the left to kata airport on saturday bound for a 90 minute journey to pontiac. but lost contact only minutes after takeoff from online service flight right out 24 so as the plane suddenly losing altitude and speed. boats will continue to search the ocean as authorities try to piece together what happened to flight s.j. one night. preliminary results in kyrgyzstan's presidential election show a landslide victory for populous candidates. he has received nearly 80 percent of the vote in the early count the nationalist has promised a fresh start for the central asian country and an end to corruption the election comes after violent protests ousted the previous government last october for more on this i am joined by our correspondent emily sure when in moscow emily just recently came back from reporting in bishkek emily greetings the previous head of

government. is considered the favorite what how do you how do would you define him politically in other words what can you tell us about his platform. well so that is not part of is kind of a divisive figure in some ways though he has now become very popular he was actually in prison on charges of kidnapping a public official until he was freed by protesters in in that revolution that happened in october when people took to the streets to protest against the recent parliamentary election election results. and he then became acting president he's known as kind of a nationalist he's become known for wanting to nationalized the country's gold mines for example and he's been presenting himself as kind of a man of a piece of the people he comes from the countryside himself where he's now very

popular and he's been saying that he wants to reform the country and get rid of the corruption and the kind of clan politics that kyrgyzstan has become kind of known for when i was in the people told me that for them a lot of people told me that so then he kind of stands for stability and that they kind of that they finally want a strong hand especially after the recent protests the recent revolution you know to where their day kyrgyzstan is known as the island of democracy in central asia citizens also voted on constitutional changes including limiting the power of parliament is shifting back to authoritarianism. well i think that's a concern among some of the experts that i spoke to and also some activists who have been taking to the streets every weekend every sunday to protest against these constitutional reforms they say that not only do they give the new president who

most likely will be part of too much power but that they also could limit kind of democratic freedoms like freedom of speech they say that part of himself has actually just written this constitution in order to have more power and that he'll be kind of a han using this word that refers to the former central asian author or a tarion rulers of your as it were this is a country that has seen 3 revolutions in the last 15 years and i think everyone agrees that they want change i think the question is just for many people how they want it whether they want stability or whether they want to continue on the sort of democratic path that the revolution heralded we only have about 30 seconds or so but the virus pandemic has should kyrgyzstan's cash strapped economy hoard pushing up prices on everyday goods how is that likely to impact the country's political

future well the experts that i spoke to say that the economy is the economic situation is actually so bad that it could next year be a poisoned chalice for whoever takes over in the country and that it could actually lead to new protests and potentially even a new revolution in the country emily sure and thank you so much for that. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour voters in kazakhstan have been choosing a new parliament the ruling your aton party is expected to win the vote cementing its influence over the central asian country the social democratic opposition is boycotting the election dozens of protesters have reportedly been detained in the capital after publicly supporting the boycott. at least 3 people have been killed by a bomb blast in the afghan capital kabul officials said the victims were employees

of a security firm affiliated with the interior ministry the country has seen a spate of targeted killings as government negotiators prepare to resume talks with the taliban on ending decades of conflict. juba has signed a deal to conduct the last stage trials of its most advanced coronavirus vaccine on volunteers in iran the agreement between the 2 countries came on the same day that iran's supreme leader banned the import of american and british produce vaccines calling them completely untrustworthy. now pakistan's energy ministry says power has been restored to most areas after disruption in the national grid left the entire country in the dark overnight authorities say they're investigating the cause of the blackout which has been blamed on a technical fault pakistan is no stranger to outages but this was the worst it's

experienced since 2015. plunged into darkness street lamps replaced by vehicle had lights normal nighttime glow black and. i left my home thinking only our house had no electricity but then i saw it was dark everywhere i was shocked and i said there's no light in karachi businesses are closed other activities are shut down. people are worried because they can't contact anybody because their mobile phone batteries have drained this situation is causing a good deal of trouble the blackout happened suddenly nobody anticipated. this weekend's brings back memories of 2015 when around 80 percent of pakistan was left without power the country's energy minister omar said that sunday's blackout was caused by a fault in the power transmission system here and people to remain calm.

