hong kong and taiwan but also overseas chinese to be actively interested and involved with the communist partyangry. lets see how these three communist rabbits get on in recruiting people. remember you cannot access twitter in china easily so again it's not quite clear who it's for. that said the first half of the programme, in the second have a special report on efforts to clea n have a special report on efforts to clean in barbuda after hurricane armagh. we're right in the middle of hurricane season in the tropical atla ntic hurricane season in the tropical atlantic hence it is so stormy right now in the caribbean and right now hurricane maria is gaining steam from the ocean ‘s surface, intensifying and the areas which we re intensifying and the areas which were ravaged by hurricane them for another rough time. as we go towards the second half of the week it looks as though the storm will continue to gain strength from the sea and end up somewhere in the bahamas. the track is rough, always a chance it goes to the south or the north, broadly speaking these islands which have suffered so much

the chinese embassy people seemed to have no interest at all in working with the local communist party. and it was not because the local party was pro-soviet, because it was not particularly pro-soviet. my question then is, what do you think was china's relationship to indigenous communist parties in this kind of cold war context? gregg: i think that is a very good question and i am sure that your regulations would be very fascinating to hear more about. -- first, let me say this is the time you were there, one of the reasons china kept a relatively hands-off attitude towards the communist parties was because it was very genuinely interested in trying to build trust. right? a lot of these countries, especially ones in the middle east and the arab world and africa, they did not know a lot about china and they were concerned that if they established relations with china, what is china going to do, they are going to enter the communist party and spread it to their countries. they were nationalists, but they were not revolutionary. so china at the time was trying to say to these countries,

hejoined the communist party he was so idolised. and it was so impossible to criticise him.finally convinced himself that china needed an emperorfigure. i think mao, before coming to power and after coming to power, were two quite different personalities. but he was enormously courteous. he was disarming. he could make you forget that you were in the presence of someone from history. he was a large man and he had great personal dignity and was very easy to talk to. yunnan was the nerve centre of the entire communist movement. it was so rare in those days to have an american that spoke chinese. i was fascinated by the work they were doing. and i decided to stay and act as an english language person for their radio programme. it was an atmosphere of great determination. i would say even of great pride and joy to be there, to be part of that movement, which people felt was building a new china. there was one american movie every week. i used to go interpret. and mao's favourite films by far where laurel and hardy, were laurel and hardy, but they loved that. when mao laughed, he

thirty's rolled around it's true that the nazis were on the ascent but it's also true that the communist party was on the ascent so really the losers in this were the socialists and we can see that the conflicts that emerged in the twenty's emerged not primarily because either the socialist party or the communist party were advocating a confrontational strategy against the nazis in fact the opposite was true they were trying to hold back their rank and file militants from going after the nazis and so the red front fighters league which was established not really primarily initially as an anti-fascist force more as kind of a revolutionary militia in the tradition of the proletariat hundreds and others that came before it were had essentially their hands tied so if we talk about the conflicts certainly you can make the argument that the nazis did capitalize upon the chaos of the weimar republic there's no question about it they look they went out to look for i mean they went out look for the went out and created it they went out and intact a leftist social centers and bars and you know at the en

so every five years, roughly around 2,000 party delegates of the chinese communist party convenes in beijing. the purpose of these party congresses is to establish or set out a party line, update the constitution, and most importantly to select its senior leaders. given the opacity of chinese elite politics the prelude to every party congress always involves officials falling from grace or rising from obscurity. the leaders who will emerge in the ccp, standing committee and the central military commission are the products of intense internal jockeying for power in the world's largest party state and army and will have significant consequences on the policies of the people's republic of china. the highest party official and thus the most powerful person in china is the general secretary of the ccp. by convention the general secretary serves two five-year terms for a total of 10. general xi jinping took power in 2012. now, all eyes are set on the 19th party congress slated for this fall. the leaders of all the all-powerful standing committee and bureau offer material signals into the di

the 19th annual meeting of the communist party. —— 19th meeting of the congress of the communist partyting pictures and videos on applications like whatsapp. what do we think this means in terms of facebook‘s ambitions in china on a bigger scale? facebook isn't available here legally without the use of that virtual private network, the softwa re virtual private network, the software that circumvents china's huge censorship restrictions. it's like google, twitter, youtube, all of those outlets are not available here legally either. mark zuckerberg and facebook are trying to come back into the market but they're not in a place where they're willing to except the censorship restrictions and they are very severe. but whatsapp is available here, quite unusually, although we have these restrictions at the moment. for facebook there is a broader gentler approach about getting back into the chinese market, it can't resist the size of the market of course, but at the moment we aren't in the place where facebook will come in and accept those huge restrictions. robin brant in shanghai, many thank

