it's they weren't allow reopening stand airport to international flights the government delegation insists all international flights must be strictly through airports and it's controlled in aden and how to molt that if we have 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 son our airport was one of the first targets of the coalition into a thousand to fifteen the military alliance later close the airport 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 whole thing is had agreed to partially hand over management of the port to the united nations in exchange for a cease fire to be implemented and then what 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 among 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 huth 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 a who the tactic to further expand their influence over yemen. the town of rimbaud on the oscars of stockholm. a leading ally of the german chancellor merkel has been elected by the ruling christian democratic union to succeed her. fifty six year old i think that. will lead the party in the next election a bit of a surge in support for the far right dominant came reports from hamburg. in the end it was a close contest decided by a margin of just thirty five votes out of almost a thousand some wondered whether an eclipse come as closeness to angela merkel would be a help or a hindrance with her victory the cd you can now expect a period of evolution not revolution. here it is

a mood. if we have the courage we will live in a strong year of which will complete. open towards the inside and secure towards the outside if we have the courage we will live in a europe which will finally make the year a stable and we will live in a year with the european security council and the european army which does not just articulate but implements a common security interests her closest rival fleetly melts it spent a decade on the sidelines forced there by angela merkel despite there once having been allies he returned with a promise to take his party to the right and with straight talking both domestically and on the international stage ones even for more. i mean you probably know i'm a true friend of the united states but from time to time the americans need a clear message and that message is credible when it's not just germany delivering it but when the entire e.u. says this is not how we want it americans accept strength not weakness merit says

strong showing means he can now expect to have much greater influence in the party if he wants it in one sense winning this election is the easy part now and of that compound must persuade voters in germany states and in a general election to go and she and her party are the ones to vote. but that's for the future right now the c.d.u. is witnessing the passing of an era albeit one in which the chancellor will not be handing over ultimate power anytime soon dominant came out just era campbell. well still ahead on al-jazeera running out of money and time we talked to some of the thousands of central american seeking asylum in the u.s. to stay with us. by the sky nine information harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera.

hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across china the rain the snow the clouds are on the increase over the next few days lie here on the satellite image but the forecast maps look like this here on saturday a lot of rain down here towards the southwest even affecting parts of vietnam so there we could be seeing some localized flooding over the next few days so we will be watching that but as we go towards sunday a lot of that rain begins to push towards the east and so hong kong that also means you a cool rain at sixteen degrees up to the north shanghai rain turning to snow in the overnight hours a high temperature you of about ten degrees there well down towards the south heavy rain has been a problem for the last couple of days across parts of tight island as well as indonesia you can see that on the satellite image but we are going to see that rain really continue to stay in the forecast over the next few days of bangkok thirty degrees colon poor at thirty two as well as singapore seeing rain across the board all the way through the weekend with the tempter there about thirty one degrees as well and the rain is going to be a problem for sri lanka but not for india over the next few days bengal is going to

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looking back you're watching officer obstacle rob a reminder of our top news stories you know a special counsel rob miller says russian made efforts to contact the trump presidential campaign as far back as twenty fifteen that revelation is in addition to court filings about transformer aides all manifolds on michael cohen. u.s. prosecutors all thinking the extradition of the chief financial officer of the chinese telecom company hardway being the one who was arrested in target or not is facing charges of fraud she's accused of violating your sanctions against iran. germany's ruling christian democratic union party has elected i think that what happened bar to replace angela merkel as the party leader. is merkel's party and

will lead the party in the next election and it a surge in support for the far right. donald trump has named several new people to keep government positions they all need to be confirmed by the senate first here are the proposed additions to what's been a revolving door at the white house attorney general jeff sessions fired by trump last month while was that's. be replaced by william barnabei is no stranger to the job you already held the position back in the early one nine hundred ninety s. under george h.w. bush joseph dunford is wrapping up his second term as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff a group of senior defense leaders there are reports that trump will pick mark milley who's currently the army chief of staff to replace him and he haley is stepping down as u.n. ambassador after two years in the job has chosen state department spokeswoman have the new it to be the face of washington at the united nations knew it was previously an anchor with fox news. u.s.

