yes that's right so the storm still have the east coast of all the island of honshu the most populated island in japan which is where of course the capital. is located but certainly the capital city and surrounding areas already as you mentioned feeling the effects of this storm is certainly expected to get a lot worse in fact. all the strength of this storm here in the capital is expected to come at around 9 o'clock local time so that's in about 5 hours from now we're seeing a lot of heavy rain falling in the city the wind is getting stronger. again that is expected to get a lot worse as far as the rainfall goes for past the saying that we may see this storm bringing levels of rainfall that we haven't seen since a deadly typhoon struck tokyo back in 1958 so the highest alert levels have been raised in this particular concern for communities on the coast of course and coastal areas to the east of the capital so we're talking about iraqi prefecture

chiba prefecture that is where most of those evacuation orders or advisories are in place now but also in areas which are prone to landslides as well peeping people are being ordered to leave those areas and the threat of rainfall is because all of the fact that we are close to a full moon so that means that those coastal areas are particularly vulnerable because tides may be higher than usual so that dealing with the rainfall the dealing with the high tide levels and also the possibility of storms as well so a lot of evacuations going on right now. the hurricane is affecting 2 major sporting events as well as transport links in the air and on the land. yes that's right a lot of disruption this weekend you mentioned the sporting events this probably should have been a weekend when the sporting world or much of it would have been focused on japan with those 2 rugby will. cup games cancelled there is a possibility of

a 3rd one on sunday being cancelled as well a decision on that will be made on sunday morning by the tone of the golden eyes is the formula one grand prix in suzuka which is about 300 kilometers to the south of tokyo that is still shaky to go on sunday but of course a final decision on that may also be made on sunday morning most train services have been canceled as well where we. train station is just across the road normally right now on a saturday afternoon evening it would be extremely busy it would be bustling it is a ghost town now people who are not in those evacuation areas are basically being advised to stay indoors so it seems judging by the streets of tokyo right now most people are heeding that advice and also flights have been disrupted as well we've got hundreds of flights that have been canceled to and from tokyo so that's both domestic and international flights so certainly a lot of disruption caused by the storm and will continue to monitor the situation

with you through the day for the moment when thank you. you're watching still to come turkish forces pushing deeper into northern syria the u. u.s. pentagon is calling again for restraint it's also confirmed that the u.s. forces have come under turkish tillery fire near karbala we'll have more on that after the break. hello it has rained in london for quite a few hours now and you can see why the clouds just streaming in from the atlantic and heading off towards the baltic states as a change in the west east asia this is dipping down the tail is dipping down to the bay of biscay but this is saturday's picture that much the rest of europe is enjoying nice warm sunshine 20 to 25 degrees or thereabouts and take you tween

saturday and sunday now the night could be a bit chilly but we're not back cold yet and we back up the same by day all that changed really is it's not raining is hard in the baltic states is still cloudy in denmark and the rain has tucked into those western france northwestern spain on the north of portugal but that's as far as it's got by the end of sunday so not much of that is going to tuck into morocco enjoy the sunshine 24 about or even into new 0 g. is where we're talking about temperatures around the 30 mark still is over see hotter in egypt 35 encourage down to 42 in the valley of the kings bass one ready summery now the the sun's gone south of course has taken the main rain belt through tropical africa down towards i go to for example but we're still seeing big showers every day for when the ethiopian harlan's form in sudan south sudan and as far west a cynical.

you're watching and as a reminder of our top stories turkish forces are pushing deeper into northern syria

the u.s. pentagon is again calling for restraint it's also confirmed that u.s. forces have come under turkish artillery fire. also the u.s. and china have struck a partial trade deal donald trump has held talks with china's vice premier and suspended it terrified on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports that was set to take effect on choose. and more than a 1000000 people have been advised to evacuate a super typhoon like of its approaches japan's capital to rugby world cup matches have been suspended. the u.s. has announced the deployment of $1800.00 additional soldiers to saudi arabia to strengthen the kingdom security now this follows an attack on riyadh oil facilities last month it brings the total number of u.s. military personnel in the country now to 3000 also in jordan has the latest from washington d.c. . 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 i've extended or authorized for 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 guy and who heis oil facility 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 chances are officials in tehran will disagree roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington now the us is full ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department to fire her but evanovich gave testimony to members of congress leading an impeachment inquiry into the us president she says she was removed from her post because of unfounded and false claims the inquiry is investigating whether trump tried to pressure ukraine's leader into investigating

