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is in fact independent from the government of qatar what would the impact of a far registration be well in the case of r.t. they saw their credentials suspended in some cases they weren't allowed into events so what this campaign apparently did was they had a slick produced video while according to the quote again from bloomberg and they had a videotape they opened a laptop played a slickly produced video showed al jazeera giving airtime to terrorist groups the video this trump official told bloomberg was bizarre with dramatic music and urgent sounding voice overs trying to convince the trump administration members of congress to make al-jazeera register as agents of a foreign government obviously al-jazeera maintains its own independence from the qatari government and believes it doesn't need to register as agents of a foreign government. in the news ahead snobs are entering a decades long conflict with their a tray of ethiopia as prime minister made wins this year's nobel peace prize and request denied the 4 months south african president jacob zuma thank you to have
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his corruption charges brought up. and though there is a mostly clear and calm picture across much of the middle east now there is some cloud on the way it is streaming through turkey pushing across the black sea and eventually work its way own tools of caspian sea this is where we could see some showers picking up all that moisture and that could actually bring want to do showers across and tobacco quite a bit has strained right the way into will central areas of iraq time which is still there around 40 celsius the next couple days in baghdad but it will be cooling off into northern iran so $25.00 and to run with the chance of those showers and farther to the south the temperatures have been steadily coming down in the mid thirty's now widely across much of the region south of a revolt 36 in doha and riyadh and about the same as we head into sunday remember
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these temperatures off of the shade so still a holes for the woman if you are in the sunshine and then down into southern africa wanted to pull across and eastern areas of madagascar and also tons of near becoming to the wise but of course into and go into and also we'll see the showers working their way through southern sections of south africa and pushing up the east and as well so from 28 to 23 and when that does come with a chance of showers and sunny skies on that in cape town with a high of 24. which traces are going to be. let's go say that no child to me looks like we bring you the stories and developments the dramatically changing the living want to look into the lives of piracy. counting the cost on our just.
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top stories this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. is sending thousands more troops to saudi arabia it had already sent hundreds earlier this summer as tension with iran and elsewhere in the region increased but now the pentagon has confirmed the deployment of 3000 troops u.s. defense secretary also said america has not abandoning its kurdish allies in syria that's after at least 26 civilians were killed when turkish forces pushed deeper
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into syria that number comes from the syrian observatory for human rights turkey's military says more than 300 fighters have been captured or killed while the kurds are 29 of their fights are dead. and iran says 2 missile struck an iranian oil tanker off the coast of saudi arabia and it's been described as a dangerous adventure by the iranians the foreign minister saying these to be the was attacked and set on fire in the red sea but the crew is reported safe. more on our top story now the u.s. sending those $3000.00 extra troops into saudi arabia we've got john mccrone with us middle east analyst and fellow at the arab center at washington d.c. joe thanks for your time i find the timing of this to be interesting because things have kind of cool a little bit between the united states and iran certainly they're not hurling insults and threats at each other at the moment and now a very substantial increase. yes i think it's linked to what
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happened to the iranian oil thing this today. my my my assessment is maybe there's a risk that maybe saudi arabia is behind it or maybe iran will suspect that's all there is behind it a little sort of rush somehow to deter any possible potential iranian. retaliation this is the 1st one the 2nd point this has the stamp of general mckinsey he's the head of the centcom he's now the rising star he's very much been very much believe in cruising u.s. troops in the middle east as of interest to iran not as a as a combative mode he tried last may. last june actually to send in addition 6000 troops the white house pushed back they only sent 1000 so now he sees an opportunity to make the centcom at the center of the national security strategy of the of the of the united states so he wants to basically prevent any shift of resources also to russia or iran so now maybe he's an opportunity basically to.
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make sure the story that he ation and the 3rd point is actually incoherent you know if you want to is wrong the troops from syria and then you said another 2000. to 2 saudi arabia out of the the gulf it sends a mixed message a message to the slow really coherent u.s. foreign policy and i would suspect this could only be the start as well i noticed the defense secretary used words like operation the flexible and that he wants to move in an unpredictable fashion in other words maybe expect more to go. i don't think more to go because they usually send them in phases if they sent 2000 no i'm not sure but they want to have flexibility it means depending on how when the risk is we will be the navy couldn't sent was short said no anything at this point so they were able to deploy faster than this so they need some political seats to move around depending where the attack is or depending on the assessment.
