james. at the united nations. turkey's foreign minister says a visit by president to germany is a milestone which will open a new page in diplomatic relations ties have been strained for years and is expected to face a frosty reception with protests planned and german leaders vowing to bring up human rights abuses in turkey so the reports. it may have only been a year ago that president red chip type of arda one criticize germany's governing coalition as the enemies of turkey so an opportunity to reset the rocky relations between belin and ankara may be a timely one and i'm bishop's task given the disparity on issues such as democratic values but one not both countries can ill afford to ignore as turkey tumbled into a financial crisis it needed a pragmatic solution especially from its largest european export partner turkey needs germany and everyone has understood this so he understands that he

cannot afford to offend the germans because that will block his relationship with europe. a trip to germany may have been a logical choice for president a country that's home to the largest diaspora but relations have been tense since turkey's crackdown following the july twenty sixth failed coup that's all tens of thousands of people imprisoned including some german citizens all supporters of the turkish president have welcomed a visit it is by no means one that the entire community has rallied behind with protest against erdogan and shuttled for friday. i believe we need to take to the streets on the day not just to demonstrate against something but to demonstrate for something for freedom of the press for democracy and for human rights it is also about showing our government wishes to receive the president to go following the wrong policies but it's not all one sided germany and

the why do european union also mean a stable turkey on its doorstep a turkish banking crisis could significantly impact european banks and the syrian refugee crisis continues europe's rising antipathy towards asylum seekers has left it dependent on turkey to control the flow of people fleeing from syria. civil war . zone to the german side is certain tossed to fulfill as does the turkish side like germany most vehemently fight islamophobia hostility towards to us and take up measures the turkish side or rather err on should not use the turks live in germany his own policies and with all this in mind the relationship between the two countries may continue being increasingly transactional much will depend on how they negotiate their respective issues could both economic and geopolitical stability so new eagle al-jazeera. still has her on al-jazeera in an must

a billion chance of tessa is accused of fraud plus. unscarred heiler in sichuan china in a region known for its dinosaur fossil discoveries there's a booming industry making replicas of these prehistoric giants who wants roamed this land that story coming up. hello this sweeping tranche of culture that came across eastern europe has a consequence the shopping's just done here more and second but the next tranche of cold air is with us it'll be a bit further north and i think it'll just stay that funnel so forecast wise you've got temperatures around about the ten marcus talking fourteen for moscow we're up to about sixty and also in twenty arise again and twenty four in vienna in fact central and particular western europe is relatively warm for

a day or so but that northerly wind will show itself in london down to sixteen on friday northerly winds are going to be cold after all and paris joins you with eighteen on saturday now this trade of green here is showers significant shells maybe rain more likely in kiev and a drop in temperature here but if we drop down to what's happening in the mediterranean that cold air has. had a bit of the boosting effect of what is basically a clump of thunderstorms off the coast of libya and we get something of a circulation here a cycle you might want to call medicaid has got gale force winds forecast for sudden it's silly for greece for example and the thing will wander around the only in sea towards the igi and towards the end of the weekend so significantly high seas i think quite possibly landslides from heavy rain and strong winds the consequence.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour here and special envoy for yemen says he's pushing for war and policies to return to negotiations in the exclusive interview

to al-jazeera mohsin griffiths says amongst his other priorities is the reopening of sally port to commercial access. u.s. senators testimonies from the nearly nine hours from donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers christine basie ford says she's one hundred percent certain brett kavanaugh assaulted her allegations he strongly denies republicans say the committee will not vote on cavanagh's face on friday. about an m. president says the u.s. is no longer an independent mediator in the middle east peace process whatever his address at the u.n. general assembly to the north a strong attack on the u.s. and israel but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu focused his speech on iran . china has accused the u.s. president of trying to damage its reputation after donald trump claimed beijing was trying to meddle in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections he said beijing's alleged interference is in response to his

tough songs on trade article him of course we found that giant it was a new and surprising allegation from the u.s. president it didn't go over well in beijing would you show where your feet and we advise the united states to stop this unceasing criticism and slander of china stop these wrong words or deeds that damage bilateral relations and the interests of both countries peoples he is responding to a moment from the u.n. security council they were supposed to be talking about nonproliferation when president donald trump took the occasion to attack china accusing them of trying to interfere in the upcoming congressional elections they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade. and we are winning on trade we are winning at every level we don't want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election he didn't give any

