the tire rocks the charred party as they arrived at the constitutional court in bangkok they knew these would probably be the final moments of the party's existence. they didn't have to wait long for confirmation the nine judges took less than forty minutes to deliver a unanimous verdict. we considered the acts of the party as an attack an instinct towards the constitutional monarchy the court has ordered that the party be dissolved the fourteen members of the party's executive committee were also banned from politics for ten years. to party executive members and i are deeply sad about that is solving a party it is sure to have an impact on basic political rights the verdict came a month after thai rocks a chart announced that princess would be its candidate to become prime minister in the election hours later the palace said the move was inappropriate and unconstitutional from that moment it seemed unlikely the party would survive in a country where the monarchy is seen as untouchable. still the campaign continued

until a week ago when it held what would become its farewell rally in bangkok this is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated. charge was seen as a potential coalition partner for his main party put a tie which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. the holding as we design of the constitution all the development that have happened.

was designed to keep talks in the dissolution of thai rex a charge made galvanize support for the chena wants well deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is set for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. still ahead on the bulletin more on the catholic cardinal found guilty of covering up child sex abuse in france. across the water for an education the extra one point lens that is weighing in children are going to to get to school. hello action once again from the point of view of the weather is not so much in iran though there are hints of showers here in india afghanistan but no further west once again the action has been in turkey in northern syria and there's more to

come snow overseas quite readily available in the air is cold enough to bring that's not quite low levels it's running across the far north of iraq into iran you might even find that some snow briefly falls even the capital is mainly a story of rain and other keep moving dancer iran during friday leaving behind it quite looking weather not much of a brazen attempt in the high teens twenty two if you're lucky in baghdad now typically when this sort of thing happens you pick up quite a when running down to the gulf it has been a bit sporadic recently picked up again the moment i think my strength about how to get to saturday in friday is not so much so twenty six in their heart over the thames has dropped back a bit on saturday where that road to the cold north they give you twenty two at best in history had we seen heavy rain recently even the potential for development of a tropical storm with it comes off shore from mozambique into the shallow and that's a possibility if not on farther than probably on saturday but this is an area of heavy rain in malawi across madagascar

a few shots the south as well. julian sierra leone civil war nigerian forces were deployed to protect civilians instead some turned on the population in plain sight of a journalist camera is a name to. peacekeeping force the problem. is on using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for those slaughtered by their guardians peace killers on al-jazeera.

good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories thirty six countries including all twenty eight european union members have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record it calls on the kingdom to cooperate with the u.n. investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. huawei is taking the us government to court the chinese tech giant is challenging a federal law banning u.s. government agencies from using its products or the security concerns. and at least three people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack on western kabul rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering in the afghan capital i saw last claimed responsibility. now disgraced french cardinal fully barbara and has offered his resignation after being found guilty of failing to report child sex abuse to authorities the case has highlighted the catholic church's declining influence and france. has more from new

york. from his diocese in the city of french cardinal philip announced his resignation. i have decided to go and see the holy father to turn there my resignation he will receive me in a few days. it was an unexpected twist a often already dramatic morning in court in his absence a judge found the cardinal guilty of failing to report child sex abuse to authorities giving him a six month suspended prison sentence babar had known the priest bernard paina had abused boys from the one nine hundred seventy s. to ninety's but he allowed him to work with children until his retirement in twenty fifteen the victim's lawyer said barber has resignation was sudden but welcome short brown the sun would exhaust symbolically make sense you needed to respond to the verdict in some way because a court are shown is moral and legal responsibility. may well be resigning from his position within the catholic church but his lawyers say in terms of this case he is

likely to appeal the verdict for the victims and the campaigners who've been here during this trial they say this has been a true fall from grace one of france's highest clerics phosphor davao is head of a victim's association in legal stated it yet it's david against goliath it sends a powerful symbol of hope for the victims it's colossal i'm convinced that many others will now speak out the case is shaken france's catholic church and inspired a film that won a top prize of the berlin film festival by the grace of god follows the victims campaign for justice because katrina and her prior. to treat. somebody. for more than a decade the catholic church in france has been dealing with a declining number of followers and new priests after the cardinals trial it faces an additional battle won for its credibility and reputation natasha butler al

