two arteries had to seek refuge at the italian embassy and another one is hiding at the argentine embassy. that. the government is accusing them of treason and rebellion but has provided no proof here. but it's not just lawmakers the government is going after this is a video from april thirtieth and involved members of the volley varian national guard that the government believes sided with opposition leader one attempted insurrection. can be seen in the video he doesn't know where his son niece. i don't even know what he was doing there i was told he was detained i know there is an investigation going on but i don't know where they have him or where he is. is demanding the government releases those detained he says the government is the one who is not respecting the rule of law in venezuela. the government wants to talk about

a coup but the real coup is here but it's maddening of the rule of law with the constant attacks against the only legitimate body in the national assembly that is why there is a crisis and they can show the people results that will impact their lives in the. human rights groups say that with the current situation in the country it is difficult any of those detained will stand a fair trial i mean. we know there are reports of plunder stine detention centers they are not in regular prisons and prosecutors are not demanding that those in prison see a judge within forty eight hours of being detained people are being abandoned with nowhere to turn. and zero say there are almost eight hundred political prisoners in venezuela today prisoners whose future is uncertain so long as the institutions are controlled by the government they said well. still ahead on al jazeera pope francis issues a new law forcing all. to report sex abuse and cover ups within the catholic church

and why survivors say it still has a long way to go. how i've got plenty of sunshine across southeast asia quite a rash of shall is dishonest well picked out into job one hundred millimeters the frame here in twenty four hours on this little line of storms and it has produced some flooding issues across parts of the region not too far away from jakarta go on through the next couple of days things should turn a little quasi here the wetter weather the rather more lively showers there pushing a little further north for smart for into the malay peninsula back up towards thailand's expect to see some rather wet weather here a sticky thirty three for bangkok thirty three as well for manila some cloud and

rain are rolling in here from time to time although sunday does look a little dry so if you show them to northern parts of indonesia the wetter weather will be across malaysia and i would say some rather wet weather into the southeast of australia welcome rainfall coming through could see if this band of cloud and rain is a weather system which is pushing through colorado just talking in behind it as it's made its way across melbourne pretty quiet day here and she can see in the the show as we are now in the process of easing away but some rather nasty conditions for a time sixteen celsius in melbourne on saturday afternoon as we go on into sunday it's brighter. for all. the subject of more than half a dozen investigation. from. one on one investigate how the nation's coffers were.

the top stories on al-jazeera the united states has ramped up its trade war with china by more than doubling tariffs on chinese imports china to respond with similar countermeasures and a second day of trade talks between the world's top two economies are due in washington. japan is accusing north korea of violating un resolutions with its

latest missile test the second weapons test within a week north korean state media showed at least one missile being launched on thursday tension has risen following the phil denuclearization summit in february. and with nearly eighty percent of votes counted in the lead to win south africa's general election it's one about fifty seven percent of the ballots well ahead of the opposition democratic alliance official results are expected on saturday. the deputy head of iran's revolutionary guard has said to her will not hold talks with the u.s. and dismiss threats of military action by the u.s. on thursday the president donald trump urged the iranian leadership to call them up and strike a deal on its nuclear program. their economy is a mess ever since they took the way the iran deal they have inflation that's the highest number of ever heard they having riots every weekend and during the week even and what they should be doing is calling me up sitting down we can make

a deal a fair deal we just don't want to have nuclear weapons not too much to ask and we would help put them back into great shape they're in bad shape right now i look forward to where we can actually help iran lead looking to her to run i want them to be strong and great and have a great economy and a group of b. fifty two bombers sent by the us to counter what it calls a credible threat from iran have now landed at an american air base in qatar its aircraft carrier the u.s.s. abraham lincoln is also heading towards the persian gulf washington announced their deployment days before iran rolled back some of its commitments under the twenty fifty nuclear agreements samus ravi reports from to her on. within the last twenty four hours a fleet of american warships has gone through the sways canal into the red sea and is getting closer and closer to iranian waters to iranian sure the sea but iran's armed forces has been relatively reserved in any sort of show of force or talk of

