women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al jazeera. al-jazeera. taylor says the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. a saudi fighter jet crashes over yemen the rebels say they shot it down and release videos proof. as foreign minister says talks to resolve the gulf dispute have been unsuccessful and were suspended at the beginning of the year. it could be one of the largest displacements of the syrian war 140000 people flee it live province in just

a few days. and the battle against the coronavirus goes on with a warning from the w.h.o. that governments must do more to prevent deadly virus outbreaks. i'm joined again with the sport as rugby star israel folau makes his controversial return to the pitch after a homophobic post. by satellite coalition has confirmed that one of its warplanes has crashed in northern yemen fees a video which they say shows them downing the plane in province on friday the u.n. says at least 31 people have been killed in saudi led airstrikes that followed it like a true port. this is the mormon t.m. ns who 3 rebels say they shot down a saudi air force fighter jets the rebels in this video on saturday the saudi

u.a.e. led coalition confirmed one of its planes went down in. the country's northeast the who these also broadcast vision of what it says is the aftermath of saudi led in strikes in the area followed which the rebels claim were retaliate tree attacks the saudi coalition released a statement saying there was a possibility of 4th calls collateral damage to civilians this show you that the us and our forces has been able after they have shut down. several of the. american drones over the skies of yemen in the last 3 months now it seems to be that they are able to slow down those fighter jets and they can say that if they start at this stage this means that we're going to end that and use stage of the lot of these claim the plane was downed with an advanced air to ground missile some analysts say if that's true it would be

a very significant development in yemen's long running war this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left another saudis are in there and incapable of finishing the war and settling in cable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war. the conflict in yemen has killed tens of thousands of people and brought millions to the brink of famine it's estimated more than 91000 yemenis have been killed and another 3000000 displaced by the fighting there's no sign yet when it will end because a gauge al-jazeera. saudi arabia's foreign minister has confirmed that riyadh has been back channel talks with the who fees since the september attacks on that oil facilities prince feisal bit of sound was referring to the attacks on its armco

facilities as faisel said they believe iran asked the who feels to take the blame for the attack he said riyadh is committed to finding a way forward with the who flees out as foreign minister says talks to resolve the gulf dispute have not succeeded and was suspended at the start of january sheikh mohammed bin abdul rahman funny was speaking at the munich security conference but his question is began last year and concern the dispute that source saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt sever political trade and transport ties with carter in mid 2017 the quartet imposed the blockade on gaza kucing it of supporting terrorism a charge repeatedly and vehemently rejected by doha i think now it's been almost 3 years since the crisis started we were not the perpetrator of that crisis and we've been very open and very clear that we are open to any genuine intention to resolve

this problem and we have been we demonstrated this in fact when there was an opening in october here in november and of last year. and unfortunately these efforts didn't succeed and spin suspended at the beginning of january but caldwell would remain at the same position that we are often david mack is the former u.s. ambassador to the u.a.e. he joins me now from washington d.c. thanks very much for being with us why do you think the talks broke down. well this is a decades old problem and there are all kinds of antagonisms among them but basically they don't rise to such a level that this blockade of qatar by saudi arabia of the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt should continue any longer it is very much against the interests of all the arab gulf cooperation council countries and it's against the interests

of the united states which was trying to organize a strategy of maximum pressure against iran and there is only one country that benefits by this stalemate and that iran had any progress being made you think in those talks try and offer has been going on from for nearly 3 years now. well there was a little bit of progress there wasn't there was a g.c.c. summit in riyadh. in december the qatari prime prime minister attended they agreed that they would start talks. and there was after that a what you might call a confidence building measure in the sense that saudi and other regional football teams went to doha for a football tournament and that so they seem to be on the track toward easing their

relationships. but you normally the united states should have been involved in pressing all the countries involved. saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain egypt and qatar to come to some kind of detente we have very very extensive relationships with all 4 of these governments. all 5 of these governments and really it's a failure of u.s. diplomacy well because basically secretary pompei o and secretary of defense esper have not picked up where the former secretary of state rex tillerson and the former secretary of defense jim mattis could have made a lot of progress but they were undercut by president trump and his son in law jared kirshner who fell under too much employees from saudi arabia to time so i

