taiwan's president has resigned as leader of her ruling pro independence party after a major defeat in local mid-term elections let's go live now to the taiwanese capital taipei our correspondent there is adrian brown adrian a dramatic turn of events then for the ruling party. yeah this is been a real setback for president zion when because her ruling democratic progressive party has lost control of taiwan second and third largest city that third largest city is cow showing the poor city in the south of the country that the d.p.p. has held for more than twenty years so this is an indicator that the president's popularity is clearly on the wane all in marked contrast of course to those scenes after her election here in taipei just under three years ago and she seemed unassailable what has happened then of course is that relations between taiwan and china have deteriorated to the extent that china's leaders have cut off all communications with dying when why well for the simple reason she refuses to endorse a framework known as the one china policy that there is but one china and taiwan

country to legalize same sex marriage and in no collections voters dealt a blow to the ruling pro independence party it may or seats in some of its knowledge a city. president sighing when as offered to resign as chairman of the ruling party voters avoided angering china by saying no to changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan for international sporting events adrian brown has more from taipei. in taiwan they don't take their democracy for granted voter turnout in the last election was more than seventy percent this election and the referendums happening alongside it are about local issues but there's another unavoidable one china whose leaders regard taiwan as part of their territory. with or without the laughter and among independents we taiwanese decide our own future we are always taiwanese and unlike us they are chinese. to unfollowing with a referendum to decide whether we go for independence or unification but i personally support mid taney the state is cool and the governments of both sides should cooperate. this election serves as a report card on president saying when who w

and so on i got involved there and i realized that the majority of the independence party a great many of them were disgruntled democrats and republicans who feel the system's failing and they want something new and. i felt that way also. didn't when he ran. a long story shorter. fourth of july parade and he asked me to walk in it so we're walking. down the crowds going crazy but they're going crazy for me. and i'll never forget dede leaning over to me and whispering there didn't have to whisper it was pretty loud he said see the wrong guys running. from the white line.

i forget congress barkley barkley and i kind of thought who who's this barkley what is this independence party at the time who are they and so on i got involved there and i met them and i realized that the majority of the independence party a great many of them were disgruntled democrats and republicans who feel the system's failing and they want something new and so and i felt that way also and so i supported dean when he ran. a long story shorter. dina's from minnesota they have the fourth of july parade and he asked me to walk in it so we're walking. down the crowds going crazy but they're going crazy for me you know you're not a team and i'll never forget leaning over to me and whispering there didn't have to whisper it was pretty loud he said see the wrong guys running that was the genesis that's when the white went on the line you know it was my hometown and it's still not fair that you can be completely sure you do. and that's why i just wonder this would translate in the political popularity and that's where the idea i'm a hand in that's worth of thought we had a great big budget surpl

that is the view of the uk independence party.er uk prime ministers tony blair who is backing a second referendum. refer to it today as a people is bought and he's been telling the bbc why he supports it. the whole basis of theresa may's case to the british people is that this honours the brexit mandate and it settles the issue. and actually, neither is correct. it doesn't honour the brexit mandate because the people who most fervently believe in brexit say this isn't brexit. and it doesn't settle the issue, because, actually, there is so much still to be discussed that even those people who stay in the cabinet at the moment, who are really anti—her plan but stay in it tactically, want to pull us the other side of march 2019 and carry on the fight. therefore, the only way you're going to unite the country, ultimately, is to get this back to the people and say you've a mandate, whether the government does a proper brexit, the sort of brexit borisjohnson wants, or that we stay. that is the only way of resolving this now, because i t

there was a discussion with a member of the hong kong independence party now independence is clearly a red line for beijing and beijing has been pressuring to cancel this discussion that was hosted by the foreign correspondents club the call foreign correspondents club. refused to cancel this discussion and a month later the visa of the head of the foreign correspondents club join a list for the financial times the british financial times has been cancelled so it is very clear the hong kong government and beijing do not want certain oppin units to be voiced and they are going to precious civil society. to not voice these opinions all right now to spelling out for us in hong kong thank you. now to some other stories making news around the world yemen's who the rebels have said they will halt drone and missile attacks on the saudi led military coalition if the saudis and their allies also agree to a cease fire tens of thousands of yemenis have died from violence disease and starvation since fighting broke out in twenty fifteen. protesters have rallied in the mexican border city of tiju