examples and his aides couldn't give any real evidence talking to reporters afterwards many in the u.s. brushed off the new unfounded allegations but analysts warn china probably won't china has a culture that goes back they can name their own of their emperors going back for five thousand years so they do not think that a president of the united states would say things that are careless worth less so they're going to find a deeper meaning in this than you and i are used to with just kind of donald trump's rant of the moment the president is clearly upset with these ads that china placed in an important newspaper in iowa saying trump was the reason farmers were losing money he recently tweeted china is actually placing propaganda ads in the des moines register and other papers made to look like news that's because we are beating them on trade open markets and the farmers will make

a fortune when this is over. the right now u.s. farmers are losing big and growing impatient this trade war is hitting the heart of his base and the president is clearly aware and frustrated that could have a big impact on the upcoming election particularly in al-jazeera washington. united nations agency for palestinian refugees as received contributions of one hundred eighteen million dollars to help cover funding withdrawn by the u.s. has been facing a severe financial crisis since the trumpet ministration cut all support last month the us had historically been as large as contributor providing around three hundred fifty million dollars a year the fund says it still needs sixty eight million dollars this year more than five million palestinian refugees rely on its assistance it's very important as a step it's also a symbol and it's a hopefully a last push to be able to close the short form before the end of the year you know

it makes the difference between keeping the schools open or having to close them keeping the clinics open or having to close them and that makes a very big difference for people in the region for decades the u.s. was a key contributor very consistent generous the single largest donor to honor that actually enabled us to do a great number of things in terms of human development in the region. we're very much obliged to all our partners who contributed in organizing this event today sweden japan germany the e.u. and turkey today was an expression of a clear and coherent international stance that must continue and my critics are a passenger plane has overshot a runway and landed in the ocean new guinea plane had thirty six passengers and eleven crew members on board all survived the crash landing and have been rescued is not yet known what caused the plane to crash legislators in canada voted unanimously to strip man miles de facto leader of her on a system ship

a symbolic move is in response to a military crackdown that forced hundreds of thousands of russian jets of flee mammals rakhine state since august two thousand and seventeen the announcement comes after the recent un report accused man was military of committing genocide and war crimes against for hang up muslims. the united states' stock market regulator is seeking to bar tesla c. musk from serving as the head of the electric car maker the securities and exchange commission alleges he committed securities fraud when he treats tweeted about plans to take the company private back in august the agency's complaint is the first fraud case involving the use of social media by the c.e.o. of a public company castro has more from washington d.c. . the regulators now suing the federal security and exchange commission says this all started with a tweet in early august musk tweeted to his twenty two million followers that he

was considering taking tesla private at a price per share of four hundred twenty dollars federal regulators say there was never a real basis for musk to make that happen and in fact the way he came up with the four hundred twenty dollars valuation hording to the lawsuit is strange itself it alleges that musk made a general estimate and then round of that number up to four hundred twenty because of the numbers significance to the marijuana culture claiming. that it would amuse his girlfriend well the s.e.c. regulators say this was not amusing at all to the stock to the shareholders who bought more tesla stocks based on this tweet alone only to have lost their money once must retracted the plan of going private and not only was it not funny according to this lawsuit but it was also illegal what it's asking for

a judge to do now is remove musk as tesla's see this just illustrates another step in the continued decline in recent months once viewed as a brainchild of brilliant forward thinker and also a good business person he has now been ridiculed in recent months he accused without providing evidence that a diver involved in the rescue of those boys trapped in a thai cave was a pedophile musk is now being sued for defamation for that instance and he went on a live internet stream a few weeks ago smoking marijuana that has all he wrote it investors' confidence in his company tesla and because of its tethered reputation to that of its eccentric founder and c.e.o. the future of the company now is also in jeopardy. now trains stop traveling between baghdad and. much of western iraq and two thousand and fourteen

a year ago the government declared the group defeated between the two cities reopens locals are recognizing the benefits and reports. to shining rails stretchy west from baghdad snaking through the desert for fifty seven kilometers by the other end is the city of fallujah accessible once again to rail travelers. flew just today is not like flew in the past the railroad is a sign of life getting back to normal after getting rid of. these wheel tracks were closed when i saw fighters swept through the west of iraq in two thousand and fourteen. when iraqi railways reopens the bag that the for lucia line we didn't think of the economic benefit this is a message of peace to the people of illusion after the dark days when eisel used to rule those parts. after the defeat of isobel have been roads that have been

