listening on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. china says the u.s. is engaging in political manipulation after criminal charges are filed against telecoms giant huawei. alone down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. venezuela's president lashes out at the u.s. for imposing sanctions on the state owned oil company. a quote in pakistan decides whether to uphold the controversial release of

a christian woman who was jailed for blasphemy. and retailers one of food shortages as the u.k. parliament passed a vote on to resume is latest plan to leave the e.u. . concerned and disappointed that's china's response to the u.s. justice department announcing criminal charges against telecoms giant huawei and its chief financial officer beijing is calling on washington to stop what it described as an results of unreasonable suppression of chinese firms the charges filed on monday include fraud theft of trade secrets and conspiracy reynolds reports. top level government officials lined up to announce the u.s. will prosecute huawei china's biggest most influential telecommunications company for a broader array of alleged crimes the criminal activity alleged in this indictment goes back at least ten years and goes all the way to the top of the company to

grand jury indictment charge while way with theft of corporate secrets evasion of u.s. sanctions on iran obstruction of justice and other offenses officials singled out joe while ways chief financial officer and daughter of the company's founder who has deep connections with the chinese government the u.s. says mung worked to evade u.s. sanctions on iran by selling while way products to tehran using a front corporation set up by wall way mung is under house arrest in canada the us plans to extradite her for prosecution the defendants are variously charged with conspiracy bank fraud wire fraud violations of the international emergency economic powers act money laundering and obstruction of justice the detention of

mung has infuriated the chinese government which is pressuring canada to let her go free beijing arrested two canadian former diplomats in what is widely seen as retaliation officials outlined a tale of auditions corporate espionage in which while way officials tried to steal secrets from t. mobile about a smartphone testing robot called tapi weiwei and it is directed employees to take photographs take measurements and take other protected information without permission. and finally when all this still did not get them what they were looking for they tried to steal tapi robotic arm in order for engineers in china to replicate it. the trumpet ministration has been sounding the alarm about china's efforts to achieve supremacy in high technology while way components are being used to create the new architecture of global super high speed five g.

internet technology officials say that threatens u.s. national security as americans we should all be concerned about the potential for any company beholden to a foreign government especially one that doesn't share our values to burrow into the american telecommunications market and the charges come against the backdrop of the damaging u.s. china trade war which has stretched on for months trade talks between the two countries will resume on wednesday robert oulds al-jazeera well the chinese government says the indictments against unfair and immoral because you know they don't wolf will just as the foreign ministry said with no evidence they using the state power to discredit and attack does ignited companies the sort of behavior is unfair and immoral as a department responsible for the same history we consistently encourage chinese

companies to act in accordance with international rules and market principles and develop foreign economic cooperation on the basis of abiding by local laws and adrian brown joins us live now from beijing agency how is china then lucky to respond to these charges and i know our way is seen as a poster child for china's economy. well i think in those words you just heard from the chinese government official the response so far daryn has been one of sort of mild indignation mixed with portraying itself as you know the victim china believes it is the victim of a smear campaign by the united states a smear campaign that is focusing at the moment on one chinese company while away but let's not forget this is not the first time that the united states has taken on and prosecuted a chinese telecommunications company it happened just over a year ago with a company called zed t. and that action by the united states almost led to said to be going out of business

so i would imagine that while way executives will be concerned that said it is not just any telecommunications company it's the biggest most profitable telecommunications company in china and it's now officially the world's second largest maker of smartphones having overtaken apple so around the world actually its sales are doing very well but it will not want to you know have its reputation damaged in what is still regarded as the most telling most important telecommunications market of all which is china i think also beijing feels that the strategy of the united states from the from the top down is to try to contain china's rise to try to contain a resurgent china and it's feeding actually into the current tensions that we have between china and the united states on so many different levels right now but certainly these charges that have been brought against weiwei are going to prove to