his democratic rival joe biden and his son who has business interests in the country mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. . the former ambassador to ukraine mari your benefits was instructed by the state department not to appear in congress however she defied this instruction appearing before the congressional committee behind closed doors then there was the case of her opening statements being leaked and certainly according to that statement she came out with both barrels firing insisting that those with questionable motives had caused her recall from the ukraine that the direct instruction of president trump she spoke about what she called a hollowed out state department and certainly added to the congressional knowledge 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 staying in washington and president trump has knows that the acting homeland security secretary is to step down the replacement will be named next week trump said on twitter that kevin mckidd leave plans to enter the private sector mclean was held or has held the post since april he's the 4th person to serve in the role since trump took office in 2060. and i could be more fighting between police and indigenous communities as

thousands joined the 10th day of protests against austerity demonstrators want president moreno to repel a law that ended a 40 year old fuel subsidy at least 5 people have been killed since clashes began but will repel or has the details from the capital key to. clashes between police and protesters in ecuador's capital city show no sign of relenting police used flash bang grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowds. demonstrators say authorities have also used live ammunition against peaceful protesters. 6 the ongoing protests have paralyzed much of downtown. amidst the chaos and clouds of tear gas medical patients could be seen fleeing nearby hospitals you don't know most emotion not just disturb that's done before you see this we couldn't have imagined a situation it's horrifying to see people fighting one another for

a few hours. after more than a week of unrest indigenous demonstrators continue to run from across the country to participate in the ongoing anti-government demonstrations some traveling from communities as far away as the amazon to join the front lines in the front of him with a video that we've come from far away leaving our families behind and now we're here to participate in a national strike so the government can show us some respect. in a pre recorded message to the nation on friday ecuador's president leonie moreno asked for a direct dialogue with leaders within the national confederation of indigenous communities in these been stably it's imperative that we end the violence we need solutions to the issues of our country i'm calling on leaders to speak with me directly. outside ecuador's national assembly building demonstrators were once again met with sound grenades and tear gas several demonstrators as well as police officers were injured during the confrontation despite the ecuadorian

president's call for a national dialogue tensions still remain very high here in quito demonstrators say that they're angry over the heavy handed response by authorities against peaceful protesters if anything these clashes between demonstrators and police only appear to be intensifying. indigenous leaders have agreed to sit down for talks with the president but with growing calls for the authorities to bring back order to the streets there's concern the violence could get even worse when measured up and. do it rather. well protesters in haiti have clashed with police in the capital port au prince day after a journalist was found shot dead in his car the killing of reporting the heavy josephs happened during a surge in violence that's killed at least 20 people he was known for his coverage of the protests against the government demonstrators are demanding the resignation of the president of n l y c. the european union has entered intensified talks with the united kingdom to find a new brics it withdrawal agreement the renewed to go she actions followed discussions

between britain's prime minister and the e.u. used chief negotiator michel barnier he said talks had been constructive boris johnson has pledged that britain will leave the e.u. by october 31st with all without a deal both sides have expressed cautious optimism around ongoing talks saying there's still a long way to go. china's president xi jinping is wrapping up his visit to india he's taking part in a final day of talks with prime minister new interim ot trade and regional security dominated the meeting the 2 countries have been at odds over the kashmir dispute beijing has traditionally back to pakistan in its decades long dispute with india they also spoke about other development development or priorities in particular there were some discussion on trade related issues on economic issues on trying to identify areas for investment that the 2 countries good to encourage and also on

how to enhance the trade volume and the trade value. in this also obviously included the issue of the trade difference that exists and the unbalance treaty that exists. well staying in asia a town in central philippines has replaced an almost all male police falls with women officers it's part of a one to government effort to promoting women in the workplace and. reports that. they are on a mission not just to apprehend criminals but to break stereotypes. these police officers are the 1st all female police force in the country sorry matters marry young police or pulleys mary's as they are called are from the town of maria in c.q. who are in the sensual philippines male police officers who were previously assigned here have all been moved elsewhere this is seen as

a trail blazing move by colonel angela handel who is also the 1st female police director of the city hall or she said she knows how tough it is for females to rise through the police ranks we have women legislators we have women in in the congress we also have women presidents and why not 4 day philippine national police around 20 female police officers now staff this station assigned to protect around 12000 residents and although their arrival is celebrated here the pressure to deliver is felt deeply. they are made to undergo the same kind of training that male police officers go through. the philippine national police has a 10 percent quota of female officers within its ranks on their its reform program

