of seizing the leadership of this party which would have been an affront triangle which is why for quite a few people this this election was seen as almost a referendum of the chancellor she wasn't on the ballot and yet in every other sense she was a legacy of the policies that she has pursued over the course of more than a decade and dominic do do we know any more about. her successor. personality and her style of leadership and and how how she would run things. is the interesting thing here in her speeches and she said i've heard many people refer to me is as a mini version as a two point zero version of somebody else by which she obviously meant angela merkel but she went on to say look i've been in charge of the prime minister of my own state i been many ministerial positions over the past eighteen years i bring a strong pair of hands i bring a inability to to pluck the ship of states progress as it were she really feels

that she is the right person at the right time as it were she says the lure of that on a european level there are things still that the e.u. needs to do she talking about achieving shang in goals i.e. having the internal borders properly managed to put open to everyone she's talking about the sorts of policies that it's not really that she touched upon very much in previous weeks while this campaign is going on but now that she has this leadership because she now has to grow into the role there are state elections coming up next year where it'll be a real fight for her party against as i said that populist far right movement. in east german states so we can expect to see her grow into the role angle america will concentrate on governing germany on in the being in the federal chancellor a while i'm a great company starts fighting the elections in the states and tries to to shape the policy that she was. her party to take forwards bearing in mind that the

general election which many people wondered might be earlier if she lost she didn't lose therefore it's much more likely the general election will take place several years from now or i don't want to change life for us there in hamburg thanks tony. now protests are continuing in central paris where they've been days of at times violent demonstrations and there's outrage as well over the treatment of students arrested by police during protests outside the capital on thursday trade unions and far left parties lashed out at what they called police brutality after this footage went viral online security measures are being put in place to try and prevent another outbreak of violence similar to last weekend's anti-government protests david chaytor has more from paris. extraordinary measures are being taken by the authorities to protect paris on what is being called by the l a vest demonstrators

act four of their revolt and now it's going to be joined by many more people than we saw last saturday the students of course are the latest people to say that there will join the protest and it's feared of course by the police that they'll be more than just a handful of extremists from the left from the riots and the anarchists this time deliberately trying to attack the police and provoke violence and they're deploying for the first time armored vehicles the police on the streets of paris and these will be used to try and break through any burning barricades and they could well be needed because there are so many extra elements to this act for than even last saturday because it's feared that people from the peripheries of paris the the the the areas which are the most deprived and nearest to the center paris could also

join join the protests in the words of the interior minister christophe kasten there he said that a beast a monster had been born in the last few weeks and it had got away from those who had created it so everybody here in paris is bracing for what could be an even worse violence than last saturday. still ahead on al-jazeera negotiations between yemen's warring sides hit a snag in sweden over the ports of had data. techies in challenges chief briefs u.s. senators as they consider ways to punish saudi arabia for the murder of journalist amounts to show. hello again it's good to have you back we're here cross eastern part of the

mediterranean it has been quite messy over the last couple days looking at the clouds right there so for turkey we have been seeing some very heavy rain that's going to continue here on saturday but by the time we get to sunday things are going to be improving it's going to be a little bit cooler so over here towards aleppo how about thirteen degrees in your forecast there up towards ancora a high temperature if you of about eight degrees in your forecast well down here across parts of the middle east we are looking at fairly dry conditions maybe some clouds down here toward the south across parts of yemen a temperature for sun up maybe twenty three degrees there up towards miska things are looking quite nice at twenty nine may be coming down to about twenty eight but some clouds to the northern part of saudi arabia by the time we get towards the end of the weekend and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we are looking at some cooler temperatures across the region durban has some clouds pushing through as well as some rain that has gone through as well we haven't seen that rain continuing here on saturday cool attempts through at twenty one degrees capetown maybe some clouds in your forecast but up towards johannesburg we are looking at twenty seven degrees here on saturday by the time we get towards sunday

who we are expecting some more rain across much of the area anywhere from johannesburg down here towards the coast the harare it is going to be a mostly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about twenty six degrees. xenophobe violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's past describing right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marina national party generation hate. part one of the special two part investigation on al jazeera.

