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hello and welcome to world news america. first new developments. peter navarro who used to be a trade advisor to the former president donald trump has been convicted of contempt of congress. the guilty verdicts wrap up a quick trial and a quicker deliberation. our washington correspondent joins us. what can you tell us? >> these were two charges of contempt of congress. failing to produce documents and failing to appear to give testimony. this relates to peter navarro's plan which he called the green bay sweep. he referenced the run by the green bay packers. to overturn the election results on january 6. this was not a trial about that plan. it was a trial about him

refusing. to appear before congress he is been found guilty on both charges. he could get up to a year in prison on either of them at up to $100,000 fine. is going to be sentenced and a january. he said he will appeal and may even file for a mistrial but he is the second one to be convicted. steve bannon charged with the same thing. got four months. he is still waiting for his appeal to be heard. >> thanks for bringing us those details. u.s. president joe biden is on his way to the g20 summit in new delhi set to arrive friday. the president tested negative for covid before leaving after the first lady tested positive over the weekend. presidents and prime ministers from the top economies are meeting for the annual event. this year's theme is sustainable development including climate change and sustainable energy. the ongoing conflict in ukraine is expected to be on the agenda. not all g20 leaders will be in attendance. notable absences include the russian vladimir putin, chinese

president xi jinping and the mexican president andres manuel open pez lobar door. all of the leaders have opted to send ministers. a look ahead to the event in new delhi. >> india's moment on the global stage. to the world, it is promoting itself as a leader. at home it made the g20 part of daily discourse. >> let us remind ourselves that this grouping bears and exceptional responsibility. >> holding 200 readings in 60 different cities. making the g20 matter. >> g20 means a lot to me as an indian. the biggest achievement for the government. >> it feels we are the ones hosting it. that sense of collective nests is what india is about. i am excited for it. >> new convention center, new

statues, g20 billboards everywhere. deli has been getting a makeover where the of hollywood stars presenting a cleaned up version to the world. behind these walls put up just before the g20 is also india. a hidden india visiting world leaders will not see. instead of being cleaned up like the rest of the city, impoverished communities are kept out of sight. something that saddam says makes him angry. >> to me it looks very beautiful. they transformed delhi but we are like craters on the moon. they have hidden us. they might as well remove us from here. >> this may look like a pile of broken bricks and bits of concrete but two months ago was actually peoples homes.

even a community school. but it was torn down. the government says the buildings were legal. the g20 just happens to be taking place across the street. but it is not what this woman was told what her home was destroyed. >> they broke our homes and made us homeless. they said they wanted to clean up the area for the g20. they said move from here. they removed us all. >> prime minister modi is facing other domestic issues. his government has been criticized for a rise in religious tensions and end up with a country has shrugged off admonitions ahead of the g20 instead focusing the conversation on issues that matter to the global south. >> a great polarization in poverty. during the last year we cannot forget a large part of the world, some of the most

vulnerable countries facing acute crises of multiple kinds. those voices are not being heard. >> india has taken a rotating presidency and turned into a major event. in doing so it has managed to solidify its global importance. >> president biden's upcoming trip to asia has two parts with the visits to india and vietnam. one of the goals is to counter the influence on their, neighbor china. he first goes to new delhi to take part in the summit saturday and sunday. he will travel to vietnam's capital city hanoi to meet with the vietnamese general secretary . earlier i spoke with a former u.s. ambassador to india on what to look out for at the summit. thanks for joining us. what are you expecting from this g20 summit in india?

>> when you look at the g20, you have 85% of the global gross domestic product represented. you have about 75% of world trade and two thirds of the world population. this is quite an opportunity for president biden and prime minister modi who will have the stage as world leaders kind of themselves with putin and xi jinping missing to taco bell as architects what the shape and balance of power looks like in asia in the years to come. they can have big deliverables and talk about what they met on in washington, d.c. a few months ago to talk about the engine deals, the drone deals come the tech deals, the manufacturing deals the u.s. in india worked on by laterally but i also think there is a big opportunity for india to project its rise around the world to the world. to talk about how far they have come the last several decades. fourth biggest economy in the world. i guess democracy. maybe the biggest population in the world in their economic

growth and progress. great opportunities but there will be questions at the end of this too obviously. big questions about what goes next. >> without vladimir putin and choosing pain not there both deciding to skip it for different reasons, what does that say about where the international order is now? >> there is certainly a lot of division shared a lot of volatility. a lot of opportunity in geopolitics in strategic convergence. i have written the term and heard the term strategic convergence now in the last year more than i have the last 10 or 15 years with respect to india's and the united states strategic interest coming together. so there are opportunities there. with putin and xi jinping missing physically from this meeting, they are not missing from it in terms of their influence and their power. certainly in a joint statement issued at the end of the g20,