president donald trump pounds treated some shop criticism of news full of balls rex tillerson calling him and we quote dumb as a rock knew it is reported to have sided with the white house against ellison during his time in office as the secretary of state roles and told reports now from washington d.c. . good afternoon it's been rumored for weeks that state department spokesperson heather now it would be named the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations on friday the u.s. president confirmed the speculation very. hard. every. day nauert had no foreign policy experience before she joined the state department in early two thousand and seventeen she was a t.v. news presenter and correspondent most notably at the conservative fox news channel

that background made it easy for critics to pelt after podium gaps such as this one looking back in the history books today is the seventy first anniversary of the speech that now announced the marshall plan tomorrow is the anniversary of the d.-day invasion we obviously have a very long history with the government of germany and we have a strong relationship with the government already some senators and foreign policy experts are calling nauert supremely unqualified for the job it which detail nuance and context or key to negotiating matters of global security and stability but not so says the israeli ambassador to the u.n. danny de known quote miss nauert has stood by the state of israel in her previous positions and i have no doubt that the cooperation between our two countries will continue to strengthen as she becomes ambassador to the u.n. and quote if confirmed by the senate now word would replace nikki haley the former state governor who was also

a foreign policy novice her. spent her tenure pushing tribes america first policy demanding institutional reforms at the u.n. and defending human rights haley also had something important to lean on trump's confidence in her she made that clear when she announced her resignation in october no i'm not running for two hundred twenty and i can punish you when are we doing in campaign finance when heather downwards confirmation hearing will happen early in the new year like nikki haley before her she has the president's strong endorsement but now it's going to need much more than that to persuade senators that she's the right person to represent and to defend the u.s. his interests at the united nations rosalyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. the u.s. state department has accused russia and syria falsely accusing opposition fighters of a chemical attack in aleppo last month the alleged gas attack injured up to one hundred people on november the twenty fourth the u.s. says it has credible information that pro-government forces like to use tear gas

against civilians it also says both countries are using the attack as an opportunity to undermine a ceasefire in a rebel controlled province. thirty three palestinian protesters have been injured by israeli forces near the gaza israel border fence israeli army fired live ammunition at protesters who are demanding the right to return to their homes but also demanding an end to the israel's twelve year blockade of the gaza strip hundreds of jordanians have been protesting against what they describe as the government's corrupt economic policies. they gathered outside the government headquarters to demand the prime minister step down the angry avoiding come tax hike has to take effect in the new year parliament approved the i.m.f. back plan last month and earlier tax hike plan led to massive protests forcing the resignation of the previous prime minister what you. the french government

has deployed thousands of police officers on to the street senate as a patient of another weekend of anti-government demonstrations but police are being heavily criticized after a video of the arrest of a group of students went viral david chaytor has more from paris. was. taken to the streets of paris in force opening a new front of protest against president was the anger and outrage were growing at the tactics used by riot police gets high school students demonstrating outside the french capital on thursday this video shows them being forced to kneel with their hands behind their heads a police officer can be heard saying now there's a classes behaving well the youngest amongst them a people aged twelve. the french interior minister said the images had to be seen in context we feel those rules agreeing the pure observer is over the past few days

the students having joined by about one whole recall that yields are met with clubs an incendiary devices and attorney to pick a fight with the police to have a little. the french education minister described the pictures a shocking but said the violence convulsing france justified the heavy handed policing it was not an opinion shared by the students in paris morning when has always been a country where we can say with people being gay and going this tweet saying. and the states and. now with my point like they were hard to demonstrate because the. police officers are very. very likely to enter and inflict their students joining the protests were just here in the parish but right across the country is adding a new dimension and a new them a mentor to the best protests the interior minister went to inspect the armored cars that will be deployed by the police for the first time in paris at saturday's

demonstrations that we used to clear barricades and burning roadblocks. he said these last few weeks a monster has been born that has run away from its creators. dozens of tourist attractions will be closed down in the capital for what the l a vessel calling act for of the revolt the authorities have also ordered the shutdown of schools of luxury boutiques restaurants and businesses in the seans of easy david chaytor al-jazeera paris. a white nationalist who rammed his car into a crowd of protesters in the u.s. last year has been found guilty of first degree murder james feels killed heather here and left dozens of others injured in the attack in charlottesville followed a showdown between white nationalist protesters and counter demonstrators. arrest numbers are soaring along the us mexico border thousands of people trying to cross and claim asylum i mean some of the stories. it's

