spoke to the foreign media but the arrest of the firm's chief financial officer in canada where she's now fighting extradition to the united states has changed all of that and the firm has now begun an extraordinary legal and media offensive. huawei is a success story the chimes with many chinese people's sense of patriotism and pride it's not clear who's behind this music video now circulating on social media praising its smartphones the firm insists it had nothing to do with it while away is fighting another legal battle in canada where its chief financial officer mongering joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated while way is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copy cat european architecture is not

a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera change him. well the u.s. government has a troubled history with chinese tech firms that goes back at least seven years in two thousand and twelve a congressional panel warned that way and its rival z t e both posed security threats in december twenty eighth chief financial officer among one joe as you heard there was arrested in vancouver at the request of the u.s. in january this year the u.s. justice department filed charges against huawei and mung of fraud obstruction of justice and attempted theft of trade secrets secrets but u.s. president donald trump says he'd consider intervening if it serves national security interests or helps to close a trade deal with china why andrew long is an international and independent china analyst he joins us via skype now from hong kong thanks very much for being with us

with us so why wait has a great deal of business outside of the u.s. in fact the u.s. is just a small part of their revenue but what impact could that all of the negative headlines from this have on on their whole business it's. well it is a frontal assault on the way brown over here while he has been building is location and his parents traded the markets of hundred sixty countries worldwide over the past well over a decade or so and this is not an easy task because it is not just a question of price is a question of quality as well as trustworthiness. and so this brand is now subject to frontal assault and that's why while there has got a buyback suing the u.s. government does what we have

a legitimate. well i think that the the lawsuit which was long just now is space on the on the. the criticism that it were a lie beral want way under the u.s. national security or the on station law. against the u.s. constitution in so far as one where is the pride of china us at that moment gee the u.s. constitution is the prize the united states where the systems and the fact that the united states is acting both as judge jury and executioner without. a car kind of iron cast evidence. is planting some back door in this thoughts are all these years because this concern about barclay is not the only reason couple of weeks i mean this has been going on for quite

a long time and all the while there has not been in the back door has been found and also singling out while there's security concerns or the so-called gentle technology companies including for example facebook and google there are likewise security concerns of personal security. worries so i think that the just card in one way is perceived by the company is unfair and also against the u.s. constitution but this isn't the first time the u.s. has brought up concerns about war ways of companies as we just said it goes back several years and it isn't just the united states it's all of the countries known as the five eyes that's australia canada new zealand the u.k. and the u.s. they've all expressed concerns about huawei technology particularly in the area of five g. . that that that this may be used. to to to violate privacy and abuse.

spying and so on they add a right to it so worry about that so well because this concerns are legitimate firstly the alliance of the united states care of the australia new zealand and the united kingdom and of course it is the so-called five zero eight kind of digital intelligence network which is a bit secret but is also is the open secret. but there's no wonder that all these countries are you know have a common interest in monitoring a kind of the digital security but then you would look at those countries even the united kingdom has already said that some of the risks are not are manageable and you look at other countries in europe they are also like why i say that just banning what way are right without some concrete evidence particularly when the

infrastructure of the five g. infrastructure has already been built in is not entirely in the country's national interest and where this place it on the all these years away has us that really is position as the leading infrastructure five g. supplier around the world hundred sixty countries worldwide as i said willing. to give customer trust and confidence and to. dismantle all this network up was the cause of the problems but also while they are saying it is recognise their concern. about security in america but this concern is also applied to other. companies huawei has said this to work with the international community and the internet and governments to improve the security of products as an ongoing concern worldwide so i think that there are a number of grounds on the one way it could capitalise in their lawsuit. and

also. again it is perceived as a kind of part of the trial or is this a lie or it is not as in the trade is a lot of g. is sometimes even in the ideology but that's beside the point and what wall where it's working on is the law. whether it will be in compliance with the us constitution to speak to you and you learn in hong kong. we've got plenty more ahead on the news hour complaints of corruption and red tape in iraq many awaiting government cash to repair their war damaged homes. british government leaders under pressure to stop knife attacks. and inspire with video referee technology plays a huge part of a dramatic night of champions league for. all

