off the events that led to that phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that lies at the heart of this ongoing investigation importantly though she also opened a little bit of a chip in that white house boycott of the ongoing investigations it is now known that a number of other state department officials may be appearing in congress in coming days among them gordon sunderland who was blocked from appearing by state department last week but now he's been served a subpoena is lawyers say that he is willing and ready to appear in congress to give his evidence that documents that were in his position though will not be presented as they are in the position of the state department still had on al-jazeera. say what's behind these chaotic scenes in ecuador scandal. more fallout from the blockade of qatar al-jazeera as the target

of the campaign in the u.s. . not everywhere in southern china had its fair share is seasonal rains for example so to see anything developing now is a bit of a bonus it should be a dry season but as you can see there's rain developing in the west to some rain developing from hong kong moving north as to where it's wanted so that's in the forecast for saturday and probably sunday we haven't really talked in the drive northeast monsoon despite the northeast winds however where the rain should be and they are through malaysia and drifting down towards into the not a huge number of big shows here not from judging this satellite picture but the main belt is fairly obvious and it's roughly speaking here and going south if it

develops showers lucky you it won't always and it doesn't look particularly promising in java for example on saturday or sunday or indeed the southern half of sumatra cloudy but not particularly wet finally officially the monsoon is retreating now we've been seeing it doing that for about a week anyway and you see again from the satellite development this is roughly speaking the line so additional west bengal further south down towards carroll is where you see the heavy rain in the next day or so nothing much more in maharashtra . the weather sponsored by catherine was. a clandestine world of illegal trade what you have here is not just target a logical object you're talking about the political dimension where the spoils of war are smuggled and sold to auction houses and private collectors buying or selling an artifact is worth finances the beheadings in the middle east don't sell

don't that's one quick solution trafficking on al-jazeera. now watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now the u.s. is sending additional troops to saudi arabia the pentagon confirmed military hardware will also be sent to bolster the kingdom's defenses following an assault on oil facilities last month turkish forces have now pushed 8 kilometers deeper into territory held by the kurdish led syrians on a crowd of forces and northern syria and the u.n. says more than $100000.00 people have been displaced by turkey's military offensive

and the u.s. and china have struck a partial to a trade deal that is bridge to potentially a dispute between the world's 2 largest economies donald trump says the plum an area cream and covers intellectual property financial services and large agricultural markets. hundreds more indigenous protesters have poured into ecuador's capital quito to join the 10th day of demonstrations against austerity measures one president led a marina to repeal a law that ended a 40 year or oil subsidy riot police have fired tear gas to break our prowling protesters respond the fireworks at least 5 people have been killed in the and rest at all rob lowe has the latest from quito. tensions are very high in quito ecuador right now after an entire day of protests and demonstrations and clashes between demonstrators and police even now that night has fallen there are still demonstrators in the streets marching for the most part people here have been very

peaceful marching marching calling on the pressure on the president of the country to reverse track on a economic policy that ends decades worth of fuel subsidies now these clashes they've been taking place for the last week and it only appears as though they're intensifying even now with the one calling if you can see these images behind me that is the national assembly building and people are protesting peacefully they're using makeshift shields they're using statistics they have they have rocks and they are they're being met with a there's no other way to describe it but a heavy handed response by by authorities who are using tear gas they're using rubber bullets or using flash bang grenades and there are of even been accusations that authorities are using live ammunition to continue to disperse these crowds here in quito the united arab emirates is trying to silence the al jazeera media network according to a bloomberg report the u.a.e. is reportedly running a lobbying campaign in washington d.c. using a law firm to try to influence people working for members of the u.s.