open between baghdad but the fact that the security checks on that journey can take anything up to several hours but this train doesn't stop for checkpoints. the journey between baghdad and fallujah takes just fifty five minutes by railway and the high cost of fuel means traveling by road is more expensive. basic train tickets for a one way journey cost just under two dollars. there's nothing going by the train is much easier we avoid traffic jams many checkpoints across the highway or even deadly car accidents it's also much cheaper than road transport. when the train arrives in fallujah fifty seven kilometers may not seem far. but this reopen track is a milestone for iraq's railways rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. one of the world's biggest budget airlines ryanair has canceled around two hundred fifty flights and disrupted forty thousand people's travel plans all across europe

the system is in response to strikes by pilots and cabin crew in belgium spain portugal italy germany and the netherlands. the town with prehistoric fossils as capitalising on the world's fascination with dinosaurs and gong and china the world's capsule of dinosaur replicas has for many years but a very modern day trade war has now some manufacturers worried scott had to report . as you approach is gone on the main highway it's just one problem it's pretty evident what this area is know. it's home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil discoveries in the world the dust formation fascination for down the source put the city on the map drawing in millions of visitors each year but it's ancient history was also the spark for a home grown industry about eighty percent of the world's large dinosaur replicas are made in among the first of twenty five companies to start making replicas of

some of the earth's first inhabitants was founded by gucci home he was born and raised here. to kong is a dinosaur tom i've been very interested in dinosaurs since i was a kid and i majored in electronic engineering so i wanted more people know more about through our replica that's why i started this business but the business of manufacturing in distributing these prehistoric animal replicas of all shapes and sizes is facing a very contemporary issue tariffs imposed by the united states. home now has to pay ten percent tariff on his dinosaurs going to america and then on january first it goes up to twenty five percent can you know where they're warm and a good time you know this will definitely have a negative effect on our x. force where we're trying to talk to our customers in the states and i try to reduce

costs we're trying everything to ease the pressure brought on by the trade or. he says this is one of the biggest challenges he has faced since he opened the factory doors some twelve years ago he hopes to continue shipping two thousand dinosaur's a year without the need to downsize this despite the noise that's being made. by the leaders in washington and beijing. it's got harder al jazeera is going. plenty more on our website address that al-jazeera dot com. exams are these all the top stories the u.n. special envoy for yemen says he's pushing for warring parties to return to the. an exclusive interview to observe it says among other priorities is also the reopening

of santa and national airport to commercial access it's going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassured this week reaching people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about a settlement the narrative of war becomes dominant and that's what we must try to get away from. u.s. centers have testimonies for nearly nine hours from donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers christine daisy ford says she's one hundred percent certain but cavanagh assaulted her allegations he strongly denies republicans say the committee will now vote on cavanagh's face later on friday i believe he was going to rape me i tried to yell for help when i did brett put his hand over my mouth stop me from

yelling this is what terrified me the most and it had the most lasting impact on my life it was hard for me to breathe and i thought that brett was accidentally going to kill me i'm not questioning that doctor ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some time but i have never done this to her or to anyone that's not who i am it is not who i was i am innocent of this charge about that in president says the u.s. is no longer an independent mediator in the middle east peace process mahmoud abbas used his address at the u.n. general assembly to launch a strong attack on the u.s. and israel but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu focused his speech on iran . there's i had lines have

a back with more news here on al-jazeera of the inside story. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human prine in the twenty first century and they are look we are war climate change and technological destruction they seemingly hannity's whatever is there to fear is not in me it is in the people of your clan and hear their story on talk to al jazeera. china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight teen election quite the accusation and quite the reaction from china washington and beijing have been at loggerheads for much of this year from an escalating trade war to a military and a political standoff so what's behind this growing dispute this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program today with me peter w. now the u.s. president donald trump sitting at the head of the u.n. security council was always going to be interesting watch it was an opportunity he used to go after iran and to attack those who still back the twenty fifteen iranian nuclear agreement but he saved his strongest accusations for china addressing permanent council members including france russia and the u.k. mr trump said beijing was trying to interfere in the crucial u.s. midterm elections this coming november without providing any evidence he said china did not want republicans to win the chinese foreign minister promptly rejected those claims calling them unwarranted accusations in some of what mr trump had to say regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight teen election. coming