for decades female police officers were mostly just assigned to do desk work but that is about to change now they tell us a woman's place is also on the front lines. local residents say they have already felt the difference people are more curious people are more curious now but they're not this the police station before now they understand what they do and that the people are on our say not other ways public trust in the philippine police has plummeted over the last few years the government's controversial drug war has left thousands of filipinos dead most of them from impoverished communities and allegations of corruption and abuse of power has affected its top leadership. these police officers vow to give their best because for so long they've been sidelined this time using their strengths and qualities as women to finally lead

and rule in a man's world. jim duggan al-jazeera marry and seek your essential philip. kenny a star on a good game is attempting to run the marathon in under 2 hours at a race in vienna now this will be kept 2nd attempt to smash the world record after running 26 2nd short of the target almost 2 years ago in monza his team think he has a good chance this time around in vienna because of the favorable climate excellent quality and the route being almost completely flat. with means the whole romney reminded of our top news stories the pentagon has warned turkey of serious consequences if it continues its military offensive against kurdish forces in syria on friday u.s. forces came under turkish artillery fire the incident took place shortly after

defense secretary mark esper called for restraint. from the president on down we have communicated with the turks on this issue i spoke with turkish defense minister a car yesterday to express our strong opposition to turkey's actions they reiterated the damage this is doing to our bilateral relationship. the u.s. is sending additional troops to saudi arabia the pentagon confirm military hardware will also be sent to boost the kingdom's defenses following an attack on riyadh oil facilities last month it brings the total number of u.s. military personnel in the country to 3000. more than a 1000000 japanese people have been advised to leave their homes as super typhoon haiyan this approach is tokyo one of the strongest ever storms in japan is expected to batter the capital with record amounts of rain and high winds to rugby world cup matches have been cancelled because of safety concerns and flights and train services stops the u.s.

and china have struck a partial deal that could lead to the end of the 15 month long trade war between the world's 2 largest economies donald trump talks with china's vice premier and suspend the tariff increases on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports to you to take effect on choose day because she asians for a complete agreement are expected to take 5 weeks. washington's a former ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department to fire her and she was removed because the unfounded and false claims marie evanovich gave testimony to members of congress leading an impeachment inquiry into the us president is investigating whether president trump pressured ukraine's president it investigating his democratic rival joe biden and his son who worked there. kenya star running to keep the gay is attempting to run the marathon in under 2 hours at a race in vienna it'll be his 2nd attempt to smash the world record after running 26 seconds short of the target 2 years ago in models that those were the headlines

about good more news in half an hour inside story is next to stay with us. al-jazeera. where every. 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 dobby china has long been sensitive about what's that at home and controls everything that could affect its image in our 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 but. italy 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 or so at the companies that have the 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 of partners 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 a 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 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 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 longstanding policy 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 support or the home that there was a violation is seen by the chinese being judgmental of chinese sovereignty and that's why the chinese government. i think it's too great 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 the south koreans and the norwegian 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 innate and the whole party parquet is ready to be mobilized to protect it and general opposer called it are you a fan of china and if you are friends you must not criticise time and then it is in may but if you are not a friend you criticise time now and the party of parkas will mobilize the end 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 steps for it chinese authorities would like the sanctions to create a determines back. 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 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've been so far is the worst of all countries at 11 as well as china trying to consumers and join a productive very much an athlete making at a profit in china and the relationship you know it's rosy a lot of crap. that is that is the ball actually tracked on our police whereabouts and while i'm a little wrong the police the spec believe this is actually endangering

obama police officers because if it enables the rock the more violent rivals to be able to track where the police are and what point them made who was the places where the police presence is light and to continue the trail of destruction so i think it's it will be fair to say that apple has actually done the right thing i just have jurisdiction let's just put i think said to joseph chang in hong kong joseph on that idea of the app because that's what victor in singapore is talking about if you've got 243000000 i phone users in china if their conduit for information about accurate truthful news is one app on the app store i.e. that one app becomes a portal to reality most really going on outside the country ok is good is good for beijing is good for apple it's not good for the the uses of apple 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 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 they are questions for the police at that spot and it is significant do 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 on own 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 sense 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 getting. the same thing on national day again to collate their position and to criticise china so timely is there a sense of fear 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 too 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 make 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 time in singapore ok let's talk about the n.b.a. story clearly at some point down rule 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 this as a small blip on up the last 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 handle that the fans assume dying to watch and be a match is. 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 and in the years a lot of the time 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 the riot stick that they want i think they will calm the chinese government out because you know you want to be even handed in a command and also we support whatever it is because of what they're doing that