jazeera france. the algerian state media has posted what it says is a letter from ailing president upton as is both a flicker warning of chaos returning to the streets the letter warns of foreign groups and full trading demonstrations the eighty two year old president's message comes on the eve of a major protest demonstrations have been taking place for the past two weeks against his bid for a fifth term the letter doesn't mention protesters demands with a flicker as in switzerland for what the government is describing as routine medical tests meanwhile lawyers and journalists have held anti-government protests of their own hundreds marched through the streets in downtown algiers demanding a step down elsewhere in the city journalists held a sit in demonstration at press freedom square they're accusing the government of trying to influence their coverage of the demonstrations. syrian refugees in jordan and taking a case against the syrian government to the international criminal court they're accusing president assad's forces of crimes against humanity including torture rape

and murder and chemical attacks syria is and signed up to the i.c.c. but jordan is a member which may give the court jurisdiction to take the case. now in iraq rebuilding remains an obstacle for people returning to what's left of their homes the government set aside money and establish commissions for people to get help but that's not easy as natasha going to reports from also 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. get a hint of that younger man long before life under eisel emerges when the seventy two year old describes jumping from roof to roof and hammering beams for fifty years in mosul's old city. 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 levelled the iraqi government estimates it could take one hundred billion dollars to rebuild the country after its battle with ice all since twenty seventeen its allocated money in the federal budget for people who submit claims for compensation however allegations of rampant corruption and too much red tape mean few are getting the money they need to start over yet yeah it is among the more than one million people who filed claims in mosul and across the nineveh province fewer than one percent of

the people who filed claims have received assistance members of parliament could not tell us exactly how much money has been earmarked and distributed in claves what is that if. people have nothing to rebuild their lives with we are going around in empty circles and no proper solution is given everything is ink on paper . the frustration is as overwhelming as the mountains of debris and choking dust. the only thing we need from the government is to haste in the process of compensation and turn their attention to this calamity otherwise the situation will remain bleak for generations. oh yeah and his family complain about the absence of grocery stores the rodents that have found a never ending feast and the stench that comes from decomposing bodies deep under the wreckage especially after it rains but they won't leave the old city they have

roots here they say it's one of the few precious things they have left natasha going to name alleges era mosul. now on thursday the us presidents will campaign manager will find out how much more time he's going to spend in prison for manaf what was found guilty of financial crimes as part of the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between the twenty six campaign and russia but that is just one of a growing number of investigations into donald trump to call hain reports. it's a term he seems to use daily which on which i tweet and it's a great but he might need to start using the plural witch hunts because u.s. president donald trump has a lot more to worry about than special counsel robert muller's investigation into potential obstruction of justice and collusion with the russian government trump is surrounded by investigations in new york federal prosecutors are already sending

troops former lawyer to prison and they are looking into who gave and how one hundred seventy million dollars was spent on the inauguration a former trump advisor went on the president's favorite fox news program to warn him he's in danger this is why i've said all along with the southern district this is much more worrisome than mother because they have no restriction on what they can look at mother has to look at russia and that's it right these guys in the seventy's are can look at anything the washington d.c. attorney general is also investigating the inauguration specifically he is looking into whether trump personally benefited financially by renting out his d.c. hotel for events perhaps unknowingly the president recently praised that attorney general and a special thanks to attorney general karl race car car. great job thank you very much you were very helpful everybody said girl i feel like you're like i know you. that's pretty good. is about to

learn even more about the president along with the top lawyer in maryland he's also suing trump for possibly violating the clause of the constitution that says a president can't take foreign money in new york the state attorney general is ramping up investigations into trump's businesses and the possibility he's been cheating on his taxes for years and in new jersey that attorney general is investigating if the term country club broke the law by hiring undocumented migrants and then there is congress newly in power in the house of representatives the opposition democratic party says it is investigating all of these things and much more you just have to take a look at the president's twitter feed you know he's pretty much fixated on the investigations but with so many looking at all aspects of his administration his campaign his businesses he can tweet but he can't stop them particularly al-jazeera washington canadian prime minister has admitted to an erosion of trust between