up in november against my administration they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade and we are winning on trade we are winning at every level. tristram go to marriage or try to china has all along full of the principle of noninterference in other countries domestic affairs this is a tradition of chinese foreign policy our observance of this principle has received a claim from the international community we did not and will not interfere in any country's domestic affairs we refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations against china and we call upon other countries to also observe the purposes of the un charter and not to interfere in other country's internal affairs let's take a closer look at this deteriorating relationship between the us and china well it all started in january with mr trump stated quotes trade war with china so far the

u.s. has imposed tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods beijing has responded with similar measures china has refused a u.s. warship entry to hong kong harbor next month high level meetings between american and chinese naval offices have also been cancelled and the u.s. has called for sanctions on chinese officials accusing them of human rights abuses against the minority community. ok let's get going let's bring in our guests here on inside story joining us today from beijing i know tangan political and economic affairs analyst in philadelphia we'll be talking to joe watkins republican strategist and former white house aide to president george w. bush and joining us on skype from hong kong pauline loom managing director of asia analytics welcome to you all i know coming to you first why is donald trump saying this well there's

a lot of feeling that he's looking to divert attention both from his political problems domestically kavanaugh moeller all the lawsuits everything that's going on there when you're your attorney your. you know your people in your ministrations of turned on you and they're writing books which are very very very damaging to him yes he's looking for some way to do that this is classic drama and you figure out. another target you don't want to talk about russian involvement in the election is to start saying china is out and you know and the proof is in the putting i mean he was not able to turn to anything the ad in the. newspaper was underwritten by china daily there was no subterfuge they were just simply bringing forth their idea about what trade should be like and where they wanted to buy their soybeans to wilkins in philadelphia if you were advising this white house administration this republican administration would you be saying to them yes beijing wants to mess with the midterm elections come november well that certainly

the path of least resistance when you have when you consider some of the other challenges that the administration is facing right now that would be a logical way to go especially given the fact that there's a trade war the president does want to remind his base especially in americans that he's the one that made good on his promise to do to redo these trade agreements with with. major countries and clearly he has done then he has created. conflict with countries that have been friends and allies for a long long time and clearly his his two hundred fifty billion dollar tariff imposition on china hasn't gone unnoticed china clearly is not happy about it the president from knows that he has a three hundred thirty five billion dollars trade gap there to to try to close and he's glad to trumpet that and he's glad of course to say that as along with his

best security advisor john bolton and also his national director of intelligence dan coats have said that china along with three other countries are folks in there watching because they suspect them of meddling in the midterm elections which are not far off far off so yeah it makes sense that he would point to this and make mention of it at the u.n. yesterday when he learned. in hong kong he says he's the first president to really china challenge china on trade is that an accurate description of his presidency and an inaccurate description of other presidencies well what is unusual about this dress is that he seems to be campaigning all the time rather than having being installed as president at presidential what is happening is that at the u.n. he names china but he says it's not about trying to talk he seems to be talking

essentially to his supporters spec home he is framing it as if you support me and people who support china if you don't support we then you are supporting china well the rep lot of america wants he was the supportive anybody america so it's a having people of the us were to a concern philadelphia this is central contradiction of a dichotomy here isn't that he says he's the first president to challenge china on trade and yet flip that around he also says the trade wall was already up and running before he became us president it can't be both well the president is known to make comments that later on are fact checked and and but nonetheless he is trying to underscore his his point i suppose at least by again reaffirming with his base that he's made good on his promise to start a trade war and that he isn't afraid to start one with china especially the try to

close that trade deficit debt that currently exists and so he's made good on his promise he wants the base to know that again we're facing midterm elections where republicans stand a very good chance of losing control of the house of representatives and now they stand equally. big challenge on the senate side where it was an earlier suspected that they might lose control of the u.s. sent. but now republicans could possibly lose control of the united states senate as well so yes the president has to talk to the base yes to try to gin up support among republicans and americans who are going to be going to the polls in a little over a month to vote for members of the house in the senate to say guess what you like what i'm doing don't you i'm doing this in the best sense of america so that's his pitch and he's reminding the voters of that by a by the comments he made yesterday and tangan in beijing you already mentioned the newspaper there was another ad in the des moines register that's crucial because

