you know launch a trade war. there's not much love now both sides are almost five months into a trade war and if there's no breakthrough at this weekend's g. twenty summit in one of saris the trumpet ministration is set to raise taxes or more chinese goods including i phones which are designed in california but manufactured in china american consumers are in the get a hit because if you look at the products always have a great deal of the products like a lot of make in china so if they post paris some of the costs are likely to be higher but trump's threats could be just part of the negotiating strategy the souring relationship loomed large at a recent gathering of asia pacific leaders in papua new guinea and in a tough lee worded speech a few weeks earlier the u.s. vice president mike pence portrayed china as the new enemy there are so many points of friction between china and the united states that it's hard to keep count trade

taiwan the south china sea dispute north korea and of course human rights and for that reason say some analysts it's possible that any deal done this weekend will be limited and short lived china's leader has several things in his favor that trump doesn't she doesn't have to worry about elections in less than two years or a free press to hold him to account. state media can pronounce it any way they want but trump needs to have something that he can show his base and say look we won this first trade war with china that means china has a lot of leeway because they don't really need to worry about what looks good but the optics are like but the trade war is undoubtedly affecting china the shanghai stock market is among the worst performing indexes in the world right now publicly china's leaders are hopeful the deal can be done this weekend but it's also clear their expectations are not high adrian brown al-jazeera beijing well the wall

street journal is saying that the saudi crown prince sent eleven messages to his closest adviser in the hours before and after these murders the newspaper says it's seen excerpts of the highly classified cia assessment including a legit comments from the crown prince that seemed to foreshadow the operation mohammed bin said a man's top aide to qahtani oversaw the team which killed. president donald trump says there is no direct evidence linking the crown prince to the journalists killing. still ahead on al-jazeera i'm joined now in budapest where a right wing nationalist government is locked in battle with academic freedom and a whole society is losing out.

i think snow is on the horizon not because it's getting particularly cold the culls been there for a while because when about to inject some warms into the cold air and that always results in snow so the full cost of sunday's a fine looking one eighteen value resort six in surprise the sun is out there is a bit of a hint to something we've got from the south and their ship picture from monday rains about the korean peninsula just cross the border and a mass of snow before it gets of out of austar which obviously get colder now unfortunately further west is still quiet and the quality is not good in beijing but the tension on the top minus ninety winter has finally pushed through mongolia that's a big drop in temperature it's got no further south so we're still looking at about twenty in shanghai fifteen chengdu and rather warm in hong kong with a scattering one small of thunderstorms by the way and some quite big ones by a look of it will happen was in that risk area i think for sunday and monday it is drive to the south vietnam's coast shouldn't be attracting too many showers but

there's a good stream to the sas just catching the north borneo but heading streaming straight for plants in malaysia and singapore with occasional shouts too in southern thailand. over one hundred years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw in the second episode we explore the last thing the effects of this agreement that there is a of original sin to sikes because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people who have to live with the. psychs people in the sun on on jersey.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the forty first us president george h.w. bush has died at the age of ninety four he was president at the time of the first gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one and also the fall of communism in the old u.s.s.r. and eastern europe you oversaw it as flags are flying at half mast that the white house on the second and final day of the g. twenty summit in argentina the u.s. and chinese presidents are due to discuss a truce in the trade war between the world's two largest economies. riot police in paris are firing tear gas at so-called yellow vests protesters who are rallying for the third week against fuel tanks officers use the water cannon tear of gas against the crowds gathering on the songs and is

a one of the city's most prestigious shopping streets in recent weeks road blockades have been set up across france to demand president in mind one might call scrap a new tax on diesel so you're looking at live pictures right now from paris around the zanies a area. david chaytor is joining us from paris so as we're saying david this is the third week of protests what are you seeing today. well we had to wait and see how many gathered here but we all saw the scenes last week in the seans elise a ritual like into a war scene and the police of determined that those scenes will not be repeated this time in hundreds of gas canisters of a crushing grenades on a grenade have been used to keep back the crowds and now we have at least one was seriously injured in the disturbances and behind me on. the arc de triomphe and