dealt with the problem. in the meantime only those with their own generators can get some light relief from the darkness. the coronavirus spend has brought economic upheaval into many people's lives for sex workers it's meant to choice between knowing come and serious new health dangers. reports from belgium she says she loves her job but her belgian sex worker life has become an uphill struggle. i guess i want to know is also you know day is a challenge i notice that every day i'm getting stomach cramps because the situation is so stressful because if i get caught i'll lose everything if i get find it today tomorrow and be in the street the national the 27 year old left her job to begin sex work full time a year ago letting strangers into her home was never entirely safe but by defying

the lockdown ban on prostitution now she's taking an even bigger gamble sit back and i can see that. it isn't like aids for example where you can just wear a condom and be protected end of story it's much more delicate it's like playing russian roulette but the end of the day i'm an adult and i'm choosing to take the risk so are my clients. would a comment this she says she has no choice but to keep working like many others she operates under the radar because there's no legal recognition for self employed sex workers that means no state benefits for income she'd lose during lockdown well prostitution continues behind closed doors the windows here against red light district remain empty buying and selling sex isn't illegal in belgium but making money from the sex work of others this campaign is warned this gray zone offers fertile ground for discrimination if a sex worker wants to have a loan an insurance if she wants to rent

a house she doesn't have payslips to show how much she earns. if she goes to a bank and the bank has some suspicions the bank will say like ok maybe you're a sex workers and if you're a sex worker we will not give you a loan we'll give you an account we will give you insurance because then we are punishable by law there is hope for a change in policy belgium's new government has vowed to improve the living and working conditions of sex workers but some more this misses the point entirely support organization for women working on the streets of brussels wants to see the evolution of prostitution. taking the inside from what we see on a daily basis prostitution is sexual violence and it's sexual exploitation and women are women and children boys and girls of our. main victims of a fate she also wants things to change but for her the priority is legal

recognition to give thousands of sex workers here the security to weather future crises the people at the heart of it say this debate can take place without them. snow storms in spain have left 4 people dead in caused transport chaos across much of the country the capital madrid has seen its heaviest snowfall in almost half a century many of spain's provinces remain on alert as storm filomena continues to wreak havoc. after a grueling 2020 for spain january's snow fall has provided less relief. in madrid they threw snowballs. and danced for joy in the streets. the fun even evokes hollywood it's a wonderful life. jurassic park. there's

a friend of mine a criminal have never seen anything like this. and it's magic. i don't think it's an exaggeration to say there's a lot of people on the streets despite the pandemic. it's just so much fun. on spain's roads though drivers went so amused as they became trapped in the snow. you know there's the i guess. common of any food since 4 pm yesterday. i don't have much left to drink and i'm gradually running out of fuel. spain's interior minister said 1500 people were rescued from stranded vehicles and he had words of reassurance regarding supply of the coronavirus vaccine. security forces have deployed all their capacity to prevent this situation from affecting in any way the plans to contain the pandemic or the vaccination campaigns that the

autonomous communities are continuing this. good news for those anxiously awaiting inoculation in the streets of madrid though people were clearly happy to let the virus take a snow day. you're watching the news coming up a documentary about while way to stay with us. young moroccan immigrants. they know the police will stop the. the the rudest solution. to their flights could be fatal. but that is not an option shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. .

