adrien brown, al jazeera in northern china. >>> two years of rerattic weather and declining production is taking a toll on the tea industry. the state produces 17% of all the world's tea. over the past 100 years, the minimum temperature across the tea growing region has increased by 1.5 degrees celsius. annual rainfall has dropped by 20 meters. we have this report. >> acceptable. >> meet a professional tea taster. his job is to assess quality, but, he says, tea is subjective, like whiskey or wine, one man's drink is another man's poison. he says he's seen big changes in his 25 year career. >> the growing conditions have become more challenging. earlier in areas where you didn't need irrigation, today you need irrigation, so that's an added cost. >> he has devoted his life to studying tea. he says global warming is having a serious effect on the industry. >> climate change is impacting the productivity in terms of distribution. secondly, the climate change is also affecting the quality. >> there was a time when these sprinklers weren't needed, when the rainfall and sunshine were just ri

adrien brown, al jazeera, beijing. >> sri lanka is dealing with power cuts after one of the country'sain power plants failed. homes and businesses are blocked out for eight hours a day until the problem is fixed. >> the electricity cuts have affected welding and iron workshops like this one, as well as other businesses that rely on power supply. now in this workshop, we see this drill, the welding plant lying idle, because staff can't make use of it. instead, what they've had to do is rely on things that don't require electricity. they wait for the power to be turned back on. all of this on the outskirts of colombo, that caused a main generation plant to trip that plant basically supplying up to 40% of sri lanka's electricity needs. the chairman of the electricity board told me that takes up to four days to get going again and because of that shortfall, the country is facing up to seven hours. they are looking into restoring power as soon as possible. there are representatives of government who have pointed to sabotage for this tower outage, there is a police investigation occurring i

adrien brown, shanghai. >>> two spaceman are about to come book to earth after spending 340 days living in the international space station. scientists will take a close look at their physical and mental conditions, nasa plans a trip to mars within 20 years. tom ackermann reports. >>> congratulations for your year of service on i.s.s. >> over the past 49 weeks, scott and his russian comrade have taken more than 5400 spins around the earth. they have taken part in six space walks and conducted experiments like growing vegetables in zero gavery conditions. it's how their own bodies have weathered the long spell of radiation exposure and weightlessness that researchers will be giving the most attention. kelly said he feels fine physically but has a keener sense of the social isolation of space travel. after spending almost half the time in a box the size of a phone booth, kelly points to the planning a human journey to mars human journey to mars that could take 500 days or more. >> making that, you know, that private area as perfect as possible, i think will go a long way towards reducing f

adrien brown, shanghai. >> share holm is an executive director in an organization for human rights in china. are you spiced it's taken this law to get a law of this sort in china? >> i'm not surprised given the process in china. given the domestic violence in china and the very active history of chinese civil society groups pressing for a more effective law preventing and addressing the problem, it should have come sooner. >> what about, we heard there about from that very brave victim who spoke out about it, said she thought it was normal for a husband to beat his wife. do you think this law will help change those attitudes? >> the factors that contribute to violence against women and domestic violence include cultural values, tradition, practices, but also includes the legal institutions like the police and the response of the police and the courts and the prosecutors, so all of that has to shift with the center on respecting the rights of the women themselves and empowering the women. that's where there will be some effective implementation of this law. >> you are suggesting that e

adrien brown has the latest from beijing. >> this was a very big protest. we haven't been able to independently verify pictures that we've seen on social media, but they show minors clashing with police and miners with family. they gathered outside the offices of the mine saturday demanding to be paid, saying in many cases they had been more than 12 to six months without being paid or receiving benefits. the question is this, is what we have seen in the province over the weekend a sign of what may be to come in the months and years ahead as china embarks on this delicate task which shutting down inefficient mines. the government has poured cheap money into these state owned enterprises to prop them up and keep them going. that had the effect of creating more debt. the government said that model can no longer continue. the question now is how hard they wield their ax and it may be here they wielded the ax too hard. the governor of this province denied that the workers were owed money. he actually made that statement here in china's parliament, which is meeti

correspondents are tracking overseas reactions to the campaigns thus far and we'll start with adrien brown in beijing. >> china's state controlled media appears to be even handed in its coverage, not favoring one candidate over the other, but political commentators and opinion makers are having a field day, seizing on what they see as the dysfunction in the republican party. donald trump is portrayed as a clown, an extremist, a symbol of distrust and disgust of the political system. bernie sanders is getting favorable coverage. one political analyst said that his candidacy fits in with the government's narrative of the united states being beset with racial and economic inequality. there's hillary clinton. if you go to social media sites, she is perceived as a china backer, even though her husband is seen as very popular here and seen as riding on the coattails of president obama. to sum up, most chinese are adopting a wait and see attitude mixed with criticism of the u.s. political system. >> most people here in iraq don't really care about the u.s. elections. they have their own problems