will they be able to step on any kind of statement that could be put in on ukraine and the ukraine war? my guess is the joint communique if they come up with one and agree to one will probably skirt that issue and we will read more about reform of the multilateral institutions to lend more to the poor countries and all development and climate issues. they are going to talk more about climate change and how to work together across the globe. whether or not and what is in a joint communique at the end of the day on sunday will be a big question. >> there is the multilateral discussion that happens at a g20 but without putin and xi jinping their president biden will be deprived of the opportunity for one-on-one meetings. how important is that he will not get that chance? >> i think it is a real opportunity for president biden to mess tickly and international

-- domestically and internationally to show invigoration, to show he is a leader and with the vacuum of xi jinping and putin not being there, that he and prime minister modi have the stage almost to themselves to talk about how they see the road developing in the next 10 years and where india and the u.s. and developing countries can work on that together. certainly climate change and green energy and green energy opportunities. chip manufacturing. where does some of the manufacturing go when it is not going to go back to china after covid? is india going to get that? will vietnam get that? then you also have i think on the bookends of this vry interesting things happening. we all member a couple weeks ago the united states convened south korea, japan getting together for a trilateral with the united states. a historic outcome for

cooperation with asia. mr. biden will be leaving delhi on sunday and going to vietnam to work on cementing a strategic deal with vietnam. you can see the u.s. strategy for asia. cooperation with india and other countries in the region, with xi jinping missing. there is an opportunity for biden to step into that nbn architect on what the world looks like coming together in the next few years. >> if we look at india specifically, in addition to reports of ongoing human rights abuses we have seen in recent days and weeks the clearing of slums in new delhi, the building of walls to hide camps ahead of the world leaders, the world's media descending on india. how should joe biden address that? >> many of us talked about that when mr. modi visited the united states in june for the white house state dinner and for the very important and breathtaking deliverables announced back then. that is certainly a key issue to

the united states into the world. india being the largest democracy in the world, how did they embrace their diversity? how did they embrace the goals of their constipation -- the goals of their constitution and we the people. america treating everybody equally. now they are growing at 7% per year, they have grown to be the third or fourth largest economy in the world. their big challenge is there 139th out of 100 e1 countries in per capita income. how do they make sure that gets to the poorest people, the jobs and get to the poorest people. there are opportunities for all people in india whether they are muslim or hindu or buddhist or seek. whatever that might the in the terms of the background and religion. that is something i am sure mr. biden will bring up in the bilateral meeting on friday with mr. modi. mr. modi is up for reelection in

2024. this is an opportunity for him to show the world not only is economic growth and stability and projecting power to his people important for his reelection and for world power but so are goals like human rights and diversity. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure to be on bbc. >> china's exports have dropped for the fourth month in a row as it struggles with weak demand across the globe. exports fell 8.8% in august compared with a year earlier and imports dropped 7.3% to it is worth noting these declines were not as bad as expected and an improvement on the previous month. china faces several post-pandemic challenges including a property crisis and weak consumer spending. the slump in global demand for chinese made goods and the ongoing trade dispute with the u.s. are having a major impact on the country's economy.

earlier democratic congressman from illinois raja krishnamoorthi joined us to discuss the new trade numbers. thanks for joining. us in your role as a ranking member on the commedia for a strategic competition between the u.s. and china you keep a close eye on trade matters. the latest figures coming out of china show imports and exports fell in august putting pressure on the manufacturing sector. the slowdown continues. is there any sign of it bought a male as far as you can see? >> not that i can see. i think they're in a real tailspin in china right now. youth unemployment is above 20%. consumer confidence is low. people are not buying stuff. on top of all of that, you have the risk of deflation and demographic freefall because the population is shrinking. given all those issues, i think they have a lot to address and

with respect i think any economic or military aggression is counterproductive to what they are trying to achieve wishes tried to improve their economic fortunes. >> so what does that trajectory need for domestic trade in the u.s.? >> we have very little exposure to china because we export very little as a percentage of our economy. a product of the fact the use protection as policies to prevent american companies from taking advantage of the chinese market. while our economy is growing, it is strong and resilient right now with record unemployment, record low unemployment. unfortunately the chinese are not seeing that. they are seeing the opposite. >> now to the war in ukraine were going to tax continued on both sides as u.s. to get terry of state antony blinken wraps up his visit.

