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to cooperate investigation into the us capitol hill riot. i'm never going to back down that late. they took on the wrong guy. this new sanctions for bella reese, the you and the u. s. plan to expand restrictions on minsk accusing it of encouraging migrant send legally crossed into public ads and american genesis. he'd been imprisoned in myanmar accused of spreading false information has been freight ah, the presidents of the u. s. in china holding a virtual summit to try and i not issues that continue to cause tensions between them. trade, taiwan sovereignty and human rights in hong kong. i expected to be at the heart of the discussion. president, gigi ping and j bought an agree they need to strengthen communication and coexist

peacefully. we believe and. busy you and i have talked about this, all countries have to play by the same rules of the road. why the united states is always going to stand up for our interest and values in those of our allies and partners. i think it's important we communicate honestly directly to one other about our priorities and our intentions. whitehouse corresponding kimmy. how can explains what's at stake? what's a steak is ensuring that there isn't permanent and lasting damage as a result of the tensions that have been escalated between the world's 2 largest economies for quite some time. what we've seen is a number of key differences, whether it be on human rights, on security, and particularly when it comes to trade. so what we know from the start at the summit is that the u. s. president reiterated what we expected him to say, and that is that there needs to be an establishment of the parameters of the

relationship in order to put in place what he called guard rails to ensure that this escalation doesn't turn into confrontation. and to that, and we know that the u. s. president, i did want to work out any sort of potential misunderstandings or miscommunications in order to ensure that there isn't conflict. we know that some of the big issues for these 2 is centered around trade. we don't expect that there will be any resolution to that issue, but instead that a pathway will be created in order to resolve future differences. we should point out very quickly that the u. s. president, although his polls domestically are lagging right now in the united states, he went into this meeting strong. in fact, it's no coincidence that just prior to the start of this virtual summit between the 2 leaders that the u. s. president signed into law legislation. that is a $1.00 trillion dollar package to rebuild americas infrastructure. this will

create jobs, but it will also allow the united states to compete with china in the 21st century according to biden. so, as a result, the u. s. president wanting to make sure that that playing field is level so that there could be increased fair competition and not some of the concerns that the us has had with china and a disruption of global trading norms as us, as alleged in the past. as not speak to katrina you who's in beijing for us. katrina, what does using ping one from this meeting? i think president, she really wants to see as beijing would put it this relationship put back on track . now we've just had some updates from chinese state media posting some very positive footage of president. she didn't pay, making his opening remarks. some of the highlights of things. he said was that the u. s. and trying to both to shoulder international responsibilities, worked together and tactfully global challenges, respect one another,

and focus on when, when outcomes now, i think it's highly unlikely that prisoners she didn't think would have even agreed to this virtual summit, if he didn't believe that there would be some sort of positive outcome. i think china genuinely does want to see an improvement in the relationship which has been tense for years now. since the trump administration, there have been a number of disagree, mental anything from technology to trade, to human rights. i think we have seen some positive moves, things that have been ameliorating the situation between the 2 countries and late september us, chinese hallway, tech executive, mung, one joe who was detained in canada for 3 years under u. s. charges were released. that was seen as a very positive sign said aging. and just last week we had the surprise joint declaration at the club, 26 climate summit between the u. s. and china. this rest show of unity. now it's kimberly alluded to. we do also have

a lot of disagreements on the table that these 2 countries need to look at. these 2 leaders will no doubt discuss issues such as the south china sea. and what the u. s . has described is tried, is increasing aggression over that disputed territory as well as china is activity increasing activity in the taiwan straits now trying to seize taiwan as part of china. but at the same time, we've seen the biden administration making various very friendly, moved towards the taiwanese leader sighing when and that has really infuriated beijing. i think the bottom line is, china does want to find some common ground amid these see of differences. and 2 things to note, i think is that's a job. but, and she jumping, have known each other for years now. they were working together as far back as the obama administration. and secondly, she didn't ping is domestically an extremely strong position. just last week we had this top level leaders meeting in beijing where she's in pain,

consolidated his power as the president of china next year. he will begin this unprecedented 3rd term in office and he could potentially rule china for life. so no doubt that will play a pot and setting the tone for the rest of these talks today. but he, thanks for katrina ye that 1st in beijing was have been speaking to the asia, political risk. analysts, ross in gold. he explains why the u. s. has been taking a strongest stance on china in the last few years. the relationship is strained across such a wide range of issues. maybe years ago. there be more focus on trade for example. but now the united states criticisms are action certainly began in the latter half the truck ministration. not just on trade, but on, on, targeted sanctions against officials, whether that,