himself and his ministers following a corruption scandal that's shaken his government just months away from national elections two of justin trudeau his cabinet members have questioned recent weeks accusing him of trying to influence a criminal inquiry into a canadian multi-national engineering giant s. and c. level and is accused of giving bribes to senior libyan officials under formal needham wal-mart the buffy trade i maintain that he was looking out for canadian jobs as in sea level and is a company that employs nine thousand canadians across this company country they create many thousands spin off jobs in peripheral industries they directly or indirectly put food on the table for countless families says one of canada's major employers but they are also a company facing serious criminal charges. the context is a tough one with potential job losses in the thousands these are the types of situations

that make governing a challenge to venezuela now as the politicians are battling for power the people are struggling to survive their enduring shortages of food medicine and the world's highest inflation rate and some venezuelan children about extraordinary lengths to attend school crossing the border and to neighboring colombia. reports now from kolkata. 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 any alum we asked was that it was dark we were very scared at 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 to get school. it doesn't mean you're at this elementary school and good luck alone b. i'm 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 that could mean 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 have been beaten 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 that as well as 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. and i'll get out of the plot and the headlines on al-jazeera thirty six countries including all twenty eight european union members have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record and calls on the kingdom

to cooperate with a un led investigation into the murder of thousand journalists jamal khashoggi. while weighs taking the u.s. government to court the chinese tech giant is challenging the federal nor banning u.s. government agencies from abusing its products because of security concerns at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack in west and kabul rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering in the afghan capital iceland has claimed responsibility various politicians were at the event including presidential candidates for july's the next . thailand's constitutional court has dissolved one of the country's main opposition parties thai rocks a child was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating princess as their candidate for prime minister. a french catholic cardinal has offered his resignation after being found guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse in his diocese for the barbara and five others to trial accused of doing

nothing to protect children from alleged crimes committed by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's. the canadian prime minister has admitted to an erosion of trust between himself and his ministers following the corruption scandal that's shaken his government is just months away from national elections to justin trudeau his cabinet members have quit in recent weeks accusing him of trying to influence a criminal inquiry into a canadian multinational engineering giant s n c loveline is accused of giving bribes to senior libyan officials under former leader more mortgage afy to maintain that he was looking out for canadian jobs noise and journalists have held anti-government protests in algeria hundreds marched to the streets in downtown algiers demanding president with a flick a step down elsewhere in the city journalists held a sit in demonstration there accusing the government of trying to influence the coverage of the demonstrations the protests have been going on for two weeks

against the ailing president's bird for a fifth term. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera and five stories coming up next thank you very much for watching. hallway hits back the chinese tech giant sues the u.s. government once it fights a legal battle in canada why is the company so controversial and is it a threat to global security this is inside story.

hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura kyle for china huawei is a source of national pride is written into the company's name but for the u.s. and many western nations the tech giant is a spying tool for the chinese government the u.s. has huawei poses a security threat and is pressuring allies in europe and asia to ban its products but its hallway is fighting back it's suing the u.s. government for not allowing its workers to use qual way equipment and in canada the company is fighting the extradition of one of its top executives to the u.s. she's accused of flouting u.s. sanctions on iran or china correspondent a jim brown reports from hallways headquarters. from beer while ways success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone of . while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet

ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al jazeera to confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment where there is no us. challenge to. these not only. but also owes army and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. our way. it has carried our service and this story and given us

since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely 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 it smartphones the firm insists it had nothing to do with it. well way 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 where he is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat 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. let's take a close look at hallways history based company was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by a former officer of the chinese people's liberation army he won a government contract to provide equipment to the communist party in the early one nine hundred ninety s. his company was later granted status of national champion this effectively closed the market to foreign competition hallway expanded internationally in the year two thousand and five years later the value of its overseas sales the past local business and today as the world's biggest supplier of network telecommunications equipment and the second largest seller of mobile phones.