be a further irritant because what the united states has done as presented its argument its complaints against china wrapped in a very thick legal ribbon and i didn't just brief them on the timing of the charges is quite interesting isn't it given that trade talks between both sides are set to resume in washington this week. yeah and so you can imagine that's why the chinese regard the timing of these charges in such a suspicious light they say why is this happening now just as china and the united states are about to sit down to hopefully finally settle their trade differences is this the united states trying to gain a bit of leverage in those talks with it we should also remember daryn that another thing that featured in those charges that are being bought by the united states is the name of mung wearing show they have said in the united states that the case against her will proceed china has once more today appealed to the united states to

drop this extradition process and appealed to canada where monk of course is now under house arrest to release or that remains i have to say the one thing that could still overshadow these trade talks in washington if this extradition process does indeed go ahead adrian thank you now the man tasked with overseeing the fragile u.n. brokered truce in the yemeni port city of her data is stepping down after just a month in the job it's unclear why retired dutch general patrick coming out is leaving they were replaced by a danish general who led a peacekeeping mission in mali the u.n. envoy for yemen martin griffiths is urging warring parties to withdraw all troops from her data quickly after they missed the january seventh target agreed during peace talks last month. now pakistan's supreme court is hearing an appeal in a blasphemy case that sparked riots last year a christian woman b.b. was acquitted in october after spending eight years on death row she was sentenced

to death for insulting the prophet muhammad a supreme court dismissal of the conviction led to nationwide protests and death threats against the mother of five so expect her to leave pakistan if the appeal is rejected will come on joins us now from islamabad come outside portland is this supreme court ruling on which way is it likely to go do we think. this it indeed. ok because the blasphemy issue is something that has been a double edged sword headed by. a leading to many people being killed or what this issue. bibi was brought. to court equated to head back in october. twenty eighth she's being held at a safe place for her own safety in protective custody at this particular. case because they're worried that while in reaction to the point of baby the court

today is going to head the review petition and wait. the man who had fired decades again started in the first place the police report again maintained that this particular death sentence should be maintained however it. courted like need today jack that if you. were in favor of the acquitted after a team member bench heard that particular case. of course go outside the country once that verdict comes out we're waiting for that supreme court to come out with their decision which are due to take place within the hour and come all those who say if the it's a cool suppose her acquittal should be free to leave pakistan and there are reports have already left the country from canada. absolutely counted no if board had offered however one of the condition that the

government a good way to protect their is that she would not be allowed to leave the country until a decision by the supreme court go once that they figured out and once that they quit dated. by the court which it is likely to be that gave then free to be sent outside the country however. the security measure then played recalled to the highly sensitive gate where doors that crowd a minute before the end up would leave that out and just to avoid any didn't engage they brought it. from the court come all to thank you. the united states is stepping up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro the white house impose sanctions on the country's state and oil company blocking around seven billion dollars in assets it's the latest in a series of measures by the trumpet ministration to push me out of office kristen

salumi reports. the united states is now putting its money as well as its endorsement behind the bench as well in opposition posing sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company petter they say the path to sanctions relief for pet of ace is through the expeditious transfer of control to the interim president or a subsequent democratically elected government who is committed to taking concrete and meaningful actions to combat corruption the trumpet ministration has president nicolas maduro in its sights hoping to weaken his support with the military which now controls the oil company and so far is standing behind him in the duro vowed legal action to protect citgo it's us me subsidiary time i mean i think with this move they're trying to steal six go promised the venezuelan people be on alert finn is buying up today the united states has decided to take that road of stealing the company citgo from venezuela and that is an illegal drug the aim of the sanctions

is to direct oil revenues to the self declared interim president an opposition leader won by dello who's calling for a day of protest on wednesday international observers declared the last presidential election a fraud demonstrators have been taking to the streets over the country's dire economic situation facing violence and mass arrests people are obviously hungry and tired i'm desperate the situation in venezuela it's very difficult and they don't see the possibility of change anytime soon the trumpet ministration has been warning security officials to back off we want the venezuelan security forces to know how strongly we think that president lied oh the national assembly the opposition and most importantly american personnel are not harmed this is an unequivocal statement on our part in the race for. their forces we're getting all