another glow for a while way with the arrest in canada of its financial director in another subject piece you know soon enough and it has sent the markets haywire and reignited the trade war between beijing and washington. we asked the united states to explain the reasons behind the arrest of main one soon and demand her immediate release of all . of us officials also suspect huawei of using its technology to help the chinese government spy. the criminal activity alleged in this indictment goes back at least 10 years and goes all the way to the top of the company. december 28th seen the arrest of the daughter of the founder of well wait in vancouver on the request of the us marked the start of hostilities against the company. the 1st act of

a deep crisis with china. that if you would walk away would not do it for them and i really made the decision it's much simpler not to do any business while wearing my usual doll made one that united states is fighting us with force and determination we didn't expect them to hit so hard to push. how did it come to this how did the chinese telecom company while way find itself involved in new technological and geopolitical war. we're now in an era where technology artificial intelligence quantum computing telecommunications and cellphones are the commodities that are driving conflict at a global scale. the reason behind america's anxiety regarding one way is that its activity reaches much farther than telecommunications he who dominates will undoubtedly dominate a large portion of to moore's economy. a 5 g. network deep sea cables. facial recognition cameras the cities of the future. is

weaving a new technological web the covers the whole world. while way is something that's very dangerous you look at what they've done from a security standpoint from a military standpoint it's very dangerous. this is the story of what way the symbol of china's success i mean the worst fears of the modern world. to assess the ambitions of the giant war way we had to southern china not far from the city of. this isn't a brand new theme park but the vast majestic 8 horses of world. outside nature of

which is only equalled by the brands growing in time. having risen up a year ago the complex spreads over a 1000000 and a half square metres deep in the heart of the quandong hills. the architecture may seem familiar to you it's an assumed choice science is composed of 12 villages inspired by 12 different european cities. so this is the head of the front you're a man and now we also have the various long years by italy and city science tell a very italian style and that is paris and if architecture defined is. very famous international university. in france and their romantic in their pain and beautiful. and you have to. 3 and 27 years old

respectively too young while we employees among the thousands that work here. the company holds its head up high with pride and ambition. but they can't ignore the tenacity of a special party could now dowsing y.y. with ice cold water to cool its authors donald trump and his accusations of espionage picked up on by part of the west are on everyone's minds here of course that feels that it was something that never down to go yourself something never down on it's not fair it's you know news all the time sometimes in the trade some say man everywhere and everywhere in the lord knows about the golf course everyone talks about it and everyone has the faith and yes i can buy that. and that's not happy about of.

always one of the great success stories of the 21st century. from now with u.s. companies from doing business with the chinese room last week. about the rebuilding and people in more than 170 countries use that product itself more smartphones than apple and if that can only to family or especially in just one week this name has become synonymous with the trade war between the united states and china one way chinese telecom giant weiwei is accused of espionage by washington and threatened with losing access to american markets and technology get. a few months ago just pronouncing the company's name was a challenge. since then while weight has made a name for itself firstly with the smartphones $59000000.00 of them sold across the globe in the 1st quarter to $2900.00 it's fewer than something more than apple with only 36000000 cell phones sold or. first the bride.

huawei is is one of the biggest chinese companies it's grown exponentially over the last decade in pretty much every part i'm talking occasions they're building phones they're building wireless networks they're building all sorts of components and they're one of 4 mean suppliers of 5 g. technology which is going to be an evolutionary change the new world punctuated by technology wars and devoured by geo strategic tensions. at the heart of these new states is announced revolution. ultimate weapon developed by way adventure which is tormenting the west for 5 g. technology. 5 g. promises to change our societies forever a new world of connected objects unmatched power and speed of connections. the 5th

generation of mobile communication is about to change our lives for better or for worse. the stakes are incredibly high and while we knows it. the chinese company is the world leader and it's estimated that it has a 2 year take on much commitments each over its rivals a good portion of that r. and d. has gone and the 5 genes. second factor is that we started doing it earlier than most other companies we started investing in 5 g. 2000 and. the difference between 4 g. and 5 g. is as wide as between a citroen and a ferrari would be from $2.00 to $3.00 to $4.00 g. improvements were made every time will you during prudence if you like i don't whereas the 5 g. is a complete break because it involved brand new technologies he needs and the americans developed 3 then 40 and sat on their laurels and they clearly did not suspect that the chinese had understood i mean if you you know they had lost the battles for 23

