chao hosts of both hong kong and taiwanese identity cards. in this video he's in central taiwan marking the anniversary of the founding of the chinese communist party. but channel was not always a believer in one thousand nine hundred eighty four he wrote a letter to the then british prime minister margaret thatcher objecting to hong kong being handed back to china his letter began it is known to all that communist rule is characterized by suppression that leads only to bloodshed deprivation and diet poverty clearly child has since had a change of heart but are chinese authorities funding his political activities. here's what jang siri yeah co-founder and manager of the concentric patriotism alliance has to say the only. thing i know.

that i understand it. and. i think you're right and. i'm. in the. league i'm good. at the offices of the taiwanese government spokesperson cole last year tucker says more can be done to regulate all political groups woman stands as a xian towards. when he. says you're going to see this. but even before changes to legislation police have started to act in early august they raid the offices of another fringe party the china unification promotion party

and the home of its chairman chang on suspicion the group was receiving funding from the chinese government. there were loads of incentives on winners and you see . the americans on the mail now don't. know what are. two days later a crowd greets chang as he arrives for questioning at taipei's district court. he's arguably one of taiwan's most controversial politicians also known as the white wolf chang is a former mob boss who spent ten years in prison in america and seventeen years on the run in mainland china he was arrested on returning to taiwan in two thousand. one thirteen and released on bail hours later and the hurdlers chang has since remade himself as a pro unification politician and while his party has no seats in the legislature

chang's controversial past has kept it in the media spotlight. up chiang sohn chang way shows up a little later a travel agency managed by his wife has also been raided he denies it was receiving money from the chinese communist party but confesses to something else instead was a guy use those who knows you against the media through again from the roof over her who flew for me all those who can feel two of those years ago. when for both of them all those is alive or was it was under our association for your. group was wolf a vote of the old fool when the phone for the wall was showing how do you think i can find all. the interrogations last step out for hours chang says he was mainly aust about relief efforts organized by his posse following an earthquake in

eastern taiwan earlier this year you warn you the way kids inside your house will shock. these are the on the margin wasn't sure what you didn't eat e.g. you without all the money was a challenge and the woman to chant did you meet him and you'll be involved was there again was a much. incidence of the whole island just. as chiang leaves the district court challenging the head of the concentric patridge is among lions. and jancsi yes. shout slogans in support of him. was. but in the privacy of their office some alliance regulars paint a far murkier picture of chang and his party did nothing then you hear hear there's

jang sin is a former member of taiwan's main opposition party the corpsman dung and an independent candidate in upcoming elections you know the so this is regions in the it appears he also knows chang and pretty well buses fluids going nowhere existence review hundred you know. they're not. going into the arms and hug him the whole black kids agree with compound out home cheese you have both of your heroes into the basket come home sometimes me as one that's an option to the missiles out in a new down close and longmuir small bomb i'm going out with them i don't you know you're going to be done you're going to be the. worse you get angry about the bomb on the downhills house is a message from now all of them are to my money cause

a new gun up with the red bar they know you mean mug. despite differences in their beliefs some parties within the pro humor for cation camp have started coming together on a saturday afternoon in august hundreds of tender banquet in taipei if you want being junks colleagues and members of chang and china unification promotion party are also here. it's three months to the elections and campaigning has clearly started. the host is the hong man association sometimes referred to as the freemasons of china home and not in the summer with the formula nice thing is on the board even those in the south will vote. when young jamieson answers to her home and not even some cars you got i would as a whole frenzy of rooming house cars in that i would says enjoy the dog.