force in response to what is a clear american move against iranian security iranian borders even the supreme leader himself i'll tell the only company has been silent on all matters with regards to the united states since president hussen refining made a statement made an announcement that iran would begin to lessen its cooperation with the twenty fifty nuclear deal but the supreme leader is thoughts on the matter his feelings on the issues are likely to be made known here at the weekly friday prayer sermon the government has also called for an anti american demonstration a protest to follow the prayers this week it's all fairly standard but it comes as the chances of an open conflict between the united states and iran are higher than they've been in recent memory any time in the past many weeks and months and it's not just american military hardware moving closer and closer towards iran that has

people worried iranians are worried that the rhetoric by hawks in washington and people that are part of the white house of u.s. president donald trump senior members of his government who have been making very hawkish comments towards iran iranian people are worried that the prospect of a war with america is a real possibility now more than ever now iranian leaders have tried to assure their people that they're doing everything they can to avoid a conflict to move forward a direct war with the united states but in a speech earlier this month supreme leader ayatollah khamenei did tell his people that the united states has a past record of the stable. at least four people have been killed. in a suicide bombing in iraq's capital. baghdad district

predominantly populated by. friends and colleagues of murder journalist. targets of the saudi government the report by time magazine says three people have been given security briefings in recent weeks. living in norway. a third person is in the united states but to be named security services warned they may be targeted for continuing calls for reform in saudi arabia. and hundreds of protesters have tried to stop the transfer of french weapons to saudi arabia the demonstrations were organized by rights groups following an investigation that says french weapons have been used against civilians and residents of money under increasing pressure to review. the un security council held an informal meeting on the continuing growth of illegal israeli settlements member

states say that building on palestinian land. violates un resolutions the palestinian. he says the current u.s. policies aren't helping the stalled peace process our diplomatic editor. from the un. the meeting was organized by indonesia the current president of the security council but because it was a controversial subject israeli settlements in the west bank this wasn't a formal meeting of the council instead an informal meeting to which all security council members were invited surprising then that the u.s. special representative jason green blatt one of the architects of the trump peace plan due to be presented soon came here in person to the meeting he presented a case that was very supportive of israel we hope to prevent our vision soon and in the meantime we will continue to speak the truth even when it is not welcome the

truth is that israel just days ago came under a vicious cynical unprovoked attack that was intended to terrify kill and maim israelis the truth is that there has been no effort in the halls of the united nations to hold the terrorists who perpetrated that attack accountable also the meeting the palestinian foreign minister riyadh. he said the forthcoming plan looked to him more like a surrender plan for the palestinians at the end of the meeting i asked him whether he was any more upbeat about the forthcoming proposals having heard him again speak today mr foreign minister does it give you any hope for this cloud absolutely not i'm really disappointed with that to be know it does you'll know what to expect if at any time in the in the future there will they would release. a plan but you know it's very clear that you know it's. his thinking you know his his mind is

set to be exclusively on the palestinian peace and the logic as he left the meeting special representative green blatt was taking no questions from reporters he would give no more details about the timing of the release of the peace. something the president has called the deal of the century other than to say it would come soon the latest march of return protesters expected in gaza demonstrators have been at the border friends every friday for more than a year israeli forces have killed hundreds of palestinians demanding the return of their land and many wounded palestinians have needed arm and leg amputation and some are queuing for a treatment at a new artificial limb hospital the name has the story. jaime's food you is what you might call a wounded veteran of the march of return protests in gaza on

a friday last august he was shot in the left leg came one of the growing number of protest amputees i was out there i'm not disabled being disabled is a state of mind i believe if my mind is disabled i'm disabled but if i lose a part of my body i'm not disabled and the food you is one of twenty people who will soon be fitted for a state of the art prosthetic leg at the newly opened how mad hospital for rehabilitation and artificial limbs there are already forty people on the waiting list the executive director of the hospital says there are six thousand eight hundred amputees living in gaza since the march of return protests began last year one hundred thirty six people mostly young men have lost their limbs. patients can now get free treatment at the qatari funded hospital it's the first