let's bring in our guest now and andrew long is an independent china analyst and a research fellow at beijing normal university he joins us via skype from hong kong and washington d.c. we have richard goodstein a lawyer and democratic political consultant and via skype from tokyo mark einstein chief analyst for digital services at japan a technology research firm a very warm welcome to all of you andrew does hallway have good grounds to sue the u.s. government. yes because our hot way is not the us it is subject to three hundred sixty degrees brought back from the united states against revocation as the world's leading supplier of five g. infrastructure and governance now huawei has achieved this position by working very

diligently behind the scenes over the past two there is winning the trust of customers in one hundred sixty countries worldwide in fact it was a very very special company in a sense a cost not only because it has the background of the founder was a member of the peer but because it is now. separate company the company in fact ninety eight percent of the shares are own by employees and there are one hundred unscented thousand employees and forty five percent of these employees work on r. and d. so it is a company focusing on technology focusing on you know mation and it has managed to become the world's lot there's a lot of supply of five g. infrastructure thoughts i think this decision isn't cheve true maybe the past two decades is unlikely to be achieved just by copying or stealing other people's

technology. and how much and how much does it actually means the u.s. market. well the us market actually accounts for a relatively small proportion of china's worldwide market penetration while weight is highly widely used. even in europe embarrassed european countries in asia. and you know other countries on a world when it's seven hundred sixty countries worldwide. it is the world's largest supplier of five g. the cutting edge fine she infrastructure imports the other western competitors erik's on and not care even so certain are miles. but of course up to love with the worries about always background and the fear that

sports may have backed the walls all these worries system for a long time in the polls but i do not know there is no hard evidence ok that there was a black cat or let them bring in richard at this point and he does make a good point doesn't he how white is the us to be first of all suspicious of hallway secondly where is the evidence. well that's a start laura your opening package said that by law in china competition against weiwei is not even permitted so why waste trying to get access to the u.s. market when its u.s. counterparts are not able as of now to get access to the chinese market so right there there's kind of an imbalance and i think what you would hear from officials have started in the pentagon in the defense department in the united states years ago this was not just a donald trump. fiction that there were grave concerns that was

because it was always penetration that for example it might have the ability to disable u.s. military if there was ever a shooting war involving china that it would have the ability to disable kind of main kind of mainstream communications in the united states whether involving the government or not this was a pretty great concern i can't tell you nor can any of your guests tell you whether there's a basis for that maybe if this lawsuit proceeds the pentagon will have to establish you could understand why they would be reluctant to kind of put on public display what they do and don't know about what we've penetration it's back doors it's you know it's capacity because there's real competitive issues there but. i'm satisfied that they're not using this as a fiction to advance the trump trade agenda this preceded donald trump ok mark is that no similar threats the complete will not use the similar argument against

other companies and if we look at apple and some sign with apple for example that were indeed suspicions that the united states' national security agency had installed some spy west so if if if walk away then why not every every technology company well i think what's really underpinning this entire discussion is how critical five g.'s going to be five g. is not really going to be about. smart phones in the grand scheme of things it's going to be connecting and controlling all of our autonomous cars drones connected factories smart cities all of these things are going to go through this five g. network which is a really big difference from what we saw with the four g. networks and i think that is really what is underpinning all of these security fears that are out there whether or not they're actually warranted well that's another interesting point is there was this this this five g. network is the u.s. not concerns that without using huawei as products is a leading developer and five that it's going to fall behind the rest of the world

when it comes to developing this super fast in that way i think by all accounts that very much a concern in the trump white house that the u.s. is losing the five g. race but i think again the concern about why are way way predated all the talk in development of five g. this this went back many years again in the pentagon before five g. was kind of. a dream that people had of being ubiquitous and it looks like it will be but i think that the the officials in the u.s. government who are a political have a concern and again maybe it will have to put their bases for their concerns on the record in the course of this last soon that this says yes five g. is part of it but it's not it's more than five g. as regards weiwei. and you can perhaps you can help explain to us what role the communist party plays in a company like chua way because all companies must have

a communist party committee what do they actually do. i think this out although the founder was on the other p.-l. a but the but then the company has been established as an independent company i mean the background of a lot of the companies around the world of different backgrounds. but one way has make it absolutely clear that of course the hose the customers interests at high regard otherwise it would all have been able to achieve such a high level of market penetration one hundred six seventy and resisting countries worldwide and and not just because ms products but because reliability of the services now are concerned about. digital security does not apply to walkway itself only are there are companies even as asaram in all the world and also other high tech companies they they're all have.