for now that means bringing about a peaceful unification between taiwan and china. believes this can happen if both sides adopt the one country two systems model most often associated with hong kong taiwan you'll utahns you know the full influence of an illusion so you're learning as you have with your with your own bits you see no was a no it's a very wonderful she would argue that one account is the same there are still are wondering why the young and out. for twenty six year old lin geeing that's not a workable system. but politician from the pro independence new power party she's been observing developments in hong kong and believes beijing is not up holding its side of the bargain this is all time around cars are not all ten or ten here her

haha down in the high one on by the end he did so how on and see them ethan's on home from is until. it heads and what does that sit down to now sold out and called the mountain going for that is. lynn is running in local elections in the southern city of tire none traditionally a stronghold of president chuy's democratic progressive party now running beijing it seems has been reaching out to young people here too as a student lynne and her classmates go to visit china on a highly subsidized tour titled i know it's all fundamental a little hall today and have a whole the heart of i in the house it's in those signals along all the harm done that i dassent hard on hot or an issue and only you should. it's into us and our when the name where you go i want you to find out if beijing has been trying to influence politics at the grassroots level we've come to see challenging true he's

a pro independence village chief in an area that has traditionally been pro unification this afternoon he's busy showing some primary school children his offices chan says mainland chinese academics have asked for similar tourists come and go home and being. soon fade so will bending down and the shrunken up and you know the knowledge of. cheering his first year in office chan was invited to visit china with a group of other village chiefs. it's a lot these are the. leaders of the bang bang with one arm and all that hunnam is one thing joe doesn't mind. taiwan's mainland affairs council says these sorts of exchanges have been happening for some time for many years. in the media

opus's or behavior that the tool says and how and they mean that in the city for any. real wouldn't they be aware that incident home. back at the offices of the concentric patra to some alliance in taipei chief. has decided to offer our undercover a such a job. but first he wants to see some id and we can't do much for that are going on as a reviewer. or they don't know how to get it wasn't much of a couple. more a little later we find out why one probably won't in the world because you're. probably going to die you. can. only get a going when the only one you're going to go on we're going to see if you know why we did baasha from your point of the young to you to. believe you're not really

kind of. it's clearly time to end the undercover assignment but just before such a leaves child receives a call what were you i would be leaving me even if you come here because i was with you if you can't. give up you don't do it in the movie and felt. cold he cooking. hold on you know. it's really really. hard yeah. ok i have a new. type of the light. eagle. on hypermodern. one of. the concentric patrick says i'm a lions china's taiwan affairs office and the taipei police don't respond to our

requests for comment. beijing's attempts to simple tenuously intimidate and charm the taiwanese public have drawn mixed results an annual poll by the taiwanese public opinion foundation found more respondents viewing china favorably than unfavorably for the first time since the survey started but in a separate survey conducted by the mainland affairs council sixty four point seven percent of respondents agreed that the taiwanese government should take stronger steps to prevent infiltration by the chinese government during cross straits exchanges. for most taiwanese historical ties to china are hard to ignore. culturally the two sides have much in common like this traditional lion dance these teenagers are learning in a village outside the capital taipei. their teacher is

a village chief chin jong way he's a supporter of chiding when but as also being criticized for leading other villages chiefs on exchange visits to china. it was engines are a tire maker and in your genes you are in your city even years that are would be your own for them been there were judged on its ability to me obama for good she. makes it a point to show us this creature a lion unique to taiwan. he says he supports democracy but sidestepped the issue when we asked for his views on unification of the tombola eating good and orders from widgets and guns or the number one more than human bottom dollar he got from the ins ins on sort of the wiser. i arms and salute you this will be seeing what. i'm doing no you don't know your homes or from or border you go on on which will

teach them. it's an ambiguous and yet commonly held position in taiwan recent calls for clarity mean its leaders will have to strike an increasingly delicate balance in a time of heightened tensions. by making the fish every week a new cycle going to see a nice of the breaking stories and of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's channel ace that's right out of