we've yet to see the full force of the best now what the police are trying to do is search them as they come into the seans elisei remove any projectiles make sure they don't have fled but essentially at the moment inside the sean salif say it's been very nonviolent very peaceful making an effective protest we've heard from then one cry mccraw must resign but outside there are many people who are trying to break through the police lines and that's where the main friction is at the moment we understand last saturday there are up to about eight thousand yellow vests here we get to get accurate figures from the the police but outside. under the up the trail the neuron and the surrounding streets there are something like two two thousand protesters but this building is building all the time and we'll see this afternoon how many people they managed to get here but it's an extraordinary

protest it's going on right across france not just here so arranged on the social media it has no real leaders very difficult for the police to try and control but there is one theme and that is they all have a particular protest against the style of president emanuel michel he's forcing through these price hikes which are hitting the poorest parts of the community in france the rural areas and the poor they're the ones really suffering from these price hikes but there are many other people wide ranging huge rainbow protesters all of them opposed to what they see as the feel of the autocratic style of president ford is pushing through these reforms without any real care they say for the ordinary people of france that's what's uniting of this political. force behind this whole from very very different areas different classes different regions but

this protest is proving very hard thank you very much the moving very very hard for the police to try and control at the moment we haven't seen a repeat of the scenes that we saw last saturday and that main aim to try and keep things on this time they using tear gas and water cannon to keep them back here from the sounds at least three of them and we can certainly see the use of tear gas and water canon david going on right now because we are playing the life terms from the songs and using as you speak to us and give us that update but we know that's my car right now he's in argentina attending the g. twenty keeping a close sign most likely on the situation in paris how much pressure is all of this putting on him and is he going to reverse his decision on the fuel tax. well he evolved when he got to argentina that he was not going to reverse this decision he was going to continue with these reforms so no sign of any u.-turn from

president emanuel micron but what he's going to watch for new devices going to work for is that this protest might start gaining more traction than the trade union protested about his labor reforms because there are so many different varieties of protest going on here and if it does become a powerful political force it's the united states but the house might have a united political effect on the president not going so we'll have to wait and see if he's giving him in both his audience to say that he's going to stick to those reforms that he's going to continue with them but here. on the streets of paris now filled with the tear gas it's a very different picture they are not going to give up they're going to keep these protests going and they might prove much longer last thing and more effective than the trade union protests that we've seen in the course of this year and seventy percent of the people of from the exit poll more than seventy percent support. when

you look at president crawlers ratings that diving below thirty percent that shows you the the chasm that's opening up dividing france at the moment at any politician should look at that chasm and work out but something had to be done in the dialogue so that the french prime minister to leave so i didn't open yesterday turned out to be a fiasco one person turned up and then immediately left because he wanted to have the whole discussion live on film so at the moment the door remains open for further discussions but it doesn't look as though the french government has the right approach to try and control the other best that. it is continuing and as i say it's beginning to swell it's not going away we could see this again and again and not just here in the streets of paris but right across from all right david channel

reporting from paris and once again you're looking at live pictures there from paris where the protest there is rallying for a third weekend against the fuel tanks by president in my new one. and we understand that officers are using water cannon as you can see as well as tear gas at the protesters. now a major university in hungary says it's being forced to shut down critics say the hungary and government's refusal to license the university in budapest that's owned by an american billionaire is part of efforts to silence dissent so no home reports from their. central europe was not colonized by for close to thirty years the central european university in budapest has dispensed world class degrees to students from more than one hundred countries but it's days in hungary are numbered . the one going up a man started and all out campaigning against liberal intellectuals in fact

intellectuals far of any stripe. and has been limiting economic freedom in state owned and state run universities for a long time c e u is a private institution of the government's refusal to renew its legal certification means courses are moving to vienna but first by way of a protest campus outside parliament this is the quote it's not quite the hunger in uprising all over again but they want people to know that their government is threatening to close a university on european soil for the first time since world war two once this becomes true miscible here it becomes permissible anywhere anywhere in europe anywhere in the west that it will be a catastrophe for hungary and i just don't see what sort of a government would destroy that so why is it so tristrem to them suppose they don't want independent thought they don't want the use of hungary to be able to assess critically their propaganda so here is a grand european democracy and academic freedom side by side of course in political