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but usually when they send those troops they make sure that this not for conflict with iran is for defensive. purposes so now are like the last time the you see more a in aggressive form or a quick u.s. movement to basically fill the vacuum make sure there's no it's allegation maybe they heard a lot of criticism last time though but again that this is mckinsey he's very. leading on this on this issue he worked with bolton before you sleep to send the if you 1000 troops last may and now his is the more convinced that he should do this to basically change the calculation of iran in case of any with alleviation genaro on from the arab center washington thank you so much for your time they appreciate it. now the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who's testifying at the impeachment inquiry into donald trump
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has told the committee the president pressured the state department to fire her memory you have one of the church was let go by mr trump in may and is now considered a key witness in the hearings the former diplomat was named in the whistleblower complaint that sparked this whole pietschmann process more from shihab rattansi on capitol hill. to you about it should be looked at with suspicion by the trunk of ministration almost immediately she'd been an obama appointee and very quickly had been a gossip in republican circles that she wasn't loyal to donald trump that she was bad mouth thing donald trump she was recalled 2 months early so clearly what members of congress want to know is why she thinks she was recalled also what was actually going on specifically what was rudy giuliani personal lawyer up to in ukraine who was so instrumental apparently in trying to get her and trying to get her withdrawn was there some shadow foreign policy under way under rudy giuliani
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was that for the benefit of the u.s. national security or simply for donald trump's personal aims was there a quid pro quo that was being offered to the ukrainian government give us dirt on joe biden and i will give you military aid these are all the questions we expect to be asked her representatives in the media have been leaking but as far as she was concerned there she was withdrawn because she quote didn't want to she couldn't be a part of quick rather be all this offline personal informal stuff so what she has to say will be very interesting to those who are looking to impeach. the ethiopian prime minister that has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize he's been recognized for ending the long running conflict between ethiopia and eritrea over its disport disputed border territories. when mood became prime minister in april 28th. he made it clear that he wished to risk to
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peace talks with a retreat. in close cooperation with the side yes again the president of a vitriolic. mood quickly worked out the principles for a foreign and then for a peace agreement to end the long no peace no war staying mates between the 2 countries reaction from now with robyn kriel well incredible news both for it's the o.p.'s and for africans although many of the o.p.'s here were quite surprised that he won that prestigious award many of them said that they're not shocked at all because he is still so incredibly popular here on the ground and if you rarely do you see for example a cab or a bus drive past without dr b. as he's affectionately known as face on the back of it as well as that flag because he is seen as the nationalist the person who united if you will be who brought them through those dock times through that state of emergency and through what many
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analysts have said could have possibly been a civil war had he not come into power at that time but when you heard that list of achievements read by the nobel peace prize committee his peace with eritrea detente with somalia the fact that he attended essentially the political process here in the opiah which for years was a dictatorship a commentator i spoke with yesterday said that had it not been for this the fact that if your appeal would likely be fractured already. south africa's former president jacob zuma has lost his bid to avoid standing trial for corruption that is now expected to begin next week his lawyers went to the high court to argue the prosecution should be thrown out because it's politically motivated zuma denies accepting bribes from a french weapons company for a $180000000.00 government contract back in the 1990 s. more from the court in pietermaritzburg. the court judgment was handed down in
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under 2 minutes and jacob zuma was in and out of court in in just a few minutes the court had decided that it gives him a will indeed stand trial that's due to begin next week but it's also worth remembering that the former president does have the option to approach the supreme court of appeal to appeal this judgement and perhaps further delay his day in court which is a huge cheer said for a long time he wants to have the opportunity to do but it's at the same time he's also tried to delay the court appearance ultimately wanting that trial thrown out essentially jacob zuma should be back in court with the week however it's not quite certain just how long that trial will take and when the south africans will advance is a case that has been going on now for almost 15 years aside from this court case and the charges of corruption fraud and racketeering jacob zuma does face other
