this is d.w. news coming to you live from berlin china's new role in the world president xi jinping sets out his vision for his country at the start of the communist party congress he says his dream is to turn china into a global superpower also coming up the ruins of raka it was the epicenter of islamic states brutal regime now the city has fallen to us back syrian forces but

those the loss of the city mean is finished. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us chinese president xi jinping says his country is facing a bright future but also severe challenges he was speaking at the start of a story coming up party congress in beijing he said problems such as the widening gap between rich and poor and corruption needed to be tackled he also said the communist party should take on a more forceful role in society. it's a meeting on the grandest of scales nearly twenty three hundred delegates representing the eighty nine million members of china's communist party and at the focus of it all one man president paying he is looking to cement his position in

the party securing at least another five years at the helm of asia's economic powerhouse she praised china's achievements during his stewardship but he said the country couldn't stand still. our country is at an important point of strategic opportunity in its development. the future is extremely bright. but the challenges are also extremely serious. party comrades must set their sights far and high and think of danger in times of safety. be willing to change and innovate. be willing not to become stiff or stop. she listed some of the forms that

innovation should take a clean and clear internet space more openness to the world he promised to protect the rights of foreign investors but he left no doubt what the guarantee of prosperity would be socialism chinese style party rule. well let's cross straight over to beijing correspondent standing by there for a summit is what's expected to happen during this closed door session today what should we be looking out for there in beijing. there is no doubt that he will consolidate his power on this congress and what he should be looking out for is how much that means how many of the people in this standing homey t.v. in the hot seat leading group will be his people will be considered his people and also how he was able to get his ideas into the party constitutional common it was

heat off well in his address president xi jinping said that china has zero tolerance for corruption within the ruling communist party hell successful has his anti corruption drive been in recent years. if we take the numbers it has been very successful one point three million officials have urged you to corruption if we see it as an element in power struggle it has been extremely successful he has been able to get rid of most of the people who would challenge his power by accusing them of corruption or by. proving that they have corrupt it has let the less successful in establishing an independent draft already that would function this recovery gauntlets off of

the affiliations of party members not of his clothes and he's even subject to investigation. now the communist party in china of course is concerned about dissent understand that tough security measures have been imposed during the congress tell us more about that. well it's almost impossible to get even close even close i mean within its own interest so off the side of the great hall of the people all the roads are closed. and. the key to want to enter the city even on the roads they will be controlled troublemakers which are registered registries. might you don't demonstrate or something they would not even get into the city it's ok mathias stay with us for a while we're going to take a look at chinese president xi jinping will come back to just

a minute from building china up as a global superpower to cracking down on corruption chinese president xi jinping first five years in office have transformed the world's most populous nation she is expected to elevate his status by enshrining his political philosophy being thought into the party constitution if his philosophy is added along with his name it would place him on a par with melted dung who founded modern china. his rise to power in the party was a long time in the making. at the end of two thousand and twelve the still relatively unknown she was elected general secretary of china's communist party and in a unanimous fight. a few months later in early twenty thirty he succeeded fusion town as china's president.

his election was a compromise solution she emerged from political infighting and intrigue as the victor he was barely enough this before he announced his fight against corruption billions of un disappear from public coffers each year. but this historian john lee from notes doesn't win him only friends. since i have a chair way corruption is very widespread in the system every official has to fear being caught and punished poorly and the she is therefore feared but not loved outright obvious. she likes to portray himself as a man of the people and he arguably is although he grew up privileged his father a high ranking party official fell into disgrace in the one nine hundred sixty s. during the cultural revolution this or she banished to the countryside in shan she province where he lives in the simple cave dwelling yes. as

a teen he became party secretary in the village and was eventually allowed to study in beijing. we had a very high opinion of his father we were all therefore under the illusion that the son of a reform must also be a reformer. she. she has improved relations with russia and china to increasingly take on the role of the superpower he is sticking by its ally north korea but now adopt a more critical time about its dictator. the usa wants china to exercise more pressure on north korea but she is cautious for the west china's human rights violations remain a big problem under siege critics even more harshly persecuted them before the most recent example despite suffering from advanced terminal cancer dissidents a nobel prize winner. was forced to remain in jail until shortly before his death.

she obviously enjoys being on the world stage especially with his wife the famous singer penley un with she at the helm china appears to be more martin but that's only partly true ultimately she stands above all for one thing the survival of the party that puts him where he is. all of a correspondent still standing by with us there in beijing mathias in a speech is the she listed china's recent achievement saying that socialism with chinese characteristics meant that china had become a great power in the world what exactly is he referring to there. well in the recent years he's he's foreign policy has been much more assertive and has been he says this there was a sentence in this issue today where he sat china after the period of standing up

which refers to mao zedong's revolution and the period of becoming rich china is now becoming powerful so she g.p.d. is clearly on his way to be more active on the on the international scene and it's more sort of towards his neighbors i think within these five years there's not one neighboring country there are a few but most neighboring countries have seen conflicts and he has had a few contains against foreign countries against japan against france at the time and against south korea there was the border conflict with india and there is this plan to expand chinese infrastructure and with this chinese power to huge parts of the wood in this one wonder old project so china is going to create play a greater role on the international stage and it wants to play it by its own rules and to spring up in beijing thank you so much. coming as

