out on to the beach to slave ships waiting in the indian ocean. historians say millions of africans were enslaved and shipped across the seas to the middle east and beyond over centuries many died on the way. those who ended up in freetown were lucky. woman was founded by christian missionaries build the church 140 years ago 'd 'd. christianity still going strong with older members of the community who worry their unique history is fading away. and their identity with it. and where al-jazeera. can yeah. this is al-jazeera and half past the hour these are the headlines the bloodiest day of the crackdown yet by security forces in may and not against protesters have been

running for weeks in the past few hours at least 4 protesters have been confirmed killed by the police one shot dead in yangon and reports of several more fatalities in other cities and a change has more from bangkok what has been very difficult is confirming the numbers of it is as they've been coming in we've seen very gruesome pictures on social media of the injuries sustained by the protesters in these incidences of live fire. as the police and army have pushed down but in the last hour actually you mentioned 4 confirmed the press news agency has confirmed that there are 2 more they've spoken to an ambulance men who transported to bodies from this city about go which is about an hour's drive from mental and we're expecting those numbers to climb even further. 47 pro democracy activists in hong kong have been challenged under a controversial security law imposed by beijing it is the largest single round of

charges under the new law. well the still waiting to hear news about these 317 school girls who've been kidnapped in northern nigeria has met some of their parents in. a state the stories they are they telling us are so harboring harrowing experiences they said immediately after these girls were taken . after daylight when daylight arrives they followed their footsteps and along the way they picked up head dresses shoes stained with blood and then they were blood traces are along the way and what bothers the most is that this school is not far away from some key security checkpoints in this town of. and that is a look at your headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next. china's

president says his country has won the war against the extreme poverty now it's just the being measured what does the announcement mean for xi jinping his legacy and the global economy this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i'm sam he's a than ending extreme poverty has been a key initiative of the chinese president since he came to power in 2012 almost

a decade later she jinping says his country has achieved a historic miracle his government says over an 8 year period nearly 100000000 people have been lifted out of destitution but critics are questioning china's bol for measuring poverty and the sustainability of the project has also been controversy around the timing of the announcement the country says it has been victorious over coronavirus and is preparing to lay out its plans for medium term growth next week that's while the pandemic is expected to push 150000000 people into extreme poverty globally this year and the communist party is getting prepared to celebrate its 100th anniversary president gigi ping is upbeat. shoot i love looking back with my great historic achievements in eliminating absolute poverty that had perplexed the chinese nation for thousands of years creating a miracle in the poverty reduction history of mankind looking ahead we are fighting

to realize our historic grand explorations of building a modern and socialist country you know it all round manna throat it is long and striving is the only way out when chinese media has held the president's role in ending poverty and in his remarks she jinping said it was the leadership of the communist party that made it possible. shushi triumphant coming up holding the party leadership has provided a staunch political and organizational guarantee for china's poverty reduction efforts facts of her return to the truth that the communist party of china has unraveled strong power of leadership only as the most reliable force leading and uniting much and forging forward so as long as we are on swimmingly it here to the party leadership we can certainly overcome any difficulties and service for the aspirations for a better life and let's have a look at how china measures poverty compared to the rest of the world beijing

defines it stream poverty as earning less than $620.00 a year or $1.70 per day that's lower than the world bank's standard of $1.90 there's also the question of whether china should be considered rich poor or somewhere in between the world bank has set the poverty line for upper middle income countries at $5.50 on that basis nearly 30 percent of the chinese population still lives below the line and according to a recent report for the brookings institute china is only as well off as the u.s. was in the 1960 s. some experts say china has set a low bar on how it defines poverty more investment is still needed in the poorest areas. let's bring in our guest into the show we have joining us from beijing i met tang and he's a political analyst and advisors the china provincial government in shanghai than

wang chief economist at hang seng bank china and in washington d.c. yuki tatsu me co-director of the east asia program at the stimson center think tank welcome to you all if i could start with you key then other metrics china is using to measure extreme poverty the most accurate. i think that is really the fundamental question and depending on how you answer that question will determine how do we really celebrate chinese success or do we still in the i was still continue to be india wait and see mode especially until chinese government comes out with a more sustainable plan to create upper income middle class how do you measure it then you can i think i would still go but i will thank them both and by then. that is what i would use and then i think are compared to that standard that set by the world bank i think i check yes i think i do it with some critics that that that