that still ahead but first a grenade attack in indian administered kashmir has injured a bus passengers the device rolled under a bus and exploded at the main terminus in jamu city some of the eighteen wounded are in critical condition killing forty indian troops in a suicide attack last month inflame tensions between india and pakistan which contest. a court in france has found a catholic cardinal guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse in his diocese phillip barbara a prominent church figure and five others stood trial they were accused of failing to protect children from alleged crimes committed by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's the trial was held in leon that's where our correspondent natasha butler is so natasha what is the sentence. well the court here in leon handed out its verdict

a short while ago and it found that. was. guilty or failing to report child sexual abuse he was handed a six month suspended prison sentence for i was actually in court he did attend his trial in january but declined to be here today and this case really revolves around the case of another priest about an airplane an act he is actually accused of abusing boys in the seventy's eighty's and ninety's and what many of his alleged victims of it was said over the past years is that cardinal knew this was happening but he allowed this priest. to continue to work with children right up until his retirement in twenty fifteen and they say that that was simply wrong and that cardinal failed to protect children now the lawyers for some of those victims afterwards said this is what this was in historic occasion because of course it involves one of france's top clerics who is also the archbishop of this town but

his lawyers say that he will appeal and he has ten days to do so. and long term what is going to mean for the catholic church in rome. well there's no doubt that this case is really damage the reputation of the catholic church here in france and it is after all an institution you could say in crisis because over the past few years there are less and less followers there fewer new priests are all ordained in fact the figures of really plunged over the past decade is to be some eight hundred new preset year to less than a hundred so it's an institution in crisis it's also an institution in crisis not just here in france of course but around the world and what some all over the alleged victims here today have said is not only are these allegations so damaging the allegations of abuse but also the way in which the church has handled the issue in france and around the world because they say there is really seems to be

a lack of clear motivation to make some real changes and a lack of empathy. or a metastable alive first in. israel central elections committee has disqualified an alliance of palestinian israeli parties from running in next month's vote the prime ministers live could party in two others filed the petition they accuse the coalition of supporting violent palestinian resistance and backing hizbullah hole suggested it would win four seats in israel's parliament the supremes court will have the final say a palestinian teenagers been killed by israeli fire along the gaza border overnight fighter jets later struck several sites belonging to hamas in southern gaza israel's army says it was in response to explosive devices being sent across the border fence a u.s. congressional committee has been told the white house needs to do more to end the war in yemen expert witnesses said the fighting could create long term long term

instability and pose a future threat to the u.s. an official reports from washington. from the hearing room in washington they discussed how to bring an end to almost five years of fighting thousands of kilometers away but this is no detached former war the us is part of the sodium led coalition confronting the fighters and the subcommittee chairman says requests to certify the coalition is doing all it can to reduce civilian deaths have been ignored by the trump white house the administration brazenly ignored the february night certification deadline the administration continues to refuse to certify ignoring a law supported by both republicans and democrats the war which escalated dramatically in march twenty fifteen has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis the united nations says twenty four million people need humanitarian assistance fourteen point three million need food and water simply to survive one expert

witness told the committee there can be no humanitarian fix a political solution the humanitarian situation in yemen has sharply declined over the course of the war but any in an emergency humanitarian situation solution without a political settlement will not be enduring the house of representatives has voted to and u.s. funding for the war in yemen a move donald trump says he'll veto it one human rights activist says there must be an end to and says to the saudi coalition. since two thousand and fifteen the u.s. has supported saudi an amount of attacks in yemen to civilians by sitting millions in bumps and other weapons and providing military and political support trump administration continues to support the saudis insisting it's an important regional partner especially when combating militants in the area but there's a warning continued involvement is creating future problems for the u.s. this is a four year policy the has failed it has incurred significant cost to the united