congress alan fischer at the details. from its embassy in washington and with the 12 connected ambassador to the u.s. as well as the ambassador the united arab emirates has been pushing a campaign to close the i'll just leave the media network a report on the new site bloomberg says the embassy has employed a prominent d.c. law firm to meet with congressional staffers trumpet ministration officials journalists and academics to push its case the law firm it can jump straus how and failed a well known company on capitol hill employed a small lobbying firm to help with its operation it paid $100000.00 to the company definers public affairs in turn it acknowledged it sure was to provide strategic communication support and guidance in furtherance of the interests of the embassy of the united arab emirates with an emphasis on strengthening bilateral relations and regional security of the united arab emirates in particular including issues relating to clients' terminations of relations with qatar and accuracy and

transparency of qatar or government owned media definer sprang to prominence when it was hired by facebook as the senate was investigating the role it played in possible russian interference in the 2016 election the finers was investigating individual senators it was accused of spreading inflammatory information about its critics and his contract with facebook was terminated bloomberg says thousands of twitter account supporting the u.a.e. campaign were suspended there are also many linked facebook pages many of them pushed the u.s. government to force algis either to register as a foreign agent that could potentially restrict operations in the u.s. and it would essentially say the company is run by the qatari government a claim firmly rejected by al-jazeera. al-jazeera launched in 1996 with a not a big service in 2006 it became a public utility a private corporation for the public benefit with an independent board of directors

in june 8 u.s. lawmakers wrote to the justice department asking to investigate. whether al-jazeera should register as a form needn't one of the senators was republican chuck grassley from iowa who had been contacted by representatives of the u.a.e. alan fischer al-jazeera washington. if the o.p.'s prime minister has been awarded the surest nobel peace prize it 16 year old climate activists credit the others credited with helping to end his country's 2 decade long war with neighboring eritrea robyn kriel reports from ethiopia capital addis ababa nobel peace prize for 2019 to ethiopia and prime minister ahmed ali simone made peace leader heard of his prestigious prize and with it praise from his supporters of an ethiopian we have seen he has played

a major role in championing social justice. and what we expect know. of the peace progress and development of the national parliament is a forum on importance sworn into office barely 18 months ago at the height of civil unrest in ethiopia and during a state of emergency the 43 year old former army intelligence officer hasn't shied away from taking tough decisions. his biggest achievement is making peace with neighboring eritrea following a 21 year long conflict on their border which began with rule in 1998 abi managed to reestablish normal relations between the 2 countries he also ordered the release from jail of his critics opposition politicians and journalists have even established a ministry of peace which includes some of the government's most notorious ministries such as the national intelligence service and the police force he's also

trying to open up the economy allowing foreign investors a sharing traditionally state of monopolies it hasn't been easy though abbie survived an assassin armed with a grenade at a campaign rally last year was. and interests like fighting nationwide forced around $3000000.00 people from their homes abi also survived an attempted coup a few months ago by some soldiers unhappy with his leadership for close allies including his chief of staff were killed in the failed uprising in the am hard region and he's disappointed many of the o.p.'s by failing to quickly transform the economy the only problem that. they wanted the change to happen immediately. we have now if you can the problems in this country a lot of the economy is growing very fast the amount of. expenditure that's going

into infrastructure has been at the expense of livelihoods a general election is jew next may some opposition supporters told al jazeera that that will be the ultimate test of his peace prize i believe will help us an impetus for him to significantly improve his legitimacy it will be understood in the story understood us an international commission for not only for him but you know for the people and for the country in going forward you know tackling the challenges and realizing the ambitions of the mass of the people for democracy inclusive an accountable state as the prime minister received the news of his prize he said he hoped it would promote peace building efforts elsewhere in africa thank you very much so. just given you a few remarks if. you don't go after europe and i can imagine. the rest of objectivity. it's possible to work on peace building process.

abbie's job of keeping if you would be a united and stable is a big one but he's off to a good start as this year's nobel peace prize laureate robyn kriel al jazeera. their opinion has agreed to intensify talks with the u.k. over the next few days to find a new bracks that withdrawal agreement in allison at the stepped up negotiations follows a meeting between british prime minister boris johnson and ireland's leader varadkar on thursday and a whole reports. there may be life in the prospect of a briggs deal yet e.u. and u.k. negotiators will have to work flat out between now and next week's brussels summit if they are to come up with a framework agreement we are. conscious of meeting leads to darkly the british team of god and now i'm going to debrief you $27.00 about how those under period that

will define it was already shared after trixi drag can be demanding and. we need to do did you don't need to i mean intern confessionals e.u. council president donald tusk had warned he was ready to declare the talks dead on friday instead technical talks are taking place in brussels as we speak. of course there's no guarantee of success and the time is practically up but even the slightest chance must be used but what all this renewed optimism based on in truth no one quite knows beyond comments made by u.k. prime minister boris johnson and the irish tea shockley over on thursday that they saw a narrow pass to a deal the pair had met for 3 hours in the northwest of england much of their time in private concessions were made but they wouldn't say by whom and all else is