mean you mention the connection with iran and what the u.s. is trying to achieve in terms of policy with iran would that do to the current situation and that will mean that they they do pick up the baton as you put it in and start to mediate further in this dispute. well you would think so because but basically the blockade by the so-called. quadro. quartet of arab states has pushed qatar closer to iran because qatar has to have an outlet it's landlocked except for its land border with saudi arabia it needs to have airline connections it's doing that now through iran which is definitely not the ideal way for this to be taking place it's costing a huge economic deficit to all the countries involved but most important it undermines their security they are strongest in confronting iran and other external

threats like russia like china when they work together as a united front david mack thank you very much indeed to feel for us this country. you're welcome. the u.s. defense secretary has labeled china the biggest threat to the global order speaking at the read it security conference on saturday accuse the chinese government of seeking advantage across the world by any means and at any cost and he again urged european countries to stay away from chinese tech giant huawei a demand that's been rebuffed by european allies under president she's ruled the chinese communist party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction more internal repression more predatory economic practices more heavy handedness and most concerning for me a more aggressive military posture. it is essential that we as an international

community wake up to the challenges presented by china's manipulation of the longstanding international rules based order that has benefited all of us for many decades. before i came here my colleagues told me about what the 2 american senior officials said and they have been once again repeating their smears and criticism of china it has become a common scenario they basically say the same thing wherever they go about china and i don't want to waste our time responding to each and everything they've said what i want to say is that all of these accusations against china are lies they are not based on facts anding almost 2 decades of violence in afghanistan has been high on the agenda at the conference in munich now a provisional agreement between the u.s. and afghan taliban aims to reduce violence for one week if it's a success it could lead to a possibility of intra afghan peace talks u.s. officials hope this will end their involvement in the conflict and as james bays

reports lead to the eventual withdrawal of 12000 troops from afghanistan. the war in afghanistan continues to claim lives here villages prepare to bury those killed in the u.s. airstrike the un only started counting civilian casualties in 2008 years into the conflict but in the decade since then over 100000 civilians were killed or injured. in munich the u.s. was explaining the deal its now struck with the taliban an effort to try and end the war we have on the table right now a reduction in violence proposal that was negotiated between our ambassador and the taliban it looks very promising and we have now been for a few days now in the process of consulting 1st with our congress i have had many conversations and then secondly concurrently with our nato allies in brussels now the u.s. has done it steal its partners must follow other nato countries still have 8000

personnel in the country serving alongside of 12000 u.s. troops we are not leaving afghanistan but we are prepared to adjust our force level if the taller bar on them assert their will and the ability to deduce violence and make it really compromises cut out of the negotiations with the taliban that are gone on for over a year with the afghan government president ashraf ghani had demanded a ceasefire be put in place before any deal instead the taliban have only agreed to what's being called a reduction in violence the critical test is going to be will be will the except in election as the mechanism the crucial mechanism of referring to that one people in the still have you come of course afghanistan's last election is

still not been formally decided ashraf ghani has the most number of votes but he's not been declared the winner that is going to make things difficult in the coming days because afghanistan needs to choose the delegation for those talks that it now needs to have with the taliban james bays out just 0 munich. coming up on out of there this news hour protesters in mexico brand their country a femicide state for an emergence of a 25 year old woman. we go on patrol with security forces in the. region where violent rebel attacks have killed almost a 1000 people in 4 months. and we'll see what's next for manchester city as they get ready to appeal a 2 year ban from the champions league. apologies

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sea coast is going to be very wet indeed they could well be some localized flooding the winds will cause some problems large across northwestern parts of the u.k. but the rain is likely because the real issues the low pressure south is going to hang around for a while becoming distorted amongst the afloat meanwhile across more eastern areas of your weather conditions are actually going to change and for the better so some warmer weather coming in across the balkans parts of in the course of sunday and into monday some high night time temperatures meanwhile we've got this area of rain which is going to be pushing towards the alps turning red lead to snow says much welcome falls of snow expected over the alps peyronie's though still remain a large draw as you move into north africa put the temperature contrast on here and you can see that the heat across central parts of africa only cheery highs of 34 but roughly cool with a strong wind across the coast of libya with highs of 17 in benghazi. but. i cannot lock my phone with my face you can access your bank account with your