states generating greater instability and potential new rounds of terrorism in the arabian peninsula both sides agreed to a cease fire around who did a port in yemen in december after un brokered peace talks while there's optimism that the leads to broader talks there's no sign a political settlement is near and the committee was told us needs to use its influence to get people around the table and the van we are bombs and bullets as a way to end the fighting season alan fischer al-jazeera washington which is soldiers might be deployed on the streets to help deal with rising knife crime the emergency the government's had emergency talks with police who blame years a budget cuts for reducing officer numbers named barco reports from london. jody chesney and yusef marquis are the latest ninth and tenth teams to be fatally stabbed this year this is the london parkway jodi chesney was murdered stabbed in the back as she played music with friends the victims were both seventeen ten

teenagers have been killed in stabbings this year twenty seven in the past twelve months the killings of course outrage and a fierce national debate nine of my friends were shot dead in the last one was shot fifty seven times this is sheldon thomas a former gang member who now advises young people and politicians on violent crime he believes the current debate been heightened because recent victims have been white and middle class why does it take a middle class person to be killed before they use the word crisis when poor whites and blacks are being killed for many years over fifteen twenty years we've had countless of young people stabbed in exactly the same way shot dead and yet that it wasn't considered a crisis when. if you just showed and thomas once the author to pay more attention to the impact of social media and a culture that glorifies guns and knife crime this is drill music the police believe it fuels rival gang violence this group ten eleven was recently banned from

mentioning death or injury in their music money girls in respect that the gang is what throws it in very world social media is there broadcaster social media is the mom social media is the bag and in their world what you call a surge in knife crime justice it's very verge of justice finding a solution to knife crime is now in the hands of the government and police a growing number of young people have lost their lives in a cycle of mindless violence such a shock to us all the responsibility for these crimes lies with the perpetrators of them but we must do more to ensure that justice is served but the government faces tough questions over funding comes. that have led to the lowest police numbers in decades public services that were there to support young people have been systematically stripped away you cannot keep community safe on the cheap by

cuts and privatized action you have to invest in all of our communities police chiefs want to implement a surge against knife crime and review powers to stop and search people they've been given to the end of the week to set out exactly how much investment they need there are fewer offices there for this less placing going on and there's more crime so there's some sort of link it's not the only thing that explains what's going on but it is part of the equation poverty drugs gangs abusive homes psychological problems deep cuts in policing not to mention an online culture that seems to glamorize and glorify violence there's no single reason why young people are carrying knives while teens are murdering teens on britain's streets and that suggests there's no single solution barca al-jazeera london. in a few minutes we'll have the weather with rob and still ahead on al-jazeera. crossing

borders for an education the lengths venezuelan children are taking to go to school . the threat on their doorstep how fast i was confronting a growing humanitarian crisis. and in sports basketball game the bron james just beat michael jordan another n.b.a. hero at a time. and again the wet seasons of bank to end in this part of africa particularly malawi mozambique and madagascar and it's when the season comes in or goes out you get some of the most violent weather the potential for tropical sarkies the amount of rain quite surprised figures are to be believed and that's a huge amount is nearly

a month's worth of rain for example in chile in in just one day but anyway we have seen vast amounts in madagascar in particular but watch the spin although in the immediate future this line exists of dong regions heavy shouting out to northern zambia down to malawi down to madagascar for take you ahead once more that's strange circulation account current new allana might end up being a tropical cyclone just between madagascar mainland if that's the case vast amounts of rain of course now when the rain tends disappear as the sun goes north the lhari which normally you'd expect to go around just about the equator breaks through africa and it just jumps up to the gulf of guinea and west africa that's where we're starting to see significant and again if these figures are to believe in our find this one hard to believe in port harcourt us vast amount of rain so early in the season in nigeria and further west in guyana but the rain is slowly appearing.