and 4 g. and then said ok now we'll invest in 5 g. and gain the advantage but i sang the impala levels yeah ok i can get it too. so what it is is an industrial robot supported by a very stable high speed high quality 5 g. wireless connection so ordinarily these robots would have cable transmitting power to them and controlling them. but these are wireless. what we provide because it is the network that allows very high capacity transmission data for stable transmission data which means there's no delay a network that will support many thousands in the millions of connections. with the shontayne if when you click on your smartphone today you have what's known

as lag times. in with 5 g. that doesn't exist anymore when you click the. age appears immediately what does this revolution offer realistically and i mean it which i thomas vehicles at distance medicine and the internet of things is of it and online real time gaming virtual and augmented reality since i can tell you don't so we're going to see whole sectors of the economy switching to this network to do so that's why the geopolitical stakes are so high he who dominates it will undoubtedly dominate a large portion of to morrow's economy he could. not be have to if he did see an operator equipped with 5 g. you can gather data as it passes through its systems will possess a vast amount of information on everything going on your goal should be obvious if he then uses it for his own benefit then there is a real danger of saddam so we will need to ensure that he can't use it but if

a government of a certain country work together and use it for its own benefit it could pose a big threat to other countries or was it. this is the fear of a number of western countries and that they hate the united states. the american government fears that while way with its immense network could serve as a trojan horse and eventually help the chinese government to spy and gather data. 5 g. networks must be secure they must be strong they have to be guarded from the enemy you do have enemies out there. it's difficult also you need to understand that a telecom network has a heart with lots of little tentacles attendee that gather data if you're at the heart of this network and you have access to all this data you can collect phone numbers addresses consumer information etc so this part is

a highly sensitive subject. and a good example would be. the african union the african union headquarters was really a gift from the chinese government and all the telecommunications equipment in the african union. headquarters building was provided by the way and i think was about 5 years into the operation of this facility the engineers discovered that every night significant volume of traffic was being sent back to china from the network which was presumably everything from audio and video from. the private meetings that were happening to the contents of their file server every night it's not clear that while we had any direct role in a building that certainly. could have unilaterally put software in place to do something like that. but large scale as you know is like that is the 2nd concern of why wait for being used in an operational networks 330 faced with

suspicions and i can say sions from america the founder and c.e.o. of one way spoke up in percy swearing that he had absolutely no intentions of. mormon khushi your real home and design company used back doors i can assure you 100 percent you know we do not use back doors church and we are prepared to sign an anti backwards agreement with any government that requests. while one has always pleaded not guilty demanded proof united states assure that this equipment is ultra securitized. but that barely reassures the trumpet ministration which fears on top of espionage

a large scale cyber attack coming from overseas. robert strang is the deputy assistant secretary of state cyber and international communications policy. because there's so many more devices on these 5 g. networks there's going to be an expanded attack surface area if you will of ways that actors could seek to undermine our way of life we're also going to have opportunities because there's so much more software going over so much more code there will be also additional points of vulnerability for concern that in china unlike in western democracy there is no ability for a company to object to the commands it receives from the government itself or in china's case from the communist chinese communist party they can't go to an independent court for judicial review to object to it being instructed to acquire data or to disrupt that critical infrastructure that's going to be created by the 5

g. networks. by 2025 they could be between 50 and 100000000000 connected don't tricks on those. machines and equipment running things to find cheap and many of them open to attack. if they have access and they have the off switch and suddenly if there's a war if there is a conflict between the u.s. and china it's the bad case scenario but huawei is in your network maybe they can shut it down shut down your phones should down your calls shut down your power plants shut down your water infrastructure all these critical for. the president signed an executive order on wednesday allowing us to ban foreign telecommunications equipment and service that this is part of the white house the president's commitment to protecting information and cars technology there saying