public rehabilitation facility in the gaza strip. the a.t.m. is to provide more advanced prosthetics and treatment programs that are currently available but given the land sea and air blockade it posed by israel and egypt since two thousand and seven there are many obstacles to overcome. sometimes also a bit too into goes the three because of for some but it's a good on some security issues that's why it'll take time for the one hundred bed hospital to be fully operational. but is hoping by the one year anniversary of his amputation he'll have a second leg again. my life will change after i get a prosthetic leg and i can walk up and down the stairs to my fourth floor apartment

drive a car ride a motorcycle and go outside without crutches. losing his leg hasn't deterred food from attending the protests each friday he goes he says all palestinians must make sacrifices in their fight for a return to the land they once called home and for a life better than the one they have now under siege natasha going to name. the gaza strip. police in northern ireland have arrested four people in connection with the death of a journalist twenty nine year old lyra mchugh was killed during rioting in london derry last month the texans rated four houses in the city and the suspects have been taken into custody under terror legislation the new ira dissident republican faction says one of its members accidentally shot while opening fire on police. pope francis has issued a new law requiring all catholic priests and nuns around the world to report sexual

abuse and cover ups abuse survivors say it's a step forward but are questioning why crimes still don't have to be reported to police. reports. as head of the catholic church pope francis is a guide for one point two billion people in an institution that governs among many things morality but how to lead in an age where the moral compass of the church appears to have been broken by the torrent of sex abuse scandals perpetrated by clerics in positions of power it has caused devastating shadow over the papacy and with the church in deep crisis the latest lord to create by francis shined more light on how clerics should deal with cases of sexual abuse but the vatican's top sexual crimes investigator gave little indication on the penalties that could be faced universe. factoring diversity of cultures. you know give to strict because otherwise it will be inoperative you need something.

flexible enough to work there are one million priests and nuns in the roman catholic church all of the must now report any cases of sexual abuse to church to paris and any coverups even in countries where the law does not oblige them to do so it follows this year's summit on the issue as well as several high profile scandals such as the conviction of george pell the straight years highest ranking catholic now serving a six year sentence for sexually abusing two choir boys in a melbourne cathedral with a chilling cardinals accused and discreet as they covered up reports of child sexual abuse going back decades the victims of abuse vatican justice still has a long way to go. it's the church once again saying that they are going to investigate these allegations and these crimes they are going to investigate them

so i'm afraid that isn't good enough that's what's avoids and victims have been shouting for for years is that we cannot trust the church we cannot trust the officials to police themselves and even with a new system in place there is still no requirement to report these crimes to civil authorities a gaping hole in the system that has already failed so many victims of clerical sex abuse. al-jazeera have much more coverage on this story on our web site al-jazeera dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the united states has ramped up its trade war with china by more than doubling tariffs on chinese imports china is vowing to respond with similar countermeasures a second day of trade talks between the world's top two economies are due in washington and the chinese former president of interpol has been formally charged

and will face trial for corruption in chinese prosecutors accuse of abuse of power and taking bribes mang who became interpol's chief in twenty sixteen disappeared in september while on a visit to china beijing later confirmed he had been detained on suspicion of corruption japan is accusing north korea of violating un resolutions with its latest missile test the second weapons test within a week north korean state media showed at least one being launched on thursday tension has risen following the failed denuclearization summit in february. the deputy head of iran's revolutionary guard has said to her on will not hold talks with the u.s. and dismiss threats of military action by the u.s. on thursday president donald trump urged the iranian leadership to call them up and strike a deal on its nuclear program their economy is a mess ever since they took away the iran deal they have inflation that's the

highest number ever heard. they're having riots every weekend and during the week even and what they should be doing is calling me up sitting down we can make a deal a fair deal we just don't want to have nuclear weapons not too much to ask and we want to help put them back into great shape they're in bad shape right now i look forward to where we can actually help iran will never look at herat i want them to be strong and great and have a great economy and a group of fifty two bombers some by the u.s. to counter what it calls a credible threat from iran have now landed at an american air base in qatar and its aircraft carrier the u.s.s. abraham lincoln is also heading towards the persian gulf washington announced their deployment days before iran rolled back some of its commitments under the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement with nearly eighty percent votes counted the a.n.c. is in the lead to win south africa's general election it's want to about fifty seven percent of the ballots well ahead of the opposition democratic alliance

official results are expected on saturday those are the headlines one is up next. and struggling to pay their rent the problem isn't just limited to the cities. of governor of the bank has cost the country. we bring you the stories the economic. cost on al-jazeera. hollywood blockbuster decadent party and super yachts the malaysian people who are defrauded on the scale billions of dollars stolen from malaysia's sovereign wealth fund. corruption of the former prime minister sack and his wife. and investigates how key institutions were rendered powerless the nation's coffers. we're rolled up to.