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a growing that these lucrative arrangements made were seen as strategies academic institutions even national security at risk struggling universities so don't paint sleepwalking that brain in a kind of it's astonishing there is no excuse anymore. one east investigates how beijing is infiltrating a strategy is university. one day in november and executive assistant to the straggly national university in canberra read an email. it set off a cyber highest like nom this country has experienced before. as near

as we can tell the 1st thing that our hackers did is they launched a spear phishing attack one where you didn't. have to actually make a mistake normally have to click on something that was not the case. so this was really the 18. they were able to do things that were impressive and very hard to stop. colleague i am a student in a vice chancellor as student leadership program i am currently working on a project which went to require help as a mentor. over 6 weeks the hakas santa of speed fishing the models impersonating a student and stuff to steal pos words for the universities databases.

it was until 6 months after the infiltration of the i and you began at the university discovered a surprise containing nearly 2 decades worth of records of current and former students and stuff had been hacked. the database went back 1000 years and included several 100000 people and we do not know what data was taken of which person over what top. so they removed data from essential e the database that contains when you were a student here your records passport details probably bank account details. they haven't has shows this to be a highly organized well resourced sophisticated actor consistent with a state actor or you know a very well funded group sometimes associated with a state actor. we understand that behind closed doors intelligence agencies say the

evidence points to the culprit being china that may well be the case but it's not always in the interests of government of course all the strength in people to point a finger at a nice can and it may be that you don't have the literal smoking gun that you require for that irrefutable evidence publicly to make such an assertion. senior strongly and security officials aside i believe the chinese government was carrying out a high take espionage operation to collect information that could be used to compromise and blackmail the victim. trains thousands of people who end up in the national security community if and you has materials on these people that could be used to compromise them for example a history of of plagiarism or sexual harassment allegations then this is incredibly

concerning and could undermine our national security i and you graduate and influential china analyst alex joseph was one of 200000 people who was told his personal data may have been stolen. just be believes the new has left itself wide open. and use one of the world's leading universities for collaboration with the chinese military one example and you is that and you trained a scientist who was sent here by the chinese military as a ph d. student working on artificial intelligence and specifically transforms working together with and you scientists who are receiving defense funding for the exact same research when he went back to china he was quickly promoted and is now head of the p.o. the chinese militaries drones one program we found 30 collaboration's between an u. and chinese defense universities papers on aerial robots and drones and

research that could be used to help stealth fighters hide themselves while communicating with military bases all of the work that we do is in the public domain so it's not secret research it's not for dollars it is there normally in some form that is much more generic now there are abilities for things to be dual use but we always again look at whether or not we think things are potentially able to do harm. since 27 tane a strike as security agencies have been warning universities about the risks of foreign interference. publicly they don't. just the education minister announced a university foreign interference tasca force.

foreign interference is now at an unprecedented levels in this country days for sauber intrusions which of a could in the last 3 to 4 years which. should be a white cup called australia and it's call to a university sector waica called business sector call where government owners to the developing countries. the chinese government and its supporters deny that china poses a threat with nurses. and other intelligence units in australia making allegations direct or indirect you know against china we think these allegations are unfounded and without substantial evidence or should i think there are some forces in the china forces that are playing chinese academic professor chain home was recently brought to a stray or as part of a p.r.

