you probably witnessed if you were looking behind me the first of the arrests that could be hundreds of them as you say that determine to make sure that the violent scenes on repeated but i don't think they can guarantee that because there are as you said so many people people here so many different shades of opinion not just the l a verse everybody is converging on this area and they're aiming once again at the arc to trail. behind me but what everybody is waiting for martin is essentially president. to start speaking at the moment we've heard statements from his prime minister. we haven't heard from the president himself about his reforms and about how he's going to start speaking to the people here but his ministers saying that it will be on tuesday several days after these events whatever happens today that he will do that he will go on national television to address the people all right david thank you very much correspondent at one of the thirteen him paris

following events as developments unfold now stampede in a nightclub in italy has killed six people it's injured more than one hundred others it happened. on the adriatic coast italian media is reporting that people panicked and ran for the exits after someone sprayed a noxious substance how the weather is next how a strike by doctors in zimbabwe is effective in patients in the middle of a cholera outbreak. and passing the torch in germany angela merkel's long time ally allies elected to succeed as party leader.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast for your press seems a very messy weather particularly down here towards the southeast where parts of cyprus turkey as well as into syria who in seeing some very heavy rain over the last few days now the good news is a lot of that rain is now moving out here towards the east but i'll head towards the northwest it is a much different story we're looking at a system coming in off the atlantic brings a very gusty winds across the u.k. as well as into northern europe parts of scandinavia as well we're going to be seeing temperatures still into the low teens maybe the high single digits in this area so not a lot of snow but we do see a lot of rain across this region now as we go towards sunday that system pushes down we are going to be seeing some snow in the higher elevations but the wind continues across much of northern europe so that's going to cause some problems not only on the roads but also in the air so expect some delays there down towards the south in the mediterranean not looking too bad but those temperatures are still going to be in the single to a high teens across that area up here across parts of northern africa we are

looking at clouds across much of the area most of the rain has ended so for tripoli is going to be a cloudy day few more clouds as we go towards sunday temps are there eighteen degrees but over here towards cairo we are looking at some more clouds in your forecast maybe ninety and gazi a share or two with a temperature of eighteen degrees. ard.

take a look at the top stories here of. documents released by u.s. prosecutors have for the first time directly links donald trump to financial crimes committed during his twenty sixteen presidential campaign is also being unveiled that a russian who offered political synergy with that campaign reached out to transform a lawyer michael cohen as far back as twenty fifty. several protests movements are expected to converge on paris putting the french capital on. the so-called yellow vests demonstrations will resume despite the government giving some ground on fuel

tax demands. a stampede in a nightclub in italy has killed six people and injured more than one hundred others it happened on the adriatic coast italian media reports that people panicked and ran for the u.s. it self to someone sprayed a can of pepper spray. now an executive of the chinese tech giant huawei will remain in custody in canada over the weekend prosecutors are seeking mung extradition to the united states which is accusing her of breaching sanctions on iran now the arrest says left economists wondering if the trade truce between america and china will hold christian salumi reports. 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. you 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 by the laws of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the us argued against freeing mongan 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 walkway 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 train 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 christian salumi al-jazeera a new law passed by japan's palm and will see the island nation bucking tradition and accepting foreign workers the contentious legislation will open doors for almost three hundred fifty thousand outside is it aims to plug the country's

rapidly shrinking and aging workforce the measure will be in effect for about five years starting in april two key infrastructure locations approving to be sticking points in talks aimed at ending the war in yemen calls to reopen the airport in the capital sanaa were rejected in the second day of un the talks in sweden there are also disagreements over the status of the pools of her data that's a struggle to see eye to eye the world's worst humanitarian crisis continues in yemen one hundred twenty three civilians are being killed or wounded every week hashim bar reports from just miles of stockholm but the talks are taking place. yemen talks hanged by a thread as the government delegation toughens its stance against who the rebels. president of the not so hard is loyalists have told you and all boy martin

griffiths they weren't allow reopening son our 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 mark to mind 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 our airports was one of the first targets of the coalition in two thousand to fifteen the military alliance later closed 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 who things 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 ask us of stockholm the u.s. state department says russia and syria forcefully accuse the opposition of a chemical attack in aleppo. they said the 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 the tear gas against civilians it also says both countries are using the attack as an opportunity to undermine a ceasefire in the rebel controlled province of italy. undergrad can't karama academy she is known as a k k has been chosen to take over from anglo american as leader of the german