taiwan's midterm local elections they're regarded as being a test of the island's ruling pro independence party voters are also deciding on ten referendum issues including whether to allow same sex marriage another is which china is watching closely is about changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan for international sporting events antigovernment protests is a facing off with police in the french capital paris they're angry about the rising costs of fuel and the economic policies of president emanuel macro police fired tear gas and water cannon disperse protesters who are wearing yellow vests some people are believed to be injured drivers have been putting up road block aides saying they're determined to bring the city to a standstill britain's prime minister is preparing to head to brussels for what's being billed as a landmark summit to finalize breck's it to resume a and leaders are set to sign the deal finalizing the terms of the u.k.'s withdrawal spain is threatening to wreck months of grueling negotiations because of the future of gibraltar the british territory on the spa

taiwan's president sighing when has resigned as the chairman of the pro of the ruling pro independence party following a major defeat in local mid-term elections voters have said no to becoming the first asian country to legalize same sex marriage. yemen saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port special envoy martin griffiths met senior who is the rebels who agreed to talks on the un's role in managing the head to head data port is control it and saudi immorality coalition forces have been battling to retake it for months griffiths is expected to meet members of yemen's exiled government in riyadh on monday another ten bodies have been found after flash flooding in iraq meaning at least seventeen people have been killed heavy rains forced thousands of people to flee the northern town of chicago they've returned to a massive clean up homes and businesses are swamped inland. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after psych speaker. in late one thousand nine hundred fifteen one world war one was being fought in the trenche

and i've always sort of pooh-poohed independent parties. when ross perot came around with the green party, the libertarian party, which is sort of an oxymoron, but i think there's an opportunity. it depends -- i think things are going to get worse for the president and not better and the republican party is going to figure out that if they want to be in power, assigning yourself with this president as he keeps chipping away at the traditional people who are aligned with the republican party. and if you look at the electoral map for 2020, the president's got real problems. there's still a challenge. you know, he could lose -- he could lose florida and any other state and lose or you need to beat him in three different states. but remember, in the north -- in the midwest, so you've got michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. if he loses all three of those, it's over. and remember, we had zero -- the republicans went 0 for 6 in those statewide races, governors and u.s. senate. >> rick tyler, always good to see you. >> thanks, chris. >> thank you

taiwan, the pro-independence party has suffered a crushing defeat in local elections. dheepthika: this is important, looking ahead to the 2020 national elections. the prime minister and her party lostdence dpp big in the weekend local elections in the stronghold. the party lost their seat to a candidate who ran as an outsider for the kmp party, seen as sympathetic to china. the candidate had no money, no resources. solely on campaign the popularity of social media, tapping into voter anger. elsewhere on the island, the same party doubled its political control. genie: what has the reaction been from the taiwanese press? dheepthika: "the taipei press" blames a lackluster economy for contributing to the losses, but it was also a protest vote. young people, the paper say, identify as taiwanese, not chinese, yet voted for a party sympathetic to china because they wanted to send a strong message to the ruling government. they want change and are demanding change. one writer from cwnb -- cnbc said these were a litmus test of how strong the party is ahead of 2020. and china per

four hours taiwan's president sighing when has resigned as the chairwoman of the ruling pro independence party following a major defeat in local mid-term elections voters have said no to becoming the first asian country to legalize same sex marriage yemen saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port special envoy martin griffiths met senior who threw rebels who agreed to talks on the un's role in managing the port of her data the who these control it and saudi m iraqi coalition forces have been backing to retake it for months griffiths is expected to meet members of yemen's exiled government in riyadh on monday those are the headlines the news continues here after inside story. it's being closely watched in china taiwan. independence. chinese. so how will the results affect i'm going with this story. and welcome to the program. millions of taiwanese voted in mid-term elections on saturday on the ruling democratic progressive party was dealt a severe blow to the vote is being closely watched by government leaders in beijing which were gone to taiwan

independence party who says she could be out of power within the week here's that i think all the prime minister needs to do is to reflect on it listen to what parliament has to say and adjust her approach because she's she's not going to get this deal which is not a good deal through parliament and i wouldn't be surprised if she's not gone by next week as prime minister because it's difficult to see how she can survive this she's come up with this withdrawal agreement and nobody wants it doesn't satisfy the remain as who don't want to leave anyway and it doesn't satisfy the leavers. for more we're joined by bracks expert and door u.s. u.k. citizen the c.e.o. strong marco report rich hilary welcome it's been an interesting forty eight hours since you gave us that last update what's your take on what's the current circumstances.