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allegations of corruption during his time as president of south africa and that's culminated in what's being called a commission of inquiry into alleged corruption the former president also having to answer questions there while that commission is ongoing. the u.k.'s minister in charge of bragg's it says in brussels for talks stephen barclay met the chief negotiator michel barnier trying to make some sort of breakthrough on an exit deal that's after boris johnson's meeting on thursday with his irish counter partly of around care this is an agreement before the october 31st deadline is still possible . british counterterrorism police have arrested a suspect after a stabbing attack in a shopping center 3 people were injured as a man ran through the center in manchester lunging at past passers by apparently at random the shopping center was bombed by the irish republican army back in 1906 and it is also near the scene of previous attacks in manchester at the arena and the
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victoria railway station fighting in the mountains of northern maine marr has restarted despite recently agreed cease fires between the army and ethnic armed groups florence laurie reports civilians in shan state are caught in the middle of the conflict despite the recent announcement of a unilateral ceasefire the national liberation army on patrol the armed wing of the pound state liberation front is thought to be at least $1500.00 strong. it was founded in 1992 to fight for more autonomy for the minority in shan state they're one of several prominent ethnic armed groups that didn't sign a cease fire agreement with the myanmar government 4 years ago various ethnic groups here are being targeted after they attacked a myanmar army academy and other buildings last month that's despite unilateral ceasefire announcements by both sides in the past few months. that would then want
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to sub in the jungle. making a cease fire there must be a monitoring and who is going to act as a mediator resurges immediate there be a member of the negotiation team all from china. the myanmar military told local media in september that the attacks by the ethnic armed groups suggest they're not interested in peace civilians are bearing the brunt of the violence here in the township more than 2000 people have been forced to seek shelter in neighboring villages and monasteries kamya has high blood pressure and diabetes the fighting is taking a toll on her health king did not let more again a little prayer i was frightened i was that time praying praying to the spirits for safety but it has no family and no relatives a bullet goes straight and doesn't waver i'm afraid of both sides of both armies
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and your. door. but for some the conflict has made them take up arms yet says she became a soldier after her brother was killed by myanmar security forces. and we suffer more oppression than men with abuse like rape that does not happen to the males who are able to defend themselves to prevent these cases of abuse we become soldiers to defend ourselves. then i just can expect to be caught in the crossfire until peace is achieved between ethnic groups and me are lost on me florence lee al-jazeera. present type one is speaking right now in istanbul on the incursion into syria. if there's no security there's no peace. if there's no peace there's no prosperity . if there's no prosperity. there's no has an
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a. if there's the happiness. of public and the civilians cannot look at their future. for everyone this is the formulation for peace and happiness the relationship between us should be strong so that we can put this formula in process that. these are established means globally at the moment to everything that. security parodic much is changing and drug trade wars are showing us that they're going to be new threats for us but also new opportunity of. what we need to do is we need to. we need to stop the threats and also capture the opportunities if we. can show this is
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a purchase attitude and if we can see me back there been each other in the history will repeat itself. especially in the last century. we have experienced many pains and this should be a lesson to us. we need to improve our cooperation so that we can reach our common goals as fast as possible for this. we need to sort out the terror problem and we need to have a principled action principled attitude. i hope this is going to be a strong a beginning of a process like this this meeting is going to be a beginning for it's. up from 10000 kilometers away with the coalition powers. they are
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missing something what is it. we said this many times. p y d y p d there are. there are they are terror organizations unfortunately the west. sais that p.k. k. is a terror organization but its offshoots such as p y d y p g they don't consider them as or they don't accept them as terror organizations with all its documents we gave them all the documents but they still don't accept it. and we are we are struggling against this so what are they saying what the west and the united states are all together they say one thing here. are killing the kurds.
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kurds our brothers. our struggle is not against the kurds are stronger is against the terror organizations. and. they are all terror organizations. with all the documented evidence we have project time heard on the turkish president saying that the kurds are our brothers our fight is not against them our fight is against the terrorists as he lays out his plan there is he said quote we need to sort out the terror problem well for 3 days turkey has now been leading an incursion into syria to do just that as president one claims to sort out the terror problem earlier we heard from the united states defense secretary who said that the united states has not abandoned the kurds and that in fact the u.s. relationship with turkey is suffering at the moment because of what's going on in.