secret well i can certainly tell you that under no circumstances will we see anything that damages the ability of the whole of the united kingdom to take full advantage of. what johnson is alluding to there is the whole of. the united kingdom including northern ireland leaving the e.u. use customs union keeps the holy grail among breaks it supporters allowing the u.k. to pursue independent trade deals but prime minister johnson's previous proposals went down in flames when the e.u. rejected among other things the idea of constant checks on the island of. whatever has been concocted as an alternative has now ended with the e.u. calls the negotiating tunnel with just the faintest glimmer of light at the other end jonah how al-jazeera london russian opposition leader elects in of all he says prosecutors have asked a court to seize his moscow partment as collateral in

a lawsuit leval they helped organize a series of anti-government rallies this year in the russian capital they were the largest such demonstrations since 2011 peaking at around 60000 people the e.u. has lashed out at turkey's president for threatening to let syrian refugees flood into europe if there is criticism of the syria operation the president they are a peon council donald tusk says he will not let the issue of refugees become weaponized grace has been at the forefront of europe's migrant crisis where frustration is growing in refugee camps. reports. every day emanuel fetches firewood from the olive grove where he and 6000 refugees live on the island of summers the camp was built to cope with 680 most live in makeshift huts with no electricity or heat and rely on their wood fires for warmth then you. can eat. and the.

asylum seekers mainly from afghanistan syria and ghana construct their own homes with timber and water proof sheets handed out by charities sanitary facilities are few and the olive grove is littered with human waste all these problems are supposedly going to be solved in a new camp being built around a disused slaughterhouse in the mountains but it's designed for $1500.00 people nowhere near the numbers currently on the island that's because the 3 month old conservative government's new policy is never to have such overcrowding in future morea camp on the island of lesbos is also a directed numbers 13 and a half 1000 people are packed in and around the camp more than 4 times as many as it was designed to house the manager of the camp for the past 3 years agrees with the government about what the problem is. the answer in a war is a constant overpopulation we never managed to remain a 3000 as

a state entity we can never talk people away and tell them where fault if someone has to receive them or register them and cater to their needs. over crowding creates tension a recent fire killed a female refugee causing a riot among outraged others the government is now shipping hundreds of asylum seekers to the mainland but it wants to stem the flow of new arrivals as well it wants and force month of the e.u. turkey statement of 2016 whereby turkey agreed to readmit migrants who don't qualify for us. but it is taken under one percent of the asylum seekers who crossed from its shows the government's plans to intensify the use of the e.u. turkey statement to return $10000.00 people to turkey next year that's a 20 fold increase on the rates of returns so far and did once european union members to show the asylum burden by relocating many of the $70000.00 asylum

applicants now in greece 60 percent of refugees crossing the mediterranean to europe this year have arrived via greece e.u. officials say solving the problem here is now the priority jump several close al-jazeera in the east a g.m. . and japan's capital bottled water instant noodles and other necessities are being stockpiled a super typhoon closes and other forecasters say it threatens to batter its capital with the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years 2 matches at the rugby world cup have been cancelled and flights and train services are being disrupted evacuation warnings are issued as well for flood flood prone low lying areas. south of here and let's recap the top stories for you the u.s. is sending additional troops to saudi arabia the pentagon confirm military hardware will also be sent to bolster the kingdom's defenses following an assault on riyadh

oil facilities last month i'll try and pass defended the deployment of troops to saudi arabia. we are sending troops and other things to the middle east to help saudi arabia but are you ready saudi arabia at my request has agreed to pay us for everything we're doing at 1st but saudi arabia and other countries to down but saudi arabia has agreed to pay us for everything we're doing to help them and we appreciate that. iran says 2 missiles have struck one of its oil tankers off the coast of saudi arabia iran's foreign ministry says the sabaidee vessel was attacked and set on fire in the red sea the crew is reported to be safe the ship suffered heavy damage and was leaking oil into the water and the u.s. navy says it closely monitor was monitoring developments rather turkish forces have