this kind of consensus in international phenomenon so one way has said during this . press conference there is a willing to work with continue to work with the international community and in the governments to improve the kind of security issues associated with other digital products as well as infrastructure and indeed even amongst the so-called. association of united states and canada australia new zealand and the united kingdom focusing on those security the united kingdom has already said that yes. it shares some of the concern. but is not believe that banding of way out right is the answer. was the kind of concerns could

be managed far away given a layer of security. kind of infrastructure built into the system so i think that this is the whole argument used by or part way in taking the u.s. government court kind of you'll be lateral barreling way not only in the united states but worldwide and you've been in countries which have got very little to do with national security and that ban is under the some call national security authorization law for the united states the united states acting as both judge jury and executioner without giving while the chance to present his case to the courts is a violation of the separation of powers in the united states and that's the just are always lawsuit. and also in what way is also in the press conference or

the fact that while wade boggs contained only about thirty percent of the components. and like many other products there are components from from all over the world right. and he's on a competence likewise for their security must have thought that they had to have a gun then that and to because they're the point about bringing other western countries like germany and the u.k. into the question is going to pass and wanton if not because they are still deciding on what five thousand restrictions to impose on huawei if indeed there is any why are they hesitating where the u.s. has not so i think there's a very clear reason why these companies are hesitating and why they have to hesitate and that's because while ways our infrastructure costs are typically thirty percent less than those of their competitors and so you know. five g. does not necessarily even have a clear business case right now you know while away and it's other you know sister

company in china isn't even have always been you know much more lower cost providers of mobile network infrastructure and i think especially in emerging markets and even in europe where there's a lot of competition more competition than the u.s. you know these are very very critical business concerns and so i think that's why you've seen a lot of back and forth which of the the u.k. does have the cyber security evaluation center where it says it's quite happy being able to manage the security risk of qual way products through through this mechanism cannot be replicated in the u.s. well you know again what none of us know is what the fish rules of the united states government have seen that have given rise to their concern might it be something that is totally fictitious might it be as grave as they are insisting we just don't know and is it possible that what the u.k. says is manageable in the opinion of the united states officials is not i mean the

fact is with all due respect to the u.k. the u.s. has kind of a global reach and i think their judgment in the united states government is. its security apparatus is second to none. you know might it reach the point where the united states can like the u.k. decide all right we can live with weiwei perhaps. but it but it's a concern to the united states because it's got say troops in the u.k. troops in germany where there need to be communication lines and frankly they can't bypass while away as things stand now so that's the concern and again we may not know until this litigation proceeds and there's discovery that both sides have to put their cards on the table presumably in some nonpublic setting so the u.s. government can satisfy a judge look judge we're not making this up here's our basis for telling you why we

have this concern and so far where there has been litigation that while way have kind of pursued the courts have generally been pretty receptive to the united states government position but to say that that might not be in a public setting so we might as consumers never know what the threat to the u.s. is. what i'm saying is when i was a law clerk the top advisor to a the top federal judge in the district of columbia in a case involving state secrets where there had to be nonpublic hearings because. the that was something that the united states government needed to disclose to the judge to persuade him of why their their position in their view. you know took precedence over the opposing party but it's not the kind of thing that you would want to share publicly and so yes at the end of the day like a lot of things having to do with high technology it may well be that the public

doesn't know every single detail alternately will they probably button for purposes of kind of pursuing this litigation maybe not ok and you i mean look at the case of the c.f.o. of one hallway mung one joe and rest in canada and we look at the chinese government's reaction to that that there were counter arrests of canadians in canada i mean that was quite an extreme reaction to monk's arrest and it does only serve doesn't it pays into this narrative that the communist party has high involvement with huawei well i think both china and the united states make it clear that the. rest. of the fungal part way it's got no do. what us is. doing and walk away. from various. solutions

even the lawsuit according to the press conference held. the top leader or making. the laws so there's nothing to do. of the bombers daughter but coming back to the can they here is the question before the canadian courts is whether or not there are similar crimes which under the label exists. also exists in the united states in other words even it was a crime in the united states there must be a law in canada. warning the same crime before the extradition can be a serious look at of course the ultimate really because we have to decide according to the navy and law and even if the course the exhibition's who are here the

attorney general has got to make a part of the solution cost well the process there are many many of the good in these for the appeal so i think the case in canada is likely to drag on for years. and some people say that this is the kind of the illing it's a well wait with this we will be but i think that behind it all is a perception at least in beijing. it is not just a trade war it's not just a cat knowledge of war it's a serious sixty degree pushback against the wiser charter which is seen to be threatening the u.s. prominence in different fields now don't forget china was helped to get in the new deal. is so. years ago with the hope that china will become more like the west where are all of these things this hope has been dashed not only was i going to jump in there andrew mo would you agree with that would they and many people do say that this u.s.