nice that we say. and then face. and everything goes. it's only twenty fifteen and malaysia is internationally celebrated cartoonist zoon r. is still launching his fans with scathing sketches of the extravagance of the then prime minister and his wife what should we have of the. great. britain let's hear it how much you spend public money to fly a private jet or how much is the public money for you hey. you know what in the was a. little sister. but it's

a dangerous business soon as our home by ill unknown lists the nine criminal charges for his cartoons all dossier for the government well it was. like many others who dared to criticize the government at that time he was branded an enemy of the state and faced the daunting prospect of forty three years behind. the deal ben my boo. read it several binds the confiscate that my growing did destroy my exhibition and impose a travel ban on. people keep asking what do you do or normal as in oh i need to produce and it will expose corruption and this is a release and it would be for me i said this is a duty with beauty of cockiness. in may lie.

xenu was finally vindicated by. the footage of the people. after being rude for more than sixty years by the same party malaysians voted out prime minister. and his were oppressive and corrupt government. when finally we achieved the victory for good people because i'm and very happy i couldn't sleep for two days tonight because it is so very very happy to achieve this. soon as work documents know almost decade long rule greed and the alleged billions of dollars stolen from the country sovereign will found one in d.b. are a constant thing as is the former prime minister's wife roles. she's the most powerful person in melissa. there's no secret. it's all secret she's involved but

she's a godsend to me as a cartoonist. because they can use her to open up people's eyes about corruption so. that they her two seasons. in soon as world star wars becomes the steel wars. you see this is mary until it she she loves her diamond and made a mark or snowshoes trysts mugabi left hand back where she live shows diamond head and everything everything. it's been a dramatic fool for the power couple banned from leaving the country police raids on their family home seized almost thirty million dollars in cash and more than two hundred forty million dollars worth of luxury goods and jewelry the most expensive

piece valued at one point. five million dollars. in. jewelry and. mr know the area. and i saw this mr place deca say. in an exclusive interview with one o one east last october the former prime minister claims none know were ill gotten gains for. a lot of gifts from government there were there were there were gifts given you know by friends including. our in-laws and so forth you know i had no intention of using some of the expensive gifts given to me or for the government no intention i want to keep them so that one day i'll put it in a museum. but his defense is dismissed by malaysian businessman deepak j. christian once

a close friend and business associate rolls maher you know she's just plain greedy she wants it all. the diamonds especially the expensive price the spaces. of keeping money. easy for her to siphon off. the money and to keep interest simple place they've never imagined it will lose the election every magine the police will greet the house deepak says local business people lavished rosemont with jewelry in return for lucrative development contracts i'm not only one to many business men. or would the world would come and visit her in the house every day. and if we have a certain translation business translation going on we are all smiled at point she would come to the house and shall introduce us to destroy you that just. not much two million us. can you please me. sure he gets the money by friday.

so our job was to ensure that we send the money to do that with your own money yes of course it's a lot of money believe me you have a billion dollar deal with her she's given you a major concession what the hell. what's a few million between friends you know me. the most of the time and was in the house and he says no she was aware of the transactions he is party to everything in or sometimes even comes in cease to pieces yet my ears there he looks a little bit shocked when they see it's three million us for this particular seven carat being diamond but he doesn't see it or by. his fellow veil everything. and it wasn't just jewelry the businessman says he bores to ingratiate himself with the couple i have given the substantial amount of cash. properties