science would teach that they are mutually dependent on one another but here in hungary they're in mutual decline. the battle to save c.e.u. looks likely to be lost the latest defeat for hungary's beleaguered liberal forces opposed to prime minister viktor orban and his populist nationalist policies or ban has targeted not just free thought and speech but also immigration and foreign n.g.o.s his most recent election campaign was fronted by posters of hungary and born billionaire george soros with claims that soros plans to flood europe with. illegal migrants and refugees the see you was founded and is funded by george soros and one of its alumni is government spokesman sultan coverage why now choose to go after this institution that source found and nobody is going after one particular situation as i mentioned to the higher educational always apply couple to all

universities and institutions operating under but this university is going to find it difficult to function in the future is it probably for the reason that it was privileged in an undue way that privilege is not going for any of the university or higher education institution in this country if not the last nail in the coffin certainly one of many don't know how al-jazeera budapest the former bosnian military commander nasir or it has been acquitted of war crimes or it's led the defense of the besieged. and was accused of killing three serb prisoners the town fell to bosnian serb forces in one thousand nine hundred five who killed more than eight thousand bosnian men and boys. movie stars from arab countries and around the world are gathering in doha this week as the sixth film festival kicks off in the qatari capital besides providing a platform for local filmmakers this year's event features a wide range of international films for more than thirty countries thorson jabari

reports. and love to get a look this is made in qatar may be one of the highlights of the annual film festival but it consists of sixteen short films directed written and starring and all qatari cast. and this was their moment in the spotlight they can evoke very oh very quickly film festival has become more international eighty one films from thirty six countries are taking part including twenty four films from the arab world and forty four by women filmmakers is the theme of this year's festival is a voice for generations of course that insisted we select interesting films for the people to hear to see films that are of like a social meaning that helps them you know impose positive and played forward and look forward you know to

a brighter future. that willingness to introduce arab films to the international cinematic stage is what brought one of the biggest stars in hollywood to joe hockey and so curious to see what i can take away from and learn from the qatari filmmakers because i assume they're coming at storytelling from a completely different perspective than we are in the west and there's only something to be gained from seeing their storytelling. domino is a kaffir now is the award winning film by lebanese director nadine the baki because it has already won the jury prize at the cannes film festival and will be submitted for the academy awards it tells the story of a twelve. the old boy lebannon who ends up suing his parents for bringing him into this world when they can afford to take care of him. this emotional and powerful film has received rave reviews across the world and all

highlights the as yellow. but beyond that it speaks to more universal issues of poverty human rights and the global refugee crisis. the film's writer and director says it is critical for people to see these issues in films it's important that we acknowledge that of course we know that this exists but it's important that we change or so i point to prove that we humanize the program and that's way symon cinema is important because it does humanize the program. a growing festival in a culturally diverse arena encouraging local and regional filmmakers to pursue their passion and tell their stories to the world's door such a pari al-jazeera doha. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the forty first us president excuse me george h.w. bush has died at the age of ninety four he was president of the time of the first

gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one and also oversaw the fall of communism in the old u.s.s.r. and eastern europe flying's are flying at half mast that the white house has more from washington d.c. . well it certainly all presidents when they pass away are granted a state funeral if they choose to have one john fitzgerald kennedy had a state funeral ronald reagan as well also had a state funeral but it's up to the family and we have not heard from the family yet if they will choose to do that or not of course state funerals are very long affairs the last five days and very steeped in tradition we can say that most likely president bush's body will lay in state at the capitol rotunda here in washington but unclear on the state funeral yet at this point it's the second and final day of the g. twenty summit in argentina the u.s. and chinese presidents are due to discuss the trade war between the world's two