campaign and was provided by the chinese embassy after it declined our request to interview the ambassador and most of. those united nations i think to date so far there has been no clear evidence you know you know you know evidence being produced but. to as i said incriminates china you know to be doing anything. with chinese student numbers of record highs australia's most respected and prosperous universities are in the midst of a cultural and political transformation. with the other for the rise of the staff sergeant but we also you know work for the advent of the children. at the university of sydney one quarter of all students now come from china. aspiring politician jackie who became the 1st chinese

citizen in a stroller elected president of a university student representative council i don't use your telephone. today he's campaigning for the reelection of his group called panda as being andrew i can speak from entering without it cause yeah yeah but many members are pro china of course kind of does not necessarily me. doing any kind of writing and you know we add well we love the country are all well our we love golf in china it's not there's no dichotomy here where like you have to either love one country are not right and the purpose of us existing is to bridge that gap between international and domestic unions so day internationals urns can have to help to be better involved in the community here. 42 on the world those who are going to all of you all want to be able to tell you because you know. we're an hour before polling closed the pandas were suspended from campaigning for breaching multiple roles

including campaigning in mandarin and standing over students who were casting their votes. last august jackie who filmed a segment for a chinese state t.v. show called the china dream named after president xi jinping trademark political slogan. is essentially chinese students from across the world from various different countries like canada romania america and obviously australia. to come together and share their love and feelings about china and their stories with chinese students and with. jackie who says chinese students are being unfairly vilified ranch media have been accusing. chinese international shouldn't of being of carrying out spy work you know strange and i think to accuse these students who are already

facing a heavy amount of burden regardless whether it's financial social or psychological to accuse them of spy working australia i think it's quite absurd and the purpose of international shouldn't isn't here to carry out any spy work for for for for the government in china at least a vast majority of internationally don't have any of this kind of intention at all . the university of queensland has been at the center of the storm over chinese political interference on campus. i want to nora taishan day the university was the scene of an ugly confrontation between pro and anti beijing demonstrators.

we decided to hold the protests on market day surrounding our universities closely for chinese state because we decided that would be the best way to get attention to the course. student activist true power flute latest city against vice chancellor peter horton over the university's close connections with the chinese government. i lead a chant hey hey hurry peta has got to go and that was basically calling for peta white to resign or for his links to the chinese communist party while these human rights abuses are being perpetrated and then i let it stand hey hey heard her she's in pain has got to go. it was at that moment that i was attacked.

i heard noises like there was a national effort and there was shouting slogans. shouting china's whole call. betrayers of china. was like. they were ugly sayings on both sides. there are close to $9000.00 chinese students and rolled at the university of queensland they phase contribute a quarter of a $1000000000.00

a year. in the last 5 years you queued received $24000000.00 from agreements with chinese institutions and companies. it also hosts a branch of the confucius institute a language and culture program run by an of the chinese government called handbag which gives you queue up to $400000.00 a year. university of queensland fast chancellor paid a whole year has forged a strong links to china. 2013 he was appointed as an unpaid senior consultant to handbag and was later made a member of the council of confucius institute headquartered. professor who has also received hand bands outstanding individual of the year award. he stood down for man band. last year after being advised he'd need to declare it under

a strangely as new foreign interference transparency scheme. there a conflict of interest between your commitment to academic independency with your membership of the council of the confucius institute headquarters i believe not you know a stroller like any other country. or foreign service. we always believe that in order to get the best out of open collaboration and that you have to engage and influence and what i've been trying to do is to influence the way that the chinese see their relationship with us rather than being influenced by the chinese are you confident that the chinese government or chinese communist party has an attempted to influence you. i'm very confident that i haven't been influenced i think it is concerning especially given what we know about the way the chinese government sees education in the chinese government's

eyes education is a means of propaganda of brainwashing and controlling the thoughts of people so from history in university vice chancellor to be advising the chinese government on education. from an optics perspective looks terrible. last july at the university of queensland made china's consul general in britain an adjunct professor the 5th such appointment of a chinese diplomat. was nominated by the director of u. cuse confucius institute. the appointment of such people goes through a book well defined process. anybody can nominate. somebody for an affiliate position and it is not unusual we have $2500.00 such positions. after the uku protest the consul general put out

a statement praising the probe aging protesters for what he described as spontaneous patriotic behavior and condemning what he called the words and deeds of separatist country. i think it's quite incredible that a man listed by the purser can seemingly endorse student endorse violence against protesting and exercising their right to free speech and free assembly and continue to be a professor at the university of queens then months later made it very clear that we don't endorse any violent acts in a peaceful demonstration and through that you can conclude that i would disagree was somebody who wouldn't dos that type of behavior. there's been a lot of concerning activity at the university of queensland in gauges in

particularly high levels of collaboration with the with chinese partners some of which has raised serious human rights concerns so one example is that a scientist uku professor should. set up a company in china called koala that was commercializing his research and applying it towards monitoring people in the region of since you know. you cue professor shane hangtown developed cutting edge surveillance technology that's now being used as part of a mass surveillance program in china's she province. professor shane has received $2600000.00 in grants from the struggling research council. who. is no longer a professor at duke you he stopped being an employee in 2017.