that the president here is declaring a state of emergency in national emergency. just this once the u.s. president seems to be backed by a large portion of these countries elected men and women in his face off with what way and china in the corridors of congress in washington numerous sentences both republicans and democrats fire off rounds of the chinese company with no holding back the major risk is one once you have something built in your communication system that has a back door in it that means whatever is on your cell phone or whatever's in your communication can be intercepted by someone else and so people want their cell phone communication to be protective they don't want to be of what they don't want some other foreign entity or whether it be an individual actor or a foreign nation and they were actually to your data well i think war way is a security threat not just the united states but to france to the west so i think it's very important that allies around the world. recognize that this

is a long term security threat. and the united states allies are also beginning to banish the chinese giant strayer hand and now new zealand. and naturally donald trump's blacklisting is harming wildlife financially. its international smartphone sales have fallen 40 percent in 2 months. so cool and what the americans are forbidding is access to get them the big 5 of google apple facebook amazon and microsoft set up. and it will cause problems for wall ways because if they want to find a route they won't have access to google maps if they want to video no you tube they want to send an e-mail no g. mail anymore they want to send a message to friends on facebook they don't have it anymore all of these services

are defacto excluded from one way smartphones or even for the way. in china that doesn't really matter because google is not allowed. but while we sells about half of its phones somewhere else a lot of them are sold in europe and some of the phones are some of the best phones in the world right now some of the best phones for the money but now a lot of customers will think well wait a 2nd if i can have all these google applications right the google apps tor google maps g.-mail google drive then i'm going to go ahead and buy another brand. a 2nd one way is another means of putting pressure on china destabilizing a competitor with the strength of. more a long period of time china has taken advantage of touch $375000000000.00 in trade deficit came about year after year we don't want that not fair not right.

for that see if i have no idea why donald trump is so intent on waging war on while way we have several theories. one is that he doesn't want foreign technology notably while ways to be better than america's technology ali that seems will be will make one hop just a 2nd is that what weighs technology is so advanced and so secure it would prevent the united states from spying on its own people and on other countries will have a system a way of putting down on the common hedge about what he has made confronting china on trade a major issue for his administration and i think the wall way. problem is part of that if wall way was located in brazil it was an indian company if it was a european company nobody would care but because it's part of this larger picture

of aggressive china a china that uses predatory trade practices and a china that is now the leading source of espionage against the united states put all that together and they've decided to go after them. who could have imagined this company's great destiny. how is it grown so quickly to become emblematic of an entire nation one time in its history. when one was founded in 1907 china was in full growth. 10 years beforehand the new leader helping had launched his great modernization reforms with a single objective to elevate china to the rank of a world superpower. today's

china is entering a new phase here we are now focusing our efforts on the modernization of farming and industry science and technology along with national defense so we can we do our country in a typically chinese way. in the 1980 s. when huawei was born when it was just getting started and. the chinese market economy was also in just getting started so the chinese government in beijing which is thousands of miles away in the north of china decided you know we're going to have a few cities where we're going to try out capitalism and we're going to try out in very small steps the chinese leader at the time a little small man named tim shopping said we're going to just do trial. we're going to cross the river is by feeling for the stones. among the places chosen to test chinese style capitalism was shenzhen a small fishing village

a stone's throw from hong kong. it was there that while we was founded. if the reforms put in place by deng xiaoping were very progressive it started with agriculture and giving farmers the opportunity to own some of their land and yields started to skyrocket 20. in the place so after that he extended them to industry is going to have to scale. people in them began to think you know i can make some money i can become a company it was a change if you had a private sector it didn't exist before well it was all the family totally represents the rise of the economy of china a country that no longer produces low cost products and also the end of plastic objects and textiles made in china it now represents china as a technological power a force of innovation investing in r. and d. and that's why while way is the chinese symbol.