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northern syria the news hour is coming up in 25 minutes time on al-jazeera analysis of this story and the rest of the day's news when we see you next. should foreign firms mind their own business over china's politics they coming under pressure from beijing for making political comments it considers sensitive some have had to apologize for voicing sympathy with hong kong protesters or face the consequences so where does that leave freedom of speech this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program i'm peter davi china has long been sensitive about what's that at home and controls everything that could affect its image now foreign business is a feeling the heat china's message is watch what you say if you want to do business here or pay the price and that could prove costly for many companies particularly from the united states that do rely on the chinese market they've been vulnerable to boycotts from chinese consumers and pressured by state media and online platforms to content considered sensitive ranges from sympathy with protesters in hong kong to adverts seen as racist and the latest row with the us national basketball association or n b a has raised concerns over freedom of speech. so let's look now for the next moment also at the companies that have to chinese pressure the n.b.a.
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faced fury from beijing after a team official tweeted support for protesters in hong kong the association apologized after china threatened to stop broadcasting games apartments began to cut ties. the u.s. tech giant apple removed an app used to track police movements in hong kong at the request of beijing it also deleted the taiwan flag emoji for use in hong kong and macau the us the terrible t.v. show south park faced censorship in china after taking aim at its human rights record the us video game maker activision blizzard suspended the gamer after he voiced support for the protesters in hong kong and some fashion brands have been boycotted for identifying hong kong and taiwan as countries. ok let's bring in our panel joining us from singapore on skype is back to tao an assistant professor at the china studies program at the university of hong kong in hong kong on skype joseph chang
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a convener of the alliance for true democracy and finally also in singapore on skype as well is drew thompson a visiting senior research fellow at the national university of singapore welcome to you all victor in singapore coming to you 1st why is the rhetoric surrounding this is you always been so very harsh. well i think this is consistent with china's a long standing all that. like taiwan and tibet and other places that. the world is trying to and china. has always taken the very front with anything that if that is. separatism so in this case the tweet was a support for the home that there was a violation. by the chinese being judgmental of chinese sovereignty and that's why the chinese government. i think it's too free and international opinion but having said that it has tried to trying to behave that way regardless of what in fact they
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have been very consistent there done the same thing with the american that i'm the japanese the filipino the south koreans and the no we just i'm happy with you know all the usual this is not anything that is very surprising really just a change in hong kong when it comes to image how concerned is the central government in beijing very very much concerned because china is the largest trading country it has to sell its goes and it is very conscious of is in may and the whole party has parted it's ready to be mobilized to protect it and general oppose our causes are you a fan of china and if you are friends you must not criticize time and then it is in may but if you are not a friend you criticise i know and the pocket park is mobilize the and time you have characters to exert pressure on you and it is very difficult for the single gunman
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or singo and geo of cooperation to rescind step forth with chinese authorities look like the sanctions to create a determines facts. drew thompson in singapore what are the main pressure points in these individual relationships here between the chinese government people companies that work with the chinese government and companies outside of china well i think companies outside of china that have sought to do business in china have always recognized that they would have to follow chinese rules and norms when operating in china and that's just been accepted since the beginning of reform and opening what's changed and has changed relatively recently is china's effort to export its form of politics and its form of governance abroad at to then pay attention to how
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companies behave externally and that's new because that then runs up against other countries and other companies own values and now companies are forced to choose between their values or their country's values and china's which can be basti different i think to turn singapore will get on to the n.b.a. aspect of this in just a moment 1st the pull now pull is a multi-billion dollar international company it clearly has a relationship with beijing is that relationship good for pull or good for beijing . i think so far you think the whole country i mean both apple and. china chinese consumers and join a protest very much and at least making it happy for i know and the relationship is wrote the all of. the s. then it. all actually tracks on police whereabouts and deployment. from the police especially if it is actually endangering police officers because
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it enables the. more violent rioters to be able to track with the police and then able to move to places where the police presence is light and. the trail of destruction so i think it will be a better day that are politically timed correctly i'm just saying let's just put everything could to joseph chang in hong kong josephs on that idea of the app because that's what in singapore is talking about if you've got 243000000 i phone users in china if they're a conduit for information about accurate truthful news is one app on the app store i.e. that one app becomes a portal to reality and what's really going on outside the country ok it's good it's good for beijing it's good for apple it's not good for the the users of apple
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products inside china. so it can be so i differ with the pharmacy for you see the ants and the best stages to information off the air are fun to be rather use for all don't repeat hong kong because obviously people want to know where the troubles are and they want to avoid trouble spots i want to go to dinner i want to go to visit my friend obviously hit i have to alter i have to alter my plan if the police scanner that is at that sport if they are questions for the police at that spot and it is significant do not act actually the hong kong government and the hong kong police pause did not offer any objections to objects anscombe from the chinese authorities their time in the forty's obviously are very sensitive about the situation on kong and it wants to