independence party m.e.p. david coburn are reaching out to russia was in the form of the mother reaching out a constitution child then promising search around that it will be forgiven if it was to change its ways this is not the way to affect more with any country and less western governments start to see the world through russia's eyes and understand how russia sees things then there will be no meeting of minds and this will just go into the box marked into that western governments must start to learn sooner rather than later and they must also listen as well as speak we should be every two to make keep friendship with russia and make sure that the we were appropriately bought in the future rather than make things more difficult we should try and try and lose all these things that quietly without shaving a big stake i think we need to be more sensible in our dealings with lunch or we need to do trade was russia does that that's the way to to move forward quite talking is probably better in shanty that. singap

independence party leader gerard batten where the trees amaze government was actually on the brink of collapse i certainly think her leadership is i wouldn't be surprised if she's not gone by next week as prime minister because it's difficult to see how she can survive this she's come up with this withdrawal agreement that nobody wants it doesn't satisfy the remain as you don't want to leave anyway and it doesn't satisfy the leavers because we don't really leave so no one's going to be a bit happy about this i don't believe she can get it through parliament and of course it also has to come through the european parliament ukip any piece will vote against it i think other groups will vote against it here so i'd be surprised if it actually got through this parliament either people are deserted the tory party i've seen on twitter people tearing up their cards and taking photographs so this deal doesn't actually satisfy anybody. now newly declassified documents reveal that the cia experimented with a so-called truth serum as part of a program called project medication is involved drugging

elections the results led to the resignation of president sighing when as chairwoman of the pro independence party says the results show that people want peaceful relations with china adrian brown reports from taipei. a busy farmer's market in taipei the day after voters delivered their verdict on the ruling party and its leader the mood festive relaxed the results being welcomed by china's leaders who say it shows taiwanese people want peaceful relations with the mainland and some here certainly hope that's now possible. the results show that present high isn't doing a good job she needs to make more effort to ease tensions with china. due to political reasons we cannot export our products to china if the markets open up after the elections and be good for us. the election was a remarkable turnaround for the opposition k m t the party china's leaders tend to favor it now has the political control of three quarters of taiwan city's president xining when accepted the blame for the ruling party's poor showing and resigned as party leader. zion when remains president but her power and influence withi

she is and iranians citizen —— she is an irani and citizen and has been accused by an independent party brokers who decide her fate are not around this table. this afternoon mr hunt meant her four—year—old daughter gabriella and other family members. her four—year—old daughter gabriella and otherfamily members. back in britain, her husband welcomed his efforts. we have been here before, this is the second time a foreign secretary has gone to iran to lobby for her release, we will need to see what happened before we get our hopes up. 0bviously happened before we get our hopes up. obviously we remain fingers crossed and hope that she comes back before christmas. jeremy hunt did notjust come to iran to talk about british/ iranian nationals but came to assess for himself the impact of us sanctions on the streets of tehran. he concluded iran was under real pressure, seeing few western goods on sale. iranian leaders accept people will suffer but are urging european politicians like mr hunt to do more to help. you are with business live, our top story... shares of the japanese car—maker nissan

is basically ceased to exist just with how the structure of elections worked in the us if an independent party would arise it would effectively take out one of the other two but the third party would be a real viable one is probably not likely ok well just with our international viewers in mind tonight's been quite a domestic. bring in some more foreign policy issues here and trump of course has been making great many moves on the international stage and he's been pushing his america first rhetoric now that the democrats have control of the house of representatives how far are they going to be able to block some of trump's foreign policy moves dreadfully only partially given that the house can affect things like budgeting and so forth and maybe make certain types of regulations dealing with trade deals with the like oradour interaction with states . they can have some influence but especially for talking about things like battle bilateral treaties or so forth under the american system is the senate that's responsible for basically signing off on confirming these things if the president is movi

independence party who says she could be out of power within the week here is that i think all the promise to need to do is to reflect on it listen to what parliament has to say and adjust her approach because she says she's not going to get this deal which is not a good deal through parliament so i wouldn't be surprised if she's not gone by next week as prime minister because it's difficult to see how she can survive this she's come up with this withdrawal agreement and nobody wants it doesn't satisfy the remain as who don't want to leave anyway and it doesn't satisfy the leavers for more we're joined by bracks an expert a dual u.s. u.k. citizen the see your straw marco report which here we welcome it's been an interesting forty eight hours since you gave us that last update what's your take on what's the current circumstances well i will say that interesting is an understatement yes it is being quite fractious and as we predicted you know theresa may has a tough road to hoe and the reason is because she's not satisfying the labor rights she's not satisfying those that wanted to remain an