a shelter of dashed aspirations and the rainy season has only added gloom to misery but for marlise a particularly difficult day when she first set off from honduras she was told that the mother was a child would be allowed into the united states now she sits in a soaking wet tent and she misses home. today is my mother's birthday i've been sad since this morning we've never been apart we only had rice and beans but we were happy i've been sad all day at night i wake up and think that i'm home but i'm not i'm here. to when i was supposed to be a transit point but has access to the us is becoming more difficult many of these asylum seekers are opting to start a new life in mexico instead getting a grocer is also from honduras a country with one of the highest poverty rates in the world and which is also one of the most violent she left her sick daughter behind and wants to join her sister

in minnesota to earn money to pay for treatment. she has leukemia and she needs chemotherapy i have to find a job quickly for her sake we can't get into we will have to wait here many people say you can get through the beach or other points but i don't want to risk it i will lose too much and i have to get a job soon. making money is a pressing issue after more than two months on the road cash has run out for most the vast majority of people here would tell you they don't want to go back to their own country because this is actually better than being at home but with every day that passes that sense of hope is fading away and this fear is sinking in. to help alleviate the situation mexico has offered to thousands of central american stranded along its northern border. the option of staying in mexico with either humanitarian visa or access to a speedy asylum process. just traveled with his pregnant wife and two children he

wants to reach the u.s. before his wife gives birth in three weeks even though the trump administration was to put an end to what it called anchor babies. it's not as easy as we thought it's not like the doors are open and you get in you have to wait be patient and then when you least expect it you will get there many were here yesterday and today they called and told they were through. there only tough choices ahead for the thousands of asylum seekers stuck between a rock and a high place their presence at the border symbolic of an america becoming more and more detached from its past as a country of immigration but at that how many. you're watching of zero zero raman these are all top news stories u.s. special counsel robert miller says russia made efforts to contact the trump

presidential campaign as far back as twenty fifteen that revelation is in addition to court filings about transform aides paul manifolds and michael cohen mourner from ten c. later in the program u.s. prosecutors are seeking the extradition of the chief financial officer of the chinese telecom company holloway maine one joe was arrested in canada and is facing charges of fraud she's accused of violating u.s. sanctions against iran a white nationalist who rammed his car into a crowd of protesters in the u.s. last year has been found guilty of first degree murder james feels killed her hair and dozens of other people injured in the attack in charlottesville. germany's ruling christian democratic union party has elected and a good example kevin barr to replace angela merkel as the party leader care about is merkel's prodigy and will lead the party into the next general election amid

a surge of support for the far right there's outrage in france over the treatment of students arrested by police during protests just outside of paris on thursday trade unions and far left parties lashed out at what they called police brutality after this footage with fire alarm line meanwhile protests continue in central paris where there have been days of government demonstrations a second day of talks aimed at ending the war in yemen hit a snag the two sides are at odds over reopening the airport in sanaa until manage the port of data the u.s. state department has accused russia and syria of falsely accusing opposition fighters of a chemical attack in aleppo last month the alleged gas attack injured up to one hundred people on november the twenty fourth the u.s. says it has credible information that pro-government forces likely used tear gas against civilians it also says both countries are using the attack as an