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exert pressure on a poll again to create a balanced ration of you fat and if to terence effect the chinese authorities are aware that the protestants sest for the race money through crowd funding to try to influence international public opinion shot b.p. for the downloads from the jenkins summit in. the latter half of june and they're giving it the same thing on national day again to play their position and to criticize china so timely is there a sense of fear about the situation in hong kong and singapore coming back to you if we are in effect saying that the chinese authorities lean on either of the governments and or companies from other countries how do they do it too i mean what are the specifics that they they indulge in. so i mean obviously the chinese
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government has multiple means for influencing the decisions made both within china and without obviously their 1st preference would be persuasion would be to have self-censorship have companies understand what the limits are not cross those lines so that's that's the number one preference but when that doesn't work they can use more coercion they can they can mobilize public sentiment they can make an example out of a company i mean it's worth noting with this and be a issue that there was one tweet out of probably millions on hong kong that keeping in mind that twitter is also banned in china that the chinese government decided to take this one tweet it can't even be seen by the chinese people and make a case out of it so clearly the n.b.a. was made an example of just as many other companies have been made examples of as well so they can put a lot of pressure both by isolating companies making examples up them and then threatening their access to the market i think it was remarkable how they could
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quickly mobilize not just society and the number of chinese internet users to to express their displeasure with the n.b.a. but then to affect all of the private companies in china to end their marketing or to end their broadcasting rights that that's really to me very shocking a demonstration of their ability to control all aspects of their khana me and society and it really raises the question about what is a private company in china anymore if everyone is beholden to the government like this so to me that this is demonstrated just a tremendous capability to coerce and something that should be of concern to any other company that hasn't yet been made an example of a time in singapore ok let's talk about the n.b.a. story clearly at some point down rule who's the balls of the houston rockets and be a team he. put out this tweet he deleted it so somebody managed to get the message
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to him or the chose to message him and say oh they had an email conversation or whatever and they said the tweet has got to go because you will cost us money is it a little bit sinister that that message was relayed to him and he reacted in precisely the right way but that message came presumably through cyberspace from thousands of kilometers away in some dark smoky office in beijing. well certainly i mean we cannot be expecting that the chinese will do anything less than i like i said they have been very consistent and that's the way they did it but having said that i was i was i was i would say as a small blip on up the long series of things and the reason i say this is because the n.c.a.a. unlike other companies there is only one n.b.a. and there's only so much leverage the chinese that one half of the fans assume dying to watch and be
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a match is. you know as far as i know i think the exhibition matches on and you know the fans a factor in people have been watching the matches i don't think you can take away the and to hear them of the chinese was. possible just just like that i think the point is the chinese government is being the l.c.m. the exceptional influence in china it is like apple you know this other organization which the chinese government is extremely wrench in the domestic market and i guess that's why many senses like to pay more attention to the organization having said that i think it's ok for the n.b.a. many just to 'd express. support for democratic aspirations but. having said that it would be nice if the managers could also say something about the rioting that they want i think that will calm the chinese government down because you know
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you want to be even handed in a command and we support whatever is risk because of what they're doing that that's not the message i mean the fact is that more if they were expression. or have a return to a more stable and law and order situation i think the chinese don't like it is so with the whole government and i think a lot of people they fear that the crew cannot come back to for a 2nd for the next minute or so is what we're talking about here the chinese government's ability to either explicitly or implicitly or by using channels of communication here they are monetizing reputational damage. well i'm not sure in this case how much they're much because there's there's that it's hard to see who's a winner in this case because many chinese companies are going to suffer because of this right the companies involved and marketing the n.b.a. within china and again fans will be disappointed i think the other aspect that
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should be and is victor pointed out that many of those fans are going to continue to find ways to watch and be a games which may include using v.b. ends and and circumventing chinese censorship so they can continue to watch their favorite sports because there is no comparison between the n.b.a. and any other sports league any other basketball league so in some ways this has a potentially this move has a lot of risk for the chinese government and i'm not sure if the risk is going to be equivalent to the reward that they'll get by laying the claim to to to dictate the terms of a discussion about on cop just in hong kong is this debate tilting in the right direction for the 1st time ever the u.s. comments department has blacklisted $28.00 companies slash individuals very specifically over human rights and they've actually used the phrase they've they've talked about human rights they've talked about it as being