cars and all these were given to do it in malaysia or in the u.k. i bought bentley francs. for that in. the house in malaysia which was registered under me more that would not give credit at the as it. was part of the gratification. is when a friend eventually deepak says he found himself in twined in the couple's own business dealings i became good proxy invidious property dealings longing to the government i was fast with purchasing the property and this property was then flipped in a couple of months to different institutions organizations sometimes i really do another government agency of hospital profit all right so they were purchasing these property and then resell it easily and making money out of. that in gross

mice in. yes to business woman it's very difficult for her because as but mr prime minister and any property that she has identified it's always hers it went to a point where every project at the truth or. any cabinet minister or the fight. start again so was just. you could say she's the de facto prime minister. and it seems from de pacs account i didn't even trust her house but i was basically have confidence. there were many things that. i had to be done including. taking documents from government offices. for her to check on her husband. so that she knew exactly how many contracts were awarded. she won. every single.

might not be as dissipated as the harry potter books but the biography of last month so according to rosemary's authorized biography who very expensive collection of jewelry came courtesy of official guests. living. in war james lee state governments and leading business figure is not only spent up big on her biography they also indulge her singing ambition. over money co-sponsored by a subsidiary of the national petroleum company. but today rosemary faces nineteen charges for money laundering and tax evasion as well as soliciting more than forty five million dollars in bribes for a government contract. but it's the world's biggest financial scandal. that.

faces more than forty criminal charges from money laundering to abuse of the majority. misappropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars. and questions. about the role of his wife. son from a previous marriage was a close friend of joel the now fugitive malaysian financier an alleged mastermind behind the full point five billion dollar heist raiser is it is allegedly received almost two hundred forty million dollars of one name d.b. money. and according to the united states department of justice used it to produce the hollywood blockbuster movie wolf street and to buy tens of millions

of dollars worth of realestate. different life but no one will benefit more. now did send it in getting. the one who. so you consider you know that from that also we know that. she is very painful for something that seemingly didn't go on no interest by joel. famous for levy parties private jets under two hundred fifty million dollars super yacht. allegedly laundered more than one billion dollars of one money buying luxury real estate famous artworks and jewelry not only for supermodels but also for roles. from. the whereabouts of a pink diamond worth twenty seven million dollars. which the united states justice

department alleges jolo boards for rolls is unknown. but the former prime minister insists it was a gift from the brother of the crown prince of the united arab emirates but your wife met with joel the jeweler she knew it was a gift from him no no no no joy nor present that this as a career from sheer month so ok there's a culture in the middle east that expensive presents are given he's a master liar he's lied about every single matter. once again deepak dismisses the former prime minister's defense but this time goes on to accuse him of lying about something even more sinister than corruption covering up a mood on. the war he lied that he never met.

also in two years sure of who was a young mongolian translation in two thousand and six she was shot dead on the outskirts of kuala lumpur then blown to smithereens with military grade explosives knology it was then defense minister and she'd had an affair with his close confidant an advisor. to ministerial bodyguards were convicted of her murder but no motive was ever established. warm the u.c. in this war only can be accessed so in the ministry of defense. those who kill mongolian lady sit openly in court they didn't know. this not a question of who killed them the more important question is who gave the insertion for those bulls this guy who didn't even know the victim. you see this is are the.

this is a this somebody alton to you is suspected of being murdered because she wanted five hundred thousand dollars promised from an allegedly corrupt submarine deal the deal was signed off on my knowledge you resign. one hundred eleven. million you will as a. well a very sensitive issue in malaysia. and still is for the former prime minister there's no charette of evidence i thought clearly totally innocent of gun to your case absolutely he's never been charged over the mood but the big question it is why did he allegedly tried to prefer that the courts of justice. in two thousand and nine a private investigator who was one of the last to see old into your alive kind

forward with a statutory declaration implicating knowledge in her mood. he scramble when to force statutory declaration was issued and sent his brother in the date off the night to meet the person. and signed a first. to reverse wife. that's in short piece involvement in the case they snore reason for him. if he was not involved in the murder. deepak says knowledge even rosemont directed him to take the private investigator known as bella to meet younger brother are not see him according to deepak threats were made against bella and his family leaving him no choice but to change the statutory declaration to clear knowledge of. the next morning