that's not the message i mean the fact is don't 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 that 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 discussion about i'm cop just a change in hong kong is this debate tilting in the right direction for the 1st time ever the u.s. commerce 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 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 syngenta there are violations obvious that you can actually know community calls for of sanctions are in these actions against the time nice authorities get western countries including the united states 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 designed to. protect human rights in china it is speculate at bat one of someone 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 administration securest want it the zionist 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 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 the you know that if they accept anything it doesn't want to and now having said that we all know that if the went on and that alan and and you know the next administration in. a change so i don't think there's going to be anything that is really sort of a permanent arrangement that is going to be pretty basically it's just really what they've all known and well i guess the drama is they say that he's out of awful good 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 going to be there each man. it's all about what you create that's all sides when we talk about both sides there are thompson 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 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 2 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 that road i mean i think about it 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 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 target at the american operate at 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 pressure on american corporations and in bali to human rights will not help to improve and they maintain long term good relations with the united states the price is going to be on ok in 30 seconds of an

answer please pick the time and 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 ready when you come across as being responsible and but at the same probably want to make sure that the 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 chairing 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. inside story i'm also at pizza topping one for me it'll be on the entire team here

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here in doha also coming up a temporary truce in the trade war between the u.s. and china the sit economies worldwide also trade services shart a 1000000 people told to evacuate this time when i get this racist towards japan. i think the voters have in a very clear message to were too dangerous politicians in this regard to disease voters demand more jobs and a chair compromises as they vote to elect a new president in sunday's runoff. welcome to the program the u.s. has once again warned turkey of consequences and very powerful sanctions if it continues its military offensive into syria but turkey's president says the operation will last stop on the ground turkish forces are pushing deeper into the northeast of the country assault against kurdish fighters and to a 4th day 24 syrians have been killed according to the syrian observatory for human

rights and chris says 18 civilians have died on the turkish side of the border the u.n. says more than 100000 people have fled their homes since the attacks began on wednesday . from the president on down we have communicated with the turks on this issue i spoke with turkish defense minister a car yesterday to express our strong opposition to turkey's actions and reiterated the damage this is doing to our bilateral relationship u.s. officials say some american troops have withdrawn from a military position in northern syria that came under turkish artillery fire but it appears the outpost did not take a direct hit charles strafford reports from turkey syria border. black smoke rising over north eastern syria turkish tanks and reinforcements move towards the border with turkey military says it's captured a number of villages around the kurdish controlled towns of to lobby out and

russell i mean it's reported most if not all the civilian populations are fled. the u.n. says that more than 100000 people have been forced from their homes. there are civilian casualties among the thousands of people fleeing turkish artillery shells soldiers and their syrian rebel allies turkey says it's conducting what it calls an anti terror operation to create a safe zone so syrian refugees in turkey can return to. the kurdish syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. he's putting up fierce resistance in turkey considers the main kurdish fighting force of the s.d.f. was aligned with a group which is for the turkish government for decades b.s.d.'s fought alongside u.s. forces a highly effective in defeating eisel in northern syria and the turkish offensive began after the u.s. withdrew some of its forces from the area. turkey is nato's the 2nd largest

military power the bloke's chief met the turkish foreign minister in a prescheduled visit he called for restraint but no harsh criticism of the turkish government i shared with him my serious concerns about the ongoing operation and the risk of further destabilizing the region escalating tensions and even more human suffering why turkey house legitimacy security concerns i expect turkey to act with restraint turkey's president remains defiant there is that in the down most of the big to make it is that we are not waiting for terrorists to come to our door we're now aiming to destroy target is ations other source took the only suspect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our neighbors but under one condition we are not going to accept actions against our country the turkish military is widening its bombardment of s.d.f.