opportunity to undermine a ceasefire in rebel controlled province those were the headlines here on there are back with more news in half an hour we continue now with inside story do stay with us. top executive of china's biggest technology company has been arrested in canada and one financial chief for wall play 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 w. it's being called the crown jewel of the chinese tech industry but one of its top executives has been arrested she's mangling jews she is the chief financial officer of walkway she was detained in the canadian city of vancouver 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. and though each ministry of the government is working and cooperating on the necessary measures with the cyber security center as a corn and i'd like to refrain from commenting in detail at this stage japan will continue to take the firm measure to look at this issue from a variety of perspectives that come up 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 make a smart phones 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 and really 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 is 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 contexts 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 taping these kinds of transactions that were clearly 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 u.s. 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 away 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 weiwei 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 caliber australia new zealand in the united kingdom monitoring kind of military intelligence around the world targeting what is perceived as potential and tacking is to the united states so at the heart of it all is. this kind of. perceived china threat so it's a push back almost three hundred sixty degrees not only on trade up with the there are lots 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. but a stop in 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 but 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 unnamed individuals to actually use the same sions 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 heah 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 u.s. math. 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 pro caution 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. with respect i agree with the general point that this is not you know as it were an advanced battle on 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 to 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 a 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 the stride in the sense that it is no news to beijing that china is now perceived as the and tack an ist and a rival of of the united states which underpins the world order and perceive is reaching china is perceived as a spread 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 to come on doing 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 truce of ninety days on the other hand this has happened and also at this coincides with a number of someone 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. costing over one hundred million u.s. dollars being ordered by a chinese company and being manufactured in holland 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 is not as container to trade or technology first let's just go down and let it burn so i guess i'm 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 don from 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 beijing see it. well as i said the beginning i think beijing is under no illusions let's face it it's not of it's only rarely. a panel pointed out that the united states in imposing sanction actions against particular individuals particularly in 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 in the wheat or 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 and in fact as we speak now a chinese food city of 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 the from china but he's living in a like a like a like

a king in new york i mean this has his pet panda house in new york cost millions of dollars has got his private yacht and the question is can be posed where it's got its money from and yet let's just turns. the last area that we quite like to see us 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 change its 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 and 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 trumpet ministration 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 andrew young and scott lucas and thank you to you too for your company you can see the show again any time with the website al-jazeera dot com for more discussion check out our facebook page facebook dot com forward slash a.j.

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see what this means for donald trump. two bits regarding cohen from robert that are of interest that current provided the special counsel's office with useful information concerning certain discreet russian related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign now that could just be more dodgy business dealings which would lead to some questions about thomas motivations during the campaign or as some pundits i'm sure hoping for this could be something to do with russian collusion again we do not know as we go to be very clear about that third karen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen time period this is after the campaign we didn't know when i was looking into that period during the first year in office. well the canadian court has adjourned the

bail hearing of hallways chief financial officer joe is accused of breaching u.s. sanctions on iran u.s. prosecutors all seeking for her extradition china says she's done nothing wrong kristen salumi has the latest on the case threatening to trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies just after the two sides of reached a deal. among china's business elite among ones who is considered royalty the daughter of the founder of telecom giant way a company c.f.o. and possible heir to the throne but to the united states mom is a wanted criminal the charge confirmed in the canadian court on friday fraud specifically using an unofficial weiwei subsidiary to do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's foreign ministry has condemned her arrests and demanded the evidence will be called in these are to do what i can tell you is that not the canada nor the u.s. has provided any evidence to china that the person of the cases violated the laws

of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the us argued against freeing man on bail saying her wealth made her an extreme flight risk while her lawyer said she'd never do anything to embarrass her family or her country in court filings the united states argued that mung was likely to flee to china if released on bail the united states believes that one way officials have been avoiding travel to the united states since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they had been moving u.s. based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case that's why when they became aware of her travel to canada on november twenty ninth they requested her extradition. mom's arrest comes amid mounting trade tensions between the u.s. and china and news of her arrest rattled investors the dow closed down more than five hundred points for the week racing games for the year but experts say the case

is not about trade i think it's very much sanctions issue and the desire to make sure that people know that we aren't kidding when the u.s. imposes sanctions nevertheless it could complicate trade relations as the two countries attempt to work out their differences kristen salumi al jazeera a white nationalist to rammed his car into a crowd of protesters in the u.s. last year has been found guilty of first degree murder james feels killed have a higher left dozens of others people injured in the attack in charlottesville germany's ruling christian democratic union party has elected an eclectic company covering bar to replace angela merkel as the party leader turned bar is merkel's part of the will lead the party in the next election with a surge in support for the far right there's also outrage in france over the treatment of students arrested by police during protests outside powers on thursday