a bell and his family were. out of the country that the muslim had given him money when he left it was part of the arrangement. leaving militia enough money for him to leave deepak saying is knowledge you then got him and others to facilitate pile humans to ballarat it see there was even a deputy minister in morphine already needing payments to by law in their world he won something. why did your brother get involved with forcing ballard to change his statutory glamorization make you are not are you was he making a while and baseless education but he well you didn't really want to read it all over a shortened setting so i mean it has a fair we are going to jude introduced her home or would i think oh no she was owed money she was promised from a corrupt almighty god some real deal i have no knowledge of i have not met her. bella died suddenly of a heart attack in twenty thirty his wife launched legal action against rules my

knowledge of his brothers and deepak for loss of income during the time her family was forced to leave. by this time deepak had severed ties with rolls mara najib but the court case thrust him back into their way with me and he says he was forced to use their lawyer and file false defense statements exonerating them i have been literally held at ransom by and he's emissaries made not to testify against him not to give testimony not to give not to sign affidavits against him in court every time i turn we need to be a lawyer he would bring up a met and sit. with taking action against you the income tax department is winding you up right now. the bank is calling on.

claims one of knowledge. went to extraordinary lengths to make sure he'd never take the stand. i tell you what. my friend said. that you already. see that you need to be admitted and you cannot cross-examination coming friday. businessmen. defending. charges and has himself been charged with counts of money laundering and tax evasion. i worked in the water he came up with a medical report. didn't like the medical report edited it instructed the doctor change it and medical report. and

finally came deepak béla moment he was told to leave the country exactly the same situation as he always is no no no no. one day after the court case. i to go i don't have a choice take his destruction or be destroyed. i'm a businessman i've got a liability so i've said i cannot afford. his brother his wife rosemary i know you. have not responded to one no one east regarding the allegations made by deepak in this programme. but dallas wife has commenced contempt proceedings against. and deepak has loads to police reports and documenting what he alleges happened to him and he's suing now shipping rules for millions he says he's owed from cancelled contracts. they destroyed me financially and there was no way

anybody could go against them and it seems that was the case when it came to the alleged stealing of one m.t.b. families from two thousand and nine to twenty fourteen hundreds of millions of dollars of one m. d. be money allegedly flowed in and out of the then prime minister knowledge you were zach's personal bank account no no no he claims he believes the transfers were donations from the saudi royal family are you going to inform the central bank of malaysia but there was no. indication there was any concern in fact begging to go to approve the funds that came in and approve the funds that went back out so i assume everything was fine. but the attorney general at the time had a different view in july twenty fifth day just as he was reportedly preparing to challenge najib over crimes related to the misappropriation of one m.t.b.

firms he was removed from the position i'm out of power that i was i had to be able to dismiss the attorney general at the at will lead to the situation. lawyer lim chiwetel was on the review panel of malaysia's. anticorruption committee or am i c c he says the new attorney general knowledge appointed refused to cooperate with international investigations into the laundering of one m.t.b. fum the new agey despite repeated requests by him and c c did not issue which a legal assistance requests to foreign teams to his excuse was that there was ongoing police investigations malaysia as a lawyer i certainly don't subscribe to that excuse what do you say to people who say that you put that attorney general there so that you could control him so that

you could cover up the corruption that was happening early in one empty reject totally because i'm on record i've made. many statements to say that anyone. who has done some wrongdoing. will be held accountable no one is above the law we should know then that in general to look at the investigation papers in a professional manner and do what is right and what would have been right. now things of it transpired the right thing to do would be actually to prosecute. gee we says members of the review panel came under enormous pressure when they called for approved into the prime minister's bank account i understand phone calls were made some amount of persuasion would have been applied through the phone calls and i guess it was the power of the prime minister that was coming to bear on your review panel yes one can say that. at the end of all.