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on air and online. and again you're watching i just did a reminder of our top stories in explosions in western kabul in afghanistan all thora te's believe the target was a large gathering of shia muslims attending a commemoration ceremony one person so far in the west. thailand's constitutional court has dissolved one of the country's main opposition parties charge was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating princess who won rod as their candidate for prime minister. weiwei is suing the u.s.

over the government's ban on its products u.s. considers the chinese text giants products a security threat why why denies the allegations. president donald trump has been fighting a trade war with china and others since coming to office promising better deals that the u.s. trade deficit this month has blown up to its highest level in ten years kimberly how can. the report by the u.s. commerce department stands in stark contrast to what president donald trump said just days ago. you saw a trade deficits went down last month edwards trying to find out why well would take in a lot of tariff money and it's going right to the bottom line and it has reduced the trade deficit so in reality new data shows the trade gap between the united states and china in particular has widened last year by forty three billion to four hundred and nineteen billion it's a result of an increase in exports from china to the united states well exports of

u.s. goods dropped and the u.s. trade gap overall well it's swelled to a ten year six hundred twenty one billion dollar high their numbers not seen since the global financial crisis of two thousand and eight that means quite simply that the united states imports far more goods and services worldwide that it sells this despite promises made by the u.s. president on the campaign trail in two thousand and sixteen that his policies would put america first in the global marketplace the u.s. is currently embroiled in a tit for tat trade war with china posing tariffs and more than two hundred fifty billion of chinese goods china hit back with tariffs on a hundred ten billion of us products as the two sides continue to negotiate trump has delayed his threat to impose tariffs on two hundred billion more of chinese imports in the u.s.

and in september the white house released this video arguing the tariffs have already had a positive impact we're changing things and we're changing them fast but the commerce department numbers suggest a very different trade reality one the u.s. president seems unwilling to acknowledge kimberly helped at al jazeera washington. some breaking news to tell you about now at least thirty six countries including all twenty eight members have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record at the u.n. human rights council that is according to diplomats in geneva the statement will be the first rebuke of the kingdom since the un for him were set up in two thousand and six more on that story of course as and when we get it our syrian refugees in jordan are taking a case against the syrian government to the international criminal court they accuse president assad's forces of crimes against humanity they say they were

forced to escape because of attacks on them and their families they also want the court to look at a wider pattern of rights abuses including torture rape chemical attacks and disappearances germany's ambassador to venezuela has been ordered to leave within forty eight hours stan ukraine is accused of meddling in state affairs president nicolas maduro said it was unacceptable for the ambassador to welcome home why and why don monday the opposition leader traveled abroad to rally support for his leadership bid. everyone in venezuela knows who the person are non grata is there's only one that's not welcome in the region and the rest of the world in all the countries are visited they recognize the venezuelan fight for democracy as a constitutional element in the red carpet rolled out in those countries wasn't for me it was for the secretary says of hundreds of venezuelans it was a recognition from every corner of the continent so i say to the autocrats the only

people that are not welcome in venezuela are you. our politicians battle for power people in venezuela struggling to survive their injuries shortages of food medicine and the world's highest inflation rate and some venezuelan children are crossing the border into neighboring colombia to get an education manual rappel reports from the border city of kuta. most of the children waiting in this lunch line are from venezuela they travel across the colombian border every day just to attend school but since venezuelan authorities blocked off access through the official border crossing students are having to find other ways to get across thirteen year old catalina russell says she was scared the first time she had to sneak over the river that divides the two countries but it's the only way she can get to class where right here where it was dark we were very scat people were terrified we didn't know what was going to happen is a very difficult situation because you wouldn't expect to have to cross an unequal

rate school. it doesn't mean you're at this elementary school in cuckoo duck alone b.-a only a short distance from the venezuelan border ninety five percent of students are from venezuela the school's director had a much better bessie says since the border has been closed attendance has dropped significantly as a single sample inland in this way these children have problems in venezuela because there aren't enough schools because teachers don't make enough money and most have quit and left so children migrate to our country especially this school because it's the closest one to the border. and if you get outside the building parents are waiting to drop off more children once their lessons are over many of them will make the journey across the border back into venezuela and leave when we cross back if there is any kind of conflict or gunfire out children's lives or our lives are in a great risk or nearly faculty members at the school say many of the children who arrive for class haven't eaten and it's become part of the institutions mandate to