that state has a lot of soybean trade and that's one of the the businesses in america that's being directly affected in a highly negative way because of this trade war with china putting the adverts in the des moines register is that politics or is it trade it's both and quite frankly the u.s. and we've had a long long history of doing that i mean what do you radio free europe radio free china all of these are propaganda entities that we use now in terms of donald trump he has a long history of vilifying people remember he he said he said ted cruz his father was involved in j.f.k.'s assassination but the main point you should be driving here is everyone keeps talking about china stole jobs china is stealing ip there are cases but i wouldn't joke can you tell me and i'll name off five six cases where you know china has stolen ip as a nation not business to business just simply what has state owned enterprises

common either taken jobs or taken ip pulling in hong kong inferi in about three and a half or four weeks the u.s.'s waltz will shed jeweled to sail into hong kong harbor that's where you're sitting right now it's not going to happen is that significant. yes but it should not have come as a surprise to anyone so-called this. trade well has never been just the don't listen fits who is blank wall who basically i see this as two economies in a race for political dominance technological dominance trade dominance and suddenly spilling over into everything else and i see the coming of not so much a cold war but the beginning of an ice age between two nations but they keep picking on each other so no i'm not surprised that there was she wasn't going to who should be also not be surprised what concern philadelphia at the apparent don't

care about the anger that's been generated because the united states is sending f. sixteen spare parts to a certain location very close to beijing that beijing does not feel comfortable about well the president is somebody who has a history of going hard against a country and a country leader and then turning around and befriending them witness of course the what happened north korea were just a little over a year ago the president was referring to the north korean leader as a little rocket man and now he's chairman kim and he's somebody with whom the president says he is happy to have a good relationship the same is true with china's president for life the president even yesterday in the midst of his comments about the trade war said that he thought that he had a good relationship and certainly hopes to have one with china's leader so the president oftentimes uses these trade wars and other conflicts military conflicts

and disagreements as a way to bring his trading partners to the table to negotiate and don't be surprised if the president at some point. goes back to the table and has significant discussions with china and then comes to agreement with china on what is what he would consider to be a fair agreement but oftentimes to use. these conflicts is a way to bring his adversaries for the moment to the table and with him nobody's a permanent adversary and i suppose nobody's a permanent friend so the people with whom he may be fighting today could well be his for his friend tomorrow. joe you seem to be saying what we've heard before commentator to say about mr trump and can i just turn that around and put the point to you i know when he said this about china allegedly wanting to or is actually meddling in the coming u.s. mid-term elections even his own people were quite surprised by that is it

acceptable to you is it acceptable to the administration in beijing that the world has to be told oh this is just donald trump because this relationship is crucial fiscally economically politically diplomatically it will continue to be crucial for at least another what political generation twenty or twenty five years is it acceptable to beijing that they just have to go with this line of oh that's just who he is no it's not acceptable waging i mean they they first tried to flatter donald trump they you know they invited him over they gave him the plus treatment then they thought maybe strategic patience they were just kind of wait him out because they didn't know what he was asking for now it's become clear to them that he really is antagonistic towards china's form of government not only their economy but politically and you see this not only in the trade things but also in the military he's trying to clamp down i don't think that this is going to be a art of the deal situation and i think that myth is slowly going away anybody who

watched his. his presser yesterday and saw him go on for an hour and twenty minutes almost incoherently at times i don't think anyone thinks that he's fully in command of the economic facts or the political ones. so how is all of this trump talk being portrayed in china itself adrian brown our correspondent based in beijing takes a look at the chinese media's take. well here in china most people especially the young get their news from social media and online but there remain two pillars of the media establishment two traditional pillars that's the people's daily newspaper very much the paper of record here in china and the main seven o'clock news on state controlled t.v. that's watched by more than six hundred million people every evening now so far these two outlets have been fairly restrained in the way they've been reporting the