overnight, suspected ukrainian attacks were reported on a russian city. not far from the regions military headquarters. in a more recent and separate attack and ukrainian drone targeted an industrial site in southern russia setting a building on fire but causing no injuries. his attacks, in the wake of russia attacking a ukrainian market killing 17 people. it coincided with antony blinken's trip to ukraine. on the trip he pledged another billion dollar aid package including 170 $5 million of u.s. military equipment. this caused controversy because the equipment includes shells strong enough to pierce through tank armor. russia has expressed anger over this before with the need -- when the u.k. announced it was sending similar shells to ukraine. russia's president vladimir putin described the weapons as having a nuclear component. with the secretary of state's visit to ukraine in the past the

bbc's paul adams is back to wrap it up. >> antony blinken's latest visit to kyiv is now over. he was in the country for two days. he is on his way home. i think it is a visit in which he has had an opportunity to spend quite a bit of time looking at the consequences of the conflict in various ways. and also an opportunity to pledge a great deal more american support. clearly the message from him was the united states is anxious to get the kind of support that will allow the ukrainian armed forces to increase the momentum of their counteroffensive in the south and that is why we have seen the inclusion of depleted uranium shells which will be used with u.s. supplied abrams tanks that should be in ukraine within a matter of weeks. the idea being they detect signs

of an increased amount of progress in the south. something the nato secretary general also alluded to during the day. they are also conscious time is marching on. they went to give ukraine all the assistance they can to try to make as much progress as possible before this year draws to a close. >> for almost a decade a civil war has been grinding on in yemen pushing the arab world's poorest country to the brink of collapse. there is less violence as a temporary cease-fire what there is no sign of a deal to end the conflict. many children have been caught up in the conflict. our correspondent went to a city in the southwest of yemen to catch up with an extraordinary 11-year-old boy she first met two years ago. >> smiling through. this is a document. he is 11 years old.

he does not let much get in his way. he is heading to the river to get water. a daily ritual. life was tough here even before the war but he is a fighter. we have come back to see this star pupil. who is also a stand in teacher at his school. are you the best teacher there? that is a yes. he has been blind from birth along with four of his siblings. he is growing up near a front line in a city under siege. it is a very scary he tells me. we are afraid of gunshots. when the fighting starts we cannot go to the park or the valley or anywhere. when was the last time you heard

fighting and explosions? last night he said. it is quiet now but there is danger in the hills where snipers are most active after dark. his father says there are about 600 meters in front of us. again shot away he tells me -- aegon shot away he tells me. school has always been a refuge of sorts. this was our first clips of him in january 2021. morning assembly. it was bombed by the saudi led coalition when it was occupied by houthi forces. the classrooms exposed to the sun and the rain.

young minds getting an education in war. he was leading the class at just nine years old. he gave us his wish list. we want a new school. chairs, doors, windows. blackboards, lights and batteries. so this is the new school. and viewers responded. a yemeni donor funded a new block and a british charity refurbished classrooms. saudi arabia after years of bombing yemen's building and other school nearby. he gives the changes top marks in he has plenty of big plans. i want to be a teacher, pilot, engineer, driver or a doctor. do you think you will be able to do all of these things?

sure. i do everything. and i will marry a beautiful city girl and she will make me this gets. the girls in the village don't know how to make good biscuits. the city girls know how to make delicious biscuits. so good you lick your fingers. back at the river, he has a few moments of fun. but childhood in yemen is short. he is full of hope. full of promise. he has already overcome so much but he is still a child of war.

>> let's check up with some other news. the american actor danny masterson has been sentenced to 30 years and life in prison on a rape he was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting three women in separate incidents between 2001 and 2003. he was best known for his performance and he the long-running sitcom that 70's show. his 30 year sentence is the maximum sentence allowed under law. hurricane lee which was upgraded from a tropical storm on wednesday has been up rated the category four and could soon reach category five, the highest level where winds exceed 250 kilometers an hour. it is not clear where if at all the storm might make landfall. tennis player medvedev has warned a player will die in what he called brutal conditions as a heat wave across new york continues to plague the final days of the u.s. open. he made the comment as temperatures hit already five degrees celsius, 95 degrees fahrenheit on the court during

his quarterfinal win over andre rublev. residents of the capital of canada's northwest territories have been her mission to turn home -- to return home three weeks after wildfires forced within 20,000 people to evacuate the city. firefighters have been able to keep the fires at base pairing the city from the devastation it was facing. commercial flights have resumed with welcome home signs and that returning evacuees. japan is joining several countries heading for the moon. the space center has successfully launched a rocket carrying a small lander. this is the moment the craft left the centers south of and i limp sure this is the third attempt of the launch. the previous two due to unfavorable weather. japan is hoping the mission was successfully touched down on the near side of the moon early next year. if it does it will become just the fifth country to reach the lunar surface. remember you can find out more about all of the days news on our website bbc.com/news.

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