you can be sure that we will bring them to justice and then we will work with the european union which the u.k. is now leaving to try to a greater sanctions against russia and we will brief our other partners in nato presumably and elsewhere on the greater russian threat threats that it poses to and to try to build up this sort of body of public opinion in u.k. allies against against russia but that's that's really as far as they can take it

clearly the very least you can say is that relations between the u.k. and russia were in the biggest hole imaginable. you know it you could say it's worse but it's difficult to get much worse in this ok all right so many thanks for that update there from london let's go now to rory en route in moscow and why russia has always denied involvement in this attack what's its response to developments today. i would guess it's more denial yeah i mean the russians have been saying since this whole thing kicked off in march that it was nothing to do with them that they wanted access to the ukase investigation that they couldn't believe anything the u.k. said regarding the script. unless they could see the evidence itself unless they were sent samples of the u.k. supposedly found except for except for etc and largely today we've had repeats of

those points once again so there are foreign ministry says. i can read you a quote from arrears a car has a foreign ministry spokeswoman once again we are as the u.k. side to switch from public accusations and in information manipulation to practical cooperation through law enforcement agencies london has received numerous relevant relevant inquiries from the russian side the investigation of such serious crimes which will be repeated the claims by the u.k. requires the most careful work scrupulous analysis of data and close cooperation cooperation that the russians say they have not had from the united kingdom she went on to say that these two names the u.k. has produced mean nothing to them they just don't know these people we've also heard from the kremlin a. cough who seems a bit confused he says that c. doesn't quite understand the points that the british authorities are trying to make with all of this information that they have put out today so you know the russian

response as it is of the moment is similar to what we've heard from them over the past few months it hasn't changed a lot as pointed out in his line just a few moments ago relations with the u.k. already placed dire how much worse can they get. well i mean obviously there has to to any deterioration short of war could be considered going even further into the abyss and then if you step into war then you go even further no one is saying that we're going that far yet but certainly this does make things more tricky in regards to u.k. russian relations now how would all this be received in moscow well as i said i don't think they're their initial behavior is going to change at all they're going to carry on denying that this hadn't anything to do with them i think though there will be perhaps some attention being paid to what's reason may was saying in

parliament earlier about the g.r.u. now the g.r.u. this intelligence arm of the russian military has for the past few years being the most aggressive the most risk taking arm of russian intelligence certainly when it comes to foreign exploits we have seen them active in ukraine they were. heavily involved in crimea of course as well and they are i think pretty active in syria right now so for there to be greater western attention to be paid to the g.r.u. might give moscow cause a pause for thought it might mean that because the the west is more aware of the g.r.u. now it builds up greater defenses against some of the more freewheeling activities in countries around the world there i think would also be attention paid

to what's the reason they were saying in parliament that she and the u.k. will be pushing inside europe for increased sanctions on the chemical weapons front and increased sanctions as well on the cyber interference cyber warfare front as well so that's something that russia might be considering at the moment. is that from moscow thanks very much. now supreme court judges in israel have approved the demolition of a school and almost an entire village in the occupied west bank in july they showed a temporary injunction blocking demolition following criticism from the european union bearing community alliance between israel's illegal settlement admin and kufa i don't then i think outside of occupied east jerusalem. as in the village of qana for us to tell us little bit about this community that now has to live within seven days well it's the end of the line for this community

laura the school will be demolished the bedouin who live here. will be demolished they may be able to stay here longer but they risk continually seeing their buildings demolished i'm joined by mahajan one of the lawyers who's been working this case now for well it's been going on for ten years or so are lies is the end of the legal line for them yeah i think i agree i think it's of the story regarding . regarding the issue of the militia in the construction in the village if you read the decision twenty four pages. judges make it very clear that they won't accept challenge or legal challenge regarding. demolition of the construction and i just think that from the pictures because of some you still as you mention that we will still come here after the demolition is being conducted why was this case gathering so much.