suggests that that perhaps the chinese government's definition of the should quality is lower than the a global standard or i could see i know shaking his head i think it was in disagreement all of that i mean the come in and tell us what is wrong with the world bank standards of $1.90 a day what is wrong in applying that to china are in a. oh nothing at all but you know as an economist i'm sure you understand that there's something called you know purchasing power parity and the the the numbers that the chinese have put out this 170 is the 190 in terms of purchasing power parity with in china remember a dollar 90 buys are very different things depending on what country or it so you know this is about extreme poverty so this idea about quibbling and saying well we haven't seen this we haven't seen that but i could see her who has done this you

know what large country has actually taken on extreme poverty and done even half of what this is that has done and by the you know her if you want to look to the world bank the world bank has knowledge china has extraordinary contribution to you know decreasing poverty worldwide i mean 87800000000 people over the since the opening up of this those it's a sign of as we entered the clearly very difficult extreme poverty making great progress in combating extreme poverty which a lot of western institutions seem to recognize and completely eradicating any extreme poverty. well they have eradicated 6 are in poverty the question is and this is the gentleman you can say well what sustainability but you know when you're talking about 1400000000 people and you start getting down to the very nitty gritty i mean the people at the end when you have children they can't go out and earn an

income if they've been orphaned elderly people they've reached the point where they they need some sort of pension plan you have the mentally and physically disabled or challenge that we want to put it they also need help and the government has given subsidies to a company's in order to have them employed and create the accommodation necessary for them and in some cases where it isn't possible they have just simply you know given them payments no different from welfare payments and other parts country but bore it right martin lee they took on this whole thing by looking at individuals families villages and districts and doing what was necessary to do it sustainably now you can criticise and say well it's not high enough but who's doing more ok i know and i'm as sure of yourself what will come to sustainability we posed the question to you q let's quickly give you a chance to come back in on that before we go to dan yuki 1 dollar 90 doesn't buy

the same in rural china as it does in london does have a point when he says we can't look at you know a one size fits all when it comes to purchasing power parity now i think i do you know i do accept and. then he does have a point. even in the uk any even any united states that will go farther and some other country some other areas of the country than the others. so i am if you take the time to make just something remarkable yes i think that i think they did but then i think i would question and then of course we will talk about this later on this program is a source of pain ability of the program. and this progress and then also there are some i think up there are some some of the programs that the central government introduced asked the measure to cull or eradicate the complete what they call the eradication complete eradication of the action poverty that that has the greatest

concern quite frankly from the international community from a human rights perspective in terms like that you have. of people like the relocation of the relocation of the people like from a rule core area into over an area or the other why and out there are there are critics who have pointed out the who have raised concern that that this little tension program has been so could be amusing to using to suppress my already run out in the arena where there is a look at the vision on the fence if you can't live somewhere you can't live somewhere where your accounting that somehow you know the government you know i'm i know my words there are resources in africa which is supporting rights that are not honest and let's give you 5 seconds to finish up with all and then maybe it's time to bring down i i i i'm i think i might i'm not quibbling with. what diana same but i'm just simply simply making our beliefs on the bible i was making the comment just the kind of thing i don't. right and i think. i think i'm just out here i just

would like to raise the point that there are there are some questions that are being asked and and also i just have to put it out there i would very much like to hear i'm a story personal experience says that he is in the possession of it by the provisional government in this issue. what some of the specific example that that person that he has been lost or i before we do that though those are good questions and you did say you want to put some questions out there we love questions on this show let's bring dan him out to try and answer some of those questions dan how has this ichiban been made whether we're talking about complete eradication or significant progress. as we heard from yuki other some questions to be raised as to how all the cost at which this achievement was made. there is a fiscal cost for sure but i think in china and this one thing very different from

developing economies or even most of the emerging markets is that there is a social consensus on the necessity of doing poverty reduction so we have seen it's not just the government doing this alone it is enterprises it's schools it is individuals even many banks as a foreign bank we also do our fair share of the poverty alleviation as well so gather together in all those powers together then that's how we achieve today. but when it comes to whether china has achieved on this eradication of poverty i think that's really missing the point because at this particular point of time of course we can argue that there is no more people living in absolute poverty but we know that a giant as a dynamic process and china's government knows that even more important point is that china has established this registration system all those people who are in