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a priority. well out the donald trump administration now tries to use various issues to exert pressure on china you know straight negotiations including south south china sea issue and power one issue of now the human rights sudan issue and also the kong issue we are still not too sure of whether the donald trump administration will really be a serious serious sanctions on china because of the human rights violations in sudan there are violations obvious that you can actually know community calls for of sanctions are in his actions against the time nice authorities get western countries including the united states are not yet people to take very very tough matches these said the proposed masses on the part of the
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of the donald trump administration at this stage are warnings more rather than actual actions be signed to. protect human rights in china it is speculating that the notes from a using various issues including the human rights issues in sense in gent to try to exert pressure on china and you if the values from administrations securest wanted the zionists what it wants from the train at those stations one wonders if these human rights issues will still be pursued by the tunnels from middle session certainly one can expect more from the u.s. congress especially on the issue of hong kong on the issue of human rights and democracy meant to tow they have now started their 13th round of trade talks if
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there was a real rebalancing of this relationship that involves semi closed markets offset against a totally open market if beijing got what it wanted in that regard and the u.s. was prepared to go with that. does the united states have to accept that what we're talking about today in one sense i guess kind of what we're saying is this is just how china does consumerism like it or lump it well i you know i do i really don't think that this is you know that if they accept anything it doesn't want to and then having said that we all know that if the went on a promise that and and you know the next administration in. a change so i don't think that it's going to be anything that is very sort of a permanent arrangement that is going to be pretty basically it's just really sort of all known and well i guess the front is basically that he's out of
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a lot of knowledge in what i'm trying to i you know i'm up to the state that this is not going to be but that it's it's going to be there each man. it's all about what you create this for sides when we talk about both sides they're true thomson singapore the 1st 8 months of this year according to the world bank china invested $70000000000.00 u.s. dollars in overseas projects it's got $53.00 countries involved in a so-called belt and road projects across from east asia far east asia up and across and towards europe and down into africa $70000000000.00 worth of investment does that buy you an awful lot of you've got to be on message otherwise you don't get the cash you don't get the investment you don't get the infrastructure projects that your country needs. peter let me back up a minute and go back to the issue that joseph had mentioned about about john because i think i think i'd like to provide a slightly different perspective on the one hand it's tempting to see u.s.
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actions in pursuit of its interests as all working towards some grand goal of putting trade pressure on china but i think the action that we just saw take place last earlier this week on. was was was really i think the sign of the frustration that's fell by the administration and by congress congress has been calling for the u.s. to take action on this issue on the detention of over a 1000000 muslims in western china and the united states is now finally done something they've put they've named names they've identified the public security ministries that are responsible they've identified the companies that have been still attending this program and they've required any u.s. company export into them to talk to obtain a license which will provide greater exposure greater transparency into the process and hopefully stir a little more debate now also the state department has followed up by issuing an announcement that these people and these companies are not going to be able to
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obtain visas going to united states so you now have a situation where the united states is making the perpetrators of this of this horrific actions her rivals and that the u.s. is the 1st country that's actually stepped up to do this and again it's been called for for quite some time within the u.s. government particularly within congress so i'm not sure that this is all linked to to the tree issue it's definitely linked to 2 american outrage and specifically to this case just of change in. me through carry on. just getting back to you to your question about the road i mean i think about the road provides a certain amount of leverage to china dealing with other countries particularly in central asia southeast asia and it certainly has is worked to its advantage there is a high demand. for for investment in infrastructure but i think chinese companies have not necessarily demonstrated their ability to provide quality or to provide
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good terms for these for these loans so in some ways i think companies and countries are becoming much more aware of the potential pitfalls belt road programs are getting smarter about it and i think that the smart thing for the united states is not to oppose it but to support good quality projects ok we're unable as countries that are recipients to actually benefit from ok very briefly joseph because we are trusting towards the end of inside story we'll cite mines mines outside china become more focused on this when for example the pension plans of $5000000.00 u.s. federal employees about $50000000000.00 in the pension fund according to the washington post last week they are being funneled or tilted or pushed towards investment funds in china those investment funds fund companies that make gums if those guns are used to kill people they on the streets of hong kong say in a year or 2 or they fund the departments that round up 1500000 weakest forecourts
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along with air defense systems to saudi arabia to boost its defenses also in the news turkish forces push deeper into northern syria taking villages on the kurdish control the u.n. says 100000 people have now been forced from their homes and the former top u.s. diplomat to do crane faces questions from the congressional committee investigating the possible impeachment of president trump. and barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including british prime minister boris johnson says it's not yet a done deal as talks between the u.k. and the european union on securing a break said agreement intensified. and in sports scotland's rugby bosses threatened legal action if their world cup match against japan is cancelled it's in doubt you to typhoon haiyan basic scotland will go out of the solomons if the fixtures called off.