deepening fracture in relations between beijing and washington that's because several weeks ago an instruction came from the leadership saying the basically the media in china should not use insulting language when reporting on president donald trump not to use the same sort of language that he's been using about china that's the situation domestically internationally it's slightly different because china has an english language overseas network that's seen you know right around the world as well as the united states where it has a major broadcast center this enables of course china to talk directly to you know trump's supporters and china's also been you know basically buying advertising space in provincial and regional papers in place like places like des moines in iowa or in the united states papers that are read by farmers so that the chinese government is able to talk directly to these people and that's what has so upset

president donald trump also in the united states now the the china daily newspaper has a u.s. edition and that's essentially free and it's handed out at train stations and it's available in all major cities across the united states this is what's known as soft power and right now that soft power is in overdrive adrian brown al-jazeera the inside story in beijing. pollin can you try and square something away for us here on the one hand mr trump seems to be saying look there was no russian collusion at all in his mind that yet of course has to be proven one way or the other because of the muller investigation and yet on the other hand he's saying he's potentially and as the republican party they are both as entities as political beasts on the receiving end of potential possible chinese meddling ok hong kong has

a particular relationship with beijing but how for you do you think that will be perceived at the highest level of government in china basically i think china has discovered that you cannot take the new troops that's. literally to base your whole suit decisions on because he seems to hear him words mean what he wanted to me and what and not what most people think that they meet so saying that china is right now to a more pragmatic approach and basically not really get it too much so anything that he says or does. quietly but to bring down the hope in the way on the economy are we getting raves elsewhere trying to talk other countries into truly deals rather than coming against him directly. joe watkins in

philadelphia what if this trade war is just the tip of the iceberg and the chinese administration at some level is thinking actually this guy is a really good tactician he is actually a really good strategist and he wants to reveal what we've seen now for the best possible fifty is well donald trump at least in the point of the fact that despite the turmoil at home and certainly the the controversy and the scandals he's going to be able to go back to voters in two thousand and nineteen and twenty twenty as that is their reelection approaches and say i'm a good and everything i promised to do when i ran in two thousand and sixteen for the presidency and i deserve a second term he's going to say that i certainly shook things up with regards to our trade agreements around the around the world i brought you better relationship with north korea when there was a threat when i first started to run for office not threat no longer exists he's going to say that i gave you tax relief by by by providing you

with a tax plan that certainly provides relief for companies and for individuals around the country he's going to say that i strengthen the borders i made it an issue and i made good on my promise to strengthen the borders and i've made good on my promise to do something about the threat of isis he'll go on and on about all the things that he promised to do and his ability to at least to have moved the dial on most of those things and they'll be a powerful story for four americans because as long as the economy the united states the rate of unemployment remains on the four percent and and and and the economy is relatively strong he's going to have a very persuasive point to make not withstanding all of the controversies of the lawsuits the scandals. the tweets that have got a wry despite all that he'll have a very strong story to make and even in the. comments yesterday that he made

a. local saying that china was trying to meddle in the twenty eighteen mid-term elections but he also took time to mention the fact that there were four of the countries that china wasn't alone that it was also iran and north korea as well as russia and we all know that he's trying to have normalized relations with north korea and normalize relations with russia and and he even spoke kindly of iran's leader yes they despite the more harsh terms against the the country so he's somebody who wants to have. a good relationship with the leaders of the countries but he's not afraid to talk about what he thinks they may be doing to undermine some of america's interests so. that makes a very persuasive case to americans certainly as the two thousand and twenty election the reelection for the presidency comes around and americans vote their pocketbook and they vote national security those are two issues that they care

about more than anything else i know in beijing what if this is nothing more at the moment than creative destruction on both sides and it's yet to get to its ultimate level here well first off i don't think you can blame beijing for donald trump and posing tariffs on them i think from the public republican strategist point of view yes i think they're all hoping that all of these scandals go away somehow magically but the real question and i agree is going to be about the economy in the u.s. if it's in a shambles as people are for telling and he's added one point five trillion dollars to the deficit this is going to sink him just as much as joe is saying that it's it's going to help him i just don't see it happening if you talk to economists he simply doesn't understand the u.s. has to run trade deficits the dollar had jenna me as the world trade currency if we did not run deficits it would literally dry up all of the liquidity around the world where p. . well we're using our dollars it's part of what was envisioned in one nine hundred

seventy three and this is basic economics and fortunately neither donald trump nor his closest aides understand this pauline would it be fair to say this is a crucially important relationship because both countries fiscally economically are fantastically powerful and also their economies can i suggest you are intertwined and have to continue to be intertwined trade war or not oh yes i definitely agree this is a very crucial relationship and china understands that even today the commerce minister is saying let's come let's go see let's talk there is a den of the you know anger and bluster that china might normally get when its interests are invoked so china is very well aware of the waters of the relationship but as i said the two countries up basically.