again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. president has nominated state department spokeswoman heather now it is the new ambassador to the united nations if approved by the senate now it will replace nikki haley in january alien now serving as a nation in october. trampas again lashed out on twitter against the investigation into possible collusion between russia and his twenty sixteen election campaign new details are expected on friday that could shed light on how to of trump's closest former aides have helped or hindered special counsel robert maulers pro. germany's ruling christian democratic union party elected and a great karrenbauer to replace angola merkel as a party leader carabao is merkel's prata j. and will decide how long merkel stays on as german chancellor. the last migrant

rescue ship operating in the mediterranean sea is ending its mission doctors without borders says a smear campaign by european governments has forced the aquarius to stop saving asylum seekers bryan explains. packing up the ship that's been a big can of hope for thirty thousand people over the past two years rescuing those making the treacherous sea crossing between libya and europe migrants and refugees risking everything for what many of us take for granted a safe place to call home the aquarius can no longer work the charities doctors without borders and. say that's because of european interference we've been subjected to a concerted campaign of harassment intimidation and obstruction it's taken the form of criminal investigation on the basis of spiritus allegations and we've been

shot at and harassed by the libyan coast guard which is funded by european governments including including that of the u.k. aquarius has been blocked in the french quarter say since october after panama revoked its registration the charity say it was at the request of. the government then last month the police ordered its seizure for allegedly dumping toxic waste the charities denied the allegations. more than one hundred seven thousand people arrived in europe by sea this year at the height of the crisis twenty fifteen more than a million people made the voyage. crossings have dropped the u.n. has said. dangerous restrictions on search and rescue boats like the aquarius. earlier this year there were weeks of wrangling over who would take the aquarius and the six hundred people it had rescued. refused entry and the international

condemnation that politics was taking precedence over people's lives. welcome to the boat being at risk. to see what is happening today. no one is at sea and no one is here to actually see the people. they the u.n. says more than seventeen and a half thousand people have drowned or gone missing in the mediterranean since january twenty fourth tain. last year there were five risky boats there now there are none the charity say they're looking for replacement boat for the aquarius its crew fear that there are vulnerable people out there possibly in danger and no one to help them. brian al jazeera a day two of talks aimed at ending the war in yemen have hit a war after some progress on thursday there's now disagreements over reopening the

capital's airport and managing one of yemen's major ports has somehow but i reports from rimbaud a village north of stockholm where the talks have been taking place in yemen talks hanged by a thread as the government delegation toughens its stance against who the rebels. president of the hardie's loyalists have told you an old boy martin griffiths they weren't allowed to reopen port to international flights the government delegation insists all international flights must be strictly through ports and it's controlled in aden and how to molt that if not to man we came here in order to find a solution to open the airport of santa we cannot just prejudge everything what we are asking is is this in the interest of the people or not we are not here to reward the malicious we are here for peace. the sun porch was one of the first

targets of the saudi u.s. coalition in two thousand to fifteen the military alliance later closed the port to stop what it said was a flow of weapons from iran to the who these. another sticking point in the talks is the port of her data which accounts for more than seventy percent of food imports to yemen the government asked the huth east to pull out immediately warning it will resume the offensive to take control of the city if they don't the healthy is had agreed to partially hand over management of the port to the united nations in exchange for a cease fire to be implemented in the one hell if we are to agree we need a governing authority that represents all of yemen and to which all parties will hand over weapons. the first day of these talks so

a rare agreement about yemen's rivals for president exchange deal it is widely seen as a significant step forward to and a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world it's unclear if the un will be able to narrow differences between the two parties as the resist calls to solve the dispute now the whole thing is insist on a presidential council to replace had the and leave the country for an interim period a move that has been rejected by the government as to who the tactic to further expand their influence over yemen has. the town of rimbaud on the outskirts of stockholm. the turkish intelligence chief has briefed u.s. senators about their investigation into the murder saudi journalist. pressure is

growing on the white house to hold the saudi crown prince responsible for the killing sheraton scene reports from washington. turkish sources say her comfy dumby turkish intelligence chief was in washington for prescheduled meetings with his cia counterpart gina hospital on a range of issues including syria as cia director hospital has been leading the u.s. investigation into the crucial g murder after she briefed some senators earlier this week they said they were certain that the killing could not have happened without saudi crown prince mohammed bin sons involvement there's not a smoking gun there's a smoking cell but only a few senators received that cia briefing turkish sources say feed agave those he met on capitol hill on thursday information regarding the evidence ankara has in the because shuggie murder as well as the information ankara has supplied to the administration in washington senators are considering three lines of action against saudi arabia not just as

