music is bound to keep you. sounds good. video music starts february twenty fifth on t w. this is t w news coming to you live from berlin u.s. files criminal charges against chinese telecoms giant hallway it accuses the company of industrial espionage and violating sanctions against iran this as the u.s. and china are trying to calm the recent trade tension. also in the program the fate of a christian woman in pakistan all the line again as if bibi was acquitted of blasphemy

after spending eight years on death row but now pakistan's supreme court is reviewing its decision to set her free. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program the u.s. justice department has charged chinese telecoms giant huawei with violating sanctions against iran and with industrial espionage the charges are linked to the arrests in canada always chief financial officer main one shoe who is also the daughter of the company's founder the move comes a time of heightened tensions between washington and beijing due to a simmering trade conflict. the announcement was a long time coming if you believe the rumor mill the u.s. has officially cuse chinese telecom giant huawei of a bevy of crimes a grand jury in new york has returned an indictment alleging thirteen additional

crimes committed by walk away it's c.f.o. it's affiliate in iran and one of its subsidiaries here in the united states the criminal activity alleged in this indictment goes back at least ten years and goes all the way to the top of the company the u.s. justice department accuses while these top brass of using a hong kong based shell company to funnel telecommunications equipment to iran in violation of international sanctions investigators also accuse wall ways engineers are stealing trade secrets from cell phone provider t. mobile including robotics plans using t. mobile cell phone testing. the u.s. is also seeking the extradition of for wasting a full men one job for her role in the alleged sanction violations she was arrested in kenya late last year in connection with the u.s. investigation while we has long been suspected of having close ties to the chinese government. a cause for concern for some international observers. however both the

company and the chinese government deny the accusations. they will just as the foreign ministry said with no evidence they're using their state power to discredit and attack designated companies this sort of behavior is unfair and immoral really. the chargers are likely to throw a fresh banner in the works washington and beijing are set to reopen talks over their simmering trade conflict later this week. stephen beers lee from d.w. business has been following this story all along good morning steve the u.s. indictment against wall way it has lots of parts to it break it down for us one of the main allegations right the main allegations here are some of them that we've already seen one man one joe the chief financial officer was arrested and they include trying to circumvent sanctions u.s. sanctions against iran misleading banks as part of that and then some new ones and probably the most explosive one is that huawei executives including one joe tried

to cover up these efforts and that could play into the effort to extradite her from canada the us when these new charges come out as well as her bail and then of course there's a trade secrets as mentioned there that was part of a civil suit actually between t. mobile and huawei and now it's become part of the criminal charges so some stuff we've seen and some new stuff based on internal e-mails and memos from what the indictment say industrial espionage part i find really important or interesting at least colorful the idea of certain way employees apparently going into labs of t.v. . and grabbing a robot arm trying to take it or somebody there was an incentive actually from the company sort of a bonus program to see who could go the furthest with this interesting very serious charges when it gets down to it what's the reaction from china direction from china is that this is part of a long term effort by the u.s. to undermine chinese companies they say that this is believe the term was unreasonable suppression of. chinese companies is what the u.s. is practicing and obviously that would point to the correlation here between what

the u.s. is trying to accomplish trade wise what it's trying to accomplish in terms of prohibiting while way from being active in the five g. market which is something you and i were just talking about a big part of always business in the future and what the department of justice is doing they see a lot of they see something that they're uneasy about or very angry about when you talk about five g. just in case any of our viewers don't know what we're talking dealing with there it's the new telecommunications standard that gets really fast internet on a mobile basis and it could have huge implications everybody wants it it being rolled out where it's going to be rolled out and by whom is there's a lot at stake there what does this indictment mean for huawei in business terms it's not good i mean this is further this puts further pressure on nations were considering who to go to for their rollout of five g. and how to go about those things because the u.s. has already had a pressure campaign on a lot of nations especially its allies and other nations maybe in the middle including germany who are still deciding where to deliver these contracts so it's not good and a lot of these nations though do want to see more evidence and maybe with this and

some of the other allegations that have been drawn around putin the rest of executives in poland will start to see some of the evidence actually made public timing here very interesting briefly if you can what does this mean for the trade talks between china and us i mean you know the trade delegation from china was either in the mid air on its way or had just landed when this came out you can't imagine that that's a coincidence and look at mun one chose arrest this was also after the ninety day truce in the trade if you was announced there's obviously it seems that there's sort of this pressure game being played whether it leads to the results the u.s. wants we'll see stephen thank you so much for now stephen bear's live from did not be a business. pakistan's supreme court is reviewing its acquittal of azi of b.b. the christian woman was charged with blasphemy in the islamic republic and spent eight years on death row but in october she was found not guilty a ruling that sparked outrage among religious hardliners the supreme court usually dismisses reviews of its verdicts but given the nature of babies case today's