. >> the soviet communist party has not faced a serious internal threat to its political rule since the 1920's. yet after years of force sacrifices by the population, shortages of food and clothing process. housing remains inadequate. intellectual and artistic expression are stifled. and growing corruption reaches all levels of society. the soviet people respond with the public displays of cynicism, but they almost never openly challenge the authority of the leadership. the soviet regime does not hesitate to enforce its role through the violent suppression of individual liberty, but it prefers to use less onerous methods of control like various propaganda techniques. the use of propaganda from the cradle to the grave helps except at least a passive acceptance of its people. the soviet regime the sum in its propaganda through a vast network, operating under the supervision of the parties central committee. this network encompasses over 4000 newspapers, a large book publishing empire, a nationwide radio and television system, and an incessant stream of public lectures. for example, about

you is driving interest as have the upcoming communist party congress. looking for commentary around that. there is a policy implemented in march at the communist party was dubbed the blue sky policy, and certainly chinese authorities have put that policy into action. we have seen a host of commodities in terms of cutting shall we describe environmentally unfriendly production, and that has an impact on the supply side. this is a continuation of that policy. there is no doubt lithium demand will grow, but there is a lot of supply on the market. it will be how quickly that supply can be brought on, and that will balance the supply-demand equation in my view. david: what is your favorite metal at the moment? the fundamentals are ,utstanding, no new mines demand is robust, and inventory is low. we appreciate you coming on the program. we have to leave it there. zinc, keep that in mind. donald trump striking a mixed tone on beijing. for what china-u.s. relations should look like, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ we are gearing up for the first bloomberg global b

the chinese communist party is likely to begin its anticipated congress on october 18. ially start the clock on the biggest clinical reshuffle since 2012. it comes after a meeting of the parties politico and it requires approval from the committee. the peso fell 1% after the economies ministers said the nation needs to prepare for an alternative with the north american free trade agreement. brickt trumps a red features prominently. since it wrapped up, he's threatened to pull america out of the deal four times. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. you can find more stories on the bloomberg at top . asia,public holidays in including here in singapore. let's look at japan and australia. the nikkei higher at .25%. you are seeing strong by coming in the csi 300 and over in india, the nitze up for tenths of 1%. asian stocks on track for a weekly gain as we await u.s. payroll numbers. quite incredible, a huge net income. these are stocks that are short target and cimb is saying its core loss is almost do

anti-communist protesters set fire to the headquarters of bulgaria's governing socialist party and chanted the communists burn." >> tens of thousands of ordinary citizens stormed the headquarters of the hated secret police tonight. >> the scenes in this moment are incredibly dramatic. people in the streets proclaiming freedom. some of that was liberation. some of it had a darker side. >> romania's dictator, the last hard line leader in the warsaw pact, has been deposed by a popular uprising. > romania was the most oppressive and most grotesque. of all the east european regimes. the only way to overthrow this regime turned out to be by force. >> fierce fighting erupted in bucharest. the old guard is fighting the new people. all hell has broken loose. >> romanian television aired graphic evidence today of the fate of deposed leader ceausescu. >> the ceausescus had been made to stand trial on christmas day. >> in the end, he got the kind of justice that he had dealt out to many of his subjects. >> at the end of this remarkable week, a week of bloodshed in romania and elsewhere comes a reminde

. >> the soviet communist party has not faced a serious internal threat to its political rule since the0's. yet after years of force sacrifices by the population, shortages of food and clothing process. housing remains inadequate. intellectual and artistic expression are stifled.

the key political movements here in germany known as the left its roots go back to the german communist party and today the former east is where the party still drools much of it supports and the left is strongest in the country's capital but lynn hof of the tens eastern districts have left party men as it stronghold is in the district of lichtenberg so why is the left so popular that it's been to find out.