none of us had our extended and this we contrasted to then the general going public to say that then primary cement did not commit any wrongdoing then the attorney general didn't. respond to one zero one east on these matches i think we have to live a lesson from what has happened in the past and that is concentration of pollen and create and abuse. and i think it's rather ironic that didn't go to the heart they. currently are some of the prime minister is seeking to stall by institutional checks and balances which he is all for by mr as we could decide is for he could be office. when. there came a first time early eighty's then he change. variations system. where people bill you with us thought that the bill you money out today is no more

but your principle is no more but what it is no more but credibility it's no more. back in the studios zuni continues the fight. he believes if malaysia is to avoid another corruption scandal it needs a culture revolution will come to corruption in malaysia corruption in this is a billion isn't how many countries allowed to be billion. politicians and said when they are put up they listen to belinda people why you are allowed to four up so much. in listen up people have let it be you i can get benefit from me this is the character that destroyed many day so i even. know we got a new government de mint and it is there that. the mint and. it's

a mentality not exclusive to malaysia as a country's justice system prosecutes knows even more than a handful of there in a circle the international banking system and regulatory authorities must also take responsibility for the role the. player in the world. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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latest missile test south korea says it's a message to donald trump. the new hospital. hope to dozens of palestinians who. during the months of return protests. over sport. but as a dramatic when for chelsea gives english pubs all four places in both of football's major european finals. this could have a company on the news are hours after the us has more than doubled tariffs on many chinese goods beijing is calling on washington to meet it half way more talks are scheduled for friday duty's on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports have increased from ten to twenty five percent china's commerce ministry says it regrets washington's decision and vows to respond with similar countermeasures the

new twenty five percent tariff applies to a wide range of products from chemicals and process foods to electronics that fall under five thousand seven hundred categories but those that left chinese ports before the four g.m.t. deadline will still be subject to the original ten percent duty the i.t. industry took the biggest hit more than twenty billion dollars worth of internet modems and routers and twelve billion dollars worth of printed circuit boards will now become more expensive furniture lighting products auto parts vacuum cleaners and building materials are also high on a list of imports subject to higher duties. as the talks continued in washington the top negotiator for the chinese side said a terrifying doesn't serve the interests of either nation or. i've come here in good faith given the current particular circumstances i want to reasonably and

frankly exchange opinions with the u.s. side but china believes given the current circumstances adding further tariffs is not a good way to solve any problems it's not favorable for china nor is it favorable for the us nor is it favorable for the world so our way out of this whole thing is a principled solution to realistic problems which finally points in the direction of the only result of cooperation or for the says cross over to our china correspondent andrew brown pardon me who's in beijing adrian it will be interesting to see what these so-called counter measures from china will be. yes that hasn't been disclosed but china has as you've said warned of countermeasures saying they have no option but to do that now one sad news is released it will be conveyed via their website of the chinese commerce ministry but friday has really felt what a cold war is like this was supposed to be the week remember that china and the

united states were going to sign a deal that would finally bring about an illusive end to their trade disagreement that hasn't happened this was supposed to be the series finale to the trade wars this is not going to happen now in the end president front made good on his promise to raise tariffs on more than two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods and more importantly he's also warning that he's now preparing paperwork to impose tariffs on three hundred twenty five billion dollars worth of chinese goods that means that potentially everything that china exports to the united states will be subject to terrorists now up until now importers an export is in china and the united states will be able to insulate consumers from those lower tariffs but it's going to be very hard for them not to pass on an increase when those new terrorists are twenty five percent and as china is warning it is going to rectally it's going

to directly impact on consumers in the united states china meanwhile is saying that it wants to you know reach an agreement with the united states but it's not prepared to reach an agreement in the face of continued threats and it's also warning that it's made all the concessions that it's so far is able to and has china's leaders know this is going to be a very critical year for their economy. it was just after midday beijing time the china and united states moved closer to a full blown trade war not that many people seem to notice in this busy beijing market shoppers. as we spoke to say the trade war hasn't so far affected what they find but it has affected the way some now think about the united states and nationalist sentiment is building it in vegas it isn't going to it is the america's normal practice to bully others how to money countries always do this but but what

can tell you when we get strong enough america will not even think about bombing us he's referring to what happened twenty years ago this week when u.s. missiles struck china's belgrade embassy during nato's bombardment of yugoslavia killing three chinese journalists nato called it an accident china called it an act of war and still does here in china it's a year of political and emotionally charged anniversaries the most important one falls in october when people mark seventy years since the foundation of the people's republic a year in which china's leader has to appear strong especially over trade if you don't agree. with what you were china knows what it's like to be on the losing side in a real trade all in the mid nineteenth century it lost two to britain which was trying to force china to buy opium a humiliating episode of chinese history and one to which president xi jinping