ban is just an attempt to keep the competitive edge of american companies are you know i i'm not quite sure i can i can say that because you know i think one of the things we need to remember here is that a lot of the way and city equipment that is being shipped potentially to places like iran or north korea has a lot of. american components in intel chips qualcomm chips all sorts of things america does not have a wireless radio infrastructure player and so you know bringing down wall is not necessarily propping up any u.s. company and in fact a lot of us chip makers are very important suppliers to while away. so i think of course there are are very large geopolitical issues here that are probably underpinning all of this but there isn't you know i mean the companies like motorola and bell labs and lucent and munich they're all long gone.

so yeah that is a concern but i'm not necessarily sure that it's driving an agenda ok but how should a huawei reassure governments like the u.s. over the concerns that they have well let me just mention one thing just for purpose of your viewers here we're talking about the transparency of the canadian court system and the u.s. court system we there's some hope that this litigation proceeds if wall way is satisfied that it poses no threat it will have to basically prove that i mean i'd say it's government have to prove something quite differently think about what the likelihood is if this was a court case in china. think about that for a second who would have confidence that this would be handled on the up and up that the same level of transparency would obtain in a try nice court if walk away was a litigant as opposed to the united states that's one of the fundamental problems we're kind of talking about systems that are radically different so again to answer

your question i think wall way will have to disclose you know will have to produce documents and have witnesses and subject them to cross-examination in the united states court to basically satisfy a court here that. you know it poses no threat united's government will have to put on the table its evidence to the contrary and then a judge will have to make a determination and ultimately that will be reviewed by a court of appeals and maybe ultimately the supreme court but again that's the value you know that's what the united states why that's why united states has to be preeminent not just on this case but in the world because it's got certain levels of transparency and. you know it's court system is something that is open to everybody i don't think anybody would say that as of now the case of the chinese courts ok well it's certainly going to be a fascinating legal battle hopefully we will as the public be privy to some of it

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products coming up in the next sixty minutes saudi arabia's human rights comes under attack by thirty six countries have demanded the kingdom cooperate with investigations into just. chinese tech giant is the u.s. government for bad and its products. in a surprise move algeria is ailing president praises protesters who turned out against him. against what he calls troublemakers. i'm joined by your sports set a date to formally discuss expanding the twenty twenty two world cup in qatar. thirty six countries including all twenty eight member states of the european union have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record the document was signed of the un human rights council on thursday it calls on the arabia to cooperate with

the un led investigation into the murder of saudi journalist. and to release ten activists jailed in the kingdom. in the strongest possible terms the killing of journalists. took place in its consulate in istanbul the circumstances almost. reaffirm the need to protect journalists. their right to freedom of expression around the world just occasionally to the killing. those responsible must. call up on this post all information available to fully cooperate with all investigations into the killing looting the human rights inquiry by the special report on the spur to execution that the embargo has more from brussels. i think it's fair to say there's a question mark right now about how tough the european union is prepared to be with saudi arabia over its human rights record on thursday at the un human rights

council in geneva all twenty eight e.u. members did sign up to this joint statement not just urging saudi arabia to cooperate fully into the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi but to release a number of women activists who've been detained in recent months some of them had been campaigning for the right to drive which was something one of the reforms which the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin selman was initially praised for and that call was also echoed by michelle bachelet this week saying that she was concerned about what she called arbitrary arrests and detentions so a strong message of solidarity from europe there but here in brussels e.u. home affairs and justice ministers said no formally to a new blacklist drawn up by the european commission of states which is seen as needing to do more to fight money laundering and finance seeing terrorism one of the new names on that proposed list was saudi arabia since then saudi arabia has

made it clear that it was concerned about such a move so has the us because some of its territories like puerto rico were listed and now governments have actually written jested rejected that plan and it's not clear where this goes the e.u. commissioner for justice says she's going to keep fighting for the e.u. to take measures as she puts it with teeth but it's not clear whether there's really an appetite for that among a huge governments let's get more on this now we're joined by john director off human rights watch and he's joining us live from geneva very good to have you with us on alan as they are i know that your organization is calling the famine with a landmark step by the council why is that. it's because the first time that collection of states have joined together at the human rights council to call attention to the human rights situation in saudi arabia the statement that was delivered today on behalf of thirty six countries is quite wide ranging it condemns in the strongest possible terms the the killing of journalist jim out because