we have the greens, and we also have the party that came out of the communist party that came out ofve the alternative for germany, the afd, with their anti—immigration and anti—islam policies, which i came to look at here earlier. we will have to see what effect their policies have on a coalition, but we do know that immigration is a significant issue. you might think that is as maybe but what should i care when the polls suggest angela merkel will get a fourth term and we know that she will stay in power. there are a few reasons. she is a hugely significant player in terms of the world's responds to a number of major issues. on climate change, outside source was at the g20 watching angela merkel shape the world's response to that while donald trump went his own way. on the future of the european union you could argue there is no more significant figure. and for those of you watch on the bbc news channel we also need to take note of brexit, because nothing the eu does in those negotiations happens, certainly not of significance, without angela merkel agreeing to it. she is very impo

of the american socialist and communist parties then forced it he raised the taxes and used it to do what create the social security system we never had that before the unemployment compensation system we never had that before passed the first minimum wage we never had that before and the cap it all off a public jobs program that employed fifteen million otherwise on the employed people if you raise taxes particularly on corporations and the rich and you use it in those ways yes you produce a much better quality of life and the business community was so upset that they had to pay for it in taxes that the last fifty years have been a consistent effort to roll all that back and trump is just one more step in that effort well when taxes were higher here in the united states we historically had a pretty strong middle class in as we do we're just discussing as happens all over the world the higher the top rate on the very very rich it appears the stronger and larger is the middle class so wouldn't real tax reform involve explicitly emphatically enthusiastically raising the top marginal ta

accused of stashing one hundred million marks overseas in an attempt to preserve some of the old communist party's assets. by yes i know i represent a party that's been discredited to a certain extent on the one hundred three own goals we set ourselves on the other three media campaigns by our opponents and our party's complex origins and history didn't help either. you know i spoke at various events in eastern germany at one in yanna some new nazis turned up fights broke out. and in western germany i always spoke at the big holes. supporters there were amazing i was too large crowds but in the end they didn't vote for us but in my good food was given time zones. i divides and welcome to our special coverage of the first free all german election since one nine hundred thirty two knots and when that happened orphan our team of experts will keep you up to date with the latest projections and of course we'll have the final result. this come as a season famine and you're constantly talking with the people who are getting the results with the editors with the director and then a politician would stop b

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it sees as provocative acts from north korea next month the anniversary of the founding of the communist party with tensions continuing to rise the south has rolled out its military hardware at an event marking forces day kathy novak is in seoul. a special forces show off korean fighting skills in a take quando display as the country celebrates its armed forces past and present the commander in chief president moon j. inspected the troops then addressed them saying the military's top priority is countering the north korean nuclear and missile threats and protecting peace come out of the korean government determination to safeguard peace and courage and strong national defense capabilities reckless rotations will be tough for an instrument on display the range of military hardware that south korea has at its disposal to take on what it sees as the threat from north korea including strategic ballistic missiles revealed for the first time to the public in another first the commemorations were held at the shitty trickly important second fleet naval base key in the defense of waters off the west co

has to say right they had to have foreseen something like this by the communist party congress what can we expect there well we have about a month to go scheduled for october eighteenth and in this current news cycle that's a very long time away you know it's going to happen until then we can expect that president will definitely remain in power we can see changes to the leadership lined up behind him you know adding new people or maybe you are moving others but like i said this is supposed to be a time where they lay out the economic plan for the next five years but a lot of analysts are saying we'll probably see more politics related policy discussed here rather than economics because of the situation in north korea this earlier today trump announced that the china central bank is now forcing some trying these banks to totally cut off north working with north korea course sanctions earlier this year. in announcing that they're trying to really isolate certain chinese banks from the u.s. financial system over their connection to north korea i don't know about you but it seems like we'r

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the calendar is full of big events between now and then china will have its communist party congress and north korea will be celebrating the foundation of its ruling party and south korean officials just said this week that they expect more provocative actions between from north korea around mid october so the question will be if tensions do arise if u.s. and china will seize on that urgency to cooperate more cohesively and to make a more united front or if the more tense situation leads them to break apart in some way and they have some differences on the best way to move forward so we'll have to states you know over the next couple weeks and see how things develop with a full calendar we'll certainly be watching that closely steven burrill a console thank you and now to some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of people have been arrested after clashes broke out at a movie on nazi rally in the swedish city of gotham burg counter-demonstrators protested against a marks by the nordic resistance movement and police struggled to keep the two sides apart a police off