competing and they're not just competing commercially they're competing in influence in the political the millions it is the relationship it's just not going to get woman was at all it's just good to be and i've said it coming you can have a real human job on ok we're ok with this terrible that tear if you will shake hands but at the end of the day the two of competitive job who's doing the most to handle this relationship not where it is today but for the future for the good of the world because everyone could benefit if this relationship goes in the right direction not in the wrong direction that short termism versus long term is of this is really donald trump and how donald trump wants to proceed in terms of

building the relationship between the united states and china and how donald trump wishes to proceed with regards to what happens with with this trade dispute so and the advisers are left to fall in line behind the president because he is the commander in chief that hasn't always been the case with the presidents of the united states many of them have leaned very heavily on their advisers and taken the advice of their advisers but this is not a president who leans on the advice of advisors as much as he leans on his own intuition so we should we should suspect that donald trump is the one in charge here of the policy and he's driving the policy right now but don't suppose that policy policy can't be changed it could be change on a moment's notice depending upon what he thinks is best for the for the relationship and best for the united states we have to leave it there many thanks to all our guests today on a tang and joe watkins and pulling in and thank you to you too for watching you can see the show again any time via the web site al jazeera dot com and for more

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never sexually assaulted anyone starting high school not in college not ever donald trump supreme court nominee vigorously defends himself before a u.s. senate committee but brett kavanaugh is accused stands by her allegations that he sexually assaulted her in the one nine hundred eighty s. . for a lot of tween the two. and they're having. at my expense. yemen's main international airport battered by the civil war has been closed for two years now there are hopes it could be about to be opened to commercial access that under a new push for peace talks between warring parties have been some of the many concerns of the u.n. special envoy his boss in graphics and an exclusive interview to al-jazeera is

going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassured this week reaching people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about a settlement the narrative of war becomes dominant and that's what we must try to get away from. i want to make an announcement about the opening of sun if i can finalize that i want to make announcements about how we can get prisoners released both sides we made a lot of progress since geneva and i want to work in the central bank of yemen and their counterparts in. payment of salaries which is crucial by the way for the humanitarian issues well even as graphics pushes for peace talks yemen's government backed by the nation says it won't cooperate with un human rights mission and

accuse the u.n. of bias after investigators released a report on alleged war crimes and the other man so hardy's government says and vesta gates's have turned a blind eyes of violations by his see raffles. smith has been following these developments from neighboring to putin one of the un special envoys priorities is getting poured reopened there are thousands and thousands and thousands of people who need medical treatment life saving medical treatment overseas that haven't been able to travel because it has been closed in fact yemen's health ministry estimates anything between twenty five to thirty people a day are dying because they cannot leave. also this once prisoners from both sides of the conflict released he wants to negotiate their release he wants salaries to be paid to civil servants because people salaries have been paid they've not been able to buy food and that has been contributing to the humanitarian crisis and then over the next weeks he wants to

try and restore restart talks between both parties or somewhere in new york he says that is an enormous challenge because of the credible amount of bad blood to cause between both parties both have been accused by the u.n. human rights council of significant human rights violations possible war crimes including and forced disappearances torture and they're cruel and of child soldiers . in germany on his first visit as president he was given a red carpet welcome with military honors a short while ago by his german counterpart frank with all the time that relations between turkey and its largest trading partner have been strained complaints about those human rights record since the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen protests are planned and some german needs is all vowing to bring up human rights abuses in turkey of one that's cross over live to generalities standing by for us in berlin. receive quite a welcome there from the german presence we're now seeing these two countries