absolute. t. were registered and they were issued a card so they are constantly monitored and to give a special attention so resources will be directed their way if there are pollen back into poverty trap again i think this admission into the system is self is quite a bigger achievement then to poverty line or whether we have achieve this goal at this particular point than it sounds like you're saying from here on forwards any fall into poverty should be corrected pretty quickly yes that is the goal because i have done my own fair share of. the poverty or when i was working to working with the chinese academy of sciences as agriculture economist i've done many surveys where the local farmers in many provinces including many of those people in absolute poverty so when i look at them many of them were actually having some sort of disability or day were having some family tragedies or some sort of big diseases

what they needed was not equal opportunities in the markets or even given them much shop where they really needed to have a government or some outside help diverse paying the substantial resources their way to give some on some basic housing basic medical coverage and that's a more important thing so once the monitoring system is set up they do get much faster help from either the government or are the advantages directly iran has from their helpful all right so they getting help more people are moving out the ranks of the poverty i'm a does that mean the middle classes are growing what does that mean overall for china's economy. well i mean the there's still a ways to go it getting rid of extreme poverty doesn't mean that you've conquered it totally and this is been recognized by the government in the next 5 year plan that they have already touted that they will be doing this rural revitalization which will take the place of poverty alleviation and this is really the vehicle

they intend to ride to get to that you know that purchasing power parity of the u.n. at about $550.00 per day per person so this is an ongoing you know process and i think the skepticism that you know somehow china's doing something bad or on order other suppressing human rights by simply making sure that people have enough to eat they have clothing they have housing and they have access to services i think that's really taking it too far if you want you know somebody wants to criticize it fine tell me who's doing more or better you know if it as i was saying earlier this idea that you should putting resources you know running roads electricity sewer water and all in schools and things like that to areas where it is not economically sustainable to be there the farmland is it isn't rich enough to support it just because people live there doesn't mean that they can't

have a good life there and that's what they're doing now in terms of things i my specialty is economic development i don't know by the us you've made a good return there are other sustainability bear with me for us i want to bring you here in that is this sustainable u.k. and i think that is really the big question that everybody that's going and i am i am flight will get the call because that. creating that they're middle class goals is a key to if china do well with if you are sustain their current their level of the current level of the mature into the more the developed countries sell economy and i just have not and i just think central government is about and now starting up that plan perhaps in the next couple weeks and i just well have to see what women felt ok that all right let me go back to i know i can see you're shaking your head again we we like different opinions of but i know briefly 20 seconds please if we

give the floor to dan. you're get the announcement next week the 3rd and 4th are the 2 sessions and you know this will rise you buy kids you know you start our inner journey and about 110th of the way somebody says why are we there yet china has to continue on this road ok we'll see how the road does turn out dan does this achievement what does that mean for china's shall we say policy of trying to rely more on the mess the consumption rather than or and rely less on an export driven economy does this announcement have implications for that policy. i don't think so the poverty reduction refers to really the bottom 10 or even bottom 5 percent of the population and that's a long way away from creating the fact of demand for china's economic growth in a normal year we're not talking about 2020 before 2020 china's growth was mostly

from domestic demand including muslin and consumption they accounted for about 90 percent of china's growth and foreign demand that is export only contributed to usually less than 10 percent so now we see that china has eradicated the absolute poverty not only means chinese government do not need to invest as much as before into living people out of the poverty trap but don't want to constantly roast what's more important is this income redistribution so that economic growth in the past has shifted from coast to region to center in western china but when it comes to a 2nd round of income distribution that is one people getting employed they don't really get much help from the government i think that is the thing that needs to be strengthened or i talk about help from the government or talk about the government u.k. president xi has featured prominently in this announcement it's been presented as

his achievement do you see a desire to strengthen the president politically through this announcement. i think there is definitely there is definitely some desire on the part of leadership but look i think but my hope and i saw pointed out this eradicating poverty in china is not just his endeavor it has think 4040 years of the and ever since china chinese economy we can begin to open up and live our lives and then i think i think presidency definitely wants to make it one wants to wants to one must make this program to be his contribution to that the decide the case that is long goal as for the china as a nation. is that. a sign that should cause any concern about increasing moving increasingly towards or for a tarion ism moral for a tarion ism well i mean this is an old chestnut one said when he extended his term