largest economies they're trying to find common ground to end a rift that seen tariffs imposed by both sides riot police in paris are firing tear gas at so-called yellow vests protesters who are rallying right now for a third week against the fuel tax officers who are using water cannons and tear gas as you can see against the crowds who are gathering on one of the city's most prestigious shopping areas by the songs in. the wall street journal says the saudi crown prince sent eleven messages to his closest adviser in the hours before and after. murder the newspaper says it seen excerpts of the highly classified cia assessments including alleged comments from the crown prince that seemed to over foreshadowed the operation mohamed bin sandman's top aide. oversaw the team which killed. former bosnian military commander nasir or it has been acquitted of war crimes or it's led the defense of the besieged town of srebrenica and was accused

of killing three serb prisoners he was hailed a hero by a book bosnian muslims but denounced as the butcher of bosnia by many ethnic serbs inside story is coming up next day with us. palestinian children in israeli jails it's claimed nine hundred were arrested this year rights groups say some are interrogated and made to confess to minor offenses is israel complying with international law and what are the rights of the children this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm homage enjoy him last year the arrest of palestinian teen activist i had to me sparked international outrage and condemnation it also drew attention to the plight of hundreds of other young palestinians locked up each year in israeli prisons this week two of the youngest were released will join our guests in a moment but first a touch of the name with this report on the homecoming for one of those youths. with three birthdays spent in prison fifteen year old shot savored the media attention after crossing the calendar checkpoint in the occupied west bank and returning home to palestinians. it's the best feeling in the world the feeling of freedom nothing like it. far out was twelve when he and his friend ahmed zaatari

were arrested in their village in two thousand and fifteen israeli authorities charged him with possession of a knife and plotting an attack despite taking a plea deal he denies this thanks to his mother's tireless efforts emerged as the face of palestinian children in israeli prisons human rights groups say they're often coerced into confessing to crimes they didn't commit the palestinian prime minister's office says there are two hundred seventy children in israeli jails this year more than nine hundred have been arrested children report being subjected to physical violence and put in solitary confinement during interrogations according to the rights group defense for children now the good. old during the interrogation and whenever we say something they don't like they turned the cameras off they beat us they put us through psychological torture but

it was worse for our family as a spokesman with the israeli police didn't respond directly to the allegations but explained their procedures there's a clip protocol that we go according to notify the parents that they've been involved in an attack notify a lawyer if necessary as well and of course according to the standard procedure they will appear before the court that is what takes place in israel and of course in many cases as well everything of course is documented and even filmed human rights groups say israel needs to be held accountable a lot of. things that are unifying listens and to try to ask international community to. in the coming days weeks and months human rights groups say once the euphoria dissipates forum may very well have difficulties coming to terms with the trauma of three teenage years spent in prison natasha going to aim el jazeera ramallah.

all right let's bring in our guests in the ramallah yeah how are you palestinian activist and policy fellow at the palestinian policy network in tel aviv yariv oppenheimer political commentator and former director of peace now and also in ramallah most of all but all of the palestinian politician and secretary general at the palestinian national initiative welcome to you all here at the program now you know how do you let me start with you this case. he's one of the youths that was just released in the past few days this is really one of those cases that highlights the concerns about the mistreatment of palestinian children arrested by israeli forces doesn't it yeah it certainly does i mean we really have to turn to target and situation when it comes to the detention of palestinian children about seven hundred palestinian children and prosecuted for the military is ready

military court system every year and since two thousand of it there have been over twelve thousand children have been prosecuted for this system. it's a very dangerous system and it's a very abusive system the children are subjected to all different kinds of torture including such a confinement such a harassment and abuse often made to sign legal papers without the presence of a lawyer or a guardian and so is quite unique. in the way that. palestinian children although the chump administration is certainly trying to catch up to them so i think this case you know really is demonstrative of a much wider structure of israeli abuse towards palestinian children yariv oppenheimer let me ask you israel of course is a signatory to the united nations conventions the rights of the child rights groups say that it ignores the agreements restrictions when dealing with palestinian