now pushed 8 kilometers deeper into territory held by the kurdish led syrian democratic forces in northern syria the u.n. says more than 100000 people have been displaced by turkey's military offensive and the u.s. and china struck a partial trade deal which could potentially end a dispute between the world's 2 largest economies donald trump has held talks with china's vice premier and suspended a terrifying on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports was set to take effect on choose to trump says the plumbing area agreement covers and selectional property financial services and big agricultural purchases it will take up to 5 weeks though for the deal to be written or news out of washington in the past half hour donald trump announced that the acting homeland security secretary will step down and a replacement will be named next week trump said on twitter that kevin mcclellan is looking forward to spending more time with his family and entering the private sector upon as hell will past the post rather since april he is the 4th person to

serve in that role since trump's presidency began in 2016 or so the headlines keep her inside story is 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.

hello and welcome to the program i'm peter davi china has long been sensitive about what's said at home and controls everything that could affect its image now foreign businesses are 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.

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 users 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 game or 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 victor tao an assistant professor at the china studies program at the university of hong kong in hong kong on skype joseph chang

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 a part of china and china. has always taken the very front with anything that if the. separatism so in this case the tweet of the support for the home best done by gratian is seen by the chinese being judgmental a 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 have been very consistent there done the same thing with the americans that i'm the japanese the filipino south koreans and the norwegian i'm happy with you know all you 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 parquet is ready to be mobilized to protect it and general oppose of course is 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 party of parkas will mobilize the and time you have characters to exert pressure on you and it is very difficult for the

single gunman or singo and geo of copper ation to receive stepped forth with chinese authorities look like the sanctions to create a determines fast. 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

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 bass 3 different things to turn singapore will get on to the n.b.a. aspect of this in just a moment 1st though 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 both are you think the whole country i mean both apple and. china chinese consumers and join a protest very much and at least making at the front line up and the relationship is wrote the all up. and then that is they all actually track. police whereabouts and deployment. from the police especially if it is

actually endangering police officers because it it enables the. more violent rioters to be able to track where the police and was going then and to move the places where the police presence is light and. the trail of destruction so i think it will be a better bet that apple has actually done the correct thing i'm just saying let's just put i think good to just of chang in hong kong to save 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 is there a conduit for information about accurate truthful news is one app on the app store 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

products inside china. so it can be so i differ with the pharmacy for you see the acts and the best stages to information off the air are fun to be rather use for all don't repeat in 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 get is at that sport if there are questions for the police at that spot and it is significant to not act xxvii 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 in hong kong and it wants to exert pressure

on a pole 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 tunnels from egypt being summit in. the latter half of june and they are giving it the same thing on national day again to calais their position and to criticize china so time is very sensitive about the situation in hong kong thomson in singapore coming back to you if we are in effect saying that the chinese authorities lean on either other governments and or companies from other countries how do they do it to i mean what are the specifics that they they indulge in. so i mean obviously the chinese 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 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 of them and then threatening their access to the market i think it was remarkable how they could

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 a really to me very shocking 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 big time in singapore ok let's talk about the n.b.a. story clearly at some point down role who's the boss of the houston rockets and be a team you. put out this tweet he deleted it so somebody managed to get the message

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'd like to say 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 m.b.a. and there's only so much leverage the chinese that one half of the fans of dubai and what n.b.a.

matches. you know as far as i know i think the exhibition matches on and you know the fans affected 1000000000 people watching the matches i don't think you can take away the ending the year the law of the chinese was. possible just just like that i think the point is the chinese government these things the l.c.m. the exceptional influence in china it is like apple you know this other organization which the chinese government it 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 express. support for democratic aspirations but. having said that it would be nice if the managers could also say something about rising that way when i think there will come the chinese government out because you know you

want to be even handed in a command and we support whatever it is because of what they're doing that's that's not the message i mean the fact is that more if there were expression. or perhaps a return to a more stable and law and order situation i think the chinese government 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 it 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 top joseph chang in hong kong is this debate tilting in the right direction for the 1st time ever the u.s. calmest 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

a priority. well out the donald trump administration now tries to use big areas 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 syngenta issue and also the hong 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 syngenta there are violations obvious that you can actually know community calls for are sanctions are and he's actions against the tiny so far at least yet 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