the calendar is full of big events between now and then china will have its communist party congress and north korea will be celebrating the foundation of its ruling party and south korean officials just said this week that they expect more provocative actions between from north korea around mid october so the question will be if tensions do arise if the u.s. and china will seize on that urgency to cooperate more cohesively and to make a more united front or if the more tense situation leads them to break apart in some way and have some differences on the best way to move forward so we'll have to stay tuned over the next couple weeks and see how things develop with a full calendar we'll certainly be watching that closely steven burrill a console thank you. to sports now or bundesliga league leaders dortmund travel to inform oxburgh on match day seven the teams traded blows early on both scoring with an eleven minutes but. restored dortmund's lead before half time and although poor emerick over my own missed a penalty late dortmund still managed to claim three points with a two one win

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>> from the communist party, from the zionist christ killing jews.y have not been affluent since they killed christ, and they can be traced in the streets today. >> what about the role of the catholics? >> the reason the catholics cannot get in this organization, his first allegiance is not to the united states, his first allegiance is to the pope. they believe that the church should rule the government with the pope at the head. and if they are right, there is a bunch in this country who are wrong. we've never had a drop of blood spilled between a white man and a black man in any city in north carolina when we had the clan organized. we are doing our best. everybody in this country is organized with the white protestant gentile. the niggers have the naacp. and the sorry white trash. people, theish knights of columbus which is a secret fraternal order. but the only salvation in this united states today is the united klan of the corporate union. we will have to do it again. charles: one important ku klux klan official was not at the meeting, the klan

the calendar is full of big events between now and then china will have its communist party congress and north korea will be celebrating the foundation of its ruling party and south korean officials just said this week that they expect more provocative actions from north korea around mid october so the question will be if tensions do rise if the u.s. and china will seize on that urgency to cooperate more cohesively and to make a more united front or if the more tense situation leads them to break apart in some way and they have some differences on the best way to move forward so we'll have to stay tuned over the next couple weeks and see how things develop with a full calendar we'll certainly be watching that closely steven burrill way console thank you. to spain now were tensions are rising ahead of attempts by catalonia to hold an independence referendum on sunday madrid says the move is illegal and has set thousands of police officers to the region but catalan authorities say everything is in place for the vote to go ahead however there are plenty of voices in catalonia and elsewh

constantly drawing of his youth in east germany where he learned to place art at the service of the communist party and of nature whose rhythms he loved and feared. it is a vexed with you is that this interim lation ship is a great emotion that is in me one which sometimes appears as melancholy and sometimes as joy and jubilation. and breathing the expanse of my god i'm alive and vital and i got it live it. today is a deserted island to which regularly returned in communist east germany it was a military town and even now the place is uninhabited. only can work here. is overgrown it's a jungle here i've staked a painting into the ground ground of my childhood so to speak. and to mark a beginning this is where i want to highlight just like i did when i was a young boy. and so i have spiked i want to kind of go to to the shores of the arctic sea you. have it i have driven with something into the ground which means a certain attachment and i feel connected to this land. attached to it this is still a visual artistic exaggeration of my feeling. this place is full of the magic that surrounds me and i'm

it's possible that the communist parties of those two countries, particularly france, might have been able to even win an election. for those reasons, truman saying to himself, we must take a strong stand, began what was called a policy of containment. of making sure that the soviets could go no further than hey had, which was eastern and central europe. >> host: what was the soviet reaction? >> guest: they were not happy. they were a little bit shocked that we would take that kind of a position of strength and that kind of a commitment, if you will to the freedom and liberty of eastern and central europe. and so they thought to themselves, what can we do? they put the pressure on both greece and turkey. the reaction to that what's truman doctrine. they began agitating, prop propagandize fog france and england and belgium and netherlands and our reaction to that was not only the marshall plan but also a mill tar alliance, nato. that really truly brought about a serious commitment on both sides to a cold war. >> host: how did these two super powers use surrogates during the cold war? >