way has created $160000.00 jobs worldwide and boasts a record turnover of $100000000000.00 because it has discreetly taken advantage of china's opening up to the global markets. but while i was founded by mr van with a mere $21000.00 u.n. about $5000.00 at the time and a handful of employees there was a huge need for telecommunications on the chinese market because nothing existed so he sees to the opportunity. the founder and big boss in what way. the embodiment of chinese ambition and success. wrenching for a visionary. war. these military past with the chinese people's liberation army is at the heart of the west's fears on the current trade war.

we do know that the founder has a military past so he was with the people's liberation army at the start reportedly news reports suggest that they had an early contract with the people's liberation army so that they might have helped them was becoming a contractor with the chinese government and the chinese military. there's a significant concern that the people's liberation army the p l a could use those connections to either get access to walk away equipment or always source code or have the ability to insert malware and while that product. the question being posed a decision when served in the engineering corps of an army with millions of soldiers so if you follow the logic of our detractors it means that these millions of people are still closely linked to the chinese government and militia what else can i say to prove that mr wrenn has no such links he's just an ex army engineer

who became something else once his tour of duty was over the west should be able to understand that while ways history shows that it's the product of a china which has to be formed and opened up in order to strengthen competitiveness and bring prosperity to the chinese economy so that it can enter into global markets how does she. well wait also promotes itself as being a totally private company. gets 0 shares owned by the chinese state. local for the founders owns about 1.4 percent of the shares so the company is almost completely run by her 90000 employees decent me to employ you well that's very rare in china i'm also. shareholder albeit a very small one but every year the dividend is shared out among us all.

to demonstrate its technological lead well wait exceptionally allowed us into its laboratories in warehouses in southern china. they stretch out as far as the eye can see. these immense concrete hangers spew out thousands of brand new smartphones ready for export across the globe. to enter special clothing to get drink the bones are assembled on the last section of the production lines 30 hours is required to manufacture a single unit. for a few employees most of the work being performed by robots. beyond the production lines the true pride of the chinese brand is hidden on either side of these corridors. and also the mysterious mood ranges to

these are the labs the way research and development center. this engineer for example is developing 5 g. and 10 i capable of withstanding the worst weather conditions. to disprove the world office of his past life is a common one it's a common. comment. and this is what. the what i want to get accumulated on the surface so while we are developing this technology and you know that. word up i'll just ignore millimeter wave it's transmission abilities kind of weak soul when. used especially some called places you know frosty winter it's also kind of called it may be color that was the 6 layer i was not we developed this. she called the technologist to stop water ice accumulation on the surface so there was b.s. to claim that. it. is the company which has filed the most

patents in the world 5428 a record that's twice as many as mitsubishi and intel who trail in 2nd and 3rd place inventions dreamed up by young scientists like the 32 year old tundra 2 which were developed following further studies in germany i think only the 1st team to use the weaver chambre because now other companies are using it has we are this is a plan for. inside job water so especially where you play games you can feel your interest in temperature in japan or. to get where it is while we started out like many chinese companies drawing on western inventions through forced technology transfers. you so shitty diverse select company wanting to operate in china i love must surrender its

patents and transfer them to the chinese or associates of asia or live you don't need we've seen this in aeronautics and in manufacturing you're obliged to transfer your patents and explain your manufacturing process ease of it is what's more china also obliges you to help build their plants and set up the whole process from a to z. a little. illegal practice for sure but one to which all too often copies and even theft of intellectual property already. supper surely valid it is a bit like the original sin of all chinese companies while we store. it by copying the big western brands even at the origin of their base products which were network components was on high so i spoke with an engineer alcatel who told me they

discovered products they're identical to there is in china. china sea aircraft manufacturing china's high speed train which looks very much like a german high speed train it's part of how they built their industry stealing technology has been part of china's opening to the west since the beginning when helping said china would now open its markets to the west. to. the u.s. and bailed weeping charges against chinese tech giant huawei on monday formally accusing the company and its affiliates of stealing trade secrets you don't miss a walk away employee undertook a scheme to steal team mobiles robotic technology maintain happy employees allegedly took numerous an author write.