officials in jack to bad or hong kong action united states is taking with other countries. notable example would be there, the quad or the office agreement. again, these are things that began under the trump administration, continuing in part or with new initiatives under the bided administration. and you see the same with intellectual property or investigation alleged in united states, again, a number of chinese nationals have been indicted by official by the us government over visa fraud or similar issue. so the points of contention are so why and spanish so many different issues. it's fair to say that the relationship is framed across all these very different areas. total traumas, former police go advisor. steve baton has appeared in court hours after he surrendered to the fbi. i in washington, dc,

is facing contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into january's attack on the us capital. bicycle haine, reports swarmed by cameras, stephen ben and turned himself into the f. b. i. the former advisor to donald trump, remained defiant. i want you guys to stay focused on messrs. reverend signal, not noise. this is all noise. this is all about january the storming of the us capitol in an attempt to stop joe biden from becoming president on his radio show. the day before bennett had this warning, all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. so now the congressional committee investigating the insurrection wants to know what he knew and what he may have done in the lead. up to that day, he ignored their subpoena for his testimony and his records claiming executive privilege which legal experts say is unlikely to stand up. the united states supreme court in 234 years is never sustained,

an executive privilege. the guard to communications from someone who is a private citizen, not an officer. i even with regard to officials who serve in the white house, the committee is hoping these charges will make other trump allies think twice before ignoring their request. as for bannon leaving court avow to fight, i'm never going to back down and they, they took on the wrong guy. the guy and rob court can't make band and testify. they can make him pay a price for not doing so. potentially sending him to prison for up to a year. particle haine al jazeera washington. the u is widening sanctions targeting bela raised over the michael crisis at the border with poland. and he sanctions will target travel agencies and airlines. accused of working with minsk of all the people passage to the ear. thousands are stranded at the polish parish in boulder and freezing temperatures as steph asam reports. clinging on to

hope at the gates of europe, exhausted, cold and at the mercy of border guards. belushi stay tv shows thousands of the asylum seekers and migrant strapped at the border. now moving even closer to poland and closer to a 10 stand off with border troops, bell russian leader, alexander lucas shanker, says he's working to return migrants to their homes and will retaliate against more sanctions. horn on the other side of the border, the human toll of this crisis got a name and a phase in a small village of the minority muslim data community in poland. a funeral was held for 19 year old, awkward al her son, a syrian from the city of homes who drowned in a river after crossing the border. a friend to survive said bell russian troops pushed him into the water. his last rights held by a people who never knew him in the land, he wanted to cross through and then on to

a better life. as model, her son got caught in the middle between a human tragedy and a geo political power play stuck in between a country given him false hope about easy access to europe and the other. refusing to let him in a 19 year old, who probably never heard about the political stand off between the bellows and moscow on one side. and the european union on the other put about us would themselves were given refuge and poland from 600 years ago. the crisis at the border is painful to witness the again, the aloof, but it is the human tragedy. i'm sitting here in the mosque and my warm coat. i can always have hot tea, but what about them little i can't sleep at night when i think about it, shaded to stop people from traveling to men's. e. u foreign ministers are suggesting to temporarily make men's airport and no fly zone. countries like iraq and turkey have already been banning people from flying to battle. and some

airlines have stopped flying altogether. but this still hasn't stopped people from trying to make the trip. that is increasingly taking life like dose of delia and hallett to young kurdish men from iraq who die from illnesses trying to reach europe for their families. there will at least be a funeral dec homes, one, how to model her son. family members can only watch the ceremony on a phone. look smith, she has little mice. there's a muslim cemetery here, so it's the right thing to do. hopefully the family will come one day looking for the grave and local people will show them the way home on on life caught short on a journey driven by hope and determination. a determination that won't stop others trying to complete the journey that are not good, not steadfast, al jazeera, well any key at the polish border or the beller russian defense minister has told

al jazeera they are not engineering the situation. not wanting to produce refugees arriving. billers, legal, and see that there is a possibility to cross europe. and of course, some people who seek to ernie legally have appeared and tried to take advantage of the situation. they accuse us of creating this crisis, even though it is not in our interest either comically, politically or military. i believe this crisis is manufactured, and he's leading the situation to escalate, especially from poland, which is seeking to achieve political and financial gains. we believe that by provoking the situation was so aims to drag us and europe into a dangerous conflict. still ahead on al jazeera, it is now up to jurors in the us to decide if call wishing house was acting in self defense, so provocation, when he killed 2 people at protests last year. and we find out why keep an anti government protest is have cooled off land mass marches.