a result of the khashoggi killing but the humanitarian disaster that's been caused by saudi action in yemen the a's are sixty three the nays are thirty seven the motion is agreed to first a procedural vote is expected next week following a vote to move a resolution on invoking the war powers act to end u.s. participation in the yemen war to the senate floor last week if successful a debate will begin and a final vote held meanwhile senators have also proposed a bill to suspend arms sales to saudi arabia and a resolution to personally hold the saudi crown prince responsible for the crucial g. murder some senators who voted to advance the war powers resolution last week now say they would prefer going down these legislative routes instead but while any action by the senate will be a symbolic but historic breach of the u.s. saudi relationship none of these measures are expected to reach the president's desk as the leadership of the house of representatives have shown no willingness to also vote on the measures but following november's democratic success there in the midterm elections that may soon change if i were the saudi government i would be

very concerned now obviously no one wants to see the total destabilization of saudi arabia but the special relationship with the saudis and the arms sales and the us support really have been called into question the trumpeters station though says it remains firm in its support for the saudi government she ever turns the outer zero washington. the presidential candidates are rallying supporters across the democratic republic of congo for elections this month twenty men and one woman are competing to see joseph kabila the latest a bowler outbreak and security problems are among the big issues on voters' minds laura burton leslie has more. people stream onto the streets of because we were in the thousands all to support opposition candidates in the democratic republic of congo's presidential race all with hopes of political change to men felix just ahead he and the telecom are haim have joined forces promising

changes including regional security and jobs. we are very happy because the leaders came today people want to tell the government that they need to create jobs and they expect safety. and safety is a big concern in the northeast where there's been decades of fighting between rebel groups. just a few hours after opposition candidate marching to benny on thursday seventeen people were killed in an attack by the armed group the allied democratic forces the u.n. says violence is hampering response to a recent outbreak in the region there are twenty one candidates competing in the presidential race joseph kabila who's been running the country for seventeen years would not take on another term really for some he's been accused of vote rigging in the past and his final time expired two years ago. but his refusal to step down

sparked by inclining dozens were killed he's chosen emanuel dari as his successor but he's on the e.u. sanctions let's be humane rights crimes in the kasai region which he was responsible for at the interior minister one of the biggest issues for any new president is the outbreak which is now the second largest on record. measures have been taken in order to control decide break and we are currently controlling to break in different areas for now. as people prepared to vote for the new leadership many hope violence doesn't hinder efforts against the fatal disease lure about manly al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera it's got a roundup of the top stories the u.s. president has nominated state department spokeswoman heather now out as the new

ambassador to the united nations if approved by the senate now it will replace nikki haley in january she announced her resignation in october the u.s. president also nominated william bar as the new attorney general last served in the same job under president george h.w. bush in the early one nine hundred ninety s. that will put him in charge of special counsel rebel militias investigation into possible russian collusion during the twenty sixteen election. the refrig band aid to reflect person a brilliant man. i did not know him or a derisively when i went through the process of looking at this book and he was by first choice from day one respected by republicans and respected by democrats he will be nominated for the united states attorney general and hopefully that process will go very quickly and i think it will go very quickly as i've seen very

good things about him even over the last day or so when people thought that it might be bill bart germany's ruling christian democratic union party has elected an a great crime karen valid to replace angle of merkel as party leader she's no cause party jay and one more than fifty one percent of the ballots michael is not seeking reelection but her successor could decide how long she remains germany's chancellor . as outrage in france over the treatment of students arrested by police in protesters outside of paris on thursday trade unions and far left parties lashed out of what they called police brutality after this footage went viral online and the protests continue in central paris where they've been days of times of violent demonstrations. the second day of talks aimed at ending the war in yemen have hit a snag the two sides are at odds over reopening the airport in sana'a and who will

manage the port of her data saudi backed government and hooty delegations are meeting in the village of rimbaud north of stockholm those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story. top executive of china's biggest technology company has been arrested in canada and . uninsured sheaffer walt way is wanted in the united states so why is the company being targeted and could this arrest worsen the u.s. china trade war this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dubey it's being called the crown jewel of the chinese tech industry but one of its top executives has been arrested she's . the chief financial officer of walkway she was detained in the canadian city of vancouver at the request of the united states the arrest comes as heightened tensions between the u.s. and china who are locked into a trade war seemed to be cooling at least just a little last week the u.s. president donald trump on china's premier she jingping help talks on the sidelines of the g. twenty meeting and washington agreed not to increase tariffs further come january the first the rest happened on the same day so who knew about it the u.s. national security adviser john bolton says he was aware in advance on what he called a law enforcement matter the canadian prime minister justin trudeau also gave