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so the u.s. is sending thousands more troops to saudi arabia it already sent hundreds of this summer's tension with iran and elsewhere in the region increased but now the pentagon in the past hour or so has confirmed the deployment of 3 miles and extra troops. the u.s. military has on alert additional army navy marine and air force units to quickly provide increased capability in the region if necessary the united states remains committed to protecting our allies ensuring the free flow of resources need to support the global economy and demonstrating our commitment to upholding the rules based international order i urge other like minded countries especially our allies in europe to follow the united states lead and join us with our own defense of assets to ensure stability in the region has rosalynn jordan in washington d.c. rosalynn at a time when actually the rhetoric between washington and tehran has ratcheted down
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certainly from where it was a month or so ago now the united states effectively kicks it up again. well the u.s. is taking this action because it says it received a request from the saudi government elssler received a request from u.s. central command which is the part of the pentagon that oversees u.s. military operations in the middle east and said that it is doing this because of ongoing concerns about iran's behavior in the region not just by its own actions but because of its financial support for groups such as hezbollah or hamas and it said that it is trying to send a message to officials and to han that their continued behavior will not be tolerated that doesn't mean that it's an actual. prelude to military action against iran but certainly when you put in more firepower when you bring in 2
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fighter squadrons and you bring in both patriot and fat missile defense systems it is sending a message that the u.s. is prepared for any other provocative action that might come from iran and calling as well i think we heard it in bat short clip from the defense secretary calling for similar help from european allies. yes the pentagon is certainly asking for that sort of help but that's in keeping with the idea coming from the white house that it should not be up to the united states alone to deal with these political and military tensions in the middle east or anywhere else for that matter that the u.s. president donald trump had campaigned on the idea that the u.s. should not be the world's policeman but of course as we see an additional 3000 troops being assigned to help protect saudi territory from al side attack and sort
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of undermines the president's message ok thank you for all that rosalynn jordan in washington there so if we put this in a bit of context the trumpet ministration announced it was pulling the u.s. out of the nuclear disarmament deal with iran last year remember that since then tehran and washington of really tried to do a lot of accusations if we go back through some of the incidents this summer in may there were 4 commercial ships including 2 saudi oil tankers hit by blasts in the gulf of them on iran denied us accusations that it planted mines on those vessels into u.s. or tankers themselves were attacked in june of the strait of hormuz a week later down the u.s. military drawing with a $100000000.00 for allegedly violating its airspace in early july british troops seized an iranian tanker of gibraltar that was believed to be violating e.u. sanctions on syria and then the next day iran captured a british operated oil tanker and held onto it for $71.00 days. and then in
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september of course saudi arabia state oil facilities were attacked this was the big one yemen's hutu rebels claimed responsibility but the saudis have consistently blamed iran well the u.s. commander of the military base here in qatar has spoken to al jazeera today that is general daniel tully who said his troops are strategically placed in this region. i need isn't the center of the region by and large many challenges around us it's a strategic location this let us reach out and provide air power to places like afghanistan and syria in iran and down here so it's also complex and given the complexity we've got our air operations here we also have our headquarters here. david said he with us now a senior associate at the center for strategic and international studies and also former u.s. deputy assistant secretary of defense he's on skype from kabul always good to talk to you missed 70 what do you make of what the united states has announced today
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probably no surprise that it support its allies saudi arabia however $3000.00 troops plus patriot and thad systems that's a big step up well it is a big step but there's something that you need to remember here is that the united states normally has a carrier and u.s. aircraft carrier in the persian gulf and because of us fire on u.s. carriers they carry out what we use will not be replaced but the new forces that are being sent in particularly the new fighter wings that are being sent and in many ways are just there to replace the carrier that is being pulled out. and what not be replaced because the carrier that was supposed to replace it has had an electrical fire now the additional missile defense systems seem to be a clear reaction to a successful attack by drones and by missiles on the saudi oil facilities which actually was a great embarrassment to both the united states and to saudi arabia so the