make sure that children are fed before they begin their lessons half of the students in this class did not show up to school today the director of the school says that a humanitarian corridor between been a swell and colombia is desperately needed to guarantee young venezuelan students access to a formal education. an estimated three thousand children are travelling to and from venezuela across illicit routes every day humanitarian observers say the conditions these children face on the border is another example of human rights violations by the venezuelan government. good economic. tina's school year has been perspire own by a three day teachers' strike they say wages are not keeping up with inflation nearly fifty percent last year the government's trying to pull the economy out of recession with a widely criticized austerity program. that education in argentina is going to a moment of crisis but it is nothing for years we've been suffering unjustly wages

well below the poverty line teachers are suffering from injustice with being mistreated by the government who does not listen to us does not address our claims of the un. is facing a full blown humanitarian crisis will do almost a million people in need of urgent help attacks by armed groups and fighting between different tribes and community groups forced tens of thousands from their homes in the past two months. storming a school in the hands of attackers is more than just a training exercise for these soldiers. troops in britain you know so faced unprecedented violence led by armed groups in neighboring mali now the attackers threaten areas just hours away from the capital ouagadougou. the troops are already fighting in mali as part of a un peacekeeping mission there are already overstretched an ill equipped. mission is descending because we can contribute to international mission yes but first

mission to defend the country but the threat comes from within. was a preacher from the northern region of who joined. an armed group based in mali calling on people back home to rise up against their government was killed in an airstrike in two thousand and seventeen attacks targeting both civilians and the state are intensifying tearing communities apart. so want to go russ money now my duty co no relation to have lived side by side russ monies from the most. from the poll community in january most people attacked their poll neighbors with machetes and guns after mostly mayor was a gunned down in an attack near by the mall in border. they burnt out a village our livestock everything we owned is gone we want justice the most herders who criss cross the border between mali and brick enough asta to feed their

cattle of supporting armed groups. community members attacked their most neighbors in retaliation burning entire villages including ras man's home. we so said was coming i prepared myself to leave because of the feeling of suspicion quickly turned to hate the desire for violence was in the air it is still so intense. this cycle of violence has not only killed hundreds of people according to the un almost a million people are in need of urgent assistance aid agencies warn it is turning into a humanitarian emergency so has seen recent search in armed attacks that cost one hundred thousand people to flee their homes and half of them have fled within the last couple of weeks. fear mistrust and attacks closer to its capital are fueling the violence in brick enough. the

nation seems on the brink with the expanding conflict in the region now at its doorstep nicholas hawk al-jazeera. veterans of algeria's war of independence have backed student led protests calling for president will to flee to resign if he demonstrates his concerns are understandable weeks of protests opposing a challenge to be a two year old who's standing for reelection next month after twenty years in power and to think it has offered to elections if he's returned to office and won't run again. in iraq reconstruction remains an obstacle to displaced people returning home the government has allocated money and establish commissions for people to file for assistance but it's natascha the name reports from mosul there is little sign that of that reconstruction money abdul salam yeah he says he's dead inside an airstrike killed his son the home he built is uninhabitable and

he and his family pay three hundred fifty dollars a month to live in the rubble of someone else's partially destroyed home yet a hint of that younger man on the for life under eisel emerges when the seventy two year old describes jumping from roof to roof and hammering beams for fifty years in mosul is old city if you would with these two hands i built so many houses so the happiness of people felt pride now i'm helpless to rebuild i feel a sense of hopelessness inside that i can't contribute to rebuilding my city it's difficult to find a home or building in the western side of mosul not damaged or destroyed during the battle to purge i saw a member of the nineveh provincial council says there are eleven thousand six hundred destroyed homes and forty five surrounding villages are level.