a somewhat vague response. the appropriate authorities took the decisions in this case we were advised by them with a few days notice that this was in the works but if. yes there was no engagement or involvement in the political level in this decision because we respect the independence of our judicial processes japan says it will ban government use of huawei products citing cyber security concerns. each ministry of the government is working and cooperating on the necessary measures with the cyber security center as a corner i'd like to refrain from commenting in detail at this stage japan will continue to take firm measure to look at this issue from a variety of perspectives some of them in order to improve cyber security controversy and huawei have gone hand in hand down the years the company provides technologies to iran and north korea both countries are under international

sanctions there are suspicions walkways five g. wireless internet could boost china's spying capabilities but the company denies any collusion with the chinese government the u.s. australia new zealand and the u.k. have all banned huawei from five g. internet trials and japan and canada are looking into the risks the company's technology is could pose to them too despite all of that remains the world's largest telecommunications equipment and service provider and the second biggest maker of smartphones after some song. ok let's get going let's bring in our panel today in taipei taiwan on skype ross darryl feingold a political analyst who advises multinational corporations on political risk in asia in hong kong andrew young an international and independent china analyst and in birmingham in the u.k. also on skype scott lucas a professor of american politics at the university of birmingham a warm welcome to you all ross darrell feingold in taipei to companies know the

risks when they do this kind of thing. well there are certainly a pattern of u.s. authorities taking action against companies that they view as in violation of either u.s. law or international and specifically united nations sanctions we've seen this with iran we've seen this with north korea we've seen it with other countries that are prone to follow the international community going back many years it's certainly not something that's exclusive to the trump administration we've also seen this in other contacts besides equipment sales such as facilitating financial transactions through the international financial system many european financial institutions have paid significant fines to u.s. regulators first priscilla tating these kinds of transactions that rick literally prohibited under either u.s. floor international sanctions under law in hong kong there is allegedly a ninety day truce in the trade war between china and the united states just around

the corner they kind of agreed not to make it was than it was before will this impact that arrangement. well i like to put the whole thing in a special context of course there is also always been u.s. enforcement on while asians perceived violations of u.s. law international law that's nothing new but what is new in this case is that that is once mention of the us china a rivalry for dominance. let's face it it's not just the trade war is the war on again in the come on doing heights of technology the next generation would be five g. and walk way of course is china's leader in this game and indeed as the largest manufacturer of this are the products and then many of these products are used by many countries including the west and there lies the concern is that

a lot of the stuff that could be embedded in our waste products and that's why a lot of the americans western allies have been called to attention to this fact and in fact the war way products have now been banned especially by the so-called americans are five are as you know the alliance of five nations the united states canada australia new zealand the united kingdom monitoring kind of military intelligence around the world targeting what is perceived as the potential and tacking is to the united states so at the heart of it all is. this kind of. perceive china threat so it's a push back almost three hundred sixty degrees not only on trade up with the there are loss of trade practices from beijing or from china which have perceived to to cause problems but also on the military the south china sea technology of course as

i mentioned before and also ideology a lot. the stopping highlighted the negative aspects of the rise of china as a potential threat to the world order underpinned by american dominance. clearly sets up and lots to talk about in the next few minutes and well let's just take it as you say this in birmingham scott when it comes to predicting where this will go do we need to know the nature the nitty gritty nature of the allegations or the claims being leveled at this woman. absolutely you need to know the process which is going to take place and perhaps the cutting edge is will she be released and allowed to go back to china or are you facing detention in the united states let me talk about a couple of distinctive elements of this case before we know the specifics the first is that while u.s. sanctions have been used against a number of companies to level billions of dollars in fines and while they have