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to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will honor the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al-jazeera. the top u.s. senate's a visit to turkey trying to smooth the way for an american withdrawal from syria. but on the clock this is out zero live from doha also coming up protesters keep up

the pressure on sudan's president to step down a month off to the demonstrations began. a mexican fuel pipeline explodes killing more than sixty people off being ruptured by suspected themes. and is donald trump approaches the midpoint of his time we look at how he's changed the world for american foreign policy. so that a prominent u.s. senator who's close to donald trump has declared that america's relationship with saudi arabia cannot move forward until the crown prince is dealt with and lindsey graham made the remarks in anchorage where he's been meeting the turkish president recip top to on gray's been physically critical of muhammad bin solomon accusing him of being complicit in the murder of saudi jonas your milk thistle g. we will. start sanctioning those involved with the killing that mr shogi will make

a definitive statement that m.b.a.'s know about it and is responsible for it and come up with a series of sanctions to. make sure that others understand this is not what you do if you're an ally of the united states it wasn't a graham also discussed the planned withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria saying he hopes it doesn't happen until i see this destroyed once and for all brett mcgurk the former u.s. envoy to the coalition says there is no chance of that warning the pullout will only give the armed group new life is over been joyed has the latest now from go near the turkish syrian border. this is on the first time u.s. senator lindsey graham has voiced his opinion about how he feels the killing of journalist jamal to shuggie was carried out and who he thinks is responsible in the past he's called saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon a wrecking ball so it is not new for him to come out. and voices opinion about

how he feels about the of what happened what is happening to the saudi government and the united states but his stance is not what the u.s. official policy is his president still thinks mohammed bin solomon is a key ally he said repeatedly that he does not believe that mohamed bin solomon had a role in the killing often at the saudi consulate in istanbul despite the cia coming up with evidence and conclusions that there was some sort of involvement by the saudi leadership including muhammad bin salim on so that is one of the issues which will further improve ties between the united states and turkey which was a mandate that lindsey graham came with this is the second visit by a high placed u.s. official to turkey after the announcement of the two could drawn from the turkish syrian border by the u.s. president and that was the other important issue that was discussed between us but

between the u.s. senator and dish officials the troop withdrawal and what lindsey graham is hoping for is a phased withdrawal rather than abrupt pullout where u.s. forces are in the. the syrian territory for enough time that i said is defeated his view is different again from the u.s. president who thinks that iceland has been defeated u.s. senator lindsey graham is important because he sits on three very influential committees including defense foreign affairs as well as appropriations so his opinion in the policy circles in the united states and he say assured the turks that he is going to urge the u.s. president to try and make sure that it does not leave a void when these forces leave because the kurdish fighters in this border area have been going closer towards the syrian government and outcome which neither the united states or turkey wants on its border more protests have been held in sudan villages in the northern region of my house chanted for

a while bashir to step down what began as an outcry of the rising cost of bread has become the biggest challenge to thirty year rule for the morgan reports now from the capital khartoum. brothers left home and ten days ago and never came back he joined anti-government protests in sudan second largest city under man. we didn't realize he was shot while we were protesting security forces were coming at us and we ran for a bit and he said he couldn't feel he thought he twisted his arm then we learned he sustained a bullet wound we hid in a house and try to give. notice that he was also shot in the back when we were able to get to the hospital he was weak and. three protesters were killed that day human rights activists say at least fifty have lost their lives in the month long protests demanding the resignation of president obama and bashir the government total is much lower protests started when the government announced a rise in the price of bread the outcry spread to other towns and cities nationwide

police have repeatedly fired bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds hospitals and doctors have been attacked by security forces for treating protesters. demands to end bush years thirty year rule can be heard in every protest march. it's been one month since people started protesting to demand change people have been expressing their frustration at the way president bashir has been running the country for the past thirty years despite the use of live ammunition and tear gas the protest seems to be gathering strength and for weeks on the president remains defiant. president bashir describes protesters streeter's influenced by foreign agents as a criticism by the e.u. and the un of attacks on unarmed protesters sudan's government lawyer is promising to investigate. we will be looking into the deaths that occurred during the protests and urged people who have information to come forward and presented to us so we can conclude what happened and how people have been killed we'll also look