but the president has made it very clear. on this on this matter that all options are on the table while the united states makes the rats and withholds money the opposition is offering immunity to members of the military who joined them more than twenty countries have now recognize one why don't know as venezuela's legitimate leader and more are threatening to do so unless new elections are held christian salome al-jazeera washington tom fox will break it al-jazeera when we come back back to the office the us shutdown attacks linger employees face a backlog of work. as a pass to host a regional summit we'll tell you how cyprus is coping with an increase in the number of asylum seekers more than that stay with us. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast over here

across europe we are looking at definitely a very messy weather situation across much of europe right now we have three weather system to talk about one down here across parts of italy one up here to the north across parts of scandinavia as well as one over here coming into play off the atlantic and into france and it is this one right here coming into france that is probably going to be the most powerful in the most wet system when the system is well over the next few days take a look here on tuesday the winds across much of the french coast is going to be quite gusty and we could you see some power lines down across much of that area now as we put this into motion from tuesday to wednesday watch as that rain in turns to snow in the higher elevations we're talking plenty of snow across much of the area actually down towards london overnight you may see some snow as well down here towards paris attempt a few of four degrees so we definitely going to see a mixed bag precipitation there where across the northern part of africa that storm that was in the mediterranean is still going to bring some rain here across parts

of libya over the next few days so here on tuesday tripoli going to be seeing some rain as well as benghazi but then as we go towards wednesday things look a little bit better that rain pushed up to the north of cairo it's going to be mostly cloudy with a temperature of twenty one degrees. the weather sponsored by cats on race. whether online. for them. or if you join us on sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue talking about a legal friend you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including the phone and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice. here twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation on now to zero.

welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera china says it's concerned and disappointed after the u.s. justice department announced criminal charges against telecoms giant while away and its chief financial officer the accusations include fraud and theft of trade secrets. pakistan's supreme court is hearing an appeal against the acquittal of a christian woman whose blossom a conviction was overturned in october that led to three days of protests. on the u.s. government has imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company it's the latest move by washington aimed at pushing president nicolas maduro out of office he says the sanctions are legal and has vowed to take action. now the french president is meeting with religious leaders during his third and final day in egypt emmanuel macaroons visit to the arab nation is aimed at boosting cooperation between the two

allies but the country's human rights record has also come under scrutiny but after buckley reports from paris. say thought emanuel micros first trip to egypt is proving to be a delicate balancing act. the french president wants to boost cooperation and trade with cairo while delivering a strong message on human rights of what president says he came to paris in october twenty seventeen we had a long discussion about that and i think things have not a guard in the right direction since then since that time there have been bloggers journalists and activists who've been imprisoned that is a reality and though i have respect for egypt i cannot ignore this president abdel fattah el-sisi suggested that egypt needed no lessons in human rights was a length of b.g. it will not advance by bloggers egypt will thrive and work on effort on its children's perseverance we are doing economic social political and religious reform for macro it was a change of tone from the twenty seventeen meeting with sisi at the time he said it

wasn't france's place to lecture egypt over civil liberties some campaign is and friends have been urging that cross to take a tougher stand on human rights and end arms sales to cairo these activists in paris say that they have proof that french weapons such as armored vehicles and surveillance systems have been used by dorothy's to crush dissent. because it read russian that is made in france because some weapons and technology and sold by french companies as a larger oppression of the syrian book edition imagine. france is one of egypt's main arms supplies but no major weapons contracts was signed on this visit or their forty deals were made in other areas such as transportation. despite emmanuel marc ross criticism of cairo's human rights record there is no doubt that the french president sees egypt as a key ally in the region but some analysts say that the diplomatic importance of french presence have traditionally given to cairo could be misplaced. france is

always best on an alliance with egypt to solve regional issues but it's misguided efforts between france and egypt to find a solution for libya has been a total failure and on other issues egypt has lost much of its power and credibility. mike ross always said that he's a president who believes in talking frankly on this occasion it's an approach that may have please campaigners but is less clear what impact it will have on future relations between paris and cairo natasha butler al jazeera paris how does a journalist mahmoud hussein has been under arrest in egypt for more than two years his imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release it was detained on a trip home to visit family in cairo and accused of spreading false news a charge for saying and al-jazeera denies the journalist has never been formally charged with just six days left until brags that british retailers are warning