that this is the beginning of an autocracy but you don't see him promoting his children or anything about family matters or trying to put in place people who are close to him to protect them you know it's a very difficult situation for him because he's brought about a tremendous amount of change and if you want to look at you know where the credit lies in 2016 they are there in the last 5 you're glad he was very very keen any he pushed very hard from the leadership point of view this idea that 2020 would be the time now that coincides with the 100 year of the $21.00 and the 100 year of the parties found and of course as a politician he wants to show that the party is necessary to the operation of his country and this is one of those areas where you're never going to get agreement between east and west west believes that the only legitimate government is one that

is by ballot box where there's free political expression and in the east it's more about the government providing the things like poverty or eradication in order to legitimize it so with the caveat i know of course there are plenty of countries in the east who believe in voting through the ballot box to put their leaders in of course show show you know that too let me let me put this question oh i can see sorry you keys shaking her head now let's give her a chance apologies then we'll how do you just quickly 20 seconds. yet no i just i just wanted to say when when i hear starting a west versus the no east if there's a color one color this is more about the war about the economic development program a chinese characteristic that they've been good leadership have the in about there are plenty of democracies anything who good government does provide for its people where it's all pete they're all people too as if they're their own leader in the in about and about but then there are multiple parties competing with them ok than

what does a china how's that working with no or well i guess that can go on forever high on the bed with us then how does a china with no one or few in extreme poverty what does that china mean for the global economy. having and 1st are very positive signs and as we know it after depend damaged the global reliance on china has increased not decreased china has strengthened his ro as a center of the global supply chain how last year and in many people was thinking about maybe diversifying supine ching away from china but there are more thinking about maybe must be more in china so for china to be able to achieve the social goal something i was trying to more investments. i would think so because this shows the governing capacity and that's a very important the matter stability and the governing capacity we have seen what happened in the us the reason why rebooting on the economy is so difficult in the

us is that on the governing capacity was a compromise under donald trump so now people see more hope because somehow maybe there's more united there and in china this has already been achieved and they sacked haitian as the macro economy will be stabilizing for a long time and that is a positive sign for asked turn of the masters all right i want to ask i mean and now briefly before we have to wrap things up and try and give a final word to anna as well as yuki a china with that sort of economic outlook which dan was outlining does that mean it will find more opportunity to project itself politically globally as well oh absolutely in the china's growing footprint it has is a double edged sword as a grows larger there's more expectations globally about its role it has done part of that with our our c.e.p.t.

with the european union with the trade agreement with the belgian wrote initiative creating the asian infrastructure investment bank you're starting to see that but it's bumping up and there's natural frictions between an existing power and a rising power the question is you know how does the existing power view this are they open to the idea that there are different pass to prosperity or do they view with skepticism anything that doesn't follow in lockstep with its idea of how thing right all right and we've got one minute left you could you agree with that outlook . i think that is i think that he captured it right out i think we are in a very much of a slow a transition period and there are a lot with the shaken up still that a final thought on this everything or been talking about in terms of outlook how much can that be threatened by some demographic issues like the looming crisis of a shrinking working age population. i think this is the

most urgent issue for china to deal with but you know with china's increased influence globally this can be partially are resolved because in the future china will have a higher influence among about and root countries and in terms of getting more labor or those developing countries are good labor x. porters and we have african timing on joe and it can be extended substantially and in terms of trade investment and even importing more migrants into china to deal with china is all in a graphic problem on this has a very positive sign for china's future or i will leave it there let's thank our guests very much for their thoughts on that yuki our inner and dan and thank you to 4 g. you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion head over to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story can also join the conversation on twitter handle is act a.j.

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as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be heard . hello i'm adrian forget in doha the top stories on al-jazeera it's been the bloodiest day of crackdown yet by security forces in myanmar against anti cooper testers you've been running now for weeks at least 4 protesters have been killed by police one was shot dead yang gone and there are reports of several more fatalities in other cities al-jazeera study chang reports. medics struggle to treat the wounded protest a shot in the chest anomalous streets have done away the minimum security.