into those injured and those who had their property destroyed in the demonstrations but she remains wanted by the international criminal court for work rhymes and crimes against humanity in the western region of darfur some analysts say the biggest challenge he's yet faced at home has the potential to end his rule. this movement will be successful in changing the regime is true that the government doesn't see that but it can happen that can happen through a new political party taking over the ruling party sidestepping bashir and bringing someone else in his place but one thing we can be sure of is that saddam before the nineteenth of december is not the same saddam posed december when the protests started. bashir has promised economic reforms but as protests continue into a second month some sudanese say they're ready to sacrifice their lives to see change changes which president bashir doesn't appear ready to make people morgan al-jazeera caught on but it's an hour from. a member of nonviolent resistance

movement which is helping to organize the protests speaking to us from he said the demonstrations show that people have been fed up for a long time. this is a decentralized movement that's happening and there's always different groups and they're all uniting on one cause which is like you need to go and a lot of the organization is happening through a coalition through the professional sudanese association and there's cold war protests and when the call comes out the sudanese professional position is not the one organizing on the ground all these different groups work in the decentralized ways to get people to work so people from different cities from different neighborhoods they all come together and they organize in small cells and everybody comes together because they know the call is coming so it's it's it's definitely a movement that some people will get a lot of people within the national congress party the ruling party are actually turning and thinking that they need change too so there's we've been hearing more

and more voices from within the party that think this is over we need to move on and we need to reach a real democracy we need to have so those voices are coming out so i think there's a main street and consciousness in the sunni society because for years we haven't been talking about it in the mainstream and now people are talking about this and i even have my own family groups what's out groups and social media groups that are they used to always talk about. jokes and whatnot and now they're actually talking about this so there's this means to consciousness and people are talking about it and now with more marches with citizens and all these calls for a strike there's more and more talk about people wanting change and imagining the change so this is happening right now and i think is being we mean strong and if it wasn't for the strong violence that people are faced with the borders would have been way way bigger. the mexican army is being mobilized to guard pipelines after

explosion killed sixty six people and injured many more victims burned to death as they filled containers with leaking fuel john holdren has more from mexico city. it looked like a village celebration dozens gathered under a fountain of gasoline it had erupted from what mexico's state oil company said was an illegally tapped pipeline. they took their fill the soldiers sent to guard the pipeline looks on seemingly powerless then this happened. dozens of people were taken to hospital with burns many less food were burnt to death the tragedy comes just as the government is trying to crack down on oil was the most important thing now is to look after the injured to save lives that is the most important thing the fight against the illegal theft of fuel will be strengthened. gangs and corrupt officials have been siphoning off petrol from the country's pipelines few years in two thousand and eighteen the army found more than

six thousand illegal taps vulnerable pipelines have been shut down while the secured it's left many communities with shortages. the government's trying to make up those pools by delivering petrol in heavily guarded tankers in the capital the system is beginning to work but elsewhere emits crew second city quite a lot harder and several states there are still queues operations costing serious money not just the tankers but the full thousand troops deployed to guard them pipelines and fuel death pose experts say it can't go on indefinitely the president's essentially made this a game of chicken let's see who gets tired first she said though stealing the country's oil or his government with its mounting cost of pipeline security and. polls have shown the majority of mitt. and support the president stunned his butt

but if it's to five people who are stealing the fuel it's good we just have to put up with it for a bit if it's to make the country better that's fine friday ended with another pipeline explosion in connecticut all this time with no casualties but the clock's running for the president to come up with a long term solution to fuel there and all that comes with it john home and out zero mexico city. still ahead here on al-jazeera hebron and beyond find out how a family has kept its pottery business going through generations under occupation. there should be a significant amount of snow in afghanistan next day or so all this sudden assistance wrapped around and that's just west of turkmenistan produce.