taiwan's mature and local elections they're regarded as a test for the island's ruling pro independence party voters are also deciding on ten referendums including whether to allow same sex marriage another one which china is watching closely is about changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan and international sporting events adrian brown reports in the capital taipei. in taiwan they don't take their democracy for granted voter turnout in the last election was more than seventy percent this election and the referendums happening alongside it are about local issues but there's another unavoidable one china whose leaders regard. as part of their territory. without any dependence. we taiwanese the future we are always taiwanese and unlike us they are chinese. and fine with a referendum to decide whether we go for independence or unification but i personally support maintaining the status quo and the governments of both sides should cooperate. this election serves as a report card on president zine when who was elected three years ago china's leaders promptly cut off communications

parties. i spoke to mr chamorro — he's involed in opposition politics, there's the independent liberal party,icaragua. and he would agree with me that traditional political parties have their hands tied, and therefore civil society has been forced to take an active role in the opposition, not because that is our role but because there are no other chances. we are just a voice because the political system in nicaragua has been closed for years. let me get a little bit personal. do you think, if we look to nicaragua's future, that you, talked about now as one of the key leaders of the general opposition movement, can you have credibility in your country when you are so closely associated with the united states? i mean, here we sit in washington today. but, because of your past, the fact that, as a child, you left nicaragua. your mother sent you as an illegal immigrant, to start with, into the us, you were raised and educated in the us, then you went home again, then you got a degree at harvard. you have many friends and a network in the united states. to some in nicaragua, that makes you deeply

four hours taiwan's president sighing when has resigned as the chairwoman of the ruling pro independence party following a major defeat in local mid-term elections voters have said no to becoming the first asian country to legalize same sex marriage yemen saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port special envoy martin griffiths met senior truth the rebels who agreed to talks on the un's role in managing the port of her data the who these control it and saudi m. iraqi coalition forces have been backing to retake it for months griffiths is expected to meet members of yemen's exiled government in riyadh on monday those are the headlines the news continues here after inside story. it's being closely watched in china. for the pro independence ruling posse. of meddling so how will the results affect i'm going with this is inside story. and welcome to the program.

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party agenda. i will be independent. i will not be with anyone 100% of the time. i'm here. >> senator highsmith. thank you forth: listening to this debate. and thank you for putting this on. two other events next week. on monday, the night before the is cominghe president to mississippi to campaign on my behalf. 8:00 will be on the coast. i encourage you to go online and get those free tickets. tonight you're going to hear a clear difference doing me in my opponent of the most important issues facing our country. throughout this campaign i have said it is not about me, it is about you, the people of mississippi. you, lessorted to taxes, supporting our military and veterans. protecting our unborn children. supporting our second amendment rights. conservative values are what are going to be on the ballot. tonight you will hear on these issues from different opinions from different opponents. you will hear about 750,000 reasons why my opponent is too liberal. and throughout my record of service, i is shown you one big reason to support me, because i worked hard for you. i will stand up and protect

. >> one with of the things that we were talking about and you were telling me is that the independent party registration has surpassed republican party registration? california. so what does that mean for the party in california, the republican party? >> yeah, well, it is a challenge for the republicans, because they are now in third place. democrats and independents outnumber republicans in registration, and so, they really have to, i think think about rebranding and how the attract new voters into the republican party in california, if they are going to survive. >> so, obviously, who turns out will make a big impact on house and measures go. proposition 6 is a big one to repeal a 12 cent gas tax and all of the money goeses the road repairs and public transit. we have seen ominous ads and governor brown has one from the proponents of prop 6, but wasn't the measure supposed to rally the republican base? >> yeah, this particular prop was intended to fire up republicans, and you know, get them to turn out. the republican candidate in the governor's races is, you know, double-digits behind, an

he's now probably best remembered as an independent party contender who may have changed the . now, you can call these third-party candidates ornery. cuyou can call 'em dif, but whatever you do, don't you dare call them spoilers. - the interesting thing about ross perot was that he didn't really look and talk like a billionaire. - in plain texas talk, it's time to take out the trash and clean out the barn or it's gonna be too late. - he was a little guy and talked kind of fast, and people naturally liked him. he was from texarkanal orig. his father was a cotton trader, so he didn't go from totally humble ots, but, you know, he definitely went to the top of the finance world. - people have asked me over the years, "how did it suddenly feel, after years and years "and years of having a very modest life, to realize you were rich?" and my reply is, "i was born rich because of the two parents i had." no child could have had two better parents than my sister and i had. that's so much more important thanny financial wealth. - he had gone to annapolis. he was a graduate of annapolis. -