carried out asset freezes on named individuals to actually use the sanctions to detain a high ranking official from a foreign company which is what's happened in this mom's case that is very very unusual now her extradition hearing is today in canada and we have to see if she will be extradited i suspect she will but we need to hear the exact charges in the american courts because to put these two together because law enforcement's never suffered from politics on the immediate cases is this case going to be quote resolved very quickly or is it going to drag on for some time because the white house has put a ninety day limit on the trade talks with china and said if there's no advance in ninety days they will escalate tariffs from ten percent to twenty five percent and i suspect right now that what has happened in the past twenty four hours brings that possibility of an escalation of the trade war much closer restoral feingold it is part of the undertow he a of washington's attitude towards what china does here with cheap tech because

clearly this is about so much more than just building a ripoff i phone because their phones are really good and that two thirds of the price and that's why people want to buy them and use them it's about the way that washington expected economic liberalization on the part of beijing when beijing started getting economically successful and they haven't liberalized well it's certainly popular over the preceding day or two since the news of her detention in canada was made public to say that this is part of the us back to you in a trade war so when the technology. a battle between u.s. technology and chinese technology and frankly all of that is just not true the u.s. doesn't win a technology battle for dominance in five g. networking appointment by detaining this chief financial officer of huawei in fact that just borders on being proposed they're not going to get any secret code from

her or designs to networking equipment or nor would they get her to stop or her company to stop competing worldwide against u.s. companies for dominance in this sector clearly this is about violation of sanctions and to trying to conflate it to other issues is again it's just not justified by the facts and it defies logic because you can't win the technology battles you don't get china to allow us to compete fairly in china by detaining the c.f.o. of a company that has committed sanctions violations allegedly so we have to keep these issues separate and keep some clarity on why she was detained which again we don't know the precise charges that she will be facing we should know hopefully in the coming hours or days but most likely it's about sanctions violations and i have to disagree with the professor because the u.s. has detained all individuals not just going after companies company officials have

been targeted before from foreign companies or foreign financial institutions for facilitating violations of either sanctions or u.s. law so there's really nothing unusual here but again it's not a way to win the technology battle a think we need to give the u.s. government a little more credit that they're not going to win a technology fight by this action. scott i think you want to come in there yeah with respect i agree with the general point that this is not you know as it were an advance battle of the technology front but i'm afraid it's that's a bit simplistic and what's happened here first is this is a high level official not just an official this is the chief financial officer this is the daughter of the company's founder and what is missing also what needs to be added to the alice's is that although we don't know the specific nature of the charges people who are close to investigation says it has to do with wall ways technology transfer to iran using an american based bank or an international bank with american connections h.s.b.c.

now if that is indeed the specific charge what this means is is that the law the legal path is connected to a political aim here which is the u.s. sanctions on iran and that is to pursue the u.s. sanctions on iran the americans will go after foreign companies including chinese companies and they have chosen to do so with a very high profile case here so both in the general competition with china because you can't dismiss that the u.s. has gone after companies for iran sanctions violations for many years preceding the trudge administration the obama era this operation did years if day you're misunderstanding they have never detained an official at this level in the pursuit of iran sanctions they have detained a few people who are at a far lower level but they have never gone after the high ranking official of a foreign company they've always gone with fines in the past they have stepped this up with a specific detention of an individual in this case ok little point of housekeeping you mentioned the h.s.b.c.

bank this scope we should mention nobody's leveling accusations or anything illegal at the bank just to be clear it's want to move on to that point and raise that point as well though with andrew long in hong kong and as far as the beijing leadership is concerned what if they adopt an attitude that starts from a place that says well actually there's nothing different between what you've done with this woman and taking a hostage. well i think that the beijing government is going to take those things in a stride in the sense that it is no news to beijing that china is now perceived as the and pak an ist and a rival of of the united states which underpins the world order and perceive is reaching china is perceived as a set so in this broad context is the trade war again there is no secret that both the united states and china are trying to gain the commanding heights of the next generation of more biotechnology i.e. the five g.

and it is at the timing is also quite instructive now what i'm not saying that this charge is again does this lady are all trumped up i mean as with so many things china's trade practices of course leave a lot to be desired course china's political system particularly it's not there and anybody's cup of tea so there was a it's a kind of not a black and white situation but the timing of this arrest it is quite worrying to beijing because on the one hand there is a call for calming down a true somebody days on the other hand this has happened and also this coincides with a number of somewhat unexplained events for example that the recent death only was it yesterday of a leading american chinese american scientist in the forefront of quantum physics and then coincides with