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do, and we have the tools to, to get all this on out. is there a ah, welcome back. he watching al jazeera melinda thought up stories this hour, the president of the u. s. and china holding a virtual summit to deal with issues that continue to cause tensions between trade, taiwan sovereignty and human rights in hong kong. i expect it to be at the heart of the 2 former u. s. president donald trump's long time and i see bannon has surrendered to a federal authorities. bannon is facing contempt charges for refusing to cooperate

with a congressional investigation into the january 6th. the time of the european union is stepping up at sanctions targeting. valerie says, the mike of crisis, thy wesson's recent days, thousands of migrants gathered on the border shores in the us will begin deliberations on tuesday in the trial of col. rittenhouse, who is accused of murder of the kenning to people at racial justice protests. he says he was acting in self defense, john henry reports from kaneesha, where the trial is taking place. the jury for kyle written out must now declare the teenager a defender or a provocative tour. it will be for you to determine whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty as to each of the offenses charged or submitted. there is no question of the main fact. 17 year old cow rittenhouse carried an assault rifle to a black lives matter, protest and killed. 2 men in injured. a 3rd 12 jurors will now decide if he was

justified. this case is not a day. it is my client's life. we don't play fast and loose with the facts pretending that mister rosen bomb was citizen, a number one, dad. he was a bad man. he was there. he was causing trouble. he was a writer and my client had to deal with nat night alone in the trial, rittenhouse offered his own defense breaking down during testimony. this wrote, wrote in repeatedly insisting he was chased and had no choice. i did what i had to do to stop the person who was attacking me, but in closing arguments on monday, prosecutor thomas bringer says after rittenhouse killed joseph rosenbaum with 4 shots. the crowd was provoked entitling protesters to defend themselves. the crowd seized the defendant running with a gun. he's lying to them. he still has the gun. he's shot some one. this is

provocation to them. this is someone who has committed a criminal act and is putting people in danger. danger followed soon after. he does nothing to demonstrate to the crowd that he isn't a threat to kill again. and it turns out he does. it turns out within a few seconds, he does kill again. i submit you ladies and gentlemen. but in this situation, the crowd has the right to try and stop an active shooter. they have a right to protect themselves that turn rittenhouse, his self defense argument against him. judging, drop to lesser chargers, a curfew violation charge and a charge of a minor being in possession of a dangerous weapon. but he also allowed prosecutors to add to lesser homicide charges, one of homicide. and one of attempted homicide. that of cathy admission by the

prosecution. that they might not have made their case there, but it also gives them another chance to walk away with a conviction on something. now the young man, whose case has become a national rorschach test, is waiting on 12 jurors to decide on charges that could leave him spending his life in prison or going home free. john henderson, l g 0, can nozer, wisconsin. they have marked as planned by activists across cuba has failed to materialize. organizers said they were intimidated and too scared to leave their homes. some protesters were detained and the government has declared the rallies illegal. and yet, one that reports it was a day of tension across cuba with reports of the security forces and pro government supporters prevented activists from leaving their homes for plan marches to call for greater freedom and the release of political prisoners. only all go out to applaud for the freedom of cuba and in support of the political prisoners,

but they won't even let me lay the property. oh, several people were detained and on the eve of the plan march, as there was sporadic clashes between pro and anti government activists. your thought is on sunday also prevented the most prominent protest, the una garcia from leaving his home for a solo demonstration, got him on issue. my house is under siege. the entire building is surrounded by agents of the state, dressed in civilian clothes, passing off his residence, as they usually do. this does not surprise any cuba. they are causing all corners in groups at the bottom of my building by the stairs. he's a member of our g p, a legal and movement with more than 30000 members, organized on social media. it grew out of spontaneous mass protest in july, calling for greater democracy. you authorities arrested several 100 activists. ah,

president miguel diaz canal thank support is for defending cuba and said they just wanted to live in peace. we are seeking the improvement of our society defending emancipation, defending socialism, and condemning campaigns to subvert internal older the media campaign against cuba, against peace in cuba. and against the blockade, the president declared, the plan mart is illegal, same, the united states and anti cuban groups in florida were behind the protest movement . it's a claim denied by the activists who say, repression, theory, recourse, the government has left that the government has the clear it, black and white for the 1st time in many years, that in cuba, you can not accept size any a ride, even human rights if you are going to use it against the political model against us for cuba has decreed that it's model of socialism should remain forever. however, increasing numbers of younger cubans