party congress in beijing she also said that his country supports an open world economy hinting at a bid for more global trade so what does that mean for one of the country's most important trading partners australia helena is here for a look at that i think it's fair to say terry that australia will certainly be paying attention to statements out of that communist party congress in beijing off china is australia's largest export market the past signed a free trade agreement back in twenty fifteen and we're going to be hearing from the australian minister for finance in just a moment but first let's take a closer look at the state of the australian economy it set a world record for going without a recession for the last twenty six years since nine hundred ninety one the country's economy has been growing something most finance ministers can only dream of and that is locked away thanks to an unparalleled boom in room with ariel's it's

has thousands of tonnes of minerals coal gas and precious metals most of which are exported to china so as we mentioned the australian economy very much dependent on china's now think an asian of australia in the trans-pacific partnership suffered a major setback when u.s. president donald trump referred to the agreement as a potential disaster with during his country from negotiations as a result australia's economic ties with the e.u. and its largest economy germany became even more interesting for the world's twelfth largest economy and land down under is now a springboard for european investors targeting the pacific region but australia does need new stimulus for growth in major cities like melba now real estate there is going on to the home every weekend housing prices going through the roof many warn of a bubble many australians are also in debt so is australia's economic luck running

out with killing the trans-pacific partnership in china looking for more global trade i also the country's finance minister yes coleman whether australia is looking to europe for more trade. well. globally focused outward looking open try to economy i mean you're right china is most important trying part now but europe as a bloc is actually our second largest trading partner to die europe the european union as a bloc largest source of foreign direct investment and of course you know we are keen to strengthen your broad and deep and strengthen the opportunities to do business all around the world i mean we've been pursuing a very ambitious free try to enter into free try to agreements yes with china but also with japan and south korea singapore the united states we are pursuing a free trade agreement with the european union and we've been very grateful for the very constructive engagement that we fight with europe and in particular with the

german government and mr coleman of course the industrial revolution is something that's facing us here in europe australia as well all around the wall yet australia still faces challenges when it comes to things like power outages slow internet how are you going to close that gap to remain competitive. well we're very focused on all of these things i mean you're quite right as an open try to economy it's very important that we're internationally competitive and across the board across all of the area of public policy we are pursuing a pro growth agenda we are investing of course and all of the necessary infrastructure to ensure that we can participate competitively in the opportunities of a digital economy we work closely with germany for example on the industry four point zero. standard and pursuing opportunities between germany and australia to

closer together to offer opportunity for business in a strip business is in australia to become part of advanced manufacturing value china around the world so when this does all things that focus on that we are working on and we've continued to work on that look at the situation for the average australian then there are high levels off per capita day it's the banking system for example the commonwealth bank of australia didn't report over fifty thousand cases of money laundering how can you clean up that sector to make sure that risks of a banking crisis are not passed on to the average person that. well we have a strong and well regulated banking system and banks are very profitable a very strong a very stable home and if you look at the situation around the world opposed to the global financial crisis by any standards banks you know strata came out of that

very very well compared to banks and other positive all prudential regulation you know it's very effective and always specific issues that arise from time to time and when i do it have got to be properly addressed and we've always got to consider carefully you know what improvements can continue to be my two regulatory settings but in an overall sense you know we've got a very strong very effective internationally very competitive banking system and you know compared to europe compared to the united states banks it was trying to perform very well when this the ultimate stress this happened in the context of the global financial crisis mathias cormann australia's minister all finance thank you for being with us hey on. and you will business ahead including a look at big u.s. tech companies snapping up top talent in mexico first back to terry thanks helena

we're just going to take a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today in spain tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of barcelona tuesday night to call for the release of two leaders of the catalan separatist movement and they're being investigated for sedition in connection with the independence referendum earlier this month spain's constitutional court ruled the referendum illegal. was on studios chief roy price has resigned following sexual harassment claims by a producer working on an amazon t.v. series the accusations come in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal rocking hollywood price has also been accused of ignoring rose mcgowan's claims that weinstein right turn. an american also george saunders has won the prestigious man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo the book tells the story of abraham lincoln's grief for the death of his son saunders is the second american

author ever to win the award worth more than fifty five thousand euros to syria now where residents of rock are taking stock of their devastated city a day after it was declared liberated from the so-called islamic state u.s. backed forces u.s. backed syrian forces took control of almost all the city from i os on tuesday the syrian city was the capital of the islamist groups supposed to caliphate after an assault lasting four months they finally taste victory syrian fighters raise their flag in rock as main square. it's almost over we near the main roundabout and we haven't seen any i-s. fighters we haven't seen any need the stadium either i think the city will be fully cleared in the next two days. but you know how do i feel i'm flying look at me i'm so happy. jubilation on the spot known as the round up out of hell over the