already it calls for the release of a number of women's human rights defenders and it also calls for an end to the use of certain laws that are used to target human rights defenders and other critics of the government what this does is put on notice to saudi arabia that these abuses will no longer be ignored and that it be expected to hold international standards and the sufficient why do you think the council is taking the step now has the human rights situation in saudi arabia was sent on the crown prince mohammed bin sad mom i think action is being taken now because there is an accumulation of a number of factors that have caused states finally to stand together and say enough is enough. there's no doubt that the the killing of castro ji shocks the the world conscience as it rightly should and also opened a window into that the gap between the reformist image that the kingdom is seeking to portray with the realities on the ground which include a a brutal intolerance of dissent and a climate of complete impunity i think the the brazenness and brutality of this

killing also triggered or a sense of there was a need for some kind of response and then taken together with the emerging information about the fact that the same women human rights defenders who campaigned for reforms that saudi arabia claims the product of an hour and imprison and being tortured by all accounts i think led to a call for action and is this call for action as this response by the council and now for how much pressure do you think what will it put on saudi arabia and given that the u.s. isn't one of the countries that didn't sign. well the u.s. is not participating in the human rights council the seven was led by iceland a small delegation but one that was very committed and principled in its willingness to draw attention to the situation gradually all the other all the all the e.u. states joined on as it states from other parts of the world to the story

a strong and clear message delivered today the council has three sessions per year and it's clear i think saudi arabia that it won't stop here this is a first step only and and the the pressure i guess is now on saudi arabia to heed that warning message to release the women's human rights defenders to cooperate with inquiries into codes killing and also to implement meaningful and genuine reforms if that does not happen then we can expect that at the june session of the council the special operator on x. usually executions as wants or an inquiry into the tragic because reggie's death and should be visiting presenting the report to the joint session so that will be more scrutiny and unwelcome attention to saudi arabia in june and then in yemen a group of experts are and september a group of experts on human will be looking into very carefully then as to how to thank you very much for your time on this we really appreciated that as human rights watch as john fisher live engine eva thank you. as then on to other news now chinese telecom giant huawei is taking the u.s. to court for the ban on government agencies using its technology the u.s.

considers follies products a security threat and says china can use its equipment for spying a china cost font and adrian brown reports from shenzhen from the air while way success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone of show and jane. while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we have there is no us. challenge to. these men

only. but also owes are we and us she said once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. it has carried our service and this story a year now since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely 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 it smartphones the firm insists it had nothing to do with it. well way 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 weiwei is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat 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 shen jan. now earlier we spoke to john biggs his reporter at tech crunch and he says holway has become a political soft ball between america and china. it's not clear that there's a that there's evidence of actual spying. if almost every piece of hardware that we

own could be used for spying doesn't matter who makes it the big issue here is that this has become sort of a political softball that folks are throwing back and forth china saying that they're being an untrue unfairly treated and the u.s. is saying that these things are dangerous is the technology actually dangerous absolutely not it's there's these these back doors would have been caught long before anybody anybody. has been affected but the real question is here where is the hardware going to come from if a stock to come from. there's there's been some suggestion that some of the wall wait chipsets are are potentially exploitable and open and that some of the some of the data could be going to the chinese government there hasn't been any absolute proof of that. just as there have been assessments over the past few months that

other sorts of chipsets are actually leaking information as well back to like a mothership i guess you could say. i think this is sensitive political posturing on both sides while way knows that it needs the u.s. as a really big market but in many cases the u.s. wants to start building its own stuff which is almost impossible as well at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack of the west in kabul rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering of the afghan capital eisel has claimed responsibility there is politicians were at the event including presidential candidates but july's upcoming election shot benefits mall from kabul. eisel has claimed responsibility for this attack in western kabul unfortunately it is not a surprise because they have targeted this community the shia minority the czar's they have targeted the many times in this area especially over the last year and dozens have been killed in this this gathering today of more than a thousand.