ruling party the christian democratic union she takes over at a time of increasing discontent with mainstream politics and the surgeon far right support dominic. 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 sleeveless melts but 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 from. 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 i know that some con man must persuade voters in germany states and in a general election to go. and she and her posse other ones to vote for 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 dominic a. board. a new outbreak of cholera has killed at least five people it's infected hundreds of others in zimbabwe and has her experience from mt darwin a strike by junior doctors has hurt the already struggling public health system. health workers to speak the cholera outbreak in mount darwin started here they say a gold mine is used water from a nearby river that's believed to be contaminated petrus to the area where he works is remote and the roads are bad that's why he said some people didn't get to hospital until it was too late or. after i finished eating i started feeling strange and i knew something was wrong but they kept on working in the mine thinking it wasn't serious when it became serious or spittal tests were done and

confirmed that they call a lot. more than two hundred cases have been reported so far in the mark down area doctors and nurses are encouraging people to get treatment early. make the patient rescind before meeting in the city which is. so. if the. the. treatment. it's almost a hundred. but a shortage of essential drugs and equipment in many public health centers makes it more difficult to deal with the disease some junior doctors are also on strike over pay and work conditions and nurses are threatening to do the same more than fifty people died from cholera in september that was in the capital harare this latest outbreak isn't contained our fears this disease could spread opposition leaders say

zimbabwe's health sector has suffered and the years of corruption and mismanagement but government officials deny the allegations insisting sanctions imposed by the west and the economic crisis in the country are to blame. some of these miners plan to go back to work is the only job they can find they know there's a risk of reinfection but say they and their families need the money. dahlan is about. humans have been exploring the surface of mars remotely for more than two decades now for the first time we've heard what it sounds like. that's the sound of when the rolling across the solar panels of masses new miles inside land it touched down on the red planet. that life in the east of iraq's second largest city is beginning to return to normal

a year after i saw was defeated but for those from the west of mosul it's a completely different story from their al-jazeera matheson reports. to him using drifting across a public square in mosul would have been unthinkable just over a year ago when i saw fighters roaming the city streets and being outside after nightfall could mean a beating or even death is that. this is a message of peace that eisen is no longer here in mosul the society should live in he says in harmony after these dark days. this is the eastern side of the tigris river here people are trying to reclaim the night while knowing a short distance away lies stark remind us of battles. in the west side of mosul is still in darkness most of the people there. is alive but the west side is dead there is total destruction there it is like to hear regime

a bomb dropped daylight reveals the devastation on the western banks of the tigris people who used to live in houses of bricks and cement and western mosul and now sheltering in tents in camps like this one thousands have lost everything parts of eastern warsaw may look like they're returning to normal but people from the west say there's nothing normal for them to to return. so do mohammed has been living in this tent with his family since their home in west mosul was bombed last both on in the attacks and with hope we can return to mosul right now security is still fragile our houses are level to the ground there is no life for us there anymore it is better to stay in the camp for the time being despite the harsh living conditions people in mosul say the wreckage west of the tigris as a memorial to the city's dark past. but that the bustling parts of the east are the signs of

a brighter future rob matheson al-jazeera the kurdish region of northern iraq. terrorism take a look at the top stories here without his era documents released by u.s. prosecutors have for the first time directly linked donald trump to financial crimes committed during his twenty sixteen presidential campaign and separately it's also been revealed that a russian who offered political synergy with the campaign reached out to transform a lawyer michael cohen as far back as twenty fifteen well now from she have a tansey and what this means for president trump. tributes regarding cohen from robert mueller that are of interest from current provided the special counsel's office with useful information concerning certain discrete 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 relieve some questions about tom's 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 so we will be very clear about that ferd current 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 did nor will i was looking into about period during pit first year in office several branches me the answer expected to converge on paris putting the french capital on lockdown the so-called yellow vests demonstrations continue despite the government giving some ground on fuel tax demands ways chief financial officer. is to spend the weekend in custody in canada for the bail hearing deal on monday u.s. prosecutors are seeking or extradition accusing him of breaching sanctions on iran