children do you think that is the case. i think that the situation is very bad i don't think that it's like the norm for the sexual abuse of children is being made in israeli jails this is not true and when you get such an incident it will be it will be treated by the israeli army so it's not it's not so bad like hit it was mentioned before but still it's bad why it's bad because eventually when you got in you need to have it set if you we have a democracy so if a teenager has been arrested is a special law to protect him in force the government and the police actually to call the lawyer before investigation and this all is not being applied on palestinian teenagers in the west bank because the law in these well is different to palestinian then to israelis and this is something that we as israel has to fix and to make it balance so they can easily teenager has will be exactly the same why it's like a palestinian has however. we do see that many times teenager palestinian that when

they are being arrested they are being investigated without their option of getting in turn the next to them and sometimes without sleeping before that in the middle of the night being taken from their houses i think it's very bad the israeli government will say to you listen we are not in forcing these where you know because it's not israel however because israel is not accepting the fact that this is an occupied territories so all the conventions are not applying as well on the west bank so there is some limbo here that the palestinian teenager has nobody and no institute they can protect their rights i do think that these were the ngos in israel and their israeli military court system is trying to make the situation better but if their world will pay more attention to this issue for sure as well we have to behave differently because the democratic state cannot allow itself to. and

not to give them the same rights like israeli children has with inside the state of most of a bottle of the palestinian prime minister's office says there are two hundred seventy children imprisoned in israeli jails and that this year more than nine hundred have been arrested what's your reaction to this. absolutely this is very correct information and israel cannot be called a democracy or a democratic country when it is practicing apartheid when it is practicing racial discriminatory system against palestinians just because they are not jewish and israel cannot be called a democracy when it is practicing the longest occupation in modern history and when it comes to children the racial discrimination is very clear if the person is an israeli he would be considered a child if he is below the age of eighteen if it's a palestinian he will be considered

a child only if he's below the age of sixteen there is a special israeli military or the military or the one hundred thirty two which allows the rest of children who is twelve years old more than that there are hundreds. of video documents that are available on you tube other places that show how israeli soldiers even at rest children who are five and six and seven years old and hebrew and in other areas have asked them. because very terrible psychological distress to them even if their arrest lasts for hours or days and this is a totally unacceptable system more than that israeli children would be subjected to civil courts while palestinians are subjected to military codes without israel as was. using that. country under occupation and without any respect for conventions so we are talking here about an average of nine hundred palestinian

children or arrested every year who are subjected to all forms of torture including physical psychological and definity sexual harassment. if it's not abuse it is at least sexual harassment that many of them are subjected to and there were several cases that were proven in this case. case will show defy the law and that is the case of two young children who were twelve years old when they were arrested they were kept in jail for three years and they've just been released after they have lost a big portion of the childhood they have been subjected to horrible harassment let me also tell you that there are three palestinian children today that have been. that have now a fifteen year old fifteen year sentence for have nine years sentence by israeli courts and that is one child who has been sentenced to life imprisonment i don't

think this is acceptable and i don't think this shows that israel is a democracy israel is occupying power country that is practicing apartheid and the racial discrimination against palestinians and this does not make it a democracy you're out of oppenheimer i saw you there shaking your head so i wanted to see if you had a reaction to what most of it was. yeah i think we need to remember two friends first of all as i said before it's bad but it's not like the evil israel is not the evil here and it's not that every child that is being arrested is now is going to going to. suffer from sexual harassment this is this is not this is not the reality they're ality is bad but it's not so bad one and more than that we need also to remember that everyone we are the best we need any it's not the norm if if the near but but if they are complains about the kind of wrestling that i'm sure that they know me and the police and the legal system in israel we will check it will check

we'll check it closely again i think the people are being investigated we doubt to get in the pool of. it meeting a lawyer and sometimes the investigations are taking a lot of time it's bad for children i admit that there are many bad things but it's not so bad and we need also to remember that teenagers also in the palestinian side are taking israelis and there are some teenagers palestinian teenagers that even killed in murders israelis we're talking here about a conflict so i think that eventually we need to end but before ending the occupation and having peace with the palestinians is what has to protect itself and some of the people that are taking knife and trying to kill israelis out teenager so what is one should do is just to ignore we can to release everyone this is also not an option it's a very complex situation i don't think that is what has to be to be a much better to say that it's so bad and it's just evil people that are looking for children this not is.