playing at being better friends. well laura what a difference a year makes because just a year ago mr erdogan and his political allies described the government here as enemies of turkey because they failed to allow him to openly campaign here on german soil to turkey's biggest diaspora ahead of the constitutional referendum in two thousand and seventeen and the election earlier this year that delivered him vastly expanded presidential powers well fast forward to september two thousand and eighteen and turkey is in the midst of its worst economic crisis in fifteen years the currency has plummeted it's a logger heads with the trump administration over the jailing of an american pastor in turkey and mr no one apparently realizing the need now to bolster alliances declaring before this trip that he wanted things to go back to the way they were with germany here this state visit an invitation made by the president

frank was a sign my after mr early ones reelection in june of this year it's not to everyone's taste here of course there are a number of demonstrations taking place seven or eight or nine evenly across the city of berkeley in over issues like human rights like freedom of the press the jailing of german citizens in turkey following that coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen and the backsliding of democracy but overall i think what you're witnessing here is a sort of political pragmatism turkey realizing that it needs to bolster its alliances and try to get out of its economic crisis germany meanwhile realizing that it can't afford an economically unstable turkey or europe southern flank and i don't do to me chance anger michael in about an hour from now what can she offer and what's in it for germany. well there had been some talk of

a possible economic or financial bailout that's been vehemently rejected by the germans so far i think there's little chance of any promise of a return to talks about succession to the e.u. mr erdogan has simply alienated too many of the european union leaders with his actions since that failed coup in two thousand and sixteen i think what this is is a sort of a sort of attempt at offering support by association turkey as a nato member of course by drawing him closer in towards the european union and a power like germany that of perhaps obvious him a platform from which he can begin to talk seriously to the trumpet ministration to try and resolve his problems there but make no mistake this is all very much in germany's interest mr erdogan props up the floodgates that hold back millions of refugees in turkey who want to make it to europe banks and businesses here in germany would be hugely exposed to any further economic fallout in turkey and of

course the european union worried about a slide by turkey towards russia so i think expediency at play here. it is a better idea to be drawing turkey back towards the e.u. than pushing it further away. continues in germany thanks very much has been a tumultuous day of allegations and denial on capitol held for nearly nine hours u.s. senators had testimonies from donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers but they can say the committee will now days on the fate of but cavanagh on friday from washington d.c. was lynn jordan has more. a historic hearing in washington a woman recounting a traumatic event for her teenage years and here today not because i want the am terrified versus a man fighting for his future and a seat on the u.s. supreme court this confirmation process has become

a national disgrace christine blazin for it seemed on the verge of tears as she told the senate judiciary committee about what she calls the worst night of her life the night blows the fourth says a teenager brett kavanaugh tried to strip her and rape her laughing all the while he was seventeen she was fifteen i believe he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help when i did brett put his hand over my mouth stop me from yelling this is what terrified me the most and this had the most lasting impact on my life blousy ford's testimony comes eleven days after her allegation against the supreme court nominee was published in the washington post cavanaugh testified shortly after ford through tears of his own he vehemently denied assaulting ford or anyone else i'm here today to tell the truth i've never sexually assaulted anyone not in high school not in college not ever mistaken blocky fort has told senators her

allegations are not farfetched and that the trauma has haunted her project with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted her one hundred percent one hundred percent what is the strongest memory you have the appropriate laughter between the two and they're having fun at my expense. as for president trump's nominee he was adamant he's not going anywhere i will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process you freida hard. you've given it your all during your journey within moments of the hearings ending trump said he had picked the right man for the job describing his testimony as powerful honest and riveting even if the senate judiciary committee votes on brett kavanaugh his nomination on friday it won't immediately affect the supreme

court it will start its new session on monday with eight justices and a vacancy and christine blazin forward will learn whether her revelation will have any impact on the confirmation process roslyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. israeli and palestinian leaders took center stage at the u.n. general assembly on wednesday president mahmoud abbas as the u.s. to reverse his decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and funding and funding funding and contrast israeli prime minister. to target iran is accusing us of maintaining a nuclear weapons facility restaurants rejected. when

the israeli prime minister spoke to the un there was one thing he hardly talked about the palestinians he instead focused on iran claiming israel had discovered a new nuclear storage facility in tehran he said when told to post about the strength of his relationship with the trumpet ministration so i want to use this opportunity to express israel's appreciation. to president trump an ambassador who only for the unwavering support they provided israel at the united nations the palestinian president gave his message the moment he took to the podium and peculation committed by jerusalem is not for sale.