often refers to today the trade war with the united states is one more concern in a critical year at the economic expectational is that the con is going to be very weak there's financial risks from her risks are rising and the housing market is not particular strong either so what we're looking at is a fragile economy and a very difficult situation from the outside they've been dismantling the old u.s. embassy in beijing it's diplomats moved to a vast complex on the other side of the city years ago but this. sweet of all weeks chinese workmen began knocking down the old building a fitting metaphor perhaps for the state of sinaloa u.s. relations. adrian i mean how nervous are the chinese government about more terrorists because they can't be seen to be capitulating to washington d.c. . that's right as you saw in my report running down the

economists from the economist magazine basically saying that china's economy is continuing to slow and that's a real concern for china's leaders and also you know it's hard to keep track of all the points of friction between china and the united states right now the south china sea taiwan weiwei iran and now trade and trade really is at the core of the friction between china and the united states it seems that in these talks the sticking point has been china's refusal to essentially change the entire way it conducts its economy how it manages its industry here the united states wants china to end the huge subsidies it gives to its big state owned enterprises that are involved in what use might say are technologies of the future things like artificial intelligence and robotics and more significantly china has bought to the suggestion that it introduced new laws that would ensure that it effectively

polices whatever's agreed in washington if indeed they're able to make an agreement so we're back now to a situation where everything rests on what happens on friday i hesitate to say these are crunch talks because i've been saying that for more than a year but this really is a defining moment in the relationship between china and the united states it is a bad relationship but it's just got i think a lot worse or to see what happens for the moment adrian thank you for joining us from beijing let's cross over to lancaster university and marty is joining me he's an international economist there and joins me on out is there a welcome to the program sir how much of a crunch moment is it as adrian mentioned just then for both washington and for. beijing it seems that we're at a sort of a moment of brinkmanship really when it comes to trade talks. well i agree with the previous person and i'm not sure these are crunch thoughts i'm not sure in

other words of a true negotiating teams are sitting in on truth in washington can do much. later in this situation to a level where i think there must be a frank n.y. the ranging conversation between the two presidents to bring passive because the two negotiators then they always have to report back to them and then all of this and then can come up with a tweet out of it completely changes their strategy so crunch talks today possibly possibly not and how of course we don't know everything that they will be able to say or how much of it in committee on what we've seen those leaders both media in the u.s. and in china so beyond that if we look at for example the financial markets and if there are anything to go by what we've seen certainly on friday a mixed reaction to the news about those tariffs that were being imposed the the u.s. stocks went slightly down asia held its own mainly in china and in the hong kong markets so what is that telling us what message is that sending out certainly to

the markets who decide on the investment strategy that they need for both the u.s. and china long term. well but here there are two issues to think about of the long term as you mention and the immediate effect that the fact that the markets have not moved or are not moving much today is because the trumpet tweet has already taken some effects from a few days and the long term strategies are not going to decide that today or even next week in terms of longer term strategies not even clear out much anyone can believe what their present entropy is saying because he can change his mind at any time so i will not get into too much into whichever of level of fluctuations we seen the stock market or in the exchange rates of today. are ever going in place there and they're going to stay there for a little bit except the three that is these are famed or in famous phone call between trump and the chinese counterpart are but we have no indication of that's

going to take place today or during the weekend. and of course what we're seeing that both sides if they do reach an agreement by friday which is hardly good likely come those targets be reversed as quickly as they've been imposed or do we have to wait a certain amount of time. not the third of squid would be very very quickly then there may be some transitional effect or for the good of everybody transiting in the oceans or for example under which regimes they are but at technically decorum be removed they're very likely quickly if the united states are so weak there because it is a matter of fact it is a union at that our decision to impose them as we have seen there recently and it will be you need out of this season if and when it will come over the mobile will be reversed sonority thanks so much for joining us from lancaster university in the northwest of england. the chinese former president of interpol has been formally charged on wolf.