past three years as used for public beheadings and crucifixions shoring the terror the characterize the militants reign. in twenty fourteen it was here that i celebrated its push into the city rocca was declared the de facto capital of its self-styled kali fatah it became home to thousands of jihadists from around the world after a call by the i asked leader. to migrate to the syrian city it's thought rocker was where they plan terror attacks across the globe. this is rockers municipal stadium the militants sets up a prison here talk showing people who oppose their rule it's where many of the foreign jihadists were killed making a last stand after refusing an offer of safe passage. small pockets of i.a.s. militants still thought to be holed up in the city but there's another danger to be

faced in these ruins booby traps and mines. the u.n. says there has already been staggering loss of civilian life in russia well over a thousand were killed in the battle for the city with hundreds more bodies field buried in the rubble well we are now able to cross over to to the turkish syrian border where we're going to get more on the the taking of the city of iraq where the islamic state had their stronghold in syria crossing to on hod he runs radio that's a non-state station broadcasting on air and online in syria he joins us now from the town of ghazi intent on the turkish syrian border thanks for talking with us this morning and now your radio station and its website have contact with all sorts of people around syria what are you hearing from people still inside rocco.

well basically the situation has been you know evolving over the past few months that he quickly. some settlements would reached an audit for some militants that would have left in the city some isis militants to actually leave but up to and go to that is. and this is why that would also thousands of civilians trapped into these areas that were still controlled by says so the news that we're hearing is basically that these people out in a very dire situation they have. a difficult and skate a moments. they have not had access to i think out of communications the food resources would have any scars so they would have pretty. you know roots allies than them shape when they were liberated that they would finally

. you know delays them and able to access to those services the gap. as we understand sorry i just was wondering what's going on again in iraq and particularly what it means for the so-called islamic state will rock as last be the beginning of the end for islamic state. i think it's all to do the end for the islamic state slotnick state the math you know all but couple of months has expanded very quickly and took all the territories from you know simi and. from different. you know groups and syrian had ak and then they found it so they have significantly. the international coalition has launched its open ation to take all that up the most and so i think it's auditee the end for them isis is no longer.

it's i think more than twenty percent. of it's you know people follow it a couple of years ago so yeah this is that so-called caliphate it is it is now taken all but from. there the militant side of fleeing bad and out to out in a video the smaller towns that had not a significant does more sort of ducked but some of them much. of it controlled but i think yeah this is this is the it's i would expect a couple of months before it ice storm keep the. you know he moved from c.b.s. and that out the secretaries are taken back by either to see him do gene want. you know follow it or other groups ok. there he's with the syria media group and her opposition radio he talked to us from gaza in tampa on the turkish syrian border thank you very much thank. and helen is

back with some business news and the latest on those negotiations concerning the north american free trade agreement i'm afraid the latest is it terry that those talks between the u.s. canada and mexico have now hit a snag the three parties saying that there are still significant gaps left to wrangle over so they've set the date for the next round of talks and that is the first quarter of twenty eighteen the u.s. is threatening to leave the table together that would create more problems than it would solve it in that case the rules of the world trade organization would kick in which would hit us reduces especially hard now it's not just the three countries that are nervous many foreign firms are hoping that a deal is reached as soon as possible to clear up all that uncertainty well as it stands the nafta deal does not address the free movement of people between the united states canada and mexico are told now that is certainly not standing in the way of top u.s.

tech firms snapping up talent over the border and opened a new engineering office in mexico city facebook has partnered up with local groups to develop technical talent in the region and oracle plans to hire thousands of additional employees at its offices in mexico. why his line is a sense francisco tech firm with two hundred sixty employees based in mexico city and guadalajara it is invited so-called dreamers who could face deportation from the u.s. to apply for jobs in mexico but it's not just america's dreamers that are moving their tech talent from around the world is no flocking to mexico for work the fact that engineering is a globalized profession that many of the things in the nearest learn in do share a common language which is allowed us to bring people from egypt from brazil from many parts of the wall and it's very good for a while here in mexico in general and wise line one of the key benefits of

operating in mexico has been the ability to attract and relocate foreign workers with ease since opening offices there in twenty fourteen the company has brought in workers from france india and china among other countries that finitely mexico it's a country willing to embrace every single talented person that my when i return or actually if it's coming from a different country to be part of this ticket in this story we will welcome them and we want to rephrase that. mexico's tech sector is enjoyed healthy job growth in recent years from mexico though there is a special urgency more than six hundred thousand undocumented immigrants of mexican origin may soon have to look for work abroad as a result of the trumpet ministrations decision to let dhaka policy expire. terry has now taking a look at. that's right helena we're looking at the champions league here defending champions rail madrid played out a one all draw at home to tottenham the guests took the lead in the twenty eighth

minute rafael varane turned the ball into his own net under pressure from harry kane hundred were awarded a penalty just before half time and just how know all those stepped up to equalize from the spot dread pushed on for the winner but found spurs goalkeeper in fine form the game is mentioned ending one one. and just reminder the top story we're following for you here today on the news president xi jinping of china sets out his vision for his country at the start of the communist party called gris he says his dream is to turn the country into a global superpower. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin we have more at the top of the next hour of course you'll find all our stories online at g.w. dot com thanks for watching. four

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