positions along the border forcing potentially thousands more people to flee their homes many of whom already internally displaced victims of the war in syria. al-jazeera on the turkish syrian border so the thought of the corresponding line for us in a. new techies border with syria let's just begin sort of with the latest updates on what we know is happening on the ground near you. well positions of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are coming under heavy fire since the early hours of the morning those positions being targeted by airstrikes by turkish artillery turkish troops on the ground along with their allies the opposition syrian national army they're still trying to make their way in advance into the 2 main towns in a 120 kilometer strip of territory which has been really the focus of the ongoing operations at least the 1st phase of this operation so they're trying to make their

way into. the us the office putting up a fight fierce resistance it is a difficult fight because it's street to street battles but there has been some progress in advance on the ground turkish troops and their allies reach the strategic m. 4 highway this highway connects the east and west syria but more importantly if they're able to hold their position on this highway they will divide the area under the control of the s. the f. in the northeastern corner of syria of course there are other roads but this is the main highway linking their territories east of the euphrates so the west of the euphrates so the fighting continues the humanitarian impact of this conflict is being felt on both sides of the border syrian civilians have been reportedly killed in turkish shelling war monitoring say war monitors saying more than 20 but turkish civilians as well have been killed in cross border fire the launching rockets and mortars into turkish border towns killing almost 20 civilians in the past few days

. because no in this incident which happened in the last 24 hours it really was the americans worried. it is the printing the crisis between these nato allies the relationship was strained before turkey launched this offensive and now the pentagon really put it bluntly it is damage to our relationship the united states have been trying to pile pressure on turkey to stop this advance the incident you mentioned in called bani that is a syrian border town not far from where we are according to the u.s. department of defense there are soldiers came under turkish artillery fire the turkish defense ministry is insisting we did not hit that outpost we were careful what we were doing was responding to fire and that fire was from a hill 1000 meters from the base so it's not clear how this incident is going to if

it's going to worsen the relationship between these 2 countries already washington is threatening. economic sanctions they're calling them very significant economic sanctions if turkey crosses the red line so more and more pressure on the turkish government to stop this offensive but the turkish president made it very very clear yesterday despite the criticism despite the threats we are pushing ahead with this operation because for us this is a question of national security and will continue to move the servants with you to cali thank you let's also cross over to northern iraq because protests against the turkish offensive are taking place in iraq semi autonomous kurdish region bernard smith is our correspondent in real concern. about what's going on in eastern syria which is why you have the numbers of people behind you. yes so from what the crowds have been chanting here there's clearly no love lost between the kurds and turkey or the shouts of terrorist or one terrorist of an

echoing out over the last hour or so and there is also a real feeling of betrayal by the americans of people i've been speaking to before we came to live they were saying they felt they feel betrayed they feel let down overnight that they were helping the americans leading the americans in the fight against eisel and suddenly it all changed and now they've been left to fight themselves against americans to fight on new fronts against its incursions and before well as rather turkey's incursions in northeastern syria started the government here its official line with a lot the consequences of military escalation have implications beyond syria's borders creating the conditions for a return of eiffel and a mass displacement of people there are already some 225000 syrian kurds here as a result of the conflict in syria more may cross the fighting escalates although they're

mainly internally displaced inside northeastern syria at the moment so a lot of dates times spent a semester in erbil moving on to other news now and the u.s. and china have struck a partial trade deal or could end the 15 month long trade war between the 2 of the world's largest economies will dole trump has held talks with china's vice premier and suspended a terrifying con $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports that were set to take effect on choose day it may take more than a month for the full deal to be written. but we've come to a deal an intellectual property. financial services. a tremendous deal for the farmers a purchaser from $40.00 to $50000000000.00 worth of agricultural products another big issue that we've come to a 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 papered it to fit right as a united states policy analyst the eurasia group but he thinks one of the reasons behind troops decision is to get some relief for us famous and boost the country's economy. i think the pieces of this deal that are fairly concrete are the chinese agricultural purchases which trump says they will step up their current levels and the cancellation of the looming tariff increase which was due to go into place next week beyond that there's a lot left undone around intellectual property a sectoral opening for financial services firms in china that has been rumored and pulled back a number of times and a lot of other issues where the real substance is still needs to be ironed out the chinese have already for the last 2 weeks or so their purchases of particularly of

soybeans have been at much higher levels than they were for the bulk of the summer and so that's a big relief to farmers and if this deal holds i think those purchases will will continue or probably go up as well the pieces that are left undone are primarily in electoral property the enforcement regime for this deal as well as a number of sort of unrelated issues on national security in particular on huawei the chinese telecom for it seems pretty clear to me that part of the reason for his motivation to to get this deal was to get some relief for farmers and to put a boost into the macro economy in the u.s. as he heads into reelection and comes off of what was a very damaging week for him politically here in washington over the asia pacific where more than a 1000000000 japanese people have been advised to leave their homes as typhoon high could this approach is to give one of the strongest ever storms in japan is expected to batter the capital with record amounts of rain and high winds safety

concerns of the consolation of 2 rugby world cup matches flights and train services have also been so.