turn out our voters and to persuade the fastest growing party in this country, which is the independent partythat we're the party that wants to build a better future. >> all right. congressman john delaney, the sole democratic presidential candidate as of this writing. >>> still to come -- if you can't trust those lying eyes, what can you trust? >> does seeing this devastation change your opinion at all on climate change, mr. president? >> no. >> the california wildfires couldn't do it. historic hurricanes couldn't either. can a dire new report from the president's own administration convince him that climate change is real? the timing of its release should tell you everything. that's next. >>> a new federal report is sounding the alarm on inaction surrounding climate change. predicting that our economy could take a serious hit if we don't take more preventive measures. the report compiled by 13 federal agencies, warns that the damage caused by climate change could cost the u.s. hundreds of billions of dollars and could knock off a whopping 10% of the size of the u.s. economy by the end of th

well china has welcomed the overall defeat of taiwan's ruling pro independence democratic progressive party in saturday's local elections that led to the resignation of president zine when as chairwoman of the d.p.p. beijing says the results show that people want peaceful relations with china a germ brown cover story joining us from taipei this is a big blow for the ruling party adrian. yes daryn and that certainly reflected in the newspapers here in taiwan on sunday this is the front page of the liberty times to figure stand out fifteen and six fifteen being should number of cities that the opposition now hold six being the number of cities that the ruling party have been a picture of a very glum looking zion when that picture taken during the news conference she gave on saturday night when she confirmed she was resigning as leader of the d.p.p. of course big questions being asked here today as to whether the zion when will now run in the twenty twenty presidential election that will be held in just fourteen months time in january two thousand and twenty there's no obvious successor at the

in new hampshire there has been a lot of debate of the independent status so do you think the third-party or independent candidate could ever be viable on the national level? . >> does the media have a role? mimic yes first of all, third parties historicallystical, i at a historian like my colleague here, but as i have always paid attention to them or read about them, they bring up the issue the two major parties were notes addressing. do you think that's a good analysis? you have john anderson i cannot a remember it was about financial reform in elections , third parties running during the vietnam war. the fact is you saw teddy rooseveltay ran maybe because he was angry he was not president anymore but a big factor with the bull mooseon party. but i wonder if today if pretty soon people will not driving their cars but on computers and we will be using data on - - data analytics to determine the health care we will have. pretty soon we will see all kinds of magical inventions changing the very way we live that we need to preparere for so in the era of all this change why would we think th

cycle like others in the past, we have seen millions of dollars in negative ads comes in from independent parties. do we need campaign-finance reform in this country, of any sort? sen. hyde-smith: mississippi has already passed campaign-finance reform. looking through that, we are so careful on absolutely everything, documenting every campaign conservation that comes in. i think the campaign-finance reforms that we had in mississippi were good. i think law is being applied. unlike my opponent, that does not care that much for mississippi evidently because of his liberal views on mississippi, to think that he has been hired by a foreign dictator to the tune of $750,000 to be paid. this man, this week is on trial for crimes against humanity. those include murder, those include rape. those are including unspeakable things to small children. it is amazing that we've got somebody running for the u.s. senate that took $750,000 from a foreign dictator off the ivory coast, and you also in his own words, there was a complaint filed against him by the eeoc that he lost because he failed to give a promotion

the pro independence political party was subsequently outlawed.a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. is bloomberg. >> just going through the markets, this is the equity itself. for the region asia pacific index, down. downward shift. no change on the two-year yield. u.s. dollar index continuing to climb, albeit much slower than it was ever. let's have a look at some of those companies, getting back to chinese equities. there we have the car makers this time. car makers, again, are really it.ing look at this. commentary.fter comem it could be below 2017. if that is the case, taz thernment is -- as government is warning, it would be the first time in two decades we've seen car companies shrink in china. that with some of the car makers in japan. we've had a little bit more on well.s that's currently a look at what's going on with some of those car makers. course, oil prices also help to buyth people wanting the vehicles. a high oil price does lead to fewer car sales. today we're seeing the reverse. cru

midterm local elections and ten referendums so far it's been a big upset for the ruling pro independence party president syene wayne says she's stepping down as chairwoman of the party after a mayoral election defeat and everything from same sex marriage to changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan in big sporting events has been put on the table so that's sure to have china keeping a close eye on these results to let's bring in adrian brown in taipei for so the results coming in how much of a setback for taiwan's leader. i think it's a real setback for zion women because remember the next presidential election here in taiwan is just over a year away and the fact that she's now basically resigned as chairwoman of her party is an indication that her power base hold over that party is now weakening let's also remember that the d.p.p. has lost control also of two of taiwan's biggest cities one of those cities counties showing in the south the d.p.p. has held for more than twenty years so that is a real real setback and what we've had today i think is very much a report card on pres