a. seven reported mysterious file which the straw at a high tech. a cheap equipment costing over one hundred million u.s. dollars being ordered by a chinese company and being manufactured in the hall and so all these are. at least to a conspiracy theories but on the other hand i think beijing's under no illusion that there is a are all front kind of rivalry with the united states as i said it's not as container to trade or technology it's got lucas let's just turn and return to itas in burning what scott do we have to kind of put that in as part of the recipe for an understanding that the world is coming to terms with which and it's this cyber security is national security we're told all the time now the next great world war will not be fought on battlefields it will be the banking system that is

obliterated because of cyber crime it'll be air traffic control that subliterate it because of cyber crime and that's where the trumpet ministration that's where washington is coming from here. not mean technology and advances in technology although we're talking about the internet age and the sirish they have always gone hand in hand with both economics and military applications any advanced technology company not just a chinese company can develop applications which can be used for cyber warfare which can be used for surveillance. what are is happening here is we've got two paths and they are not necessarily completely integrated but they've crossed each other and what is there is the judicial unfortunate path which has to do with regulating transfer of technology proliferation of dangerous technology or what is perceived to be dangerous technology and that is what the justice department's pursuing in this case but it just so happens that timing wise he had his intercepted what is the political path that is the political path which is the

trumping ministrations trade war and which is china's own let's say fairly aggressive policies in terms of its trying to expand economic influence and of course when you add the fact that you are talking about the iran case on top of this where the trump administration is pursuing regime change sometimes conflicts escalate not because there's a deliberate plan to escalate them it's because people are doing different things at different times which just happen to reinforce each other we are in one of those moments and when you add to this and i must just add to this the unpredictability of a leader like donald trump who may switch from one day to another as he has this week from saying oh i think we can deal with the chinese to actually saying this is going to be an all out conflict with the chinese that's why you're going to have a heightened sense of tension and the detention of this man is just one example of it donald trump today saying the trade talks are going really well is there another moment of time here that we should be aware overall sterile feingold in taipei and

is this is there a miscalculation on the part of this administration because john bolton was in the room when donald trump was talking to president xi jinping i.e. john bolton knew that they were going after this woman in vancouver he knew they were going to get so at that level and also on the level of the trade war mr trump seems to think that president xi is going to fold but there's nothing in his behavior today that would make one think president xi will fold he's on the road to economic glory in his mind and that journey is far from over. well we know that the trade policies over the last few months implemented both by the united states and china have had some negative repercussions on the economies of both countries as well as companies in both countries clearly the leadership at least as expressed on saturday night in one is our ace want to resolve this but i think the events in the fact that john bolton was in the room and was aware of this also shows that the

united states maintains its concerns about other security issues simultaneous to killing with the trade issues and one of those issues that's very important to john bolton in the trump administration is iran and its nuclear program they've always made it very clear what their policy is going to be towards iraq so we shouldn't be surprised at all that the united states continues to take action and in this case it happens to involve a chinese company that may in fact have violated sanctions but when it comes to dates i'll mention another milestone to look forward to that's in january when the democrats go over congress and the reason are the house i should say and the reason why it's relevant to this discussion is i think we're going to see bipartisan support so even democrats who don't like a lot of donald trump's policies when it comes to trade issues which china when it comes to cyber security issues when it comes to sanctions violations even if they

wanted to maintain the agreement with iraq but when it comes to sanction violations i think we're going to see a lot of bipartisan support in congress for what the trouble administration is doing on some of these issues and a young if your the president's or the national security adviser who greenlights detaining the most powerful woman in chinese industry because that's who we're talking about here i guess one sense at least you're either setting yourself up for a long fight and you know precisely what you're doing or you're a fool how will be judging see it. well as i said the beginning i think beijing is under no illusions let's face it it's not the only rarely. on a panel pointed out that the united states in imposing sanction actions against particular individuals particularly the wheels of. a big chinese company

but also as far china's concerned. not too long ago the top. civilian leader of a military department was also targeted for sanctions because he was accused of buying military equipment from russia and then the sentient was imposed on that individual now that's sends a signal to china saying that well you've got to be careful there are lots of chinese top of the shows who are corrupt and who got their money parked in the united states and then they've got do all sorts of things a fact as we speak now a chinese food city of one who was accused of corruption and of course a power grab and ally with a lot of the western interests who are the target of a presidency kingpins and the corruption campaign has now a food to drive from china but he's living in a like a like a like