of the of the donald trump administration at this stage are warnings more rather than actual actions be signed to. from tech fumin rights in china it is speculate that one of the family using various issues including the human rights issues in sense in gents' 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 administration certainly one can expect more from the u.s. congress especially on the issue of phone calls on the issue of human rights and democracy meant to tow they have now started their 13th round of trade talks if

there was a real rebalancing of this relationship that involves a semi closed market offset against a totally open market if beijing got caught 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 this if they accept anything it doesn't want to and having said that we all know that if the went on a promise kept out and and you know the next administration in. a change so i don't think that it's going to be anything that is really 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 facing is he's out of awful good mileage

is what i'm trying to i you know i'm up to the state that it is not going to be but that it's going to be there each man. it's all about what you create that's all sides when we talk about both sides they're true thomson singapore 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.

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 spell 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 the cilla taking this program and they've required any u.s. company exporting to 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 is followed up by issuing an announcement that these people and these companies are not going to be able to

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 the tree issue it's definitely linked to to to american outrage and specifically to this case just a change in. sort of put me through carry on. just getting back 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

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 and 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 when able those countries that are recipients to actually benefit from ok very briefly joseph because we are trusting towards the end of inside story will 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

reeducation that may not go down terribly well with us voters. certainly so the united states the names of democratic country operate openly and this is what is it is important and what the chinese authorities have been doing have alerted it's time to have farther to the american operate that their basic core values at been salads and they demand a response and i think it's tiny so far at least have lost sight of their actual provocations of the american political culture in the long term certainly are the chinese a profit except in pleasure on american corporations and in my living human rights will not help to improve and they ping long term good relations with the united states the price is going to be on ok in 30 seconds of an

answer please pick to turn singapore beijing has been quite measured so far which way do you think that reaction will carry on going. i think it will continue to be a consulate event it will watch what has been weeded out remind what's going on and i think the reggie wants to come across as being responsible and but at the same probably want to make sure that the i you with all of our able to make sure that the media nationally that we in the uk are ironic that this is the very same station or family so they will continue to be part of the. gentleman we must leave it there thank you to our guests they were just chang andrew thomson and thank you too for your company you can see the program again any time on the web site al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j.

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by the mainly kurdish forces in syria the u.n. says more than 100000 people have been displaced by turkey's military offensive and u.s. has announced $800.00 additional troops and extra equipment for saudi arabia to strengthen the kingdom security following an attack on riyadh's oil facilities last month that al brings the total deployment of $3000.00 extra u.s. forces to saudi president donald trump says the u.s. is helping saudi arabia bet that riyadh will pay for the deployment ports in washington for the 2nd time in a month the u.s. is sending troops to saudi arabia to help protect that country from iranian attacks in response to continue threats in the region i've ordered the deployment to the kingdom of saudi arabia of 2 additional fighter squadrons and supporting personnel along with additional patriot and fat air missile defense batteries taken together with other deployments have extended or authorized the last month this involves about $3000.00 united states forces a few 100 u.s.

troops went to saudi arabia in mid september after iranian drones and cruise missiles destroyed part of the opdyke include heise oil facilities washington also impose sanctions on iran central bank and its sovereign wealth fund and this is on top of our oil sanctions and our financial institutions sanctions but this latest deployment is much larger because the trumpet ministration says the threat from terre haute has worsened we are accumulating risk of a regional war and i've been saying that for over a year here in another forum and then on september 14th we had an active war. and we continue to accumulate risk of a worse conflict a mid east policy expert said the troop deployment is important but not as important as many assume the additional missile defense systems seem to be a clear reaction to a successful attack by drones and by missiles on saudi oil facilities which

actually was a great embarrassment to the united states and to saudi arabia u.s. officials insist they're not being provocative by sending more troops and weapons to saudi arabia the chances are officials in terrorism will disagree roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. iran says 2 missiles have struck one of its oil tankers off the coast of saudi arabia iran's foreign ministry says the sabaidee vessel was attacked and set on fire in the red sea the ship suffered heavy damage and was leaking oil into the water the u.s. and china have struck a partial trade deal which could potentially end a dispute between the world's 2 largest economies all trump held talks with china's vice premier and suspended a tariff i called $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports. but we've come to a deal an intellectual property. financial services. a tremendous deal for the farmers the purchase of from $40.00 to $50000000000.00 worth of