, and if the communist party, and if the communist party, and if the communist party in china allows that kim jong—un was due to go to china to have a visit, and didn't go. what does that tell you? well, that clearly shows that kim jong—un really, deliberately sends a message to the chinese that he is not going to the chinese that he is not going to go to beijing and pay homage to president xijinping, that to go to beijing and pay homage to president xi jinping, that north korea is not a chinese client state, that north korea will do whatever it wa nts. that north korea will do whatever it wants. so what we have seen, in the missile and nuclear test, essentially, is that kim jong—un poked americans on the left eye and poked americans on the left eye and poked the chinese in the right, and gets away with it. it is really fascinating, what you are telling us. fascinating, what you are telling us. as we say, we have seen how close their relationship is. their borders are right next to each other. what about the possibility of beijing supporting further un sanctions? might that be a way

challenge it there are some big events between now and then in china they'll be having there are communist party congress and north korea will be celebrating the anniversary of its ruling party so south korean officials said just this week that they expect more provocative acts from north korea in mid october and so we'll have to wait and see if tensions do rise and if the u.s. and china use that increased urgency to cooperate further or if more urgency that leads them to pray and to kind of move apart on how they see is the best way to approach this so what to tune in and see to listen this visit and keep watching over the next couple weeks i think stephen barr week in so thank you you thank. well tensions in spain are rising ahead of attempts by catalonia to hold a referendum on independence and it's on sunday madrid says the move is illegal and has sent thousands of police to the region but catalan authorities say everything is in place for the votes to go ahead in barcelona the region's capital people have been rallying to show their support. we will vote. there are thousands turn out for th

party in germany doing? how is it different than the communist and socialist parties that are all over europe, and does it have anything to do with co-ops? >> yes. the name of the party in germany is called the die linke. "die" is "the," " and "linke" is the german word for "left." they didn't want there to be any ambibiguity ababout we ththey were comingng from, so oy basically call themselelves the left party, die linke, and it is a party thth came together out of two other parties. first was the left wing of the social democratic party, the old established socialist party that has been in the government, has s been the government. last leader of germany before angela merkel, the current leader,, was a man named d schroeder, and he was a member of the social democratic party in germany. the left wing under a very, very charismatic leader, which was important, a man named oskar lafontaine, withdrew from the socialist party in order--excuse me--to found this new party the die linke. the other part of the die linke is the party that used to be the dominant party in what was east germany. you know, the east germ

to some extent is a follower of the former communist party that ruled east germany so there are still traditional supporters of the left in east germany and many of the traditional as well as protests vergers in the east used to vote for their ft the protest vote has now gone to some extent to the f.t. so there has been a significant swing of several hundred thousand words right across the political spectrum from the left to the far right at the same time the left party also has a constituent that is there that emerged from a split from the social democrats in western germany to the fusion of the split from the west plus the traditional left from the east that is what they've probably constitutes today also two wings that don't always see eye to eye that don't always know how to coordinate their policies. one has to say the left lost five hundred thousand votes to the a of fifty at the same time it didn't lose votes in total it said gained quite a number of votes as well. the party managed actually to get through this election pretty well so on the face of it it seems as if their supp

i think one of the things we forget is the chinese are a communist party and state and they are a communist party leadership. there is something that is actually regime-threatening to the ccp about supporting a regime change in the north. i think that's something that is existential and i don't know that that can ever be something they can be reassured on. i think much greater pain on the chinese is necessary in part because it will at some point have i hope a strategic effect in china. part of the reason we have never been able to turn the screws tight enough is we have never been able to go after them. they were saying i just add one final point. not that i have any views on this, but it's important when we talk about these things, and i know dan was not implying we would do this without our colleagues at the table, but the idea has been floated by some in the past of a u.s.-china direct dialogue to sort this out that would bring in seoul. it's important that the idea of nothing about us without us is incorporated into any conversation around this. seoul has to be a part of this. >> let m

the apparent crackdown as the country prepares for the communist party conference, t to begins next monthchoooose chinese leadersrship fr the next five years. is the latest of facebook's -- of three major social media companies have been fined for failing to enforce censorship rules on pornography and other banned content. wechat.ludes weibo and they have been hit with a maximum fine, which could he over 50,000 euros -- which could be over 50,000 euros. it is a small amount of these companies, which earned billions every year. largest mining company that healing expects electric thecles to grow to 8% of global car fleet. manufacturing electric cars uses four times the amount of copper as a diesel car. >> thank you with the is this news. time for sports, starting with france. it presented its day to post that 2023 rugby world cup in london monday. the sports minister insists hosting the 2024 olympics would not be an obstacle. france is a favorite to stage another sporting event, with ireland and south africa their rivals.. today, we are not going to compete with the 2024 olympics, paralymp