about possible food shortages if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. without an agreement a joint letter to parliament from a dozen major food chains warns that leaving the e.u. without a deal could threaten food security it says the fresh supply chain from europe will be severely disrupted reducing availability and shelf life for many products british imports britain imports almost a third of its food from that we use. students out on amendments to a prime minister to raise a maze deal for leaving the e.u. and later on tuesday in the twenty sixteen referendum fifty two percent of voters were in favor of leaving but in some areas the yes vote was much higher and the hayward visited the city of grimsby in northern england. it was the world's biggest fishing port with a fleet of hundreds of boats and thousands employed to sort. of man. is still synonymous with grimsby in britain very little it's called

the. seventy percent of people who live in this area voted to leave the european union some blame the e.u. for the decline of the industry here when you look at it emotionally throughout the u.k. it's massively important because a lot of people would've thought about the fisherman when they were voting a have no doubt about. it may have been misguided will nevertheless a lot of people thought well the fishermen deserve better opportunities and better chance and that's the basis on which some people voted nearly all the fish brittany is imported but most of it is processed in grimsby and about a third of the five thousand strong workforce imposed from eastern europe about eight hundred fifty thousand new cars coming from europe i handled it it's river terminal attempts though reinvention haven't stopped shops from shutting and high levels of deprivation because too many followers can win

a case of people jobs. so. it seems to be getting worse so we need to take control make our own decisions rather than. a ten minute drive from grimsby and you're aiming at britain's largest port some of the fish sold in grimsby makes its way through here where why. drain ship goods to transported to and from the e.u. . it is a quick turnaround to get the ship ready to go back to where it started its journey in the netherlands in all it takes less than twenty four hours and millions of dollars are being invested in the poor to ensure it's ready to cope in a changing landscape post bricks that we're already seeing some growth as people concerned about the potential impact on some of the southern ports such as dover have made a conscious choice to come into the humber because they see that as a viable alternative to bring the trade in and that obviously will have

a boost on the local and regional economy grimsby has been living on promises of a brighter and better future for years it is often forgotten and the politics of westminster trying to shape it and the rest of the u.k. speech are still pale a long way away emma haywood al-jazeera in northeast lincolnshire. hundreds of thousands of federal employees are back at work in the united states off the longest government shutdown in history thirty five days it's left a backlog of work in departments from open tax returns to stalled immigration applications and as our white house correspondent kimberly alcopop what's best to no long term solution to a standoff over funding. back on the job. after more than a month without pay by the end of the week most of the eight hundred thousand federal workers some who relied on charity handouts during the shutdown will have received the money owed to them feel relieved to be back in the queue for to get

back to work i am very proud to announce today on friday u.s. president donald trump agreed to democratic demands to reopen the government while both sides continue to debate trump's push for five point seven billion to build a border wall along the us mexico border it's a debate that led to the thirty five day us government shutdown and could shut it down all over again the president. doesn't want to go through another shutdown the best fix is to be able to do it legislatively but if congress particularly democrats in congress would rather play political games and actually do their jobs and fix the problem than the present will be forced to take a different path trump has not ruled out declaring a national emergency to force through the building of his border wall a little time for congress to reach a deal government funding runs out february fifteenth leaving federal workers to wonder what's next people buckle down and just try to get back to work and and see about going about the business of their day the congressional budget office

estimates the shutdown the longest in u.s. history cost the country at least three billion that won't be recovered the impacts aren't just economic immigrants awaiting hearings before federal judges are facing months of delays and already backlog states like california new york and texas cross the country three quarters of immigration judges were off the job during the shutdown could be again if there's not a funding deal some scientific research has also been hurt after the shutdown caused grant applications for medical and scientific research to be put on hold at the environmental protection agency and the national science foundation absences of large numbers of workers processing tax returns of the iraq america's tax agency means many expecting refunds will now wait weeks or even longer as a level of continuity that's required for what they do and now you're asking them