agricultural products another big issue that we've come to conclusion on is currency foreign exchange we've also made very good progress on technology transfer and we'll put some of the technology transfer in phase one phase 2 will start negotiations almost immediately after we've concluded phase one and paper to the us as former ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department to fire her you know on a bitch has given dramatic testimony to members of congress leading an impeachment investigation into the us president she says she was removed from her post because of unfounded and also claims hundreds more indigenous protesters have poured into ecuador's capital quito to join the tense day of demonstrations against austerity measures where president led a marina to repeal a law that ended a 40 year old fuel subsidy riot police have fired tear gas to break up rallies for protesters responded with fireworks. those are the headlines keep it here on

al-jazeera more news to come our traffic in as that next. antiquities trafficking is one of the most profitable illegal trades in the world estimated to be worth several $1000000000.00 a year it ranks on after illegal arms and drugs precious objects plundered or discovered in clandestine excavations find their way onto the official market into museums and galleries. the main victims the pillage nations are now demanding the return of their stolen treasures for

a long time these demands for ignored. but systematic ransacking of heritage sites meticulously staged by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused a global outcry and has reopened the debate with changing public opinion efforts to halt the trafficking have gained a new urgency but our nation's prepared to act from berlin to beijing from rome to the syrian border and investigation into trafficking that's at the heart of an economic cultural and diplomatic war. paris february 2009 crowds flocked to the ground palace to admire the treasures

contained in the private collection of eve son of home and pierre ballsy one of the most prestigious in the world a few days later these precious works were to be auctioned off by christie's. dozens of masterpieces will be changing hands including these 218th century bronze heads a rat and a rabbit which had once been housed in the imperial palace in beijing their sale sparked an uproar in china. to follow the law was let. off it was. but the present owner doesn't agree to that issue has to be a new palate it is or is there the. omar shoulder

shake a fellow miners of your own book will be today cryptic on that lake it actually. except that these heads were stolen back in the 19th century it was in 860 june the 2nd opium war when french and british troops plundered the forbidden city and ransacked the summer palace. still today the destruction and fair ft are a deep scar for the chinese people. beyond their aesthetic value the bronze heads are considered as priceless items of chinese heritage. should p.r. barracks in their former return. to see our producer who know they are his own paid you to do feel like i do it or she you are fair is it the it it every day g.-d.

could occur if you are right so it goes are expected as your offer for it day is your affair which probably publicly thank took on the issue. you couldn't do it as an asus last letter he had to go on the boulevard to d.c. it. was you so it was very fun to share as you do. know. that. you can read. the 2 heads finally went for

a combined price of 28000000 euros the conclusive bids came from a chinese businessman who asked to remain anonymous but 5 days after the sale the mysterious bio revealed his identity at a press conference in beijing and his announcement was more than unexpected. ways. well as a city in a city that's already been well. dallas it still can but it is here to that idea. as the buyer refused to pay for the objects pillage from his country the big was cancelled and the 2 bronzes were returned to p.r. back. in china people continued to demand the restitution a demand which took on political dimensions beijing viewed it as a way to exercise a national humiliation but also to confirm its newfound international clout the 2

bronzes in the sun the home begs a collection had become symbols of the plundering of their country by the west for christie's it was owed and to calm things down with the chinese in 2030 the owner of christie's file swapping or himself sent emissaries to directly negotiate the purchase of the bronzes with. were to be agreed we could see a near. from france where pino asked this it. there. she says is for presently shores. officially france will have been no return the heads to beijing out of friendship for the people of china but that wasn't all a few weeks after the return of the bronzes in the presence of the french businessman the chinese government finally gave christie's permission to operate in the country and exchange as described it.

the much publicized case of the summer palace bronzes is far from unique more and more pillaged countries are demanding the return of their cultural assets the trophies of the renowned museums of the western world. pillaged. entries have a legal tool to negotiate for the return of their stolen treasures the 1970 unesco convention signed in june the era of de colonization imposes on all nations to return objects obtained illegally. in recent years the pressure on renowned museums has intensified. the pergamon museum the most visited in berlin is obliged to know the origins of its collections. you start.