a king in new york i mean this has his pet pan house in new york cost millions of dollars his got his private yacht and the question can be posed where it's got its money from and yet let's just turn. the last area that i'd quite like to discuss today on our program scott lucas in birmingham clearly china is not about to change its tech policy because there is the feeling of there's some sort of amalgamation between this company and the government they may not explicitly be doing what the government tells them to do but there is some sort of joy in going on there at the hip if beijing doesn't changes tech policies and the united states won't change its tech policies what's the way out. well there's no way at this point i mean what would have been the way out would have been is if you had had two sides that were going to go into this to negotiate over and electoral property issues over questions of technology transfer over questions wider questions of trade but the

signal the path the trumpet ministration talk with both china and iran was to escalate on both counts now this does not absolve china of what you might say are its own issues in the way this approach these it does not necessarily absolve iran on all issues although it is sort of rich to try to claim they're pursuing nuclear weapons when the trump administration decided one it was going to as it were go to tariffs go to trade wars and to try to force other countries to fold and went to when it decided to rip up the iran nuclear agreement which was providing some sort of stability in relations with tara and it's going to try to pursue regime change in iran you don't solve that through negotiation because that's not a win win situation that's a win lose and i have to say unless there's a significant change not just with donald trump with the personnel around him who do see this in the long term as a competition for primacy with china who do see this as

a competition in the long term where they cannot live with the islamic republic unless you have a change of personnel we're in this for the long haul ok at last twenty seconds of the program ross coming to you in a decade or twenty years from now politicians here today gone tomorrow the president's hits they come tomorrow in twenty years from now which country's going to be tech top dog the united states or china well the united states will continue to maintain its lead because it's a country that respects rule of law and the primacy of intellectual property rights within the tax base and it has an ecosystem that fosters this kind of development and the recent years have proved that and there's no reason that's going to change given the rule of law problems that exist in china. gentlemen we have to leave it there thank you very much thanks to all our guests today they were all sterile finegold and we're young and scott lucas and thank you to you too for your company you can see the show again any time with the web site al-jazeera dot com for more discussion check out our facebook page facebook dot com forward slash a.j.

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his term mike hanna joins us now from the united nations so mike she's seen as something of a novice in in foreign policy circles what are they likely to make of her at the u.n. . for very much a novice her main claim to this position appears to be the fact that she was on president trump's favorite television show fox and friends but certainly she has been at state department for the past year is that lack of foreign policy experience something that's going to be brought up very strongly during her confirmation hearings she has been working on well it would appear with the secretary of state might pompei or accompanying him on a number of overseas trips not the case with rex tillerson his predecessor there was reported to be differences between them she never companied him on any foreign visits and certainly there did appear to be a distance but the key issue here is what is the status of her appointment now all

her previous sessa nikki haley was both a member of the cabinet and importantly on the national security council now all indications are is that hit the now it will not be in a cabinet position this would essentially be a downgrading off the post office ambassador to the united nations or a version to what was the situation before with republican nominees. and my care how does this this fit in with the administration's overall approach to to foreign policy in terms of the fact that she she is seen as as being closer to that than certainly nikki haley was particularly on russia for example. very much so she is a very strong proponent of america first president trump is said to like her policies like her ideas she's very much a supporter of president trump always has been but whether she has any direct hand

in policy as to nikki haley well that's something that's up to question certainly she's very much on page with the trumpet policy but you are unlikely to see what happened to nikki haley and that was a place in which the position of the ambassador to the u.n. did have quite a large say in the creation of u.s. foreign policy this is not likely to go back straight into the hands of people like my pump aoe the secretary the state secretary and indeed john bolton the national security advisor so there is a slight shift in what is going to happen here the way it works out president trump to use nikki haley in a way to forge american policy at the united nations in particular that american first standard that standard of nationalism that continually went up against the basic united nations idea of multilateralism but whether she has

a direct impact on any shift or improvement of this policy that's very difficult to see at this stage she's likely to be very much a junior figure in the administration and we'll see how that plays out thanks for that mike mike hanna live for us at the united nations henry mann leverett is a former u.s. diplomat and white house national security official she believes now it's salacious makes sense when looking at the administration's messaging strategy. i think it shows how determined president trump is to have people that first and foremost look the part she will be a nice face on several media platforms it shows his focus on messaging particularly i know we've just finished with the november midterm elections i here in the united states but president trump is already gearing up for his two thousand and twenty. campaign and she will be an effective nice looking spokes person for him and his policies in new york on the world stage i think that's the biggest priority for the