china says he's done nothing wrong disagreements about the second day of talks in sweden aimed at ending the war in yemen the two sides are at all save a reopening the airport in sanaa and who will manage the port of her days there coming up next is there it's inside story stay with us. a recent u.n. report has given renewed urgency to the fight against climate change and release threats like sea level rise at this year's climate talks in poland can the international community seize the opportunity to take concerted action say with al-jazeera the latest from the front lines of the climate crisis from the conference itself top executive of china's biggest technology company has been arrested in canada england financial chief for 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 dalby 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 on will trump on china's premier she jingping held talks on the sidelines of the g. twenty meeting and washington agreed not to increase tariffs further come january the first man's arrest happened on the same day so who knew about it the u.s.

national security advisor 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 of course there was no engagement or involvement in the political level in this decision because we respect the independence of our judicial processes japan's government use of huawei products lights in cyber security concerns. well. each ministry of the government is working and cooperating on the necessary measures with the cybersecurity center as a corner and 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 technologies 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 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 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 facilitating 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 a war on gaining the commanding heights of technology the next generation would be five g. and parkway of course is china's leader in this game and indeed as the largest

manufacturer of this r.t. 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 canada australia new zealand in the united kingdom monitoring kind of military intelligence around the world targeting what is perceived as at 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. at sap 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 unnamed individuals to actually use the same chance to detain a high ranking official from a foreign company which is what's happened in this once case that is very very unusual now her extradition hearing is today in canada 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 is never separate 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 i'm well sterile feingold is part of the undertow he 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 they're 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 troubled 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 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 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 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 is 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 destroyed 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. all these are. at least to a conspiracy theories but on the other hand i think beatings under no illusion that there is a are all front kind of rivalry with the united states as i said is not does contain to trade or technology. just. because in birmingham 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 cyber age 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 and foresman power 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 trumpet ministrations 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 happened 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 month is just one example of it done 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 bull. to knew that they were going after this woman in vancouver he knew they were going to get her 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 even the beds 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 in 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 i will be ging 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 which was 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 it 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 today 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 a question can be posed where it's got its money from and yet let's just turns. the last area that i 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 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 feingold and were young and scott lucas and thank you to you tube for your company

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donald trump documents released by prosecutors in new york they have for the first time directly linked the president to financial crimes allegedly committed during his twenty six team white house campaign and separately robert melissy which is investigating suspected russian interference in that very campaign says moscow contacted donald trump's then personal lawyer michael cohen as far back as twenty fifteen where miller's seem also says trump's former campaign manager poor man a ford violated a plea deal by lying to them on five different masses including his own contacts with a russian associate that the white house says none of this reveals anything new or is damaging to mr trump well there is no many different strands to this story she have returns is our correspondent in washington. shortly after the release of some of the prosecution documents the u.s. president expressed his lack of concern totally clears the president he wrote thank

you it's not clear exactly what he was referring to but some believe the contents of the latest memos should provide some cause for concern for donald trump michael cohen was trump's long time lawyer and fix up he's pled guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations and it's this latter charge that now directly implicates the president in its filing prosecutors in new york say code made to hush money payments to women in contravention of campaign finance law that filing says as cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one individual one is assumed to be donald trump so prosecutors are directly implicating the president in the crime the special counsel's moment about co and confirmed what was already in the public domain about failed attempts to build a trump tower in moscow that continued even as trump was on the campaign trail expounding about his proposed russian foreign policy however there are two new areas which might be of concern to trump firstly miller writes cohen provided the

special counsel's office with useful information concerning certain discreet russia related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign and cohen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen time period. it's unclear what information miller is referring to during the campaign but it's striking cohen is also discussing trump's first year in office with the special prosecutor. miller has also submitted a document about former trump campaign manager paul manifold he was convicted of illegal lobbying for the ukrainian government as well as financial fraud the special prosecutor says manifold broke a plea agreement reached to provide information in return for like a sentence this involves a redacted name miller says while negotiating the agreement for provided information about redaction that was pertinent to an investigation in another district however after signing the plea agreement manifold told the government