a challenging that assertion and say that if they come march, they will find alternative ways of making their voices heard. and you shimla al jazeera. meanwhile, outside of cuba, protestors took to the straits in support of cubans. in mexico's capital, people demonstrated outside the cuban embassy and were pro an anti government raney's. an american journalist, imprisoned in monmouth, almost 6 months has been freed. and then as she caught had sentenced him to 11 years in prison, she stays aaliyah. danny fenced arrived and cast out on monday evening. natasha can eat reports. ah danny fencer cast a frail figure as he stepped off the plane that carried him out of me and mark and home to freedom. the 37 year old american journalist spoke to reporters briefly before stepping into an ambulance for a medical check. he had spent almost 6 months in prison filling all right,

physically, um it's just a the same a privations and things that come with any form of incarceration. you just go a little crazy. the longer it drags on the more where you are. that is just never gonna end. so that was, that was the biggest concern to staying sane through that you missed treated? i was, i was arrested and held in captivity for no reason. so i suppose so. but i physically am, i was healthy. i wasn't starved or beaten. fenster was arrested in may as he tried to return home to the united states to visit his family. he was the former editor of an independent online magazine in me in march after the military coup in february. he was among dozens of journalists, arrested, fencer was facing the prospect of 11 years in prison after

a military court sentenced him last week. the former u. s. energy secretary and un ambassador bill richardson helped broker his release was aware. richardson has a history of freeing hostages and prisoners. i think what made the difference was my efforts to work with the government on mia on humanitarian assistance on vaccines. and that made the difference. the military did not provide any details on why fenster was ultimately freed. the un says there are 47 journalists behind bars in me and mar. 20 of them are facing charges directly tied to their work. fenster says the focus should remain on their plight and he'll help fight for their release. natasha game,

l da, 0. doha, an influential council of elders from the libyan city. if miss rhonda has cooled for a boycott of next month's election becomes a day off to the son of the former lead in woman gadhafi registered to run for president and tripoli. people protested, saying they won't take part in election, which includes a fell islam gadhafi. he's wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity relating to the 2011 uprising against his father's 40 year rule. sidney's authorities have released al jazeera cartoon bureau chief from jail al miss ami elk hibachi was taken into custody of night on saturday, on to security forces rated his home out there as condemned the actions of saddam's military in the coming hours, chili's president will face an impeachment trial in the senate, sebastian panetta is accused of using his political power to bolster his businesses a claim he denies. a latin america have salisia, newman reports for funky argo,

the stress and the tension is written all over to varsity opinion, has face, and with good reason. never in chilion history has a president faced removal from office democratically. he's the 1st democratically elected president to be impeached by the chamber of deputies. and yet i, one of chillies, wealthiest men, is accused of gravely compromising the owner of the country. and the principles of integrity and honesty may as are killian's voted for several stamping yet because i thought he would be as efficient here in the presidential palace as he was in his multi $1000000000.00 enterprises. but in the end, his achilles heel was thinking that you could mix politics with business interests . it was revealed in the pandora papers that fin yet his family trust had sold to $125000000.00 land holding in what is a bio diversity hotspot?

allegedly, in exchange for ensuring the area would be available for mining. the transaction was carried out in the british virgin islands, a known tax haven. piano insists he knew nothing about it. if pam woocommerce, we are convinced that this acquisition has no foundation, in fact, or in law, we've concluded that the charges are based on false events and conjectures. imaquele global up was assume. we all confident that on tuesday, the senate, acting as the jury will reject the charges spouse. he did, it appears unlikely that 2 thirds of the senate will vote to oust the president for months before the end of his term. many chileans are more worried about stability than pinion his innocence than me now from a symbolic point of view, asking a president who can't pass on the presidential, sat to his successor is horrible. this country is very attached to symbols like the flag, the presidential sash and legality for my perhaps, but even pin. yet as once an ardent supporters have turned their backs on him,

and indians, people who have of him continued to have him those that voted against him. and those that voted for him, feel betrayed because renewed, i am the ended up doing exactly what he campaign against, whether for political or ethical reasons or both ship us damping yetta faces a harsh battle in the senate alone. an isolated who see a newman, al jazeera santiago. ah, this is our desert. these you top stories, the presidents of the u. s. and china holding a virtual summit to try and i not issues that continue to cause tensions between them. trade, taiwan sovereignty and human rights and hong kong. i expect it to be at the heart of the discussions. president jean ping and joe biden agree they need to strengthen commune.