administration at this point i think her early distancing herself from then secretary of state hillary clinton who famously called president trump a kindergartener and a moron someone who wasn't very smart she is now or it distanced herself very early very clearly very decisively from secretary of state hillary stand whom she saw as someone not following in trump's footsteps not fully supportive of president trump she in contrast has made herself indispensable to the current secretary of state pompei oh she's been a very effective spokesperson for him she travels regularly with secretary pompei o works very very closely with him and i think within the trump and astray should within trump's circle at the and the oval office the. idea was the policy is to have her and pompei all working hand in hand to support the president and carry out his message so i think she's being appointed as it as a team player as

a team player who will support president right or wrong the world i think they're trying to ministration sees the united nations and perhaps many other platforms that it deals with as part of a media platform where the president to continue in part what is a show that he's putting on is as present right states of course there are important substantive aspects of the. president but i think for trump to meet lee he is a big part of history as putting on a show and new york the united nations being seen with world leaders on a stage is something they're trump seems to have valued from the start of his presidency and so i think that's where we see the value for the united nations in the in the trump administration's. broader strategy we have not seen it really as an independent player but that's that's not so untypical to the trunk ministration

i think this will continue. the the pot the practice really of having the united nations as more of a amplifier a media amplifier of the president's message is how the us president also nominated william far as the new attorney general barr served in the same position on the president george h.w. bush in the early one nine hundred ninety s. it would put him in charge of special counsel robert motos investigation into possible russian collusion and join the twenty sixteen election. to reflect band aid to reflect person a brilliant man. i did not know him or joe recently when i went through the process of looking at this book. he was by first choice from day one respected by republicans and respected by democrats he will be nominated for the united states attorney general and hopefully that process will go very quickly and i think it

will go very quickly and i've seen very good things about him even over the last day or so when people thought that it might be bill part of the more honest let's cross live now to kimberly halkett in washington so kimberly first off we are expecting a couple of developments in the mall investigation into possible russian meddling and that's certainly something that some trump's mind if his early tweets this morning are anything to go by. well certainly there is the suggestion that this is a distraction that that is why donald trump has made these appointments now and you talked a little bit about the appointment there of william barr that in fact the team is a former essential establishment figure in washington liked by both republicans and democrats the fact that he has both private as well as public experience he served not only in the cia but also in the justice department and then later as part of

the george h.w. bush administration serving as his attorney general but his views as he oversees the russian probe into whether or not there was interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether or not there was collusion between the trump presidential campaign and russia is certainly going to be part of what he will be overseeing and this is where some of his. the appointment could get a little bit murky well he is liked by both parties he has had some controversy all statements about that russia pro peace question some of the political donations made by members of the robert miller team that they have been made to democrats he's also supported the president's call for hillary clinton to be investigated of course the former first lady but also donald trump's democratic opponent on the twenty sixteen campaign trail above all else what this seems to suggest whether it's we're talking about the appointment of heather nauert to the united nations or

the attorney general point what donald trump values is loyalty and as a result it appears that in contrast to jeff sessions that he often said this former attorney general was not doing enough to protect him he feels this is someone that will protect him if he is to lead the justice department. and with the republicans controlling the the senate they have a majority but it's not a huge majority so it's still an open question isn't it as to whether he'll be approved for the job given what his position might be on the investigation. right and all eyes as you asked at the start of this interview are on the mole or investigation here on friday given the fact that it is expected to be an important day with regard to the fact that there are so many different elements that are happening on capitol hill you talk about republicans and their push well one of the pushes that is happening on the house side today is the former cia director james

comey he is testifying behind closed doors and of course this is something that will eventually be made public that transcript will be made public and many people are watching this very closely because this could give us a sense of where that russia probe is headed adding to that we know that robert mueller submitting court filings today that could in fact let us have a better idea about the former campaign chair paul man a fort he has been accused of lying to f.b.i. investigators now the special prosecutor robert mueller will have to explain how he lied why is that important that lays out the direction of the investigation so yes there's a lot of moving parts here in washington has him and we're watching all of these very carefully because at the end of the day it appears whether strong terms tweets or what he said publicly as he left the white house it does appear that he this is on his mind he is concerned about it and that's why we.