outcome is far from certain. she's one of the most talked about women in pakistan. pictured hands shortly after her conviction in twenty ten the christian mother of five was sentenced to death for alleged remarks about islam during a row with fellow farm workers that refused to share their glass of water with a known muslim now free she lives in hiding no longer on death row but still in constant fear for her life. and this is why hard line islamists calling for had to be hanged. her acquittal in october last year triggered days of nationwide demonstrations. who are who in every corner of the country the sons of islam have voiced opposition to the supreme court verdict by going on to the streets. what kind of a verdict is this from the supreme court of an islamic republic which is troubling

muslims but satisfying infidels. and. demonstrations were any cooled off when the government agreed to bobby b. from leaving the country pending today's verdict but this is a case already linked to the killings of at least two people. the governor of punjab province summoned his ia seen here on the right to sustenance it by his buddy god in twenty eleven speaking in defense later the same year federal minister for minorities shahbaz bhatti was killed to cooling for her release. today is that it's likely to do little to appease those who settle for nothing less than having a death sentence reinstated. asia correspondent harun john joie is just plain court in islam about where a decision is expected any moment in b.b.'s case and he joins us now on the line

haroon what's the likelihood that the court will uphold its earlier decision to release. an open and shut case and we'll have no evidence found against b.p. and the supreme court in october ordered. almost immediately look if you're going to be in your q. and a hardliner staff i'm going to pay it back. if i did it pretty sure no on the fall of ground they have not adopted the constitution of the two officers on the constitutional grounds for many believe that. the person allowed to go anywhere she wants. to die or fled abroad from islamic checked in november and returned to pocket on the street and today to pretend to be court now this is a highly contentious case what's the mood in anticipation of today's hearing. i think the country currently under control it's good to be stuck in the capital islamabad and the protesters may get it after the two days. later parties that he

can to back group founded by the supporters started a second hand black man bought in pakistan because if a street is up to the b.b.c. quickly because the beginning of supreme court today. go to god and serving murder then the families of the protest officer i can be as the government to put bibi on going to only from leaving the country. later crackdown on the islamic and began more than three thousand activists and pressing terrorism charges against leaders. now just briefly if you can there is a possibility that the appeal will be rejected what happens to. them. will be freed and allowed to feel brought it to court to get the appease today as the canadians are nice to get to enjoy and also that you know i'm but that your country is in talks to be pondered on government about b. b. . b. b.

who spent eight years on that door has been in hiding things will be in court street go but it really gets on and is calling for that and demanding that the government prevent him from leaving the country because of the punjab amount of a lot of have been added into though that i won in this case ok thank you so much for ruling that was the w.'s asia correspondent harun johns reporting from is lama biden of course we'll bring you up to date on that supreme court decision from pakistan as soon as we get it. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world the u.s. has imposed sanctions on business with us state oil firm curbing that country's crude it exports it's the trump administration's latest move in its effort to oust venezuela's president nicolas maduro the embattled leader called the sanctions illegal accusing the u.s. wanted to steal venezuela's riches and its territory. death toll from a collapsed dam in southwestern brazil has risen to sixty five the hundreds more

are still missing relatives of some victims have been protesting at the headquarters of the mining company. it's the second collapse to occur at a mine owned by in recent years. now to london where later today the u.k. parliament is set to vote again all the government's breaks it plan in a boat just two weeks ago lawmakers rejected the deal today they're supposed to decide what changes they want the prime minister to seek to win parliamentary support but the date for britain from the e.u. is just two months away and signs of the country's division over the issue are everywhere including at a restaurant in london run by immigrants. it's lunch time for even he dos in his restaurant westminster kitchen he arrived in london from the kurdish region of turkey twenty five years ago the recent break the debates in

parliament made him decide to do something. but i did end up writing system a message for to say brics it is but immigration makes britain great. food today. not even him small act of protest in his restaurant didn't come without consequences overnight nasty messages started appearing on social media. treat those with the gallows in which basically it's given your message to gargle dealing with it is so. telling you what they might do to you others posted threatening to burn the place down or to demonstrate in front of the restaurant most of these are from all over the world some arrived as refugees others to work like chef taric. i'm not really feeling very good at the moment just get in charge we can hear on the news all the time talking and the people called in aussie it and . and according to tar ex boss abraham there is one clear reason for

this change. since the brits it was the divisions in our country have grown up so there's more division than before the brics it will took place so the threats we have to see thing you know unacceptable unpleasant and it's becoming to the environment that the government would see created has been a bit hostile recent surveys show that around two thirds of the british think breaks it has made people angrier and the same amount believe their country isn't on a good path as the date of britain's exit from the e.u. draws ever closer. the american football fans are looking forward to the sunday when the new england patriots face the los angeles rams in the super bowl but if you like your sporting events with a bit more bite then the puppy bowl is the greatest show on earth the game this weekend sees team ruff and team faceoff with both hoping to get their paul's. arche

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