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positioning of these forces following that successful attack is really no surprise whether those the patriots and they are capable of defeating a similar attack in the future is actually a quick a technological question that has yet to be answered so yes the movement of troops here korten and the forces are important but given what's happened over the past several months i don't think it's really going to be changing the balance of power at all but then maybe it comes down to and i take the points that you made there so maybe it comes down to reaction because so much of this is been about retaliate tree accusations and actions as well so when iran sees 3000 more u.s. troops coming into saudi arabia we have to sort of really closely watch how they were to respond. very much so a lot of this is you said it is about symbolism it's about what the perception of the each side is and is of course affected by events in the surrounding area
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whether it be yemen or syria or some other some other area i would point especially to syria the pullout of u.s. troops from northeastern syria that has allowed the turkish offensive to move forward is broadly seen as united states abandoning someone someone an ally that it had depended upon the hit that the united states had used so this signal to saudi arabia that it is getting more support and in some ways can be seen as a reaction also to what happened in syria so there's a lot of complex factors going on here with signaling going on and positive and they are saying signaling going on at all times david said he thanks for making the time for us today do appreciate it thank you now to underline all of this iran has today said that 2 missiles struck an iranian oil tanker off the coast of saudi arabia it's described as a dangerous adventure iran's foreign ministry says these to beat the was attacked
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and set on fire in the red sea the crew has been reported safe but some oil has been spilled and it's not yet known how much the u.s. navy says it is closely monitoring developments more on this one from teheran that's in basra. iran's foreign ministry confirmed on friday that in the early morning hours one of the oil tankers was targeted in the eastern part or of the red sea approximately 100 kilometers off the coast of saudi arabia the sub at the experience 2 explosions 20 minutes apart causing it to world tends to leak into the sea foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said this isn't the 1st time in recent months that iranian vessels in the red sea have experienced what he described as destructive actions he blamed the fallout and resulting pollution on perpetrators of the attack who have yet to be identified he said they were taking part in quote dangerous adventurism the finger pointing from to herat has already begun as well with a senior m.p. blaming the us or israel for targeting the oil vessel iran's national oil tanker
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company meanwhile whose experts are investigating the incident that company was keen to point out that while terrorism or some form of missile attack may have been the cause of this incident they did not suspect that any attack originated from saudi shores the incident comes a day before pakistan's imran khan is due to arrive into iran for his 2nd official visit since becoming prime minister he'll be here in an effort to mediate between riyadh into iran to try to bring down tensions in the region but with this attack iran is likely to have its diplomatic defenses up once again and if there was any hope for a breakthrough during his visit it is now less likely to happen let's move on to the situation in syria and a $100000.00 people have now been displaced in the north as the turkish military pushes across the border 26 civilians have also been killed on her says it wants to create a buffer between its border and the territory controlled by the kurdish forces turkey is claiming it's killed or captured more than $345.00 has taken 15
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villages and set up a military base also one turkish soldiers dead and several of its syrian rebel allies the u.s. . says it has lost $29.00 fighters and also the pentagon has responded to the criticism that the u.s. abandoned those kurdish fighters it's insisting the u.s. does fully support its allies. up and down the chain of command from president trump to myself secretary state pompei o chairman millie our centcom commander others we have spoke with all of our counterparts urge them to stop this incursion to in for in highlight the importance of doing so because the destabilizing effect it's having throughout the region the dramatic harm i feel is being done to our bilateral relationship in the past he's president of egypt type one addressed a conference in istanbul and said turkey won't stop its operation.

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