to operate on a temporary or three week basis in terms of how they work and i think that only makes their job that much more difficult it's a future filled with uncertainty adding to workers' concerns a projection from president donald trump he's skeptical congressional republicans and democrats can reach a deal in a recent interview he put negotiations at a less than fifty percent. of success can really help al-jazeera the white house hundreds of italians have rallied outside parliament demanding the release of dozens of migrants stranded at sea. the. forty seven people have been stuck on a rescue ship off the coast of sicily for nearly two weeks they were picked up in the waters of libya but it means government has refused to let them in. now migration will be the focus of a summit of mediterranean leaders in cyprus later on tuesday the divided island has become the main target for smugglers trafficking migrants into europe the

government says it's been swamped with requests for asylum to reports from nicosia . the buffer zone that divides the island between the turkish controlled north and the internationally recognized republic to the south stretches for more than one hundred miles it's easy for the human traffickers to find a way through these are some of the boats they use now impounded and breached by the police. but we'll do it to find themselves closer to baghdad in the catholic charity keratitis does what it can to help most of them are too afraid to show their faces and i don't mind what they call just a safe place. so. this man told us he was forced to provide sexual favors to him who eventually smuggled him across the prophecy. of this man said he'd now lost all hope he had

a new job lived on the streets and was always hungry there are hundreds more like him indicus here they've come from across africa the middle east and asia seeking safety and a better life but finding themselves in a limbo in a country the cart afford to look after them the numbers are quite staggering i mean there were over a thousand one hundred. with very limited capacity for. immigration to catch up so this is. home. to cook. to keep everything falls apart leaders from seven e.u. countries bordering the mediterranean are beating here for a summit to see if they could reach an agreement on how to tackle the problem the cyprus government say the only solution to the crisis is for an automatic relocation mechanism to be put in place which would allow the distribution of asylum seekers throughout the european union. but

borders are closing all over europe. abdul has been living in a mosque since he arrived from syria eighteen months ago it's no life for his three year old son. at least is better than living in the street. to al-jazeera because here. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera china says it's concerned i'm disappointed after the u.s. justice department announced criminal charges against telecoms giant who are way and its chief financial officer the accusations include fraud and theft of trade secrets beijing's urging washington to stop what it calls the unreasonable suppression of chinese firms. just as the foreign ministry said with no evidence they using the state power to discredit and attack this ignited companies this sort

of behavior is unfair and immoral as the department responsible for the scene history we consistently encourage chinese companies to act in accordance with international rules and market principles and develop foreign economic cooperation on the basis of abiding by local laws supreme court judges in pakistan are hearing an appeal against their acquittal of a christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy bibi spent eight years on death row for insulting the prophet muhammad a record to last october sparked death threats nationwide riots by religious party supporters and they're appealed for a review of the decision the us government has imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company is the latest move by washington to push president nicolas maduro out of office he says the sanctions are illegal and has vowed to take action u.s. national security adviser john bolton is appealing to the venezuelan military to back the self declared interim president one. as a journalist not hussein has been under arrest in egypt for more than two years his

imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release he was detained on a trip home to visit family in cairo and accused of spreading false news a charge the same as iran denies the journalist has never formally been charged. with just six days left until brags that british retailers are warning about possible food shortages if the u.k. crashes out of the european union without a deal joint letter to parliament from a dozen major food chains warns that leaving the e.u. without a deal could threaten food security says the fresh supply chain from europe would be severely disrupted producing a better ability and shelf life for many products britain imports almost a third of its food from the e.u. all right so those are the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera after the street. talk to.

you personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the case listen if you want to be relations with india that's not exactly my point we meet with global news makers about the stories that matter. millions of venezuelans are wondering what lies in store cool for the presidency that is divided into the support. and. for that interim president maintains his push for power we want to hear from you and your thoughts to be a twitter. president nicolas maduro is facing and president challenge to his leadership by the head of the country's national assembly. to enter.