trade unions involved parties lashed out at what they call police brutality after this footage and viral online those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on ars their next is al jazeera correspondent to stay with us. we live in an ever connected. with gadgets they keep us in the lead all day old and in all places our obsession knows no bounds. as a tank sofie journalist i'm going to go on

a journey to explore what it says that compels us to want to call ways be connected what we know is that the use of the enter that elevates dopamine just like down to earth and just like cocaine to some other drug. i want to see how all rejections you can tell technology affects people from all walks of life though business of facebook is emphasizing the central they are the people imagine those tests and we're talking to work and she put it down and i didn't bleeding internally for like a week and i didn't realize that so so busy caught up on twitter and facebook and social media we don't know if the effect of this technology on young children's brains maybe it's completely rewiring their brain to use it for most of the day actually. and i travel to the golden state of california the home of many technology companies one of the most connected places on the planet and it's where

i will experience my own unusual digital detox. my name is phil avella and people tell me that i am an addict i don't do drugs i certainly don't have a drink problem that what i do what i do. to social exclusion. i'm on my phone all day every day and my tablet is never really more than a few feet away. if i'm not speaking to people with my voice but i'm talking on facebook twitter what's up instagram and a seemingly endless list of new ways to be socially connected. i am

even guilty of posting pictures of food and. most mornings i'm up at the crack of dawn and the first thing i do is check what i've missed. the i pad comes out for me to catch up with friends in far flung time zones where i will say good morning or good night depending on where they are i'll catch up with the early morning headlines over breakfast and then i'll plan my workout on my days meals using various amps. after that it's a pretty seamless transition of. the phone comes out ready for the community in the city. quite frankly i would be lost without it.

as a journalist i think but i can't justify this you see i constantly need connection and being up to date with the latest facts and figures is essential when you're trying to deliver the news general election that was always going to be but when work is over the truth is i just can't seem to stop. i didn't release my friends they feel i'm never really there with them i am constantly connected yet at the same time and disconnected from space my friends ok with continue to explain to you why they fail i spent far too much time playing with things like least i should be interacting with them sitting on the chair going to work in something that i'm going to do now i said on my phone i was probably about a week and that's for the first time i was on my phone is in my messages it very rarely interacts with is always on he's trying to say it's an addiction just to say

so happy to stay at all of his friends and family tell him but i think he. said he just keeps doing it it's a need to constantly know. what's happening by this little piece of plastic that's what he excused himself but we want to enjoy his company and hear what he has to say and have a drink they may catch up and see what's going on and we'll just and be involved in a conversation together because if i did i'm just as proud to have to say i'm bad with that i'm watching film i have no t.v. . and i thought why am i doing this don't forget about i look at facebook and it's become like a car that does not ever frustrated people be driving somewhere spectacularly beautiful in the countryside is amazing and he's looking a phone to me the focus is wrong but it doesn't matter how many times i tell him i think you know it's a kind of a mild addiction so what makes you think i need to the left and as opposed to you

guys to me a very very modern. reference to this. which stands for fear of missing out but what everybody has can you not be just multiply the hours without that issue you know what. i mean it's. not been when we've been filming this i've not touched my thought of. being out. yeah but you know if i was a cigarette i laid out before you have a bottle of cigarettes by now you know or an alcoholic out of being out of a drink as if it's ok. i don't know if you know it because it's a you're fired off every day with my family when i do start to get slightly i guess i should share it with people they've said over this before perhaps not in such a concentrated political because they're alternately making a point now but. yeah i mean i can see what they say at the same time i'm the first person that any of these will come to when i can get it working on the phones or.

you know i'll be the one that will scheffer to us so i i don't know if it is a problem but. i'm not i'm not sure i'm not convinced. and it seems i am not the only one who is not convinced just look around you you call missing people cannot put their devices away very long. time is so precious we want to spend as much of it as we camp making digital contributions the thing is we're not even ashamed of it. even is a way this latest picture from the artist banksy shows just how much this is now a social issue a couple's loving embrace interrupted by the desire to see one of those doing. the increase in the use of one tel technology is the most rocking in the history of humankind people are taking to these increasingly.