a different and exculpatory version of the events in addition miller says mount a fortnight about context he had with the trumpet ministration after he had reached that plea agreement the former director of the f.b.i. happened to be in capitol hill for a closed door questioning on friday he praised the special counsel's investigation but gave a reminder that a lot of questions remain most important occasion of that is you don't know anything about it except when he files something court and that's what makes it so don't trump has now been implicated directly in campaign finance violations but it's not clear what these latest findings have to do with the russian collusion investigation if anything however taken in conjunction with this heavily redacted document that was filed earlier this week in conjunction with the investigation into a former security advisor michael flynn there's plenty of speculation. washington but we've been speaking to bruce fein who's a former justice department official and he says while the filings hint at russia's

intention to influence the top campaign they don't prove that its attempts were successful. i don't think certainly we have a smoking gun that connects you know russians with the trunk campaign based upon today's filings but we do have at least an inference that the russians were reaching out as early as two thousand and fifteen to the people seeking to ingratiate themselves perhaps influence the outcome so it stablished as a motivation for the conspiracy if the terminology is right or collusion whether or not it reach fruition today's fallings are not definitive enough to give any answer but i do think what the filings show is mr trump statement that he's cleared in best a geisha is about to conclude is quite wrong headed it seems to me these falling suggest that we don't have light at the end of the tunnel there are important leads that have to be tracked down yet and this is not

a green light for mr trump think you know he's he's safe now. all right we're going to go to the situation in paris now the french capital where several different protests are converging on the city and there you can see the live shot there at the the trio and you can see already that the yellow jackets and that's one of the variety of groups that are coming together today they are out already in force our correspondent is very nearby as well david and david we can see the number of yellow jackets there already out in what seems to be a considerable number and we're hearing that the security forces are already at work with several arrests already made. yes martin the total number of arrests we've heard already is two hundred fifty or so we've witnessed about fifteen people being detained by the police at this

checkpoint their wrists are being hank up with plastic bands and all the details are being taken everybody who's getting in through this police checkpoint is being searched making sure they don't have any projectiles and anything that they could use to attack the police but that was done equally last saturday and the the main battle started in side streets and that's probably what's going to happen again just now we have seen a doubling of the number of police on duty here in paris four thousand last such day eight thousand now so they've got a lot more manpower to try and control this situation they've also got twelve. cause which they'll use in in case they need to break through any burning barriers or blockades put up by protests as we saw last week and they're making sure so they

don't run out of tear gas they had so many tear garson. stun grenades. today they had to dip into the official reserves to get special permission to get those but the interior minister was here at the beginning of the morning and we we saw him talking to the police here and. she said that. has been born in the last few weeks and it's quite out of the control of his creators so they're taking no risks there are expecting violence by the taking every measure they can possibly take at the moment to to limit the risks but i can hear. a lot of there's a lot of shouting going on protests converging in this area it is going to be very difficult for the police despite the doubling of the numbers here in paris to actually control this completely and david tell us about the nature of the beast the nature of the money. because it is growing it's grew and it's deepening there

are many different groups with different different objectives now. that's right in the yellow vests themselves are extraordinary make sure right across the political spectrum right across the country. they have been organized through social media it's very hard for the police to get a handle on this because they can rally people to any point around the country very quickly on the internet the so-called anger groups that they have and essentially we see the morphing all of the. protests as they are expanding but mainly they're calling for the resignation of president emanuel not going with seeing the students joining in they say they're standing in solidarity with the yellow vests in the say that they welcome the support of the students but it's thought that there are many and i care very extreme groups on the left and the right. just

troublemakers. who in the in on this area hoping for any opportunity they can to cause harm by that so a very difficult situation over the next few hours the police will be able to gauge exactly how they're how they're doing how they're sifting the crowds they're searching people who are passing by here all the time looking that their rucksacks looking in the bags so they they seem to be much more proactive at the moment and they were at this time last saturday because they know what is going to happen they know that there are violent extremists they call them a handful last last saturday but this time they believe many more will be coming here just looking for violence looking for confrontation looking to launch attacks on the police themselves all right david thank you very much david chase a corresponding will keep us right across developments in paris as they happen now

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