i understand that he is back in china. he was an outstanding contributor to development of related research. and that capability is now being deployed for australia's. benefit. what he goes on to do. subsequent to having left you to is something that we can't readily control or make judgement about because we are not privy to the details of its activities in china. in january last year chinese media reported the announcement by haiyan darter of the. stablish meant to have a joint tart official intelligence of the burra tree with the university of technology sydney. there's very little information about the deal available it's

only available in chinese language media but we can see an image of director at high in data with an academic e.t.s. that means images of the agreement. of. the u.t.s. academic was associate damon director of the university center for artificial intelligence professor louis comes here last month professor lew one of $3000000.00 fellowship from the australian research council for a project to enable lot official intelligence to learn autonomous late from dot up there and there is. actually. what response of samantha hoffman is concerned by the u.t.s. higher data connection. i have to do is search a company like data and chinese on google and very quickly or come up with their

relationships to the ministry of public security in particular and ministry of public security colleges because as soon as you have a company that's involved in the ministry of public security and one that advertises actually. very openly that it is involved in. that police state you have to ask why yes find that acceptable. seized the reason. that it has confirmed a research project with higher data to develop technology for handwriting recognition. it seems as if data has built a relationship with scholars at the university but we also know that you to sydney seems to have signed other arrangements that you know what not technically illegal to raise major red flags we need to ask the social and political consequences

of technology advancement and their adoption of technology just just very broadly we need to start understanding the implications and so if there is a. a affirm that's backed by a regime that doesn't purport to be a liberal western democracy and it's in gauging in what could be. developments that help suppress people then that's a dangerous thing. in 27 tane u.t.s. signed a 10000000 dollar deal with a state owned military company called china electronics technology corp to fund a new high tech research center one of its projects focused on public security video analysis the company c.t.c. had earlier developed a mass surveillance app used to monitor we get synching. u.t.s.

denies its research contributed to the app. but we can reveal its abandoning the project down to others would see t.c. because of concerns expressed by strongly as defense department. anyone seeking money needs to. quite clearly understand what obligations are associated with that money and they also need to understand in the case of researches what the technology they were searching could be used or misused for. china's next major research venture in a stroller is currently being developed at the university of new south wales. the torch innovation precinct is the chinese science ministries overseas high tech research zone and will host more than 60 companies including while away and c.t.c. . chinese companies have so far committed $47000000.00 to the project.

i say the torch technology park which is part of beijing's technology transfer from the west to china has the plundering of some of us trailers most valuable. intellectual property university same hope livius to the risks i think the university of new stuff while us is one of a handful of universities in australia which is completely in denial about what's going on. the university of new south wales says it takes its security and compliance obligations very seriously and is came to work more closely with the government to ensure its operations are always in line with the national interest. universities and now on the front line of a clash of political and academic cultures that's posing greater challenges to the

industry than ever before. their entanglement with china's or thora tarion regime is calling astrologers academic integrity human rights commitment and national security and that's. where all dealing with what is an emerging threat a threat which has raged levels of unprecedented proportions so we want to make sure it's very clear what the responsibilities of universities are when it comes to collaborating with any government foreign government because it's incredibly important that we get that collaboration right and that their collaboration is industry's interests. some universities are starting to get the message many universities just have their is closed. unable to hear the kinds of warnings.

there is no excuse anymore perhaps 3 or 4 years ago university vice chancellors could have said oh well we didn't know that is no longer excused naivety is no longer an excuse. thanks love to make loans to sufferance because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because us taxpayers never go away is a new arm bone every single day and it is an urgent national necessity that we officially request the education of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow i am a sinner i'm

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